My review for smite 1 can mostly be copy pasted for this. Once it came out I was genuinely thinking about supporting it with a positive review, but a couple of hours playing and you're reminded it's the same bad game by the same garbage company, nothing changed. Same braindead decisions and garbage matchmaking, the only difference is now you get FPS drops from 150 to 55 and there's plenty of bugs, broken UI and missing features everywhere you look.

The only way to play it is still premade with friends, otherwise you are at the mercy of getting partied up with someone who has 5 games played total. If the game knows I played thousands of games in smite 1, and knows I have 30+ rank X gods, why is it putting me in games with people who installed the game yesterday?
No amount of reddit replies and "Titan Talk"s on YouTube will ever change anything, you can try and try to connect to your community but that will never change the fact you are re-releasing 12 year old gods and still somehow manage to make them unbalanced. After 12 years of data and balancing you still manage to make a 'new' god have a bigger winrate than release Guan Yu. Mind boggling.

Also the ego of smite players needs to studied, the gap between skill and ego is astronomical. Players will choose to lock in a DPS role even when they see that the rest of their team already did that, and that they require a support role, and then get mad that they keep getting stomped since they don't have a frontline. Kind of fitting that in a game about playing gods everyone thinks they are the best and are clashing egos, huh.

Braindead system. Braindead company. Braindead players.

I'll probably keep playing like I did with smite 1, but cannot recommend it to anyone sane.
While it's best played premade beware that the game has some effect that will make your friends also lose braincells and become retarded, it's simply a curse that affects everyone who touches this game.

My review for smite 1 can mostly be copy pasted for this. Once it came out I was genuinely thinking about supporting it with a positive review, but a couple of hours playing and you're reminded it's the same bad game by the same garbage company, nothing changed. Same braindead decisions and garbage matchmaking, the only difference is now you get FPS drops from 150 to 55 and there's plenty of bugs, broken UI and missing features everywhere you look. The only way to play it is still premade with friends, otherwise you are at the mercy of getting partied up with someone who has 5 games played total. If the game knows I played thousands of games in smite 1, and knows I have 30+ rank X gods, why is it putting me in games with people who installed the game yesterday? No amount of reddit replies and "Titan Talk"s on YouTube will ever change anything, you can try and try to connect to your community but that will never change the fact you are re-releasing 12 year old gods and still somehow manage to make them unbalanced. After 12 years of data and balancing you still manage to make a 'new' god have a bigger winrate than release Guan Yu. Mind boggling. Also the ego of smite players needs to studied, the gap between skill and ego is astronomical. Players will choose to lock in a DPS role even when they see that the rest of their team already did that, and that they require a support role, and then get mad that they keep getting stomped since they don't have a frontline. Kind of fitting that in a game about playing gods everyone thinks they are the best and are clashing egos, huh. Braindead system. Braindead company. Braindead players. I'll probably keep playing like I did with smite 1, but cannot recommend it to anyone sane. While it's best played premade beware that the game has some effect that will make your friends also lose braincells and become retarded, it's simply a curse that affects everyone who touches this game.