The Astral Hunt Patch Notes

STATUS: This patch will go live on PC on November 17, 2015.

Chiron, the Great Teacher

Sources: Official Patch Notes

LORE
Chiron is a being of conflicted duality. Two opposites in one form. For all appearances, he is a centaur, bearing the torso of a man and the body of a horse. Brutish, crude, and violent, the centaurs are not civilized creatures. Yet, Chiron is a scholar, a poet, an astrologer, and a teacher. And for all the wonder and glory of the world, he tries to impart upon his illustrious students, Chiron, it seems, must constantly teach them the art of war.

Fame and legend are the hallmarks of his pupils. Perseus, who beheaded Medusa, Ajax, who battled bravely against Troy, and Achilles, who Chiron practically raised from infancy, all are figure of renown. But it is for their acts of violence, not art or science, for which songs are sung of these heroes. Chiron would prefer the world a more contemplative place where mankind adored nature and kindled bonds of friendship over scholarly discussions.

Though, to his wizened eyes, the bring has been reached and the world he finds so fascinating titles toward annihilation. Set aside are his books and scrolls, the easel and brush, and taken up are his bow and armor. On cloven hooves, Chiron gallops to the field. To save all that he holds dear, Chiron, the Great Teacher, will go to war.

ABILITIES

HERBAL MEDICINE (PASSIVE)
Every 12s Chiron collects herbs for a poultice, which increases all healing Chiron receives (+10%) for each poultice he carries. Each time he uses an ability, the lowest Health ally within 30 units is healed for (30 + 5 per god level over 5s).

Max Stacks: 3.

TRAINING EXERCISE
Chiron warns his teammates to evade the area, removing Crowd Control effects so they can escape before it explodes, damaging and Crippling all enemies in the area. (70/125/180/235/290 + 80% of your Physical Power.)
Cost: 55/60/65/70/75.
Cooldown: 15s.

MASTERFUL SHOT
Chiron passively marks his enemies as targets when he damages them with Basic Attacks or his Ultimate ‘Centaurus’, reducing their Physical Protections by 3%. He may activate this ability to fire seeking arrows at all marked targets within range, damaging (55/100/145/190/235 + 70% of your Physical Power) and slowing them (23/27.5/30/32.5/35%) for 3 seconds.
Cost: 65.
Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10s.

GIDDYUP!
Chiron gallops forward, damaging enemies (70/95/120/145/160 +50% of your Physical Power), knockup up minions, and kicking enemy gods behind him. Chiron may fire Basic Attacks while charging.
Cost: 70/75/80/85/90.
Cooldown: 16s.

CENTAURUS
Chiron is transformed into a constellation, and can fire three long-distance shots (100/145/190/235/280 +90% of your Physical Power), even through walls. If Chiron would be killed during this ability, he does not die until he runs out of time or shots. Killing an enemy in this state returns Chiron to life with Health equal to the damage dealt instead.
Cost: 80/90/100/110/120.
Cooldown: 90s.

VOICE PACK (CLICK ME)

Saggitarius Chiron –

100 Gems

SKINS

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Ba5s Drop Janus –

Odyssey (Week 9)

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Rock From Bisrakh/King Of The Ring Ravana – Odyssey (Week 11)

Voice Pack Available (Click me!)

Child’s Play Scylla –

400 Gems (Child’s Play Chest)

Voice Pack Available (Click me!)

Nutromancer Ah Puch – 400 Gems (Child’s Play Chest)

Voice Pack Available (Click me!)

Furiona Bellona – Odyssey (Week 10)

Mastery Khepri

UPDATED GOD CARDS

Mischievous Neith

Regal Reveler Bacchus

AVATARS

Chiron

MAPS – CLASH BETA

“Clash” is a new casual game mode in which players will play as a team of five against an opposing team to push down the enemy Titan. The map features a large open center with two lanes, as well as a split base where the Titan spawns, further away from the fountain than in other modes. “Clash” plays like a mixture between the fast paced combat of Arena and the pushing and strategy that Conquest offers. The average game time is 20 minutes. This queue provides normal rewards.

After a successful technical test on the Public Test Server we are ready to gather more feedback! While we already have some plans in store for changes, we wanted to get a large sample of feedback before we make any large scale changes to the map. Clash will be active for a limited time until December 1st.

CLANS

Added new Clan level icons.
Fixed Shadow skins redirectors not going to the Clan chest.
Fixed Clan Honor reported always showing as 17.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Agni
The Heat!
Stun three or more enemy gods with Noxious Fumes.

Those Fumes
Get the killing blow with the damage from Combustion.

Nu Wa
Clay Explosion
Kill an enemy god by exploding Clay Soldiers with Shining Metal.

Skill Shot
Get 100 kills with Fire Shards.

MISC

New Early Surrender Logic

Players will now be given the option to Surrender a game early in the event of someone disconnecting early in a match.
If a player fails to connect within the first 30 seconds of the game launching, the user who failed to connect will have until the 5 minute mark (5:00 on the game timer) to connect to the game. If the player fails to connect, the team with the disconnected player will be able to surrender early. Only 50% of the players in a game mode (rounded up) will need to vote yes to pass this surrender vote
Players will be notified via a chat message as to the current state of the game and the option to Early Surrender.
A ranked game that is lost by an Early Surrender, players will only receive half TP loss, while the disconnected player will receive full TP loss. Players on the winning team will receive points as normal.

Removed Twitch Live and Broadcasting tabs.
We are removing Twitch Integrated Broadcasting as a feature in SMITE. This feature was rarely used and was increasingly difficult for us to support, leading to a bad user experience when players tried to use it. We are looking at future ways to reward Twitch Ymir to users who would want to obtain him, and hopefully we will have more to communicate in the future.

God skins can now be purchased without owning the god.
Added a Neith transition screen when loading into the Basic Tutorial.
Cards with animations now show in tooltips.
Fixed Recent Achievements section not updated.
Fixed match details not showing when clicking on Recent Matches in Gods → History.
Misc improvements have been made for lower spec machines.

BALANCE CHANGES

CHAAC

Fixed some FX not playing correctly for Mastery Skins.

HERCULES

Fixed Retrocules skin showing a line down his body at low settings.

Escavate: Fixed boulder not showing up at extreme distances.

JANUS
Portals: Fixed players T-posing when having gone through portals multiple times.

OSIRIS