Smite 2 patch notes today: Alpha Playtest 2 update

Smite 2’s Alpha has swung its doors open again for Playtest Two and HiRez Studios has taken the opportunity to make a swathe of changes to the gods, items, and modes already live.

This time, HiRez is adding more to Smite 2: Two more gods in Hades and Sol and a bucketload more items like the Pendulum Blade, Staff of Myrddin, Sphere of Negation, the Breastplate of Valor, and Typhon’s Fang.

The extensive Smite 2 Alpha update, which was first shared on May 30, is also touching everything from the “upgraded” Conquest mode to the map, visuals, and balance. Among the biggest objectives, the devs are looking to make objectives easier after Alpha One matches “ran too long” and want to reel in stronger gods so everyone⁠—not just bruiser tanks⁠—gets to play.

Here are all the changes in today’s Smite 2 update.⁠

Smite 2 Alpha Playtest Two patch notes

Gameplay changes

Gods

• Base STR has been nerfed across all gods, in differing amounts.
• Many god abilities with STR scaling have had their base damage adjusted in conjunction with the base STR changes.
• The following lists of buffs and nerfs will list the unique buffs or nerfs applied on top of the “base STR changes.”

Jungle practice

• Added level 20 pad.
• Fixed “ignore cooldowns” pad not applying ignore cooldown effect.
• Added Enter Practice queue in Custom Game Browser.

New Gods

Hades

Basic Attacks

• Ranged Magical Damage.
• Damage Scaling: 100 percent Strength plus 20 percent Intelligence.

Blight

• Your attacks and abilities apply Blight. Blighted enemies have reduced [Strength and Intelligence], and receive additional effects from your abilities.
• Strength: Five  percent
• Intelligence: Five percent
• Debuff Duration: 8s

Death From Below

• Leap forward to deal [Magical Damage] to enemies. [Slows] Blighted enemies. Applies or refreshes Blight.
• Enemies take reduced damage if hit by multiple explosions.
• Damage: 70/120/170/220/270
• Damage Scaling: 60 percent Intelligence
• Slow: 20/25/30/35/40 percent
• Slow Duration: 2s
• Range: 8.8m
• Radius: 3.2m
• Cooldown: 14s
• Cost: 50/55/60/65/70

Shroud Of Darkness

• [Silence] enemies in front of you. [Fear] Blighted enemies. Applies or refreshes Blight.
• Enemies are feared in the direction they are facing
• Silence Duration: 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2s
• Feared Duration: 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2s
• Range: 5.6m
• Cone Angle: 110 degrees
• Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10s
• Cost: 60

Devour Souls

• Deal [Magical Damage] to enemies around you. Blighted enemies explode when hit, dealing additional [Magical Damage] to them and enemies around them, and [Heal]ing you and your allies around you. 
• Damage: 75/115/155/195/235
• Damage Scaling: 70 percent Intelligence
• Damage: 10/20/30/40/50
• Damage Scaling: 50 percent Intelligence
• Heal: 20/35/50/65/80
• Radius: 3.2m
• Cooldown: 10/9.5/9/8.5/8s
• Cost: 60/65/70/75/80

Pillar Of Agony

• Channel to repeatedly deal [Magical Damage] and repeatedly [Vortex] enemies around you.While channeling, you may use one of your non-ultimate abilities. Reduce the [Physical and Magical Protections] of Blighted enemies damagedYou are [CC Immune] While Channelling, and gain Increased [Physical and Magical Protections.] 
• Vortexes slow targets moving away from the vortexes source
•  or speed up targets moving toward it. 
• This Vortex increases in intensity as the channel time progresses.
• Channel time is four seconds. Hits eight times. 
• You are Rooted while Channeling.
• Damage Per Tick: 45/60/75/90/105
• Damage Scaling Per Tick: 30 percent Intelligence
• Physical Protection Reduced: 10/15/20/25/30
• Physical Protection Reduced: 10 percent
• Magical Protection Reduced: 10/15/20/25/30
• Magical Protection Reduced: 10 percent
• Debuff Duration: 4s
• Physical Protection: 60/85/110/135/160
• Magical Protection: 60/85/110/135/160
• Radius: 4.8m
• Cooldown: 90
• Cost: 100

Sol

Basic Attacks

• Ranged Magical Damage
• Damage Scaling: 100 percent Strength plus 20 percent Intelligence

