SMITE – 8.2 Patch Notes | Massive Changes to Starter Items!

Introduction

The latest patch notes for the popular game include a range of updates and fixes to improve gameplay. Among the changes are updates to starter items, including highlighted upgrade options and fixed mislabeled passives on aura items. Additionally, the patch includes changes to the Viewer Pass system, with new rewards and point caps for players to earn.

The patch also addresses various bug fixes, including issues with god AI bots and collision problems in the Conquest game mode. Players can also expect balance changes to certain gods and items, such as the fix to Bumba’s Hammer and the adjustment to the global healing reduction rule. Overall, the patch notes promise to enhance the gaming experience for players and address various issues to improve gameplay.

General

• Starter Text
  • Highlighted the “Can be upgraded at level X” portion of the starter item text.
  • Fixed many aura items that had their passives mislabeled. Aura items should say AURA and now PASSIVE.
  • Added range values to many of the new starter items that have an effect based on range from allies.
• Not Brawling Text Update
  • Updated the Not Brawling tooltip to be more descriptive of what it actually impacts and for what amount.
• Role trade
  • Increased cooldown from 8s to 12s on initiating a role trade

Esports and Live Streams HUB

• Viewer Pass
  • 600 Gem Bundle Includes
  • Hammer Time Recall Skin
  • Double VP gain for the Season
• Viewer Points
  • Players will be able to bring up to 75k VP with them into 8.2. If you have more than that in 8.2 you will be reduced down to 75k
  • VP gain will now work entirely through the twitch drop systems
  • With the launch of 8.2 players can now earn
    • 1250 points earned every 4 hours, resulting in the following point caps:
      • 8750 points per week cap if all individual 4 hour goal drops are claimed
    • 1500 points from correct SPL match votes
    • 8000 Points in the Free Track of the Battle Pass
    • 12000 Points in the Paid Track of the Battle Pass (20k total from Battle Passes)
• Viewer Store
  • There’s a new 500k Points Reward, Valkyrie Bride Thor will be removed at this time
    • Chichen Pizza Xbalanque
  • There’s a new 200k Points Viewer Store Skin, The Dunkfather Odin will be removed at this time
    • Infinite Avatar Vamana
  • Artemis and Raijin Skins will remain in the Viewer Store at 200k Points
  • There will still be 3 rotating past exclusive skins for 75k points
  • We are adding a new set of non-skin cosmetics for lower VP amounts
    • 20k points for new rotating cosmetics
    • 10k points for previously released rotating cosmetics
• Voting Tab
  • This tab is intentionally hidden until we reveal our S8 SPL teams at a later time
• Teams Tab
  • This tab is intentionally hidden until we reveal our S8 SPL teams at a later time

Earn Free Rewards

• This system should now be rolled out to 100% of players
• Since the Odyssey Reckoning Event is leaving the game, the big 50 Ad reward will be replaced with a new “Free Reward Chest”
• This has the same contents and functions in the same way as the Odyssey Chest did

HOTFIX ISSUES CURRENTLY FIXED IN THE LIVE CLIENT

General

• Freya
  • Fixed an issue where she could do more damage than intended with Manikin’s Scepter
• Aphrodite
  • Fixed an issue where love birds was hitting enemies who were outside the intended hit area
• Gem of Focus
  • Fixed the issue where this item would make you take more damage instead of less damage
• Conquest
  • Removed the unintended “Jungle Conqueror” mechanic
• PlayStation
  • Fixed multiple instances of issues causing the game to crash
• Loading Frames
  • Fixed an issue where players were given the wrong rank loading frame
• Ymir
  • Fixed an issue where the walking blight skin was using base FX in some cases
• Rage
  • Fixes an issue where this item would lose 10 Physical Power when it evolved
• Artio
  • Fixed an issue where mana costs did not match intended values in certain stances
• Performance
  • Applied a series of changes to SMITE’s backend tech to improve the ability to support more players, and better track match manager issues

UI

• Fixed an issue where the extra report text details were missing on consoles
• Fixed an issue where gold and lower Season 7  Ranked Loading Frames were not displaying properly. Players already own their proper frame but we have them disabled because they do not function. S7 ranked frames should be visible and working on 8.2 launch day for all players.
• Fixed an issue where Ranked Win Count in UI is still displaying wins from last season
• Fixed an issue where the Ranked info tab was displaying outdated MMR ranges
• Fixed an issue where Custom builds and recommended builds wont upgrade starters for you
• Fixed an issue where items would appear in a different order in game than they did in the god builder

