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[@AbsentQuack]

Anytime anyone ever even implies that HiRez knows what to do without being handheld by a VERY vocal community, I simply point out that Realm Royale was absolutely butchered by a single individuals ego. Never let them cook unless you're reading them the cookbook.

[@Archiac036]

Who's ego? Ninjas probably?

[@Malikc11]

​@@Archiac036Ceo went against what the entire community wanted cause it went against his vision of the game and ruined what could have been a billion dollar franchise

[@ScuffedJeo]

Sounds about Hi-Rez ​@@Malikc11

[@imgonnacream]

@@Malikc11 played realm royale 2 years ago when i was really into fortnite and i instantly left fortnite for realm, very creative and unique game ruined so so fast.

[@e_tas_]

Also look at Runescape -> Oldschool Runescape. But the community often doesn't know shit so it's also up to the company to be able to filter the idiocy and implement good ideas. Eat the fish, spit out the bones.

[@Elzzaw]

5:30 To be fair Twitch and KZbin chats are echo chambers and people will 9/10 times parrot your opinion for that sweet sweet attention.

[@101joebro]

I 100% agree. If smite didn't show up in my KZbin feed, I'd never be in the mood to play it again

[@samheldman3154]

Legends know that siege was the real best game type. Nothing like getting 3 of your homies, picking 4 CC heavy gods and CC chaining the enemy squishies into oblivion

[@yrudonking]

Im convinced that there is literally 10 people playing when im on. No matter what mode I play at anytime its the same people.

[@evanalexa7728]

I had been saying what you said towards the beginning. So many people say “Hi-Rez” is gonna do their thing and it will be fine. They dont have a good track record with new games outside of what Smite became due to the reasons you mentioned. Also i feel like the marketing for Smite 2 has just been bad. I do believe smite 2 will start hot and then fall off pretty hard before either settling into a plateau of players that probably doesnt grow, or it dies. Im not being pessimistic, im being realistic with what i’ve seen, Hi-Rez’s track record, and their poor marketing. I want it to do well and will give input to help, but im not too optimistic about it. I hope to see some big changes in future alpha’s/betas and so on, but it’s hard to look at the alphas and feel hype for the game

[@lproof8472]

IMO Smite’s barrier for entry is too high. I’m a returning player after 2.5 years and relearning conquest is a grind. I can’t imagine a new player trying to learn the game without getting berated. Make the game simple and fun. That’s it.

[@PippTheKid]

Soooooo many games ESPICALLY comp games are like this. There will always be a point were you will be bad and you have to learn. Apex YOU have to put hours in before you start doing really well. Same with DOTA/LOL which id say are even harder to learn then smite. It just comes with the type of games you are playing. Smite also has non comp modes that help you learn gods/builds like assault/siege/joust.

[@lproof8472]

@@PippTheKid You’re probably right, but I started in season 3 and remember how easy it was to learn. It was simple and the gods were fun to play. This go around, it’s just tedious.

[@deathghost65]

​@@lproof8472 for some live service games, it's a lot easier playing in the beginning when there is less content to learn vs trying to learn all +100 characters and items for a game that's had 10 years of updates. I would probably be playing LoL if I didn't have to learn all +100 characters and different items

[@RECONSIX20]

@@lproof8472 That its because content changes, when you where on season 3 the game had less than 70% of the actual god amount, less items, and simplified maps. the skill floor/ceiling was low really low by then. you can take for example when adapting was a beast with his picks in proplay but know a decent player has to know the combos that where in his time the most skilled ones as if they where the bread and butter of the pick.

[@lproof8472]

@@RECONSIX20 My point is about simplicity. The game needs to be simplified to encourage a broader new player base.

