Has Alpha 3 SAVED Smite 2?!

[@Cedricfilms]

It was unplayable on Xbox. All abilities and effects were invisible. Looks like I won't be able to try the alpha this weekend

[@Ish393]

Weird. Was fine on xbox for me and my 2 friends. I did have a glitch one game tho where it crashed and I couldnt get back to game. Other than that worked fine for us

[@job4ama753]

My friend played a game with that glitch, but I told him “Maybe it’s a one time thing, let’s just try one together.” And I had that exact same issue, towers were invisible, autos were, and so were abilities. It was really sad to see honestly

[@radnorio3180]

I had that same exact issue in alpha 1 on pc. It went away in alpha 2 and 3, but I also reinstalled it for those.

[@Cedricfilms]

@@radnorio3180 reinstalling didn't fix it for me

[@ImmortalMarshmallow]

I've played on my Series X for the last 3 Alpha's haven't had any issues at all. Game has looked beautiful and ran beautifully basically every game (outside of actual performance issues server side)

[@Cofunami]

once smite 2 is fully finished and refined its honestly gonna be such a banger and probably will bring a lot of the old players back

[@StrawHat-68]

Rare positive smite 2 take haha… I agree

[@humblecanadian4206]

Im already back Every god forever is so great for a very casual player like myself and the game runs well but you have to turn off Steam overlay

[@SAINTxSZN]

@@StrawHat-68 Smite will never be back they ban people for words

[@haraldvonhinten8921]

Exactly. I started playing smite 1 while it was still in closed beta but stopped around 2018 and I'm pretty hyped for Smite2

[@cayjaywings7960]

It’s almost gotten me back I stopped playing smite years ago but want to try out the alpha to see what the games going to be like and must say I’m hyped for it

[@humblecanadian4206]

For people struggling with running the game on toaster pcs. TURN OFF STEAM OVERLAY and it ran great on all low settings

[@eclipse3479]

I dont know the graphic looks worse than smite 1 and it feels super sluggish to play, hope they start improving performance and graphics

[@griffann]

extremely boring still. doesnt feel like smite at all, just a reskinned LoL. graphics dont live up to what they advertise it to be either. just sucks imo

[@just.chillin.killin6532]

graphics looked great for me, i was able to run everything on high, with a mid tier pc

[@godofm3tal1]

Smite wishes it had the Polish and consistency of league. You may hate league and think smite better but from a Polish and performance standpoint, an opinion of such would be objectively false

[@MRcoolman702]

This game was the definition of "unplayable" on console. Game barely runs 30 fps on a Series X, abilities are invisible, comms straight up lag the game every single time, and the community is the worse ive ever seen. I had 5 rage quits in a row yesterday at 10AM-2PM on a Friday. First was a Fenrir who left because Bellona solod him ONCE, second was a Hecate solo who left because we had a Zeus carry (while hes playing HECATE SOLO), third I think was a general DC because he suddenly left in a team fight and our mid left because trolls weren't surrendering, fourth was a Anhur carry who was getting demolished by Zeus carry, and the fifth was because our Solo Bac was running it down feeding the enemy Bellona (She had 9 kills in 8 minutes). Keep in mind, this was in the span of 4 hours. This community is the worse ive ever seen it and Im not looking forward to playing this game if there's this many crybabies on it.

[@Nonco-1]

something I noticed about your gameplay, specifically your thanatos video was that it was WAY darker than my game. the lighting in my smite 2 is perfect, but i can barely see anything in your videos. Dunno whats up with that.

[@BeautyBeastRC]

yea I agree and I was thinking "that's a personal problem" while he was talking about it.

[@illunatic317]

Still so boring

[@AIejandroide]

The TTK is way too low now, you can almost 2/3 shot someone with just one tier 3 item.

[@dynasty7298]

Yea ttk is is way to fast. Zues and anubis kill everything in 0.5 seconds from lvl 5-20 progressive getting faster till lvl 20.

[@gudboic1208]

And for some reason people think that’s better lol, it’s insane to get deleted by anyone who has any offense

[@AIejandroide]

@@gudboic1208 yes, getting instakilled late game is reasonable, but getting instakilled at 10 minutes is stupid.

