Why Cant Hades dance during his ult? (from r/smite)

I’m sorry to say that his feature will not happen.



What can happen is the creation of a skin where Hades’ actual ultimate animation is him dancing instead of the normal animation. This might be done if the skin has the proper context for this to animation make sense.

There is no system in place for optional emote animations to overwrite ability animations. The current SMITE animation system actually works in the opposite way. Ability animations are prioritized to be more important than all other animations, even over basic attacks (basic canceling).

The system works that way for a specific gameplay reason: visual clarity.

All multiplayer competitive games consider visual clarity when designing their core mechanics and their character’s abilities. It is very important in SMITE and similar games to make it clear what type of combat effects are happening.

Every ability in smite is accompanied by an animation and audio/visual cues. Things like particles and audio are linked directly to the ability animations and are necessary for visual clarity. They play along with the animation. Notice how Hades particles and audio immediately go away when you cancel the ability early.

We would need to change our config entirely for the proper audio and particles to play while the characters perform theses new optional animations.

If we did want to implement this it would be a massive task. It would alter a core system, thus making it an extremely risky and expensive change. Changes like this have a high chance of bugs and likely affect other parts of the game in unexpected and negative ways. A Hades dance feature would take a lot of time and effort that we can surely spend on better things.

Even though we have been asked by the community many times for this feature we still have zero intention of implementing it.

Maintaining the visual clarity of ability animations, particles, and audio is extremely important to the core SMITE experience.