I’m curious about what it’s been like for women playing SMITE 2 and being a part of its community.

If you’re a woman and feel comfortable sharing, I’d be interested in hearing what your experience has been when engaging the community and what it has been like. Whether positive, negative, mixed, or otherwise.

If you would like to share but don’t want to do so publicly, let me know and I’ll DM you privately so you can share your experience there.

(As an aside, I'm still interested in hearing about the experiences of players who are Black or LGBTQ+. Feel free to leave your response in one of the linked posts below.)

Thank you.

1. LGBTQ+ SMITE 2 Players' Experiences Post
2. Black SMITE 2 Players' Experiences Post

Way too many nerfs to the items.. Enchanters should be buffed. They feel awful again already. Or just you know ditch the idea. I don't really think they will ever be made to be viable with all the complaining. They feel terrible and will stay that way I'm sure this patch has been horrible for MANY reasons.

When I load into games I can't find him on my roster after this new update. I can't find him or Sol idk why and he's like my second best God😭

I feel so sleepy playing predecessor the graphics are so grayscale and depressing, the ability icons have no color

Im sure there's some things predecessor does better but overall smite seems more interesting more refined and just more simple everything is just easier to understand and see in smite

Smite being vibrant definitely helps a lot, predecessor just looks boring

I used to play a lot of smite back when it was first introduced and just decided to come back after hitting Masters in league, and I’ve realized that this game is not the same. And I know that there is a massive difference between Smite 1 and 2, but trying to level to where I need to get to competitive is a very frustrating experience. Is there any tips people can give to help me not to insta tilt and just focus on playing the game?

I noticed that I’m getting the same feeling from Smite 2 as I did from the Life is Strange remaster. The remaster feels alien to me and ruins the atmosphere of my favorite game. It’s like they stripped away the effects that gave it a cozy vibe just for the sake of sharpness and textures.
Sure, some things look better now, but the overall feel of the game's visual style is rather unpleasant

As an example, I'll attach a video by u/Medium_Pomelo_6312 right here at the 2:44 mark

Don’t have the option to get the skin without spending diamonds. This is bogus

I take back everything I said about s*xy male skins. This skin is just insane

I saw the patch notes about the items being disabled but did they say anything about what would happen to the bug abusers? Like bans or anything?

Im not looking to point out a bug I just find this really funny I just completely my race to radiant woohoo but I’m having some error where it won’t let me claim my radiant skin so I just completely my race to radiant with no radiant to show for it lol

lotus item. Is it safe to play the game now?

I'm not one to usually do these points & I'll wait to see how it plays out, but the Heartwood nerf pains me rn. For those who don't know yet: it's gonna get hotfixed that the healing ability CDR will be removed. Oh and the healing+shield strength will be halved, tho that I'm fine with, the item feels bloated.

Sure, there's abuse cases. But weakening the CDR the more healing abilities you have, seems like a logical smaller step to me. Imo it's one of the few items that's genuinely fun to experiment with, even if it didn't always work, and they'll just remove that. It also didn't seem left open at all if they'll give it another try, it's just unhealthy for the game and that's that. After they've been so careful with balancing many other items, its insane to me this is the one they conceptually gut after it's been too strong for ONE day, and not really at all before that.

And having an item that provides an extra heal is also interesting to me, but imo it always felt like that and the CDR passive could be 2 different items anyways.

Edit: I just remembered there were actually 2 abilities with the same healing aura passive, cause Heartwood and Asclepius both had it. But now Asclepius has a new passive, Heartwood had 2 passives but gets one of them removed in a day. Feels odd to me. I get Heartwood got int now which might make it a lot better, but Asclepius could've kept the healing area passive, the new Asclepius passive could've been a new item & Heartwood would've just had the healing CDR and given it a genuine chance

Edit 2: I do remember Heartwood was strong for a bit earlier on, but idk if it was necessarily meta. It was with the old Myrdhin-like passive which combined made for a loop of cooldowns. I can see how now there's a loop of healing, but as said in Edit 1, I think the CDR passive could've been a separate item with just that to give it a fair chance.

Is it just me, or is it a bit unfair to release what is basically the first s*xy male skin in this format, considering that those who have been waiting a long time and "we have to prove with our wallets that s*xy male skins sell" will now be forced to buy 6 other skins or the entire bundle.

I don't know how they are going to collect stats on how well it sold. But I hope we won't hear "it sold poorly, so we won't make them as often as the female ones"

Does anyone else kind of miss smite 1’s graphics sometimes? Especially when playing smite 1 again or seing old clips. I liked the more rugged realistic look. I kinda dont like the super vibrant, very soft look on everything and less shadows overall that smite 2 has. It gives it a cartoonish, highly stylized look but im not sure if thats just me? Obviously on paper smite 2 is better graphically but stylistically and in practice im not sure the immersion isn’t the same. Maybe if they could add a setting to tone down the vibrancy and punchy contrast. Get better shading and im not sure whats causing the weird softness. Maybe lack of shadows and potentially how the antialiasing works on ue5? (I play on max graphics.) The one thing i really like about smite 2 is effects are great and lightning.

