Quake Champions - multiplayer hero shooter from id Software

[Venser]

Still kicking even tho players are slowly moving back to Quake Live.

Quake Champions 2024 Mid-Winter Update 1.21.RETAIL.143771/145455 Release Date: Early February New Content

• BOW OF EROS - Valentine's Day Crossbow Railgun
• WINGS OF ANTEROS - Valentine's Day Cupid Wing vanities for all champions
• Skill Rank Reset & Ranked Event Challenges

Map Updates

• Midair: Fixed knockback
• Vale of Pnath: Disabled railgun ammo pickup

Champion Updates

• Athena: Fixed ability HUD
• Eisen: Only regen up to 50 ap
• Galena: Fixed inactive totems clearing debuffs
• Scalebearer: Bull Rush damage reduction improved from 50 to 60%
• Scalebearer: Forward accel max speed increased from 425 to 450 ups

Weapon Updates

• Shotguns: Fixed a server-side damage validation issue that resulted in blood impacts but no damage dealt
• Shotguns: Falloff distance reduced from 9.6 to 6.4m (384 to 256 u)
• Railgun: Increased starting ammo from 5 to 10 (10 starting, 10 max)

Game Mode Updates

• Unholy Trinity: Once again spawn Health and Armor pickups
• Unholy Trinity: Spawn players with starting HP instead of over max health and max AP instead of overmax armor.
• Unholy Trinity: Added damage bonus scoring system (+1 point for every 100 damage dealt)
• Unholy Trinity: Scorelimit increased to 250
• Unholy Trinity: Re-enabled blood pools
• Sacrifice: Reduced the world collision radius of the soul (0.5m to 0.0125m)
• Sacrifice: Increased the player collision radius of the soul (0.5m to 0.8m)
• Clan Arena: Improved bot logic -- they will no stop fighting

Economy Updates

• Champion platinum price reduced from 400 to 250
• Weapon platinum price reduced from 1000 to 500; shard price reduced from 500 to 250
• Vanity item platinum price reduced from 500 to 250
• XP Booster platinum price reduced from 300 to 250; shard price increased from 200 to 250, but extended from 3 days to 7 days
• Rename service platinum price reduced from 1000 to 500
• Holiday items are now available year round
• Fixed missing shard offer for Scalebearer's MILITARY ISSUE GUARD vanity

Sound Updates

• Shortened length of explosion sounds from 5-6 seconds to 3 seconds in length
• Reduced the volume and duration of the rank down sound fx

Misc Fixes

• Fixed SCORPION Super Nailgun spectator crash
• Fixed SCORPION Super Nailgun quad firing & idle animations
• Fixed nvidia outdated driver issue in Linux
• Updated Scalebearer passive descriptions
• Updated Eisen passive descriptions
• Updated Galena passive descriptions
• Updated Visor passive descriptions
• Disabled in-game lore drops (available in Champion progression)
• Fixed Clutch SUPREME INTELLIGENCE top hat & monocle vanity when attached to the Pro League head

Service Updates

• Anti-cheat updates
• Updated encryption cert

 

[Star Citizen]

Still kicking even tho players are slowly moving back to Quake Live.

Quake Champions 2024 Mid-Winter Update 1.21.RETAIL.143771/145455 Release Date: Early February New Content

• BOW OF EROS - Valentine's Day Crossbow Railgun
• WINGS OF ANTEROS - Valentine's Day Cupid Wing vanities for all champions
• Skill Rank Reset & Ranked Event Challenges

Map Updates

• Midair: Fixed knockback
• Vale of Pnath: Disabled railgun ammo pickup

Champion Updates

• Athena: Fixed ability HUD
• Eisen: Only regen up to 50 ap
• Galena: Fixed inactive totems clearing debuffs
• Scalebearer: Bull Rush damage reduction improved from 50 to 60%
• Scalebearer: Forward accel max speed increased from 425 to 450 ups

Weapon Updates

• Shotguns: Fixed a server-side damage validation issue that resulted in blood impacts but no damage dealt
• Shotguns: Falloff distance reduced from 9.6 to 6.4m (384 to 256 u)
• Railgun: Increased starting ammo from 5 to 10 (10 starting, 10 max)

Game Mode Updates

• Unholy Trinity: Once again spawn Health and Armor pickups
• Unholy Trinity: Spawn players with starting HP instead of over max health and max AP instead of overmax armor.
• Unholy Trinity: Added damage bonus scoring system (+1 point for every 100 damage dealt)
• Unholy Trinity: Scorelimit increased to 250
• Unholy Trinity: Re-enabled blood pools
• Sacrifice: Reduced the world collision radius of the soul (0.5m to 0.0125m)
• Sacrifice: Increased the player collision radius of the soul (0.5m to 0.8m)
• Clan Arena: Improved bot logic -- they will no stop fighting

