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Season 30 Update

tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:30:16 +0000

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Quake

In celebration of Quake's 30th Anniversary, the Season 30 Battle Pass is free for all players. Rewards include a variety of Quake (1996) and QuakeCon rewards, previously exclusive skins, as well as the new DISINTEGRATOR Rocket Launcher and Goroth's EARTH MAGIC Podium.

Now let’s dive in and see what the Season 30 update has to offer.

Season 30 Free Battle Pass Rewards

New Vanity

New Quake II Enhanced DISINTEGRATOR Vanity Rocket Launcher
New Goroth's EARTH MAGIC Podium
LAST JUDGMENT CLASSIC Rocket Launcher, free to all owners of the LAST JUDGMENT RL

First-Time Battle Pass Appearance Rewards

Vanity Items

SPOILS OF WAR Ranger Vanity
SCRAG HOOD Ranger Vanity
BOTTLED EMBRYO Ranger Vanity
THE KEEPER’S HEAD Ranger Vanity

Profile Icons

SWORD OF THE SUN Profile Icon
RED DRAGON Profile Icon
BLUE DRAGON Profile Icon
YELLOW DRAGON Profile Icon
NEON HELL MAGIC Profile Icon
NEON EARTH MAGIC Profile Icon
NEON BLACK MAGIC Profile Icon
NEON ELDER MAGIC Profile Icon
RANGER CHIBI Profile Icon
DEATH KNIGHT CHIBI Profile Icon

Vanity Weapons

QCON 2021 Gauntlet
QCON 2018 Heavy Machine Gun
QCON 2023 Super Shotgun
QCON 2022 Super Nailgun
QCON 2024 Tri-bolt
QCON 2019 Rocket Launcher
QCON 2017 Lightning Gun
QCON 2020 Railgun Podiums
QUAKECON 2023 Podium Armor Outfits
QUAKEGUY Ranger Outfit
BRAWLER Ranger Outfit

Network Updates

The network code has been overhauled with the following goals:

Reduce packet loss and packet management to ensure that players are receiving important game data
Reduce the amount of lag compensation for low ping clients
Improve projectile prediction & lag compensation validation scenarios

Due to these network changes, the 160ms max ping restriction to connect to matchmaking datacenters has been removed.

Players now receive up to 100ms + their ping of lag compensation instead of always providing 250ms of compensation regardless of your ping
Fixed unreliable messages dropping at the end of every frame, leading to dropped packets
Fixed force-retired packets being marked as lost, instead of tracking them as retired, leading to retired packets being reported as dropped packets
Fixed rockets not exploding and dealing damage when the rocket owner has died after firing the shot but before it exploded
Fixed rate of fire weapons from over-counting or over-hitting caused by applying damage in batches due to packet processing during lag compensation that did not respect the rate of fire of the weapon
Fixed a teleporter lag compensation discrepancy that would allow a player to get shot as they are entering the teleporter, but on their screen see themselves successfully exit the teleporter to then be pulled back through the teleporter as dead
Fixed projectile hit validation when playing with a ping above 150ms

Game Client Updates

Fixed the collision bug that pushed players out of the map, through the map geometry collision layer
Fixed being able to damage a respawning player by attacking their death location with a gauntlet
Raw Mouse Input fixes & optimizations • NVIDIA Reflex fixes & latency markers added
Code optimizations and cleanup for the damage summation markers code
Code optimizations and cleanup for the special movement input code
Fixed Heavy Machinegun shader not applying when attempting to customize its shader prior to selecting any other weapons in Customization
Fixed the wrong champion medals being awarded after meeting the qualifications for a medal and then changing champions
Fixed an issue where you could see a static player doll in the map when a spectator enters Freefly cam mode
Fixed spectators not being able to exit Freefly cam mode after entering it
Fixed a crash in the camera manager when switching to a player that is currently dead
Added caching optimizations to improve performance when referencing user setting values
Reduced RAM size requirements for Texture Quality levels
Quality Settings will no longer be lowered for hardware that is too new to appear in our internal CPU & GPU databases
Removed the fullscreen UI popup that would occur after a match when reaching Level 2, announcing that a new mode (Slipgate) has been unlocked
Fixed several cases of game crashes

Threaded Input

This option is enabled by default as it has tested to improve performance under most conditions – however, this option is not recommended for Linux users and may not be ideal for mice using polling rates of 4Khz or greater.

