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Yeah, HiRez's business model is not that different to Riot's when it comes to characters.

With that said, HiRez is doing a preview Joust match for Ares right now:
http://www.twitch.tv/hirezstudios

And one of the top players/streamers for Smite, Jerbcraft, is currently doing a 24h charity marathon for St. Jude Children's Hospital, doing ranked games, viewer games and joust matches with other streamers and top players, so if you wanna tune in to that:
http://www.twitch.tv/croninlol

Finally, Freya is definitely going to come next after Ares - they put placeholders everywhere already, and there's some particle effects available in the game files. Especially given how they are formatted and look like, HiRez might be using us dataminers to give them free promotion, haha.
In any case, have some of Freya's sparklies. (these images are unedited btw, they are found within the "FX_Freya" file, which is what leads me to believe that at this point HiRez wants us to find that stuff)
 
Ooh, Freya is very sparkly. I wonder what kind of character she'll be.

LCGeek said:
Dota 2 as a beta came out valve is still trying to make it like the original and add back missing bits it's not a finished product.

Also you don't need to click that much in LOL you can use a keyboard for just about anythign and hold down the mouse to move. You're better off experiencing these things than forming ideas that are imprecise to what is going on.
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Oh so that's probably why I thought it came out. Well Valve is a good developer so I'm sure it'll end up being good.

I do still plan on trying LoL out for myself. Maybe I worded what I said poorly. What I meant is that is seems that LoL is not based on skill shots as much as SMITE is. Being a FPS fan, I really like that aspect of SMITE.
 
I would wager she'll be magic based and support-y, maybe even a full-out mage.

That said, during the stream so far, HiRez has revealed that the Pirate skin for Sobek is upcoming as well, that there will be at least 2 new abilities (an AoE Heal Debuff, and a Structure Buff), and lastly, that instead of 3 abilities, a player will now be able to hold 2, and instead of 1 consumable, 2 consumables.

Duke and Bart said they're not sure if these changes will be implemented with the patch, but well, they'll be out soon I guess.
 
Nice! Do we also get King K. Rool Sobek this patch?

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Preliminary Patch Notes...!
We are currently planning to release a new patch tomorrow (Thursday, Oct 4). The servers will be down for several hours during the patch.

Here are some of the important things in the patch.

New God: ARES

BLESSED PRESENCE (PASSIVE)
Each completed aura item that Ares owns grants him 40 additional magical power.

SHACKLES
Chains extend from Ares’ shield, doing 25/45/65/85/105 )+15% of your magical power) magical damage to all enemies in its patc. Hitting a god shackles them to Ares, dealing the same damage every second for 4s while slowing them and buffing Ares by 20%. While shackled, Ares can fire a chain for free within 2s, max of 3. Cost - 70/75/80/85/90 mana. Cooldown - 15s.

BOLSTER DEFENSES
Ares strengthens the defenses of himself and all nearby allies, granting 15/20/25/30/35 physical and magical protection and reducing crowd control durations by 15/20/25/35% for 8 seconds. For each shackled enemy, the protection buffs are increased by 10. Cost - 60/65/70/75/80 mana. Cooldown - 13s.

SEARING FLESH
Flames pour forth from Ares’ shield, engulfing enemies in a cone in front of him for 15/20/25/30/35 (+7% of your magical power) plus 1/1/2/2/3% of the target’s max health as magical damage every .5s for 4s. Ares is immune to knockback for the duration. Cost - 55/60/65/70/75 mana. Cooldown - 12s.

NO ESCAPE
Ares throws chains out to all enemy gods in an area around him. All enemies hit by the chains are pulled to Ares after 2.5s, taking 200/275/350/425/500 (+40% of your magical power) magical damage and are stunned for 1s + .3s for each enemy god chained. Cost - 80/85/90/95/100 mana. Cooldown - 90s.


General Features

CHANGES TO CONSUMABLES AND ABILITIES: There are now 2 consumable slots and 2 item slots (meaning you may now hold two different types of consumables at the same time). A button has also been added to “swap” slots on your abilities, for those wanting to keep an ability in the same slot (for consistency of key binding).

