Quake Champions Winter 2021-2022 Update

Posted today, Friday, Dec 17, 2021, at the Bethesda Quake Champions News Portal Website by community manager, Andre ‘MortalEmperor’ Carlos.

https://quake.bethesda.net/en/news/3dRqyUll7wVetJ8ua2cPA8

UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS

Season 13 Battle Pass

This season's Battle Pass is the gift that keeps on giving, with tons of rewards for you to unlock including holiday-themed profile icons, nameplates, and vanity items!

New Vanity - ICE BEAM Lightning Gun

Give your enemies the cold shoulder with this new ice-themed Lightning Gun vanity, available in the Season 13 Battle Pass!

Clip courtesy of Aeron1te (Dec 2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH4ejatHU_0

New Map - Insomnia

I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea...

Your restless battle continues within the ancient stone walls of this cathedral-fortress to Volkerh, the Whispering One. This moonlit arena is available for Duel, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Clan Arena modes!

Clip courtesy of RAISY (Dec 2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4PzJeGbFBw

Audio Settings

• Added Ambient Volume slider
• Added Announcer Volume slider
• Added a Champion Voice Volume slider (includes self, team, enemy VO and efforts)

Map Updates

Deep Embrace
• Updated collision at the top of the stairs near the Rocket Launcher
• Fixed a major collision issue at the Light Armor "death window"
Exile
• Fixed a hole in the geometry near the Mega Health
• Updated Collision throughout the map

Champion Updates

BJ
• Dual Wield now treats all weapons the same: increasing their firing rate by 1/3rd

DOOM SLAYER
• Changed ability duration from 6 seconds → 5 seconds, and increased delay between Punches from 500ms → 1s

SCALEBEARER
• Forward acceleration 0.85 → 0.75

All Champions

• Unified movement Unified movement & knockback box sizes within weight classes to 0.8m, 0.9m, and 1.0m:

o Anarki 0.9 → 0.8
o BJ Blazkowicz 1.0 → 0.9
o Death Knight 1.0 → 0.9
o Doom Slayer 0.8 → 0.9
o Eisen 0.85 → 0.9
o Ranger 0.95 → 0.9
o Strogg 0.8 → 0.9
o Visor 1.0 → 0.9
o Clutch 1.2 → 1.0 (knockback only)
o Keel 0.9 → 1.0
o Sorlag 1.2 → 1.0 (knockback only)

• Unified standing and crouching view heights into three groups (light/medium, heavy, Anarki) as their previous values only slightly differed

Weapon Updates

SHOTGUN
• Reduced pellet count and increased damage per pellet (same max damage)
o Old: 20 pellets x 4 dmg = 80, SSG - 30 pellets x 4 dmg = 120
o New: 16 pellets x 5 dmg = 80, SSG - 24 pellets x 5 dmg = 120
• Falloff Distance: reduced pellet damage by 1 for every 9.6 meters (384u)

NAILGUNS
• The Nailgun splash radius now matches the Super Nailgun splash radius of 20u
• Both the Nailgun and Super Nailgun projectiles have been changed to 1800 ups instead of 2000 ups

Gameplay Fixes

Fixed the Respawn button not working during warmup
The match will now end immediately when the CTF mercy limit is triggered. (Instead of scheduling it in 3 seconds.) This resolves issues when hitting the mercy limit near the end of the round
Fixed Marauder Shotgun shells not vanishing in Ghostwalk
Fixed Shaft Lightning Gun glass not vanishing in Ghostwalk
Fixed Terminator Shotgun beam not vanishing in Ghostwalk

