ReSkate makes Skate playable offline, and enables custom servers and maps. It's been an instant hit.
  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    How is that supposed to work, when the entire premise of the game is to skate with others? You’re just going to skate alone in an empty city?

    I mean seriously, the multiplayer aspect is the only decent part of this game. The only fun part is where you free skate around the city with others. This ain’t Skate 4; remove the multiplayer, and there’s no reason to play.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I think the mod has been downloaded 350k times because they asked for Skate 4 and this is what they got instead.

      • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        6 days ago

        $20 says most people will give it a week and then realize there’s no substance to this game and quit.

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          Very well could be, but they don’t want the game as-is. The same thing happened with SimCity 13 years ago. And as a stat that keeps coming up from developers of online mulitplayer games, 70% of people don’t engage in the competitive modes, even of games where that’s seen as its main attraction, like PVP in an RTS or even the biggest MOBAs. I don’t know exactly how that translates to Skate, but it’s not surprising to me that people didn’t want a free to play online social version of this franchise.

    • Cavemanfreak@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      I assume this uses the newest models to decompile the game so that they get the source code. Like it or not, but if that’s the case this couldn’t have been made without AI.

    • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      7 days ago

      Damn humans didn’t do all this tedious work for free

      • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        This is honestly a valid question. We live in a time where even if what you are doing is in the boundaries of the law you may have to protect your identity to avoid the threat of lawsuit.

        This is a good example. Paid for the game but don’t want it to be always online or whatknot? Don’t go tampering with EA’s game you naughty boy/girl.

        I think about the times I’ve downloaded mods for games like the original Dawn of War or Star Wars Empire at war. Legality was never a question especially since those mods were still in-universe in those franchises but now licensing agreements mixed with more hostile and litigious publishers could make you a target for lawsuit.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    8 days ago

    I haven’t played a skating game since the old Tony Hawk games. Honestly, this is tempting me to buy Skate.

    Is anyone here actually playing the mod?

    • DillDough@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      It’s f2p, nothing but lame ass skins to buy. I have not played the mod yet but plan on doing so after I get bored of the new Star Wars racer.

      The core of the game is actually good, there is a lot of fun to be had if you like skating but holy shit playing the live game is painful and this seems to fix most of that.