[@xtraplayz7204]

That's exactly it. I'll watch content out of general interest but I rarely play the game anymore

[@voriukaslt4385]

yep, it all boils down to "how can smite 1 be more fun for everyone without killing the game" and it is really hard because hirez is a serial killer when it comes to making big changes when the playerbase is high and then literally doing nothing when it starts dying. I jumped on Realm royale at its peak and it was the saddest thing because every change that hirez made at the time lost playerbase, it was 200k peak playerbase that lost 10% after every patch, there were streamer and content creators who simply didnt like building mechanics of fortnite and the serious gameplay of PUBG so Realm Royale was literally just like smite in sense that it was the 3rd highest playerbase game in the genre. They basically would make a huge change one week, get feedback and revert it withotu trying to balance it, then try to balance the game after revert, so one good example was armor system in the game where getting a kill made you stronger which offered a reason to play aggressive, people loved it, it was new, it was fun and then they decided it was too op, revert and boom 20k players gone, to be fair it is impossible to keep the "trending" playerbase count but the retention of players was so bad solely because instead of discussing future of the game and competitive when it was at its peak they were randomly doing major changes that nobody wanted or asked, people would not even get a week to get used to the game and suddenly play a whole different game the next week with no warning. There were issues with some parts of the game being stale that never got touched, they even removed a class without adding another and eventually added bots to the game that were worse than CS 1.6 easy bots with 99% accuracy aimbots and walhacks so they did the opposite of what would make the game fun, they added unpredictable AI enemy that would kill you at random or simply act as afk farm as you would not be able to tell if the enemy is a bot or a player thus resulting in messing up your decision making. Now smite has a year of life left tops so they need to go all in on smite 2 nd it needs to be exciting, far more than whatever they are doing now, when devs talk about "interaction key" and "active items" it literally feels like something they could add to smite 1 as a regular patch, UE5 allows a lot of thing and currently they havent even ported the most fun gods from smite 2 with the impressive mechanics like janus or cliothdna so they basically still have a blank slate, they need to start making the alpha a weekly thing every weekend, and they need to make huge changes each time to see what players like and I dont mean "balance" or "item" changes, but real functions of the game, maybe give every god an additional ability that can be unlocked and replace any other ability, it would act like loadout in shooter games making same gods have multiple playstyles, what if anhur could replace the impale with a dash, what if the minion waves would rotate and have other types of minions, mage minions? healer minions? what if the lanes changed through the game, what if the objectives would roam, what if the pheonixes would only spawn after min 20, what if the tower could be upgraded through jungle camps goals and so on, so far their biggest ideas are so tame they cant even compete with smite 1

[@bigidiot5881]

Going from "Smite doesn't get views anymore, nobody is watching it" to "Smite content creators are all that's holding this game together" in the space of one sentence is so funny

[@Jimminia8D]

You should do a podcast with other content creators, pros and ppl that stop playing.

[@Elzzaw]

So they can all agree with each other for a few hours? xD

[@voriukaslt4385]

@@Elzzaw so they could trade ideas on what they want to see in smite 2, major changes, not recolor of smite 1

[@dragomondirector]

I immediately clicked when i saw Incon on the thumbnail

[@Natival]

Funny that if you look at the pattern of lost and gain players they’ve been this low twice before and recovered a larger percentage of players after than they lost originally. This is why it’s important to learn to read data and understand trends.

[@thebmurphs6672]

The only people who will consistently play smite 2 are the people who play smite 1 and with the way smite 1 has been going as far as losing players by the day goes, smite 2 will not survive. No new players will play it and if they do they won’t stick around. Hi Rez choked yet again and everyone’s ranked games will continue to get trolled by mf’s who queue ranked simply to troll and sell. The game is dying and smite 2 is nowhere near good enough to save it.

[@matthattermatador4595]

I've been saying for years, you should be able to 5 stack ranked

[@Boom3120]

@@matthattermatador4595 and you've been ignoring for years the reasons it's not a thingg

[@matthattermatador4595]

@@Boom3120 nope. Those reasons are all just bad, period. In a game where strategy and teamwork are main points of ranked you should be able to queue with players to coordinate and play together with competitively. There are 0 good reasons to not allow 5 man teams in ranked.

[@irawr4035]

@@matthattermatador4595 until you play against a full 5 stack pro team and get roflstomped the whole game. i mean look at joust and how top players can consistently go like 300-2 W/L. the game just becomes a one sided joke if you're playing against a 5 stack in comms when you're just queueing with a friend or 2. the only way it works is if they add a dedicated 5 stack vs 5 stack ranked queue but then you're just going to be waiting 45 minutes for the matchmaking to find an even game and you'll be splitting the playerbase even more and causing regular ranked to suffer more than it already is.

