Skate Known Issues And How To Fix Them -

EA’s new Skate game, the first entry in the series in 15 years, launched this week and reached more than two million players in the first 24 hours. The early-access game was always expected to have issues given its unfinished nature, and now EA and developer Full Circle have outlined all of the major known issues and provided workarounds where possible.

Full Circle has already released an update, version 0.27.7, that addressed some issues players were experiencing. Among them was a fix for the softlock issue that prevented players from progressing through certain parts of the game.

Additionally, Full Circle has released a back-end fix for an issue causing “endless configuring” errors, while fixes for general cross-play and server issues have been deployed as well.

You can see the full rundown of known issues and workarounds below, as written by EA and Full Circle. Note that this is not an exhaustive list but instead just the top-reported and most serious issues.

Skate known issues

Long queues to log into the game/server issues
- Fix: Thank you, you’ve exceeded our expectations! So many of you have joined us in San Vansterdam that our team needs to make more room for everyone. You may experience queues in the meantime, and we’re hoping to fix that soon.
Unable to place the Session Marker during the tutorial
- Fix: Issue fixed in update on Sept. 17
Unable to take the ferry to San Van after completing the tutorial
- Fix: Our team is looking into this for a solution and will keep you posted with our progress.
Crossplay Issues – Some users unable to join Crossplay with friends
- Fix: Our team is looking into this for a solution and will keep you posted with our progress.
Founder’s Upgrade is missing if Founder’s Pack is purchased on a different platform.
- Workaround: Use the skate. Shop. Make sure you’re logged in with the EA account that is linked to your platforms accounts.
- Fix: Our team is looking into this for a solution and will keep you posted with our progress.
Achievements on EA App and Epic are not granted to the user
- Fix: Our team is looking into this for a solution and will keep you posted with our progress.
Game crashes when scrolling through users in Spectate
- Fix: Will be fixed with Update 0.28.
Users experience an infinite loading screen when trying to join San Van on Xbox platforms
- Fix: Our team is looking into this for a solution and will keep you posted with our progress.

The replay editor often captures stuttering during export.
- Fix: Our team is looking into this for a solution and will keep you posted with our progress.
Players can be trapped by drop items in shop spawn locations.
- Workaround: Change “Quick Drop Visibility” in your social settings to “Only Me”.
- Fix: Will be fixed with Update 0.28.
Unable to play Skate. due to a “connection to EA Servers” error. “ERROR 852146987”
- Troubleshooting: Make sure to disable VPN; check that the EA App is not in offline mode. For more troubleshooting help, check this Connectivity FAQ.
The RIP Card customization will flicker between the old and new assets for a while after the selected user updates their customization.
Player stuck unable to progress Tour 1 Skater Eyes: Stunting 101
During the last step of “Spots and How to Own Them” when the user will start the challenge, they will be stuck for ~3 minutes with the message “Waiting for players”.
- Workaround: Wait for the timer to run out, challenge will then be able to be completed
- Fix: Fixed in 0.28
Quick Drops are invisible when chosen and cannot be placed
Sometimes viewing the preview of players in the San Van List causes a black screen, and exiting out to game from this state will lead to a soft lock
When entering a grind and leaning to exit, skater disappears (rare)
Criteria for unlocking the Financial neighborhood is not showing up, causing the “Manual Extension” mission to not appear
- Workaround: You can get to the Financial Neighborhood (Market Mile) by doing more Challenges. Get that XP!
- Fix: Our team is looking into this for a solution.
Criteria for unlocking the Historic neighborhood (Gullcrest Village) is not showing up, causing the mission to not appear
- Workaround: You can get to the Historic neighborhood (Gullcrest Village) by doing more Challenges. Get that XP!
- Fix: Our team is looking into this for a solution.
Disabled the “Pad Hopper” Challenge due to a world prop making the Challenge harder than intended.