Added Threaded Input setting - Enables moving the input to a dedicated thread that runs at above normal priority. This has some benefit regardless of input mode but greatly reduces Raw Mouse Input latency

Sound Updates

Broken Persistent Sounds

Fixed sounds that would remain persistent in the world after they should have ended

Pain Sounds

Fixed missing pain sounds
Fixed the incorrect pain sound playing when exactly 25 or 50 hp
Restored pain sounds between 75 and 100 hp
Added Acid & Fire panic sounds when a damage-over-time effect has been applied

Death Sounds

Death Sound radius extended to 35m to match other character sounds

Weapon Sounds

The volume of the RUTHLESS water railgun shot sound was reduced

Item Updates

Power-ups dropped from dead players will now have a minimum duration of 3 seconds remaining • Dropped Power-ups no longer pop up vertically before dropping
Dropped items now fall at the normal rate of gravity
Fixed in-game Lore drops, in addition to being able to unlock a readable lore item, it grants an in-game bonus to those who discover them
Fixed dropped items (weapons, powerups, flags, etc.) from being able to land on a player’s head and remain floating in the air

Bot AI Updates

Fixed Doom Slayer Bots so that they can now use their Berserk ability
Fixed Scalebearer Bots so they can no longer run backwards during Bull Rush
Fixed Scalebearer Bots so they can no longer accidentally cancel their abilities early
Fixed Strogg Bots so that they can now use their Drone Strike ability

Armor Feedback

To provide players better feedback regarding how their combat encounter is going, we have integrated the armor hit beep system from Quake 4 and expanded upon it further. This new feedback will provide unique hit beeps when dealing damage to an opponent with armor, as well as provide visual feedback when that armor has depleted.

Armor Hit Beeps

You will now hear a unique hit beep when you hit an opponent who has armor
AUDIO Settings: Added ARMOR BEEP STYLE - includes OFF, Q4 and QC options Armor Break FX
You will now see special fx when the damage you deal depletes your opponent’s armor
HUD Settings: Added ARMOR BREAK FX Armor Break Sound
You will now hear a special sound effect when the damage you deal depletes your opponent’s armor
AUDIO Settings: Added ARMOR BREAK SOUND - includes OFF, POWER DOWN, ENERGY RELEASE, SHIELD PUNCH, and METAL TINK options

Additional Hit Beep Options

Added HITBEEP styles – includes:
- Mid-Tone (popularized in Quake 3)
- High-Tone (from Quake 4)
- Damage-Based (from Quake Live)
- Additive Damage (introduced in QC)

Teamplay Features

Teammate Death POIs

Teammate Death POIs have been added to assist in teamplay. These not just help you know when a teammate has fallen but can act as a sign of danger. Whether you choose to rush into that combat zone for revenge or heed its warning to find a new path is up to you.

Show a Point of Interest markers at the position a teammate dies
HUD Settings: Added TEAMMATE DEATH POI

Drop Commands

Now available in team modes are the Drop Weapon and Drop Power-Up commands. Each command will drop the item if available and trigger a message in team chat
Drop Weapon will drop the weapon with the current ammo count if you own below the weapon’s starting ammo amount

Say Commands

Added 6 Say Commands: Yes, No, Hi, Bye, Thanks, Sorry.
Available in all game modes, issuing these commands will print a chat message and generate a local in-world VO message that everyone can hear

