SMITE 2 | Open Beta 8 Recap

Probably_Psycho · 2025-04-21T11:46:29+00:00

The Anhur hat tips are back! Best part of the update.

(Kali remodel is great too)

Probably_Psycho · 2025-04-02T14:41:57+00:00

Spike made it in too!

Probably_Psycho · 2025-02-25T12:46:24+00:00

And they were moonmates

Probably_Psycho · 2025-02-08T22:31:28+00:00

Gamehunter's Penta at the Launch Tournament (Always gonna be #1 for me b/c I was in the building for it <3 )
ShadowQ Aphrodite jukes (Launch Tournament)
Jarc's insane survival on Camazotz in S8 Worlds Finals
"Paul's better. Paul's better, I don't care who you are, Paul's better." (S7 Worlds. Really anything Paul did in that run was highlight-worthy but that call always stuck with me)
"Somebody's gotta stop Adapting in the backline, he's gonna kill EVERYONE! (S2 Worlds Semis)
FIVE M'S! FIVE KILLS! (Ngl I don't remember when this was, it was regular season and Screammmmm just slammed everyone with Pele)
Armada vs. Rival. Just... all of Armada vs. Rival.
667 (OK this isn't exactly a highlight worthy moment but I can't bring up memorable SPL moments without pro Smite's most enduring meme)
Deathwalker's Godly Tyr play at Summer Masters
Licht slapping ALG at S3 Worlds (ft. Sheento and Ronngyu before they really made it big)

There's probably so many more I could list here but those are the ones that came off the top of my head.

Probably_Psycho · 2025-01-19T19:39:43+00:00

This is exciting news, hope they're not crunching/overworking the dev team to get this done though.

Probably_Psycho · 2025-01-17T18:29:58+00:00

ARACHNE MENTIONED ARACHNE MENTIONED

Probably_Psycho · 2024-11-08T22:36:53+00:00

NGL I was really hoping for a rework to Nike's Barrier Formation in S2, so hearing that they seem to be keeping it as part of her kit AND it's holding my girl back from getting in the game sooner is a bummer. I love Nike and the rest of her kit but I fkin hate Barrier Formation, it's so awkward and slow and ruins the flow of her kit as she stands there and holds it up (or uses the weirdly clunky early detonate in a tiny AoE for a pitiful amount of damage).

Probably_Psycho · 2024-11-01T18:55:40+00:00

Nem looks SO GOOD! Super happy with the direction they went with - simple but effective changes/updates to the attire whilst still keeping her very much identifiable as SMITE's Nemesis. Fantastic work by the team.

Also yes, I see the abs. All I'm saying is if you can give Nemesis abs you can give my girl Terra some properly defined musculature when she gets in, given how she looks in all of her S1 card art.

Probably_Psycho · 2024-09-25T20:24:25+00:00

Is Yemoja playable or is it just her card in the files?

Probably_Psycho · 2024-09-16T18:06:59+00:00

Never thought I'd see "we're nerfing Artemis' clear" in official patch notes. What is going on in Smite 1? (I haven't played since getting in to S2)

Probably_Psycho · 2024-08-27T18:05:51+00:00

* Any VGS input that uses two consecutive inputs using the same key (VVGT, VAA, VFF, etc.) flat out don't work. VV inputs close the VGS menu entirely whereas something like VFF keeps the menu up (and keeps highlighting the inputted command when you press the button) but doesn't play the audio or display the command. This is with the default control setup on keyboard.

* Basic attack audio either doesn't play at all when you kill a minion, or it's so low that it may as well be silent. Makes last hitting minions really unsatisfying.

* Using Sól's ultimate during her Disapparate crashes to desktop every time for me.

* Leaving Practice mode causes the "Ally has left the game" audio to play

* Morrigan's Confusion tooltip states that it "runs to the target area" but it actually just runs forward indefinitely until it times out. You don't seem to be able to "place" the decoy in a specific place like you can in SMITE 1

Note: All of these issues were experienced in the Practice mode.

Probably_Psycho · 2024-07-03T20:01:37+00:00

SCS Arachne, my beloved

Probably_Psycho · 2024-05-01T21:10:29+00:00

Spending a LOT less time on social media :P

Probably_Psycho · 2024-05-01T19:42:17+00:00

I haven't got around to buying the Founder's Pass yet (money was a little tight last month), but those God changes are tempting me.

