Well, this is an unexpected development. Titan Forge Games just announced SMITE 2, the sequel to it's Action MOBA starring deities and legends from various pantheons. There's no date for the full release yet, but you can register to the alpha that will start in Spring on their website.
The new game will be developed with Unreal Engine 5, as opposed to the original's UE3. The game will be remade from the ground up, and it looks like all the gods are moving over, but that won't be true for the skins. According to the devs, porting every single skin would require 246 person-years.
Instead, there are two ways to reward long-time players. The first is Legacy Gems. For each Gem you've spent in the original SMITE, you'll be awarded a Legacy Gem. You can use those to pay for 50% of any purchase in Smite 2, until you've used them up. The second is Divine Legacy, which will take into account your unlocked skins in SMITE and let you unlock a slew of stuff in SMITE 2, including up to 11 skins.
Starting with Year 11 of the game (the current one), skins will be Cross-Gen, so unlocking a skin in SMITE will make it available in SMITE 2 when that comes out. Finally, you'll be able to unlock all current and future gods in SMITE 2 by purchasing a Founder's Pack. More details on said pack will be revealed at a later date.
SMITE 2 will be available on Steam (including the Steam Deck), Epic, Xbox Series S|X, and PlayStation 5, with the first champion to join being Hecate. SMITE will still be supported after the launch of its successor, though it's unknown for how long. If you want to learn more, there's an FAQ on their site and a keynote on their YouTube channel.
What do you think of SMITE 2? Are you excited to move to the new version of the god-slaying game, or are you sticking with the original? Let us know in the comments below!
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I used to play Smite casually back in the day and this is definitely a pleasing announcement. Some good friends will be pleased to see this sequel.
Smite was one of those games I was considering playing just to try - even installed it - but I never got to it. I don't have anything inherently against MOBAs, but League of Legend's toxicity was just too much for me.
I'm not a MOBA person either. 3 lanes is 2 more than I can handle. I think I've tried Conquest mode 3 times since Smite 1 beta. I just play it as an Arena shooter or the Assault mode.
I have every God (almost) at rank 1 mastery. The God's feel great to play and there is a nice auto builder for when I'm trying to learn a god and don't want to think about itemization.
Shame on the skin port but I get it. Their art team is 11/10 though so I can't wait to see what new ones they come up with.
This is a game to keep an eye on even if mobas aren't your thing.
I played almost all top mobas from day 1 for like 3 - 4 years. Even 10 years some; DotA 1, LoL, HoN, HoTS, Smite. I quit playing mobas mostly. Nowadays, when i feel like i want to play moba occasionally, i login to HoTS every time for some aram matches.
I feel you, we are too old for mobas. :P