Show Vanity Customizations Toggle

Enabled by default, this new setting allows you to toggle off the in-game armor shaders, vanity items, vanity weapons (including their custom fx and sounds), and weapon shaders. This can be toggled on the fly in a match. You will still see all vanity in the Match Lobby and the Pre and Post Match Podium scenes to show off your style, but during gameplay all vanity will be removed

Weapon Zoom Toggle

Activating the toggle will keep the weapon zoomed in until you either untoggle or change weapons
CONTROLS Settings: Added ZOOM TOGGLE

Hidden Weapon Position

New Hidden option sets the weapon and hands to be invisible and centered
Added a Gauntlet icon to the ammo HUD, so that the gauntlet weapon selection is always visible

Weapon, Ammo, & Knockback Updates

Starting Weapons now upgrade instantly without weapon switch downtime
Weapon Pickups will now always add the starting ammo count to your current ammo count
Knockback is now applied immediately instead of queuing and applied in delayed batches
Knockback cap adjusted from 120 to 132, resolving the rocket jump penalty accrued in the prior update

Champion Specific Weapon Loadouts

Weapons are now equipped per Champion in Customization
Added an optional Equip on All Champions button

Random Champion Select

The Random Champion, selected in the Champion Roster, will make a random selection from all champions. This option allows players to play locked champions (albeit random) on Practice, Quick Play, and Ranked

In Duel, it selects one champion at random that will be used for the entirety of the match
In Sac Tourney, CTF Tourney, and TDM Tourney, selects a champion during the pick phase, ensuring that it is a unique selection within the team
In Duel Rounds, makes a random selection during the pick phase, ensuring that it is a unique selection within the squad
In all other modes, it picks a Mystery Champion that cycles at random with each respawn, with ability cooldown retained

Universal Weapon Shaders

All weapons that currently have shader support now support 23 universal shaders, which have been made available for free to all players, instead of needing to own different sets of basic weapon shaders for every individual vanity weapon

Basic weapon shaders

Red, Pink, Orange, Yellow, Lime, Green, Teal, Blue, Purple, White, Grey, Charcoal, and Black Basic Shaders Camo weapon shaders
Grasslands, Forest, and Snow Camo Shaders Patterned weapon shaders
Blue and Brown Patterned Shaders Mastery weapon shaders
Ithagnal, Cthalha, Goroth, Volkerh, and Master Shaders

Player HUD Updates

Buff & Debuff player info HUD (such as Quad, Protection) shows a remaining duration number when duration is 5 seconds & below (and shows decimal durations when duration is 3 seconds & below)

Pre & Post Game

Fixed the Drag/Move Player hit detection of the bottom right pillar in the Custom Game 4v4 Lobby
Fixed a the Add-Bot \[+] UI elements appearing on top of the Settings UI when passing Party-Leadership to a player actively in the Settings menu
Added new tips to the map loading screens
Fixed the persistent menu blur bug when leaving the Battle Report after a match

Champion Updates

All Champions

Changing champion mid-game no longer resets the ability cooldown

Anarki

Disabled weapon switch during ability usage, while still allowing you to queue the switch, which will execute after the Injection completes
Fixed the Anarki hoverboard sounds' Teammate Volume support

Athena

Grappling Hook: Fixes & updates to pull speed acceleration

BJ Blazkowicz

Increased the maximum speed cap from 650 to 900 ups
Starting Armor in Duel reduced from 50 to 25 ap
Increased Walk Speed from 160 to 280 ups (for silent walking)
Fixed BJ Blazkowicz’s SUMMERTIME outfit attachments when combined with the GOLDEN CROWN

Clutch

Starting armor reduced from 100 to 75

Barrier

Barrier: Breakable shield, increased duration that degrades as it receives damage, with a maximum of 200 dmg received before breaking
Barrier: Both duration and damage soak share the same energy pool. For example, while the shield can withstand a maximum of 200 dmg before breaking, if half of its duration expires before taking damage only 100 dmg is needed to burn through the shield’s remaining energy
Barrier: Shield sound now alters pitch as duration depletes
Barrier: Fixed incorrect movement settings during ability usage, including move speed 300 instead of 320 and max speed of 750 instead of 600
Mining Laser: Duration is now 3 seconds, instead of the remaining time from Shield duration

