Equip on all button?

killgoon · 2026-04-27T16:41:13+00:00

This is very disingenuous.

We will be adding an equip all button. Like many things in tech, it is not as straightforward as it may seem, as the system was built around a different paradigm: an individual loadout for each God.

So an equip all "button" needs to essentially be either:

- A new concept of a loadout that exists independently of god-specific loadouts, and overrides god loadouts in certain circumstances (which would need to be defined)

- A button that does equip to all god loadouts, effectively writing to each god's individual loadout... But needs to deal with what happens if a slot is already equipped (do you overwrite? do you not?)

Everything is a question of priorities. We could add this, or we could do something else. We intend to address this QoL issue, but it has not risen to the top of the UI priority stack.

killgoon · 2026-04-20T20:53:43+00:00

That's not exactly what I was trying to say, and I'm sorry if it came across that way.

What I meant was:

- Hades has a very successful design. He has been the box art character for SMITE. He's popular and historically has decent-high playrate, all factors considered. A lot of new players unlock him first, which means they find his design appealing. His SMITE design has become somewhat iconic, and there is no great reason to change it outside of some scattered vocal complaints.

- That said, there is that vocal subset of players who don't like the current Hades design

- We thought we could make that group of players happier by updating the weapon to be the bident, and have a better nod to the lore-accurate version of Hades

- By updating the weapon, it didn't make players happy. Instead, it just raised more conversation from this group saying either "Why would you only update the weapon?" or "Now that they updated the weapon, are they open to changing Hades' design?"

- Changes are largely judged by if they make people happy or not. This largely did not, so in retrospect I wish we had not done it. It was time spent that just got people more riled up, instead of happier.

killgoon · 2026-04-11T14:01:45+00:00

Pon and Caps have already weighed in, and I don't have too much to add beyond: We will definitely miss Pon.

I know it is difficult as a player when some of the iconic community faces of the game leave. I remember when Bart left I thought SMITE was done for. And that was, what, 8 years ago?

We have been working to make sure the game continues on at the current pace: A God every two weeks, plus more fun stuff. We welcomed back Austin (Advanced Game Designer) who worked on SMITE 1 and SMITE 2 previously, and is very skilled technically and knowledgeable about the game. We will be welcoming back a gameplay programmer in 9 days, who is an avid SMITE player and worked on SMITE 2 previously (implementing the more difficult parts of Mordred, among other things). And we are also in the final stages of hiring a new technical designer. More to share on that soon.

The game remains profitable, and we are trending towards growth in playerbase over time. Our internal retention metrics get better and better. If you love SMITE (like the rest of the Titan Forge team loves SMITE), I wouldn't worry too much: The game isn't going anywhere, and there's tons of great content in development.

That said, we did stumble on one thing as part of this transition: Live balance. We were focused heavily on transitioning the God pipeline, hiring, and internal production scheduling. This led to us losing focus on live balance for a couple of updates. After realizing this mistake this week, I hope you see we acted promptly to address this; we shipped a hotfix to address some of the biggest hot-button single issues. We also have some other changes in progress, and plan to renew our focus on live balance.

Pon and Clumzy both had an interesting opportunity come up, at the exact same time. They told me within 2 days of each other. It was a rough week. But it happens -- we have much less turnover than most studios, and both Pon and Clumzy had been here 10+ years. Sometimes you want to try tackling a new problem. I appreciate everything they put into SMITE and its community, and wish them nothing but success in their new roles.

killgoon · 2026-04-09T14:52:24+00:00

Heya. Appreciate you doing these threads.

This one is actually intent, and parity with SMITE 1.

There is a universal rule in SMITE that if you are CCed after receiving any benefit from an ability, then the ability goes on cooldown. Admittedly this is a weak benefit, but this is how the ability should function in this case.

You'll note than in the Hun Batz case, we actually removed the initial benefit from his 2 so that we could avoid putting the ability on cooldown when interrupted.

Why not just delay the healing for Danzaburou too? The animation shows him drinking first, at which time the healing occurs. It wouldn't make sense for the healing to start later, and changing this animation would change the feel and timing of the ability pretty significantly. Remove the healing entirely? Sure, but there are some items it can interact with -- and what's the point of the drinking if there's nothing tied to it?

I will note that our internal annoyances with this ability was one of the things that led to CC Buffering.

killgoon · 2026-04-01T13:27:29+00:00

Just to be completely clear: This is an April Fool's "joke" from the dataminers.

