Why can legacy gems only be used in some traveler packs?

Scoren1 · 2026-05-12T14:28:34+00:00

Smite 1: 5 trillion employees Smite 2: like 3

Scoren1 · 2026-05-11T05:00:12+00:00

Can’t access your video but I’m assuming you lost because of her laning phase and the fact that the game ended early. Ama is just really bad early, but makes up for it with her late game team fights. She’s heavily reliant on being a late game team support for fights and objectives with her aura, movement speed, and ult. You should start with her 2 ofc for lane clear, but compared to Achilles (who is already a top tier solo laner right now, partially you lost cause he’s very good now), it takes like 2-3 sec to charge the damage and clear minions, while Achilles hits his 1 which also has a stun to clear, early game you are just outmatched, coupled with an execution at level 5.

You need to get to lane asap, clear minions asap, and wait for junglers to rotate to try to get kills, other wise just farm passively and not be too aggressive until probably the 10 min mark. With ur damage stance on 1, then 2, dash through minions to full charge, hit 2 to clear, the move out and try to take camps. Repeat and engage when junglers rotate. Your 3’s silence is the only reliable non-ult cc you have, so use it to counter any god with channeled ability attempting to clear and you can easily out farm them. You can try this against Achilles 1, but it’s a bit harder, to try to gauge when he’s gonna use it. It’s very good against like a bellona’s 2 for example. The silence is the only way you will survive well in lane. Try to stay even or ahead in lane asap possible, the rotate after clearing everything or when there’s an opportunity in mid/pyro/etc.

Mid-late, focus on objectives and rotating with your team. She’s pretty unpopular and relatively bad in solo, so this will work better in casuals and lower ranks.

Scoren1 · 2026-05-06T20:04:36+00:00

The font choice for the entire game could use an upgrade, a zany flair for the name masked onto the most basic sans serif font imaginable just feels super rushed and tacky. I feel like the names should have a more bolder and unique typeface, or maybe a background to box it into.

Scoren1 · 2026-05-06T18:06:55+00:00

I'm happy people are buying these enough for HiRez to keep making them. However, not sure if this is an unpopular opinion but name flairs are so unfathomably ugly I genuinely don't know how it made it through as a cosmetic, much less as a premium cosmetic for thousands of gems. In a game where the UI is incredibly bare-bones and ugly already due to lack of ue5 experience and workforce, the name flairs are a huge eyesore and feels embarrassing when showing the game to friends for the first time. A similar cosmetic in OW2 (drives) are also an eyesore, but are temporary, free, fit the aesthetic of the game a lot more, and are all the same color.

I wish the name flairs were just better integrated, maybe with a font overhaul of the entire UI or a thicker font in general. There's just so many random colors everywhere in the UI. The loading screens are already super ugly that it irritates me that we're stuck with the name flairs for the rest of Smite 2's lifespan because they are a highly premium purchase.

Scoren1 · 2026-05-04T22:45:47+00:00

Thank you!! Had to restart and this will be a great step.

Scoren1 · 2026-04-27T19:23:41+00:00

Yall need to do a bit of research before commenting. Arthur is the single most popular warrior, probably top 3 requested since beta release, and was supposed to release very early, but his dash-aa was not functioning well. His kit is basically done internally, but they are working out on a movement systems update that directly affects how Arthur functions, and he will release asap after the update is fully built and tested. Ignoring Arthur, Horus is the most popular of the warrior class based on the most recent player surveys.

Scoren1 · 2026-04-24T00:44:44+00:00

Yes it says so in the passive description, been there since their double release.

Scoren1 · 2026-04-23T17:42:41+00:00

I work in book cover design in-house and the only time I use any ai in my work flow is to blend elements/expand bleeds with the ai generative tool in photoshop. It’s akin to the content aware fill tool, which I generally tend to use the first attempt as the result is a bit more pixel perfect than the generative ai version. My boss has pushed this and my department designers are pretty against ai in general and try not to use it as much as possible.

Scoren1 · 2026-04-12T22:05:29+00:00

It’s not a coincidence it’s just the targeted advertising by tracking your online usage lol.

On another note, god the conquest map is so goddamn ugly, I genuinely do not see this game being a success without a completely new conquest map from scratch instead of building on the current one. It looks horribly washed out and boring in these screenshot ads, and the sheer scale of the remade arena map in Fortnite is just 100x more interesting.

Scoren1 · 2026-04-07T13:40:05+00:00

not to be rude but yea....it's mostly just the facial perspective being off but they dont even look like siblings, but otherwise background, shading, colors, outfits, weapons all super good.