Sound Updates

• Fixed 5.1 and 7.1 Surround Sound options
• Fixed a large number of sounds cutting out
• Fixes sounds cutting out during/after Dual Wield
• Fixes a lot of cases for weapon shots cutting out
• Fixes a lot of cases of missing enemy sounds (steps, jumps, lands, etc)
• Fixed explosions cutting out
• Fixed range inconsistencies in champion movement sounds, now using 35m for all sounds (previously, some were 32, 35, 37.5)
• Fixed The Lurching King / Exile map loading loading music
• Normalized footstep volumes (some were too loud, some were too quiet; now they should be just right)
• Made pain sounds for teammates quieter
• Slighty increased the pitch of footsteps and jump sounds above you, and decreased the pitch of those below you
• Slight reduced the volume of occluded footsteps and jump sounds (helps with sounds through walls sounding like they are right next to you)
• Sound Mix - Slight decreased in third person champion voice, pain sounds, and death sounds volume

Bot Updates

Slight nerf for Lightning Gun & Super Nailgun aiming

UI Updates

• Ranked UI skip fix
• Fixed typos in Nyx and Doom Slayer game tips
• Fixed inconsistent choices between UK/US English spelling
• Fixed typo in the Marauder Shotgun description
• Fixed typo in QuakeCon 2021 Gauntlet description
• Fixed watermark code that was trying to drop the "-master-https" string
• Watermark now hidden if there is an active match
• Cleaned up watermark formatting, shortened unconnected state text

Services

• Updated Bethesda.net BDK integration
• Security Updates




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Quake Champions Winter 2021-2022 Update

Posted today, Thursday, Feb 24, 2022, at the Bethesda Quake Champions News Portal Website by community manager, Andre ‘MortalEmperor’ Carlos.

https://quake.bethesda.net/en/news/75MKc7JCcxlPnQQ7isW3R9

UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS

Mid-Winter Update is now live, and brings a host of balance changes, tweaks, and bug fixes:

Map Updates

Deep Embrace

Fixed the collision issue near lower Light Armor
Added ability collision in the vista outside the power-up window

Exile

Fixed the collision at Heavy Machinegun Teleporter

Insomnia

New Duel item layout:
Railgun moved to Power-up Dungeon
Shotgun moved to Railgun Ledge
Dungeon Cooldowns moved up above where they are in TDM/FFA

Fixed Duel & TDM starting spawns, updated respawn locations

Fixed collision issue at Heavy Armor window above the jumppad (dire orb could go out of the map)

Fixed a visibility popping issue at lower archway near Super Nailgun

Disabled the commemorative 25th Anniversary banners in all maps except The Dark Zone

Champion Updates

CLUTCH
Starting Armor Points increased from 75 -> 100

SCALEBEARER

Reduced passive Forward Ground Acceleration from 0.75 to 0.5
Reduced Bullrush Ground Acceleration from 170 to 150
Reduced Interruption Speed from 240 ups to 200 ups; if a rushing Scalebearer is slowed below the interruption speed, the Bullrush will stop
Added a 200-320 ups damage range for Bullrush so that below 320 ups hits deal 25 dmg instead of 0 dmg (This is only during bullrush, still no passive damage below 400 ups)

Weapon Updates

SHOTGUNS

Added a center pellet to both Shotguns (increasing both max damages by 5, to 85 & 125 max dmg)

NAILGUNS

Nails now do 10 & 15 damage instead of 12 & 20 (which is 100 & 150 DPS instead of 120 & 200 DPS) — BUT they are easier to hit with now. Nails are now 10u wide instead of 6.4u wide

Sound Updates

New Audio Hit Beep Options: ( OFF | DAMAGE DEALT | ADDITIVE )
Reduced elevated pitch range from |-6 steps to +8 steps| to |-4 steps to +4 steps|
Reduced elevation distance volume reduction from -5db to -3db at the max attenuation
Fixed landing & fall sound volumes & mix
Fixed Slash third-person crouchslide sounds after death
Increased the volume of the Strogg >25 hp pain sounds
Added four new Strogg VO lines (1 frag, 1 assist, 1 respawn, 1 low health)
Prevent change weapon sound events from playing from the corpses of dead players & bots
Increased Diablo SSG shot sounds by +2db
Increased global max sound events value
Made pain sounds for teammates quieter
Athena Ability VO:
Reduced the first-person VO occurrence from 90% of the time to only 50% of the time
Reduced the volume by -2db
Reduced the chance of the "Woohoo" VO from 10% to 5%
Fixed Localized VO for Athena, Death Knight, and Strogg medals: Air Assualt, Bombardment, Floor Is Lava, Psi Radar, Rope Trick, Smelter, Swinger, and Trident
Fixed Tribolt max sound instances