[@matthattermatador4595]

@@irawr4035 if you’re trading out getting stomped by better players for worse players throwing your ranked games; you should play casuals

[@eatonknass247]

Algorithm bump. Havent played in 2 years still watch most videos and lurk streams. I quit after 9.5 but smite 2 and the revert may bring me back. Keep killing it

[@Mr_Bobo99]

I like how the people that make Reddit post complaining half of the time don't know how to articulate what they are saying and the other half they just make shit up or ignore the public information that everybody that does a quick research can find.

[@louisnation349]

I'm part of the people who stopped playing the game this month, (actually my whole friend group of 4 people stopped playing too and what I'm gonna say applies to them too) I bought the smite 2 pass, played the first alpha, it was exciting, I played smite 1 again feeling a little down, we saw that smite 1 wasn't getting any love from Hirez but held on to the fact that Smite 2 (beta) was gonna release soon. Sadly, the second alpha was DISAPOINTING in terms of new content, (it was even more buggy on top of that), on the surface: they added sol (no rework) and hades (no rework, he can use his abilities in his ult but nothing that is conceptually crazy, that blows your mind, it's just op not creative) then a few items and a new UI to the shop. I lost all interest in the game. they should not have a made an alpha that was this open, I tested smite 2, it's disapointingly slow on content and it simply drained too much support for smite 1. I don't have any interest less in Smite except for your videos weaken because I like your content, the only thing that could make me comeback in smite 1 is you dropping a video that smite 1 is "fixed" or something or that smite 2 is now worth playing, but there is nothing exciting or crazy, It's just gonna be a slow process of porting gods almost the same as they are to a game that is the same but worse in terms of content and gameplay, and balance (except graphically but even that is not an argument because I have some nostalgia when playing smite 1 since I grew up with it). So yeah, also I'm a casual smite player (2 hours a day everyday, mainly playing assault and conquest, mainly a solo player and the highest I could get in season 10 was Plat 5)

[@Blizzy2424]

Same here, me and my group of 4-5 friends that played it quite a bit recently and a ton over the years have all stopped playing it. None of them even care that much about smite 2 now after seeing it. Only myself and 1 of them really tried to force like smite 2, but like you said it didn’t blow our mind or make us feel like it was really a different game at all. It feels like im going backwards by playing it because of the lack of Gods and I can’t imagine they’re gonns have anywhere near the amount in smite 1 for such a long long time. And playing different Gods is what kept me constantly interested in smite 1 for years. Idk I’m just bummed about it. Also, I’m a console player and feel like all the active item shit is just gonna create a disadvantage for us.

[@rizztraininghamster]

Idk what's worse: buying the access to alpha test or expecting anything from the alpha test. You guys got brainwashed to think the alpha test represents the actual game. Check what's an alpha test if you can't use your brains lol

[@Droid6689]

Reddit is the last place I'd look for intelligent opinions

[@Ninkavbed]

6:56 that paragraph literally discombobulated my brain cells 💀

[@TheGoldPrecision]

I havent been following, is there a place to see a CONCISE rundown of this 9.5 revert thing and what it means?

[@tatemartin8454]

As someone who probably won't like this update, I'm excited they are making drastic changes to try to spice up the game and get people coming back. Worst case scenario it fails and hey they tried to make some more spicy changes. Maybe I'll end up enjoying it, but I'm just glad they are trying new things for the community

[@Ninkavbed]

The only way smite stays a live is if they pull of a phantom forces. If you do t know phantom forces was a Roblox game that was dying but then what happens was that they got some new devs to work on the game and they’ve made some really good updates that impact the game mostly positively. The only negative change was nerfing the movement but it’s not that bad. If pull up gameplay from 4 years ago and compare it to now and you would find so many difference. They are also doing this with a way smaller dev team as well.

