I used to love this game. It was very good in Season 3, but then came Season 4 and everything changed. In Season 4, Hi-Rez realised "we don't need to care about the game, we only need to care about the money". So they started to release lots of very good lookin new skins (in my opinion smite skins are the best looking skins of all mobas), but skins won't balance a game. With season 4 started the tank meta, so everyone was just playing Guardians and Warriors. If you looked at the esl, mostly tanks were played, too. It was a pain in the ass if you wanted to have fun with other gods too. But the good thing was that not many people cared about the meta in casual modes. As Season 4 ended the new Tier5 skin for Ullr was announced and as we know Hi-Rez, they realised the chance of making a ♥♥♥♥ ton of money. So they buffed Ullr extremely, so everybody wanted to play him and everybody wanted the new skin for their "main". After the release of the Tier5 Ullr got nerfed pretty fast, because this skin was limited and Hi-Rez has made their money. The tank meta got a bit controlled with some new patches, changing items and nerfing tank abilities. We are now at the start of Season 5, February 2018. Everything was ok-ish. Bugs started to spread over Smite, first only some visual bugs, some of them very funny. But then it got worse with each single patch. The bugs started to affect god abilities, game's latency and some minor other stuff. Hi-Rez releases a patch each 2 weeks. So the bugs started to spread very fast. I'm writing this review on 4 May 2018 and I can tell that I have never played a game before, which was as buggy as Smite. Look at my Steam Library, I played a bunch of games. But bugs are only one of our problems, there were more. The tank meta started to come back with new Guardians and Warriors in the god releases, so tanks did more dmg than any other class while being more tanky and having more Crowd Control than any other class. Now everyone was obsessed by the meta. Of about 95 gods in the game, only 20 were played (you actually saw only 20 different gods in like 10 matches until you saw a non-meta god). This is a huge problem in my opinion, because if you like to play a god, you can't play him, because he's not in the meta and no matter how good you are, you will play worse than you could. This resulted in a heavy harassment wave. If you didn't pick a meta god, you would get flamed, reported etc. (mostly in Russian, because this game has a big russian community, I myself learned to understand the Russian language because of Smite, so it's good if you try to learn russian). Know you probably think: But Xovio, this only happens in the high elo. I can tell you that you're absolutely wrong, because there is no thing called "elo" in Smite. "You just started the game? Here are people who played the game for 500+ hours to help you get started" "You lost 14 matches in a row? Maybe if you fight against people with 2000+ you'll learn how to play it!" It's not fun for the experienced players, neither is it fun for the new players.

And now we should look at what Hi-Rez did against these problems:

They released new skins and cosmetics to buy.


Good evening guys!

I used to love this game. It was very good in Season 3, but then came Season 4 and everything changed. In Season 4, Hi-Rez realised "we don't need to care about the game, we only need to care about the money". So they started to release lots of very good lookin new skins (in my opinion smite skins are the best looking skins of all mobas), but skins won't balance a game. With season 4 started the tank meta, so everyone was just playing Guardians and Warriors. If you looked at the esl, mostly tanks were played, too. It was a pain in the ass if you wanted to have fun with other gods too. But the good thing was that not many people cared about the meta in casual modes. As Season 4 ended the new Tier5 skin for Ullr was announced and as we know Hi-Rez, they realised the chance of making a fuck ton of money. So they buffed Ullr extremely, so everybody wanted to play him and everybody wanted the new skin for their "main". After the release of the Tier5 Ullr got nerfed pretty fast, because this skin was limited and Hi-Rez has made their money. The tank meta got a bit controlled with some new patches, changing items and nerfing tank abilities. We are now at the start of Season 5, February 2018. Everything was ok-ish. Bugs started to spread over Smite, first only some visual bugs, some of them very funny. But then it got worse with each single patch. The bugs started to affect god abilities, game's latency and some minor other stuff. Hi-Rez releases a patch each 2 weeks. So the bugs started to spread very fast. I'm writing this review on 4 May 2018 and I can tell that I have never played a game before, which was as buggy as Smite. Look at my Steam Library, I played a bunch of games. But bugs are only one of our problems, there were more. The tank meta started to come back with new Guardians and Warriors in the god releases, so tanks did more dmg than any other class while being more tanky and having more Crowd Control than any other class. Now everyone was obsessed by the meta. Of about 95 gods in the game, only 20 were played (you actually saw only 20 different gods in like 10 matches until you saw a non-meta god). This is a huge problem in my opinion, because if you like to play a god, you can't play him, because he's not in the meta and no matter how good you are, you will play worse than you could. This resulted in a heavy harassment wave. If you didn't pick a meta god, you would get flamed, reported etc. (mostly in Russian, because this game has a big russian community, I myself learned to understand the Russian language because of Smite, so it's good if you try to learn russian). Know you probably think: But Xovio, this only happens in the high elo. I can tell you that you're absolutely wrong, because there is no thing called "elo" in Smite. "You just started the game? Here are people who played the game for 500+ hours to help you get started" "You lost 14 matches in a row? Maybe if you fight against people with 2000+ you'll learn how to play it!" It's not fun for the experienced players, neither is it fun for the new players. And now we should look at what Hi-Rez did against these problems: They released new skins and cosmetics to buy. Good evening guys!