Unstable Manifestation

• Gain Heat from hitting enemies with basic attacks or from using abilities to gain increased [Strength, Intelligence, and Attack Speed.] At Max Heat, increase your [basic attack damage].
• Ranges from zero to 100 Heat.
• Heat starts depleting if you have not generated Heat within the last six seconds.
• Heat depletes over time at a rate of X per Y.
• Strength: 0.25 * Heat 
• Intelligence: 0.25 * Heat
• Attack Speed: 0.3% * Heat
• Basic Attack Damage: 15 percent

Radiance

• Create a Pool of Flames at your location, [Heal] yourself over time for [18 percent] of your missing Health, and instantly generate Heat. The pool repeatedly deals [Magical Damage] to enemies in the area. The more Heat you have at the time the pool is created, the larger its area will be. 
• Pool Scales from 1x radius at zero Heat to 2.5x radius at 100 Heat. 
• This ability hits three times over three seconds.
• Heals six times over five seconds.
• Damage Per Tick: 30/50/70/90/110
• Damage Scaling Per Tick: 30 percent Intelligence
• Heal Per Tick: Three percent Missing Health
• Heat Generated: 30/40/50/60/70
• Radius: 2.08m
• Cooldown: 11s
• Cost: 50/60/70/80/90

Stellar Burst

• Your next basic attack fires a projectile that explodes, then retracts, and generates Heat. Both the explosion and the retraction deal [Magical Damage] to enemies and [Slow] them.
• Projectile stops and explodes on first enemy hit. Projectile stops and explodes on walls or at max range.
• Can only trigger ability based items and effects. 
• Damage: 40/70/100/130/160
• Damage Scaling: 45 percent Intelligence
• Heat Generated: 10
• Range: 8.8m
• Radius: 3.2m
• Cooldown: 10s
• Cost: 50/60/70/80/90

Disapparate

• Immediately generate Heat, gain [Movement Speed, Slow Immunity], and begin creating a Trail of Flames behind you. The Trail persists and repeatedly deals [Magical Damage] to enemies in the area. After three seconds, detaint the Trail dealing additional [Magical Damage], become [Immune] and unable to attack.
• You can cancel out of the Immune state early. 
• This Immune state is Damage Immunity, Healing Immunity, CC Immunity, Untargetable, and makes you able to pass through allies, enemies, and Impediments.
• Damage Per Tick: 20/40/60/80/100
• Damage Scaling Per Tick: 25 percent Intelligence
• Explode Damage: 60/120/180/240/300
• Explode Damage Scaling: 75 percent Intelligence
• Movement Speed: 20/22.5/25/27.5/30 percent
• Buff Duration: 3s
• Immunity Duration: 3s
• Heat Generated: 10
• Radius: 1m
• Cooldown: 16s
• Cost: 60

Supernova

• Channel to generate Heat, select eight areas, then repeatedly Deal [Magical Damage] to enemies in those areas. The first time an enemy is hit, they are [Displaced]. All subsequent hits deal decreased damage. You are [CC Immune] while Channeling. 
• Hits eight times over 1.26s.
• Damage: 150/200/250/300/350
• Damage Scaling: 50 percent Intelligence
• Subsequent Damage: 30 percent
• Heat Generated: 40
• Range: 8.8m
• Radius: 1.92m
• Cooldown: 90s
• Cost: 100

God changes

Anhur

• Desert Fury: Decreased Projectile Range from 16m to 12.8m.

Bellona

• Scourge: Increased Cooldown from 18-14s to 19-15s.

Anubis

• Plague of Locusts: Decreased Cooldown from 11-9s to 10-8s
• Grasping Hands: Increased Damage Per Tick from 22-73 to 20-80.

Bacchus

• Belly Flop: Increased Damage Scaling from 65 to 85 percent Strength.

Cernunnos

• Bramble Blast: Increased Initial Damage Scaling from 50 percent Strength plus 80 percent Intelligence to 55 percent Strength plus 80 percent Intelligence.
• The Wild Hunt: Increased Slow on Polymorphed targets from 10 to 15 percent.

Chaac

• Passive: Abilities fired off the passive now actually cost zero mana instead of refunding the mana.

Loki

• Vanish: Increased Damage Scaling Per Tick from 17.5 percent Strength to 20 percent Strength.
• Assassinate: The first hit of this ability now now Cripples targets for 0.75s.

Odin

• Gungnir’s Might: Decrease charge time per pulse from 0.93s to 0.7s to match Smite.

