With free-to-play skateboarding title Skate having come out simply final month, EA and developer Full Circle have revealed a brand new set of cosmetics that will likely be hitting the in-game retailer. These cosmetics have been showcased in a video posted to social media platform X – which you’ll be able to try under. Curiously, alongside a number of clothes choices and skateboard decks, the most recent set of cosmetics additionally features a tie-in with one other title developed by an EA-owned developer – Lifeless Area.
Skate gamers can spend 3,350 San Van Bucks – valued at simply over $40 – to purchase an Isaac Clarke-themed set of cosmetics. This set contains an outfit that may enable gamers to appear like they’re carrying the armour set utilized by Lifeless Area protagonist Isaac Clarke. Sadly, nevertheless, the standard of the beauty set is sort of shoddy, with it primarily trying like a store-bought costume that one may put on for Halloween.
Together with the armour set itself, the Isaac Clarke bundle additionally comes with beauty choices for the skateboard, together with a necromorph-themed deck, skateboard wheels with Marker-related symbols on them, and a set of stickers with references to various things from all through the Lifeless Area video games. The set is capped off with a particular stomping emote, mimicking Clarke’s personal stomps from Lifeless Area for when he’s attempting to complete off an enemy.
This replace to Skate’s in-game retailer coincides with the beginning of the skateboarding title’s first season. The replace, which was detailed earlier this month, brings with it a number of latest content material to the sport, together with 40 new challenges and greater than 200 new beauty gadgets for gamers to unlock. Together with this, Skate has additionally gotten a model new space to discover and skate by. The season additionally introduced with it the primary two seasonal occasions to Skate – Skate-o-Ween and 7-Ply Maple Harvest – in addition to the Skate Move.
EA and Full Circle have additionally outlined future deliberate updates for Skate, which lengthen into the following two seasons. Season 2, slated to start out in December, will carry with it a model new co-op recreation mode, two new seasonal occasions, new tips that gamers can pull off, together with enhancements to the replay editor and in-game get together voice chat. Season 3, however, will seemingly begin in February, and can carry with it player-created parks, new recreation modes, extra issues to gather within the open world, and new skateboarding tips.
Whereas Skate had spent fairly a little bit of time in playtesting, the title was lastly launched as an Early Entry recreation on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Sequence X/S again in September. On launch day, the PC model of Skate by Steam was off to a tough begin, managing to get solely 47 p.c constructive evaluations, giving it a blended ranking. This got here regardless of the title getting greater than 81,000 concurrent gamers on launch date.
Gamers have written extensively about their issues with Skate, which vary from the shortage of basic franchise options like dying races, to poor communication choices, and repetitive mission design.
