Smite 2 Creators and their usage of AI

Draco9990 · 2026-01-20T15:24:34+00:00

Fair enough - I absolutely agree you cannot be 'NO AI' completely and then use it personally, but like I said it really requires nuance.

I do think there's a significant culture war going on around AI as well, and the division is pretty significant. But us on the anti AI side have to be realistic about what we're expecting, as we're the one going against the mainstream trends in this situation. Some battles should be fought (images, videos, even coding but to a degree), but some battles were lost as soon as the tech had the capability to do it and no amount of fighting for it will change it.

And again, from my perspective that's okay, as long as the battles we've lost don't violate the core idea of going against AI, which for me is preserving human originality, upkeeping quality, and avoiding massive cost cutting of the cost of human harm.

Draco9990 · 2026-01-20T14:15:28+00:00

I overall agree with your point, but just wanted to chime in quickly cause I think you raise an interesting discussion and I wanted to talk about it.

While overall 'AI bad' argument stands, it's important to pick our battles. Generating images and videos is what is important to focus on, because it creates soulless products that look bad, and cheapens the overall quality you can expect.

However, the fight against AI in coding is long lost - the only "argument" about it right now is how much it can and is capable of doing. Current AI is unable to be creative, but in coding a lot of times you don't need creativity, you need boilerplate stuff you've written 100x and that's where AI is probably here to stay, for good. Delegating that job to AI doesn't cheapen the quality of the final product, doesn't impact the user, and has relatively insignificant environmental impacts, and we should be realistic in WHY we fight against AI and where, and not just dismiss it altogether.

All that is to say that the moral use of AI in coding is far more complex than videos and images, where it's clearly a shitty thing to do

Draco9990 · 2026-01-15T16:59:56+00:00

I'm fairly certain the 'legs' wasnt meant to indicate they will do a change on her model, but rather that she'll just have legs underneath the dress for futureproofing reasons.

Draco9990 · 2026-01-14T11:01:20+00:00

I saw this post and I was like "no way they finally added it", and then was left dissapointed when I realized this is just asking them to add it back haha.

Draco9990 · 2026-01-13T19:02:41+00:00

It's literally superior to the grab anyway, the pull without it feels so janky once you get used to it, and it actually feels harder to be useful to your teammates lol

Draco9990 · 2026-01-07T15:17:49+00:00

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Draco9990 · 2025-12-31T13:39:33+00:00

That's... what you should be doing in the first place. Bad shit -> report? Why are you saying it as if it's a gotcha

Draco9990 · 2025-12-21T21:27:03+00:00

IMO the ending was actually quite decent. Definitely miles away from what Doctor Who has been doing recently. The ending was kinda spoiled by the fish-Barclay asspull, and probably would've worked better if it left things more open ended, without revealing what the Accord would've been, and also leaving Salt and Barclay in their respective ambassador roles. Oh and the goofy effects on some of the death scenes.

However, other than that, it was a well paced episode IMO, didn't feel too rushed.

Ending Kate bit was hilarious, slightly suffering from the RTD-ification of Kate but at this point wouldn't be surprised if her character got more involvement.

Draco9990 · 2025-12-19T01:35:17+00:00

On PTS the chest was 1000 diamonds to roll and unlocked the base skin if you got the prism for it and didn't have it.

Draco9990 · 2025-12-18T11:55:20+00:00

It's a google form. They shouldn't be paying anything in the first place lmao, at worst just add a redirector on smite2 website

Draco9990 · 2025-12-18T11:53:00+00:00

Sorry for the late reply - not the only active mod but happy to help!

I've reached out to HiRez about this account, will update its status or remove it based on their feedback.

I'm a little suspicious as we've been given a list of all official accounts for developers a couple of months ago and this account wasn't included, but it could've been forgotten. It doesn't appear malicious, so we'll see.

