Smite 2 Announced, Alpha Playtest Coming Spring 2024 - IGN
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The third-person MOBA Smite is getting a shiny new standalone sequel: Smite 2 has been officially announced at the 2024 Smite World Championship. The sequel will retain the same core gameplay Smite players are familiar with, but the game itself is being rebuilt from the ground up for the next generation.
  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    81·
    10 months ago

    Kind of disappointed they aren’t taking the opportunity to introduce a more interesting map. Having completely flat and level lanes always felt weird to me in a full 3d environment.

      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I completely understand there are gameplay considerations to the choice, but some bumps, dips and general variation would be nice

        • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Oh yeah absolutely. And i was now saying that the projections on the ground are probably easier to code than having to deal with the projections going on weird terrain. Basically they’re just going the easy route I think ;p

    • FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      This is why I switched to Predecessor. I don’t know why smite didn’t modernism after Paragon started eating some of their base.

      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Predecessor is awesome, just needs more traction and a larger player base. It’s very hard game to get started in because only salty vets are playing lol.

        • FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Wondering when they’re gonna market it… Probably when it goes open beta. Console is a huge chunk of the player base (I myself got started with Paragon and then smite on console) But agree, need more players. Almost every single player on right now is people who’ve been playing for a year+.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    10 months ago

    Bit sad they aren’t exploring removing the - IMO unnecessary - broadness of the item + skill-up system for something like the talents HotS had (or even better some sort of small branching talent tree), just to keep evolving the genre.

    But I can also understand it, since well, they have an established playerbase and this is probably more a refresh than a “true” successor.

    • InquisitiveApathy@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Yeah I wouldn’t expect them to reinvent the wheel at this point. I think the only major difference that should reasonably be expected is in the change to the newer Unreal Engine. Better graphics, better optimization in the codebase(hopefully), and better performance. Otherwise I expect everything to be similar, but it’s too early to say anything for certain I suppose.