Smite 2’s gods are being improved based on ‘years and years’ of balancing discussions and community feedback
They’re not just directly copied over from Smite
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Smite 2developer Titan Forge Games has released a deep divevideogoing into the process of porting over and enhancingSmite’s gods (playable characters) for its highly anticipated sequel.
In case you were unfamiliar, the free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA)Smiteis home to well over 100 playable characters, including historical deities like Anubis, Poseidon, and Fafnir. WhenSmite 2was announced last month, it was confirmed that not all of these gods will be playable right away. However, as well as the new characters set to join the roster, players can also look forward to overhauls of existing ones, which will enhance the way they look and play.
“First we go and look at the character, see what things that we’ve wanted to change over time,” advanced game designer Daniel Cooper explained in the video. “We have years and years of different balancing discussions and community feedback about what people like about a character, about what people don’t like about a character, feature requests that they’ve wanted for a long time. So, we try and consolidate all of that together, so that we have like our major list of improvements that we feel like we can make very quickly.”
It was explained that the devs first port over characters as they appear inSmite 1before creating a list of enhancements and improvements that they’d like to implement. “The gameplay team will go through and actually assess the technical needs,” senior gameplay programmer Josh Malmquist added.
Smite 2is set to release on PC,Xbox Series X|S andPlayStation 5, and is planned to enter closed alpha testing at some point this spring. Even when the sequel is released, however,there are no plans to shut downSmite 1. Executive producer Alex Cantatore previously told TechRadar Gaming that this decision has been made to ensure the devs were “really respecting our players and the time and the money and the attachment that they have” to the first game.
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