REZOUND

An early look at the expected patch notes for Smite.


New Gamemode: Domination

• Several Obelisks of Power have appeared in Egypt. Control them to gain victory.
• Average game time is around 20 minutes.

• There are three control points.
• Each team starts with 400 tickets.
• Enemy tickets are reduced when your side controls two of the three points, as well as for each enemy kill.
• Reduce the enemy team to zero tickets to win the match.

• You start at level three with 1500 gold.
• Neutral camps provide buffs but do not deduct tickets.
• Your team respawns together in waves.
• You will earn normal match rewards. Note that Domination has its own first win of the day bonus.

• [STILL TESTING. PRELIMINARY] In addition to the five permanently free gods (Ra, Kali, Ymir, Sun WuKong, and Artemis), there will now be an additional five free gods at any point in time.
  The free additional gods will rotate over time. (You will still need to purchase a god in order to ensure permanent access).
• When you first enter the match lobby in either Conquest Normal or Conquest Ranked gamemodes, the top-ranked player on each side now has the opportunity to ban a god from play. When a god is banned, it is banned for both sides. All gods are bannable (Note that we had previously communicated that free gods would not be bannable, but reversed that decision after adding the additional free rotating gods).

• If enough people are in queue we respect your preferred region when match making. You choose your preferred region on the PLAY screen.

• Normal Casting Mode: A targeting decal is placed on the ground when you hit the ability button, and then the ability is fired when you left mouse click.
• Quick Casting Mode: A targeting decal is placed on the ground when you push down the ability button, and the ability is fired when you release the ability button.
• Instant Casting Mode: The ability is fired as soon as you press the ability button, with no targeting decal.

• The time spent in a “matching state” on timed queues is now drastically reduced, so that you should be sent into the match lobby much faster.
• Auto-purchase settings will now be stored server-side at a player level. This should prevent users have these settings reset after each patch (Note: Settings will be reset upon this patch, but should not be reset during the next patch).
• If you receive a party invite while alt-tabbed out of the game, you will now receive an out-of-match notification, similar to the notification you receive when you are alt-tabbed out of the game and receive a match invite.

• The Play button on the top-bar menu is now better highlighted.
• A variety of UI cleanups have been made to the PLAY screen. This includes:
• Users may also now select their preferred server region.
• Your last selected tab is persisted across logins (so you will return to the PvP tab if that was your last selected tab the last time you played).
• The buttons now read “Join” and “Leave” instead of “Join Queue” and “Leave Queue”.
• Once you join a queue, you are restricted from clicking on other queues until you leave the queue.
• Several other cleanups.
• The sizing and positioning of the in-game web browser has been modified.
• The sell button in the in-game item store has been modified.
• Several cleanups and improvements have been made to the Social menus.
• Several other minor bug fixes and visual cleanups.

• The active slow has been reduced from 35% to 30%.
• The cooldown has been increased to 150s.

• Damage done to minions has been reduced by 20%.
• Passive has been changed so that you take 30% less damage from Jungle minions.

• The active speed buff has been increased from 35% to 40%.
• Duration of the buff has been reduced from 5s to 3s.
• This ability now makes you immune to slows for the active duration.
• The cooldown has been increased to 150s.

• The passive has been changed so that when you have less than 40% of your mana, your mana regeneration is doubled.
• mp5 removed from this passive
• The cooldown has been increased to 120s.

• This ability removes pulls again.
• The cooldown has been increased to 120s.

• The lifetime of the active speed buff has been changed to 6s.
• The cooldown has been increased to 150s.

• Recommended items that had mana potions have now been changed to healing potions.

• The XP reward for clearing a buff camp has been reduced by 50%.
  
  • Protection Buff Camp
  The protection camp has had its buff reduced from +50 to +35.

• Base movement speed of gods has been increased by 10%.
• Projectile speeds on basic ranged attacks has been increased from 70 ft/sec to 100 ft/sec. Anhur, Artemis and Cupid are still at 110 ft/sec.

• Calydonian Boar
  Crowd control immunity duration decreased from 6s to 3s.

• PASSIVE - Lovestruck
  When an ability is used that consumes 10 stacks, Cupid also gains a 20% buff to his physical power for 6s.
• Heart Bomb
  Damage type has been changed from physical to magical.
  Base damage has been increased from 50/80/110/140/170 to 60/100/140/180/220.
  Damage contribution has been changed from 60% physical to 100% magical.
• Share the Love
  Base healing has been increased from 30/50/70/90/110 to 45/70/95/120/145.
  Damage contribution has been changed from 40% physical to 30% magical.
• Flutter
  Attack speed buff duration has been increased from 4s to 6s.
  All ranks now gain 2% attack speed per stack of Lovestruck.
  Lovestruck stacks now consumed by Flutter.
• Fields of Love
  Damage type has been changed from physical to magical
  Base damage has been increased from 175/225/275/325/375 to 225/290/355/420/485.
  Damage contribution has been changed from 100% physical to 120% magical.

• Irradiate
  Decreased the cooldown from 13s to 11s.
• Pulse
  Decreased the cooldown from 13s to 11s.
• Banish
  Increased the duration of the banish from 1/1.5/2/2.5/3s to 1.4/1.8/2.2/2.6/3s.

• PASSIVE - Armor of the Nile
• Name has been changed to Blessing of the Nile
• Each hit now also gives Sobek +15 physical power, stacking up to 3
  times.

• Tectonic Rift
  The fissure now appears almost instantly, doing 75/115/155/195/235 (+60% of your physical power) physical damage and stunning enemies for 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2s.
• Anvil of Dawn
  Reduced the amount of time the warning is visible when Thor is about to come crashing down.

• Frost Breath
• This ability now does 50/90/130/170/210 (+50% of your magical power) magical damage.

• Sunglasses have been buffed 30%