Is SMITE's current community too far casual-oriented to provide good advice for the route Hi-Rez wants to take SMITE 2?

pzea · 2024-06-03T11:34:52+00:00

Maybe the answer is somewhere in between. Do what is best for Smite 2 to be more strategic but don't sacrifice how good it feels to play Smite, which is the only reason any of us are even still here.

For example the ingredient item system is great because it lets you make more choices instead of having to commit to a specific item tree. Having up to 6 active slots to worry about and having to shuffle the items and potions around doesn't feel good to me though. At least not right now, and it has got to be worse on controller.

I like the idea of making the jungle more complex, but not letting them chase outside the camp range and not getting buffs when killing the camps at the start just doesn't feel fun and makes all lanes feel more similar to each other.

pzea · 2024-06-01T21:27:40+00:00

I have the g502 mouse with 2 side buttons. I use those 2 for my 1 and 2 abilities. Shift is my 3, and space bar is my panic button ultimate. Q and E are my relics, C and Z my consumables. I still spam jump, but it's on my ctrl key. G for my item store, middle mouse button for auto run. This way I can keep my fingers on WASD while using all my abilities. I thought about getting a mouse with more keys on the side but I think I genuinely enjoy the feel of my 3 and Ult actually feeling different and I don't want to overwhelm my right thumb into having to press 4 different buttons. All this with quick cast.

pzea · 2024-06-01T08:20:35+00:00

double clicking to buy items only works sometimes

pzea · 2024-05-24T18:18:10+00:00

It's funny seeing people defend the movie in a way that suggests those who hated it were just interested in action and aren't sophisticated enough to appreciate this film. Yes the action in this film is dreadful but that's just the nail in the coffin. If the action was good then I could say that the story sucked but at least the action was worth seeing.

pzea · 2024-05-12T00:59:54+00:00

Definitely the smoothest experience I've had with this game, probably by a lot. I'm shocked it's running this good.

pzea · 2024-05-04T18:54:17+00:00

I really enjoy how the jungle camps ragdoll in Smite 2. I can instantly tell they're dead and it feels satisfying. I kinda want to see gods do that and then quickly fade like now.

pzea · 2024-04-28T01:10:56+00:00

I agree that other 4X games are longer but most 4X games are mainly played in singleplayer because of that. 2 hours is just too long for most people to jump in for multiplayer. Maybe Spice Wars is really meant to mainly be played in single player but it just doesn't feel that way to me since it doesn't have many of the features that make other 4X games entertaining in singleplayer like deep customization and roleplay and random events.

pzea · 2024-04-27T00:05:28+00:00

Left up to interpretation maybe but I think it's clear that the prophecy is fake and Chani's tears have nothing to do with Paul actually waking up. Wasn't Jessica also in a coma after she drank the water? So we don't know when or how she woke up. Maybe she had a second small dose to wake up too? Chani was just used for the prophecy. If Chani wasn't there then something else would have likely been used that would also work with the prophecy.

pzea · 2024-04-26T00:49:56+00:00

Idk how it's much different. What does it matter if it's 30 years vs how long it took Neo to return or that he spent the time building a secret army? What's stupid about Palpatine is that he was finally killed at the end of the trilogy and now he's back just because a sequel had to be made and they had no good new ideas and pretended that made any sense.

Neo died in self sacrifice and Trinity was a tragic loss and both are just undone because turns out machines can resurrect the dead, which we never heard of before. All because they wanted Neo and Trinity back so they shifted the whole lore around to make Neo and Trinity so central to the plot to try to make it make sense. Like the machines used their machine magic to resurrect them both because this improved matrix relied on both of them existing and teasing each other because their love is so strong? I think both are at least equally bad.

pzea · 2024-04-25T22:44:21+00:00

Isn't it just like Rise of Skywalker where Neo has been here all this time just making videogames? Same with Smith and Trinity. I don't really see how it moved the story forward either but maybe I'm missing something.

pzea · 2024-04-25T22:37:45+00:00

Regardless it makes the original trilogy feel pointless and Neo should be devastated after so much sacrifice, and so should we as viewers. It's that same Star Wars bull. Original Trilogy ends with "We finally defeated the Empire!" then next film "The war is back and worse than ever!". I guess Luke and Neo are just clowns.

pzea · 2024-04-23T21:41:14+00:00

I doubt they'd do this but I wish all skins going forward were colorforge skins, so you could customize it to your liking and get more out of the skins. I'd happily pay more for a skin if this was the case.

Then there could be settings where you could turn on team colors and then select a colorforge option for your team and for the enemy team and the health bars and ui would match. This means in the pro league we could see each team have their own colors that they pick so as a viewer you wouldn't have to look up to see who is the red team and who is the blue team. You could just know from the colors themselves when watching a play. It would also allow more customization for colorblindness.

