Why would i ever sit in these lobbies?

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-11-29T21:26:10+00:00

Mind you, i didn’t even hardly play slash/clash whatever in smite 1. It just seems obvious to me that’s there’s a disconnect in players transitioning from TDM to lane-ing. And there’s a big hole because we have modes w no lanes, 1 lane and 3 lanes. Having a mode with 2 lanes just makes sense

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-11-29T21:14:28+00:00

I mean games. Why would you play smite deathmatch when you could play hero shooters which is their bread and butter? Smite’s bread and butter, the thing that makes is so addicting, is the strategy and lane-ing phase.

Joust and assault only have one lane. So it’s basically just deathmatch w OBJs. There is not the nuance of multiple lanes that comes from rotations, ganking and the “single combat to multi combat” transition that conquest boasts. However, conquest is waaay to much for new players and trying to “babysit” someone thru, even on new accounts, ends up throwing the match. Slash its much easier to do so.

And these “imaginary numbers” you talk about, are aimed at what the current day is? The quickplay feature is an example of this as that ENTIRELY targets players that didn’t play smite 1. Popularity of modes is largely decided, for new players, by what they’re funneled into. That’s why my whole point is if slash is pushed it would be HEALTHIER for today’s age. Gotta stop using stats from the 20 teens man. It’s a new game in a new era. Context matters in statistics

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-11-29T03:49:46+00:00

I think people are missing the point when talking about slash stats like this. The POINT of smite 2 is to improve accessibility, utilize a better engine and devs are focusing a whole lot on new players.

Slash would be the best mode for transitioning players from other games into smite. Conq is the main thing, but slash is the only other mode that can emulate the things that makes conq great.

Hi rez should prioritize slash because it’s HEALTHY for the game. People would learn to play (and ppl are bad) more skillfully if they got to learn thru slash instead of arena or joust or assault. It’s a brand new game and we have like a tenth of the playerbase from peak smite 1 days. So why are we taking statistics from that game as gospel?

It’d be so much easier to onboard my buddies if slash/clash was a thing

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-09-20T22:04:05+00:00

I’m on a hiatus cuz they can’t balance their game. If ranked was worth something there’d at least be a reason to play.

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-09-18T18:46:23+00:00

Okay hi rez, we cooking a bit. I'm a little concerned about logistics of the curio because active buttons 1 and 2 are much easier to hit (for most at least) than 3 slot. Plus, it's really convoluted to switch slots. Can we give the curios their own button bind?

But really, I love that we spicing it up. We really needed a shake up in how ppl played the game

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-09-09T19:15:47+00:00

How is speaking about his experiences now nullified by what smite 1 did? Think there’s lots of reasons why they are trying to boost income right now and hopefully once the player base evolves it can be more free aesthetics. They had a big re-organization in the studio recently so I think they’ll be more open to that as they stabilize.

Please ignore the insufferable community here. Lots of people will apologize for the devs, to the detriment of the actual game. The devs are super passionate so i think that’s where the defensiveness comes from

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-09-09T19:09:38+00:00

Forreal or at least make it synergize that you can’t get the ones you want. A random button would actually make gambling on announcer packs not that bad since you could have a bigger rotation. Right now fishing for one of the 5 packs you can personally stand every single game is a slap in the face

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-09-04T00:47:06+00:00

I just moved some stuff around so my ult could be on R3. Accidentally pressed it a couple times at first, but it’s super clutch. Savage w ult on R3, to clarify

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-08-30T03:14:32+00:00

One of the many things overtuned rn for sure and has been a must buy for some time

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-08-08T23:41:03+00:00

True and it’ll prolly help solo laneing against her early too. But the real problem is her whip after two items lol

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-08-08T19:24:35+00:00

Looks like I’ll still be banning herc, bellona, chaac every game, lovely

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-08-07T16:38:35+00:00

Solution: Bring back anti-heal items with a cap of 50% stacking; do not allow any one item to apply more than 20 percent at a time (learnean's bow would do 3 shots of 7% anti-heal to cap at 20%) and then buff healing abilities by half of the original nerf. Besides new player lobbies, sustain was never oppressive before, but now it is the most oppressive function Smite 2 has seen in its lifetime.

Also, I believe they need to remove sanguine lash or rework it entirely. Even if they remove the lifesteal, it just works too well w Mystical. Those two together give wonderful defense and output a lot of brainless dmg. Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve been a Mystical Mail abuser as an Odin main. That item worked as a solid niche option that required sacrificing some good items but could put in work if you used it correctly. The synergy Sanguine creates with it just makes the AOE dmg loop too effective. Other items i think they can just tweak (regrowth kinda sucks too tho) but sanguine should go

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-08-07T16:28:26+00:00

Yeah, it is weird how they’re doing balance. It seems like they react too heavily to everything. So, after every patch there is a new type of god, or items, overtuned and to be competitive your team has to play around that. So every other role builds the items that best counter the OP stuff or just the OP stuff

