Head of Vengarl
Banned
I finally got 5,500 favor again and bought Ares. Extremely satisfying tank if you have reliable teammates who can take advantage of his ult. It really sucks when you whiff his ult or only get 1 enemy in it though.
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BurningNad
Member
Blink is now your new friend. "Surprise, motherfucker."
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Haha yeah. I tried out different builds, and Blink was always one of my starting items. I am still debating over whether it's better to buy Blink + Vanguard or Blink + Reinforced Boots at the start. Saw an enemy Ares use Boots of Celerity, but it made him too squishy imo.
Also still debating over which magic defense items work best for now I've landed on Bulwark of Hope and Magi's Blessing because they give you a ton of HP. But Stone of Gaia's passive effect is so amazing that it's hard to choose. Physical defense items were easier to choose: Breastplate of Valor for quicker ult cooldowns and Sovereignty for the sweet tanky aura.
Also still debating over which magic defense items work best for now I've landed on Bulwark of Hope and Magi's Blessing because they give you a ton of HP. But Stone of Gaia's passive effect is so amazing that it's hard to choose. Physical defense items were easier to choose: Breastplate of Valor for quicker ult cooldowns and Sovereignty for the sweet tanky aura.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
should be showing athena today
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
yeah love her ult and taunt cant wait
Permanently A
Junior Member
So, how has HiRez screwed up this game?
Don't mind me, just bitter about Tribes
Don't mind me, just bitter about Tribes
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
hasnt it has remained on a constant flow of awesome for a year and i am so building CDR on her going to be so cheap
will probably build mage boots, void stone, breastplate of valor, hide of the nemean lion, magis blessing, gem of isolation
will probably build mage boots, void stone, breastplate of valor, hide of the nemean lion, magis blessing, gem of isolation
Her ult is nuts. I wonder if her ULT work in conjunction with Thor's Ult? Like wit for 1/2 cast of thor's ult target him , while she charges, he flies up real quick, lands before she does TP then TP where he lands? They had reworked her 1 during the stream and bugged it with it hitting creeps twice.. Her 3 is kind of meh...
GuitarAtomik
Member
Where can you see this stuff?
http://www.twitch.tv/smitegame
3pm-7pm with HiRezBart. He'll play but when there's a new god to show he'll announce it. he usually explains updates too and shows any changes. Athena is expected to hit Wednesday.
3pm-7pm with HiRezBart. He'll play but when there's a new god to show he'll announce it. he usually explains updates too and shows any changes. Athena is expected to hit Wednesday.
Red Arremer
Member
The next upcoming character is indeed
, and there's also some mentions of
.
Also, found a skin for Zeus.
I'll make a video in the next few days, but I strained my voice a lot yesterday, so I can't talk about stuff atm.
Chronos
Chang'e, a Chinese moon goddess
Also, found a skin for Zeus.
I'll make a video in the next few days, but I strained my voice a lot yesterday, so I can't talk about stuff atm.
Mr. PlayStation
Member
Never been big into PC gaming and then Smite closed beta happened around july last year and I have been enjoying it since then. Keep up the great work Hi-Rez!
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
hell yeah chronos
GuitarAtomik
Member
So Athena is weird. I have a feeling the item build will make all the difference. At the moment, she seems a little too squishy to be a draw-aggro tank character but doesn't do enough damage to be effective enough to kill reliably (at least not until you can max your 2 and 3). Her Ult is pretty awesome though I'm having a hard time finding effective moments to use it.
GuitarAtomik
Member
In case anyone missed it:
ATHENA: GOD REVEAL
Ok, so I'm starting to get the hang of her but apparently she's not that great in Arena to the point that people are actively trying me to switch when I pick her. Personally, I think she does just fine there as long as you're not the only tank. I don't think my teammates realized how many times I saved them with her draw aggro 2 ability, but saves don't show up on the scoreboard and she's still not that effective at killing once aggro is drawn without someone there to help so there's that. Plus her Ult just doesn't seem that effective there. I wonder if it would be if the radius on drop was a bit larger.
In Conquest, she is pretty awesome though. Her Ult makes for some really good ganking opportunities and obviously gets you back in the action really quick, and her 2 makes for some funny opportunities to draw people in when they get too close to your tower.