Bot Updates

Slight nerf to bots' nailgun skills
Ability usage improvements

Miscellaneous

Allow new unidentified hardware detections to be set to ultra/high instead of med/low
CTF - once again schedule end-of-game after the final capture, but now with a 1-second delay, instead of none or 3
UI – Decreased the length of the Ranking Up & Down animations
Fixed Anarki & Galena pink armor shaders
Fixed the texture quality for all Lore Vanity items (Scroll 10)
Fixed watermark code that was trying to drop the "-master-https" string
Fixed a typo in the weapon switch/railgun loading screen hint
Added a game tip about pain sounds to the loading screen hints

Services

Anti-cheat updates
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The Quake Champions Winter 2021 Update(s) are being developed / tested on PTS starting in Nov 2021.

Check out the latest full notes posted by SyncError at the Quake Discord (or reddit):

https://discord.com/invite/quake
https://www.reddit.com/r/QuakeChampions/

Please note that PTS builds are NOT representative of the FINAL build coming in the next official Live Build update. There may be further features added/removed/shifted as well as additional PTS builds to test these. Also, the patch notes below will always be abridged versions compared to the Live Build. Understanding this is paramount.

Stay tuned in this post and at Quake Discord (or reddit) for more changes as they are posted for testing in the upcoming weeks....

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Quake Champions Winter PTS goes live Nov 09, 2021 with the newest map INSOMNIA - part of VOLKERH – the Realm of Black Magic.

Videos of new map, INSOMNIA (with textures, etc)

Uploaded by Shoot 2 Kill (Nov 10, 2021):
youtube.com/watch?v=HVwcLmnQQ8w

Duel Match on Insomnia - Uploaded by ShaftasticTV 4K 60FPS (Nov 10, 2021):
youtube.com/watch?v=oPR1zPApCHw


0.1.DEV.74277/74769 (Nov 09, 2021)

New Map
• Insomnia – Duel, TDM, DM modes

Map Updates
• Deep Embrace – collision update at top of RL stairs
• Deep Embrace – fixed major collision (missing faces) issue at LA death window

Champion Updates
• DOOM Slayer – Ability duration 6 to 5 sec, Delay between Punches 500ms to 1 sec

Weapon Updates
• Shotgun – Reduce pellet counts, increase pellet damage, same max damage
• Old: SG – 20 pellets x 4 dmg = 80, SSG – 30 pellets x 4 dmg = 120
• New: SG – 16 pellets x 5 dmg = 80, SSG – 24 pellets x 5 dmg = 120

UI
• Fixed typos in Nyx and Doom Slayer game tips
• Fixed inconsistent choices between UK/US EN spellings

Services
• Updated Bethesda.net BDK integration

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0.1.DEV.75470/75971 (Nov 18, 2021)


Audio Settings

Added Ambient Volume slider
Added Announcer Volume slider
Removed Voice Slider

Map Insomnia

Added loading image
Added Clan Arena support
Fixed some flickering lights
Misc collision fixes & improvements throughout
Moved some spawns to remove or reduce long-distance LoS kills
Updated collison on the dropdown debris (nailjump hint: fire the first nail in the ground, the rest into the slope)
Slightly moved Railgun position to improve flow

PTS Known Issue:
Auto-login has been unreliable since the initial 0.1.DEV.74277/74769 build. Please login manually or relaunch the application multiple times until auto-login is successful.