NEW EPIC SKIN (HIGH SEAS SOBEK): Say hello to a pirate-themed Sobek, along with his sidekick parrot.

ADDITIONAL NEW SKINS: Destroyer Ares, Typhoon Ao Kuang, Demon Slayer Kali, Death Dealer Sobek

RANKINGS: A “Top Ranked Players” stats page has been added under PROFILE in the menus. In addition, some adjustments have been made to the algorithms for ranking players in Ranked Matches. For fairness, the ranks of players have been re-adjusted to reflect the changes in the new system, based on their previous match history (so some players may see changes in their rank).

SPECTATOR: More spectator cleanups including a new process for viewing the match in the match lobby.


Jungle

Gold Fury now has a leash volume where she will reset back to her spawn.

Items

Creeping Curse
This ability now has FX play when used.

Girdle of Might
This ability now affects all nearby allied gods.

Mystical Mark
Fixed an issue with Mystical Mark not being removed when Arachne detaches from her enemy.
Reactivated the item in the store.

Gods

Bastet
Pounce - Addressed issues with the return pounce not working as intended.

Sobek
Tail Whip - There is now a .4s buildup at the beginning of this ability.

Sun Wukong
Overhand Smash -This ability no longer goes on cooldown when it is cancelled by crowd control abilities.
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So after playing against Ares twice last night, I have to say he isn't as scary as I thought he'd be. He is great in late game teamfights and he's really tanky, but that's it. As Cupid, I just poked and ran away from him. Sometimes he'd get me killed with a well-placed ult.

I'm still waiting for another Cupid nerf. I think he's still too good.
 
Recently bought and started playing He-Bo, and I gotta say he is fun as fuck. Low cooldown nukes are great. He is pretty squishy though, and he doesn't have a "real" dash, but man, I need to get good with him. This game is starting to grip me like SMNC did...
 
BurningNad said:
Recently bought and started playing He-Bo, and I gotta say he is fun as fuck. Low cooldown nukes are great. He is pretty squishy though, and he doesn't have a "real" dash, but man, I need to get good with him. This game is starting to grip me like SMNC did...
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I've actually noticed more He Bo players lately. Did they buff him or something? I've seen some of them do really well, but yeah, he is incredibly squishy. I also think I've stunned him with a Heart Bomb while he was in his ult... I hope that's a bug because that sucks for He Bo. His "dash" isn't great in lane but it's awesome in jungle because it slows everyone in the tight corridors.

I'm at about 5,000 Favor so I'm focusing on which god to buy next. I have all the ranged ADs (Artemis, Cupid, & Anhur) and that's who I play most. Cupid is getting a little old, though. But I still use him if nobody else on our team does; he's way too good for a team to pass up. I'm pretty sure my next god is gonna be Hel. I have little experience with mage characters — aside from my beginner's mistake to buy Ao Kuang as my first god — but I love supporting my team and Hel is arguably the best support in the game. She is so good in teamfights. I tried using her for the first time last night in a practice match and it was really fun switching between her dark and light stances.

The other god that I kinda wanted was Bakasura. He always seemed like a monster, but I've seen people complaining that the changes to the jungle were a big nerf to him, and that Sun Wukong is a better choice for physical assassin now. So I'm not going to blow 5,500 Favor on a god that is worse than one of my free starters.
 
Dreams-Visions said:
I suppose it depends on what ARTS games you're coming from. It is certainly a visual step up from LoL, I'd say.
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Ya if lol had the camera on the model's ass the entire time, but they don't.. so they don't have to be perfect.

That said, I think the overall style compared to LoL is definitely worse.
 
Freya god reveal is LIVE!

Holy shit, that ult is going to be god-tier for ganking. Her 3 also looks great for initiating and escaping. I bet she's gonna be really squishy, though. I predict her being a pubstomber like Bakasura, and sharing the similar weakness of being easily focused down in teamfights. But we'll see. I have been wrong with predictions — like when I thought Ares was going to be OP as fuck, but it turns out his ult is useless once your team buys beads, making him a lot less effective. Sobek is a much better AP tank.