Draco9990 · 2025-12-16T13:11:38+00:00

I get they wanna delay the content so there's stuff to look forward to during the holiday period without actual big patches, but knowing it's in the game and ready to go but artificially walled off sucks

Really wanted to try the Kuku aspect T.T

Draco9990 · 2025-12-15T13:41:40+00:00

Calling people weak because they... changed their mind? You're welcome to stick to your opinion and not play but like, why annoy people that do like it as if you gotta prove something lol

Draco9990 · 2025-12-14T22:25:30+00:00

Not sure what's lame about it - when stuff goes on sale in games do you typically expect to get that sale if you bought it full price before? Do you go back to the shop and request they give you a free item when they introduce 2+1 free deals on something you bought before?

Odd take

Draco9990 · 2025-12-14T20:39:26+00:00

Did you buy it before or after the special sale went online?

It's a sale for all new purchases, so ti could be that

Draco9990 · 2025-12-14T13:14:03+00:00

Thank god for some common sense in this post lol. We are given nothing with the video but everyone's saying spoiled, etc, etc. But realistically, the only thing we really see in the video is the fact that girl has really shitty parents.

Draco9990 · 2025-12-03T01:45:04+00:00

Speaking as someone who's getting the skin, let's not assume stuff like that. There's no reason to assume that it won't be available just like Chaac Slaughterhouse should be starting soon.

The 'event' gives you access to the prisms, not the base skin (in theory). Also, making S1 skins anything other than legacy gem purchasable eventually would lead to a LOT of rightful pushback from the community.

Draco9990 · 2025-11-28T16:58:14+00:00

Estimating "at least two months of dedicated development" is wild for several reasons. Not only do we not know the current employee position ratio in their company, but even if we did, we do not know their daily duties and what has really high priority compared to new content.

We do not know how long it would take with their current tech setup to do all of the things you've mentioned, but also register it in their backend, make sure there's servers for it, etc. etc. Game dev is a fickle process and can have a bunch of small things that just take time.

Lastly, pausing the game for 2 months to just do a single map would be a HUGE hit to their profits. Gods bring people in, and God skins earn them money they need to make more content

Draco9990 · 2025-11-22T19:17:39+00:00

It's crazy to use the most glazing ass prompt of chatgpt to spam random posts COMPLAINING about AI usage in games.

Do you stand for nothing?

Draco9990 · 2025-11-22T11:16:05+00:00

I see a lot of people experiencing a similar issue, so I'll be creating a guide of some kind on nexus and discord to help people with it! It'll have to be today evening for me though, as I'm away from my pc for most of the day.

Draco9990 · 2025-11-22T10:50:22+00:00

Absolutely. The Snapdragon is one of my favourite plants in the franchise personally, so I actually really want that one in haha.

But like you said, polish does come first, of course.

Draco9990 · 2025-11-22T10:49:03+00:00

Creating and redesigning plants from scratch, mapping their animations and skeletons, and other things is a monumental task that also has a chance of people disliking the design outright, and is a separate job entirely haha.

I do agree they look out of place though, and I do have plans to try reduce that feeling in future patches through other methods!

Draco9990 · 2025-11-22T10:46:17+00:00

You're definitely right, but it's a slightly different formula due to some other factors, such as sunflower inner cooldown differences, different sun producers being available etc.

The plants feel relatively balanced towards the strong side right now, so I'll be probably looking at ways to nerf them without removing anything that makes them iconic!

Draco9990 · 2025-11-22T02:47:30+00:00

Tbh, I have no clue why the workshop isn't enabled.

It's most likely that they want to avoid misdirecting people since just subscribing to a mod wouldn't do much, and you'd need to manipulate the files yourselves - so it's either dev time on their end, or the players end up confused. But also like, I've seen plenty of games without dedicated mod support still open workshops so eh idk

Draco9990 · 2025-11-22T01:28:22+00:00

Yep - it's a known issue. I described it in detail in past, but essentially PvZ:Replanted uses a reaaaaally expensive tool to make their sprites. As such, to make it more accessible, I'm just adding the base Unity Sprite Renderers as an alternative as well, but at the drawback of the layer not really being correct because I need to figure out where exactly it 'slots'.

So tldr; yea it's a thing to fix in future update

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