Slash going to 4v4 is a bad change

[Thiccsty9]

Part of the fun of Slash in my opinion was how chaotic it got having 5 people on a smaller 2 lane map. Now that its 4v4 it just feels significantly worse overall. I'm sure the former Siege players are drooling over something like this because you got rid of the only 4v4 mode in the game, but please don't penalize Slash enjoyers and just bring back Siege if you want there to be a 4v4 mode.

[Lorska]

This doesn't actually change it into siege. The whole point of siege was that the lanes were separate and you couldn't just rotate, you'd only do so during pushes.

Slash had a serious problem coming from the uneven number of players, in that 3v2 laning would happen a lot, and at random, leading to some immediate snowball and map control issues.
Lategame slash devolved into nothing more than an Arena match where one side got an advantage through apophis.

The "meta" for slash is still the exact same with 4 people, you just have a more balanced laning situation and less arena team fighting while putting more emphasis on objectives. If you have a problem with those things you probably are actually wanting to play Arena instead...

[~GourdieTGTTV~]

Originally posted by Lorska:

This doesn't actually change it into siege. The whole point of siege was that the lanes were separate and you couldn't just rotate, you'd only do so during pushes.

Slash had a serious problem coming from the uneven number of players, in that 3v2 laning would happen a lot, and at random, leading to some immediate snowball and map control issues.
Lategame slash devolved into nothing more than an Arena match where one side got an advantage through apophis.

The "meta" for slash is still the exact same with 4 people, you just have a more balanced laning situation and less arena team fighting while putting more emphasis on objectives. If you have a problem with those things you probably are actually wanting to play Arena instead...

I always struggle in slash even with 5 people. It's not the lane balance or imbalance, it's literally the type of people that play to begin with. That being said, why are they reducing the number of players in slash instead of just switching it to siege?

[Mr.ArigatouSan]

It cant make the game any worse than it already is. For this ol' dawg, Smite's at its all-time worst and I have NO faith that smite 2 will be any better

[Ron]

Absolutely agreed, Slash had a lot of issues, and now it is just worst map ever.
Clash and Siege are forever in my heart

[Kulmis]

Bring back slash, it was only map i ever played. Why you change maps without asking from players who actually plays those maps ?? Thanks for nothing i will delete smite and never gonna touch your total bomb called smite 2

[Lorska]

Originally posted by Kulmis:

Bring back slash, it was only map i ever played. Why you change maps without asking from players who actually plays those maps ?? Thanks for nothing i will delete smite and never gonna touch your total bomb called smite 2

But... The map didn't change?

[Kulmis]

so 4v4 is the same thing as 5v5 ?

[Lorska]

No? But it's still the same map.
Play the map as you did before.
Oh wait you said you'd delete and never play again...
Bye Felicia!

[Kev]

Honestly I say 4v4 is a huge improvement, it lessens the chances of having a 5th player who could throw the game or grief on purpose.

[Just An Uncrustable]

Me and my buddies mostly play assault but would also switch to slash once we got bored of assault. Before clash was removed we used to constantly play that. We don't play conquest or arena. What are we supposed to play now as a 5 stack with slash being bumped down to 4v4? I don't think this was a good change

[zangetss]

i totally agree 5vs5 was fun but 4vs4 plus the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ matchmaking make it awful and not enjoyable , i liked slash because it wasn't as long as a conquest game but with this update i really think i'll drop the game