Season 23 Summer Update is Now Live!

Howdy Folks! Summer of Fun is shinning on our newest update Season 23! New Player Heading HUD has been added, Shotgun has been adjusted, Spring décor removed, JETSCREAM starting NailGun added, and so much more. See the complete patch notes below.

Official Notes from Bethesda

Quake Champions 2024 Season 23 – Summer Update

New Content:

Added JETSCREAM, a bubble gun vanity for the starting Nailgun. rewarded at Level 4 of paid BattlePass. also 500 Platinum in store, and 250 Shards in Weapon select screen. 250 Platinum for Shard Bundle.

New Features:

Team Player Heads setting – Toggle the display of each team’s player portraits at the top of the HUD in team games

Weapon Updates:

Updated Shotgun, increased near and far spread & damage falloff values

Champion Updates:

Athena – Fixed cooldown HUD timings
Clutch – Starting armor lowered from 100 to 75
Scalebearer:
- Fixed the crash in Ability FX when activating on jumppads
- Re-activated the now working Bull Rush FX
- Bull Rush damage lowered from 75 to 50 when moving below 400 ups

Gameplay Updates:

Added Team Player Heads to the HUD in all team games
Teammate Power-up Carriers (quad, protection, soul, flag) will now show up solid power-up colored when behind walls, so that you can easily find, track, and coordinate with your friendly power-up carrier
Added new support to show on the Team Player Heads UI when a player has both Quad Damage and Protection (previously the Quad display would override the Protection display)
Reduced power-up and weapon vertical pop-up when dropped

Map Updates:

Removed Spring Décor & Environment updates for Awoken, Deep Embrace, Ruins of Sarnath, and Tempest Shrine
The Molten Falls – Added spawning platform to Mega Health spawn
Tower of Koth (Duel/2v2) – Fixed spectator fixed camera positions that were located outside of the map

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a crash that could occur at the end of the match (right when the matchlimit hit)
Fixed Announcer Volume, slider was missing from settings
Fixed Scorelimit issues in Unholy Trinity (Announcer and medal placements were incorrectly based on fragcount at the end of the match instead of the score.)
Fixed not being able to throw the soul in Sacrifice when someone was directly behind you, by lowering the soul’s player collision radius from 0.8 to 0.3m
Fixed potential for wrong first-person pain sounds from occurring when over 100 HP, or when playing a game mode with a base health above 100 HP, or when holding protection
Added a cooldown for Champion VO to reduce overlap. (This does not include nor prevent pain sounds or low HP VO from triggering.)
Fixed QPL Belt 2023 missing power-up & menu FX shaders
Learn section updated with latest weapon changes

Don’t forget to Q for Team Death Match, Capture The Flag, Sacrifice, Death Match, Instagib, and Unholy Trinity this week, as everyone benefits from playing those game modes!

A new set of challenges opens up every Wednesday at 8:00 PM EAST | 2:00 AM CEST. The challenges are broken up in 2 parts. First their week, and then their side left side | right side. The left side consists of the free challenges you can obtain without buying the Battlepass. The right side is accessible after buying the Battlepass. The right side tends to be slightly harder, but gives additional XP as well as shards. Bot Games work as well for these challenges. 98 DAYS REMAIN FOR SEASON 23

Also included at the start of this season is a reset to the Ranked Event Challenges. Play 100 games of Ranked Duel & Ranked TDM 2v2 for 100 Platinum each.

You can buy the BattlePass for 1000 platinum. Platinum is the Premium in-game currency in Quake Champions. You can Purchase Platinum in game any time you would like. Quake Champions has also been released on the Microsoft Store. You can Purchase Platinum in the Microsoft Store out of game as well.

The Battlepass itself is separated in 2 rows. The top row is the free version. You can acquire all the items here just by playing the game to level up your Battlepass. The bottom row is unlocked only with the purchase of the Battlepass. This is retroactive. So, if you are at level 50 and decide at that point you want to buy the Battlepass. Everything below level 49 will be added to your account.

Once you have purchased the BP click the shield at the top of the screen, and hit the activate button that will be below the season 23 Name Plate. 105 shards can be obtained in Season 23 & 110 platinum can be obtained in Season 23. Keep an eye out for Level 2, and 35 as they both contain a 7 day XP boost. Level 4 of the paid BP also includes the new Jetscream gun.

Lots of summer themed goodies this season for you to get during the BattlePass. Note if you already own an item it instantly converts it to shards. Level 101 onwards changed starting in season 14. There is technically a 2nd half to the Battlepass levels maxing out at level 200. Level 101 to 200 has rewards as well. Every 5 levels starting at 105 you will receive 1 shard. While every 10 levels starting at level 110 you will receive 1 shard, and 1 Reliquary. The only exceptions being 190 where you receive 3 shards, and 200 which you will receive 5 shards. I have not verified if this is still the setup for Season 23…Gotta push those levels up first.

Quake Champions is now part of the extended Microsoft | Xbox family, and Xbox has given Quake Champions lots of love, and attention since Quake joined. Quake Champions is now on the Microsoft Store, and was also added to the PC version of Xbox Game Pass. The Ultimate Edition of the PC Xbox Game Pass Subscription service will give you the Champions pack for free upon login.

Official Quake discord here: discord.gg/Quake

all bugs need to be posted in the “#bug-reports” channel under the “QC FEEDBACK” header in the official discord. Video clips, or screenshots of your issue are very useful for the developers.

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HAPPY FRAGGING FOLKS, AND WE SHALL SEE EACHOTHER IN THE ARENAS!