[@velibrian]

The white bread analogy made me want to eat a sandwich 😅

[@unknownmlg4041]

I think there’s a LARGE number of people like myself who don’t play the game anymore due to life getting busy and having to grind irl. I live vicariously through weakens videos that being said I feel like the amount of people who play smite is much smaller than people may think. 24:20 hit the nail on the head for me, I feel like a lot of people don’t even play the game but they check back in to see how it’s going and they have a favorite content creator, if weaken stopped making videos I’d never consume smite content again

[@joshg4562]

As an arena/slash main, I'm telling you, everyone hates patch 9.5. Do not lump the guy who made this post with us. The ttk change affected every game mode and made them all less fun. It's just felt the least in the casual game modes because there's still so much action. I honestly don't get how people play conquest rn. Landing every ability and auto canceling on someone as they run in a straight line to tower and they still survive is enraging. You guys are actually playing farm simulator and brag about it lol. 9.5 revert is good for everyone. I'm ready for actual fun builds, one shots, impactful fights. All of it. Hopefully doublej can make some of his old style content with 1 shot builds cause rn it's impossible. GG

[@AggroHusky]

I picked up Smite 2 the first Alpha weekend and had some fun with my friends, but we did not pick up the next weekend. Which I cannot explain why but the game just did not give me that feeling I had playing Smite back in the day when I first started and first found you as my primary Smite Streamer. I will continue to try and support you whenever I see you live or post a Video but I am not entirely sure I will pick this game up. Im hoping I am wrong.

[@tatsumaki8738]

not trying to suck up to you but your opinions never miss, keep telling the truth even if its not what people want to hear, love how honest you always are.

[@jeremyn4397]

Have y'all seen the leaks of Valves game? I know it is a dev build, but the setting is just such generic urban bs. The charm of SMITE is the setting of mythical characters batteling it out in mythical settings. Realish urban settings with guns is just not interesting.

[@voriukaslt4385]

its meant to be upgrade for DOTA2 and competitor to OW while also taking players from TF2 which has been lined up for death for last 5 years, they already have a playerbase, they likely dont even consider smite to be a relevant talking point. All major games in last 10 years have 1 thing in common, either they start a trend, or they take the current trends and upgrade them. Take PUBG, new genre, Fortnite takes PUBG adds new mechanics, blows up, Apex take fortnite add better movement and class abilities > blows up. Smite is nowhere near these types of games. Deadlock is there to eat overwatch playerbase that is dissapoitned with OW2, compete with LoL as a MOBA and then also eat up the playerbase of other studios like ubisoft and so on who released dissapointing clones like xdefiant that nobody wants.

[@Thatstough25]

It’s simple to make the game fun again so easy. Fix the damn banning from 1000 Mmr to 1800 Mmr make it punishable after the 3rd time messing this up for everyone else will bring a lot back

[@nozomashii821]

Hirez is also just a weird ass company sometimes, I remember when I came back to the game seeing the situation with punk duck and being confused.

[@derpyd3206]

I watched (most) of the previous stream and liked how you broke down the important aspects us viewers wanted to see your opinion on those specific moments. Ik it can also help generate you sum monie in the process so I see it as a win win🎉. smite 1 is a solid game but with how long smite 2 is taking I feel like alot of people want some imbalance back to create chaos which creates content and fun. hopefully this revert brings back enough enterainment to make it to smite 2 before anything else goes wrong.🥳

[@sokitheblue1124]

#Beast I think Smite is in a lull, yes, but that it will more than likely bounce back. The player base is ready for Smite 2, and that has impacted Smite's player count. In both positive and negative ways. When they announced Smite 2, the numbers went up for a period! Now people are boycotting Smite, because they weren't happy with an early alpha version of Smite 2! The devs have to listen to the community and decide the best course of action for both games. Otherwise the games will truly just flop! However, a video game's community, as a whole, will never be 100% satisfied. Only time will tell whether the devs are able to make the right decisions, to prevent a failed launch of Smite 2.

[@SuperZombieSlayerzzz]

They can delay after the beta right, if things don't go too well, like Xdefiant, and make some bullshit issue up to delay until they feel its ready.