Dodge

No Dodge Passive while the Shield is active • Spawns with 1 of 3 dashes available
Reduced stamina regen from 0.33 to 0.3
Improved the responsiveness & accuracy of the Dodge Stamina UI
Added a 10ms delay between executing dodges to address small issues when rapidly executing dodges
Updated the Air-Dodge passive title & description to Dodge Jump, to fully encompass both Air-Dodge and Ground-Dodge mechanics

Death Knight

Increased the maximum speed cap from 650 to 900 ups
Starting Armor in Duel reduced from 50 to 25 ap
Fixed the "bayonet" bug that would leave the sword extended outward while holding a weapon
Fixed Death Knight’s Humiliation vanity not staying equipped

Flame Strike

Fixed the splash damage from the fireball projectiles, they will now always add the flame dot

Charring Passive

Fire Dot - Increased from 6 dmg x 5 sec (30 dmg max) to 9 dmg x 5 sec (45 dmg max)

Doom Slayer

Increased the maximum speed cap from 650 to 700 ups
Starting Armor in Duel reduced from 50 to 25 ap

Berserk

Improved enemy visibility in Berserk, making them appear solid white (with an enemy outline colored arrow)
Duration reduced from 5 to 3 sec (to reduce the distance he can run away when using berserk passively)
Duration restored in full when he lands a punch, resetting the remaining berserk time to 3 seconds (to encourage offensive usage)
Added a sound effect when a punch lands, to help it feel more visceral and for punches to feel like they are making contact
Added magnetism, trails, and new pickup sounds for blood punch bubbles
Fixed a bug with the weapon drop and hand raise that resulted in being stuck without fists or a weapon during or after ability usage
Blood Punch sound added when earning a kill with Berserk

Eisen

Increased the maximum speed cap from 650 to 700 ups
Max Extra AP reduced from 175 to 150 ap
Starting Armor in Duel reduced from 50 to 25 ap
Improved Eisen armor decay rate from 1pt every second to every 2 sec

Sentry Turret

Added Damage Summation audio support for hitbeeps from turrets
Added Overhead Health Bars for both friendly and enemy turrets; health bars on enemy turrets are visible when the turret is either below full health or when it has obtained any armor upgrades
Decreased the turret’s max health from 120 to 100 hp
Increased the turret’s starting health from 120 to 125 hp
Starting Armor 0 ap, Max Armor 50 ap, Max Extra Armor 75 ap. Armor is granted via the updated Repair passive
Improved Turret armor decay rate from 1pt every second to every 2 secs
Damaged health now regens back up to 100 hp, healing 5 pts every 1 sec when it does not receive any further damage for 5 seconds
Reduced activation delay from 2.0 to 1.5 sec
Added an a health and armor info status indicator above the ability info to show when you have an active turret deployed and how healthy it is • Fixed turrets from eternally bouncing on jumppads
Throwing a turret into a kill zone will now grant 80% of your cooldown back, as it isn't exactly fair that we destroy the turret and you lose your cooldown just because we decided the turret was placed in an unallowed location. We grant 80% instead of 100% to discourage spam and exploitation

Repair Passive

Removed the armor regen passive, in favor of a new Turret Repair passive
Eisen can now deny Light Armor pickups when at max armor by standing near the pickup for 2.5 sec. Any armor Eisen picks up will also be applied towards the deployed turret to "upgrade" the turret's stack

Salvage Passive

Shards will now grant 5%, Light Armors 10%, and Heavy Armors 10% cooldown reduction

Galena

Increased the maximum speed cap from 650 to 900 ups
Starting Armor in Duel reduced from 50 to 25 ap
Improved the fitting of the QPL SEASON 3 BELT with Galena’s ACOLYTE Outfit