[@tayloralliecee]

alpha 3 sucked and this game is at least like 6 months away from being a game i can actually play for enjoyment because right now it isnt even fun.

[@treychildree6805]

I just want to finish a game by killing the damn titan. I haven’t made it there yet this alpha.

[@kcakiid]

You’d think having to pay for an alpha you’d get some actual smite gamers but no it’s literally the biggest noob community right now lol most games it’s 1 god (than) carrying the entirety of the game and the rest of the teams don’t have a clue what’s going on

[@Likeaworm]

@@kcakiidyea I was wondering what was happening. I have 2 k hours in smite and haven’t payed for a year or two and jumped into the alpha and was snowballing easily. Full of noobs which is good because that means the game is growing

[@NotjustRian01]

the lighting is easily fixed by increasing the brightness, it was auto set to 30%

[@litledevel15]

I can’t wait for Terra’s release. I feel her whole kit is limited in smite 1 which is why you don’t have any skin that does her abilities any differently. Her monolith smash is the same effect for every skin; a burning circle on the ground …. No farm skin, water skin, snow skin - nothing. It’s really disheartening- imagine a Persephone like farmer skin for her???

[@natedoggcata]

It's still way too sluggish, slow and unresponsive. I can't hit anything because it feels like when I move my mouse the camera doesn't move until a full second later. That and all projectiles just feel way too slow when traveling

[@dynasty7298]

This. I hate playing any kind of auto attack god it's so clunky

[@eightlights4939]

It's funny because I never liked carry in Smite 1 but for whatever reason I am loving it in Smite 2. I have like 80% accuracy in smite 2 whereas in smite 1 it was probably around 60%.

[@hirshel820]

I can definitely feel this when it comes to ranged auto attacks. Everything else feels okay to me

[@snip3rkodak]

Bro i couldnt agree less with the game feel smite 1 is so much better

[@TheKnightOfSmite]

All they need to do is just replicate Smite 1 in a new engine, don't change anything, don't remove cart art, don't remove skins, export all skins from 2017 onward and refund anything before, with a PvE side mode and collection mechanic next to the competitive mode (that's dying but people are putting wool in their ears about it) But they won't and the game will just fuckin' die on arrival and be another "oh Hirez!" with canned laughter

[@incidentlyaniguana2193]

​@@TheKnightOfSmitethey can't just port models over it's a new engine. I do think they should have reused card art assets and such though.

[@Boom3120]

@@TheKnightOfSmite game die on arrival ? lol u wish

[@taylervalek]

​@@incidentlyaniguana2193sounds like their problem not ours

[@Tihamatt]

"too little too late for smite 2" imagine thinking this way for an alpha LMFAO, ofc im not saying you think that way im just saying the people that actually think this way, its funny

[@Nmixx_abb706]

I can't wait to place my smite 2 once it goes, 247, it looks so fun thank you for the insight ❤

[@DanielS-yf4me]

I think darkness part is on you. I was surprised the moment you showed game footage because my game looks nothing like that

[@godofm3tal1]

I missed the alpha test unfortunately but I'm really hoping that they ditch the gotcha game bullshit smite 1 had. Everything about it's monetization style made it feel like a trash mobile game looking to part idiots from their money. Given this one actually has a legit price tag associated with even ownership of the title, hopefully skin prices will come back down to "micro" transaction level, where they belong.

[@marekszewczul5832]

Idk, gods were boring, kinda the same way of playing them as in smite 1, i wish hi rez took more time into designing/reworking gods in smite 2, about cc, not sure, you cant properly do combo 3+2 with ymir at level 3 which kinda sucks (by not properly i mean i cant land 2 after stunning enemy with 3,) about hp changes, they have to buff towers i think, they are too weak, i saw people diving enemies with at least half hps with 2 kinda tanky items, idk if its healthy for the game, with hp changes everything dies so fast, and because of that it feels like for example the mushroom iteam is weak, in some cases you wont get 2 procs of it before dying i think they should lower it,speed buff is overpowered in compare to others, hope they revert the blue change, blue giving mana feels like doing a chore if you wanna stay in the lane, if mana regen is so good why not let all the laners get this buff hmm? Sucks, cool new item and i hope hi rez will be more creative with them and gods reworking/ designing going foward, they have the tools now, thats it from me for now, and I know no one asked (kinda heh)

[@ZYSeries]

They should just give options. me personally, like the lighting.

