Are HiRez choosing the WRONG gods for SMITE 2?

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[damianrodriguez]

I wouldn't say they're the wrong gods, more so they're releasing them in an incorrect way. They need to do one per Smite 1 Class to try and keep every lane constantly updated

[TheCornChili]

I get my computer science degree this December I’m not going to pretend like I’m the person that knows what is best for the game but from a technical perspective what you are saying absolutely makes sense. I can tell you with 100% confidence morrigan is in the game this early because it makes infinitely more sense to add her now and fix the bugs as they appear instead of adding her last and having to fix hundreds of bugs. What baffles me is why they keep doing the simple gods. I completely understand wanting to add 1 simple god for each role (kuku nieth Athena bellona Loki) but they themselves said we expect the alpha to contain smite veterans and the influx of new players will come once we hit free to play. I understand wanting ONE simple god for each role for the few new players that do participate in closed alpha, but I feel like they could have gotten some more complex gods in for the vets too. The best way to learn as a new player is to play the same god over and over again and then start branching out giving new players something is important but more complex characters are equally important. Can you imagine what people would have reacted if they were able to say oh btw Cthulhu is one of the launch gods.

[mekonancer]

Counter point - What new players when the alpha is 30$ and doesnt have basic functions like matchmaking?


Making noob friendly gods for noobs that immediately quit the game cause they q into 2 pros and 2 gms

[Fruitcake]

I think also people are judging the leaks a little too early. ON PAPER, I hated that they were adding Jing Wei. She’s one of my least favorite Smite 1 hunters and when they announced her for the Smite 2 24/7 I was disappointed. Then I saw how they changed her kit and I LOVED it. They fixed all the problems I had with S1’s Jing Wei and then made improvements I didn’t even know I needed, and now she’s probably my favorite traditional ADC in the game right now. I’m not looking forward to the next patch’s Amaterasu, but the Ama that I’m imagining in my head may be completely different to the Ama that we get, and she may feel incredible. People are jumping on that leaked god list but not considering that those characters might be way more fun and better feeling than S1.

[siphonicfir]

Inbowned I like basically all of your content and generally agree with you, this is an L take and you are 100% shilling for Smite 2.

Firstly, as players we are not obligated to care at all about how the characters streamline development. I do not nor should I care about how they will code executes, Thor is maybe the most iconic smite god and should be in the game. Picking Than over Thor due to tech reasons is just making the game worse than it could be to make their job easier. That is not a good reason at all.

Secondly, I agree the game needs simple characters for new players. Like one in each role, which means they still had 18 slots to pick healthier characters for the game and the more dedicated audience they should expect to play at this time. As a Support/Mid there are no characters that I'm really excited to master in smite 2. Why couldn't they have kuku/nu wa for the noobs, but give me merlin or tiamat or even set? Give the noobs bacchus and athena, but I get Yemoja. Feels like they only cared about pleasing the new audience, when in reality that new audience will be turned off by a lack of features and getting stomped in their first match by literal pro players far before they get overwhelmed because the characters are too complex.

Thirdly is the business angle, which you should be ashamed for defending. They are charging $30 for an alpha that is in a horrible state imo. Its missing multiple key features that smite 1 had and is months away from being as feature complete as smite 1, maybe years away. Yet you're giving them a pass for prioritizing their profit over the quality of the intial roster? Is adding Nu Wa instead of a merlin, agni, tiamat, or poseidon just so they can sell nu wa skins in an ALPHA not a huge red flag for you? Can I get one midlaner with a leap before we add nu wa to sell skins? Too much to ask for? Shameful behavior from them and I am disappointed you are giving them a pass.

[ernesthernandez]

always making great points Inbowned! Personally I'm pretty happy with the alpha, hell it being an alpha ive even started documenting things I think might be bugs either in practice or things that happen in game.

I have one tiny complaint that I havent really seen most of the community complaining about, of course thats probably because most of them never bought them anyway, but who BRIGHT idea was it to reduce ward durations to 60 seconds. Like a 50% nerf on vision and releasing ranked at the same time was kinda befumbling. Theyre pretty much useless unless you have the game sense to know when certain objectives might be being called soon but otherwise it feels so terrible to buy them, almost like you're putting yourself behind even more when you might get them cause of constant ganks.

Love you videos man.

[ITSRICHTIME]

As a new smite player (3 months now), what got me interested into the game was the concept of playing as/against gods from multiple pantheons. I came for the popular gods promoted but funny enough I’ve never played a single Zeus or Hades game. Gods like Lance, ullr, herc, Maui (to name just a few) who will probably never get front cover or a promo photo are what make the game fun to me. But I must be in the small majority

[NarutoOnlineGermany]

Yes they do! Where the actual F is Thor, Ra and Apollo?

[mcsavi]

Short answer yes how are you gonna release jing Wei a god no one cares about before someone like Thor, nu wa, and wukong gods that everyone likes

[mamspugeti]

Hey Bobby, kinda off-topic but I gotta say: It really does make my day better and make me happier when you say your intro every time. I feel fantastic C:

[RisenUponTomorrow]

New kbm player here; do pc players typically remove their fingers from the wasd keys in order to hit abilities and such? As a former controller player, this seems crazy to me. Like yall really have to let go of your movement just to cast an ability??

[jordannng]

One thing I wanna say is I was a late Smite 1 player. Started playing around the time Charybdis was announced and stopped playing around when Lancealot was released. I learned to play a lot of gods and nearly none of them made it through to Smite 2 and I was disappointed.

However, this kind of forced me to play other gods and you know what, surprisingly I’m having a lot of fun learning some of these gods I never played before

[LoganZeigler]

They’re choosing the wrong gods. Period. We don’t want the gods we’ve been playing for 10 years first and if so they’re definitely choosing the most boring ones. Killing the game before it starts and basically conceding defeat to deadlock already is expected.

[Xcody]

Yes, why is there 2 invisible gods plus an item to make you invisible plus stealth grass? Wild decisions

[bobertobobino]

YEP they're so fucking boring, Yes Nu Wa is beloved by the arena and assault chads but those guys are the only people still playing smite1. The Smite2 Gods are super boring and if that causes burn out of all the high level players (Weak3n and Ven for example) by it having Odin and Kukulkan everygame theres not gonna be a smite2 for the Aphro mains to migrate to in the future.

Also obviously smite2 is the goal and the whole ship but do they want their smite1 players to all drop it now and be exclusive smitetwoers surely smite1 is the only thing still making them money now that the founders packs situation has settled and you cant even buy things in smite2 ATM.

[JtheLionheart]

Yes. Some of the most boring gods. I need Sun wukong, Zhong Kui, Cthulu, charybdis. I haven't played smite 2 not once.

[coltoncramer]

As long as they keep cleaning up all of the bugs and kinks and add ALOT of smite 2 flavor to the old gods being ported over. I can play this all day.

[DietDrKelp]

They should try adding some god damn match making. Solo queuing is making me sewerslidal.

[LeechGoddessV]

It's Low-Rez, Any decision they make. It will usually be the wrong decision.

[bean-charlieartz]

I want more god changes why the hell does Odin play the exact same way he always did? Why not add something new to him and all returning gods?