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Howdy Folks! Winter isn’t a time for rest-It’s a battleground frozen in carnage, so Lock, load, and let chaos rein amid the frost…in our newest update Season 25! The big focus this update are Game Modes & Custom Game mode options. Both Capture the Flag & Team Death Match now have Tourney modes which should help these modes become more competitive as they were in previous Quake games. On top of this a plethora of new game options has been added to the match setup menu. Most notable inclusions are: Friendly Fire, Force Champion, and Weapon Respawn Time. I’ll leave a screenshot of all the additional options below. Check out the new skins as well: Quake 2 Chainfist Gauntlet, Quake 4 Dark Matter Gun Rocket Launcher, and Quake Wars Strogg Lighting Pistol Lightning Gun. Lastly a winter sale is currently happening in game. Winter themed skins are on sale as well as most gun skins. Good Luck & Have Fun this Winter!
Quake Champions 2024 Season 25 – Winter Update
New Content: Added 3 new Weapons from previous Quake games
- Quake 2 CHAINFIST Gauntlet Level 1 in the paid BattlePass, or 250 shards.
- Quake 4 DARK MATTER GUN Rocket Launcher Level 50 in the paid BattlePass, or 250 shards.
- Quake Wars STROGG LIGHTNING PISTOL Lightning Gun Level 100 in the paid BattlePass, or 250 shards.
New Competitive Game Modes added to Custom Game:
- CTF Tourney – 1-8 players, no bots. One-champion-limit-per-team, 5 second weapon respawn times, no breakables, no killer target cams, and no killer death HP stacks
- TDM Tourney – 1-8 players, no bots. One-champion-limit-per-team, 15 second weapon respawn times, no item timers, no breakables, no killer target cams, no killer death HP stacks, 10s->5s max forced respawns, and Friendly Fire (will initially test 50% damage).
New Custom Game Options:
- Force Champion (supports None, Mystery Champion, or a specific champion of your choosing)
- Starting Weapons
- Weapon Respawn Time
- Active Abilities (now also supports enabling them in modes where they weren’t present)
- Refresh Ability on Spawn (cooldown reset when a player respawns)
- Max Health & Armor on Spawn
- Health & Armor Decay
- Self-Damage
- Instagib Weapons
- Instagib Abilities
- Infinite Ammo
- Enemy Knockback
- Friendly Fire
- Spawn Power-ups
- Spawn Health
- Spawn Armor
- Spawn Ammo
- Spawn Pickup Weapons
Map Fixes:
- Blood Run – Fixed an issue that could cause players to fall out of the map during warmup, reported in Clan Arena
- Vestibule of Exile – Fixed decal collision on HA and LG jumppads
Updates:
- CTF – Increased the size of the flag pickup trigger, 0.5m to 0.8m radius
- CTF – Active abilities are now disabled when picking up the flag
- Pings on the Duel scoreboard are now colored green, yellow, or red based on connection quality
- Removed Mystery Champion game modes from Custom Game, as you can now enable it in any game mode using the new settings options
Services Updates:
- Updated anti-cheat, resolved Daemon Tools compatibility issue
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 | Thursday at 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. 97 DAYS REMAIN FOR SEASON 25
Also included at the start of this season are new Ranked Event Challenges. Kill 1000 players in 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 25 Name Plate. There are typically no shards, or platinum during the winter BP as every level awards something for the player. Also no Haste Potions for XP. I highly recommend getting 1 in the In game store for 250 Platinum, or 250 shards before you start playing this season to maximize your levels early on. Level 2 of the paid BP includes the Quake 2 Chainfist Gauntlet, Level 50 of the paid BP includes the Quake 4 Dark Matter Rocket Launcher skin, and lastly Level 100 of the paid BP includes the Quake Wars Lightning Gun Skin.
Lots of winter 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 25…Gotta push those levels up first. I will update in a subsequent post about the 2nd half at a latter date.
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!
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