SMITE Patch Overview - Alien Attacks (September 22, 2015)

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What is a MOBA?

Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas, or MOBAs for short, originated as a sub-genre of the RTS (Real-Time Strategy) genre. Because of this, in most MOBA games, the player takes control of a single character from the isometric (top-down) view akin to most RTS games. Typically, in MOBA games, a player takes control of a single character on one of two teams. Those players choose characters that all have their own abilities, or “kits”. To win, the players must use a combination of abilities, teamwork, and strategy to not only best their opponent, but destroy the opponents main structures. A bonus to the genre is that most MOBAs are free games, which is definitely a contributing factor of the their massive success. The genre has many titles, the largest of which being Defense of the Ancients (DoTA) and DoTA 2, League of Legends (LoL), and most recently SMITE!

What is SMITE?

SMITE is one of the more recent free MOBA games to enter the fray. In SMITE you don’t just choose a character, you choose a god. You’ll instantly feel an attachment to characters like Thor and Zeus because even if you don’t know the lore behind them, you’ve at least heard their names before! What makes SMITE so immersive is Hi-Rez Studios’ inclusion of historical lore into the gods’ abilities, kits, and play styles. Thor and Loki aren’t just characters from Marvel comics and movies. They’re also a part of Norse mythology and you can take control of them in SMITE!

What makes SMITE different?

SMITE takes all of the strategy of the top MOBA games and adds another layer of difficulty by putting you into the action! Unlike most MOBA games, SMITE offers players the chance to experience the MOBA genre they know and love from a third-person perspective. This unique perspective allows for an extremely immersive experience unlike any other game in the genre. While this doesn’t sound like such a big change, once you play it you’ll understand! All of these things added together is what has gaming websites everywhere continually rating SMITE as one of the best MOBA games available!

[TheDarknessMare]

Why Deathbringer!? It's so good on assassins, especially when combined with Rage! D:

[DEFxRECON]

Also known as the Ayy Lmao Patch. I wish they didn't nerf Khepri's ult because that helped with a practically immortal build.

[danerf]

Next active to be nerfed is beads, beads no longer gives you cc immunity

[JBK]

I feel the blink nerfs were a bit harsh, gods like tyr and ares are hurt bad by this... We'll see!

[-uh]

How about we get a Sobek buff? And Tyr is useless now ;(

[TheFutboler]

Dear everyone bitching about the blink nerf,

This is the epitome of PvP game balance: if an item is viable on all gods in all situations, and if roughly 8/10 players per match buy that item, it is not balanced. The nerf was necessary. Just like the changes to HoG, if an item is good enough to become compulsory for nearly every god, it is not properly balanced.

And P.S. For those of you who are whining about the Khepri nerf, look up counter-play. Outside of ignoring the target of Khepri's ult until it wore off (a really cool interaction that makes fights much more interesting), there was no way to directly counter the ult. That's bad design. That would be like having Odin's ring block all leaps. You need to have at least some built in way to counter certain mechanics to prevent them from being unbalanced, and having executes (only available on 2 gods) not activate the res is a really good way to do that. It both helps with counter-play and it keeps the idea of executes consistent. It was kind of bullshit that executes, supposedly an instant death, could be avoided by this when there is already counter play to the executes in beads and aegis and Aphro's ult.

This was a pretty good patch. Though I'm baffled by the DB nerf. And I personally wish they would give Isis a new skin

[GranularRock]

really??? blink??? he was inocent he didnt do anything

[TheDeathtoll]

Does anyone else think Zeus is worse now

[NotDogman]

Amazing patch, that deathbringer nerf gets us a little closer to dethroning the hunters

[arcami_]

Tyr was my favourite god... Why, Hi-Rez, why...

[FiyahKitteh]

I'm always sort of confused when people complain about patch notes.

Do they forget that there is a PTS with the changes and according to how that goes, HiRez will adjust things again anyway? These may not even be the final results we actually get and even if, there are always ways around it.

I personally never played Blink Tyr, -Serqet or whoever. I put it on some guardians (namely Ares and Ymir), but that's about it. But I have also played them without before and it's doable.

I don't fully 'get' why this had to happen in the first place, other than that people must have been complaining about it a ton for whatever reason, but oke.

My friend recently told me, that "Blink Serqet" can wreck you, if she hid somewhere, would blink in and then CC the crap out of you. To that I said: Wards. So IMO there is literally a counter for every problem, but there is also one for these high-CD Blinks too. I sort of like the constant changes. Forces me to be creative. Maybe the people complaining are the ones who aren't so good at that or something? D:

[hugeguy]

let me get this straight

You nerf Khepri.... again, for the THIRD time in a row now.

You gave Xing Tian a nerf when he didn't need one.

You gave Blink a extremely unnecessary nerf.

And you made Zeus even more OP then he already was.

Yeah good job Hi-Rez good job.

[Cyborgsm]

Daaamn Hirez that blink nerf? you murdered that blink loool

[doghmanthegreat]

The Ares card looks amazing and WHY WOULD YOU NERF BLINK?!?!

[Tobygas]

Hi-Rez please fix the matchmaking instead of givin useless Nerfs

[mogegeblast]

why you nerfed my loved blink U.U he haven't done anything to you :(

[Ghostcutty]

It's September 22...were is the galactic invader skin? I want to buy it

[leftknee]

Have they changed Zeus's chain lightning to have a faster cast animation? In the PTS people were complaining about it being really, really long.

[FrizFroz]

Wow that's a serious nerf to blink. Combat blink still remains the same? The new Olympian Anhur and convention Artemis cards are amazing!

[DeWetBarnard]

omg there goes blink, why do you change things that don't need changing