SMITE 2

They really released the same game with less Gods and a worse shop UI, with none of the skins I purchased over the decade of playing the original. You wanna know why Smite never took off? It's because the people running the show are incompetent.

Me and my friends played Smite 1 all day everyday for years, and hoped that Smite 2 would be an improved version if the base game. It is not. Smite 2 has essentially none of the gods, a pointlessly complicated combat system compared to smite 1, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ new items, and changed everything to make base smite 1 players incapable of playing smite 2. Unironically the gameplay is so dihh compared to smite 1. They changed stuff just to change it, and then scammed players with their gems and skins bullsht. Even then this game plays like its still in beta, and is horrendously optimized. Literal trash game, im happy Hi-Rez went bankrupt.

Great game! I enjoy Smite 2 way more. I wish there was more gods, but I understand that stuff takes time.

Currently there's a bug that kicks you out of matches, including if you rejoin. Then it gives you a deserter penalty ensuring there's a minimal of 5 minutes wait between your next 5 matches. Guess I'll just uninstall.

There are not "mixed reviews" this game is trash. It is an insult to what we all loved about smite 1, and an even bigger insult to anyone that spent money in smite 1. Everyone can one shot now, tanks are broken, the items are trash. They wanna be LoL so bad, but we all played smite to avoid LoL. On top of that, I spent a lot of money for hundreds of skins in smite 1 and I am "rewarded" with diamonds enough for like 3-4 skins? What a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ scam. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!

After having some time to think about why this game feels so much worse than the original i think i have found the correct words for it. It feels like they broke down smite, rebuilt it as a mobile game, then put it back on PC anyway. It feels like a very poorly made PC port of a korean mobile version of smite 1. They couldn't get anything right. Basic attacking enemies doesn't even feel like hitting anything anymore. The punch is gone. The only reason i can tell i hit is because their hp went down. It's just a downgrade of smite 1 in every way shape and form other than graphics which i don't care about. You can tell they did this purely for money because now they are constantly shoving the god pack in your face over and over again all while monetizing more things than they did before like how they removed the unique death animations every god had only to give you the ability to buy one. This game isn't going to last so don't bother. They already had to cut funding to other games and lay off multiple people. This is a sinking ship that a bunch of greedy fools are clinging too hoping it will just stop sinking because their ego is too large to admit they messed up, apologize, and start fixing their mistakes. They can't even do moderation right. The company has toxic people moderating their official accounts like baconcrumbz on twitch where a few years ago i watched him threaten to use his power as a partner to get someone banned for dying a couple times more than he deemed acceptable during an assault match live. Then when multiple people called him out in the twitch chat for being toxic he claimed they were friends of the person he was threatening and timed them out. This is what hi-rez deemed acceptable moderation so it would be pretty stupid to expect more from any other part of this company.

Coming from someone with 18,000 hours on smite 1. I must say this game is such a disappointment. I tried to enjoy it...on multiple occasions. But I think im done this time. Every game is the same, insanely unbalanced steaming pile of trash. Tanks are souped up turbo charged God's on run flats that SOMEHOW output more damage than a full build level 20 zeus. Topping the charts with ease, eyes closed, playing with their toes. One shotting adc's and mages. Don't even get me started on warriors. The game forces you to build tank no matter who you chose. Never in my life have I played such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ stain game that came from something that was somewhat promising. I REALLY don't understand why the entire game was changed. Smite was fine the way it was. My last review for Smite 1 still stands as you can see. Nothing has changed and it will not in the future. I wish this game 0 success. I wish Hi-Rez stays the stagnant/irrelevant company they were the past 10 years smite 1 has been out. I wish it stays in early access with no hope for completion. I hope this "move" turns into a huge financial decline for Hi-Rez from low player count and low shop purchases. I hope the cons out-weigh the pros for anybody that decides to install this ♥♥♥♥. I hope that more people write negative reviews about smite 2 to further deter player count and cause long que times. I hope increased que times further lowers player count. I hope it flops and no one plays it in the end. I hope the servers shut down one day. I hope SMITE 2 fails like the last 3 games Hi-Rez made. Do NOT support these losers. Reviews for Smite 2 have been (Mixed) since early access release 2 YEARS AGO. That alone should tell you their soul purpose for creating Smite 2.....TO MAKE MORE MONEY. Hi-Rez does NOT wish to please their customers. Don't worry though !!! They're working on the skins !!! Skin packs out the ass !!! Oh !! AND you can change the color of some skins !!! You can even buy the god pack again for this smite !!! with even less gods !!! And even after you buy the god pack, you will STILL get pop ups to buy the god pack again. Cause that is all these BUMS care about...MONETIZATION>>>GAMEPLAY. I feel robbed once again by them...and maybe in the future as well. But for now? The game is trash and I have 0 desire to inflict self harm by launching this horrendous title. And TYR STILL ISNT OUT !!! GET IT TOGETHER !!! If you've unfortunately launched this sad excuse for a game. Please let everyone know how you feel. (Mixed) is too high of a standing for this title. Please correct.

After thousands of hours in Smite 1, I finally gave up and uninstalled Smite 2. There was nothing wrong with Smite 1 that justified turning the game into this. The balance is an absolute disaster. Mages can build HP and defense, become nearly impossible to kill, and still delete people with ridiculous damage. Where are the trade-offs? You shouldn't be able to build like a tank and hit like a glass cannon. The match that made me quit says everything. Three players on the enemy team left, and somehow Zeus turned into a literal raid boss. He was killing people with three basic attacks while being almost impossible to deal with. If that's the solution to players disconnecting, it's one of the worst balancing decisions I've seen. This doesn't feel like a competitive MOBA anymore—it feels like whoever abuses the latest broken mechanic wins. I wanted Smite 2 to succeed, but after spending so much time with Smite 1, this sequel feels like a downgrade in almost every way. Uninstalled.