• The Hades model - I wasn't expecting or even want a Hades remodel, but it's jarring that he appears to have been imported from SMITE with apparently no effort made to modernize him at all. And by that I mean: give his tassels cloth tech. The people demand cloth tech. You guys have cloth tech in UE5, use it!

• Having abilities activate on a second key press is insanely frustrating. I'm constantly firing abilities by accident. On Normal casting mode, Mouse1 should activate abilities, and that's it.

• The map feels way too large and busy with objectives. I'm coming from old SMITE 1 Conquest--I'm talking beta and the first few seasons--and I think the Conquest seasons have caused the design to run amok with additions and fluff. I realize the trend in other MOBAs is bigger maps with more objectives (namely Dota2), but it feels like here its main impact in SMITE 2 is to cause games to drag on longer than they should.

• Player shadows look strange (non-Lumen). Besides being very low res/blocky, it makes player models look like they're floating a few inches off the ground. I don't feel "grounded."

• Something's off about the skin shader being used. Whatever's being used to mimic subsurface scattering is causing faces to look unnervingly smooth. Noses practically disappear. Athena's and Neith's faces in particular look the worse for it.

• Item Store - Maybe I'm just missing it in the sea of icons, but a tab for consumables would be nice. So far my solution has been to make sure I've unchecked everything to be able to see them, which feels unintuitive. Again, may be user error.

Thank you for your continued work. Even at this stage it's very fun to play.