The disappointment in the SMITE stream was great yesterday: The new goddess Medusa is still at least one patch away. However, to bridge the time until her appearance, a whole lot of skins will be added to the game and many bugs in the new UI will be fixed.
The highlights of the patch “Another COG in the Machine” are summarized here for you (and you don’t want to know how many inappropriate jokes the title of the patch caused).
New Skins: Madame Blade Serqet, COG Scylla, and minor variations
The most striking skin this time belongs to the queen of poisons, Serqet. She gets a steam-punk look with a lot of metallic applications and of course a corresponding voice pack.
Second in line is Scylla, she gets her “COG” skin as an additional honor for the winners of the Smite World Championship. Particularly cool is the fact that her wolf heads all have collars with the names of the players who secured the final victory.
Otherwise, Freya and Bakasura each receive slight variations of their original skins that come very close to the base model. Lastly, Hou Yi finally upgrades and receives three elite skins (Gold, Legendary, Diamond).
Balance changes: Bellona down, Awilix, Bacchus, and Anhur up
Once again, the nerf hammer strikes mercilessly.
- Bellona has to forfeit a lot of her survivability: Her passive ability will be weakened and now grants less protection as well as reduced movement speed, lasting only 4 seconds instead of the previous 5 seconds.
- Awilix died too quickly for the developers, which is why she receives a slight increase in her hit points and her “Moonlight Charge” deals slightly more damage.
- The changes for Anhur from the last patch are reversed, causing his “Impale” to now deal full damage to all subsequent targets instead of being weakened.
- Bacchus can no longer be thrown up during his “Belch of the Gods” and his “Chug” fills the Drunk-O-Meter much faster at low levels, but slightly slower at the highest level.
- Also, Nox is happy about a small buff; her “Nightfall Raven” silences enemies for 2 seconds at every level now, and her ultimate makes her immune to control effects for the duration of the spell.
A lot of bug fixes
The list of bug fixes is very long this time again. Most errors occur in connection with the new interface that was introduced in the last patch. High latency issues, missing UI elements, and a terrible chat were the result. Most errors should be a thing of the past with the upcoming patch.
The patch will be tested over the coming weekend and should then hit the live servers on Wednesday. A complete list of all changes can be found at the source below the post.
And finally, here is a video with the latest edition of the five top matches of the week:
