Smite 7.8 Patch Notes - Update Adds Tsukuyomi, God of

Smite’s God of the Moon 7.8 Update goes live next month, its patch notes revealing the addition of Tsukuyomi as a new playable god alongside various balance changes to items and other gods.

Tsukuyomi and his two blades, Shingetsu & Mangetsu, will be playable starting with August 11, when Smite’s God of the Moon 7.8 Update will go live.

The update will also bring changes to the Stone of Binding and Lono’s Mask items, alongside gods like Athena and Bacchus.

Smite God of the Moon Update 7.8 Patch Notes

Smite’s God of the Moon Update 7.8 and Tsukuyomi will be accompanied by the New Moon Bundle 3, Cosprey Chest, and Rav3n Chest on August 11, when it launches. Here are its full patch notes:

Tsukuyomi, God of the Moon

Shingetsu & Mangetsu

Tsukuyomi wields Shingetsu in his left hand and Mangetsu in his right hand. When these weapons damage an enemy they become empowered. Empowered Shingetsu gains a 50% cleave and restores mana. Empowered Mangetsu deals bonus damage and restores health.

Mana Heal : 2 (+15% of your Physical Power)

Health Heal : 2 (+15% of your Physical Power)

Bonus Damage : 2 (+15% of your Physical Power)

Dark Moon Shuriken

Tsukuyomi calls upon Shingetsu, summoning forth a Dark Moon Shuriken. The Shuriken damages enemies and stops on gods, sticking into them. If Tsukuyomi gets close to the god he retrieves the Shuriken and reduces its cooldown. After casting this ability Shingetsu’s next Basic Attack becomes ranged. This attack steals Movement Speed from the enemy hit.
Shuriken Damage : 85/135/185/235/285 (+90% of your Physical Power)

Cooldown Reduction : 40%

Movement Speed Steal : 25%

Cost : 50/60/70/80/90

Cooldown : 10s

Kusarigama

Shingetsu and Mangetsu form themselves into a Kusarigama. Tsukuyomi swings the weapon to his left and right, damaging and disarming enemies hit. He then swings the weapon forward with more force stunning enemies hit. While channeling Tsukuyomi gains 33% Movement Speed and is immune to Knockback effects.

Swing Damage : 35/60/85/110/135 (+50% of your Physical Power)

Disarm Duration : 1.5/1.75/2/2.25/2.5s

Final Damage : 70/125/180/235/290 (+80% of your Physical Power)

Stun Duration : 1/1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4s

Cost : 70/75/80/85/90

Cooldown : 14s

Piercing Moonlight

Tsukuyomi channels the power of the Full Moon, gaining Crowd Control immunity and 50% Damage Reduction. He fires forward 4 powerful piercing beams of moonlight. Enemies hit, take damage and become marked. Each beam can hit up to 3 enemy gods. After firing all beams Tsukuyomi charges forward at light speed, dashing through all enemies in the order they were hit, dealing heavy damage. Tsukuyomi will end his dashing at the final enemy hit.

Beam Damage : 30/50/70/90/110 (+20% of your Physical Power)

Dash Damage : 85/110/145/180/215 (+55% of your Physical Power)

Cost : 80/90/100/110/120 Mana

Cooldown : 90s

New God Skins

Labyrinth Keeper Heimdallr

Wildstyle Pele

Angelic Archon Yemoja

Cool Cat Anhur

Rav3n The Morrigan

Lunar Eclipse Tsukuyomi

Ascended Tsukuyom

Tsukuyomi Mastery Skin

Project Olympus

General

Voice Packs will now be unlocked by default in Jungle Practice

Added a new Icon for Enhanced Fire Giant buff

Match Lobby

Skin selection before locking in a god should now change to the highlighted skin – preventing a situation where some players loaded into game with a different skin than expected (especially when purchasing new skins).

Jungle Fog

Fog functionality

The atmospheric fog in SMITE will not be allowed to be edited via player .ini settings.

