There are quite a bit of reasons to like smite from the mechanics to being a third person moba with only skillshots to be use outside of some exeptions but I cant recommend it anymore.

Before the latest update I would recommend it to any friend that I wanted to play a game with but nowadays you are better off going to roblox, why?

UI Update: This is the biggest complaint I have over all since before I could tolerate the other issues with the game since the ui looked good enough and the game is great but now it is a broken mess copy pasted from consoles with no consideration at all for pc users making it cluttered ugly and a direct downgrade from what we had previously.

Getting in the game takes 10 minutes which is made worse by knowing what is waiting for you

Rushed updates: Every single patch is broken and adds some issues that need to be fixed in the next one, smite has a PTS but because of the schedule they are on they might have a small team working on it while the other works on the next update which means that most bugs you might encounter on PTS will only be fixed if they are game breaking while if something is bad but they cant change it for the live version they might just wait for the next patch making PTS just a major glitches test with almost no repercussion in the actual patch itself other than some minor balances.
I still struggle to understand why they made pts release a day after the patch notes instead of trying to polish it a bit more which is what happened before when you could see pretty much what the update was like (3 days of pts then update, same release schedule for updates but you have one week and a half instead now) since now they not only dont listen to the community on major changes (UI) which literally no one likes but they ignore minor bugs which dont really impact the game that much

Community feedback: Anything you say to hi rez (titan forge now) gets ignored unless you are a kinda big guy and can impact sales of ingame stuff and player count enough for them to take a hit.
The new ui changes meanwhile was said by literally everyone in the community that it was awful (except one guy I saw that was attacking anyone saying bad stuff about that mess) since it was just a console copy paste, people gave feedback and said stuff which could be improved and make the ui slightly better -they got ignored-
The god releases are a pretty nice example of this and how useles the PTS system really is, the latest broken god was baron samedi, everyone said he was completely broken in the pts and that he needed nerfs and titanforge did what they always do best, ignore any feedback, when he got released the game was kinda unplayable him having every support ability while being able to 100 to 0 you in a few seconds and healing everyone around him with an ability that did 1k damage. It took weeks to finally nerf him and the first nerfs werent near enough making it a bunch of patches nerfing him until he wasnt broken, and he is the latest example because this has happened a lot of times before and I dont expect it to change anytime soon.

The loading time with all of the issues that come from the company make this game just not worth recommending to any potential new players anymore, the console version might work better for you now since they stopped caring about pc in search of more players and more money.

If you are able to look past all this and focus more on the gameplay then you are probably going to have a great time and enjoy a great game but I am just not able to anymore.

There are quite a bit of reasons to like smite from the mechanics to being a third person moba with only skillshots to be use outside of some exeptions but I cant recommend it anymore. Before the latest update I would recommend it to any friend that I wanted to play a game with but nowadays you are better off going to roblox, why? UI Update: This is the biggest complaint I have over all since before I could tolerate the other issues with the game since the ui looked good enough and the game is great but now it is a broken mess copy pasted from consoles with no consideration at all for pc users making it cluttered ugly and a direct downgrade from what we had previously. Getting in the game takes 10 minutes which is made worse by knowing what is waiting for you Rushed updates: Every single patch is broken and adds some issues that need to be fixed in the next one, smite has a PTS but because of the schedule they are on they might have a small team working on it while the other works on the next update which means that most bugs you might encounter on PTS will only be fixed if they are game breaking while if something is bad but they cant change it for the live version they might just wait for the next patch making PTS just a major glitches test with almost no repercussion in the actual patch itself other than some minor balances. I still struggle to understand why they made pts release a day after the patch notes instead of trying to polish it a bit more which is what happened before when you could see pretty much what the update was like (3 days of pts then update, same release schedule for updates but you have one week and a half instead now) since now they not only dont listen to the community on major changes (UI) which literally no one likes but they ignore minor bugs which dont really impact the game that much Community feedback: Anything you say to hi rez (titan forge now) gets ignored unless you are a kinda big guy and can impact sales of ingame stuff and player count enough for them to take a hit. The new ui changes meanwhile was said by literally everyone in the community that it was awful (except one guy I saw that was attacking anyone saying bad stuff about that mess) since it was just a console copy paste, people gave feedback and said stuff which could be improved and make the ui slightly better -they got ignored- The god releases are a pretty nice example of this and how useles the PTS system really is, the latest broken god was baron samedi, everyone said he was completely broken in the pts and that he needed nerfs and titanforge did what they always do best, ignore any feedback, when he got released the game was kinda unplayable him having every support ability while being able to 100 to 0 you in a few seconds and healing everyone around him with an ability that did 1k damage. It took weeks to finally nerf him and the first nerfs werent near enough making it a bunch of patches nerfing him until he wasnt broken, and he is the latest example because this has happened a lot of times before and I dont expect it to change anytime soon. The loading time with all of the issues that come from the company make this game just not worth recommending to any potential new players anymore, the console version might work better for you now since they stopped caring about pc in search of more players and more money. If you are able to look past all this and focus more on the gameplay then you are probably going to have a great time and enjoy a great game but I am just not able to anymore.