[@C3lticlord]

I don't watch your videos but I have your announcer lol. I just play Smite with my friends only Arena and Assault. I think they need to add more stuff like that to bring more players in, the conquest updates won't increase conquest playercounts.

[@aidangoodwin7031]

I had a horrendous time in the alpha tests. It feels like they just took the worst aspects of Smite 1 and shoved them into Smite 2. On top of that they keep reverting changes in Smite 1, Jorm being able to use auto-attack items for example, that make Smite 1 less fun for me. I dont like Smite 2 or Smite 1 any more with these changes they keep making.

[@holybearjew9254]

Personally I think they should try some wild shit on smite 1 just put out some crazy buffs or items

[@thehorizon10]

John Weak3n react arc going hard!!!

[@OtterrChaos]

You probably recorded this on the fly, but maybe just doing the zoom on your face for this whole video would've been better. High res screens make it hard to read any text, but you're reading aloud so it's fine. Great video still!

[@Weak3n]

ill zoom text in next time so its bigger when im going over this stuff

[@sleihbeggey1992]

I was a bit disappointed with the (lack) of change between Alpha states. There were a lot of little things (namely auto attacks feeling assssss) that did not improve. I thought the point of the Alpha was to improve the game feel and performance not showcase their ability to basically port a near identical copy of 2 existing characters. The point of the engine upgrade was to do new things and do old things better but between the 1st and 2nd Alpha weekend I didn't get the feeling anyone had worked on any of that.

[@joshwalton25]

lmfao. Hi-Rez thinking that LoL and DotA aren't their competition just shows how delusional the leadership is. The amount of game specific knowledge needed to play a moba proficiently makes it so players are unlikely to play more than one title within the genre.

[@voriukaslt4385]

the argument for the "not competitor" is down to, Smite players wont leave for DoTA or LoL and vice versa which is true, Smite is more casual and most of the current smite profits come from casual console playerbase in which case smite is not competing with LoL or DoTA unless they also went into console game market and released casual modes/ upgrades

[@wilianrodrigues5280]

Wrong… This is just very wrong… The problem with your line of thinking about LoL and DOTA is that neither of the two are present on consoles and the way they are played is quite different over all. LoL and DOTA are highly established games with enormous player bases that are played through viewing more of a far third person point of view to play. Smite is close third person that is nearly first person and it is not highly established or well known in comparison. It’s like saying that Bloons is a competitor to Plants Vs Zombies when there’s significant changes between the two with different styles of playing.

[@SwissTiQ]

I have to be honest: whenever you get a team mate with YT or TTV in his account name, you can be sure it's the worst player in the lobby. :-(

[@xragxgg8099]

28:05 they should bring back all the crazy overpowered items thatt were removed. It's smite's last year, fuck it, bring back healing gladiator's shield, bring back hastened fatalis, bring back the movement bumbha's mask, bring back Nemean's hide, Hydra's back to 50% fuck it make the game crazy and fun for its last season.

[@xragxgg8099]

Damn they listened lol

[@williamhess1099]

Yo for sure. On the good content creator. Thanks for doing the work!

[@Immortal_coil4]

Smite 2 will be hype! Hi-rez just needs to focus on god development imo.

[@yrudonking]

The fundamentals of Smite 2 feel bad. Feels like a mobile game

[@_Moonphases_]

This video made me realize we haven't had a new god in months, and we don't currently know when we will be getting one do we?

[@Weak3n]

Smite 1 isn't getting anymore new gods

[@_Moonphases_]

@@Weak3n Oh that's... interesting

[@aidenb1339]

People that think the revert is a bad idea have never played the game. You can easily go 40+ min in any game mode (minus arena) with single digit kills then one mistake causes you to lose or take tower, phoenix and titan in one push

[@ceelosofficial9386]

$50K before taxes lmaoooo

[@AimbotFreak]

The first dude just basically tries to sleeze himself into becoming a smite 2 youtuber, the rest are the people who basically feel that the game is moving away from them because they aren't profitable and can't sustain it and that their opinions hold no value. Up until recently they were misled to believe that they are what keeps Smite going, but it actually happened so that they aren't. Pandering to these people was and continues to be Hirez's biggest flop. They need to accept that they have no reason to speak. We need to push Hirez into removing Arena from the introductory experience for Smite 2 and working out proper entry modes.