Unholy Totem

Hitbeeps will now play when damaging enemy totems
Damage Numbers will now appear when damaging enemy totems
Added Overhead Health Bars, Enemy Arrows, and Owner Names for friendly totems
Added Overhead Enemy Arrows for enemy totems, when targeted Owner Names, and when damaged Hit Beeps and Health Bars
Totems now receive Quad Damage, Protection, and Spawn Protection FX to show when they will deal or can receive more damage
Added fire SFX to totems when 3 totems are deployed
Totems you own will now appear solid through walls, to differentiate them from totems belonging to a teammate Galena
Friendly totems will now appear yellow through walls when 3 overcharged totems are deployed
Enemy totems will now have a visible SFX ring around them that is visible in any lighting quality setting
Starting Health increased from 60 to 75, Max health increased from 60 to 75
Damaged health now regens back up to 75 hp, healing 5 pts every 1 sec when it does not receive any further damage for 5 seconds
Throwing a totem into a kill zone will now grant 80% of your cooldown back, as it isn't exactly fair that we destroy the totem and you lose your cooldown just because we decided the totem was placed in an unallowed location. We grant 80% instead of 100% to discourage spam and exploitation
Fixed applying the Super Shotgun's close range bonus damage towards totems; damage was capped at 80 dmg with the Super Shotgun but you can now deal 120 dmg
Slightly increased the totem's weapon collision mesh, so that close range shotgun pellets don't miss when expected to hit

Keel

Increased the maximum speed cap from 600 to 800 ups
Starting Armor in Duel reduced from 75 to 50 ap

Grenade Swarm

Fixed grenades sometimes explode 3 times instead of once

Reinforced Passive

Improved self-damage reduction from 60 to 67%
Improved splash damage reduction from 20 to 33%

Stockpile Passive

Improved ammo box cooldown reduction from 10 to 20%

Nyx

Increased the maximum speed cap from 750 to 1000 ups

Ranger

Increased the maximum speed cap from 650 to 900 ups
Starting Armor in Duel reduced from 50 to 25 ap
Ranger Gladiator outfit renamed to BRAWLER to avoid having two armor sets with the same name (Strogg's GLADIATOR, which is based off of the Q2/Q4 Strogg Gladiator enemy). BP art for new reward added

Dire Orb

Velocity reduced from 1000 ups to 900 ups
Shoot Delay after throwing increased from 0.4 to 0.5 sec
Shoot Delay after teleporting increased from 0.4 to 0.5 sec
The orb now has 75 pts of health and can be destroyed when shot, triggering the orb to explode. The explosion can be triggered by anyone: Ranger, teammates, or enemies
The orb’s damage output is now based on it’s time in flight, gaining damage over time & distance

Scalebearer

Increased the maximum speed cap from 600 to 800 ups
Starting Armor in Duel reduced from 75 to 50 ap
Fixed an IK animation crash in the Scalebearer’s animation set when trying to reach a target position during weapon-aiming that was unreachable

Bull Rush

Fixed the Scalebearer sensitivity bug, where sometimes the default rotation limits are not restored
Fixed Scalebearer Bull Rush sometimes passing through the enemy target with a collision (especially at high ping)

Slash

No changes.

Sorlag

Starting Armor in Duel reduced from 75 to 50 ap

Strogg

Starting Armor in Duel reduced from 50 to 25 ap
Will no longer drop Stroyent when he commits suicide
Fixed Golden Crown power-up shaders • Fixed Golden Crown crash behaviors that would occur when cloaking & decloaking

Drone Strike

Drone: Fixed Peeker’s camera view angles from updating if its Strogg owner's body enters a teleporter domain
Fixed Peeker’s drone flight sounds persisting after death

Visor

Starting Armor in Duel reduced from 50 to 25 ap Piercing Sight
Piercing Sight now exposes the enemy’s health and armor information
Increased the volume of Visor’s third-person ability VO and reduced how much the occlusion muffles its volume