ATHENA: GOD REVEAL
Ok, so I'm starting to get the hang of her but apparently she's not that great in Arena to the point that people are actively trying me to switch when I pick her. Personally, I think she does just fine there as long as you're not the only tank. I don't think my teammates realized how many times I saved them with her draw aggro 2 ability, but saves don't show up on the scoreboard and she's still not that effective at killing once aggro is drawn without someone there to help so there's that. Plus her Ult just doesn't seem that effective there. I wonder if it would be if the radius on drop was a bit larger.
In Conquest, she is pretty awesome though. Her Ult makes for some really good ganking opportunities and obviously gets you back in the action really quick, and her 2 makes for some funny opportunities to draw people in when they get too close to your tower.
Liberty4all
Banned
I really like her. Her ult is extremely powerful in conquest and alot of fun to use.
Red Arremer
Member
GuitarAtomik
Member
Crazy HUGE new patch incoming:
HUN BATZ PATCH
Revamped God: Hun Batz (formerly Sun Wukong)
Updated Map:
The Joust map has undergone significant art revisions. The art style and quality shown in this map reflects the current art style direction of the game. Other elements of the game, including the other maps are expected to undergo changes over future patches to better align them with this style.
New Skins:
Apollo Golden
Hun Batz Red Demon (NOTE: Anyone that owned the Sun Wukong Red Demon skin will receive this skin for free).
New Voice Packs:
Hun Batz
Anhur
Bacchus
General:
* The free gods permanently given to new players have changed.
For players that create new accounts after the patch, their permanent free gods will be Kali, Ra, Artemis, Ymir and Odin.
For players that created accounts before the patch, they will still own (for free) Kali, Ra, * Artemis, Ymir and Hun Batz. They will still have to unlock Odin and will not receive him for free.
* The in-game HUD has undergone visual and layout adjustments. Significant further changes to the in-match UI are planned for future releases.
* All consumables now “stack time” when consumed. Additional time is added to the end of the duration of the consumable when you consume a new one while the first one was still active. This excludes wards.
* You may now search for a player’s stats by name on the STATS | PROFILE page.
* Athena and Neith have a new targeter for their Ultimates. This treatment should make it easier to identify your target.
* Fixed issues with team coloring of several FX.
* Fixed an issue in which gold frames would randomly appear on other players.
* Fixed an issue in which the most recently released god would never be picked in Random gamemodes (such as Assault).
* The gold rewards from the monsters in the jungle has been increased by 30%.
* Players no longer get a last hit bonus from monsters in the jungle.
* Fixed an issue where minions would not sink into the ground after dying in training mode.
* Fixed an issue where death animations on a victim would be canceled if the victim was stunned while dead.
* Diminishing returns will not take any crowd control durations below .5s or the effects initial duration, whichever is lower.
* The new god rotation is Hades, Loki, Ne Zha, Neith and Zeus.
* The cell shading effect around players has been removed (along with the Setting to turn this shading on/off).
Spectator Changes
* Fixed an issue where the camera motion of the 3rd person view wasn’t smoothing.
* A beta version of Director Mode is released. To toggle Director Mode, click the movie clapper icon (just to the left of the replay clock).
* Director Mode will automatically attempt to find the most interesting players to spectate.
At any point you may interact with the game, which automatically puts Director Mode into stasis. If no additional input is given by the user after several seconds of being in stasis, the director will automatically reassume control over spectating the match.
While in Director Mode, the camera view will periodically change between third-person and isometric view modes.
Items:
* New Tiered Movement Items
These items have 2 choices at the top tier:
* Consumables
The following potions have had persistent FX added to them while they are active:
* Bumba’s Mask
The price has been increased from 750g to 800g.
The passive of this item has been changed to this:
* Death’s Toll
The price has been increased from 750g to 800g.
* Mark of the Vanguard
The price has been increased from 750g to 800g.
* Vampiric Shroud
The price has been increased from 750g to 800g.
* Ward
Priced at 75g. This item now only reveals enemy movements; it does not reveal enemy wards. Lasts 180 seconds.
* Sentry Ward
Priced at 75g. Reveals both enemy movements and enemy wards. Lasts 90 seconds.