[@SharksInYaMouth]

Everything that post said is pretty much fucking wrong, insane work. I swear people don't critically think.

[@iaketano6024]

Imma say how it is, or a kinda hot take. Smite and all the content creators needed to keep Summit1g in the game for as long as possible. He brought in +15.000 Viewers everytime he streamed. So +15.000 eyes were laid on the game. He could've had a impact on the game, coming from one of the biggest names on twitch. If he was in on the alpha the results were different. But ego is always a thing were "we dont need no big name", but yes you do, summit could've had a massive impact

[@TTVKraigdankk]

Dayz was beta for years. Yes it was out but it's a whole different story with it compared to other beta games. Was a cash grab that got released as a beta.

[@zeusalmighty8106]

I say it is somewhat true that streamers keep playerbase up, but it really falls down to the game. If the game is bad or in a bad state, then it doesn't matter if you are a good streamer because people are just going to leave. Now, the hardcore gamer might stay in hopes that the company fixes it, but the majority will probably just leave.

[@elitegameingfilms2996]

How is predecessor gonna die..?

[@dbud26]

Yeah I want to know as well.

[@Blizzy2424]

It’s not. I agree with most of this video, but I wish he would stop dumping on Pred. It’s a fun game and absolutely has a shot. I wish he’d just give the game a real fucking shot. I don’t agree with his anti-verticality take at all, I actually like the verticality in the game. It’s unique

[@Videogamechad]

maybe if they stopped banning everyone who would spend money on the game for talking trash they would be rolling in money

[@iaketano6024]

Side note: Cant wait for some1 to compare smite with elden ring

[@Kevfate]

To me , as long as all the gods are not in the game , its not gonna be fully released. And even if they were to release 2 gods a month , that would still be years

[@lakephillips8381]

Actually a game staying in a beta state makes it where they don’t have to get each update cert tested before it’s released on consoles. That’s why Fortnite was beta for 3 years. Made it easier to put out consistent update. Smite 2 is still not good tho.

[@FancifulSKey4468]

Many people are so stupidly negative about smite. out here laughing at the phrase low-rez for years while having 4k hours in the game.

[@nn4mz]

Reddit has been bullshittin for such a long time. Keep eating, Weak 💪🏾

[@HotBoiFrescaJones]

The "dont trust the people who play the game everday" vibes are funny. Definately never listen to anyone who plays this game for their careers they have no idea what would be good in the game🥴🥴. Weak3n's always been a #BEAST wouldnt be at the level of play I'm at without the things I've picked up from this man.

[@TheAce5399]

I bet I'll get shade from this comment section, but I don't think that content creators do very much for Smite and I don't think its their fault and they're jaded about it. Weaken pointed out that Incon's numbers have only been going down and I'm sure that's true all across the board. I don't see any content creators pushed into my feed, advertised by Hi-Rez, mentioned by other content creators. There is not a big community within Smite with content creators. This was different when the SPL was huge in like seasons 1-3, but since then (along with some other issues that had nothing to do with Smite at all) Smite's popularity has decreased tremendously. I pin a lot of that blame on Hi-Rez itself and not investing back into the community. Instead a lot of their money went into trying to become a big game development company and made failed game after failed game. They got lucky with Smite and squandered it. I think that the current staff have the potential to do better with Smite 2, but they need to also remember that Smite 2 is not released. Smite is still going to make them the most money as well as keep their players around. I also agree with Weaken that a lot of people complaining over these issues are naïve and probably don't play the more competitive game modes. However, I do think they're right in saying that Hi-Rez needs to think about Smite 2 right now and decide how the competitive scene is going to look, or else they will be balancing for competitive play that doesn't exist and all the players that play the game are Arena and Assault mains. The SPL was the lifeblood of the game for a long time and Hi-Rez really dropped the ball on that. I think on top of that, content creators are treated poorly by Hi-Rez and are mostly jaded at the company which brings in this whole other argument over "the game is dying." Smite has not been a popular game for a long time and it's because there are few GOOD content creators for the game and nothing is being done with them by Hi-Rez. Imagine if there were community tournaments again or a creator's clash tournament ran by Hi-Rez to encourage hype. It wouldn't have to be SPL level competitive, but we'd get a lot more community out of something like that than we are currently getting. I don't think Smite 2 is garbage at the moment, I think that it has a good potential. However, I will agree that there is no way that it will be ready in a few months for open Beta. Not if the change from AW 1 to AW2 is anything to go off of.