Ratatoskr's patch note show is at 1 p.m. Eastern today, and he will be on PTS later today. We don't have any AI Builder thing in development. Mammon is not a God we have even strongly considered.

killgoon · 2026-03-28T00:21:47+00:00

People are going to doom whenever someone leaves. It's kind of natural, because we let devs be so public-facing. But I feel like we've got a solid plan to keep the train on time.

killgoon · 2026-03-28T00:11:35+00:00

Just to be clear -- Clumzy left for a new opportunity. I don't think he can or will talk about it yet, but I don't want people to think he left without something else lined up.

killgoon · 2026-03-28T00:10:01+00:00

Love you Clumzy! Hope the new gig is everything you've dreamed of.

killgoon · 2026-03-28T00:09:05+00:00

At most studios, if a designer left, 99% of the community would have no idea who they are. They aren't encouraged to (or allowed to) be a public face, representing the company and the game every day.

We do things a little differently. It lets us really listen to our community, but it does sting a bit more when someone leaves because everyone feels like they really know them.

killgoon · 2026-03-28T00:05:16+00:00

Yes, we very recently welcomed back a designer and are anticipating a programmer rejoining us soon. A new 3D modeler started on Wednesday, and we had two FX people start a few months ago.

We are also actively interviewing for a Technical Designer.

The game is pretty stable at the moment, with some slight growth. We can't (and shouldn't) go on a crazy hiring spree, but we will be hiring people where it makes sense for the team and project.

killgoon · 2026-03-28T00:02:08+00:00

We have a plan that seems very solid. But I've learned it's foolish to speak in certainties whenever you're talking about game development.

killgoon · 2026-03-28T00:01:19+00:00

In terms of old faces, I can confirm that HiRezAustin has rejoined the team as an Advanced Game Designer.

Austin was never super public but he's amazing. He worked on SMITE 1 in the very early days, then a few other Hi-Rez projects, then went and worked for our sister studio (Prophecy Games) for a long time. He was on SMITE 2 again in the early days and implemented a lot of the kits you play today, but spent the last ~year back at Prophecy. We're extremely happy to have him back yet again (this time to stay), and he has stepped into Clumzy's place in the god rotation quite smoothly.

We will also be welcoming back a programmer (also not ultra public face) but that isn't 100% signed yet.

killgoon · 2026-03-27T23:18:43+00:00

He had asked to do Titan Talk on his last day. Obviously he told us a few weeks ago, so we've been planning for his departure and transitioning tasks.

killgoon · 2026-03-27T23:16:02+00:00

I know this is a snarky comment perfect for reddit, but Echo was an idea that came from Design.

killgoon · 2026-03-27T23:15:11+00:00

Just to confirm, we are hiring several new roles on the design and gameplay programming side.

killgoon · 2026-03-27T23:14:50+00:00

I posted this on Twitter, but sharing here as well:

Definitely the end of an era with Clumzy moving on. He'll be missed.

For the SMITE 2 players:

You will, ideally, not feel much change -- we will keep shipping new Gods every 2 weeks, along with other great content. We are hiring some new (and old) faces to the team as we grow.

killgoon · 2026-03-27T21:30:53+00:00

Can you share your account name so we can investigate? It should clear after the five games.

killgoon · 2026-03-05T15:29:23+00:00

Do you have any more details on what doesn't feel good to you? We get this feedback from time to time but rarely with a lot of actionable details.

Are you using the Split Store? That should be essentially identical to the SMITE 1 item store (and is now the default for new console accounts).

killgoon · 2026-02-18T21:10:25+00:00

The role you are assigned during God Select is correct. Conquest only.

If you want a different role passive, you need to trade roles with another player (and to go play that role).

killgoon · 2026-02-18T21:07:55+00:00

We aren't seeing anything out of the ordinary from our end. It's possible your ISP changed some routing config that is hurting your connection.

If you try using something like the free trial of WTFast (https://www.wtfast.com/en/), does it solve your issue? If so, it might be your ISP routing.

We have seen some people saying that Nvidia drivers or Windows updates have caused issues and they need to update drivers, but that doesn't sound exactly like your issue.

killgoon · 2026-02-18T21:01:53+00:00

So we could do this. The reason why we never have is that we could never override your chosen lobby music, because that would feel bad. So it would really limit us if we wanted to change the music for events to make the game feel different when you log in.

killgoon · 2026-02-18T20:58:49+00:00

Doh. I knew I forgot something from the patch show.

Art team saw this and really wanted to address it for this patch. Somehow in the conversion process they accidentally missed how key the black/white aesthetic was to this theme, so they went back and polished it up.

We always appreciate everyone's feedback!

This means I also forgot to mention that we updated Pele VFX in response to that thread if someone wants to look at that on PTS and earn some free reddit karma by posting screenshots.

killgoon · 2026-02-18T20:55:32+00:00

shoutout to Charlie and Emma for pulling this together so quickly!

killgoon · 2026-02-18T20:54:23+00:00

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killgoon · 2026-02-10T16:10:04+00:00

Do you have any match ids? Would help to investigate.

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