The game is now in a state that is night and day different from the early closed alphas. Don't listen to all the mindless doomers that spread misinformation. When it goes free to play, play the game and form an opinion on the current product. I see the game only getting better in the months to come and feel pretty confident if anyone plays this game with an open mind they will enjoy it.

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Smite 2 is the sequel to the MOBA Smite, now with better graphics, overhauls to gameplay, and adding more Gods to play into the game. Rather than being limited by the old engine of Unreal Engine 3 it uses Unreal Engine 5, making it more beautiful on the screen and giving the game more room for depth and development.

https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3406337148

As a MOBA, it does the job of offering the classic 5 vs 5 experience with lanes in its Conquest mode, yet for all the great stuff Smite 2 is doing on a technical level, the game feels to me to be very lackluster and barebones. Gone are the music themes you could put on your loadout along with many details like animations for recall or global emotes. Old Gods need to be imported back into the game and it will probably take a long while for Smite 2 to be as complete as the first game was.

I had fun with the game in the matches I played, when everything worked correctly that is. Despite many years in the market with the first entry, Smite 2 still suffers from all the pains that a MOBA usually offers. There are AFK teammates, and unbalanced Gods that can domain the battlefield and matches can go for so long that people stop caring when the clock says that more than 45 minutes have passed since it started.

https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3406336723

Is frustrating to see the genre be stuck in the mud for so long and not have quality-of-life fixes, perhaps make bots take control of characters when an AFK player presents itself (or rather leaves haha!) or put extra effort into making every character be viable to some degree. Another point is, that I love aesthetics in games and Smite 2 sorely lacks them. There are only a few skins in the game, and most of those skins are overpriced for a title that is clearly in its infancy.

No, not at all. As a returning player, you only get a nice "discount" of 50% to new skins if you have enough legacy gems and it is CAPPED to that 50%, meaning no, you CANNOT get new skins for free if you spent a bunch of money in the first game (aww that sucks~). There is absolutely no benefit to buying the game and is better to just wait until it becomes free to play completely but even then, you still have a bone of a game that feels incomplete in so many aspects. I know is early access, but even this early access feels like it should be a private alpha testing.

https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3406337892

My recommendation is to wait for maybe another year unless you want to jump into the game now. Wait until the load-outs come back, the skins are better and priced more fairly (good luck with that one) and have a better balance with all game modes. Ultimately Smite 2 is not a game that I consider fun but rather frustrating and boring, at least until more progress is made in its development. Ultimately why would you play Smite 2, when at the moment, Smite 1 is so much better? It has all the features and all the Gods you could want and will remain so for a long while.

If you consider your time or money precious don't waste them in this game, but it will pass the time if you have nothing better to do.

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Getting unranked players in Platinum Elo constantly. ♥♥♥♥ matchmaking as in smite 1. Huge cash grab. Its a wannabe proffesional moba. go play some LoL