[@Weak3n]

SPL did nothing but cost hirez money because they couldn't get orgs into the scene, too small. I literally play and make content with like 80% of the creators in Smite that are good at the game

[@TheAce5399]

@@Weak3n I don't watch you often so I wouldn't know that. And you're correct that SPL cost a lot of money and never took off, but in the Smite community it was hype for the first few years. Just to clarify, nothing was a dig at you or other content creators.

[@Mintybird]

Weak3n and Smite fell off fr only 638 views in 18 minutes.

[@olafbenedetti]

Didnt even make it to 667 😢

[@Odiousjimmy]

Yeah, the only reason people play smite is because of Weaken. This guy just gets it.

[@yungscoobert6279]

Smite 1 needs to stay alive for another 2 years in my opinion before smite 2 is ready. Smite 2 is so bare bones and as you said, boring. In both alphas I played 3-4 games and was already uninterested in the content available. They need to invest in smite 1 for another couple years and keep the active players happy to fund smite 2. I’m unsure why they don’t utilize some of the budget gained from cutting the SPL to pay bigger streamers a salary to play their game. It keeps the game alive and helps them develop content to create an interesting, active gaming environment. Fix what we have, make smite 2 quirkier like smite 1 is. Keep giving feedback and stating your displeasure with the game. They’ll hopefully continue to listen and develop a better smite 2

[@untastypastry6532]

Since day one Weak3n's been a #BEAST ty reddit. Looking forward to seeing you blaze through more srubs

[@vnm6968]

NGL You cooked. Smite 1, more worryingly smite 2 are in deep shit .

[@aaronmv4815]

Yes they are , next question

[@deadeyewolf777]

How most console players feel about smite 2 is they are leaning too much on actives blood forge passive maybe better as as an active but it's more fun as a snow ball proc on kill effect.

[@edwinperez1205]

Why do u think pred is ganna die outta curiosity it looks strong but Ngl I had to quit because it’s just not fun rn because of how ass the matching is how am I in the top 5% getting like newbie 4 man stacks vs 1%💀

[@masonaledani]

yeah that's guys in the smite player base and community for you..

[@imprezv]

i stream this game almost 30-40 hours a week to MAYBE 10-15 LOYAL viewers a stream and these people are really boohooing? Find something else to stream then. 9.5 REVERT HYPE!

[@AchillesofOblivion]

Deadlock is gonna be dead on arrival

[@voriukaslt4385]

its valve, and the people who played the game basically agree that it will one hundred % take players from games like OW that are dying due to bad managerial decisions and Mobas like DOTA2 and LoL which had no change far too long which will then help it get trending for new players, Valve is one of those game studios that can simply not fail, they never released a flop, they have so much pull in the general gamer communities, they could release a competitor for any other major game and become top game for a year at the minimum

[@Weak3n]

It will be bigger than its competitors on arrival. Top down mobas are not competitors with 3rd person mobas. They don't have much overlap in playerbases, oddly enough

[@AchillesofOblivion]

@@voriukaslt4385 they neglect TF2 and CS2 which are riddled by bots/hackers. If deadlock has the same problem it won't last

[@elskinnyoo9307]

you say a lot of facts in this video. I've watched you before like a year ago for just a few months just for smite vids and see how the current meta as I had quit the game. Like 2 months ago you channel got recommend to me again and it got me back into playing the game. without you idk if would have ever come back. I have play both smite 2 alphas and I think the game is way 2 different from smite 1 and is trash.

[@POWDERPACKS]

Smite 2 is going to be awesome imo !

