# Quake Champions Season 30 Update - Product: Quake Champions (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake-champions) - Vendor: id Software - Date: 2026-06-11 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/611500/view/670619781448073380 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake-champions/releases/2026-06-11-season-30-update 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** — Season 30 Battle Pass is free for all players - **added** — New DISINTEGRATOR Rocket Launcher vanity item - **added** — New Goroth's EARTH MAGIC Podium vanity item - **added** — Threaded Input setting to improve input latency by moving input to a dedicated thread - **changed** — Network code overhauled to reduce packet loss, reduce lag compensation for low ping clients, and improve projectile prediction - **changed** — Maximum ping restriction of 160ms to connect to matchmaking datacenters has been removed - **changed** — Lag compensation changed from always providing 250ms to up to 100ms plus player's ping - **changed** — Death Sound radius extended to 35m to match other character sounds - **changed** — Volume of RUTHLESS water railgun shot sound reduced - **changed** — Power-ups dropped from dead players now have a minimum duration of 3 seconds remaining - **changed** — Dropped items now fall at normal rate of gravity - **changed** — Quality Settings will no longer be lowered for hardware that is too new to appear in internal CPU and GPU databases - **changed** — Reduced RAM size requirements for Texture Quality levels - **fixed** — Collision bug that pushed players out of the map through map geometry - **fixed** — Unreliable messages dropping at end of every frame, leading to dropped packets - **fixed** — Force-retired packets being marked as lost instead of tracked as retired - **fixed** — Rockets not exploding and dealing damage when rocket owner died after firing but before explosion - **fixed** — Rate of fire weapons over-counting or over-hitting due to batch damage application during lag compensation - **fixed** — Teleporter lag compensation discrepancy allowing players to be pulled back through teleporter as dead - **fixed** — Projectile hit validation when playing with ping above 150ms ##### Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Quake In celebration of Quake's 30th Anniversary, **_the Season 30 Battle Pass is free for all players_**. Rewards include a variety of Quake (1996) and QuakeCon rewards, previously exclusive skins, as well as the new DISINTEGRATOR Rocket Launcher and Goroth's EARTH MAGIC Podium. _Now let’s dive in and see what the Season 30 update has to offer._ --- ##### Season 30 Free Battle Pass Rewards ##### New Vanity - _New_ **Quake II Enhanced DISINTEGRATOR Vanity Rocket Launcher** - _New_ **Goroth's EARTH MAGIC Podium** - **LAST JUDGMENT CLASSIC Rocket Launcher**, _free to all owners of the LAST JUDGMENT RL_ ##### First-Time Battle Pass Appearance Rewards ##### _Vanity Items_ - SPOILS OF WAR Ranger Vanity - SCRAG HOOD Ranger Vanity - BOTTLED EMBRYO Ranger Vanity - THE KEEPER’S HEAD Ranger Vanity ##### _Profile Icons_ - SWORD OF THE SUN Profile Icon - RED DRAGON Profile Icon - BLUE DRAGON Profile Icon - YELLOW DRAGON Profile Icon - NEON HELL MAGIC Profile Icon - NEON EARTH MAGIC Profile Icon - NEON BLACK MAGIC Profile Icon - NEON ELDER MAGIC Profile Icon - RANGER CHIBI Profile Icon - DEATH KNIGHT CHIBI Profile Icon ##### _Vanity Weapons_ - QCON 2021 Gauntlet - QCON 2018 Heavy Machine Gun - QCON 2023 Super Shotgun - QCON 2022 Super Nailgun - QCON 2024 Tri-bolt - QCON 2019 Rocket Launcher - QCON 2017 Lightning Gun - QCON 2020 Railgun Podiums - QUAKECON 2023 Podium Armor Outfits - QUAKEGUY Ranger Outfit - BRAWLER Ranger Outfit --- ##### Network Updates The network code has been overhauled with the following goals: - Reduce packet loss and packet management to ensure that players are receiving important game data - Reduce the amount of lag compensation for low ping clients - Improve projectile prediction & lag compensation validation scenarios Due to these network changes, the 160ms max ping restriction to connect to matchmaking datacenters has been removed. - Players now receive up to 100ms + their ping of lag compensation instead of always providing 250ms of compensation regardless of your ping - Fixed unreliable messages dropping at the end of every frame, leading to dropped packets - Fixed force-retired packets being marked as lost, instead of tracking them as retired, leading to retired packets being reported as dropped packets - Fixed rockets not exploding and dealing damage when the rocket owner has died after firing the shot but before it exploded - Fixed rate of fire weapons from over-counting or over-hitting caused by applying damage in batches due to packet processing during lag compensation that did not respect the rate of fire of the weapon - Fixed a teleporter lag compensation discrepancy that would allow a player to get shot as they are entering the teleporter, but on their screen see themselves successfully exit the teleporter to then be pulled back through the teleporter as dead - Fixed projectile hit validation when playing with a ping above 150ms --- ##### Game Client Updates - Fixed the collision bug that pushed players out of the map, through the map geometry collision layer - Fixed being able to damage a respawning player by attacking their death location with a gauntlet - Raw Mouse Input fixes & optimizations • NVIDIA Reflex fixes & latency markers added - Code optimizations and cleanup for the damage summation markers code - Code optimizations and cleanup for the special movement input code - Fixed Heavy Machinegun shader not applying when attempting to customize its shader prior to selecting any other weapons in Customization - Fixed the wrong champion medals being awarded after meeting the qualifications for a medal and then changing champions - Fixed an issue where you could see a static player doll in the map when a spectator enters Freefly cam mode - Fixed spectators not being able to exit Freefly cam mode after entering it - Fixed a crash in the camera manager when switching to a player that is currently de _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/611500/view/670619781448073380]_