Smite 1 will keep running out of respect for the players, executive producer says
The developers “want to make sure players are happy”
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Titan Forge Games has confirmed that its beloved free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA)Smitewill continue to be playable for as long as fans want to play it, even after the upcoming release ofSmite 2.
Smite 2was announced today(January 12) and promises vast improvements to its visuals, overhauls to its playable characters, and much more. It’s currently planned to begin alpha playtesting this spring, so players will presumably be able to dive in within a few months.
In a press briefing attended by TechRadar Gaming (TRG), it was clarified that there’s still a dedicated (albeit smaller) team working onSmitewhile other developers focus on the sequel. With that said, no new gods (playable characters) will be added to the original after the upcoming 130th one.
Furthermore, speaking to TRG, Titan Forge Games asserts that “they are different games, and we intend to keep treating them as different games.”Smite’s executive producer, Alex Cantatore, explains that while the existingSmiteplayer base enjoys “very hardcore features,”Smite 2offers an opportunity for the team to “reset that complexity level.” With the sequel, the developers can focus on making a “few core things in the map as interesting as possible, without just layering more and more on top of it.” He adds: “It’s slightly a different design philosophy between the two games.”
In addition, Cantatore tells us that a large part of the decision to keepSmiterunning was to ensure that the team was “really respecting our players and the time and the money and the attachment that they have” to the original. Also, ultimately, the developers “want to make sure players are happy.”
“If you want to keep playingSmite 1, it’s awesome that you should be able to keep doing that for as long as you want to keep doing it,” he explains. “Especially if you have aPS4and you can’t afford aPS5, or you have an older PC, you know, we want to make sure that there’s still aSmitefor you that you can go out and play. And some people are gonna prefer that.”
Smite 2is slated to release on PC, PlayStation 5, andXbox Series X|S.
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Catherine is a News Writer for TechRadar Gaming. Armed with a journalism degree from The University of Sheffield, she was sucked into the games media industry after spending far too much time on her university newspaper writing about Pokémon and cool indie games, and realising that was a very cool job, actually. She previously spent 19 months working at GAMINGbible as a full-time journalist. She loves all things Nintendo, and will never stop talking about Xenoblade Chronicles.
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