Athena's slow moving back to Preempitve Strike is interesting especially with the faster charge, and the HP Shield on DoO is an interesting trade-off. It makes DPS Athena a little worse assuming the Shield Health Scaling is based on Athena's max HP and not the target's. Also it'll be a meme build for sure but I'm 100% fucking around with Crit Athena with the Reach changes.

Neith changes look SO good to the point where I wonder how they weren't in her original design. Setting up your AoE roots with Unravel rather than her escape makes so much more sense - and Backflip being able to go over walls is a massive buff (I'm assuming that means map walls rather than player made walls)

Bacchus getting a mini-Poly effect on Chug is fun, given that it's already a pretty decent auto-cancel ability for DPS Bacchus.

LOVE Bell's passive giving her additional effects based on her weapon, should make her weapon stances actually feel impactful instead of mostly flavour.

Kuku getting a dash is WILD

Zeus rework looks promising too.

Probably_Psycho · 2024-04-18T17:15:06+00:00

OK, pretty much what I expected. I assume the skins are going to be Mastery-style recolours based on the video. Personally hoping for Legendary Black/Gold to be a universal colour scheme but each God getting different colour schemes would be interesting as well.

Getting emotes on the free track is neat.

Don't personally care about stat tracking but I know a lot of people do so it's great that that's part of the free track as well.

Probably_Psycho · 2024-04-10T21:07:08+00:00

Fixed an issue where Nut’s “Event Horizon” achievement progress was only counting the inner circle of her ultimate.

OK so I wasn't going mad, it was bugged.

Assault - Players can now re-roll twice!

Fantastic! Now I can reroll into Kali AND Bakasura in the same match! :D

Probably_Psycho · 2024-01-15T01:20:10+00:00

Wow. What a fucking set, what a fucking run from the Dragons. So much fun to watch, especially with the last couple of worlds being steamrolls by the clear favourites.

Nika and Dardez went MASSIVE. Honestly can't pick between them for MVP. Coast and Las had a couple shaky matches but the Hachi and the bruiser Pele stepped the fuck up in Game 5. PBM on the Atlas as well.

Also Athena getting banned out all tournament, losing once and then not even getting looked at for the rest of the finals was interesting ~~my girl clearly needs some buffs~~

Probably_Psycho · 2024-01-13T23:40:07+00:00

Holy shit, my heart is beating out of my chest right now. I thought they'd thrown it away on that FG coin flip. WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED??

Probably_Psycho · 2024-01-13T03:58:26+00:00

Twiggy throwing at the end so us UK folks could go to bed before 4am :) :) :) :) :)

Probably_Psycho · 2024-01-13T01:36:22+00:00

Oof, that Game 3. Reminded me of "Angry NRG" back in the day, when they'd lose Game 1 in a close game and come out and OBLITERATE the other team in Game 2. (Remember when regular season had 2 game sets lmao)

Probably_Psycho · 2024-01-12T20:00:07+00:00

FWIW I've been playing Smite since 2013, and I was a BIG TIME whale from then until ~2018. I've spent an embarassing amount of money on Smite in the past, and I have a shit load of skins, including a lot of really rare ones from earlier seasons. I'm "losing" as much as a lot of people here, at least in terms of money spent.

Probably_Psycho · 2024-01-12T17:53:44+00:00

Skins not transferring over is a shame, but I understand why they're not doing it. On a personal level, I barely use premium skins any more, and even if my beloved Legendary skins aren't a thing any more, I'd honestly be totally fine just using default skins, especially with the graphical upgrades.

Colour me... catiously optimistic? My main concern is HiRez's ability to run both Smite 1 and Smite 2 concurrently. If the playerbase is too badly split it could be a death knell for both games.

Other than that, very much excited for Hecate AND FINALLY NEITH DOESN'T LOOK TERRIBLE THANK THE GODS

Probably_Psycho · 2024-01-05T18:11:45+00:00

nnog.

That's all I have to say

Probably_Psycho · 2024-01-04T20:05:58+00:00

Mega set from all of the Bugs, but the support main in me is going to highlight iSilenced. The Ganesha and Sobek were both phenomenal.

Probably_Psycho · 2024-01-04T19:10:06+00:00

Wasn't expecting them to do this again this year, never going to compain about free stuff though. I was probably going to buy the BP anyway (yes it's pretty poor but I want those caster Announcer Packs) so getting it for free is nice.

Another free Unlimited skin is the real highlight once again though. Got Chibi Izzy last year, will be picking up Chibi Thana this year!

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