# Quake Champions Quake Champions Season 21 Update

- Product: Quake Champions (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake-champions)
- Vendor: id Software
- Date: 2023-12-07
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/611500/view/3862462943678590326
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake-champions/releases/2023-12-07-quake-champions-season-21-update

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Quakemas is (almost) here, and its wintry winds have blown in an all-new update!

##### NEW CONTENT

-  Winter Podium
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-  FROSTGORE Rocket Launcher
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-  Awoken Winter

##### NEW SETTINGS

-  Added Ally Names & Enemy Names controls in HUD Settings

##### CHAMPIONS UPDATES

**All Champions
**

-  Updated hitboxes

-  Cooldowns increased from 45 to 60 sec

**Anarki**

-  Max speed reduced from 640 to 625 ups

**Athena**

-  Grapple count from 2 to 3

-  Swing damage from 25 to 20

-  Rope break at 75 dmg

-  Removed Stockpile passive

-  Increased delay between grapple usages from 0.8 to 1 sec

**Clutch**

-  Size scale reduced from 1.2 to 1.15x

-  Reduced gear shift delay from 2nd to 3rd forward accel stage from 1.25 to 1.0 sec

**Death Knight**

-  Reduced ability duration from 7 to 5 sec

-  Reduced fireball speed from 800 to 666 ups

**Eisen**

-  Added Armor Regen passive

-  Fixed sinking turrets, so we no longer de-spawn turret after 1 minute

**Galena**

-  Totem detonates when target is within 3m but damages up to a 4m range

-  Slower health decay rate

**Keel**

-  Splash damage reduction passive will no longer apply towards Telefrags

-  Reduced grenade knockback from 100 to 50, to match 1:1 with their 50 dmg (self knockback unchanged)

**Ranger**

-  Dire Orb touch damage reduced from 25 to 15 dmg

**Scalebearer**

-  Forward Accel max speed reduced from 500 to 425 ups

-  Forward Accel now uses ground friction

-  Stomper damage capped at 25 dmg over 395 ups

-  Bull Rush max speed reduced from 800 to 700 ups

-  Bull Rush damage simplified to 75 dmg

-  Bull Rush damage reduction reduced from 67 to 50%

-  Bull Rush shoot delay increased from 0.2 to 0.4 sec

**Slash**

-  Max speed reduced from 750 to 700 ups

**Sorlag**

-  Reduced max speed from 625 to 600 ups

**Visor**

-  Added a 10% speed boost during ability usage

##### WEAPON UPDATES

**Starting Machinegun**

-  Spread reduced from 0.03 to 0.02

-  Damage reduced from 8 to 6

-  Air Knockback lowered from 8 to 7 (to match the ground knockback)

**Heavy Machinegun**

-  Spread reduced from 0.03 to 0.01

-  Zoomed spread reduced from 0.009 to 0

-  Unzoomed damage reduced from 10 to 9

-  Air Knockback lowered from 8 to 7 (to match the ground knockback)

**Starting Shotgun**

-  Reduced air knockback from 3.75 to 2.5 per pellet (to match the ground knockback)

**Super Shotgun**

-  Reduced air knockback from 3.75 to 2.5 per pellet (to match the ground knockback)

**Lightning Gun**

-  Use a point ray trace instead of cylinder radius

**Railgun**

-  RG starting ammo reduced from 10 to 5

-  RG max ammo reduced from 25 to 10

-  RG low ammo warning reduced from 5 to 2

-  Railgun - Air knockback reduced from 80 to 60 (to match the ground knockback)

##### ARMOR UPDATES

-  Increased the value of Armor Shards from 5 to 10 hp

-  Reduced dropped shard count from 3 to 2

-  Drop armor shards in a tighter circle

##### GAME MODE UPDATES

-  Unholy Trinity - Spawn players max hp & max ap

-  Unholy Trinity - No longer spawn or drop items

-  Unholy Trinity - Blood pools are no longer active

-  Sacrifice & Sac Tourney - Reduced soul extraction time from 3 to 2.5 sec

##### MAP UPDATES

**Blood Covenant**

-  Added railgun ammo to lower pillar cooldown ledge (new ammo in Duel and moved TDM ammo to this location)
**Corrupted Keep**

-  Fixed exploit outside HMG bones
**Crucible**

- Fixed ledge collision exploit behind HA
**Insomnia**

-  Duel layout for all modes

-  Moved HA room cooldowns to near the MH LA ledge

-  Moved HA room upper jump pad health to the HA room ledge

-  Fixed brickslide wall collision near SNG

-  Fixed power-up fx

-  Fixed exploitative collision above HP stairs between LG & SNG

**Ruins of Sarnath**

- Fixed exploitative collision above HA jump pad
**The Molten Falls**

-  Fixed exploita

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