Game Mode Updates

Lobbies/Queues

In a ranked match, when a player disconnects from the lobby/match, the leaver still gets the existing forfeit loss, but now loses SR. The remaining opponent now also gets a forfeit win persisted to their profile
Added Unholy Trinity TDM to the Bot Practice queue
Added support for disabling the Score Limit, by setting Score Limit 0 in Custom Game

Matches

Fixed the max warmup time bug, which would allow warmup to go on forever, instead of being capped to 120 sec
Fixed the Auto-Abort system, to properly end matches when no enemies remain in game
Anti-Griefing system will now exit the current match and send you back to the main menu, instead of closing the game application

Duel

Dead player bodies will now hide at the minimum respawn time (3 seconds) -- so that it doesn't convey when an opponent chooses to respawn. This also allows you to use the Hide Dead Bodies option without being penalized

2v2 TDM

Dead player bodies will now hide at the minimum respawn time (3 seconds) -- so that it doesn't convey when an opponent chooses to respawn. This also allows you to use the Hide Dead Bodies option without being penalized. Instagib • IG Matches in Quick Play now last for 10 minutes with no score limit

Sacrifice

Active Abilities are now canceled on Soul Pickup, just like we do in CTF during flag pickups • Added an Announcer VO countdown from 10 to 1 as the point reaches 90-99% captured

Clan Arena

Added First-Person Spectating while dead to replace the third-person spectating

Slipgate

Added First-Person Spectating while dead to replace the third-person spectating

Unholy Trinity

UHT Matches in Quick Play now last for 10 minutes with no score limit

Spectating

Fixed spectators having a delay changing the spectator player, when the followed player dies and has entered the death HUD UI

Map Updates

All Maps

Quake 30th Anniversary Banners added

Blood Covenant

Removed an unused out-of-bounds jumppad

Blood Run

Added a teleporter from the Tri-bolt mid-level to the Super Nailgun / Power-Up room
Fixed a hole in the wall mesh near a statue
Fixed the position of an out-of-bounds breakable urn, placing it back into the map

Church of Azathoth

Fixed missing game mode flags for items in the disabled obelisk area
Fixed the position of an out-of-bound breakable urn
Removed the out of bounds jumppad

Citadel

Removed out of bounds fireplace reference inside the central jumppad Deep Embrace
Recreated ocean mesh from scratch for performance optimizations
Fixed three small holes in the map mesh

Insomnia

Fixed holes in the window frame mesh near HMG

Ruins of Sarnath

Swapped the SG spawn and SG player-spawn locations (so that you don't have to turn around to pick up the Super Shotgun)
Fixed three small holes in the map mesh

Tower of Koth

The smaller version of Tower of Koth will now be used in DM, TDM, IG, i9, and UHT
The larger version of Tower of Koth has now added the support beam above the central mid-level teleporter that was introduced in the smaller version of Tower of Koth

Season 29 Update

tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:08:18 +0000

Season 29 Battle Pass

* New: Cthalha's ELDER MAGIC Podium

* Features seasonal content for winter and early spring

* Features the previously Store Exclusive Valentine's Day weapons and vanities

New Ranked Play Rewards

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

* Ranking Tiers updated: Bronze 1-599, Silver 600-1099, Gold 1100-1599, Diamond 1600-2099, Elite 2100+

* New: GOLDEN CROWN vanity - Unlocked when a player earns Elite

* Every Champion has their own crown to earn, granted when playing as that champion in Elite.

New Controls+ menu

* Added a Controls+ settings menu for advanced champion controls, and moved the special movement bind to this menu

* Doom Slayer can now use the special movement bind for Double Jump

* Nyx can now use the special movement bind for Wall Jump

* Special Movement vars moved into the input config to address initialization concerns. This will mean that your preferences will need to be reset on the Controls+ menu, as they will no longer be read from the old config or the cloud

Spawn Code

* Updated spawn code to no longer favor respawn locations near teammates and just try to spread players out as much as possible. It will largely behave like the old spawn code, except fixes the fundamental issues that had been discovered and still offers the two-best spawn possibilities in ranked modes.