* Gods
Agni
Anubis
Ao Kuang
Apollo
Artemis
Athena
Bakasura
Freya
Guan Yu
Hercules
Loki
Neith
Poseidon
Zeus
HUN BATZ PATCH
Revamped God: Hun Batz (formerly Sun Wukong)
Updated Map:
The Joust map has undergone significant art revisions. The art style and quality shown in this map reflects the current art style direction of the game. Other elements of the game, including the other maps are expected to undergo changes over future patches to better align them with this style.
New Skins:
Apollo Golden
Hun Batz Red Demon (NOTE: Anyone that owned the Sun Wukong Red Demon skin will receive this skin for free).
New Voice Packs:
Hun Batz
Anhur
Bacchus
General:
* The free gods permanently given to new players have changed.
For players that create new accounts after the patch, their permanent free gods will be Kali, Ra, Artemis, Ymir and Odin.
For players that created accounts before the patch, they will still own (for free) Kali, Ra, * Artemis, Ymir and Hun Batz. They will still have to unlock Odin and will not receive him for free.
* The in-game HUD has undergone visual and layout adjustments. Significant further changes to the in-match UI are planned for future releases.
New HUD/Joust map
* All consumables now “stack time” when consumed. Additional time is added to the end of the duration of the consumable when you consume a new one while the first one was still active. This excludes wards.
* You may now search for a player’s stats by name on the STATS | PROFILE page.
* Athena and Neith have a new targeter for their Ultimates. This treatment should make it easier to identify your target.
* Fixed issues with team coloring of several FX.
* Fixed an issue in which gold frames would randomly appear on other players.
* Fixed an issue in which the most recently released god would never be picked in Random gamemodes (such as Assault).
* The gold rewards from the monsters in the jungle has been increased by 30%.
* Players no longer get a last hit bonus from monsters in the jungle.
* Fixed an issue where minions would not sink into the ground after dying in training mode.
* Fixed an issue where death animations on a victim would be canceled if the victim was stunned while dead.
* Diminishing returns will not take any crowd control durations below .5s or the effects initial duration, whichever is lower.
* The new god rotation is Hades, Loki, Ne Zha, Neith and Zeus.
* The cell shading effect around players has been removed (along with the Setting to turn this shading on/off).
Spectator Changes
* Fixed an issue where the camera motion of the 3rd person view wasn’t smoothing.
* A beta version of Director Mode is released. To toggle Director Mode, click the movie clapper icon (just to the left of the replay clock).
* Director Mode will automatically attempt to find the most interesting players to spectate.
At any point you may interact with the game, which automatically puts Director Mode into stasis. If no additional input is given by the user after several seconds of being in stasis, the director will automatically reassume control over spectating the match.
While in Director Mode, the camera view will periodically change between third-person and isometric view modes.
Items:
* New Tiered Movement Items
These items have 2 choices at the top tier:
* Consumables
The following potions have had persistent FX added to them while they are active:
* Bumba’s Mask
The price has been increased from 750g to 800g.
The passive of this item has been changed to this:
* Death’s Toll
The price has been increased from 750g to 800g.
* Mark of the Vanguard
The price has been increased from 750g to 800g.
* Vampiric Shroud
The price has been increased from 750g to 800g.
* Ward
Priced at 75g. This item now only reveals enemy movements; it does not reveal enemy wards. Lasts 180 seconds.
* Sentry Ward
Priced at 75g. Reveals both enemy movements and enemy wards. Lasts 90 seconds.
* Gods
Agni
Anubis
Ao Kuang
Apollo
Artemis
Athena
Bakasura
Freya
Guan Yu
Hercules
Loki
Neith
Poseidon
Zeus
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Did Riot threaten legal action over a name they didn't invent?
GuitarAtomik
Member
About the same as any MOBA. There are your fair share of assholes but there are plenty of good people on there. I usually play in the Casual section though so the pressure is pretty low.