[@cjt217]

I played the Morrigan twice and felt powerful. She just felt fun and I was surprised that I didn't see her in any other games

[@Rick-sanches1]

Hirez don't have the talent to fix these art problems, they were creating models in blender I imagine and were at peak performance on smite 1.

[@jonnyboy0127]

I need music. Man i can't tell you how many times i fall asleep because it's just so damn peaceful lol

[@noavgg]

Would be interesting if they remove dr and beads and readjust all cc to se how the game feels. Cc should be fix so beads are not needed. Don´t find beads a very fun item it leads to situation were ether you can't play the game until beads are up or you die. And on the other hand it make some abelites usles and are more there to put beads on cooldown then to be an actual ability.

[@npc6254]

The game just looks like garbage on Xbox. It’s like I need in-game glasses to see two feet in front of me.

[@BRPerfections]

Was that Hecate gameplay on inter games? You were slamming

[@kenversusryu]

What’s with the air fry in all of your last syllable sentences. Am I the only one that’s noticed this?

[@roric6769]

hecate - if they keep the design similar in how good she felt. god design in smite 2 is gonna slap!

[@Hostobi]

They literally changed nothing beside adding combat blink

[@iaketano6024]

saved? back? like the only one who says that are the oldheads of the game, atp the game tries to keep it current players/content creators and thats the wrong move. 0 effort into attracting new players. hi-rez just tries to please its current "player base"

[@incidentlyaniguana2193]

Smites been out for over a decade at this point, they have no leverage over younger players because mobas are a long dead trend. Their best bet is to offer a better experience to coax on the fence moba players to try it and maintain their core player base which is what they are trying to do. I genuinely have no idea what your point is, what would you want them to do?

[@Tobygas]

Just a week ago you were worried for the future of the game. Wondering if anybody can pick a lane with this game and where they stand on it

[@eightlights4939]

Farming content is all he's doing.

[@schildkeks]

Idk but this game still feels wired

[@kurisubaara1452]

I played before and after the fix and have to say that it was running perfectly smooth before and after so I didn't get the whole thing about canceling the test. But after reading some comments and posts about it it seems like I was pretty much the only one who didn't have this problem. I also played the flash tests. There the performance was really really noticeably bad though. I also found a funny neith bug that can be consistently replicated. If you ult and move the mouse rapidly around and just shoot while doing so you can hit your own team mates and also kill them which hirez should probably look into

[@sleihbeggey1992]

The survey (QR code only as far as I could figure out) was (as most surveys are) useless. They did improve some mechanics since the last alpha though. Which was nice because it didn’t feel like they improved anything at all between Alpha 1 and Alpha 2. Honestly though asking me if I think the new UI is better than the old? YHow am I supposed to answer that question it’s awful but it’s clearly not polished. Are you asking for feedback on the layout? The interactivity? Don’t even get me started on the question about communication. Like HUH. I can’t type to anyone. What communication? The VGS? It’s the same but worse and some of the wrong voice lines play on some characters. Who is writing this survey they are not the person for the job.

[@eightlights4939]

I was running Cern on the last day in the jungle, once I got the devos online I was annilhating everything. Last 3 games I played I ended up with 15+ kills and max 3 deaths.

[@MrHighRaw]

Ooooo a DR reduction! As a Support Main that's huge to me. DR killed the game for more even more than the TTK increase did.

[@cuddlybear781]

The map being too dark is probably my biggest issue with smite 2. It's not nice to look at.

[@litledevel15]

…… turn up your brightness …?

[@cuddlybear781]

@litledevel15 it's not the brightness. It's the art direction and aesthetic. It's boring to look at.

[@incidentlyaniguana2193]

​@@cuddlybear781I kind of like the realistic aesthetic, they just need to play with saturation and reign in the shadows.

