Features

New Champion: DOOM Slayer 
Rip and Tear your way through enemies with the new DOOM Slayer Champion!

  • Active Ability – Berserk
    • UAC REPORT FILE: D4NUVHA0: Test subjects exhibit extreme rage and increased strength. It has been noted that subjects will vent their rage on any living creature they can find, and will even self-harm if they have no outlet for their fury. 
  • Passive Ability - Double Jump
    • Pressing jump a second time while in the air will cause DOOM Slayer to jump again.

New Lore Scroll Feature

  • Earn unique Legendary Skins by discovering Lore Scrolls, hidden throughout each level!  

New Rune Codex Feature

  • Get unique cosmetics by completing Rune Challenges!
  • Open backpacks to earn Runes
  • Complete the Rune’s challenge to earn a reward
  • Complete all Rune Challenges for a champion to earn a unique reward!


New Awesome Cosmetic Items 

  • New Skins for each Champion!
  • Earn Lore Skins by collecting a Champion’s Lore Scrolls!
  • New Weapon Skins with special effects!
  • Many more vanity items!

Continuous Play

  • Following a match, players now migrate to a new Match Lobby to continue playing, unless they opt-out in favor of returning to the Main Menu.

New Maps 

  • Church of Azathoth 
    • New map available in Sacrifice, Team Deathmatch, and Deathmatch
  • Tempest Shrine
    • New map available in Sacrifice, Team Deathmatch, and Deathmatch

Onboarding – Training Map

  • Basic Movement training
  • Gunplay Overview
  • Shooting Gallery
  • Directional Input Display Hints & Speedometer options added to Game Settings

Expanded Weapon Skins

  • Q3 Gauntlet – “Pummel”
  • Q1 Nail Gun – “Oscillator”
  • Q1 Super Nail Gun – “Perforator”
  • DOOM Shotgun – “DOOM 2 Shotgun”
  • Q1 Lightning Gun – “Thunderbolt”
  • Q4 Nail Gun – “Constructor”
  • New Rocket Launcher  - “QR3-LL”
  • Twitch Rocket Launcher
  • Exclusive QuakeCon 2017 Lightning Gun
    • Log in any time during QuakeCon 2017 to receive this Lightning Gun skin!

Weapon Shaders 

  • Customize the appearance of your weapons.

Voice Chat 

  • Added Voice Chat in team modes to improve communication amongst teammates.
  • Controls for Voice Chat volume and player muting included.

User Reporting

  • Backend improvements

Nameplates

  • New nameplate options!

Profile Icons  

  • Special profile icons for our early access players!
  • New profile icons!
  • National Flag icons!

Shop

  • The shop is now open, check back often for new deals!

Spectating

  • HUD improvements 
  • Overall polish

Twitch

  • Watch browser with top streams

Steam Functionality 

  • Quake Champions Early Access is now on Steam! By purchasing the Champions Pack, you’ll now be able to play the game on Steam using your existing Bethesda.net account.

Fixed Issues:

Play Now Screen

  • Removed Tutorial Videos and Search Game from the Tutorial plate 

Onboarding

  • Fixed issue when Watch Video button did not worked 

Champions

  • Fixed an issue with Lightning Gun where Slash's head was immune to continuous Lighting Gun damage after the first tick 
  • Fixed an issue where Anarki could interrupt his Injection Ability animation half way through it with any weapon fire 
  • Fixed an issues with paint on Anarki skins
  • Fixed an issue where Clutch would point all weapons downward when jumping and shooting 
  • Fixed an issue where the player saw part of the geometry when his Champion died 
  • Fixed an issue where Scalebearer could not be damaged with the Lightning Gun and Railgun 
  • Fixed an issue where Sorlag would fire throughout her Acid Spit animation 
  • Ranger’s Mohawk vanity item temporarily unavailable
  • Fixed an issue with medals where Slash only earned the Ballet medal for kills with trail tick damage 
  • Fixed an issue where Totems do not stop projectiles in first-person, but do in third-person

Customization

  • Various pip cameras issues are fixed
  • Vanity attachments added for various sets
  • Fixed various issues where shader did not stay applied on attachment 

Maps

  • Fixed an issue when enemies spawned close to each other on Bloodrun 
  • Fixed an issue where when using Dire Orb, Ranger could teleport inside the Obelisk on Lockbox 
  • Fixed an issue on Burial Chamber where Obelisk A could float over the surface of floor
  • Fixed various issues where Ranger could teleport out of bounds
  • Fixed an issue in Corrupted Keep where the user was able to see through the upper wall by Rocket Jumping or teleporting 
  • Hitboxes adjusted on small Champions and made bigger 
  • Fixed an issue where players could teleport through geometry by shooting the Dire Orb in vases 
  • Breakable urns have been placed in Lockbox, Blood Run, and Corrupted Keep.

UI

  • Fixed light flickering on Loot Box screen 
  • Sacrifice: Added power-up control icons to left or right of team's obelisk icon to show which team possess the power-up.
  • Sacrifice: Added teammate heads at the top of the spectator HUD 
  • Sacrifice: Added player names below Champion portraits. Added outline portrait with power-up color (magenta, green). Added yellow soul-glow if they have the soul.
  • Duel: Inactive and dead Champion portraits now smaller in relation to the current Champion.
  • Duel: Greater emphasis on the red X tint on dead Champions 
  • Fixed an issue when "New item" indicators are not appearing consistently for unlocked items

Spectator

  • Max spectator cap is now set to 10 in Duel mode
  • Fixed an issue where the Party Separator appeared after 5 members join party instead of 4 
  • Fixed a crash that occurred when the spectator switched pre-setup camera and player camera 
  • Fixed an issue where the Toggle Spectator hint didn’t work 
  • Fixed an issue where the random powerup timer showed incorrect icon

 

User Report

  • Fixed an issue with player reporting 
  • Fixed an issue where ignored-user still had follow/invite buttons active 
  • Added input section for the player being reported

Tech

  • Fixed DS crash that locked Play Now button at the end of previous game session 
  • Fixed various crashes when opening Loot Boxes 
  • Fixed a crash while voting
  • Various Memory leak fixes 
  • Fixed issues when respawning: Dead Champion's bodies will sometimes snap to the user's respawn location 
  • Fixed an issue where a user’s movement halts briefly when entering a jump-pad 
  • Fixed an issue where a game may crash when exiting a match in progress. 
  • Fixed an issue where Spectator players would crash if in free cam mode when all other players leave the match 
  • Announcer for various languages integrated 
  • Players can now close soft update warning pop-up 
  • Various fixes when soft update didn’t work properly


Scoring System

  • Fixed an issue where the Medal for first place was given to incorrect player 
  • Fixed an issue where the player couldn’t earn Slalom and Disintegrator medals 


Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue when players saw the teammates marker only when their teammate was in his line of sight 
  • Fixed an issue in Sacrifice where at the end of a round, the obelisk progress was canceled for a losing team 
  • Fixed an issue where the old announcer was present during the “15 Frags Left” VO
  • Fixed an issue where incorrect set may drop from a Lootbox 
  • Fixed an issue where the End of Match Podium screen appears empty 
  • Fixed an issue where Slash’s Plasma Trail visually extends farther for the player placing it than for other players 
  • Various localization fixes
  • Hero lighting on enemies at a distance now brighten to red rather than white, and teammates at a distance now brighten to blue.
  • Free floating camera to spawn at the current camera position
  • Removed respawn VFX