Season 28 our Autumn Update is now Live!

Howdy Folks! Autumn is here. Its time for the Harvest…Season 28. This update is bringing us a new features: Special movement for air dodge. As well as: A new spawn system, Champion changes, Champion Movement updates, Leaderboard & Skill Ratings reset for all modes back up the ladder we go, and much more. Check out the new content, and more details being added to this season below.

Update Notes from Bethesda (Not uploaded yet)

Quake Champions 2025 Season 28 – Autumn Update

New Vanity Content:

• Added the Quake 4 NAPALM LAUNCHER Tri-bolt, available in the Store & Level 1 of the Paid Battle Pass.

• Added the Volkerh BLACK MAGIC Podium, available in the Battle Pass as a reward for Level 100 of the paid version.

Ranked Skill Ratings Reset

• Leaderboards and Skill Ratings have been reset for all game modes

Champion Movement Updates

Light Champion Speeds

• Athena – Max ground movement speed decreased from 1000 to 750 ups
• Nyx – Max ground movement speed decreased from 2000 to 750 ups
  Medium Champion Speeds
• Base movement speed increased to 320 ups
• Max movement ground speeds decreased to 650 ups
  Heavy Champion Speeds
• Base movement speed increased to 320 ups
• Max movement ground speed decreased to 600 ups

Additional BJ Blazkowicz Changes

• BJ now gains a small amount of ammo when he activates Dual Wield (25 bullets, 3
  shells, 3 rockets, 25 cells, 3 slugs, 25 nails, and 3 bolts)

Additional Clutch Changes

• Added Single-tap Dodge, which can now be performed via a special movement
  dodge key bind
• About Single-Tap DODGE
• Added a DODGE DOUBLE-TAP TIME control setting to choose the time window in
  which a double-tap dodge can be performed
• Added a GROUND DODGE passive in addition to his Air-Dodge
• Removed Forward Accel
• Speed Clamp Deceleration In Air increased from 1.3 to 10 m/s2 – this controls how
  quickly they are brought back to max speed while in the air moving above max
  speeds
• Added a stamina system that allows 3 dodges in succession and regens stamina
  after each dodge is performed, restoring up to 3 dodges

Additional Death Knight Changes

• Added Tempered Steel passive that provides an Armor Steal effect and when an
  enemy takes damage from fire, half of that damage is converted to ap for Death
  Knight.
• Increased Death Knight Fire Dot, for both Flame Strike and Charring Gauntlet, from 3
  to 6 damage per tick
• Reduced frequency of damage from standing on the Fire Trail from every 100 ms to
  250 ms

Additional DOOM Slayer Changes

• Blood punch health bubbles can now be picked up immediately when they drop
• Fixed the positioning of the Doom Slayer’s DOOMGUY COLLECTIBLE vanity

Additional Galena Changes

• Added a vampiric Life Steal effect when an enemy takes damage from an unholy
  totem; half of that damage is converted to HP for Galena.
• The damage dealt from an empowered totem, a totem when 3 totems have been
  placed, has been reduced from 75 to 50.

Additional Keel Changes

• Fixed Keel’s ability cooldown and grenade count so that they now properly update
  on the spectating clients and teammate HUDs

Additional Strogg Changes

• Stroyent no longer drops from Strogg kills, but now drops from Peeker kills
• Stroyent now grants some ammo in additional to health and cooldown: 25 bullets, 3
  shells, 3 rockets, 25 cells, 3 slugs, 25 nails, and 3 bolts
• Peeker health reduced from 90 to 80 hp

Additional Sorlag Changes

• Fixed fps-dependent movement that caused her to be slower at lower FPS

Additional Visor Changes

• Added Piercing Shot passive; Visor now deals 90 railgun damage when zoomed
  during ability

Main Menu & Play Now Updates

• Players can now queue for and play any Practice Mode at Level 1, instead of being
  locked into a TDM Match until reaching Level 2
• Contact list widened – want to see if this improves some of the text scaling issues in
  Russian & Polish

