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I designed Amaterasu's Ult and I have never seen this ability description in my life. I can assure you Ama's Ult was not inspired by Nox in any way, it was 100% only inspired by old Guan and any similarities are pure coincidence. The rest of the team really liked the pitch as a reference to old Guan, so I don't think this Nox kit was intended to look, feel, or reference old Guan.

I also don't know much about this whole nox rework phase, as I hadnt joined the team yet, so I dont have much else to share on it.

Morgan never really changed core kit direction or thematic direction during development. What OP is describing is a pretty common effect of working with characters with pre-established back stories and themes. Especially ones like Morgan with various different depictions across times and cultures.

Additionally, our community was getting so riled up about trying to discern every god months in advance, leading to a lot of negativity and in-fighting - so we came up with a new feature to preview all of the gods for the upcoming year. This trailer is intended to give just enough information so players can get an idea of who is coming up. It is not intended to convey playstyle or final visual design.

From day 1 on the game design team - we did not want to overdo the illusionist theme with Morgan Le Fay - we wanted her to be able to use a variety of magic types that fit to her themes and backstory.

She was often depicted with a sword, so I wanted her to wield on...

should update like normal

depending on when your steam settings allow updates you might have to manually start the update or reboot steam, but it should be easy

This just means you dont have the right version (which no one does because its not up yet)

You should see an update for it later today, then login with your live information and you should be good to go!

Thanks for this comment and to many in this comment section! Its amazing to see the community sticking up for the balance team instead of piling on the hate. We have come such a long way with our balance process and community interaction is a HUGE part of that success. Working with players more on balance has resulted in a lot more positive player sentiment and positive game metrics.

Im sorry Duke didnt like the update, but I think the reasoning for all of the changes is sound.

High level players want aggression in the solo lane, but there needs to be a risk to it.

Crit is strong, but its mostly strong because of specific enablers. A lot of people seem to think that we didn't really nerf crit, but we actually hit the primary crit starter - arrow - extremely heavily. The other shifts were related to crit, but more intended to help shake up hunter build diversity and provide a wider variety of balanced/viable options instead of a few standounts.

Peo...

So ive shared this data a few times but never hurts to repeat

• % Pen changes made tanking easier, not harder, and we have observed significant data after both changes to see tanks rising in win% and dropping in deaths after both the magical and physical changes. Previously a huge amount of % pen could be acquired in ONE ITEM - which is significantly easier to fit into a build than having it spread across many items. The fact that there are more than one item with % pen makes it look like its all over the place, but its significantly harder to reach cap pen.

• Tank boots have been extremely strong for nearly 2 years, pros complain about it to me every day, but a huge amount of players still refuse to build them - i see it in the data still - even after a 4 man gank failed to kill a support in duo with only tank boots built the other week in the SPL. Are you building these? Tanks are stronger than ever in the early-mid

• Crit - generally c...

I did not intend to "encourage you to report bad players" And in, fact you should not report people who are trying their best but struggling.

You should report people who are not playing their role, or AFKing, not fighting, spamming taunting following you instead, etc - i said this pretty clearly in one of my responses too.

My main point of all the these lengthy responses to you is - people are inconsistent and going to have bad games - that doesnt mean matchmaking is broken - it also does not mean you should report them either tho.

You seem to be misinterpreting just the very short phrase i used in the very first response to you (sounds like OPs playgroup should use the report button more) - and that was intended just to clarify that you have that option when people arent even trying to play the game, but it sounds like you always thought they were even in some of your more egregious examples? Which i guess is my mistake.

I even looked up multiple g...

https://smitegame.com/news/king-of-uruk-8-4-update-notes/

this was described here under the "free rewards" section

The rewards are 100% in the control of a 3rd party company who can choose which regions get targetted and which dont. It seems like they are still struggling to get clients for other countries.

The button showing up at end of lobby when no rewards are present will be fixed next patch.

Alternate timeline + jormungandr bug

will be fixed next update after monstercat

Could you comment here with some Match IDs where you experienced the issue or DM them to me so I can have our team take a look?

Need match IDs plz

yup i found it from the info you gave me before, ill check up on it. thanks!

I replied to another large post about this, We reply quite often...

Every single queue I have looked into so far regarding bad matchmaking was indeed a match that happened in a low pop region at low pop times. essentially - it was the only match option available.

Gonna keep looking tho just in case we find any bugs. We also just increased Normal Conquest queue time from 2m to 3m which seems to have improved MM a lot! so thats cool

This HAS to be a case where these were the only 10 people in queue. Plz share the match ID or the time/date/region so I can double check though.

You're right, it shouldn't exist. But we had to design the system to eventually give you a match, in some regions and at some times you would literally never get to play ranked unless this was the case.

for design clarity we want to keep nonverbal abilities nonverbal

It was just a mistake that we wrote/recorded them, they were never intended to be used.

Looking into this one, it seems related to Gilgamesh. Thanks!

This will be fixed in the next patch and covered on the next update show.

Hera and all of her skins are not intended to have voice lines on ability 1, ability 2, or ability 3.

Hera has nonverbals on her basic attacks and VO Lines on her ult. This should be currently working as intended in the game already.

The nox, ah puch, and emotes issues are bugs we will look into though, thanks!

The team is aware of this issue occurring specifically on Nintendo Switch and is still currently looking into it.

She does have some slight adjustment to sounds, but most skins are kept closer to base nowadays for clarity reasons.

She is supposed to have a special emote that seems to have a bug, we will be looking into this asap.