As far as the artwork and style: it's hit-or-miss to me. I like many of the god designs and skins, but I don't really like the environment. I think LoL's looks much nicer. SMITE's lanes look pretty bland in general. The jungles are ok though.
 
Preliminary notes for tomorrow's patch:

New God: Freya, Queen of the Valkyries

[PASSIVE] BRISINGAMEN’S BLESSING
- Freya's necklace converts 20% of her magical power to physical power, allowing her basic attacks to gain in strength as her magical strength grows.

[1] IRRADIATE
- Freya activates a buff that lasts for 5 seconds that makes her basic physical attacks do an additional 40/55/70/85/100 (+30% of your magical power) magical damage. The additional damage is halved while Pulse is active. Cost - 60/65/70/75/80 mana. Cooldown - 13s.

[2] PULSE
- Freya activates a buff that lasts for 5 seconds that makes her basic attacks ranged that deal an additional 20/30/40/50/60 (+20% of your magical power) magical damage and slow by 25%, doing the same to nearby enemies. While Irradiate is active, the additional damage is halved while the slow and area damage are not applied. Cost - 60/65/70/75/80 mana. Cooldown - 13s.

[3] BANISH
- At her ground target location, Freya banishes her enemies into the air for 1/1.5/2/2.5/3 seconds. The enemies can't be hit or take action while in the air. Cost - 75 mana. Cooldown - 19/18/17/16/15s.

[4] VALKYRIE’S DISCRETION
- Freya uses her Cloak of Feathers to fly above the battlefield where she fires down blasts of 120/150/180/210/240 (+45% of your magical power) magical damage up to 4 times while flying. Freya can't be hit during her ultimate and can right click to cancel it early. Cost - 90/95/100/105/110 mana. Cooldown - 90s.


NEW SKINS

Freya
- Northern Lights

Guan Yu
- Unstoppable Blade

Ymir
- Digi-MIR 9000


GENERAL FEATURES

- God abilities no longer detect enemy wards.

- Decline button has been removed from the match invitation.

- Keybindings:
--- Keybindings now save properly when configured during a match.
--- Changing key bindings should no longer show the old bindings on the hud.
--- First key press after changing key bindings should work all the time now.
--- Can no longer bind the ESC key.
--- Close button has been removed from the key binding popup.

- Your goodwill percentage is now visible in the bottom left corner of the game lobby.

- Spectator mode change to display abilities and consumables without the 3 dots on the icon.

- When player is falling the appropriate keybindings will now disable.

- The Minotaur now walks through player deployed walls. Future iterations may include him just 1-shotting anyone that tries to wall block him!


HUD

Item slots on the HUD now blink when you have enough gold to upgrade the item.


ITEMS

Girdle of Might
- This item no longer stacks (was in hot fix last week).

Spear of the Magus
- Price increased from 1850g to 2050g.

NEW ABILITY - Structural Invulnerability
- Using this item makes all allied structures invulnerable for 6 seconds. This item shares a team-wide cooldown of 5 minutes. Usable when dead.

NEW ABILITY - Intensify Defenses
- Using this item gives the structure within the radius increased attack speed and damage, while also forcing the structure to target enemy gods for 6 seconds.


GODS

Arachne - Broodlings
- Broodling sac’s no longer detect enemy wards.

Ares - Bolster Defenses
- This ability no longer affects the Minotaur.

Ares - Shackles
- If Ares hits an enemy god with Shackles, the next chain now doesn’t consume mana, as was originally intended.

Artemis - Transgressors Fate
- The traps no longer detect enemy wards.

Cupid - Heart Bomb
- This ability no longer slows the target.

Hel - Cleanse
- This now properly protects from knockback as intended.

Sun Wukong - Furious Monkey
- Range of the bounces for rank 1 of this ability was shorter than the other ranks. This is now fixed.
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Awwwwww yeah, Cupid nerf incoming. And finally a Guan Yu skin. Overall I'm loving this patch.
 