Zeus

• Lightning Storm: Increased Damage Scaling Per Tick from 50 percent Intelligence to 55 percent Intelligence.

Items

General

• Virtually every item in the game has had some small stat or cost adjustment based on the economy, T1, and T2 changes listed below.

Stat efficiency buffs

• Decreased cost per point of Attack Speed from 70 gold to 60 gold.
• Decreased cost per point of Critical Strike Chance from 90 to 80 gold.
• Added a new Stat Efficiency – INT Cooldown
• Items with INT and CDR will have decrease cost per point of CDR.
• Decreased cost per point of CDR from 75 to 55 in these cases.

Cost and economy changes

• Decreased all 350g T1 items to 300g.
• Decreased Conquest starting gold from 800 to 750.
• Increased Stat Efficient of T2 items from 1.1x to 1.2x.
• Many T2 items have been made cheaper.
• Many T3 items have had their cost adjusted to better separate items into tiers, and to create more intentional luxury items.

New items

Pendulum Blade

• 3,000 gold
• Plus 55 Strength 
• Plus 10 Cooldown Rate
• Active: Reduce your ability cooldowns by 3s. Cooldown: 180s

Staff of Myrddin

• 2,950 gold
• Plus 80 Intelligence
• Plus 10 Cooldown Rate
• Active: Your next non-Ultimate Ability used will have no cooldown. Cooldown: 180s.

Sphere of Negation

• 2,375 gold 
• Plus 60 Intelligence
• Plus 50 Magical Protection

Typhons Fang

• 2,700 gold 
• Plus 40 percent Lifesteal
• Plus 150 Mana

Breastplate of Valor

• 2,500 gold
• Plus 40 Physical Protection
• Plus 20 Cooldown Rate
• Plus 125 Mana
• Passive: When you lose 400 + 30*Level health, your ability cooldowns are reduced by 1s.

Reworked items

Blinking Amulet

• Increased cost from 2,550 to 2,650.
• Increased cooldown rate from seven to 15. 
• Decreased range of the Blink Active from 8.8m to 7.2m.
• This ability can not be used if you have dealt or taken damage within 3s.
• Decreased cooldown from 180s to 90s.
• This ability can still be used while firing other abilities, as long as damage has not been dealt or taken.

Blood-Bound Book

• This item now has an active effect instead of a passive.
• Active: You gain a health shield equal to 10 percent of your max health plus 80 percent Intelligence from items for 6s. Killing a god reduces the current cooldown by 50 percent. Cooldown: 140s.

Blood-Forged Blade

• Active: You gain a health shield equal to 10 percent of your max health + 100 percent Strength from items for 6s. Killing a god reduces the current cooldown by 50 percent. Cooldown: 140s.

Helm of Darkness

• 2,900g
• Plus 90 Intelligence
• Plus Physical Protection
• Active Effect can no longer be used while already firing/channeling an ability.

Item changes

Polynomicon

• Increased Passive damage INT scaling from 30 to 50 percent.

Qin’s Blade

• Passive: Enemy gods hit by your basic attacks take 20 plus 10 percent of their max health from items as bonus Physical Damage.

Helm of Radiance

• Decreased Physical Protection per stack from 10 to five on the passive.

Conquest

Map

• Improved camera collision on the outside bounds of the map.
• Previously, camera was blocked by the invisible wall but now should only be blocked by environment assets.
• Fixed fountain deaths granting xp/gold to the player who died to the fountain.
• Changed name of the Blight buff to Caustic.

Fire Giant

• Reduced base health from 5,625 to 4,500.
• Slightly reduced pre-fire on Fire Giant’s magma slam.
• Fixed damage scaling on Fire Giant’s other two abilities (Ragnarok’s Fury and Fire Blast).
• Was previously doing low damage without factoring its base power into the equation.

Fire Giant Door

• Fixed door giving gold/xp to players who died to the door.
• Fixed Fenrir dying when he brutalizes through the door while it’s closed.
• Fixed Fenrir killing players by picking them up with his ultimate and placing them within the door while it’s closed.

Gold Fury

• Reduced base health from 2,700 to 2,250.

Ancient Fury

• Reduced base health from 3,150 to 2,700.
• Fixed ancient fury tooltip (showed 180s, but in reality it’s 120s).

Minions

• Melee minion base gold increased from 21 to 23.
• Ranged minion base gold increased from 15 to 16.
• Minotaur minion base gold increased from 60 to 66.
• Fixed last hit indicator sometimes showing up on allied minions.
• Fixed minions not pathing properly through the jungle and back to lane.

