Introducing the Starter Item Slot: Enhancing Build Diversity in Smite to Gods

One of the most exciting new features for starters is, I’m like, what’s this little guy right here? What’s that? So now have a starter item slot. It no longer disrupts your six item build. We are now fully seven slotted smite to gods. This is kind of like a best of both worlds, we think, because it still lets people have that choice at the beginning of the game, which can help gods excel in different roles than maybe they otherwise would. But you still have a lot of build diversity with where you go after that. And you can build in any direction. So we aren’t taking away anything from your six slot build. We’re just adding another item on top of that. Right now there’s two per role and there is one upgrade per starter. This is still 30 unique, complicated items that we made in a month. We were moving full time, nonstop, three plus designers working on this. And this is how many we could get in.