# Quake Champions Season 28 Update Notes - Product: Quake Champions (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake-champions) - Vendor: id Software - Date: 2025-11-17 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/611500/view/625565014626927305 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake-champions/releases/2025-11-17-season-28-update-notes What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Added the Quake 4 NAPALM LAUNCHER Tri-bolt vanity item available in the Store and Battle Pass - **added** — Added the Volkerh BLACK MAGIC Podium vanity item available in the Battle Pass - **changed** — Reset Leaderboards and Skill Ratings for all game modes - **changed** — Athena max ground movement speed decreased from 1000 to 750 ups - **changed** — Nyx max ground movement speed decreased from 2000 to 750 ups - **changed** — Medium champion base movement speed increased to 320 ups and max movement ground speed decreased to 650 ups - **changed** — Heavy champion base movement speed increased to 320 ups and max movement ground speed decreased to 600 ups - **changed** — BJ Blazkowicz now gains ammo when activating Dual Wield: 25 bullets, 3 shells, 3 rockets, 25 cells, 3 slugs, 25 nails, and 3 bolts - **added** — Added Single-tap Dodge to Clutch via a special movement dodge key bind - **added** — Added DODGE DOUBLE-TAP TIME control setting to choose the time window for double-tap dodge - **added** — Added GROUND DODGE passive to Clutch in addition to Air-Dodge - **removed** — Removed Forward Accel from Clutch - **changed** — Clutch Speed Clamp Deceleration In Air increased from 1.3 to 10 m/s² - **added** — Added stamina system to Clutch allowing 3 dodges in succession with stamina regeneration - **added** — Added Tempered Steel passive to Death Knight providing Armor Steal effect and converting half of fire damage to armor - **changed** — Death Knight Fire Dot increased from 3 to 6 damage per tick for Flame Strike and Charring Gauntlet - **changed** — Death Knight Fire Trail damage frequency reduced from every 100 ms to 250 ms - **changed** — Doom Slayer Blood punch health bubbles can now be picked up immediately when they drop - **fixed** — Fixed the positioning of Doom Slayer's DOOMGUY COLLECTIBLE vanity - **added** — Added vampiric Life Steal effect to Galena when enemies take damage from unholy totem, converting half that damage to HP - **changed** — Galena empowered totem damage reduced from 75 to 50 - **fixed** — Fixed Keel's ability cooldown and grenade count to properly update on spectating clients and teammate HUDs - **changed** — Stroyent now drops from Peeker kills instead of Strogg kills - **changed** — Stroyent now grants ammo in addition to health and cooldown: 25 bullets, 3 shells, 3 rockets, 25 cells, 3 slugs, 25 nails, and 3 bolts - **changed** — Peeker health reduced from 90 to 80 hp - **fixed** — Fixed Sorlag fps-dependent movement that caused her to be slower at lower FPS - **added** — Added Piercing Shot passive to Visor dealing 90 railgun damage when zoomed during ability - **changed** — Players can now queue for and play any Practice Mode at Level 1 instead of being locked into TDM Match until Level 2 - **changed** — Widened Contact list to improve text scaling issues in Russian and Polish - **fixed** — Fixed the gap on the lower nav menu - **added** — Added SPECIAL MOVEMENT setting to set key for champion specific special movements - **added** — Added USE SPECIAL FOR AIR-DODGE setting to choose double-tap, single-tap, or both keybinds for Air-Dodge - **added** — Added USE SPECIAL FOR GROUND-DODGE setting to choose double-tap, single-tap, or both keybinds for Ground-Dodge - **added** — Added SPECIAL DIAGONAL DODGE setting to choose forward/back or strafe direction when holding diagonal keys - **changed** — Starting Shotgun rate of fire buffed from 1000 to 850 ms - **changed** — Starting Shotgun and Super Shotgun ground knockback adjusted to create more vertical lift - **changed** — Lightning Gun rate of fire reduced from 1 shot every 42 ms to every 48 ms - **changed** — Lightning Gun in-air knockback reduced from 208 ups to 175 ups - **changed** — Lightning Gun ground knockback adjusted to create more vertical lift - **changed** — Railgun damage decreased from 90 to 80 - **changed** — Railgun ground knockback adjusted to create more vertical lift - **changed** — Item Pickup Detection changed so the closest