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Quake Champions Fall 2021 Update

Posted today, Thursday, Sept 30, 2021, at the Bethesda Quake Champions News Portal Website by community manager, Joshua ‘Tokyo Punchout’ Boyle.
https://quake.bethesda.net/en/news/4ii1II7x0GWYdL28HEOJ34

UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS

New Season 12 Battle Pass Content

Hell-raiser
• New vanity Rocket Launcher
Tormentor
• New vanity Railgun
New Nameplates
• 13 new Nameplates


Impulse 9

To pay homage to the original Quake console command, this new arcade mode features: infinite ammo, all weapons


Game Options

Added SETTINGS-> GAME-> DISABLE PUBLIC IN-GAME CHAT

Prevents sending and resuming in-game chat messages in the public match channel
This will not disable Team, Party, or Direct message chat


Burial Chamber

Fixed staircase collision from Heavy Armor to upper mid

Corrupted Keep

Fixed projectiles going through the floor tiles under the Light Armor near Rocket Launcher
Reduced the number of particle emissions in the embers, ash, and lamps in an optimization pass
Removed totem exploit outside the Heavy Machinegun boneyard
Improved collision on Rocket Launcher & Heavy Machinegun jumppads

Deep Embrace

Reduced the lifetime of all sfx particle by half in an optimization pass
Reduced particle emission numbers by 90% in an optimization pass
Fixed an issue that prevented placing a totem placement near Power-up teleporter exit
Moved an exploitative spawn location near Super Shotgun further towards Mega Health
Fixed the collision on three steps players could get stuck on, on the staircase leading from Rocket Launcher to up high
Fixed collision on the staircases surrounding the watery railgun ammo pool

Exile

Fixed players clipping into the ceiling when exiting the Railgun teleporter
Fixed the turret from self-destructing on the Super Nailgun jumppad
Fixed a hole in the ice staircase near the Light Armor in the Lightning Gun room
Fixed an issue with the wall behind the Light Armor in the Lightning Gun room that could result in Ranger falling out of the map when teleporting to the Dire Orb
Fixed an issue in the tunnel below the Light Armor in the Lightning Gun room that could result in Ranger falling out of the map when teleporting to the Dire Orb

The Dark Zone

Fixed bots behavior that caused them to constantly use the teleporters
Added a visibility block for performance optimizations
Removed an initial spawn that was in too close vicinity to another


Death Knight

Fireballs splash damage now decreases with distance from 25 damage for a direct hit down to 10 damage at its max distance
Fire dot duration has been reduced from 10 to 7 seconds

Doom Slayer

Removed all auto-targeting and camera auto-lock behaviors, in favor of a new Berserk lunge-punch
Double Jump velocity reduced from 7.5 to 6.875 m/s
Increased the volume of the third-person double jump sound effects

Nyx

Increased Ghostwalk telefrag radius from 0.5 to 0.75 meters (20 to 30u)

Sorlag

Acid dot duration has been reduced from 10 to 7 seconds


Changes

Updated Play Now artwork
Extend post-match delay before forcing clients to the main menu from 25 to 45 seconds

In Sacrifice, Strogg will now detonate the drone when second pressing the ability key while holding the soul, instead of throwing the soul

Team and Ranked game modes now limit the number of Emergency Respawns a player is permitted from the Esc->Respawn menu

Added the ability for a game mode to have a minimum player score (-10), and kick a game client when their score goes below the minimum allowed score with the assumption the client is AFK or griefing

Disable the emergency respawn button after it is clicked, and have it remained disabled until after max respawn time has passed

Slightly reduced the Quad Damage firing sfx in third person

Fixes

Fixed the visible mouse cursor during map loading when raw mouse input is enabled

Fixed crouch sliding sound effects from lingering after a Slash or Strogg dies while sliding

Clear on-screen ability fx at the end of the match. Fixes Strogg's Peeker, DOOM Slayer's Berserk, and Anarki's Injection overlays for example

Updated the Scoreboard graphics and medals positions to improve chat message visibility

Removed the broken Watch Browser menu and repositioned main menu icons

Fixed Legal Header size that overlapped and hid the Press-X-to-Close graphic in some languages

Increased the width of the medals text fields on the Player Profile to make room for two more digits

Fixed Super Nailgun sound effects that could cut out when multiple people continuously fire at full ammo capacity

Fixed Reaper Railgun muzzle flash third person VFX that too far into the weapon model

Fixed Trailblazer Tri-bolt that had no muzzle flash in third person

The Quake Champions Fall 2021 Update(s) are being developed / tested on PTS starting in Sept 2021.