[@bryanperez4013]

This game looks like it belongs on a gameboy for consoles

[@Texmex361]

Smite 2 just doesn’t feel like smite honestly it’s just becoming league of legends with a smite skin over it personally I’ll be sticking to smite 1 and I have a theory that in the long run smite 1 will be more popular than smite 2

[@dynasty7298]

I kind of agree it really doesn't feel like smite anymore. I just hope it gets better when they develop it more and we get more characters to play. I don't really enjoy a single god that's in alpha rn just play them to play the game but that's just me. I like differnet people

[@TheKnightOfSmite]

@@dynasty7298 Judging by the art style and slop they put out I'm just resigning that Smite 2 honestly has no fucking idea what its identity is at this point other than worse than Smite 1

[@dynasty7298]

@@TheKnightOfSmite I partially agree. I'm still looking foward to it seeing as it's just the alpha right now. But the game feels more like the paragon remakes the came out. And conquest is just a massive shit show. Maybe it's just because only 1-2 people per team have any clue how to play

[@incidentlyaniguana2193]

​@@TheKnightOfSmiteI feel like the logo is a indicator of what they're art philosophy is right now. They put out an email showing it off and I cringed out of my chair, it's the most generic contemporary business redesign possible and throws away smites identity in favor of a "clean" and "clever" aesthetic. I wish they wouldnt try to reinvent the wheel, they have enough of a hurdle trying to get the gameplay to feel like smite, there is no need to water down the menus too when they already have assets.

[@Dionysius000]

Most people who play the game competitively play low settings and shadows to offet things being “dark and hard to read” because lighting. I say they add the ability to lessen shadows and such without gutting the beauty of the new game for people who actually enjoy playing high settings and shadows.

[@BradTheThird]

>Joined first game >Forgot to pre pick carry >Ended up going Bellona in Solo >Got to lane and cleared wave/ took buff >Enemy Hades just waltzes over after getting to lane late and two hits me and wave >... It all goes down hill from there >Didn't do a second game Oh, and the auto-buy broke because I decided I wanted beads over blink. And the shop wouldn't let me filter items by role. So as if I wasn't already being the tutorial for the guy I was laning against, I was struggling to know what items to get because shop AND auto-buy were being gay af.

[@dynasty7298]

This scenario is literally impossible hades would be lvl 1 with a single ability if he was late to late you'd have been lvl 2. And Bellona that early stomps hades easily

[@incidentlyaniguana2193]

Man admitted to going beads over blink on Bellona. The item store is hard to navigate at the moment but it just takes some getting used to. It's called patience brother.

[@peliuxarn6660]

Breathe

[@bobgog1232]

People need to stop acting like a few bad things mean the game is gonna be bad its an alpha its to be expected they are still working on it

[@Smokeydabear52]

Short answer is no

[@LocalCatgirl0689]

Smite 2 isn't "saved" until building tanky makes every god reasonably tanky. So far, including what I've played of weekend 3, only 2-3 gods are even REMOTELY consistently capable of being tanky, and one of them gets there without even building full tank. I get that not every god is designed to tank, but why are Ymir and Athena barely tankier than a squishy with a full-tank build while Chaac lives twice as long with only half his build giving protections? The TTK changes also barely feel like they change anything, although the few times it's noticeable imo it's just more frustrating. Also, for the lighting...check your settings. I see how dark the game is in your video, but it isn't for me. Game's brighter than Smite 1 for me if anything.

[@costas4058]

idk what u talking about smite had 11 years to make the game fill good smite gameplay movement and game fill were a hit even from all the back since beta

[@Inters3ct]

Not in alpha though, it was very rough in alpha and early closed beta. Also, yes the core feel of the game was established by beta but incremental improvements have still been made over the seasons like reductions to pre-fire and post-times, animation and hitbox changes, etc

[@venthyr8768]

My main issues at the moment (now that the game is more similar to Smite 1 gameplay and is way better paced), is the fact that performance is an issue and rage-quitting is still way too common. Hi-Rez needs to take out the option to requeue whenever you click the leave match button, on-top of penalizing people for leaving. I would even go as far as to say to add a strike system in the next alpha test in July, which suspends people for the day, or even the entire testing period, if they reach an x number of strikes. It is absolutely ridiculous that Conquest queues cannot be played because there are way too many people comfortable with genuinely alt-f4ing or pressing the leave match button. There are a couple of bugs where quitting is a necessity, such as the getting stuck in fountain bug, but I find it hard to believe that it's common to the point that 1-2 players are leaving every single game.

