# Quake Champions Quake Champions 2024 Mid-Winter Update

- Product: Quake Champions (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake-champions)
- Vendor: id Software
- Date: 2024-02-08
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/611500/view/4027975938495912133
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake-champions/releases/2024-02-08-quake-champions-2024-mid-winter-update

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- **added** — BOW OF EROS Valentine's Day Crossbow Railgun
- **added** — WINGS OF ANTEROS Valentine's Day Cupid Wing vanities for all champions
- **added** — Skill Rank Reset & Ranked Event Challenges
- **fixed** — Midair map knockback
- **changed** — Vale of Pnath map disabled railgun ammo pickup
- **fixed** — Athena ability HUD
- **changed** — Eisen regeneration capped at 50 armor points
- **fixed** — Galena inactive totems clearing debuffs
- **changed** — Scalebearer Bull Rush damage reduction improved from 50 to 60%
- **changed** — Scalebearer forward accel max speed increased from 425 to 450 ups
- **fixed** — Shotgun server-side damage validation issue that resulted in blood impacts but no damage dealt
- **changed** — Shotgun falloff distance reduced from 9.6 to 6.4m
- **changed** — Railgun starting ammo increased from 5 to 10
- **changed** — Unholy Trinity game mode spawn Health and Armor pickups
- **changed** — Unholy Trinity players spawn with starting HP instead of over max health and max AP instead of overmax armor
- **added** — Unholy Trinity damage bonus scoring system with +1 point for every 100 damage dealt
- **changed** — Unholy Trinity scorelimit increased to 250
- **changed** — Unholy Trinity re-enabled blood pools
- **changed** — Sacrifice soul world collision radius reduced from 0.5m to 0.0125m and player collision radius increased from 0.5m to 0.8m
- **changed** — Clan Arena improved bot logic to prevent them from stopping fighting
- **changed** — Champion platinum price reduced from 400 to 250
- **changed** — Weapon platinum price reduced from 1000 to 500 and shard price reduced from 500 to 250
- **changed** — Vanity item platinum price reduced from 500 to 250
- **changed** — XP Booster platinum price reduced from 300 to 250, shard price increased from 200 to 250, and duration extended from 3 days to 7 days
- **changed** — Rename service platinum price reduced from 1000 to 500
- **changed** — Holiday items are now available year round
- **fixed** — Missing shard offer for Scalebearer's MILITARY ISSUE GUARD vanity
- **changed** — Explosion sounds shortened from 5-6 seconds to 3 seconds in length
- **changed** — Rank down sound fx volume and duration reduced
- **fixed** — SCORPION Super Nailgun spectator crash
- **fixed** — SCORPION Super Nailgun quad firing and idle animations
- **fixed** — nvidia outdated driver issue in Linux
- **changed** — Disabled in-game lore drops in favor of Champion progression
- **fixed** — Clutch SUPREME INTELLIGENCE top hat and monocle vanity when attached to the Pro League head
- **changed** — Anti-cheat updates
- **changed** — Updated encryption cert

Salutations Quakers!

We've released a new update for Quake Champions:

##### 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%

- 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

-  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

-  Spawn players with starting HP instead of over max health and max AP instead of overmax armor.

-  Added damage bonus scoring system (+1 point for every 100 damage dealt)

-  Scorelimit increased to 250

-  Re-enabled blood pools

-  Sacrifice:

-  Reduced the world collision radius of the soul (0.5m to 0.0125m)

-  Increased the player collision radius of the soul (0.5m to 0.8m)

-  Clan Arena: Improved bot logic -- they will not 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