All fog related settings will be removed from the .ini to enforce this

This fog is an artistic detail, not to be confused with fog of war. Fog of war causes gods to become invisible at certain ranges, and has never been editable by players.

Atmospheric fog exists purely for thematic and aesthetic reasons. All of the maps in SMITE are designed with the assumption fog will be there, and many unintended things can be seen if fog is disabled.

To clarify the rules and SMITE ToS on this topic.

Editing game files for SMITE directly is against ToS, the only exception is the .ini.

Editing the .ini has been against the rules for competitive play for some time, this was a separate ruling made by the SMITE esports team independent from the SMITE dev team.

The SMITE dev team recommends that players do not edit their .ini as it might have unexpected results, leading to crashes or other issues

However, the SMITE dev will not seek to punish or ban players who edit the .ini. You can be banned for editing other game files.

Future of Fog
- Fog was a heavily requested feature when designing the 5.1 conquest map.
- It had existed in earlier iterations of SMITE, but was removed in the Season 2/3/4 Map, which players seemed to be upset about.
- The dev team believes that the fog in SMITE looks great in its current state, but we will take the feedback seriously for those who want it changed.
- As we approach Season 8’s new Conquest map, we will be reconsidering fog appearance and player options related to fog from the ground up.

Ratatoskr Tail Glow

In addition to Ratatoskr’s new Acorns, his tail will now glow and will change colors to match the T3 acorn he has purchased

Evergreen Acorn – Green Glow

Thickbark Acorn – White Glow

Bristlebush Acorn – Red Glow

Thistlethorn Acorn – Yellow Glow

The following skins have had this effect added

Kitsune

Zenko

Kage

Final Fusion

Curious Critter

All other skins already had this feature, and have had it returned to them

No glow will be displayed:

When no Acorn or a T1 Acorn is owned in game

The default blue, or skin specific default glow will be displayed:

When in Client or Lobbyv
Owning a T2 acorn in game

The specific color coded glow will be displayed:

Owning a T3 Acorn in game

The floating Acorn with him in game will remain along with the tail glow

Floating Acorns have had some FX updates to better match their intended tail colors

UI Icons of T3 Acorns have been updated to better match their intended tail colors

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where PC players using gamepad mode would have difficulty accessing the item shop

Fixed an issue where PC players chat window would lose focus while typing

Fixed an issue where hovering/highlighting T1 and T2 items in the store would show the entire tree.

Fixed an issue where Game Tips were being truncated for some languages.

Chests

Fixed an issue where some chests had incorrect text and could not be acquired – this was fixed in a previous hotfix

any players who experienced the issue should have had their chests gifted back to them at that time

This applied to:

Level Up Rewards

Commendation Rewards

Ranked Split Rewards

General Gameplay

Quests

Fixed an issue where new players would not earn progress toward quests

Fixed an exploit allowing players to abuse Early Surrender forgiveness.

Moving forward

Any member of the team who is disconnected for more than 90s (down from 3m) before 10m will trigger Early Surrender.
If a team surrenders before 10m, all players who disconnected for at least 90s will receive increased MMR/TP loss.

If players on both teams have triggered early surrender, it’s likely the game isn’t in a good state, and the match results (win, loss, surrender) will be discarded so players on both teams can get to a healthy match faster.

Players DC’d when this happens may still receive deserter status, however.

Items

Wind Demon

Fixed an issue where this Item did not appear when filtering by “Penetration”

Cursed Ankh

Fixed an issue where this item was not dealing the intended amount of damage to enemy shield health

Polynomicon

Fixed an issue where the item passive buff bar icon had no visible duration

Hydra’s Lament

Fixed an issue where the item passive buff bar icon had no visible duration

Gods

Jormungandr

Fixed an issue where you could use his Ultimate and the Aegis Relic at the same time, resulting in some unintended behaviors.

