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that probably could’ve been explained a bit more.

The first thing you should probably know about

SMITE is that you are going to get confused, a lot.

There are audio cues, visual cues, and diversions

that take a lot of getting used to. There will be times

when you get bombarded with enemy attacks and

your eyes will just decide to stop seeing the game

and instead focus on the blindingly white mass that

is the center of your screen. Then everything will

be in grayscale and someone will probably make

a passive-aggressive comment in the chat. This is

completely normal, frustrating but normal. If you

can make it through a game without losing track

of your character in the middle of a fight-- even

though your POV is literally always centered around

your god-- then you’ll be doing better than I was.

And just if you thought the confusion would stop

being a thing if you played for a long enough time,

you’d be wrong. Item changes, new gods, patch

notes and meta-shifts are all glorious roadblocks

that’ll make your life harder. But you get used to

it. Besides, the feeling of finally conquering the

new and annoying changes is part of the reason

people keep playing; well, that and the rush

that you get from making a good play or doing

something instinctively that you’d struggled with

before. And yes, I’m counting the panicked miracle

jukes here too because nothing feels better than

thinking you were going to die and then not dying.

HELPFUL HINT LIST NUMBER ONE

Until you can get a hang on the finer

points of SMITE there are a few things that

you can do to ease your way into the game.

- Play Co-op vs. AI nearly exclusively. You

can choose the difficulty level of the AI gods,

explore the maps a bit more, and literally

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