• Fixed the gap on the lower nav menu

New Special Movement Settings

• SPECIAL MOVEMENT: Set the key you use to perform champion specific special
  movements, currently supports Clutch Dodge
• USE SPECIAL FOR AIR-DODGE: Choose whether to use the classic double-tap, the
  new single-tap special, or both keybinds to perform an Air-Dodge
• USE SPECIAL FOR GROUND-DODGE: Choose whether to use the classic doubletap, the new single-tap special, or both keybinds to perform an Ground-Dodge
• SPECIAL DIAGONAL DODGE: Choose whether to dodge forward/back or strafe
  when holding both a forward/back and left/right key.
• DODGE DOUBLE-TAP TIME: The time window to double-tap a directional key to
  perform a Dodge

Weapons

• Starting Shotgun rate of fire buffed from 1000 to 850 ms
• Starting Shotgun & Super Shotgun ground knockback adjusted to create more
  vertical lift
• Lightning Gun rate of fire reduced from 1 shot every 42 ms to every 48 ms
• Lightning Gun in-air knockback reduced from 208 ups to 175 ups
• Lightning Gun ground knockback adjusted to create more vertical lift
• Railgun: decreased damage from 90 to 80
• Railgun ground knockback adjusted to create more vertical lift

Items, Power-Ups, & Status Effects

• Changed Item Pickup Detection: If multiple players are within the pickup radius of
  an item, the player closest to the item will now get the item
• Quad Damage and Protection now extend their duration by 30 seconds when
  picking up an additional power-up of the same type. Previously, it would reset to 30
  seconds of time remaining.
• Fixed the status effects UI, where timer icons would not refresh to full when a
  Damage Over Time effect was reapplied, such as stepping into a second wall of fire
  while already having an active fire dot.
• Quad Damage will now deal up to 3x extra knockback, with a maximum upper cap of
  160u of knockback force
• Added a Max Knockback Scale (3.0x)
• Added a Max Knockback Force threshold (160u)

Spawn Code

• In Ranked modes, you will now see more variety in respawn destinations; it now
  considers the two best spawn points and chooses between them, instead of a
  single forced spawn location
• In Team modes, you will now respawn near teammates more often

Clan Arena

• Increased CA ammo counts: SG 25->50, RL 25->50

Crucible Updates

• Item layout updated:
  o Railgun moved to the lava pit
  o Shotgun moved to the HA Rocket Launcher location
  o HMG moved to the old SG location
  o LG-side LA moved to the old RG spot
  o Upper LA removed
  o 3 Cooldowns near old MH moved to old upper LA spot
  o Updated spawns

Cursed Soul

• Performance improvements
• Updated map geometry to declutter the environment and to improve
• Updated the item layout. Item placements have changed; the map has only one
  Rocket Launcher and one Lightning Gun pickup.

Insomnia Updates

• Swapped positions of RG & LG, and rail ammo with one of the lightning ammos

Audio Updates

• Fixed some cases where Anarki board sounds would persist while dead
• Fixed several cases where teammate volume controls functionality was missing for
  some Shotguns, Tri-bolts, and Rocket Launchers
• Fixed turret shot sounds in 7.1 surround sound
• Adjustment to the water railgun sound fx
• Adjusted the base HMG shot volume over distance

Misc Updates

• Hard, Expert, and Nightmare bots will now pick up items even if humans are nearby.
  Before they avoided these items out of courtesy of their human teammates, but we
  want to see if this change improves bot’s K/D ratio and their contribution towards
  your team.
• Shader cache updated

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 CST. 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. 83 DAYS REMAIN FOR SEASON 28

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. Good Luck!

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 28 Name Plate. Tons of shards, and past skins in Season 28’s Battlepass including the Silver Ranger skin which was originally quite a bit of shards. Level 2 of the paid BP includes a 7 day XP boost. Tons of past skins are part of the paid BP this summer. 300 Shards can be gained in this Season’s BP.

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 28…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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