[@Rayngood]

hi rez is just trash, why play this when predecessor exists

[@JustSaand]

If smite 2 releases without all the 150+ gods from smite 1 the game is DOA, i played 2 games of the alpha, yes its pretty but its the same game, which is fine but all my mains arent there so whats the point. playing smite 1 with gods I don't like with pretty graphics isn't interesting to me. So whats next I have to wait a 1-2 years before my mains get added? by then the game will be dead. lol

[@thegreat1207]

I love smite 2 fr I rather them drop smite 1 and go all in on 2. But I understand that everyone else is on the smite 1 side

[@justinmcclain8275]

Based Weak3n. That’s all there is to say

[@PoseidonsReaper]

#Beast cause the editor said so

[@bloop3514]

Can say I do like the 9.5 update but idrc, I stopped playing the game cause it's repetitive. Spent my time playing so many other games that I never had the time for cause I played smite for so long instead xd But I watch you and doublej so I feel like I get my smite fix without playing it. Will I play it again with whatever change they make? Yeah probably, but consistently? Maybe when 2 comes out lol

[@Buzzballforever]

The shade you give incon is so weird

[@nathansilva2799]

I disagree and agree, he’s just pointing out that incon is right at critiquing the game and trying to make it better since his livelyhood depends on it. He’s saying he doesn’t like him to put an exclamation on the fact that they’re trying to keep the game alive.

[@Buzzballforever]

@@nathansilva2799 still weird, especially after he kicked him off his own team. It really doesn’t matter if he’s trying to emphasize the point, just unnecessary weird shade. But weakens that kind of guy to throw any of his friends under the bus.

[@Centralssss]

@@Buzzballforeveri guess it’s just personal beef between the 2 you never know what one has said to the other behind closed doors

[@Buzzballforever]

@@Centralssss I’m not a fan of either. But it’s crazy you ignored the part where weaken literally got incon kicked off his own team, and became one of the sorriest teams in the league but yea who knows maybe incon is just a huge pos behind closed doors.

[@Weak3n]

If you know any facts you know the owner kicked him off for cyclone and pbm. Stop listing to people who lie for a living. I also was never friends with incon. We were teammates.

[@fightingddog]

TBH they need to ghost us for 6 months and make people miss smite. And come back with something wild. Maybe 4 lanes? Spawnable minions? Idk make it NUTTY

[@shewbtoob]

This comment section is lost.

[@dancingbabybins]

The only weapon a fan really ever has is their opinion. Speak the truth is a biblical commandment

[@borzydar1196]

Smite gods should feel like GODS. Powerful, unstoppable, broken. Just make everything op and watch many players get pentas left and right. Soon you'll get montages on youtube like it was in the early days... Easiest way to do this is to drastically lower base protections. (Mages and adc's should start at 0 protections and by the endgame they should have at most 10 each not 70). Make it so everybody is less tanky, but there's also bigger difference between squishies and tanks. Also nerf antihealing or make it not affect lifesteal (make separate anti lifesteal items).

[@Nishida523]

BEAST!!!

[@stormraingreen7543]

Meanwhile. My friends quit cause matches got decided in the first 10 minutes due to how prevalient damage was. came back cause 9.5.... However. Reverting it is fine sure but still going back to before it wothout ample care will just make one shot the only viable thing. I mean yeah cool plays cause one shots are back but... still! yeah sure. if the game remains fun i continue to play. Will admit: Not fond of any heavy damage meta and we have not been in a true tank meta since guardians took over three roles.... that is all.

[@nathaniellockhart120]

They need to give me aracne or awilix for smite 2

[@phats2816]

#Beast lmao finally getting the recognition you deserve from Reddit.

[@yellowfellow2k3]

Weak3n is a #BEAST

[@randallbrown4840]

More bread😂

[@Vaduroth]

fineokay is better unfort

[@tonyclawson9551]

Beast

[@lianjosua5669]

Reddit dwellers

[@JayzTwoCentzIG]

#breast

[@iTzNinjaa-1996]

U R #BEAST

[@foxkey3194]

smite 2 is poo

[@DaggerPrince]

#BEAST

[@Shukulo]

#Beast #Bigforehead

[@blackmail9595]

#Beast!!!