SMITE Adds Maimed Tyr to Norse Pantheon

Tyr, incomplete with his famously lacking hand, is the latest god to be added to the roster of SMITE. Hi-Rez Studios made the addition late last week, evening off the current count of playable characters to the third-person MOBA to a healthy 40 gods. The god of law and justice is a melee bruiser along the lines of another bearlike character, Hercules.

The Tyr patch brings gamers a trio of new Golden skins (Cupid, Arachne and Neith), Tyr’s secondary skin and three new voice packs including Tyr’s. The other major change, and we do mean major, is a complete overhaul of the front-end user interface. You’ll have to login and play to understand just how dramatic a change it is.

Those players that love coordinating team efforts will be happy to see further changes to the pinging system. The all-new system is context sensitive, meaning it’ll change depending on the current focus of the screen, such as an alternate use when in various sub menus  Freya also received major modifications. Check out Tyr’s God Reveal and all the tweaks after the cut.

Perhaps Fenrir is hungry for that other hand?


  • Unyielding (Passive)

  • Stuns, Taunts, Fears and Mesmerize cannot affect Tyr for longer than 1s.

  • Fearless

  • Tyr charges forward, damaging enemies.

  • ASSAULT Stance: Tyr pushes all enemies along with him, hitting them 2 times and knocking them up in the air.

  • GUARD Stance: Tyr hits each enemy only once, passing through all enemies and knocking them away.

  • Damage: 60/110/170/230/290 (+50% of your physical power).

  • Cost: 60/65/70/75/80.

  • Cooldown: 15s.

  • Power Cleave

  • Tyr makes a massive melee attack, hitting all enemies within a 180 degree cone.

  • ASSAULT Stance: Enemies that are knocked up in the air are knocked away.

  • GUARD Stance: Heals Tyr for each enemy hit (max 3).

  • Damage: 70/120/170/220/170 (+80% of your physical power).

  • Cost: 50/55/60/65/70.

  • Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8s.

  • Change Stance

  • Tyr changes between ASSAULT and GUARD stances. Changing stances refreshes the cooldown on Fearless and Power Cleave.

  • ASSAULT Stance: 10/20/30/40/50 Physical Power.

  • GUARD Stance: 8/16/24/32/40 Protections.

  • Cooldown: 15/14/13/12/11s.

  • Lawbringer

  • Tyr leaps through the air, bringing indiscriminate justice upon all enemies in the target area, and slowing them.

  • Damage: 150/225/300/375/450 (+120% of your physical power).

  • Slow: 25%.

  • Slow Duration: 3s.

  • Cost: 80/90/100/110/120.

  • Cooldown: 90/85/80/75/70.

New Skins:

  • Tyr Dark Judgement

  • Arachne Golden

  • Neith Golden

  • Golden Cupid

Voicepacks:

  • Tyr

  • Hercules

  • He Bo (includes He Bro Easter Egg)

General:

  • The front-end user interface has undergone major changes. All screens in the front-end UI have been modified.

  • Context Pinging changed from VQ… to a new targeter system. Pressing V will now bring up a targeter. If left-mouse button is pressed, the location is pinged on the map. Using the targeter while in various sub-menus will change the targeter to a specific type and create a marker in the world for teammates to see.

  • The character cards on the loading screen now show your God Rank and overall Mastery Level for all users. Gold Cards also show Wins, Kills and Assists.

  • The mini-map now shows when you have a buff on the ground.

  • Right-mouse button will exit the VGS menu.

  • Various ability ground targeters are now visible through walls for easier placement.

  • Joust Challenge matches now use the respawn times used in 3v3 Joust, versus the shorter 1v1 Joust timers.

  • Several character cards have been updated for improved artistic presentation.

  • Various animation polish passes for stuns.

  • Simple shadows (decals) now appear when on Medium Shadow detail.

  • A variety of technical changes have been made to the AI system used by NPC..

  • The tutorial has undergone various changes and now features Neith (previously Ra).

  • A bug was fixed with the animation of Furies when stunned.

  • Fixed an issue in which players the camera would go “inside” a players’ mesh.

