Smite Update 12.04 Patch Notes (Official) – January 25, 2022

Welcome to the Dharmic Era Event!

• Week 1
  • Dharma Bundle
    • Prototype 2.0 Charybdis Skin
    • Bone Wraith Kukulkan Skin
    • Cutesy Prototype 2.0 Avatar
    • Bone Wraith Loading Screen
• Week 3
  • Varna Bundle
    • Xeno Weaver Arachne Skin
    • Malware Mercenary Osiris Skin
    • Xeno Weaver Announcer Pack
    • Spiders! Jump Stamp

UI

• Fixed an issue where the new ranked system would show incorrect god filtering and sorting during picks and bans
• Fixed issues where players were not receiving god mastery avatars for each 10 gods mastered
• Fixed additional issues with Ranked Leaderboards

General Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where accounts at exactly level 30 would experience matchmaking issues making it hard to get a match in Joust, Arena, or Conquest (levels 1-29 go to new player queues, 30+ go to normal queues)
• Fixed an issue where the “Diamond are Forever” Achievement was not properly unlocking

Gods

• Persephone
  • Fixed an issue where Bone Rush wasn’t applying a slow

• Heimdallr
  • Fixed an issue where his Bifrost ability could be used but not go on cooldown in rare instances

• Chang’e
  • Fixed an issue where Chang’e’s Pirate Admiral and Pirate Queen skins play default FX for their A01 and A03
• Ah Muzen Cab
  • Fixed an issue where the Stingpunk Skin cannot see the AoE radius of his Hive’s effects
• Cliodhna
  • Fixed an issue where this god could still be picked when banned by other players in ranked.

Items

• War Flag
  • Fixed an issue where the gold gain from this item could stop working if multiple War Flags were present on multiple players in the area
  • Fixed an issues where some of Thoth’s, Yemoja’s, and Athena’s abilities were not triggering gold gain as intended

Audio

• New Map Audio Queues have been added for various map events on various SMITE game modes
  • Conquest
    • The Fire Giant has arrived
    • The Gold Fury has arrived
    • The Pyromancer has arrived
    • Your team has destroyed the Fire Giant
    • Your team has destroyed the Gold Fury
    • Your team has destroyed the Pyromancer
    • The enemy team has destroyed the Fire Giant
    • The enemy team has destroyed the Gold Fury
    • The enemy team has destroyed the Pyromancer
    • Your Obelisk is under attack
    • The Obelisk is active
    • The Obelisks are active
    • Your team has fully powered the Obelisk
    • The enemy has fully powered the Obelisk
    • The enemy has fully powered their Obelisk
  • Slash
    • An enemy Juggernaut has arrived
    • Your Juggernaut has arrived
    • The enemy Juggernaut has been destroyed
    • Your Juggernaut has been destroyed
    • Apophis has arrived
    • The enemy has destroyed Apophis
    • Your team has destroyed Apophis
  • Arena
    • Your team has 50 tickets remaining
    • Your team has 10 tickets remaining
    • The enemy has 50 tickets remaining
    • The enemy has 10 tickets remaining
  • Joust
    • The Bull Demon King has arrived
    • The enemy team has destroyed the Bull Demon King
    • Your team has destroyed the Bull Demon King
• All music packs will now have ambient music, some will have unique music for this, others will use the default music
• This volume of this ambient music can be adjusted with a new volume slider labeled Ambient Music

UI

• The Commendations Screen has undergone a visual update

Apollo Remodel

• The God of Music has a new default look!
• This is automatically applied to his default, recolor, and mastery skins
• He has had some minor audio and particle FX updates, his voice pack is unchanged though
• Classic Apollo will be for sale in the store priced the same as other Classic Skins

Commendation Rewards

• On 9.1 launch you will earn your Sobek skin for good behavior
• The new Season commendation skin again – to be revealed later

Ranked Rewards

• On 9.1 launch you will earn you previous years ranked border (janus)
• Janus skin will no longer be able to be earned
• Grave Golem Geb is now able to be earned
• On 10.1 you’ll earn your Grave Golem Loading Frame with the emblem of the highest rank ever attained in Season 9

Ranked Reset

• MMR Soft Reset – All players will have their MMR compressed toward 1500, this has a more potent effect on players who are further from 1500
• Rank Soft Reset – Players will be set to a rank that corresponds with their new MMR post reset
• All God Leaderboards will be reset, and the system has been adjusted to make higher ranked god borders easier to obtain
• Made further adjustments to God Leaderboards to make higher ranked borders more obtainable

