This means that abandoning a Gold Fury attempt risks leaving the job for the enemy team to finish. Resetting a neutral encounter by running away will no longer instantly reset the monsters' health bars. 'Leashing', the practise of drawing neutral monsters out of their camps, has been substantially altered also. Not all of the details are available yet, but there'll be changes to the regular buff camps that sound like they'll make the map slightly more symmetrical - potentially negating the perceived Chaos advantage. There are, however, a few major changes in the pipeline. You couldn't do that in an isometric game without impacting game balance. The Harpy, however, flies in from the heights of Olympus passing several other objectives as she goes. In the Fire Giant's case, this means fighting his way out of a stone prison. Likewise, the map's special neutral monsters, the Gold Fury and the Fire Giant, will now make dramatic entrances when they spawn. You can't do vistas like this in League of Legends or Dota 2 - the new long lane, for example, looks out over a bay patrolled by distant Greek longships. What has impressed me, checking out the new map for the first time, is how it makes use of Smite's third person camera. Mount Olympus, likewise, is now less ornamental garden and more Arcadian metropolis - even though the playable space only extends so far, it has a much stronger sense of being a real place. Rather than being painted onto the skybox, Chaos' volcano looms over the battlefield, spilling lava into the playable area. The backdrops for both teams' bases are now far more dramatic. The first thing you'll notice is the extensive work done to expand the scope of the game beyond the playable area.
In January, an overhauled version of the game's key three-lane Conquest map will be released onto the public test server. The most significant of these changes is close.
It's a program of tournaments, updates and new releases that will change the shape of the game over the course of the coming year. After the tournament, Smite Season 2 will begin in earnest. The first Smite World Championship marks the beginning of the game's life as a major e-sport, but is also - it turns out - a swansong for the map currently being used for competitive play.
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