Economy Updates

• Champion platinum price reduced from 400 to 250
• Weapon platinum price reduced from 1000 to 500; shard price reduced from 500 to 250
• Vanity item platinum price reduced from 500 to 250
• XP Booster platinum price reduced from 300 to 250; shard price increased from 200 to 250, but extended from 3 days to 7 days
• Rename service platinum price reduced from 1000 to 500
• Holiday items are now available year round
• Fixed missing shard offer for Scalebearer's MILITARY ISSUE GUARD vanity

Sound Updates

• Shortened length of explosion sounds from 5-6 seconds to 3 seconds in length
• Reduced the volume and duration of the rank down sound fx

Misc Fixes

• Fixed SCORPION Super Nailgun spectator crash
• Fixed SCORPION Super Nailgun quad firing & idle animations
• Fixed nvidia outdated driver issue in Linux
• Updated Scalebearer passive descriptions
• Updated Eisen passive descriptions
• Updated Galena passive descriptions
• Updated Visor passive descriptions
• Disabled in-game lore drops (available in Champion progression)
• Fixed Clutch SUPREME INTELLIGENCE top hat & monocle vanity when attached to the Pro League head

Service Updates

• Anti-cheat updates
• Updated encryption cert

QC didnt last long here at all, not being able to browse servers killed that shit along with dumb powers

 

[soutaiseiriron]

quake champions died because of the quake part, not the champions or the lack of a server browser lmao.

1v1 quake is boring as fuck and the team based modes are all half baked bare bones shit because they don't have the guts to build the game around team gameplay from the start. if you were to design it around team gameplay first, you'd end up with team fortress or overwatch, which coincidentally are highly successful games.

 

[Morenatsu.]

how about 1v31 quake like in a normal game or something

 

[Venser]

Spring update

Season 22 Spring Update is now Live!​

Howdy Folks! The thaw is over, and spring has emerged with Season 22 for us to enjoy! Tower of Koth now has a new Duel | 2v2 variant, Shotgun has received a rework (see below), The Dark Zone is now 125% of its original size, Main Music themed added, Spring décor added to 4 arenas (Awoken, Deep Embrace, Ruins of Sarnath, and Tempest Shrine), and so much more. See the complete patch notes below.

Quake Champions 2024 Season 22 – Spring Update
1.22.RETAIL.148771/150056

New Content:

• SPRING PODIUM Level 100 in the BP

• Sorlag SPRING EGG Vanity Level 1 in the BP

• Quake 4 SMC Squad icons (8) Earned throughout the BP

Spring Map Décor:

• Awoken – Spring décor, fog has cleared, the sun is out
• Deep Embrace – Spring décor, and a visitor or two have arrived
• Ruins of Sarnath – Spring décor
• Tempest Shrine – Spring décor, rain and lightning has stopped, sky is clearing

New Map for Duel & 2v2:

• The Tower of Koth reworked for Duel & 2v2
• Removed large Cathedral pillar room
• Resized the geometry to be 90% of it’s original size.
• Adjusted stair collision
• Added new spawn points
• Removed teleporter exit speed limits
• Adjusted collision on both sides of the green FX tower above SNG
• Adjusted positioning of a breakable mesh element behind the RL TP to prevent exploitation of totems (that may still be placed there)

New Features:

• Added Hitbeep Volume
• Added Killbeep Volume

Performance Icon Optimizations:

• Optimized the elapsed frame time tracking
• Fixed false positives events for minor frame drops
• Fixed non-functioning events for major frame drops
• Misc code cleanup for optimizations and reduced CPU overhead

Shotgun Performance Pass:

• Switched trace style from spherical ray to a point trace (removing pellet radius)
• Reduced starting shotgun pellet count from 17 to 8
• SG : 1 / - / 7 pellets
• Reduced super shotgun pellet count from 25 to 12
• SSG: 1 / 4 / 7 pellets
• Increased damage per pellet from 5 dmg 10 dmg, total damage decreased from 85 to 80 for SG and from 125 to 120 for SSG
• Adjusted spread values to account for the new pellet size and count
• Damage falloff distance increased from 6.4 to 12.8 m (256 to 512u)
• Fixed SSG visual FX bug where it cycled between 2 & 3 rings (between the SG & SSG spread patterns) when holding fire
• The display of the shotgun hit FX are no longer delayed by one frame

Mini-Mega Health:

