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never played before. I’m not sure why this was only

explained in the Clash tutorial but who am I to judge.

- Hitting the tab button will bring up a table of

what everyone in the game is building. Not that that

matters because you shouldn’t really be in control of

your own build until you get more comfortable with

the game. But hitting tab does have a handy function

where you can mute players on your team. Some

people are jerks and no one needs to be torn apart

on their first game; just mute them and keep going.

- On a similar note, hitting “v” will open the

voice guided system. Try not to hit v unless you want

to pick something from the menu of commands

or if you want to type something in. Basically, try

not to hit it in the middle of a surprised keyboard

smash because you will stop attacking and die all

while typing gibberish into the in-game chat.

- When you do feel comfortable enough to

try buying your own items, double clicking on

the item will automatically buy that item for

you. This saves a bit of time so you can get out

of the fountain earlier. Also you can open and

close the item store by pressing “i”. I know the

tutorials tell you how to open the store, but it

doesn’t tell you the shortcut to closing it.

Hopefully my years of frustration and failure

--which have been distilled into thirteen or so bullet

points-- has answered some questions. I guess the

best piece of advice that I can give is to play the game

for as long as you enjoy it. The second that stops

being the case, just take a break. I’ve seen people

who were massive fans stop playing SMITE due to

debilitating frustration, all because they didn’t log

off when they stopped enjoying it. So play for as long

as you like; feel free to make the stupid mistakes

and the brilliant saves, I’ve certainly made both.

By Helena Wachhaus

10 The Official SMITE Magazine Issue #34 The GameOn Magazine