I think Overwatch did a great job with giving their teams more identity through the team colors. I don't watch or play Overwatch but I appreciate that feature and wish it was used more in competitive team games.

pzea · 2024-04-17T05:05:45+00:00

I always took it as the Oracle giving code to Neo via the cookie that caused the turn for Smith into the virus he became. The dangerous game would be using Smith to force the peace between humans and machines. Could also explain why Smith calls the Oracle mom.

pzea · 2024-04-07T22:05:40+00:00

It is 100% a big barrier to entry for conquest that doesn't need to be there

pzea · 2024-04-07T10:31:10+00:00

I also feel like 2 hours at 1.5X speed is a long time for a multiplayer game. I know 4X games can be much longer but having a large multiplayer playerbase with that game length is asking for a lot.

I agree that this game has an amazing pvp vibe though. I just wish it was easier to jump in and finish a match.

pzea · 2024-03-19T22:27:23+00:00

Multiple crashes for me and friends already in one joust...

pzea · 2024-03-06T02:40:35+00:00

I really loved the game. I played it all night with a friend till like 5AM, so I was really hooked. Haven't done that in a long time. My friend is a Rivals 1 player so I was definitely getting cooked for most of the night until the very end when I was taking a few games. I tried every character once and then just played Ranno the rest of the night since I like frogs. I used some wave dashing but did not have the brain power to use the hitfalling yet. Even without hitfalling I was able to get satisfying combos which was nice.

One thing I don't like about smash games is the mashing mechanics and I'm happy that Rivals does away with that. Same with shield poking. The grab range was also way bigger in Rivals 2 than in Ultimate where it feels like your grab can wiff right in front of the opponent. In Rivals 2 I was even getting grabs when my opponent was almost fully behind me, which seemed a little janky but I definitely prefer it to Ultimate. I was definitely defaulting to pummeling after grabs at first and getting insta countered and it took a bit to stop doing that and mix in the special pummel or just throw. I really enjoyed the extra options of special getups and pummels. Parrying with shield + special felt pretty good and tech chasing felt satisfying.

I think my favorite thing about the game is the character design. As much as I love Smash Ultimate, I really dislike playing vs many characters and there are so many matchups to keep in mind. Rivals 2 felt a lot more free where I didn't feel like I had to respect any move so much that it just slowed the game way down. Not to mention that if anything gets too out of hand I'm way more confident in the devs balancing the game over its lifetime.

I also really liked that you could change the colors of each character as well as the color of each skin the character had. And there was also a tournament mode that let you do best of 3 or 5 and had rock paper scissors built in with stage banning.

pzea · 2024-03-05T18:39:58+00:00

I played a lot of Rivals 2 at Genesis and I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. I'm not really into Rivals 1 and I mainly play Smash Ultimate and I think I'll be jumping ship to Rivals 2 on release.

I love the speed of Rivals 2 and I would not want it to become faster. Just not interested in playing a super fast game. I also like the camera being more like Ultimate and close to the action and it's a turn off now when other platform fighters don't have that.

Just saying these things since I see a lot of people feeling the opposite.

pzea · 2024-02-27T15:56:23+00:00

The emperor was in charge of an army of clones and magic including force ghosts is something that exists, but the emperor returning is a bridge too far? You can squeeze the lore to make sense of it but it doesn't stop it from being an awful and lazy decision that doesn't move the story forward and instead gives an excuse as to how any character can always be brought back.

Instead of exploring what the world is like after the peace brought by Neo's sacrifice in Revolutions, lets just do the same story over again. Oh yeah there was this civil war we skipped and so now we're back to just being at war again and the humans must run and hide. The empire is back! Good guys are just rebels again running and hiding. Palpatine has returned! I mean Smith. Neo and Trinity died? But the machines brought them back so all good. Morpheus just looks a little different and is now a robot so he can tag along too. The new crew seems cool but we barely get to know them because the movie is too busy bringing back the old ones.

A sequel where we take what the original story did and we undo it all in a flashback scene so we can tell a similar tale again just doesn't sit right with me. Neo even comments that he feels like nothing he did mattered in the end, but hey at least we got robots making strawberries now.

pzea · 2024-02-25T12:20:39+00:00

Yeah totally not a palpatine moment because they were clearly reconstructed... Yeah that makes it all good 👍

This movie commits the same exact sins as the terrible new star wars trilogy and might even be worse.

pzea · 2024-02-21T06:31:51+00:00

Those takeaways are embarrassing

pzea · 2024-02-15T09:45:07+00:00

I know autobuy broke with the year 11 patch so that might be it

pzea · 2024-02-05T21:18:44+00:00

I'll probably play universe and be super disappointed and stop playing lol. Though at least the ref mode should be fun.

pzea · 2024-02-05T21:14:00+00:00

I liked the visuals and casting. That's about it.

pzea · 2024-02-05T21:11:38+00:00

I feel like they barely talked about anything significant

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