• This 25 hp overstack item with a 15 second respawn has been changed to a 50 hp no overstack item with a 30 second respawn
• Bloom FX toned down, so was to not over-emphasize the item now that it no longer overstacks

Deep Embrace:

• Fixed the lod (Level of Detail) mesh at murder hole

The Dark Zone:

• Resized The Dark Zone to be 125% its original size, to give players more space
• Cleaned up geometry, removed unseen
• Improved lightmap texture density
• Optimized lightmap with video quality
• Fixed hole on ramp below Tri-bolt

The Longest Yards:

• The Longest Yard – Fixed the size of the rock kill volumes
• The Longest Yard CTF – Fixed the size of the rock kill volumes

Unholy Trinity Fixes:

• Fixed UHT armor loadout (Example: Ranger should spawn 100 max armor points, not 50 starting ap nor 175 overmax ap)

Main Theme Music:

• Made the Quake Champions main theme available to listen to in-game. Created by Chris Vrenna (Tweaker, Nine Inch Nails), our main theme is an amazing track and it is now available in-game, debuting as an alternative main menu music selection.

Misc Changes/Fixes:

• Extra decimal in sensitivity settings
• Adjusted the performance icon thresholds for minor frame drops
• Assigned the Learn, Season Pass, and Challenges UI menu background cameras to new positions to address podium visibility issues
• Now use the blackghost shader of the customization pip previews for vanity items
• Fixed sizing of Eisen’s FROSTED HAT vanity
• Fixed sizing of Eisen’s LEATHER HAT vanity
• Fixed missing shard dismantle offer for Scalebearer’s CYAEGHA’S GAMBIT vanity
• Disabled voice chat while investigating MSS platform issues

Notes:

• Removed Killbeep Off in favor of Volume 0

 

[Venser]

QuakeCon update ads a new map and weapon skin and new patch improves sound engine.

New Map: Cursed Soul
Brand new Arena “Cursed Soul”, our first Egyptian themed map in Quake Champions. Queue option have been added for Cursed Soul Team DeathMatch & DeathMatch. Lots of Audio settings have been worked on please check the notes below for full details. Shotgun has had a slight change, and the last of our yearly QuakeCon themed skins will release on August 5th…The Tribolt Skin. See y’all at QuakeCon in 2 weeks!

QuakeCon Content:

• QuakeCon 2024 Nameplate & Profile Icon store bundle (available now!)
• QuakeCon Tri-Bolt – Free login reward available August 5-12

New Audio Setting:

• Teammate Volume – Lowers or mutes your teammate’s movement, VO, and shot sounds

Sound Engine Updated:

• FMOD upgraded from 1.08.13 (2016) to 2.02 (latest stable)
• Improved sound quality, increased sample rate from 44.1 kHz to 48 kHz
• Increased max sound channels from 50 to 256 to address sounds cutting out
• Fixed Surround Sound support for 5.1 and 7.1
• Sounds above and below the player’s eye line now have distinct EQ balancing to make their vertical position discernible
• Optimized sound events for reduced CPU usage
• Fixed distance attenuation and occlusion for item pickup sound events
• Fixed Tri-bolt third person sounds from playing the incorrect vanity Tri-bolt sound set
• Removed the HRTF option in favor of the new audio system

Weapon Updates:

• Shotguns updated for improved damage and consistency in close & mid-range fights. Pellet counts, spread, falloff all adjusted, but total damage and DPS unchanged.

Map Updates:

• Crucible – Respawn locations reworked

Miscellaneous:

• Fixed Tri-bolt third person FX for Sunrise 69

Anti-Cheat Updates:

• Fixed anti-cheat compatibility issue with 2000-2010 era CPUs

 

[Venser]

The last day of 2v2 LAN tournament. There were some really exciting comebacks.

https://www.twitch.tv/keencontv

 

[Dr1f7]

damn people still play this game? wtf?

quake champions died because of the quake part, not the champions or the lack of a server browser lmao.

1v1 quake is boring as fuck and the team based modes are all half baked bare bones shit because they don't have the guts to build the game around team gameplay from the start. if you were to design it around team gameplay first, you'd end up with team fortress or overwatch, which coincidentally are highly successful games.

the problem is the e-sports focus. quake gameplay is gold, all they need to do is make it fun and not sweaty. nobody's going to become a millionaire epic pro e-sport quake gamer, but the game could have been a lot more popular if it was focused on being fun instead of on being some dumb sweaty tournament crap

 

[hajro]

How do you make a game about map controlling spawns not sweaty

 

[Dr1f7]

lick my nutsack bitch

 

[hajro]

lick my nutsack bitch

So you dont know