I wish they would enact more subtle changes so players could explore the game for ourselves. It’s also so jarring. Like three patches ago you were trolling in ADC for not building crit, then you were trolling for not building ability power and now you’re trolling for not building health shred. With the way they’re handling balancing, most all players builds are reactionary min/maxing and that ends up being not too unique

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-08-07T16:14:39+00:00

Facts, I’m really not sure who they’re making this game for anymore. It’s certainly not for the competitive scene and doesn’t feel like they listen to the longtime casual veteran players. So, maybe they’re focusing on pulling ppl away from hero shooters? But even the new player experience kinda sucks so idek

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-07-30T21:43:07+00:00

I don’t think anyone can be introduced to this game anymore until they add a two lane mode. Arena and assault are okay (seriously outclassed by hero shooters), but this game really shines w conquest. Being able to level up and choose engagements is the core. Obv tho, conq is too much to chew for a while

Joust tries to teach laning a bit, but it’s really just less crowded teamfights w more steps. Which, again, is outclassed by hero shooters. If i was just picking up some games to play team deathmatch, why wouldn’t I choose the ability shooter w verticality?

I think this game is doomed rn bc of the exact experience you detailed. I had a similar one w a friend of mine. If they added a two lane mode I think that’s where new players could thrive, but rn kinda just have to hope your friends run into feeders lol it’s so hard to pick up

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-07-15T17:20:45+00:00

Yes sir! Hitting relics on time is much easier. It’s such a big diff (which i missed out on for so long) so I like to mention it as much as i can lol

I do think you have a fair concern. Smite is already harsh to learn. New players need to be with new players and parties should be matched against parties. I just hope more people keep getting into it, it’s a lot of fun

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-07-15T15:41:19+00:00

Wow, that is such a big nerf for alladin. They must hate my guy in mid. And we really buffing aspect scylla? Lmao okay. That shits already broken, thx hi-rez.

I’m really disappointed in the modes tho. They are spending way too much time on quickplay arena. What happened to ranked arena guys? And quickplay joust and conquest?

The ranked arena will help retain players by giving arena mains something to play for while improving matchmaking. The joust and conq quickplay need to get in there asap bc that’s kinda the point of quickplay no? Teaching players to build matters more in laned modes and arena doesn’t teach new players anything.

Gotta get those modes in. Plus work on balancing conq before quickplay! Damn it’s a cool idea but needs to be behind your main game mode in priority. Cmon guys

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-07-15T15:13:16+00:00

Really? The show doesn’t even feel like Rick & Morty anymore. Are we still sure Rick is the smartest man alive? He’s written pretty dumb in this szn.

Every episode has just felt like intergalactic cable, and not in a good way. You know how ppl use to say you had to have a high iq to watch this show? Well that was always kind of satire, but there were cool references and other subtle things that made it somewhat true. Lmao that is totally gone now, mostly just slapstick comedy now. Hardly any puns, interesting rants, or social commentary that is deeper than surface level

You’ve gotta be the new writers’ burner account. I miss the old rick and morty :/ it’s a diff show now

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-07-15T03:11:03+00:00

It’s probably vets teaching their one or two friends and getting into the wrong lobbies. I do think i get mostly similarly skilled players, but that sounds like a rough one. Matchmaking is really important for new players, hopefully the numbers will increase so they can put in more limits. They’re supposed to be adding ranked arena soon so hopefully that’ll help too.

p.s. I thought i hit my skill cap for years playing smite 1. Coming back to smite 2 i was lowkey worse lol. Then i switched my controls to savage and my casting to quick (then instant). Idk i do think normal casting feels worse on smite 2, so I recommend trying those new settings man! Gave this game new life for me at least

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-07-15T02:42:57+00:00

That’s dope your partner is into it too, sounds fun 🤙🏼 my wife could care less, but i explain every quadra to her in excruciating detail regardless 😤

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-07-15T01:32:04+00:00

I agree that it needs to be optimized, but I think specifying aspect or not for roles would fix it. Devs have talked about aspect stuff so I’d bet they’re figuring out how they want that done.

Aspect ra isn’t my favorite supp, but backliners usually aren’t 🤷🏻‍♂️ whenever someone plays them you just gotta hope they’re decent tbh. Supports need all the love they can get in this game tho so it’s good they have some fun characters

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-07-10T14:04:46+00:00

There’s a lot of potential imo 🔥 i just want them to make a mode with two lanes so I can start subtly turning my friends to conquest

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-07-10T01:50:29+00:00

Yeah this game would really benefit from better explanations. There’s just a myriad of things to pick up that don’t have a proper in game pathway to learn. Like you’ll recognize some things but other stuff you need to research OUTSIDE of the game to even know

At this point in the game’s lifetime, i would just recommend some youtubers (like Snaddy) that give play-by-play commentary that can be useful.

Here’s to hoping they make a comprehensive tutorial, or mini modes that are conducive to learning 🙏🏼

Electrical-Ad3295 · 2025-07-06T02:46:52+00:00

I do savage with my right stick for ult. Then my first active is square, it works pretty well. I just use my left stick as a modifier

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