# Quake Champions Mid-Winter 2022 Update

- Product: Quake Champions (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake-champions)
- Vendor: id Software
- Date: 2022-02-24
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/611500/view/3108051026701977965
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake-champions/releases/2022-02-24-mid-winter-2022-update

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- **fixed** — Fixed the collision issue near lower Light Armor on Deep Embrace
- **added** — Added ability collision in the vista outside the power-up window on Deep Embrace
- **fixed** — Fixed the collision at Heavy Machinegun Teleporter on Exile
- **changed** — Moved Railgun to Power-up Dungeon on Insomnia Duel
- **changed** — Moved Shotgun to Railgun Ledge on Insomnia Duel
- **changed** — Moved Dungeon Cooldowns up above where they are in TDM/FFA on Insomnia
- **fixed** — Fixed Duel & TDM starting spawns and updated respawn locations on Insomnia
- **fixed** — Fixed collision issue at Heavy Armor window above the jumppad on Insomnia where dire orb could go out of the map
- **fixed** — Fixed a visibility popping issue at lower archway near Super Nailgun on Insomnia
- **changed** — Disabled the commemorative 25th Anniversary banners in all maps except The Dark Zone
- **changed** — Increased Clutch starting Armor Points from 75 to 100
- **changed** — Reduced Scalebearer passive Forward Ground Acceleration from 0.75 to 0.5
- **changed** — Reduced Scalebearer Bullrush Ground Acceleration from 170 to 150
- **changed** — Reduced Scalebearer Interruption Speed from 240 ups to 200 ups so that rushing Scalebearer stopped when slowed below the interruption speed
- **added** — Added a 200-320 ups damage range for Scalebearer Bullrush so that below 320 ups hits deal 25 dmg instead of 0 dmg
- **changed** — Added a center pellet to both Shotguns, increasing both max damages by 5 to 85 & 125 max dmg
- **changed** — Changed Nails damage from 12 & 20 to 10 & 15 damage and increased nail width from 6.4u to 10u wide
- **added** — Added new Audio Hit Beep Options: OFF, DAMAGE DEALT, ADDITIVE
- **changed** — Reduced elevated pitch range from -6 steps to +8 steps to -4 steps to +4 steps
- **changed** — Reduced elevation distance volume reduction from -5db to -3db at the max attenuation

Hello Quakers!

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

##### MID-WINTER UPDATE

##### 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

-  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

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%

##### 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