With SMITE Season 5‘s official release date of January 30th, the developers at Hi-Rez are hard at work fixing all the issues players have discovered during the PTS. Following downtime, another hot fix has just gone live for the SMITE Season 5 PTS. Here are the patch notes.

Most notably, Joust is now available to be tested for the first time in Season 5.

General Changes

• Added Joust to the PTS

There has been one balance change to Ethereal Staff:

Balance Changes

• Ethereal Staff
  • Changed the item’s passive to deal magic damage instead of true damage.

The rest of the patch was devoted to bug fixes:

Bug Fixes

• FIXED – Arena builds for Warrior classes are missing Relics and Consumables in the God Builder.
• FIXED – Guardian’s Blessing doesn’t work off jungle bosses.
• FIXED – Fire Giant can knock players behind him with his knockup.
• FIXED – Jungle camps that take damage during intro animation will not be pulled by the player.
• FIXED – The Season Ticket was missing the remaining 3 Skin cards in the Home 3D scene.
• FIXED – Avatar hover icons are too small in avatar selection screen.
• FIXED – Pyromancer plays gold fury coin FX when spawning.
• FIXED – Warrior’s Blessing has no cooldown.
• FIXED – Issues with purchasing Soul Gem in the item store.

There is also a hefty list of known issues, which will be fixed in follow-up patches:

Known Issues

• There is an invisible wall in front of the Chaos side Void Buff.
• Ethereal Staff’s tooltip is incorrect. The passive should say that it deals magic damage instead of true damage.
• Chaos base rocks cause collision with flying gods.
• The Mantle of Discord is incorrectly listed as an Aura item.
• “Bees!” should not be classed as a pet ability.
• Unable to purchase new starter item after buying one, exiting fountain, and selling
• pyromancer is giving incorrect xp/min scaling
• Typhon’s fang is giving unintended lifesteal values.
• Polynomicon has an incorrect price
• Soul Gem is dealing physical damage

The PTS is back up now to be played with the changes.