  • The new god rotation is Ao Kuang, Hades, Kali, Ne Zha and Xbalanque.

Spectator:

  • UI has undergone some changes (more complete rework planned for a later patch).

Items:

  • Magi’s Blessing

  • This item has changed to the following:

  • +350 Health

  • +30% Crowd Control Reduction

  • PASSIVE – Absorbs a single hard crowd control effect once every 60 seconds. When this occurs, the owner also receives 1s of cc immunity.

  • NEW – Soul Reaver
  • Price – 3100g

  • +100 Magical Power

  • +300 Mana

  • PASSIVE – When a god takes damage from your abilities, they take 15% of their maximum health in additional damage. If multiple gods are hit, the damage is applied to the one with the greatest maximum health. This can only occur once every 60 seconds.

  • Teleport and Shielded Teleport

  • When a player is teleporting to a tower, there is now a better visual indication at the tower during the channeling time that the player is incoming .

Active Item

  • NEW – Eye of Providence

  • Tier 1 – This is an item that allows you to place a ward every 90 seconds, allowing you to see enemy movements where you place it. It does respect line of sight and can’t see through walls. It remains for 1 minute or until killed.

  • Tier 2 – This is an item that allows you to place a ward every 90 seconds, allowing you to see enemy movements where you place it. It does respect line of sight and can’t see through walls. It remains for 2 minutes or until killed.

  • Tier 3 – This is an item that allows you to place a sentry ward every 90 seconds, allowing you to see enemy movements and wards where you place it. It does respect line of sight and can’t see through walls. It remains for 3 minutes or until killed.

Gods:

  • More magical power scaling gods have had their basic attacks switched from dealing/scaling physical damage to magical.

  • Ares, Bacchus, Freya, Guan Yu, Hades, Sobek, Vulcan, Ymir

  • Arachne

  • Broodlings

  • The spiders are now correctly dealing physical damage instead of magical damage.

  • Bacchus

  • Drunk-O-Meter

  • The buff provided from the drunk state has changed from +5/15 Physical Power to +10/30 Magical Power.

  • Intoxicate

  • The buff provided by the ultimate has been changed from physical power to magical power.

  • Bakasura

  • Regurgitate

  • Fixed an issue with Bakasura’s digestive system where he was not correctly regurgitating the large furies.

  • The projectile now arcs higher and flies slightly faster, decreasing the delay on when it is deployed.

  • Chang’e

  • Moonlit Waltz

  • The cooldown on this ability has been increased from 14/13/12/11/10s to 20/18/16/14/12s.

  • Cupid

  • General

  • Updated FX.

  • Fenrir

  • Ragnarok

  • The bite will no longer deal damage to the Fire Giant, Gold Fury or Minotaur.

  • Freya

  • With Freya’s basic attacks changing to magical damage and scaling, the damage potential of her basic attacks has increased substantially as she builds magical power.  Because of that, the damage and scaling of Irradiate and Pulse have been adjusted to compensate.

  • Brisingamen’s Blessings

  • NEW PASSIVE – Freya’s necklace grants her an additional +15% magical lifesteal.

  • Irradiate

  • The base damage has been reduced from 50/70/90/110/130 to 40/55/70/85/100.s

  • The magical power contribution has been reduced from 35% to 20%.

  • The +10% physical lifesteal buff on this ability has been removed.

  • Pulse

  • The magical power contribution has been reduced from 20% to 15%.

  • The +10% magical lifesteal buff on this ability has been removed.

  • Freya’s recommended items have been updated to reflect her change to all magical based basic attacks.

  • Hel

  • Inspire

  • This ability now gives her and her allies 20% movement speed for 6s at all ranks.

  • Hun Batz

  • Fear No Evil

  • Hun Batz now gives a voice cue when he uses this ability.

  • Ra

  • Searing Pain

  • This aiming on this ability is no longer affected by Bacchus’ Intoxicate.  You will continue to fire in the direction you were aiming when you fired.

  • Sobek

  • General

  • Some abilities have seen FX improvements.

  • Tail Whip

  • The distance that enemies are knocked back has been reduced.

  • The amount of time that enemies can be knocked back has been reduced.