General Gameplay

• Global Healing Reduction
  • Fixed an issue where the new “brawling” rule was affecting mana heals and other resources. This rule is intended to only apply to HP Healing from abilities and lifesteal.
  • This icon will now display on the debuff side with debuff coloring
• Conquest
  •  Increased timer precision for the first spawn of each jungle camp
  • Greater Scorpions (Jungle)
    • Fixed an issue that caused these Scorpions to scale faster than intended and stop scaling after 10 minutes
    • Fixed an issue where their FX around buff camps would not always play
    • Fixed an issue where the Greater Scorpion in Gold Fury’s pit would display a HUD health bar – this is intended to only have an in-world health par
  • Lesser Scorpion (Lane)
    • Fixed an issue where this NPC was scaling much slower than intended
  • Void Camp
    • Fixed an issue with Alpha Chimera scaling that caused it to provide 6 more XP than intended
  • Fixed an issue with the base doors that caused them to rotate and animate in the wrong direction
  • Fixed an issue with Chaos Fire minions displaying their fire FX incorrectly
  • Fixed Hera’s polymorph only transforming enemy Gods into harpies
  • Fixed an issue where Speed and Mana camps were aggressive towards players passing through their leash radius
  • Adjusted the height of several trees and assets that flying gods could clip into
  • Fixed a series of collision issues where collision did not match environment art
  • Fixed Order Base Arches to not block god vision while using aerial ultimates
  • Role Guides
    • Fixed an issue where waypoint on Pyromancer could persist after the second time it was slain
• God AI Bots
  • Fixed an issue where they weren’t playing proper roles on custom conquest
  • Fixed an issue where bots weren’t going to proper lanes in co-op conquest
  • Fixed an issue where bots weren’t playing proper roles in Arena.

Gods

• Izanami
  • Fixed an issue where Izanami’s basic attacks would gain a small amount of range at a specific attack speed range
• Bacchus
  • Fixed an issue where his Drunk-o-meter was being reduced by the new global “brawling” rule
• Sol
  • Fixed an issue where her heat was being reduced by the new global “brawling” rule
• Erlang Shen
  • Fixed an issue where the turtled form sometimes wont get a shield if canceled very quickly after firing it
• Yemoja
  • Fixed an issue where the Mastermind Skin was playing default audio on certain abilities
• Kumbhakarna
  • Fixed an issue where certain combat animation would not appear as intended
• Bakasura
  • Fixed an issue where Bakasura could devour the ward he receives from eye of the jungle
• Athena
  • Fixed an issue where certain skins could leave a visual FX mark permanently after ulting
• Fafnir
  • Fixed an issue where his ability 3 could sometimes not deal damage or CC enemies who were within the hit area
• Thor
  • Fixed an issue where this god would T-pose in lobby on certain skins
• Baba Yaga
  • Fixed an issue where her ult deployables would chase stealthed units
• Janus
  • Reimplemented the change to his ability 1 thats was meant for 8.1 – This ability will now allow for Janus and any enemies hit by the banish CC to be hit as they fall after exiting the portal. Janus and Enemies will not be hittable while entering the portal, though.

Items

• Bumba’s Hammer
  • Fixed an issue where gods could hit allies or other objects to trigger this effect. Paired with this fix the item will be re-enabled for all Guardians now
• Death’s Temper
  • Fixed an issue where this was not providing Bonus Basic Attack Damage.
• Divine Ruin and Brawlers Beat Stick
  • These were incorrect on 8.1 Patch notes. Both Items are intended to apply 30% reduced healing. In game text and in game numbers throughout 8.1 have been at 30%. Only the 8.1 web patch notes state 35%
  • Toxic blade had the same issue except 15% in game vs 20% on notes
• Spartan Flag
  • Fixed an issue where this item’s passive was spawning on enemy locations instead of the owners location
• Infused Sigil
  • Fixed an issue where if the item owner was CC’d at the same time as gaining the last stack, the explosion would not detonate
• Sacrificial Shroud
  • Fixed an issue where this item was damaging gods multiple times on abilities that could be refired. It will also no longer deal damage on toggles.

