r/Smite

Theres no good antiheal options for ADC, and it feels pretty bad to get matched up against a heal heavy team when you're carry. Avenging blade can be an OK pick but its really just a second executioner without attack speed if youre against a healer, no healing reduction to speak of. and brawlers/divine not stacking makes it moot for a carry to build either imo

Conquest game with Bastet aspect, if you get cc'ed while using your jump, you can no longer attack, use abilities or even teleport to the fountain, as if all game controls stop working, you can still walk though.

I happened multiple times in the same game, I had to restart the game each time.

I know quickplay is just bots and its really just a shadow of the real game since you dont create your build or even communicate with your team.

But I love it. I dont have to wait in a long que or argue about what role im gonna play. My team never gets toxic or throws and if I need to go afk to deal with the kids its not a big deal.

Quick play is a great way for me to squeeze in a quick game before bed and know thst its gonna be a decent match.

I’ve played over 6,000 hours of Smite 1, and I really want Smite 2 to succeed. But honestly, looking at the player count right now, we have a massive problem, and I’m convinced the casual matchmaking is driving people away.

To be clear, I'm not talking about Ranked. Ranked is usually fine because people mostly know what they are doing. I'm talking about Casuals. We need to remember that casual modes are what actually keep this game alive. Casual players are the majority of the player base, they fill the queues, and they are the ones buying skins and funding the game. If casual matches feel like garbage, the game dies.

Right now, the skill floor is on the floor. And I don’t blame new players at all. They are learning, they need time to figure out items and maps, and we need them if we want the game to grow. The problem is how the game setups the teams.

Casual matchmaking is just completely unfair at the moment. It is super common for me to get 2 or 3 teammates who literally installed the game yesterday, while the entire enemy team is made of average, experienced players. Instead of splitting the new players between both teams to balance things out, the system just stacks them all on one side.

This makes matches completely miserable for everyone. As a veteran, it’s frustrating to feel like the game is already lost at the loading screen. And for the new players, getting absolutely stomped by experienced players because the system didn't protect them just makes them uninstall. They won't stick around or spend money if they aren't having fun.

The hidden MMR system clearly isn't working for casuals. Hi-Rez needs to start looking at other metrics for matchmaking, like account level, total hours played, or at least a win/loss ratio. True beginners need to play against other beginners.

If we want Smite 2 to last, the casual player base needs to be protected and taken care of. Right now, the matchmaking is doing the exact opposite.

Let me know if you guys are experiencing the same thing in your casual games.

This is a common phenomenon i've seen accross multiple games but in SMITE's case, King arthur, Thanatos, and Apollo are the top 3 gods ive seen in which the people who play them either fail miserably or hyper carry and so far i've found no in between. What gods do you encounter that have the same thing?

Was in jungle practice with aspect Wukong and noticed that I wasn’t gaining any protections when the passive was active. After that I went into a real game to make sure it wasn’t a practice bug and yet in game when I got low to activate the passive, I didn’t gain any protections. Is this a bug or was there a nerf to aspect but they forgot to update the tooltips. Was just wondering because people always recommend aspect for int builds but I feel like giving up 40 of each protections in the late game just for 2 seconds off ur other 2 abilities and removing cc just isn’t worth it. Would appreciate if anyone could let me know if there was a nerf or test it for themselves to maybe prove me wrong

I watched the recent videos by Deathwalker and Weak3n on the state of Smite after the recent patch.

My opinion: items are a way to give identity to roles and HiRez should lean into this.

Mages should do high burst damage to squishies and splash damage: keep strong flat pen and burst options and limit percent pen options. Same for junglers.

Solo laners should have access to strong protections and some damage but not pen: make single prot items good so they can be tanky early. Tanks shouldnt have to rely on percent protection items to be tanky: remove those.

Support should have access to active items to help the team and also sustain and prots: hexstone, upgraded shell, heroism are all great items. Let supports upgrade starter at level 15 again.

Hunters should be able to kill tanks over time and do less to squishies: lean into percent pen options for them but limit flat pen.

Finally, positioning and mobility was in a good place in Smite 1 and some of the overreaction to the new flat pen items is actually a problem with mobility. The midlaner should oneshot the enemy backliner if they can reach them, but it should be harder for that to happen. Remove combat blink so that damage dealing roles have less mobility and positioning and zoning actually matter.

In summary: Keep strong flat pen options, let tanks be tanky, let hunters kill tanks, make positioning and teamplay matter again.

Thoughts?

I was actually sort of hoping we'd see it return. Like, of any class to have good %pen, it should be hunters. It's their job, they're the class that's supposed to be best equipped to box the tank. With a pretty solid advantage. Also surprised we didn't see exe buffed for similar reasons. I dislike hunters being meta defining as much as anyone else, but I can't imagine this would ruin the class, just add some variety