Great game, I actually encourage you to play it and enjoy it, it's amazing for a f2p game.
Im giving a bad review to the game because of the monetization, and no it's not about the gacha or the systems they have it's because the game is way less generous and way more predatory than the original version in china. We have the same systems as the original version but everything is more expensive, more predatory and on top of that we get a fraction of the rewards the chinese version gets.

The game itself is amazing and everstone did an amazing job, but NetEase is a trash company and as always finds a way to ♥♥♥♥ up any good release with their schemes, do not spend a dime on this until they change it and just enjoy the game as a f2p player, they give plenty of cosmetics for free that are comparable to shop cosmetics, if not better than shop ones already

Deep field is an amazing company, so the fact that their games are good is a given.

Battlepasses give your currency back upon completition + they are infinite so that's an instant positive feedback from me.

Honestly this is already way better than Lethal company IMO, but if they deliver what they promised through this Early access, then it will be the best of its genre without a doubt.

I didn't have high hopes of the performance since I have an already kinda old Nvidia 1080, but the performance is amazing, playing on 2k resolution everything high at 60-70fps, or everything low at 90-100fps, just getting that amount of fps at 2k resolution with an 1080 is already very good, but if you also take into consideration how good the game looks, then it's amazing.
That's all I have to say since the game just came out, but the performance of this game makes any other AAA game look like cheap trash, which they are to be fair.

There's a lot of bad things to be said about Hi-rez, and I'm the first one that I've never liked them too much, even if I've loved almost all the games they've released, but, from what I've seen, roadmaps, announcements etc. I find smite 2 promising, a lot of gods coming, clasic skins for smite 1 users to spend their gems on, and also announced that battlepasses will follow the marvel rivals / helldivers 2 template of no FOMO.

I would recommend people to try it and give it a chance despite the controversy, smite has always been a great game even with its own flaws, and now with 45 gods its easier than ever to learn it, and they will be adding a god each week so you will have plenty of new content aswell.