Check out the latest full notes posted by SyncError at the Quake Discord (or reddit):

https://discord.com/invite/quake
https://www.reddit.com/r/QuakeChampions/

Please note that PTS builds are NOT representative of the FINAL build coming in the next official Live Build update. There may be further features added/removed/shifted as well as additional PTS builds to test these. Also, the patch notes below will always be abridged versions compared to the Live Build. Understanding this is paramount.

Stay tuned in this post and at Quake Discord (or reddit) for more changes as they are posted for testing in the upcoming weeks....

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Fall / Winter 2021 Testing - Sept 07, 2021
PTS CHANGELOG
FALL/WINTER TESTING
Quake.0.1.DEV.67347/69246
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

New map " Insomnia" - New Volkerh themed blockout.
TDM/DM/Duel map, we're targeting for release this coming Winter.

New Map: Insomnia (testing)

Video Clip (map is work in progress; wip)
Published by ‘Shoot 2 Kill’ (Sept 7, 2021)
Video clip also shows the new weapon skins (also wip):
Hell-Raiser (Rocket Launcher) & Tormentor (Rail Gun)
Video clip also shows some of the new Arcade Game Mode: Impulse 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b1LU_XTWI0

Video Clip (map is wip)
Published by Quake Pro Player, 'vengeurR' (Sept 9, 2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJvtPIEMp6o

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New weapons:
- Hell-Raiser - New vanity Rocket Launcher (wip; sounds being worked on)
- Tormentor - New vanity Railgun (wip, no custom sounds, no custom fx yet)

New Tormentor Railgun Skin Video Clip (wip)
Published by Quake Pro Player, ‘vengeurR’ (Sept 8, 2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMNfUo7wgbA

New Hell-Raiser Rocket Launcher Skin Video Clip (wip)
Published by Quake Pro Player, 'vengeurR' (Sept 10, 2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvK_wd0m91c

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- New Arcade Game Mode: Impulse 9 - Infinite Ammo, All Weapons, No Abilities

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Misc Game Fixes
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- Fixed crouchsliding sound effects from lingering after a Slash or Strogg dies while sliding
- Clear ability fx at the end of the match. Fixes Peeker, Doom, Injection overlays for example.

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Misc Game Changes
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- Added the ability for a game mode to limit the number of Emergency Respawns (respawns caused from hitting Esc-Respawn)
- Added the ability for a game mode to have a minimum player score, and kick a game client when their a score is too low (Consider extreme low scores as afk or griefing.)
- Strogg will now detonate the drone when second pressing the ability key while holding the soul, instead of throwing the soul.

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Champion Balance Changes
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- Death Knight fireballs splash damage now scales linearly from 100% (25 dmg) to 40% (10 dmg) of max damage. For Fall/Winter 2021 Testing
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Quake Champions Summer 2021 Update

Posted today, Thursday, July 01, 2021, at the Bethesda Quake Champions News Portal Website by community manager, Andre ‘MortalEmperor’ Carlos
https://quake.bethesda.net/en/news/2WsLdFFKtoQRmjvrKUebWA

As the old summer adage goes, “sun’s out, guns out”—and there’ll be plenty of weapons-in-hand in the Arena! (Hopefully yours pointed at the enemy, and not vice-versa.) We’re celebrating 25 years of Quake in this update, so get ready for a rocket blast from the past with a retro map, classic weapon skins, and lots more—including new anti-cheat measures to keep the fighting fair!

UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS

THE DARK ZONE - The textures may be retro, but the gameplay is timeless. Return to one of the classic Quake multiplayer maps, Q1-DM6 – The Dark Zone.

