Hello SMITE fans!

Multiple major changes have been made recently to servers in all regions, and we want your feedback!

But first, a little context:

There have been a lot of crazy internet issues this year, with so many more people staying home than usual. One issue that has come up often for SMITE is the quality of our servers in our international regions.

We have been constantly collecting feedback through our community managers, and with the help of the fantastic SMITE Olympians. This has helped immensely as we investigated the issues and made changes to the systems.

The Olympians have made it clear to us that players want a more official update on this topic, and we are here to do that today!

• NA and EU have not been a part of these issues. There was a small NA ping spike issue last week that has been resolved, but largely these regions have been running smoothly.

• High Ping Issues and Issues where entire ...

This is correct and we have recently updated his passive description to clearly state this along with the recent healing changes!

Also, just a quick note, Star usually takes around 1 minute to respond due to reddit's policy so be patient when you claim!

Hello Smiters. As many of you already know, we've hit 250K subscribers on the subreddit. To celebrate that, one of the events we'll be holding is the great lightning bolt search. For those that weren't around for the last event, or those who simply forgot how it goes, here's a simple explanation.

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Rules

The event will last from 4 PM Friday the 23rd to 4 PM Monday the 9th.

Each day, we'll hide some bolts for you to find until we reach 250. However, this time we have special bolts! These bolts can be completed by solving puzzles, and are worth 10 points each! Each puzzle will be its own post!. After all 250 points total are out, there will be 10 days of grace period where people who weren't able to find them early on can find them. So where can the bolts be found?

Everywhere from:

• Hidden pages on this subreddit

• Twitter

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Ive been told this is impossible for us to produce because opening the keyboard on a switch requires the game to be paused, and we cannot be pausing live multplayer games of SMITE except through the currently design game pause flow.

Sorry, but it seems out of our hands. The switch its a fantastic console but it does lack some features and capabilities that the other machines have, and HI-Rez can't change that.

correct. im sorry i didnt phrase it like this initially

i guess i thought it was obvious that this only referred to types of CC that might actually prevent you from using a relic

people really be out there thinking this cant be fired while slowed now? lol

I made a mistake on the notes, having it fixed now. The Thorns change will not cause any difference with god ability animations and firing.

you already cannot use thorns while animating for an ability

you still wont be able to

this change only affects using thorns while under CC that would normally prevent you from using a relic, in Loki update you can still use thorns, in TMNT update you will not be able to.