Jungle camps

• Alpha buff camp creature base gold increased from 38 to 57.
• Small buff camp creature base gold increased from 13 to 19.5.

Towers

• Tier One
  • Decreased Team Gold Reward from 125 to 100.
• Tier Two
  • Decreased Team Gold Reward from 150 to 125.

Tower bounties

• New⁠—Temporary tower dissolve VFX will play when towers are destroyed.
• Decreased base Gold Reward from 75 to 50.
• Decreased final bounty Gold Reward from 125 to 100.
• Fixed backdoor protection VFX not showing on towers.
• Fixed tower bounties sometimes flying into the walls.
• Fixed blue bounty not properly being removed from the tower health bar when the opposing team has claimed theirs.

Kill rewards

• Reduced the penalty applied to the XP reward for killing a lower level God from 20 to 10 percent.
• Reduced the bonus applied to the XP reward for killing higher level God from 40 to 25 percent.
• Reduced the duration of eligibility for NPC kill assists from 10 to five seconds.

General

Item Store

• Improved general console navigation.
• Artistically reworked.
  • More of the HUD will be updated to match this style in the future.
• Added options for three different versions of the store UI:
  • Left aligned 
  • Centered
  • Split 
• Added Role Filters and Popular Tab per god. 
• Fixed an issue where console hovering items in builds-into section didn’t show those items names/stats.
• Fixed an issue where multiple items could be selected at once.
• Can now also type stats to search them.
  • E.g. Crit, int, intelligence, etc 
• Auto Buy will no longer be canceled by buying or selling potions. It will still be canceled by buying or selling any other item.
• Auto Buy will now display a message in the shop to confirm it is active and help prevent players from deactivating it accidentally. 

Visual settings

• Default ruler targeter setting has been added.
• Reticle setting can now be set to “none.”

Control settings

• Adjusted default sensitivity and sensitivity scale for both PC and consoles.
• Adjust Controller Savage layout to be more like Smite (Reminder: Controller players can now fully rebind all buttons as well).

Damage numbers

• Damage dealt will no longer display magical or physical icons next to the number
• Damage taken will still show damage-type icons, with some extra recoloring to helm them read more clearly.
• Default size and font size scaling rules based on amount of damage dealt have been adjusted.
• Adjusted position of damage numbers relative to the gods.
• Damage numbers of different types will now have different directional animation, or randomized directional animations.
• Added randomized direction animations.
• Fixed an issue where damage numbers position would move unintentionally when moving closer/further away from a target, or when rotating your camera while hitting a target.

Accolades

• Accolade popups on screen will now be more responsive, and display on screen for shorter durations.
• Accolade popups can now display kill information, and accolade information simultaneously.

God descriptions

• Added Basic Attack descriptions to all gods.
• Fixed a variety of typos.
• Future updates to organization and color coding of these are still in progress.

Bugfixes

General

• Fixed issues with key bindings settings. Controllers should have fully rebindable button options.
• Tab and Scroll Wheel can now be re-binded in Settings.

VGS

• Console players can now ping the map in world targeter.
• Fixed issues where using movement keys while in the VGS menu was updating God movement when it shouldn’t.
• Fixed an issue where using VGS would also trigger keybinds.
• Fixed issues with missing lines and mixed-up lines.
• Falling below the conquest map or getting into a place where you are permanently stuck in a wall will now kill the god or send them back to the fountain depending on the state.
• Fixed an issue where holding the autorun button was causing the God to walk slowly.
• Fixed an issue where upon reconnecting Gods would sometimes have reduced movement speed.

Gods

• Kukulkan
  • Fixed an issue where his Dash form of Slipstream had the incorrect cooldown.
• Fenrir
  • Fixes issues where his Brutalize would follow targets through teleports and recalls.
  • Fixed issues where his Brutalize would teleport behind Jungle Camps oddly.
• Neith
  • Fixed an issue where her Ultimate projectile would get stuck on map walls.
• Athena
  • Fixed an issue where Athena’s ult damage area would disappear if her target died. 
  • Fixed an issue with her  Preemptive Strike ability not dealing damage sometimes at close range

Items

• Fixed an issue where Divine Ruin, Cosmic Horror, and Ruinous Ankh weren’t giving the right type of mana, therefore not working with Kukulkan’s passive.
• Fixed an issue where Cosmic Horror’s passive CDR could stack infinitely when bought/sold repeatedly.