I’ve just been spending a lot of my limited free time lately (what’s not spent with my family), playing Planetside 2 and Smite. Both are competitive play games, and being involved with a competitive team, you can imagine the level of dedication exceeds that of the normal nerd level of play.
Which let me plug my refer-a-friend link in smite while I’m at it. If you are interested in playing it with me, you can use this link to setup your account. Just click play for free, and create an account. If you already played tribes and global agenda you should already have a Hi-rez account and can leverage that.
I know about planetside 2 because you’ve talked about it before, but what is smite?
I’m glad you asked:
Smite is a third-person MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena), a style of action strategy games popularized by DotA (Defense of the Ancients) in the late 90’s early 00’s as a mod for warcraft 3.
The general concept and game mode circles around 2 bases, connected by 3 lanes, that are defended by turrets with a continual line of attackers spawned per lane lovingly referred to as minions. The minions job is to be countless, and to dive continually to their deaths in the assault on the enemies base. The job of the player (you) is to insure these minions deaths serve the greater purpose of gaining you experience and gold and to aid in the destruction of turrets and bases by being your fodder.
Sounds easy right? Yea, it would be if you weren’t facing 5 other players who want to do the same thing, oh, and they want to KILL YOU. So 5 v 5 action/strategy combat is born.
What separates Smite from other MOBA’s aside from the character concepts is the third person perspective in play and that all abilities and attacks are considered skill shots (meaning you have to aim them). The games are faster paced than traditional MOBA’s as well which makes it a blast for someone like me to play.
Much like other games in it’s genre there are multiple play types: Arena, Domination, Conquest (traditional mode), Assault (random hero single lane conquest), Joust (1v1), Joust (3v3), and a random game mode referred to as Mode of the Day. Mode of the day is usually pretty interesting because of some of the silly combinations they come up with forcing some unique character perspectives in play.
If you end up playing, let me know, you can friend me as lot3k (think low tech).