TRAILBLAZER Tri-bolt - Classic Quake Legacy Grenade Launcher
LAST-RITUAL Super Nailgun - Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon Laser Cannon
REAPER Railgun - Classic Quake "Legacy" Railgun — Ranger's Quake third-person World View Weapon Model!
QCON 2021 Gauntlet - This commemorative gauntlet will be available during QuakeCon 2021!
CHROME Shaders for all Champions - Red, Pink, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Silver, and Black
PINK Champion Shaders - One for each Champion
PINK Weapon Shaders - One for each weapon that has color shaders

The weapons and some vanity items from previous Battle Pass seasons are now available in the store.

New Client Options

Added - Reflex Low Latency Mode aligns game engine work to complete just-in-time for rendering, eliminating the GPU render queue and reducing CPU back pressure in GPU intensive scenes.

This delivers latency reductions above and beyond existing driver-only techniques, such as NVIDIA Ultra Low Latency Mode.

Available in the Game Settings. (Nvidia Maxwell, Pascal, Turing, or Ampere GPUs with R455 drivers required.)

Menu Framerate Limit - Added a max FPS Limit for while in the main menu. (Default 120, min 60, max 250)

Streamer Mode - Use the Main Menu Framerate Limit when minimized to maintain the stream's FPS quality.

Damage Number Summation - Damage numbers now show a total of recent damage dealt to a target, aggregating high rate of fire weapons into a combined damage dealt number. Select between Off, Damage Type (default), and All Recent Damage.

Crosshair Hit Color - Choose a crosshair color to flash when dealing damage. Must be enabled with "Crosshair Hit Color Enabled".

Crosshair Hit Scale - Players may now choose to scale their crosshair either larger or smaller when hitting a target.

Speedometer - Players may choose between "Off", "Below Crosshair", and "Below Portrait" to alter the HUD placement of the Speedometer.

Ability Info Position - Players may now choose to move the Ability Icon from the center of the screen and push it to either the LEFT or RIGHT side, useful for either players with centered weapons, or those who just wish to group this information near either the Health & Armor Vitals or the Ammo info.

Mouse Input – Players can now choose between or DirectX mouse input

Respawn Players may now change the default "SPACE" bind for issuing a respawn on the death screen.

HitBeep - Select the sound made when hitting a target. Choose between:
Off (no sound)
Damage Based (sound based on how much damage was dealt)
Single Sfx (play the base hit sound regardless of damage dealt)

We have added anti-tamper security methods and have taken actions to significantly reduce in-game cheating and exploits. This added level of protection will continue to strengthen over time.

We recommend that any users experiencing issues disable third-party software while playing; in particular, any software that attempts to integrate with our game by creating overlays or performs keyboard or mouse automations.

Some GPU “tuning applications” such as Riva Tuner or MSI AfterBurner may cause compatibility issues.

If you experience gameplay issues, please disable these applications while playing.

Test Signing is not supported. The game will not launch if Test Signing is enabled.

All Maps

Added 25th Anniversary flag banners to all maps.

Awoken
Fixes to prevent Ranger from falling out of the map when using the Dire Orb too close to the hole in the Heavy Armor wall.
Removed unwanted totem placements outside the curved cooldown hallway

Blood Run
Removed the ability to place totems above the Heavy Armor teleporter entrance

Burial Chamber
Removed unwanted totem placements in the Heavy Armor pit

Citadel
Fixed the initial spawn locations in TDM

Corrupted Keep
Fixed the staircase collision between the power-up and Mega Health

Deep Embrace
Fixed the medium & low Level-of-Detail meshes for the Heavy Armor wood planks, to prevent non-existent gaps from showing.
Additional fixes to the wood plank platform near Heavy Armor, to resolve hit collision between the planks on various settings of detail.

