Has Alpha 3 SAVED Smite 2?! 

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Happy with every S2 Alpha weekend ✔️

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Was that Hecate gameplay on inter games? You were slamming

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.

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

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

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.

They literally changed nothing beside adding combat blink

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

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.

>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.

Breathe

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

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)

This game looks like it belongs on a gameboy for consoles

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

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???

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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.

Still so boring

Idk but this game still feels wired

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"

"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

alpha playtest 3 for smite 2 was a fucking blasty blast

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Hecate felt great

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

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

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

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

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

Short answer is no

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

We are so back!

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

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

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

I still hate how oversaturated the game looks

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

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..

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