player to an item receives it when multiple players are within pickup radius - **changed** — Quad Damage and Protection now extend their duration by 30 seconds when picking up an additional power-up of the same type instead of resetting to 30 seconds - **fixed** — Fixed the status effects UI where timer icons would not refresh to full when a Damage Over Time effect was reapplied - **changed** — Quad Damage now deals up to 3x extra knockback with a maximum upper cap of 160u of knockback force **New Vanity Content** · Added the Quake 4 NAPALM LAUNCHER Tri-bolt, available in the Store & Battle Pass []({STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30423540/a7cd1e80fdf436f9ff6fac2af643e9f3eb63430f.png) · Added the Volkerh BLACK MAGIC Podium, available in the Battle Pass ** **[]({STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30423540/94f8a963d1a57958d70c3e94834210eef02b7b75.png) **Ranked Skill Ratings Reset** · Leaderboards and Skill Ratings have been reset for all game modes ** ** **Champion Movement Updates** Light Champion Speeds · Athena – Max ground movement speed decreased from 1000 to 750 ups · Nyx - Max ground movement speed decreased from 2000 to 750 ups Medium Champion Speeds · Base movement speed increased to 320 ups · Max movement ground speeds decreased to 650 ups Heavy Champion Speeds · Base movement speed increased to 320 ups · Max movement ground speed decreased to 600 ups ** Additional BJ Blazkowicz Changes** - BJ now gains a small amount of ammo when he activates Dual Wield (25 bullets, 3 shells, 3 rockets, 25 cells, 3 slugs, 25 nails, and 3 bolts) **Additional Clutch Changes** · Added Single-tap Dodge, which can now be performed via a special movement dodge key bind · About Single-Tap DODGE · Added a DODGE DOUBLE-TAP TIME control setting to choose the time window in which a double-tap dodge can be performed · Added a GROUND DODGE passive in addition to his Air-Dodge · Removed Forward Accel · Speed Clamp Deceleration In Air increased from 1.3 to 10 m/s2 - this controls how quickly they are brought back to max speed while in the air moving above max speeds · Added a stamina system that allows 3 dodges in succession and regens stamina after each dodge is performed, restoring up to 3 dodges **Additional Death Knight Changes** · Added Tempered Steel passive that provides an Armor Steal effect and when an enemy takes damage from fire, half of that damage is converted to ap for Death Knight. · Increased Death Knight Fire Dot, for both Flame Strike and Charring Gauntlet, from 3 to 6 damage per tick · Reduced frequency of damage from standing on the Fire Trail from every 100 ms to 250 ms **Additional DOOM Slayer Changes** · Blood punch health bubbles can now be picked up immediately when they drop · Fixed the positioning of the Doom Slayer's DOOMGUY COLLECTIBLE vanity **Additional Galena Changes** · Added a vampiric Life Steal effect when an enemy takes damage from an unholy totem; half of that damage is converted to HP for Galena. · The damage dealt from an empowered totem, a totem when 3 totems have been placed, has been reduced from 75 to 50. **Additional Keel Changes** - Fixed Keel's ability cooldown and grenade count so that they now properly update on the spectating clients and teammate HUDs **Additional Strogg Changes** · Stroyent no longer drops from Strogg kills, but now drops from Peeker kills · Stroyent now grants some ammo in additional to health and cooldown: 25 bullets, 3 shells, 3 rockets, 25 cells, 3 slugs, 25 nails, and 3 bolts · Peeker health reduced from 90 to 80 hp **Additional Sorlag Changes** - Fixed fps-dependent movement that caused her to be slower at lower FPS **Additional Visor Changes** · Added Piercing Shot passive; Visor now deals 90 railgun damage when zoomed during ability ** Main Menu & Play Now Updates** - Players can now queue for and play any Practice Mode at Level 1, instead of being locked into a TDM Match until reaching Level 2 - Contact list widened - want to see if this improves some of the text scaling issues in Russian & Polish - Fixed the gap on the lower nav menu ** ** **New Special Movement Settings** · SPECIAL MOVEMENT: Set the key you use to perform champion specific special movements, currently supports Clutch Dodge · USE SPECIAL FOR AIR-DODGE: Choose whether to use the classic double-tap, t _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/611500/view/625565014626927305]_