Exile
Improved collision on Power-up bridges, Mega Health ledge, Mega Health pit, staircase between Rocket Launcher and power-up, lower HMG teleporter entrance, above the vestibule doorway (across the Heavy Armor pit), and the Tri-bolt ledge.
Added additional respawn locations and reduced the cooldown on the existing respawn locations
Removed the ability to place totems around the edges of the Heavy Armor pit, the edges of the Railgun pit, and behind the teleporters

Ruins of Sarnath
Fixed Tri-bolt staircase collision

The Molten Falls
Removed an out-of-bounds totem spot near Mega Health

Vale of Pnath
Increased the cooldown of the spawn near the Heavy Armor pillar to prevent it from being chosen as a valid option in quick succession

Heavy Champions now spawn with 75 AP instead of 100 AP, the same health & armor stack used by heavy Champions in all other game modes

Anarki
Fixed his movement box height to prevent his head (and your view) from clipping through ceilings
Adjusted the volume of Anarki's first-person hoverboard sounds

Nyx
Fixed Nyx being able to telefrag enemies (via exiting a Teleporter) while still in Ghostwalk
Fixed the Q3 Shotgun bar not vanishing with Nyx Ghostwalk

Strogg & Peeker
Peeker Gib updates - reduced lifetime from 7 to 3 sec, disabled his glowing eye when dead, removed smoke fx to help performance

Miscellaneous Game Updates

Added new Champion voice lines

Fixed the Ranger QUAKEGUY Outfit shaders colors
Fixed Lootbox Main Menu Quality
Fixed a bug that allowed Gauntlet Damage to be dealt on a respawning enemy from their death position.
Some cleanup to the Weapon Position code
Fixed the enemy weapon fire sounds cutting on for several Nailguns and Machineguns (Freezegun, Ravager, Citizen Kane, Executioner)
Fixed a memory leak that occurred upon leaving a match.
Fixed Keel customization vanity camera positions
Fixed Galena customization main, set, and head camera positions
Fixed the Eisen Salvage text description
Fixed Fiendish Hood Russian description translation
Fixed Enforcer Helmet Russian name translation
Fixed Italian localization from causing overlapping text on the scoreboard
Fixed Russian translation for TOGGLE SPECTATOR HINT
Fixed Flintlock Shotgun description in several languages
Fixed the Keel Battle Report camera position
Fixed THUNDERBOLT animation errors

Optimized UI for Improved Menu Transitions
Reduced the volume of the Citizen Kane shots
Increased the Framerate Limiter max value from 300 to 500.
Main Menu UI - removed the items unlocked box, the total items per champion weren't always obtainable, upsetting players
In Settings-> HUD, sorted Enemy Indicators above Teammate so that it would not be hidden below the fold and because it is prevalent in all game modes.
Very slight adjustments to the Battle Pass menu (font weights, colors, etc) and the Battle Pass main menu icon
Removed the ability to disable reflections in the config file.
Re-ordered customization tabs to Outfit, Weapon, and Progression, and set Outfit as the default tab.
Removed the unused tab on the Player Profile Menu
Removed the two unused tabs on the in-game Social Menu

The following display name rules have changed:
Names must be 4 or more characters
Names cannot have leading, consecutive, or trailing spaces If your username doesn't meet the new requirements, it will prompt you to rename. These changes ensure that all player names will be searchable within Contacts and reduce cases of impersonation.

We are aware of an issue currently preventing some Windows 8 users from running the game.


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Bethesda News Portal Website Article (June 22, 2021)
posted by Parker Wilhem (Associate Content Manager)

https://bethesda.net/en/article/5BDhzsrCYMjy5uWpaMKHQ0/celebrating-25-years-of-quake

Players took their first step into id’s 3D world of Gothic monsters and high-speed shooter action in 1996 and never looked back.

In 1996, id Software revolutionized the shooter landscape (once again) with the release of Quake, taking players through the Slipgate into a world of frenzied combat, horrific foes, secret-laden maps and, of course, a full compliment of memorable, badass weapons.

