Just yesterday, there was a rumor that SMITE 2 would be revealed soon, information that turned out to be completely true. Its developer, Titan Forge Games, announced this new installment of the well-known action MOBA and introduced an important technical detail that reflects the great generational leap ahead.

As we told you in the title, SMITE 2 uses the Unreal Engine 5 graphics engine. This means a significant improvement in terms of graphics quality, but it will also mean significant increase in requirements compared to the first delivery. The requirements of the first part were quite low, and this was key for the game to attract more than 40 million players, and as you know, it is one of the best free PC games out there today.

If you’re worried about the requirements, I’m sorry to say that we still don’t have concrete information, so we don’t know how demanding SMITE 2 will be on PC. However, we understand that the game will also be released on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PS5 and Steam Deck, so we will have a technical and performance base in Valve’s small console, which means it should run smoothly on a PC with a quad-core and eight-thread processor, 16GB of RAM, and a GeForce GTX 970 or Radeon RX 570 graphics card.

The minimum and recommended requirements that appear on the official SMITE 2 website on Steam They are not correct, they are the same as SMITE had, that means they haven’t been updated so keep that in mind. In any case, it is clear that those responsible for Steam will try to optimize as much as possible to make the game affordable and work even on modest computers, otherwise they would be throwing stones on their own roof, because in the end they need to attract the largest number of players to maximize monetization games through micropayments.

On a playable level, the mechanics will be practically identical to those of the first part, and this is confirmed SMITE will remain active and that it will get new content, which is undoubtedly good news for those who prefer to play the original. If you’ve decided to make the jump to SMITE 2, I’m sorry to break the bad news that you won’t be able to take all the content you purchased in the original game.

Titan Forge Games has confirmed that they will allow account linking between SMITE and SMITE 2 and that they will give rewards to their most loyal players, but that it will not be possible to transfer all the skins we have from the first to the second game, because according to the studio It would take 246 years to port 1,600 skins from Unreal Engine 3 to Unreal Engine 5. which exist in the first delivery.

And then what do I get? Legacy gems, an amount equal to the amount of gems each player has spent on SMITE. With them The price of “most” new SMITE 2 skins can be reduced by 50%. Yes, this means that you won’t be able to pay only with those legacy gems, but you will have to contribute at least half of the cost of the skin with money via new gems. The closed alpha will start this spring.