SMITE 2 - Developer Deep Dive: U.I. (User Interface) 

That layer in adobe called "bullshit" sends me

My boy Fenrir looks so good I want to cry.

Rumor has it that the UI Highlight bug will still exist somehow in this new UI

Really like their focus on new players. Im an oldie so stuff will come easier to me than a brand new person with no experience in mobas. This is honestly smites last chance to hit the market strong. Lets hope they dont mess it up

The UI element titled “bullshit” 😂

those new ability and item icons are clean af. nice job art team!

Gameplay changes I found in this video: Health potion: You can only have a max of 3 in a slot at a time now (dont know if this means you can have a health potion in each slot now) Elixir of Intelligence: Gives 120 int, does not stack Balors Eye: normal stats other than a whopping 30% magical pen Anubis Passive tweak: he gains lifesteal and prots based on how low his hp is, 3% of each up to 8 stacks Fenrir Confirmed: idk if hes been in previous deep dives but i only just now noticed him and his new jump animation looks cool. Kinda wish they gave him a visual rework like anhur though, he's always looked greasy to me

I like the look of the UI and the fact that smite 2 will retain the 2D art work of god icons instead of the 3D model's faces that were used before, but I think I prefer the God Icon to be a square instead of a rectangle. Also I think fenrir's model is looking good, but fenrir walking with two legs during his ult is a bit weird lol

Shoutout to the artist, everything looks amazing. I LOVE that they’re redesigning ability icons and items. Just know that every small change is being noticed and appreciated!! Even the HP bar with those pulse effects.

The UI looks LEAGUES better than smite 1's and Fenrir is looking awesome so far!

Will card art no longer exist? Are we just going to have 3D characters on the loading screen?

oou the gameplay is looking a lot better now

I see there's a lot of passion for the game being put into working on Smite 2, that's good :)

As a graphic designer, I appreciate these kind of videos

Fenrir looks AWESOME !

2:40 Yo I love this guy

Ty for your great work ❤

Looks pretty good so far, the one thing I'd like to point out is that the card arts for Smite characters have always been amazing and I really hope we'll at least get the option to set the god avatars back to the hand-drawn version. Would be such a shame to see that go.

1:20 hopefully your colorblind options are solid because if i'm out here looking for green/red to quickly determine the enemies items then I'm doomed

They going the league route with percent scaling 1:52 i love it

Love that this gets highlighted. I feel like UI is something that you notice when it's not done well and you have a hard time understanding what the game is trying to communicate (if it communicates stuff at all). Conversely UI tends to fly under the radar when it's designed really well, so most of the time you probably won't pick up on a lot of helpful details and the smart decisions making a useful and effective UI. So, much appreciated 🙂

The fact they did what they did in Smite 1 with flash and UE3 say a lot of the talent in Hirez.

@2:44 is just pure gold

Love the bullshit layer, and XxWeedEnjoyer420xX Morgan Le Fay tag. 0:27

I remember when they tried updating the UI and completely made the game unplayable. I'm glad they can finally change it without breaking the game lmao