[@BrokerLower]

Happy with every S2 Alpha weekend ✔️

[@tannerschnovel5345]

I agree with having the beads, blink, and maybe shell but I think the game is so much more fun not having agesis in it. It encourages you to position well.

[@Snfflbx]

Yeah, but it also makes playing againts executers like Thana or auto-hitters like Nu Wa nearly impossible. It needs to exist for that sole reason.

[@dynasty7298]

​@@Snfflbx or anubis. Mf just blinks and you die basically

[@incidentlyaniguana2193]

Some gods necessitate aegis, they have to rebalance if they go that route or you will never be able to walk out of tower.

[@theMEGAMAN5896]

I like combat blink, but it's too strong imo. If they reduce the range, it'll be fine but right now it's too strong

[@AIejandroide]

But that's the point of relics in smite 2, having strong effects, stronger than regular active items, what they could do is increase the cooldown time to 5 minutes just like in LoL, where everyone have flash and noone complains about it.

[@theMEGAMAN5896]

@AIejandroide that's true. I guess I'm just still used to Smite 1's blink. Still a super solid Alpha

[@OneLargeFarva]

alpha playtest 3 for smite 2 was a fucking blasty blast

[@icy4eir]

Once they swallow their pride with what they can and can't do. -(letting people build 6 "actives" but also tying them to items. glyph system is perfect, why change that? It fills what they're going for flex options with mini passive/actives. -Leaving magical and physical as different stacks and giving some item's both to promote build flexibility is a far better choice than the average player having to figure out the optimal amount of what of each offensive, let alone defensive stat to build per character.

[@pyrose7813]

I still feel like they need to add Classes to Smite 2. Not in the same sense as Smite 1, however. Smite 2's classes should simply be generalizations of a character's playstyle and NOT the defining factor of what role they play in Smite 2, as it (mostly) did in Smite 1. Ymir and Bacchus, for example, while supports in Smite 1, always felt more like bruisers than they did tanks, despite being able to be built full tank a be fine, so they should be put into a class for bruiser characters, but bruisers, obviously, shouldn't be balanced around support. The same could be said for mages and healers, yes all healers can play like mages, but they can also be supports. You get the idea, the classes should be added to Smite 2 and should be a generalization of the character's playstyle as opposed to something that defines their role, that way the players can decide where each character goes more than the classes do, and I think that sounds very fun as opposed to the "Well we can't have Ne Zha do well as a support, he's an Assassin!" mentality that Smite 1 had (while I understand why he got nerfed at the time, I didn't like the drastic rework he underwent to make him go from good at both roles to good in one and just okay in the other)

[@just.chillin.killin6532]

a lot of people in the smite discord wanted to see archetypes replace classes

[@pyrose7813]

@@just.chillin.killin6532 Archetypes are, essentially, what I'm describing. I like the class system Smite has, but I've always disliked how the classes are balanced around roles as opposed to Gods being balanced around them. Like the Ne Zha example, it would've been more fun if they balanced Ne Zha in a manner to accommodate both roles instead of with the goal of killing him as a support.

[@nathaniellockhart120]

I want awilix, Arachne, tyre, nuwa or Cupid. I need my filthy casuals gods back 😢

[@AndrewH1994]

Maybe I'm just a hater, but i hated combat blink. short of hard CC, there's no counter to it. Loki ult doesn't even cripple it. I'm not sure if that's a bug, or what, but combat blink is over tuned, and need to NOT be combat blink.

[@c0_t0]

Skill Issue

[@snip3rkodak]

@@c0_t0no its dumb design

[@c0_t0]

@@snip3rkodak Criple not working is either a bug or bad design. Combat Blink is not, it's just another way to express skill and reaction time. If you believe that combat blink is bad, give me some examples and your full opinion.