Game Modes

• Conquest
  • Updated Guide Start Route
  • Invader’s Curse
    • Adjusted the area around camps to reduce the effect bleeding through walls
    • Invaders Curse now covers the area around Back Harpies
    • Decreased time active from 1:00m to 00:35s
  • Lesser Scorpion (Lane)
    • No longer activates an aura of healing while in its downed state
    • Now activates an aura of healing around its leash radius for the team that slays it. This aura lasts 10 seconds and provides a healing buff:
      • This aura area lasts 10 seconds and provides a healing buff:
      • +10 Health per second
      • Lasts 3 seconds
      • 130 HP Max (10 ticks refreshing + 3 more after the fact)
      • Refreshes while inside the leash radius aura
    • Base Stats
      • Physical Protection reduced from 6 to 2
      •  Magical Protection increased from 2 to 6
      • Physical Power increased from 28 to 34
      • XP Reward Reduced from 41 to 21
    • Scaling Stats
      • Decreased Max Health from +180 to +120
  • Enhanced Speed Buff
    • No longer provides Crowd Control Reduction.
    • Now provides an additional flat 5% movement speed.
• Conquest Environment
  •  Added the Spectator version of the map
    • This has reduced trees and less tall landmarks for better camera visibility
  • Gameplay version of the map
    • The main wall behind Fire Giant has been decreased in size so that the Fire Giant’s scale feels more normal and so gods flying over it wont clip inside the rock. The size of the blocking volume of this area has not changed
    • Lowered the height of jungle trees and other objects that flying gods could clip into. We currently are planning on keeping the jungle tree density as is, though.
    • Adjusted the Order Base Arches to not block god vision while using aerial ultimates like Thor, Rama.
    • Additional set dressing, plants, props, and decorative items have been added

Items

GILDED ARROW

• This Item should no longer mark jungle bosses

• Fixed an issue where Manikin Scepter was dealing Magical Damage rather than Physical Damage.
• Decreased the Attack Speed Slow from 7% per stack to 3.5% per stack.

Gods

DANZABUROU

• Decreased Physical Power Scaling from 110% to 100%.

KING ARTHUR

• Fixed an issue where King Arthur could proc item effects with his basic attacks. Arthur should not be able to proc any item effects through basic attacks

BABA YAGA

• Decreased Potion Brew Prefire time from 0.4s to 0.2s.
• Decreased Potion Brew Postfire time from 0.2s to 0.1s.
• Decreased Potion Swap Prefire time from 0.3s to 0.1s.
• Decreased Potion Swap Postfire time from 0.3s to 0.1s.
  • The travel speed and warning time of the lobbed potion is unchanged.

JORMUNGANDR

• Jormungandr’s basic attacks can no longer be reduced by items that have flat damage reduction

• Decreased damage taken debuff from 15% to 10%

CERNUNNOS

• Summer Heat:
  • Increased Scaling 5% to 10%
• Autumn Decay:
  • Increased Protection Debuff from 5/10/15/20/25 Reduced Protections to 10/14/18/22/26
  • Increased Duration From 5s to 7s

ODIN

• Changed duration from 4/4.5/5/5.5/6s to 5s at all ranks
• Enemies inside the ring now have their power reduced by 15%.

ISIS

• Increased slow from 20% at all ranks to 20/22.5/25/27.5/30%
• Increased shield health from 50/95/140/185/230 to 50/105/160/215/270

TIAMAT

• This ability no longer triggers item effects

• Increased Base Damage from 60/70/80/90/100 to 80/90/90/100/100

• Fixed an issue where pets who get “stuck” will despawn after 10s – this applies to stacking them behind the Base Gates
• Fixed an issue where the FG and Titan could not attack Tiamat’s Summon Serpents pets

Additional Changes and Bug Fixes

• Ranked Leavers
  • In 8.2 if a player leaves a ranked match and the match is surrendered early – only the player who left will lose MMR equal to a normal loss.
• Free Rewards
  • Fixed an issue where the counter UI could break (rewards were always being given and counted, this was just a visual issue)
• Alternate Timeline
  • Fixed an issue where it wasn’t providing the bonus buff of CDR
• Warriors Axe
  • Fixed an issue where it wasn’t providing the bonus buff of 75 Health
• New Brawling Rule
  • Fixed issues where this was affecting other types of healing (like mana heals)
• Fafnir
  • Fixed an issue where his Ability 3 would not hit people who looked to be inside the hit area
• Hachiman
  • Fixed an issue where Hachiman’s Ultimate timing changes could affect future uses of Relics.
• Bumbas Hammer
  • Removed the Internal Cooldown – this was a dev test only – will not go live
  • Fixed an issue where this might trigger multiple times on certain god abilities
• Bumbas Spear
  • Fixed an issue where Mana was not healing for the proper Mana %
• Death’s Embrace
  • Fixed an issue where Mana was not healing for the proper Mana %
• Janus
  • Fixed many instances where Janus could teleport across open spaces instead of just through walls
• Jormungandr
  • Fixed an issue where Jorm could move through base gates without opening them for a short period of time after finishing his ultimate
• Fixed a variety of visual issues on the new skins of this update
  • Mostly special FX tweaks