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A beginner’s guide to Skate
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Jordan Oloman
この記事の最終更新日は2025年9月24日 午前11:58です。
Get with the (Resident Incentive) Program
First off, we have to talk about the bread-and-butter gameplay of Skate. This new version is always online, so the four districts of San Vansterdam are teeming with real players who will passively skate alongside you, Quick Drop objects into the world to level up lines, and challenge you to Throwdowns, where you can test your mettle in a pocket-sized skating arena. Multiplayer interactions are optional, but encouraged—the map is littered with challenges for you to complete, and most feature an additional goal you can earn for completing them in co-op. Said challenges are split between three difficulties—Amateur, Semi-Pro and Pro—and rotate daily, so if you run out of goals to complete, you can always come back tomorrow.
Every player has an overarching Rip Score, which gates unlockables and progresses as you complete challenges. Hedgemont, Gullcrest Village and Market Mile are the three districts currently available, and each has its own neighborhood score that the player can progress to unlock new Fast Travel points and Product Boxes in the shop. The Rip Chips you earn from completing challenges serve as the currency to open these boxes and access new cosmetics for your skater.
Embark on Grand Tour(s)
Aside from skating around the map and completing ambient challenges, there are also more structured missions in Skate called Tours, which are marked by a purple flag and narrated by in-game talking heads Shingo, Slappy, and Izzy. Seasoned fans of the series will be most familiar with this campaign-style mission-based approach. To start, you’ll have plenty of sequential Tours to engage with as the game introduces you to its mechanics and systems, but eventually, you’ll need to meet a certain goal criteria from the ambient challenges to progress to the next Tour.
So, if you run out of the narrated missions, you can check the Missions tab in the pause menu to see how many goals you need to cross the threshold and gain access to the next Tour. If you’re struggling to meet the objectives of challenges, remember that they refresh daily, and you can replay the ones you’ve completed in co-op mode to unlock an extra goal.
Acquaint yourself with Fast Travel
The fast travel points dotted around San Vansterdam will unlock gradually as you develop your score in each region. By unlocking them as soon as they appear greyed out on your in-game map, you can make life a lot easier for yourself. With the click of a button, you’ll be able to warp across the map near-instantaneously, which is excellent if you don’t fancy trying to string together a line from Hedgemont to Market Mile.
If you’re looking to scout for new areas to skate, you can also press the left button on the D-pad to see all the players in your session. From here, select a profile and spectate to see the other player skating in real-time, and you can then teleport to their location. This is particularly useful if you spy a set of skaters shredding on top of a skyscraper and you want to join in on the fun. Liaising with other players and forming a party can be helpful when you’re trying to hit goal criteria, as every challenge you start as a team will open up the extra co-operative goal that will get you to the next Tour faster.
Pick up the parkour mechanics
As you play, you'll be introduced to the new parkour mechanics, which allow you to mantle up buildings, run across walls, swing from bars, and hang from ledges. There are also new bail-friendly mechanics, such as the ability to jump and dive with the shoulder buttons, roll into a ball by pulling the triggers, and flip by holding the triggers and pulling down on the left stick. Holding a shoulder button and pressing the face buttons on your controller will allow you to Spread Eagle or Torpedo in the air too, which helps control your body as you dive during the bailing challenges. Keep in mind that you can also press Triangle or Y to Caveman in the air and get back on your board, which is helpful if you’re dropping in from a serious height and want to maintain a sequence.
Finally, you can hold X and Square / A and X while on your board to perform a Hippy Jump, which will allow you to clear obstacles and potentially land back on your grip tape to string together a luscious line. Hold the triggers while pressing these face buttons and you’ll assume the Coffin stance, which lets you bomb down hills at lightning speed.
Train the new tricks
Many players will come to San Vansterdam with sustained muscle memory from their years of playing previous games in the series, while others will arrive like fresh, unvarnished decks from the skate shop, ready to loosen their trucks in a brave new world. Regardless of your disposition, there are some new tricks up this game’s sleeve, and they come in handy if you’re looking to clinch sequence score criteria (and show off in front of your friends).
Take, for example, Slappies. You may do this by accident, but skate into a curb in the latest game, and you will automatically start grinding it, which allows you to chain together a line in the open world with greater ease. Ollies are now more dynamic, too. You can do a quick flick up and down to subtly ollie up ramps, or hold the downwards motion on the right stick and push forward on the left stick to "bone" the ollie and maximize your air time. This will allow you to clear gaps and reach tough rails in the middle of a line. And when you’re on the rail, remember that you can use the left stick to move your board towards the next gap, or drop out of the grind and onto more level ground.
Prewinding is another cool feature that's massively helpful when mastered. When you hold down on the right stick to set up a trick, you can pull the left stick down and to the right or left (like a Pop Shuv-It) to ‘prewind’ your spin. You can tell you’ve done it correctly as your skater will move their arms to the left or right. If you prewind before you pop, you can spin for longer in the air and achieve a 540 rather than a 360, or even more. Many challenges ask you for a specific spin degree, and prewinding can often make this so much easier. Remember, you can access the Skatepedia from the in-game radial menu for some visual examples of these tricks too.
Master the multiplier
Some of the trickiest goals in Skate involve achieving a sequence score in the tens of thousands, which can be quite a daunting metric for new players to achieve. The best way to mitigate this issue is to master the in-game multiplier system. Simply land a kickflip while pushing and you’ll earn a 1.5x score boost in the bottom corner, but you’ll also see the circle starting to tick down in the process. When it reaches the bottom, you’ll finish your line and your multiplier, so there’s a need for speed here.
When tackling challenges that ask for high scores, your best bet is to string together tricks that span the Skatepedia rather than a series of safe flip tricks. In my experience, the best way to reach the 4x multiplier as fast as possible is to put together a sequence that contains every kind of move the game offers. Mix up your moves—try a flip trick into a grind followed by a manual, and then air off a ramp into a grab. Keeping your line fresh and steezy will bolster the multiplier up to 4x, and if you can stay cool and sustain the multiplier with tricks while avoiding a bail, it’ll be no time before you reach that high score.
Keep in mind that you can get off your board in the middle of a line and quickly run or parkour towards a better spot if you’re in an area that is limiting your trick potential. Before you begin a sequence, you can also press right on the D-pad, or better still, hold right on the D-pad to Quick Drop an object into the world. Say there are no rails around, or no air potential. Dropping assets into the world can open up your creative opportunities and allow you to sustain that multiplier for longer.
With all of these tips and tricks digested, you should be a model San Vansterdam citizen, ready to shred your way to a formidable Rip Score. Now, all you need to do is drop in and see for yourself what all the fuss is about.
Skate is out now in early access on Epic Games Store.