[@MRcoolman702]

​@@snip3rkodakHow is it a dumb design if every MOBA has a form of combat blink? Predecessor, Dota, League all have combat blink to negate early game deaths for the dangers of snowballing. Smite 1 was the only MOBA ever to not have an iteration of that

[@c0_t0]

@@MRcoolman702 Ackchyually, Dota 2 doesn't have combat blink. 🤓 However, comparing Dota to LoL and Smite is not fair. It is simply TOO different and unique. So the point stands.

[@thegreat1207]

I gotta disagree with the lighting comments. I love how gritty the map feels, like in I’m a real place. In Smite 1 the flat lighting makes it feel super Arcady. I must rather them add lanterns or glow stones to brighten up some areas, rather then a flat bright map

[@JohnnyFamas139]

Gonna have to disagree on the hecate rekit. They should’ve let us play her in the first half so we could all give feedback and then they could’ve taken that feedback like an actual true alpha. But that’s not. What’s smite 2 is despite the advertising.

[@glassking8416]

I disagree with that. They can and probably will still change her depending on many factors. From what I saw players like her and so do I.

[@baller2085]

Im happy they changed her and didnt waste time. From what we seen her old kits was just regular burst mage, this new kit is actually unique. We dont need to test something that hi rez already knows is generic

[@just.chillin.killin6532]

they even said it on their stream, that she was being rushed and the original kit didnt truly reflect what they wanted. they were glad that players complained

[@bean-charlieartz3138]

We are so back!

[@copycalf4865]

Love the changes... but none of my friends computers can run the game. We don't have super expensive rigs. Once they optimize we'll be playing

[@muluzi405]

My opinion as a casual player, been playing for 8 years? I thought the time to kill was a bit too fast... I'm a bit divided about how the economy is way faster now... Kinda like it kinda don't... Visually I think Thanatos is uglier 😅... The teleports on the side of the map are weird... And I know it's a temp art, but the loading screen is ugly 😭 I hope it's nothing similar and they have something unique later on planned

[@QueLoKevin]

They need to fix Thanatos passive. It’s impossible to tell who is in execute threshold. They need to make it more clear like it is in Smite 1

[@junglesyokai9523]

Unfortunately at the moment the item system is killing smite2 for me...for me is just a mess..they should have sticked with the smite one style...plus the int strenght thing is a bad choicr in my opinion..

[@DeMafiaPenguin]

Change the layout of the store in the settings. Its in UI and i changed it to centered and filtered it for the role im playing and it helped ALOT

[@junglesyokai9523]

@@DeMafiaPenguin isnt the layout that bothers me...but the useless division of items in 1000 pieces...i cant feel power spikes whatsoever...

[@just.chillin.killin6532]

smite 1 item system is super restrictive and bad for diverse build variety. they should add a tutorial to teach players how it works

[@jomaroal22]

I liked everything except the towers now being a joke, the arpies do more dmg than the tower lmao. I dont care about towers hp, but its dmg should be reverted

[@seangood111]

Love evweything except the change to let buffs stack because once the game comes out trolls will go around taking all buffs cause they suck ass and are mad at theyre team

[@thedoomslayer5863]

I had lumen on and the game was very well lit. You might have turned it off which led to some areas being very dark

[@fightingddog]

Ive been jungling i pick up every buff lmao!!!

[@shallowagony]

Personally they should do the last battle pass for a free cross gen skin in smite 2 (upon reaching level like 50) they’ve done before, then smite 1 support should end (even tho it kinda already has with battle passes) then smite 2 should overtake smite 1 with full support so the player base isn’t divided else it could be rough

[@Ish393]

Hecate felt great

[@joemonreal4494]

Smite should've added LoL runes years ago. Huge win for smite and the direction is super exciting

[@crabby6549]

I still hate how oversaturated the game looks

[@UltraMegaSeaMonkey]

Yeah I am personally qaiting for this game to be out of its developmental state before I play it

[@marekszewczul5832]

Idk, long fights in smite can look epic, idk why people want insta death meta to be a thing

[@alexaxy3328]

"Too little too late"? What do you mean, it's still alpha. Great improvements.

[@taylervalek]

@@alexaxy3328 hard disagree

[@glassking8416]

Looking at some of these comments just blows my mind how low the average attention span has dropped.