HiRezAjax

HiRezAjax



01 Sep

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Originally posted by deathmarc4

I have been playing SMITE for almost six years now and I have absolutely no clue which Dark Lord SWK animation goes with which form. Every single time I play with/against someone using that skin I have to guess which form they are using based on context

hes way up in the air with his hands up = eagle

reaching one arm out forward to grab you = tiger

spinning staff around in front = ox

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Originally posted by SorsEU

Is anyone else a bit unhappy with this response?

'I'll forward the problem skins on and we will try to make it better' yeah ok, and is ms diagnosis nieth's 2 anymore visible after 5 years? Is loki's mariachi+infiltrator 3 any louder? Is solar robot ra ult any louder? Can a new player tell what form dark lord wukong is in at first glance?

  • and this is just me as a veteran player returning, I can't even tell what god I'm fighting if I am against a team full of people who are using the same skin themes like the neon-cringe and angelic designs.

There are kids at school now older than some of these skins and they still have old problems, come on.

I wish a modder or something would come out and do it so I can actually see what f**king form the stance switchers are in half the time. I shouldn't have to rely on 'instinct' for skins I've never seen before.

Atleast test out to see if it does impact sales, like let us disable jump stamps o...

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A reasonable reaction, and one i honestly expected to hear more of.

to answer a few of your points

  • Yes, Ms. Diagnosis Neith has been updated, i just tested this from an enemy perspective and her ability 2 is darker red than base neith

  • Yes, Loki skins sound much more like base now, and if they dont, he is getting reworked so they soon will

  • Yes, All Ra ults have been updated and adjusted to match more closely with base

  • Sun Wukong, this one is harder to say, it was a specific decision to fit the skin theme, and I think it falls into my point about the rare few T4s, and id say that his poses are pretty intuitive.

Im not sure what you mean about stancers, if you gave specifics i could try to look into them.

The rest i think was pretty covered in my writeup

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Originally posted by stormdraggy

Start with Soothsayer Morrigan, which seems to be the exclusive skin of the 50 star chads because the 1 and 3 are quieter and not abiding by the same style of sounds for activation every other skin of hers follows. For a god like that audio clarity has to be a top priority.

we have fixed most of The Morrigan skins, this one is next for sure!

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Originally posted by -Khnum-

Cutesy AMC 3 and basics are completely silent, idk if more things are silent about him but still.

ill add a task for it, thanks!

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This topic has come up a few times with Olympians and Pro players so I feel prepared to discuss it. Here is what we are committed to doing to improve this concern:

  • We have been much more strict on FX (visual) and SFX (audio) on skins for a while now. I meet personally with the Audio team on every single new skin to ensure key audio cues are preserved in all skins. Complaints have been way down since this practice started. We also review all visuals in playtests with designers, QA, and ex-pros. I can see from the speed this post is growing that we can continue to do more, though.

  • The better solution is to fix clarity issues. We have recently updated audio and visuals for many old skins for better visual clarity. We have looked at every skin on the SPL Ban-List and made changes to make the skins look and sound more like the default gods. Many of the skins listed in this thread have had multiple changes made to them after their launch to improve cla...

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31 Aug

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Have you not experienced the glory that is the Jing Wei Announcer Pack?!


30 Aug

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Originally posted by Isuldra

Actually this time it might not be Hirez fault, Cloudflare has major issues across the board now.

Check https://www.cloudflarestatus.com

Edit: A lot of people across the globe has major issues due to a outage at CenturyLink/Level 3. They are responsible for alot of the infrastructure for internet in both US and Europe.

Our team is confirming that this seems to be the cause of this morning's issues.


19 Aug

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Originally posted by smbadat

Please dont!

Even though it isn't lore friendly, he is a sire of insanity, which actually makes it somewhat lore friendly for him to be an absolute madlad

too bad

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Originally posted by Ethanzoo

I probably should have worded it better, but yes I was referring to the t pose he seems to do when you win (or lose). Thank you for the response! Cthulhu has become my favorite god in the game so its good to see it being looked into!

Im told we have an attempted fix in the Odyssey Update!

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Originally posted by [deleted]

Has the BP thing been explained? What is the battle pass plus?

This is a mistake in formatting and being fixed ASAP.

This battle pass works exactly like all previous passes (with no prestige track)

600 Gems lets you earn ALL items in the pass

1200 Gems lets you earn ALL items plus a big level head start

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Originally posted by dadnaya

Uh, in the patch notes, in the BP section they write:

Battle Pass: Necropolis (600 Gems)

Battle Pass: Necropolis Plus (1200 Gems)

Uhhh what? No free track anymore? Typo?

But then they write down below at the Odyssey points

Battle Pass Free Track

So a typo up there with the 1200 gems?

This is a mistake in formatting and being fixed ASAP.

This battle pass works exactly like all previous passes (with no prestige track)

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I believe his Victory/Defeats are complete - the ones you see after the match has ended and you have left the map.

I have seen the issue where he T poses during titan death though, ill check again to make sure that bugs properly reported and being looked into.

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This is a really interesting aspect of MOBA design and philosphy.

I would say yes this is intended by design, but indirectly.

We don't design the map/roles so that someone is under-leveled, no.

MOBA design includes a lot of pillars: Mechanical Skill, Strategy/Tactics, Flexibility, and Resource Management to name a few

The resource management is what most relates to this topic (and character flexibility but less so) and in mobas those resources are shared. The total XP/Gold on the map is a fixed amount, and its up to players to decide how to share it, or how to take it from their opponents.

Support being under-leved is actually a META result of that core design philosophy.

Players have discovered over years of competition and testing across multiple MOBAs that its a factual winning strategy to have someone sacrifice their access to resources to empower their team as a whole.


18 Aug

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Am I cursed to re-live this day for eternity?

jk, thanks to those of yall linking to the previous thread!

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I suppose this is the most official comment we have made on Clans recently:

https://twitter.com/HiRezAjax/status/1285620602582204416

"Clans are still being evaluated. The system really had a lot of performance flaws

We are making good progress on the action plan to bring them back but its most likely going to result in removing a lot of features and rebuilding them over time"


17 Aug

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Certain ones of these cannot come back. They involve use of Orgs IP and branding whose contracts have expired. Its actually illegal to sell them, sadly (or even give them away).

Ones that are generally HRX/SWC themed etc though can be acquired, and usually are obtainable a few times a year (Digital Loot Pack, HRX Drops)

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I have been told from our Server Operations team that many servers in those regions were adjusted 6 days ago, August 11th.

Can you confirm that your issues have been persisting since then? If so, can you help provide me with additional information?

  • What region are you in?

  • Can you describe the specific type of lag youre having? (low ping but high rubber band seems to be the most common description in these cases)

  • How frequent does it occur (every game? 50% roughly? etc)

  • Any patterns? (only happens at evening time of your timezone, only happens on conquest, etc)

  • Can you provide match IDs of "bad matches" where the issue was present?

We are not ignoring the issue, and we arent avoiding it. The communication/documentation is vague because we havent been able to find a consistent way to identify the issues, EXCEPT for player feedback.

There have been multiple servers res...

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14 Aug

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Originally posted by DieInAFireLoki

sent to QA

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Originally posted by Rifletower_

Selecting “friends” for me shows “bronze III” standings regardless of my rank. (Plat). I’d be happy to add a video if you’d like to see.

likely a bug then, will report, video not necessary but would be appreciated.