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Quake Champions — Quake Champions 2024 Mid-Winter Update

Quake Champions 2024 Mid-Winter Update

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  • Fixed nvidia outdated driver issue in Linux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

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