I really appreciate that they are taking the time to actually refresh this game, and it does feel like they are putting love into it, i would like to leave this comment as a subjetive opinion rather than a critic since it may appear like it but hopefully it can be pros that can be put on the table or at least be used as a creative factor for the devs if they want. I've been playing smite for almost a decade now and since the first days I've always liked the minimaslist/"brutalist" style of the UI, dont get me wrong the new ones look great and i like to see that they're putting their creativity into it, however filling up something too much can be overwhelming, flashy texts with gardients, unnecessary additional icons or a thick borders tend to make it feel crammed, i would like to see a customization implemented related to each panteon, for example a greek architecture UI keeping a minimalist 2D style an all white with pillars or for chinese red with gold, something leaving to personal preference pick rather than making it look futuristic or new, is a fact that the game needed an engine swap since it has so many layers that can't be changed without messing a lot of stuff up and we understand it, is not neccessary to give it a new game type of feeling since it will atract people on its own just driven by either curiosity on new game release or the best in my opinion nostalgia which will be a game changing factor the first days that will be 100% needed. One of the few things Smite has always caught my attention on top of other MOBAs and is more of a personal liking, is the feeling that each ability you're using transmits, the sound and looks are very important for it and something that has changed drastically, not for bad but has been kind of forgotten is the hard deep bass sounds, i like to feel what im throwing and that it feels powerful, i remember back when Thoth was released I bought the hardest bass sounding headphones I could just to hear exagerated sound of the ult exploding my ears, and as I said is something of personal liking since I've always been into low deep bass frequencies since I have memory but is something liked by a lot of people and that gives this powerful personality to each ability, this is a factor that has dragged me towards Smite always some examples; Mercury ult, his punches, Anhur landing or his ult, Thanatos landing, Thoth ult, Nu wa ult, Wukong landing and those bass loudsy sounds and more if it comes alongside a more powerful look. Everbody likes anime nowadays and there's this art style that I've always been into and has been popping off lately which is called "SAKUGA", is this kind of overwhelming groundshattering, groundshaking, sound barrier breaking style and since 2015 I've always wondered how Smite would feel with this kind of stuff implemented, landing somewhere and shattering the ground in layers without making it a game changing factor rather a visual thing would caught eyes easily and really makes you feel like an actual god is arriving, even taking in consideration atmosphere changes, sound breaking visuals that are not too flashy or even auras, I'm main Thanatos and the 2 has always given me that intimidation ability vibe, the way the aura goes in him is something really cool that i thought i would see more often and is an actual boost that you can appreciate visually and in some way fear, imagine a guy with a killing streak comes near you and you can see an aura around him or some kind of black low opacity flame like the 3k pot aura, not only does this would make it look really cool, it actually could drag your attention towards that player in some situations, even lighting their god model eyes in flames or white or make smoke come out of their mouths as just a visual thing would add so much personality and chances for add ons, let's call it "bloodlust" you can change your own bloodlust aura the same way you change pillars, border, icons ect. Smite has always been my preference for what it makes you feel, I love mythology and the fact that is one of the main things is absolutely good, but it kind of feels forgotten, we are playing as gods, but is not something ive taken into consideration lately, it now just feels as characters, is not about the god choices that have been made so far, every god release has something in particular that makes it good, but i feel like it lacks something, more of a powerful/intimidating style or meaning, we can compare Zeus model to the rest, it looks intimidating and some gods playing cards really look cool, but is just that has been driven out of that almighty being feeling, don't get me wrong goofy skins are fantastic and I like all gods and skins releases in general but I would like to see more of a general depth into each skin release rather than just a creative choice of repeated visuals or color changes that just pack the god with skins that are either re colors or just a copy of other skin release art style and is totally okay, is understandable that everything takes time and effort, but the fewer the releases are the better they will become if a team is dedicated to it for some months without pressure. I hope this helpful is some way even though they're probably just going to ignore all of this, and i wish you guys the best luck, the creative advantage this major game change will give is the most important part, and from now on is just looking ahead and keep making this game that we all love better.

The UI changes look slick! I love the new artstyle of the abilities, though now it doesn't fit quite as well with the items artstyle, but those are probably changing as well. But a very nice change that I could notice was the camera verticallity change when Fenrir, Anhur or Neith jumps! Together with the camera angle lookng like it's slightly lower, it makes it even more action-y! Love it

Happy we can customize the Ui still. Fen ult walking on 2 legs looks kinda goofy though

Looking forward to Intersect uploading a 30 minute video breaking this down

When you bring over Mercury, please make his ult instant again. You can get rid of the stun for all I care, but please, it was way more fun on release

I would really love it if they took someone new to smite and made them play the game and then wrote down every question they have, then looked at that when making the new UI and tutorial. As someone kinda new to smite 1 I had a lot of questions that wasnt answered and the game seemed more hidden and complicated than it was. "Why cant I do this?" when I in fact could, I just didnt know how.

OKAY NOW IT'S LOOKING GOOD GOOD!

Bro... Neith just Thanos snapped our boy Anhur. That's sick!

Best game EVER, now getting an upgrade, I cant wait to get into it, defenitely buying the life godpack

That UI looks delicious

Damn i love this game

I play on PS5. The "new" UI we have as an option really is hindering my gameplay (too clunky, busy, ect). So I switched back to the original. I just hope you guys keep it SIMPLE & FUNCTIONAL for console as well.