Slash

• Key Stats
  • 5v5 Team Size
  • Starting level 3, Starting Gold 1500
  • No banned items
  • Counts for all types of progression and relevant quests, and appears in match history
  • Has accolade for “Slash Matches Played”
  • Siege and Clash will be removed from the normal queues list
  • Siege and Clash will be options for Custom Matches
  • Map Layout:
• Apophis’ Chosen Juggernauts
  • Juggernauts have a completely new look modeled after the boss of this map: Apophis. The humanoid snake-men will spawn in specific camps across the map and when defeated will join the team who dealt the final blow. They will push down lanes and use a variety of melee and ranged attacks.
  • The Minion counter to earn Juggernauts from Siege will not exist on this map. Players must clear the camps to spawn a Juggernaut
• Portals
  • If your team owns a Juggernaut, a portal will open in your base
  • There will now be two different portals to allow players to choose which lane to travel to in the event of two Juggernauts being owned at once
  • Teleportation is no longer instant, but instead a fast fight down the lane path, gods are immune while traveling
• Objectives
  • Apophis will remain as the main Jungle Boss
    • Spawns in the center camp at 10:00
    • The team that slays Apophis is granted a buff
      • Veil of Apophis
        • Grants +50 Magical Power, +30 Physical Power. Enemy gods hit by your abilities take damage equal to 2% of their max health over 4 seconds. You heal for 4% of your Health and 2% of your Mana every 5s. Damage to enemy structures is increased by 25%
    • At 20:00, Apophis becomes Enhanced, providing a more powerful buff
      • Shadow of Apophis
        • Grants +70 Magical Power, +50 Physical Power. Enemy gods hit by your abilities take damage equal to 4% of their max health over 4 seconds. You heal for 4% of your Health and 2% of your Mana every 5s. Damage to enemy structures is increased by 25%
  • Juggernaut Camps
    • Slaying a Juggernaut in one of the Wild Juggernaut camps will grant your team a friendly Juggernaut that pushes a lane
    • There are four total Wild Juggernaut camps
      • A middle contestable pair on the outside of each lane
        • First spawns at 4:00
        • Respawns every 4 minutes
        • Both camps in the contestable pair alternate between hosting a Juggernaut and an Enhanced Speed, Mana, or Damage buff
        • Slaying a Juggernaut in one of these camps will spawn a Juggernaut in the lane it is closest to
      • A safe pair near each team’s base
        • First spawns at 10:00 when Apophis arrives
        • Respawns every 4 minutes
        • Slaying a Juggernaut in one of these camps will spawn a Juggernaut in a random lane, prioritizing the lane without a Juggernaut currently pushing it
    • Wild Juggernaut
      • Base Stats
        • XP Reward: 150
        • Gold Reward: 50
        • Health: 1500
        • Physical Protection: 30
        • Magical Protection: 10
        • Physical Power: 50
      • Stat Scaling every 2 minutes
        • Health: +150
        • Physical Protection: +4
        • Magical Protection: +1
        • Physical Power: +4
  • New Jungle Minion – Jaguars – Speed Buff Holders
    • One Speed Camp resides in each team’s Jungle to the north and south of Apophis’ lair
    • First spawns at 0:30
    • Respawns every 4 minutes
    • Speed Buff
      • Increases Movement Speed by 15%
    • Enhanced Speed Buff
      • Increases Attack Speed by 15%
  • Blue Buff Baboons have undergone texture and model updates
    • Two Mana Camps reside in each team’s Jungle, near the Tier 2 Towers
    • First spawns at 0:30
    • Respawns every 4 minutes
    • Mana Buff
      • Grants +25 MP5 and 10% Cooldown Reduction
    • Enhanced Mana Buff
      • Grants an additional +25 MP5 and 10% Cooldown Reduction
  • Red Buff Hyenas
    • Damage Camp resides at the center of the map until Apophis replaces them
    • First spawns at 0:00
    • Respawns every 2 minutes
    • Damage Buff
      • Increases Physical and Magical Power by 15%, +10 Magical Power and +5 Physical Power
    • Enhanced Damage Buff
      • Increases Physical and Magical Power by an additional 10%, +10 Magical Power and +5 Physical Power