# Quake Champions Seasons 26 and 27 Update Notes

- Product: Quake Champions (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake-champions)
- Vendor: id Software
- Date: 2025-06-27
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/611500/view/514087985507992286
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake-champions/releases/2025-06-27-seasons-26-and-27-update-notes

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- **added** — Quake 3: Team Arena's TETANUS SHOT Starting Shotgun vanity
- **added** — Quake 3: Team Arena's PROXIMITY LAUNCHER Tri-bolt vanity
- **added** — Quake 3: Team Arena's VULCAN Heavy Machinegun vanity
- **added** — Quake Live RUINER Heavy Machinegun vanity
- **added** — Quake 2 BFG10K Rocket Launcher vanity
- **added** — Quake 3 CHATTERBOX chat balloon vanities for Anarki, Doom Slayer, Keel, Ranger, Slash, Sorlag, Visor
- **added** — Quake 3 EXCELLENT medal vanity for Ranger
- **added** — Quake 3 HUMILIATION medal vanity for Death Knight
- **added** — Quake 3 IMPRESSIVE medal vanity for Visor
- **added** — Blood Punch health drops to Doom Slayer's Berserk
- **changed** — Reduced and unified CA/SAC round intermission times to 5 seconds
- **changed** — Reduced and unified Arena Kings and Tourney modes round intermissions from 7 to 4 seconds
- **changed** — Arena King's Ranger now moves at 320 ups and 1.0 accel
- **fixed** — Collision issue on a wall of the castle base in Burial Chamber
- **fixed** — Collision issue with the lower step of the staircase leading from lava base to SG in Burial Chamber
- **fixed** — Collision issue with the top step of the staircase leading from the bottom of the large central ramp towards SG and lava base entrances in Burial Chamber
- **fixed** — Border of all caustic reflections in Lockbox
- **fixed** — Missing skipPicmip flags from QL HMG, Q2 ETF, Q2 Ion Ripper
- **fixed** — Collision exploit in Vestibule of Exile
- **added** — CTF support to Warehouse
- **changed** — Servers now run at 100 fps tickrate instead of 60
- **changed** — Clients are now limited to a maximum of 500 FPS
- **added** — Starting Shotgun now has a 10 damage close range bonus when within 3.2 m
- **changed** — Lightning Gun damage reduced from 7 to 6, rate of fire increased from 48 to 42 ms, and max ammo increased to 200
- **changed** — Death Knight's fireball impact explosion now has 50% damage reduction
- **changed** — Death Knight's Flame strike direct damage reduced from 25 to 20 damage
- **changed** — Death Knight's Flame strike trail damage increased from 0 to 3 damage per tick
- **changed** — Death Knight's reduced fire dot damage reduced from 15 damage for 5 seconds to 6 damage for 5 seconds
- **fixed** — Doom Slayer's Blood Punch drops now remove dot debuffs
- **added** — Eisen's turret now shows spawn protection FX when protected during respawns
- **changed** — Galena's Totem damage increased from 40 to 50 damage and empowered totems from 60 to 75 damage
- **changed** — Galena's Totem health increased from 25 to 60 hp
- **added** — Sorlag's acid spit projectiles now have 50% damage reduction

Quakers, check out our patch notes for Seasons 26 and 27, both now LIVE!

##### SEASON 26

##### New Vanities

- Quake 3: Team Arena's TETANUS SHOT Starting Shotgun

- Quake 3: Team Arena's PROXIMITY LAUNCHER Tri-bolt

- Quake 3: Team Arena's VULCAN Heavy Machinegun

- Quake Live RUINER Heavy Machinegun

- Quake 2 BFG10K Rocket Launcher

- Quake 3 CHATTERBOX chat balloon vanities for Anarki, Doom Slayer, Keel, Ranger, Slash, Sorlag, Visor

- Quake 3 EXCELLENT medal vanity for Ranger

- Quake 3 HUMILIATION medal vanity for Death Knight

- Quake 3 IMPRESSIVE medal vanity for Visor

##### Champion Updates/Testing

- Added Blood Punch health drops to Doom Slayer’s Berserk

##### Game Mode Updates

**Intermissions**

- Reduced/unified the CA/SAC round intermission times to 5 seconds

- Reduced/unified the Arena Kings and Tourney modes round intermissions from 7 to 4 seconds

**Arena King**

- Arena King's Ranger now moves at 320 ups and 1.0 accel

##### Map Updates

- **Arena King maps**

- Skip picmip on all Arena King grid textures (preserving their full texture quality when picmip is enabled)

- **Burial Chamber**

- Added new basalt columns to limit visibility and railgun line-of-sights from the lava base

- Adjusted lava base item layout, moved LA to lower perimeter (towards HMG) and moved health closer towards the entrances

- Fixed collision issue reported on a wall of the castle base

- We now allow dire orb through the second-floor windows of the castle base

- We now allow a rocket jump through the castle base broken window, removed some bars to make the RJ more accessible

- Fixed a collision issue with the lower step of the staircase leading from lava base to SG

- Fixed a collision issue with the top step of the staircase leading from the bottom of the large central ramp towards SG / lava base entrances

- Smoothed floor collision on both the upper and lower perimeter areas outside of the lava base (near SG, SNG, MH, LG)

- **Cursed Soul**

- Added gamemode collision blockers to prevent players from standing above the three pergola's in SAC or CTF

- **Lockbox**

- Moved LG to old TB position, moved TB to old high LA position of cave base, moved high LA position of cave base to the lower perimeter room at acid fall pool room, and adjusted the cave base cooldown positions

- Moved power-up spawn in TDM/DM to the blind oculus base (the outside base below the Ithagnal statue) where previously HA or LG has spawned

- Removed the jumppad in the cave base that leads from lower ramp to HMG, added a new route in & out of the base from the lower ramp position that now connects to the old tribolt perimeter

- Fixed the border of all caustic reflections

- **Vestibule of Exile**

- Fixed a reported collision exploit

- Warehouse

- Added CTF support

- Updated bot navigation

- Added visblocker performance improvements to warehouse cover

##### Miscellaneous

- Resampled ~50 legacy sound assets from 11k & 22k to 44.1k to prevent performance hits caused by resampling on the fly.

- Fixed missing skipPicmip flags from QL HMG, Q2 ETF, Q2 Ion Ripper

- Fixed missing duplicate/dismantel offer for Strogg Hornet Wings vanity

- Marked all Muzzle FX as Low Priority, making that more consistent and further improving performance when disabling Low Priority FX

##### SEASON 27

##### New Vanities

- LEVIATHAN summer Rocket Launcher

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- RUTHLESS EZ-H2O summer Railgun

[]({STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30423540/47f22d94397e1e4020cfbd167ce6c42d62ea7696.png)

- Quake 2 BLASTER Starting Nailgun

[]({STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30423540/602154dc7c365dfcbc6dd357e4fee2042000dcd6.png)

- Quake 3 Q3BFG10K Rocket Launcher

[]({STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30423540/a89c101e7d4df97f01623622aee80e184d770077.png)

##### Code Updates

- Servers now run at 100 fps tickrate instead of 60

- Clients are now limited to a maximum of 500 FPS

- Friends List Roster now has one row of four buttons to easily display Frien

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