3.15 - Under The Sea | August 16, 2016
New God Skins
New Voice Packs
Achievements
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Sobek
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Terra
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Summer of Smite 2016
- New content being added:
- Get Served Freya
- Olympian Music Theme
- Final Reward: Sea Maiden Medusa
Miscellaneous
- Decreased respawn timers for duel.
- Added Auto Skill and Auto Items options for the Training Map. They will remain locked, however, but will allow new users to see what these options do.
- Achievements are now sorted by Completed and then by Alphabetical Name.
- MMR System Adjustments
- SMITE has used an algorithm similar to TrueSkill to implement our “ELO” or MMR ranking since its inception. In the early days of the game, we did some data crunching on results of matches to tune global parameters that the algorithm uses. One of these parameters (beta), broadly correlates as to how much specific knowledge a game requires. In other words, a title that an experienced gamer could pick up fast and do well at just based on raw talent would be a low beta, but one that required a lot of specific knowledge is a higher beta.
- In 3.15, we are re-tuning those parameters based on several weeks of research and processing large sets of our match history. What we found was that our initial beta was too low, and we have adjusted it moving forward. We have also split the parameters for League and Casual as we found that, as expected, the makeup of players is different enough to allow the algorithm to optimize for each category. Re-running match data with the new parameter showed the system to be more accurate in predicting winners.
- For 3.15, we are not adjusting any MMR but we are implementing the new parameters. We expect that moving forward, MMR and thus matchmaking, will be more accurate and reliable.
Item Changes
Enchanted Spear
- Reduced cost from
1700→ 1550 gold. Items that build off Enchanted Spear will retain their current final prices.
Spear of the Magus
“Spear of the Magus provides a large amount of Magical Pen to mages who can stack it up, but it did not offer enough upfront power to make it an option over other pen options. With an increase to the Magical Power it provides, it should be a much more attractive choice.”
- Increased Magical Power from
40→ 50.
New Item - Poisoned Star
“Poisoned Star is a new item that will allow players who want to go towards crit to have additional utility to help them secure damage and weaken enemies. It's cost and stats allow it to serve as a strong contribution to crit builds or as an item to round out your damage late game with utility.”
- 2200 gold
- +30 Physical Power
- +15% Critical Strike chance
- NEW PASSIVE - Critical hits on enemy gods afflict them with poison for 2s. This poison slows them by 20% and reduces their damage output by 20%.
God Changes
Arachne
- Web
Web- Fixed some issues where the web could “stack” in unintended ways.
Fafnir
“Fafnir has excelled as a Guardian who can provide a lot of utility to his team through abilities like Cursed Strength and Coerce. We like this about him but felt that Cursed Strength was over performing at its job of shredding through tankier enemies.”
- Cursed Strength
Cursed Strength- Decreased Dragon Protection Debuff from
20/25/30/35/40%→ 20% at all ranks.
- Decreased Dragon Protection Debuff from
Geb
“Geb is “rolling out” with some buffs. Get it, rolling our because….nevermind. Anyways, Geb is seeing an adjustment that will help him feel more impactful throughout the game. Cataclysm will now provide much more control over teamfights, especially during early rotations.”
- Cataclysm
Cataclysm- Increased Stun duration from
1/1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8s→ 1.6/1.7/1.8/1.9/2s.
- Increased Stun duration from
Kukulkan
- Whirlwind
Whirlwind- Fixed this ability so it now properly ticks 12 times if a target stands in it for its full duration.
Ratatoskr
- Through The Cosmos
Through The Cosmos- Updated the tooltip to properly reflect the increased landing radius if he jumps all 3 times.
Sobek
- General
- Fixed the High Seas skin missing some VGS audio.
Susano
“The ability for Susano to get in and out of fights is one of the things that makes him unique but his cooldowns and abilities allowed him to do this too often, leading to some frustration fighting against him. Jet Stream has had its cooldown and range reduced to give players more opportunity to play around the God of Summer Storms.”
- Jet Stream
Jet Stream- Reduced range from
55→ 45. - Changed cooldown from
17/16/15/14/13s→ 16s at all ranks.
- Reduced range from
Terra
“We got a lot of feedback on Terra; her strengths and weaknesses and her overall feel. In this patch, we wanted to address some concerns raised with her Basic Attacks not feeling impactful enough for someone using giant stone fists, as well as the delayed feeling players got from Crushing Earth.”
- Standing Stones
Standing Stones- Added bonus damage equal to 7 + 10% of your Magical Power to Terra's basic attacks while Standing Stones is active.
- Crushing Earth
Crushing Earth- Fixed this ability stunning players who were running or strafing into the walls from the outside.
- Fixed this ability where players were getting blocked before the walls were actually visible.
- Reduced casting time from
1.1s→ .7s
Ullr
“Ullr's Bladed Arrow is his most reliable form of early game poke and clear, but was often not impactful enough on it's own. With this update, players will have more of an option to play safe against unfavorable matchups with Bladed Arrow or look to exert more pressure in favorable positions.”
- Bladed Arrow
Bladed Arrow- Bladed Arrow damage increased from
70/120/170/220/270→ 90/140/190/240/290.
- Bladed Arrow damage increased from
Xbalanque
- General
- Fixed an issue where Xbalanque could sometimes get stuck in a state where he could no longer fire abilities or basic attacks.