Haha. It is a really, really good item for early game. I saw someone on the Hi-Rez forums do the math and it offers a significant advantage with the early power + penetration.

I've had 2 losses in a row where my team absolutely kicked the other team's ass in the laning phase, only to have them come back and roll us in the mid/late-game teamfight phase. I'm talking we were winning like 19-4 at one point. Our Bakasura was 9-1 by like the 15 minute mark, but once the teamfights started he just got focused on and killed. This is why I am against surrendering for most situations. You can almost always bring it back.
 
Next god seems to be Loki - he doesn't have any placeholder icons/images, but he has some particle effects (and parts of his model shown inside of em).
Here's some pictures, there's also a video showing them in motion but YT is down for me right now.
 
Rygar 8 Bit said:
thats how they trick ya
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Well even if they named it differently to screw us dataminers over, the model still is significantly different than the one that was found a while ago.
Yen-Lo-Wang's model is barefoot, has no sleeves, no scale mail (he is bandaged all over his torso), and the mask is completely different than the face that is seen on this model.

It's fairly certain to be Loki. ;)
 
So, what are everyone's thoughts on Freya so far?

I think she's great in the right hands, and her ultimate is insanely good, but she isn't OP. I'm still more afraid of Sun Wukong, Anhur, Hel, Sobek, and Cupid. Although Cupid is much less scary now that his Heart Bomb doesn't slow you.

I bought Agni yesterday. I really like him so far, but I've found that I either do very well or very poorly. Here's a tip for fighting against him in mid: Stand in-between your archer and melee creeps. That way, when Agni uses his Path of Flames to kill them, he'll hit you too and your minions will immediately attack him. A really good Ra was doing that, and he kicked my ass.

Also, I played with ForceLOL today. He's a pretty well-known YouTuber with over 70m video views: http://www.youtube.com/user/ForceSC2strategy
 
I use Vamana myself. Love his ability to run to and away from battles, his util which offers self healing and aoe dmg, and his shield attack that is similar to Ra's abilities in taking out a line of enemies.

Been hooked on this game for awhile it pulled me has addicted me in a way LoL and HoN never did.
 
Friend of mine gave me a beta key. Never played a game like this or Dota 2, even though I've just recently installed that as well. I'm waiting for my friend before I jump in. It looks like a fun game, but me being a total beginner at it makes me a bit hesitant to try it out.
 
just give a heads up if you want a run through of the basics also you might want to disable chat if you are just starting playing these types of games
 
Ezalc said:
Friend of mine gave me a beta key. Never played a game like this or Dota 2, even though I've just recently installed that as well. I'm waiting for my friend before I jump in. It looks like a fun game, but me being a total beginner at it makes me a bit hesitant to try it out.
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Actually, I'd suggest you play the Solo Practice mode until you can play with your friend. It'll allow you to test things out, how to aim, how to buy and build items, etc.
 
Third person view for fresh gameplay? I'm going to need to see a freshmometer reading.

What I played of this at PAX seemed cool, although the art leaves a lot to be desired. I do think we're reaching critical mass in the MOBA space so it'll be interesting to see if this game holds an audience.
 
^ lol

Ezalc said:
Friend of mine gave me a beta key. Never played a game like this or Dota 2, even though I've just recently installed that as well. I'm waiting for my friend before I jump in. It looks like a fun game, but me being a total beginner at it makes me a bit hesitant to try it out.
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Don't worry man. This is my first MOBA too and I got the hang of it pretty quickly. There's a high skill ceiling though, which is cool. I suggest watching some gameplay videos. I like Drybear's YouTube videos, as he's really good and is excellent at explaining things like item builds and basic strategy. Here are the videos of him playing with the starter gods, which you will be stuck with until you get enough Favor to buy them (or if you pay real money):

Artemis
Kali
Ra
Sun Wukong
Ymir
 
Updated the OP with some more links.
I'll also have to update the price list picture since they lowered the 2 big gem packs from 5000 to 3500 and from 2000 to 1500.
 
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