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