Season 27 our Summer Update is now Live!

Howdy Folks! Summer is here. Its time for Surfin, crusin, water gunin…in our newest update Season 27! In this update we are getting Lots of Code updates like higher tickrate, increased maximum FPS, and rework to the friends tab. Death Knight & Sorlag DOT has changed. For us Sacrifice fans the gamemode is getting some much needed QOL improvements that should help your team stay focused. Backend updates are happening to reduce the XP per level in the BP. Much more is happening this patch just check out the full patchnotes below. Good Luck & Have Fun this Summer! Put Your Summer Skins | Vanities on!

Update Notes from Bethesda (not uploaded yet)

Season 27 Update Preview by staff member Leadhead

Quake Champions 2025 Season 27 – Summer Update

New Content: Added 4 new Weapon skins. 2 new skins, and 2 from previous Quake games

Added LEVIATHAN summer Rocket Launcher 500 Platinum in store, 250 shards in customization, or level 14 in the paid BP.
Added RUTHLESS EZ-H2O summer Railgun 500 Platinum in store, 250 shards in customization, or level 15 in the paid BP
Added Quake 2 BLASTER Starting Nailgun 500 Platinum in store, 250 shards in customization, or Level 32 in the Paid BP.
Added Quake 3 Q3BFG10K Rocket Launcher 500 Platinum in store, 250 shards in customization, or Level 100 in the Paid BP.

Code Updates

Servers now run at 100 fps tickrate instead of 60
Clients are now limited to a maximum of 500 FPS (sorry!)
Friends List Roster now has one row of four buttons to easily display Friends, Following, Followers, and Ignored contacts
Strogg drone is now using delta compression on net predicted packet data for improved performance
Player clients are now using delta compression on net predicted packet data for improved performance
Fixed an asset protection/validation issues that could result in long load times or for the client to crash during validation
Disabled all New Item notification icons
Disabled Collectables count container from the Champion home screens
Disabled the Bug Report dialog currently found on the main menu
Disabled Global Chat, changed it to a System Message announcement channel

Weapon Updates

Starting Shotgun: Added a 10 damage close range bonus when within 3.2 m (For reference, the SSG’s close range bonus is 40 damage within 6.4 m)
Lightning Gun: Fixed damage dealt to correctly respect armor protection rates, by reducing damage from 7 to 6, increasing the rate of fire from 48 to 42 ms, and increasing max ammo to 200

Champion Updates

Death Knight: Added 50% damage reduction to the fireball impact explosion
Death Knight: Flame strike direct damage reduced from 25 to 20 damage
Death Knight: Flame strike trail damage increased from 0 to 3 damage (per tick) — this is not dot damage, this is damage from actively standing no the fire trail
Death Knight: Reduced fire dot damage reduced from 15 damage for 5 seconds to 6 damage for 5 seconds = max 30 damage (as he now deals direct touch damage from the ground fire)
DOOM Slayer: Fixed Blood Punch drops not removing dot debuffs
Eisen: The turret now shows the spawn protection FX when the turret is protected during Eisen respawns
Galena: Totem damage increased from 40 to 50 damage & empowered totems from 60 to 75 damage
Galena: Increased Totem health from 25 to 60 hp (the amount of damage it can take before being destroyed)
Sorlag: Added 50% damage reduction to the acid spit projectiles
Sorlag: Increased acid dot damage from 7 damage for 10 seconds to 15 damage for 5 seconds

Game Mode Updates

Sacrifice: The Obelisk now plays a global sound each time it gains 20% towards completion. (Issue present online that doesn’t occur on lan, will address in the next build)
Sacrifice: Added the CTF scoring system, personal score gained from offensive & defensive actions regarding the soul and soul-carrier
Sacrifice: The team scorebox now becomes highlighted when it reaches 90%
Timelimit Duel: Increased the max frags for the Duel HUD support from 50 to 100

Map Updates

Reverted Spring Maps
Crucible: Performance & botnav updates
Cursed Soul: Botnav updates
Tower of Koth: Fixed three dire orb exploits
Ruins of Sarnath: Potential fix for a seam on the ringout collision that you could stand on
Vestibule of Exile: Collision & botnav updates

Vanity Updates

Fixed Slash CHATTERBOX positioning for Tempest, Fire Trail, Pro League, and Siren outfits
Fixed RUINER QL HMG power-up shaders (quad, protection, ghostwalk, etc)
Fixed TESLA Lightning Gun in Ghostwalk
Updated the Q2BFG10K with improved projectile visuals
Updated the SCORPION to improve visibility of the nails in third person
Added the Nyx Blue Brown Sheen shader to lootboxes

Backend Services

The backend can now be configured to limit players from selecting red / high-ping datacenters
Updated the backend config storage to include Crosshair Color, Crosshair Hit Color, Ally Team Color, and Enemy Team Color
Reduced the BP XP requirements. Every level up to 100 now requires 35k, instead of gradually getting harder throughout the pass, and 70k for every level above 100.
Increased the duplicate weapon credit from 1 to 5 shards
Increased the duplicate vanity credit from 1 to 3 shards

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. 90 DAYS REMAIN FOR SEASON 27

Also included at the start of this season are new Ranked Event Challenges. Kill 1000 players in Ranked Duel & Ranked TDM 2v2 as well as 100 Kills in Arena Kings for 3 shards & 50,000 XP 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 27 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 one in the In game store for 250 Platinum, or 250 shards that lasts for 7 days before you start playing this season to maximize your levels early on. Level 9 of the paid BP includes a 7 day XP boost. Tons of past skins are part of the paid BP this summer. 89 Shards can be gained in this Season’s BP.

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 27…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!