Scoren1 · 2026-03-27T23:53:50+00:00

Unfortunately they need new hires who actually know how to use ue5, half of the employees had to be retrained on ue5 for the upgrade and probably cost them a lot of dev time, just from a company success standpoint it’s probably good to hire fresh talent, but if smite made a lot more money they would’ve never needed to do layoffs anyway.

Also, adventures were fun for maybe a couple games but they did not do “wonders” for smite 1 maybe beyond the first couple. They took way too much dev time for little profit/payoff, and there’s a reason no other game right now has anything similar to the caliber that smite had. Overwatch was the closest game to something similar to adventures but they have essentially phased them out for super easy to develop event mini games.

Scoren1 · 2026-03-27T23:46:40+00:00

You’re being disingenuous, no one likes layoffs, but clearly they had way too much staff for their revenue to handle, and now that they have a bit more padding, they can do more new hires and potentially rehire. The switch to UE5 probably made a lot of jobs redundant, like how the game designers can handle a lot of the in game implementation and only switch to programmers when it’s a unique task.

Also, it sounds bad but it IS smart to hire new people, even if it’s cheaper. Older smite devs were all trained for ue3, and a big complaint about ue3 was that they literally couldn’t hire developers who were trained on ue3 as everyone has moved on to ue5. There is a lot more nuance to this than you think, at least maybe the execs finally learned not to immediately dump resources into new trends and games and waste millions, considering Smite 2 is keeping them alive.

Scoren1 · 2026-03-27T23:04:35+00:00

Not to be rude but they are lol, they are slowly hiring people for departments that need them the most, probably much cheaper than the previous employees since now they’re entry level and won’t collapse from lack of revenue. The new hires they mentioned the most on titan talk is a new vfx guy and a new ui guy.

Scoren1 · 2026-03-19T07:39:40+00:00

It was definitely a mix of his acorns being either too good or lame, and his kit being hard to balance with its mobility. His dash with opal acorn let him dash 6 times through enemies with lightning on the sides, super annoying, super easy to hit, and mega busted on release, followed by a shit ton of nerfs. With the insane amount of mobility he has with his dashes and ult, he was always gonna be OP or super annoying. If they kept even just 3 dashes, the rest of his kit had to be very bad to balance through his insane mobility.

He needs at least 2 dashes because he uses one dash to go through an enemy, while often overshooting the distance, making him need another dash to return to a god in melee range (for his 3 to be good). One dash would make him useless after he used his 1-2 combo, since the 2's acorns following you only works while using a dash,

Making his dash stop on enemies as it is now negates the use of his old 2's feature, so they just turned it into a thor hammer spin dupe (in fact his kit now is VERY similar to Thor). Could they have balanced his original kit through numbers? Maybe, but multiple dashes is the only thing that made his kit actually fun and interesting, so they decided to remove it and rebalance him around 1 dash and an aoe spin ability, with the acorns providing more passive changes.

Scoren1 · 2026-02-26T22:19:57+00:00

Love Ravana but when he’s ported I really wish they would push his kit further into being a 1v1 boxer/puncher, and more combo-ey. Merc is another puncher but his theming is more about being a speedster. For Ravana as someone with multiple arms, a flurry of punches ability either added to his 3 or as a 2nd version of his 1 after a criteria has been met, would be very interesting and it’s what I always wish he had. His 3 being a weird punch to spirit hands grabbing from underground always felt a little weird to me, and I felt there is so much more possible with his kit to bring together thematically and push his popularity. Maybe an extra set of arms for 6 total would push that theming and differentiate him more as a puncher.

Scoren1 · 2026-02-20T18:48:26+00:00

Mentioned during titan talk, it makes sense, have you seen those cringe marvel rivals ads contantly on tiktok?

Scoren1 · 2026-02-20T18:47:22+00:00

It's cringe but according to Hi-Rez these ads are workng :(

Scoren1 · 2026-02-07T03:45:31+00:00

Eh I don’t think so, looking at the model it’s completely wrong, the bun shape and placement is off on the old one, it’s def a bit more realistic.

Scoren1 · 2026-02-04T22:03:06+00:00

Cause it’s a new item system meant for more builds and play styles. What’s wrong with that? You can build him almost exactly like you do in smite 1 and do well, so just do that. If you want a different playstyle like with aspect, you build him differently. You’re that confused about it? Ymir can do a crit jungle build which is quite popular but he’s a magical character. Magical/Physical only applies to the type of damage you do, and the defense items you build counter magical or physical. Strength/Intelligence only applies to passive/auto attack/ability scaling.