Would there be any chance of mouse and keyboard support for consoles? There are just a few games and it would be a great thing for Smite 2!

Big shout-out to the bullshit layer in Flash.

Game is looking amazing!

I still think the original Smite HUD is the best looking. It has personality and depth. The new one is soulless and the Smite 2 one, from what we can see, seems to be going the same path. The animations and all that are pretty but the rest is just golden lines, too clean.

I know the game aint out yet, but hirez you should check the anubis passive you gave him, as 10 stack are impossible to get, make it 6% maybe for every 15% health missing for a maximum of 5 stack 😊

That so good but I Hope the menus of the game Will be modern and fresh now.

🔥🔥🔥

Are death animations being removed????? I just saw anhir turning to dust 😢

300g for a sentry 😭

My biggest complaint with Smite 1 is the UI, it sucks to use & can often be unresponsive & slow. Smite 2 looks like it’s gonna fix all of that

neith lookss amazinggg

Listen, as long as Aegis is dead and buried, I'll be a happy camper.

0:55 nahh what did they do to neith ult

Please make Fenrir both bigger and walk on 4 legs

Juicy

Las IA hicieron mejores rework de los items que la que hicieron los diseñadores xd

Would've been a great update, but... sequel?

ui is looking better. hopefully i can run this on my potato lmao

In Smite 1 if you scroll gods in gods tab, you lose FPS

I'm just saying, I think there need to be a few more rounded corners. The UI seems a bit too square for my liking. Especially on the ability and item icons, I think that also makes the game fill a bit dated.

Y'all have handled Smite 2 really well, to the point where I wanna try Smite 1 just to then become a founder for Smite 2.

hahahaha 2:42 🤣

Please for the love of god, focus some devs for keeping crashing at a minimum. I cant have one match without someone crashing. Its more important then UI or anything.

0:26 timestamp 😂🤣😂

im so grateful for UE5. For a decade I have been ranting about how garbage the UI is and has been. This is such a blessing. A clean smooth AI makes thia game 11/10 for me even if the gameplay somehow sucks.

Fenrir's ult no longer has him carrying them on all fours? LAME. Part of the fun of ulting someone as Fenrir was playing fetch!

Not a fan of fenrir standing in his ult instead of being on all fours

Oh my lord is that two leaps on Fenrir ????!?!?!?!?!

make skins transfer make skins transfer make skins transfer make skins transfer

Learn to add transparency to the ui and tooltips...

Amaterasu smite 2

The only thing won’t have as many players bc it only for new gen not every one have the new Xbox or ps5 luckily I have a ps5 but have some friend I play smite with don’t have a ps5

Is Smite 2 going to be pay-to-play?

Wow so cool and amazing give us our skins

This looks freakin good, can never LoL jk lmao!! 🤣

Shame you can't magically make the community less toxic :)

Dang, no wonder they can’t bring all the skin to smite 2, because it’s in a floppy disk…. Only old people will get that joke

and lose my skins frome Smite 1 -.-*

Ps4 não?

Being completely real with you here, the UI in Smite 2 (in myself and my friends opinions) looks like complete garbage. Please for the love of god give players an option to use the old UI. The health and mana bar especially are really ugly to look at, feel way too small and have no texture to them whatsoever. It truly looks like a mobile game and I doubt I'll be able to get used to it.

Mayby you can fix f.. clan chat 😂😂😂😂

No my skin no play

The most toxic gamebase ive ever experienced.

Nice April fools 😅

If you haven't fix game crash in Smite2 caused by anti cheat then you are done lol Smite2 straight into trash

I have zero faith in female game designers. Aside from cosmetic designs I refuse to believe they even comprehend what relays vital information for players. Show me a single team of professional female players that isn't dead last in every capacity and I might consider letting them design competitive mechanics.

Oooooh that Gem of Isolation art looks CLEAN. I hope all the returning old items get an art pass like that

UI looks like a mobile game 🫠, “ its not what the devs want, its what the players want” SO Not True

Revert Persephone for Smite 2 :D