With 2021 marking 25 years of Quake, we want to extend our thanks to the community that put the franchise on the map, playing endless hours of competitive matches at home or on the esports stage, one-upping each other in intense speedrun competitions and even propelling a certain little LAN party called QuakeCon into a full-scale gaming event attended by gamers all over the world.

As part of the festivities, we’re bringing some nostalgic content to Quake Champions with the upcoming Summer update slated for early July. Speaking of putting Quake on the map, this update adds the classic Q1-DM6 map, The Dark Zone, to Quake Champions, as well as adds a bunch of original Quake weapons to unlock and wield in-game. We’re also creating some never-before-seen developer interviews and retrospectives that we can’t wait to share with you soon.

Whether you took your first step into Quake’s twisted, Gothic arenas back in 1996 or discovered the classic during the modern resurgence of old-school shooters, we’re excited to celebrate the game that started it all with you. Catch you in the arena!

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PCGamer.com running a Quake multiplayer server all week for the 25th anniversary
By Wes Fenlon (June 22, 2021)
"Celebrate Quake's big milestone with FFA, TDM, and CTF"
https://www.pcgamer.com/were-running-a-quake-multiplayer-server-all-week-for-the-25th-anniversary/

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June 21, 2021
.....with possibly a female lead character?

wccftech article
posted by Francesco De Meo
https://wccftech.com/a-quake-reboot-development/amp/

notebookcheck article
posted by Anil Ganti
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Id-Software-and-Machine-Games-are-reportedly-working-on-a-Quake-remaster.546892.0.html

Quake Reboot discussion:
Shpeshal_Nick discussing Quake reboot rumor with Sikamiknico and Sam Tolbert (of Windows Central) (June 20 2021)
It occurs around the 1hr 3 min mark....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG2yt7KVRfc&t=3782s

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Quake.0.1.DEV.67347/67357

Map Fixes
• Burial Chamber - Fixed anti-totem / anti-turret domain outside Heavy Armor that could kill players
• Exile - Fixed anti-totem / anti-turret domain on the upper level that was preventing some valid turret placements

Misc Game Fixes
• Fixed Nvidia Reflex settings from requiring a client restart before taking effect, and from leading to issues with the actively set Framerate Limit.
• Fixed a crash in spectator client that occurred when spectating a player that died 📷 Fixed a crash in the Settings Menu when inputting a text field and then immediately clicking on the slider bar
• Fixed the Spectator HUD Speedometer (removed inoperable speedometer graphical element)
• Fixed REAPER Railgun third-person-view beam effects fade-time
• Fixed Respawn bind serialization to the backend settings so that the bind properly saves.

Anti-cheat Fixes & Improvements
• Resolved some third-party compatibility issues
• Added error messaging for some termination events

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Will be online again (as it was in 2020).
https://quakecon.bethesda.net/en/

We can’t wait to get back to Dallas with our QuakeCon family, but for the continued safety of our staff, the volunteers, and the community, this year’s QuakeCon will once again be a digital-only event. We’ll have all the Peace, Love, and Rockets – remotely – August 19-21, 2021.

We’ll share additional details on the streaming lineup, charity opportunities, giveaways, and more later in June, so stay tuned for more updates.

QuakeCon 2021 Merchandise
https://quakecon.bethesda.net/en/merch/

QuakeCon 2021 Media Kit
https://quakecon.bethesda.net/en/media-kit/


edit: August 12, 2021

QuakeCon 2021 Stream Schedule:
https://bethesda.net/en/article/DLR1y6pQbTYN37pWfKyt9/quakecon-2021-schedule-giveaways-charities-and-more

Let's Talk Quake

video clip regarding possible discussion on the 'Revitalized Quake' from a collaboration with Machine Games.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqsOClqFpmQ

XboxEra article regarding the possible 'Revitalized Quake'.....
https://xboxera.com/2021/08/12/a-revitalized-edition-of-quake-to-be-announced-at-quakecon-per-the-now-scrubbed-description-of-the-lets-talk-quake-event/

video clip summary of all the 'Revitalized Quake' info as of Aug 16, 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXZwic1fBZo