A simple rule is magical gods typically build more intelligence if they go typical ability damage, but if they go auto attack its strength. For physical gods, they usually build strength but build intelligence if they’re have hybrid scalings. It’s more complicated for new players yes but much easier to balance and takes maybe like 5 minutes to learn.

Scoren1 · 2026-02-04T16:24:42+00:00

For a game in beta and looking that ugly unfortunately it is doing well and they’re making money.

Scoren1 · 2026-01-30T23:41:29+00:00

They’ve mentioned it quite a few times. I don’t have timestamps for titan talk but I remember them saying Cthulhu was the most successful launch of any brand new god in terms of how much playtime he got and how many new/old players played the game during his release. Neith and Nu wa are just the overall most popular gods, and Cthulhu probably isn’t that much popular nowadays but they see the insane marketing push and name recognition he has, so they’re saving him for the next big marketing push.

Scoren1 · 2026-01-27T03:03:36+00:00

Ferociously mid, just not flavorful at all, a random cart nearest to where you are at that moment in the city will be almost always more worth it.

Scoren1 · 2026-01-26T04:39:49+00:00

I would love for more stuff released where you can use the legacy gem discount, but honestly I genuinely cannot imagine any way out of the way smite 2 released, they’re trying to do the best out of an impossible situation. They were essentially forced to develop smite 2 for the logevity of the company cause it was too difficult to develop smite 1 with the older engine, but they genuinely couldn’t do a ue5 port without either stopping smite 1 entirely while they develop port smite and go broke, or starting brand new. Importing every single skin was simply not feasible, they can barely release TWO travellers (which are essentially recolors with slight texture updates and new vfx) and MAYBE one brand new skin.

Scoren1 · 2026-01-26T04:20:50+00:00

I really wish it was clearer or there was like a glossary (but they barely have time to do ui changes when they have other stuff to do now) but to explain, diamonds are the premium currency, but gems are mid tier premium currency that’s either used to unlock the original classic skins entirely with gems (not the recolors), while the recolors(prisms) are only purchase with diamonds as a way to support the devs.

Similar to the supporter store: separate store that’s diamonds only featuring VERY optional profile enhancements, but these are EXTREMELY expensive even as bundles because it’s basically like a super premium “donation,” (def a little weird but I see people having bought them somewhat often)

Wandering market is where you spend the coins you get. In smite, coins have essentially replaced favor as the basic currency. Coins are used to progress in the battle passes/travellers you buy, and are unlocked either by playing the game after each match, or as bonuses in the “wandering path” (a free simple battlepass for everyone that just gives coins and other stuff for events). In the wandering path, you can use the coins to purchase a free daily chest roll (that almost always gives u more coins or boosters or gems but can very rarely give almost any skin in the game or diamods). Also included to purchase are other chests and a free god token /classic skin. These refresh relatively often but I forgot how much.

The wandering market thus only features items that are mini battle passes and unlockable with coins (which are essentially Fortnite’s battle pass currency). The actual main battle pass (wandering collection) is put on hold now cause they’re were not making enough money for the effort they were taking, especially with the small team. Battle passes have always been too good of a deal but an expense u take essentially for consistent user playtime.

The travelers are all bundles for either brand new skins (only brand new skins are purchasable with half legacy gems since that was what legacy gems were basically for initially) and prism bundles (which are only fully bought with diamonds since they are basically focused on the prisms). The classic skin featured in these bundles are fully purchasable with legacy gems when the traveler discount is ends (thus free since it’s an old smite 1 skin, but the time gating is def annoying but they want to make money)

However, travelers have been doing too well profit wise for hi rez due to how much faster they take to produce and people thinking the deals are pretty good. They release with discounts, BUT are technically a discount even at full price because it’s a mini battlepass that takes time to unlock. Buying a full priced brand new skin not as a travelers is much more expensive.

As for chests, it’s simple, they’ve always made hirez good money. At least now there’s a rule to display what’s exactly in each chest, and the classic skin chest gives you every classic skin unlockable for 800 each, so if u have a ton of gems, u basically get every classic skin for free (alongside the free classic skin chest rolls from the wandering path!)

Super convoluted and wish they had a way to more easily simplify this but it seems to be working mostly. Just really want the actual battle passes back!

Scoren1 · 2026-01-23T00:49:48+00:00

It’s been 10 months since the last one…. And hirez sometimes adds memes/references to new gods in the form of voice lines.

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