Ratatoskr

Fixed an issue where Flurry was not affected by cooldown reduction

Fixed an issue where his Acorn used in lobby animations would be much smaller than intended

Fixed an issue where his Passive text was still showing his old Passive

Merlin

Eclipse

Enemies hit by Eclipse will no longer take damage over time when leaving the area via untargetable states

Hera

Fixed an issue where this god could crash games

Now can be played

Artio

Fixed an issue where this god could crash games

Now can be played

Camazotz

Fixed an issue where Blue Buff’s Spirit Satyrs were granting Camazotz stacks of

Chang’e

Fixed an issue where Chang’e would be warned to buy a 2nd relic throughout the entire map

Fixed an issue where his passive buff bar icon had no visible duration

The Morrigan

Fixed an issue where certain audio cues were not playing on her default skin.

Added a unique explode sound to her 3rd basic attack for her default and all skins.

Chronos

Fixed an issue where his recolor skin looked like his base skin

Susano

Fixed an issue where his Zuko skin did not receive the updated voice line “That’s rough, buddy” intended to be use for: “That’s too bad”

Avatar Aang and Avatar Korra

Updated their voice packs to use the multi-voice sound that they use in the show when in these forms. The lines have not been changed

Conquest

Fixed an issue where the Targeting Bracket didn’t appear on Totem of Ku

Fixed an issue where Fire Giant ignored initial hits of damage taken

Balance Live with the God of the Moon Update August 11

Game Modes

Conquest

All map lighting has been updated for better performance and artistic presentation

Gold Fury, Oni Fury, Primal Fury

Will now immediately restart channelling on a new target if they become leashed. They must successfully complete a channel before the ability goes on cooldown and they resume basic attacking

Pyromancer

Infernal Ritual

Now inflicts a large amount of damage on the AoE hit

Centaurs (Speed Buff Camp)

Spear Thrust

Increased Base Damage from 45 to 55

Increased Damage scaling from 12 to 18

Duel
- Duel matches will no longer award “First Blood” gold bonuses to players who are first to kill the enemy god

Items

Mask Item Tree

Rangda’s Mask

Decreased Damage Taken Increase from 25% to 20%

Lono’s Mask

Increased Protections from 35 to 40

Increased Health from 200 to 250

Bumba’s Mask and Messenger’s Mask

These items have been removed from the game

Stone of Binding

Now provides +10 MP5

Reinforced Shoes

Increased Health from 100 to 150

Reinforced Greaves

Increased Health from 100 to 150

Gods

Achilles

Shield Of Achilles

Increased Base Damage from 80/135/190/245/300 to 100/155/210/265/320

Athena

Defender Of Olympus

Increased Damage Mitigation given to the targeted ally from 20% to 30%

Awilix

General

Increased Base Mana from 220 to 240

Increased MP5 per level from 0.27 to 0.46

Feather Step

Increased Base Damage from 40/75/110/145/180 to 50/85/120/155/190

Summon Suku

Decreased Mana Cost from 50/55/60/65/70 to 30/35/40/45/50

Increased strafe speed on Suku by changing Hard Cap on movement speed from 225 to 275

Updated ability description to show this is a speed cap not percent reduction of speed.

Fixed an issue where this ability would go on cooldown if interrupted

(This was fixed in 7.4 but was not listed properly.)

Bacchus

Belch of the Gods

Increased Base Damage from 20/35/50/65/80 to 25/40/55/70/85 per tick

Bastet

Pounce

Increased Physical Power scaling from 90% to 100%

Cabrakan

Seismic Crush

The stun from this ability no longer suffers from Diminishing Returns

Tremors

No longer tremors minions, instead pulling them more directly to Cabrakan.

Chaac

Rain Dance

Decreased Cooldown from 18s to 16s

Cu Chulainn

Barbed Spear/Ground Slam

Decreased Cooldown from 16/15/14/13/12 to 15/14/13/12/11s

Isis

Spirit Ball

Decreased cooldown from 12s to 10s

Osiris

Judgement Tether

Increased Damage Reduction from 10/15/20/25/30% to 15/20/25/30/35%

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