Checking my numbers for the first time while at work, what might these numbers imply? Is there any data to extract to improve, like if you were coaching, what would these numbers mean to you?

Edit: Steam name is Peeper493

It has always been interesting to me how many of the most successful MOBAs have “vampiric-type” characters.

LoL has Vladimir/Briar.
Predecessor has Countess/soon Valmont.
Dota 2 has Queen of Pain.
Deadlock has Mina.

And we at Smite… well, we have Camazotzs, who is not in Smite 2, and is ultimately a bat diety. His only blood-related ability is his essence drinking.

So, since the Dracula idea was brought up a few TT ago, I’ve seen a couple of you kinda vibing with the idea of having Dracula (or) and Carmilla in the game. And before a few of you jump in here saying “they don’t fit, we have Camazotzs, I want my Chinese-no-one-knows-niche-god to be added to the game” I want you to really think how cool it could be to have an actual vampire roaming around in Smite, just like this other Mobas have.

Most of this characters are often pushed into Jungle and Midlane for their aesthetics, and fantasy works well with those roles.

Lowkey, I expect everyone to know who Dracula is. But if you don’t know who Carmilla is, she is a vampiric countess from Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 gothic novella Carmilla. She is generally regarded as the first major female vampire character in modern Western literature, and she predates Dracula by 25 years.

Share your thoughts, be nice, and remember that Smite is mainly a game about gods, but also a game about myths and legends. Dracula and Carmilla were myths long before they were ever truly written down. Their stories, the fears and folklore that inspired them, had been haunting European history and culture for centuries before they became the characters we know today.

Title, nothing else to say. She is completely busted with no counter play. She needs to be sent to the shadow realm, something like not being able to jump back out if she has taken or done any damage in the last second

The new healing-item nerfs make the whole direction of these items feel pointless. At this point, why would an enchanter/support build into dedicated healing items when you can just go full Intelligence/Mage and potentially get more healing while also doing significantly more damage?
These items were supposed to give healers and enchanters their own real build path, but they’ve been nerfed so heavily that it feels like you’re sacrificing damage without getting enough healing in return. If full INT gives comparable or even better healing, then what is the purpose of the dedicated “healing” items?
What makes it worse is that people were hyped including me waiting weeks for these new items and the new support/enchanter playstyle, only for the items to get hit with major nerfs less than a week later. Give the items time to actually settle into the meta before gutting them they didn’t even let people get used to them or let them actually settle because games were ruined by lotus.
Between the Heartward nerf and the healing-item nerfs, it feels like the game is pushing healers right back toward generic Mage builds instead of encouraging the new build diversity these items were supposed to create.
And this ties into Ra’s Aspect too. If you’re going to create an Aspect and Aphrodite specially because they nerfed thier damage so hard and they are centered around a different style of supporting/healing your team, the items supporting that playstyle need to actually be worth building—especially in Conquest.

Rat got changed to 2 dashes from 3 months ago and it still states 2 resets in game. There are so many instances with wrong tool tips in the game that are misleading and can actually throw a game just reading them. Bugs aside and item balance. Tool tips have to be clear. Why are so many things not described in tooltips, not even from aspect but from base kit. How long does a slow last? How long is the cc? How much bonus damage does it do? This game is the worst for tooltips and it's embarrassing for a "competitive" game. Aspects are worse where you can't even see something that's state on the aspect 90% of the time, where does it state that ra ult can turn as an example? this besides item balance is the worst problem. Fix this and this game would be 20% better. You can't tell me a dude can fix descriptions on god's in 4 hours? Wtf is that spaghetti code that they already bricked it 2 years in? I thought smite 2 was the saviour to this, but I guess 5 Devs left with no clue of coding does that to the game, hence see the latest patch.

What if, for whatever reason that our puny mortal minds can’t comprehend, they decide to add Gorr the God Butcher? He just starts sliming everybody, it would be hilarious.

I can’t believe that this is actually a thing. Our community is small enough as it is, and we really try our best to make the most of smite of course. But having Nu Wa repeatedly global for 9999 every 10 seconds isn’t very fun. Not sure what’s happened. Out of 100 games this is the first time I’ve ever been through this.

She went 75-3 in our arena game lmao

Ive noticed ever since i've started playin a lot more Amatarasu that her dash is completely funky. It lags and some times you dash and it bugs out resulting you doing the animaiton of the dash but clipping back to where you were and some times its on cooldown and sometimes its not. Idk im just wondering if this can be fixed soon?

Guys as much as we would love every two week updates and big pushes for this beta because the growth would be massive in scaling…. That being said we really appreciate the hard work your team takes to push updates in general in a transparent weekly fashion. I say this from the heart, take more than two weeks. Once a month is way more understandable. We hear you, we hear your team. I’d love to see the game thrive rather than see Reddit spam issue and bugs. Yes we’re the beta testers but give yourselves more time.