GuitarAtomik
Member
yo whats with this drive by random hate shit even in the smite thread
people hated the wukong design
seems like smite decided to make a different god instead of a simple visual remake
GuitarAtomik
Member
Supposedly Wukong will be back later with a different set of abilities.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
hopefully i loved me some wukong but the model for hunbatz is really cool digging him
Red Arremer
Member
No, but the community didn't like Smite's Wukong (mostly the visuals), and Hirez decided they wanted to give Sun Wukong a version that's closer to his roots. He'll be back later.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
theyll make him look like jackie chan from journey to the west movie to troll everyone
GuitarAtomik
Member
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
yeah it is just played a game didnt know that they added a thing under the gods ui up top to let you know when everyones ults are ready pretty cool
edit: cant wait to see what is data mined hope there is some nice stuff hidden away
edit: cant wait to see what is data mined hope there is some nice stuff hidden away
Red Arremer
Member
Just placeholders, really. No new models/particles or skins.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
boooo you let me down hirez
Red Arremer
Member
They've not been dropping models since forever though, and FX are only done every other patch. They actually removed
' particles that I've shown in the video I made last patch.
They however gave
a placeholder character icon and character-specific skill icons, and added blank placeholders for
.
Chronos
They however gave
Chang'e
Tyr
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
awwww shit tyr gonna bash some fenrir face with him
Red Arremer
Member
Are you stalking me? In every thread I frequent you pop up! :lol
If you're still lower level, you'll be paired up with new and less competent players. A minotaur that gets defended well is hell to deal with.
And well, yeah, the game generally is much faster paced than the top down MOBAs. So it comes to no surprise the main objective also goes down quicker.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
or your paired up against me and my friend who will go 40/0 because we are smurfing
What makes it easier to get into?
Red Arremer
Member
I can't speak for him, of course, but I felt the same way. I tried LoL and both Dotas before getting into Smite.
Here's what I felt made it easier to get into:
- 3rd person perspective (I'm an oldschool FPS player, so the perspective made me a lot more comfortable)
- no enormously complicated item builds (I was so confused in LoL because I had no idea what items I was supposed to buy/craft and such)
- last-hitting is not required for you to gain XP/gold
Liberty4all
Banned
Wait a sec .... I thought Joust was one on one?
Red Arremer
Member
Liberty4all
Banned
When first starting out I highly recommend Arena mode. You start off with more money (allowing you to experiment with items) and you level up way quicker allowing you to feel out various god's abilities.
This is very helpful before jumping into conquest mode. In conquest mode like most DOTA's, having one weak player in a lane can spell your entire team's doom. Arena is more lenient.
Liberty4all
Banned
Yes it is. But they might've done a 3v3 just to show the map better in action.
I hope that maybe Joust opens up to bigger teams. That would be cool as it's a great map.
GuitarAtomik
Member
This specifically for me. I'm not a fan of the abstract-ness of control that comes with the top down Diablo style games nor am I good at it (which is why I'm not in to Starcraft either). Smite is 3rd person direct WASD control and skill shots (If you dodge an attack, you're not hit by it). That alone makes it easier for me to play and I would assume make it more familiar to a wider audience that likely has a lot of experience with other 3rd or 1st person action games.
There are also a lot of tools in the game to help new players like auto leveling and item buying options, bot matches, and a casual playlist section.
Liberty4all
Banned
I played DOTA back in the day. I tried to get into LoL, HoN and DOTA 2 but just found that years of FPS's have ruined me for more "abstract play" as Guitar puts it. The WASD controls, combined with skill shots makes the game alot more engaging for me, while still maintaining the complexity of builds that you have in DOTA's.
The game conquest format actually reminded me alot of Monday Night Combat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_Night_Combat which I loved. Not exactly like it as MNC was more of a shooter, but the third person laning aspect is very similar.
Turin Turambar
Member
There is a good number of changes coming this week, too
I think Chronos ult will be a rewind mechanic, where you can come back to a previous sate (position, health, mana). That's why he says he is very good at diving.
The teleport stuff is very interesting, but we still need to see how it works, exactly (maybe needs more time to charge? expensive item?).
I think Chronos ult will be a rewind mechanic, where you can come back to a previous sate (position, health, mana). That's why he says he is very good at diving.
The teleport stuff is very interesting, but we still need to see how it works, exactly (maybe needs more time to charge? expensive item?).
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
hope bort drops info on this stuff today missed the start of his show so no idea what the agenda is for today
GuitarAtomik
Member
Cool Cool Cool. Can't wait to see what Chronos looks like.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
they are showing all the new stuff for the patch today http://www.twitch.tv/smitegame
Turin Turambar
Member
And between the layout changes and the new active items and the new teleport scrolls... all the meta will change!
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