* Fixed line of sight check for respawns effecting spawn locations on Blood Run, Corrupted Keep, Crucible, Deep Embrace, that would cause the enemy to sometimes respawn within a close line of sight of their attacker

Map Updates

* Corrupted Keep: Removed a totem spot outside the map

* Crucible: Removed the central respawn locations and fixed spawn weight imbalances

* Crucible: Fixed incorrect gamemode flags on 3 respawn locations, which made them unavailable in Duel

* Deep Embrace: Made the trapped rl respawn location less likely to occur

* Insomnia: Fixed incorrect gamemode flags on 3 respawn locations, which made them unavailable in Duel

Reduced Knockback

* Reduced max knockback from 160 to 120

* Reduced max knockback scale from 3x to 2x (reducing the amount of knockback created by quad damage)

* Reduce the amount of knockback reduction provided by Protection, clamping knockback reduction between the bonus protection rate and 0.5 (protection reduces knockback by 1/2, instead of by 3/4)

* Removed vertical knockback lift from Gauntlet, starting Machine Gun, and starting Shotgun

* Reduced vertical knockback lift from Heavy Machine Gun, Super Shotgun, and Lightning Gun from 16u to 10u

* Ranger: Dire Orb Knockback reduced from 75 to 40

* Scalebearer: Reduced knockback from the Stomper passive from 50 to 25

* Strogg: Reduced Peeker hyperblaster knockback from 22 to 15

* Strogg: Reduced Peeker explosive knockback from 75 to 50

Additional Weapon Updates

* Lightning Gun rate of fire improved from 48 to 44 ms (125 to 136 dps)

Quality of Life on Champion Mechanics

* Clutch: Dodge Stamina - increased stamina regen from 0.2 to 0.33

* Clutch: Air Dodge - removed min time delay between dodge activations

* Clutch: Air Dodge - removed the requirement of touching the ground after a dodge before being allowed to perform another dodge

* Clutch: Reduced shield protection rate from 40% to 35%

* Strogg: Stroyent drops on all kills, but the hp bonus was lowered from 20hp to 10hp

* Visor: No longer required to zoom during ability to gain the Piercing Damage bonus

Quake 3 Shotgun, Rocket Launcher, and Lightning Gun Weapon models

* Due to player feedback, we have introduced higher quality models for the TERMINATOR, LAST JUDGMENT, and SHAFT, adding additional details and higher quality textures

Additional Fixes & Changes

* Resolved the CPU-utilization issue introduced in the Nov anti-cheat updates

* Fixed the Quake 2 BLASTER & Quake 4 CITIZEN KANE shot sounds (the de-synced firing rate)

* Fixed main menu texture quality for the NAPALM LAUNCHER, PROXIMITY LAUNCHER and Q3 Medals Vanities

* Increased the Ultra Texture Quality from 2k to 4k (source quality)

* Bots will no longer steal major items from nearby players

Season 28 Update Notes

tokyopunchout | Bethesda — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:14:13 +0000

New Vanity Content

· Added the Quake 4 NAPALM LAUNCHER Tri-bolt, available in the Store & Battle Pass

· Added the Volkerh BLACK MAGIC Podium, available in the Battle Pass

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 double-tap, 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

Seasons 26 and 27 Update Notes

MortalEmperor | Bethesda — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:58:15 +0000

Quakers, check out our patch notes for Seasons 26 and 27, both now LIVE!

SEASON 26

New Vanities

Quake 3: Team Arena's TETANUS SHOT Starting Shotgun
Quake 3: Team Arena's PROXIMITY LAUNCHER Tri-bolt
Quake 3: Team Arena's VULCAN Heavy Machinegun
Quake Live RUINER Heavy Machinegun
Quake 2 BFG10K Rocket Launcher
Quake 3 CHATTERBOX chat balloon vanities for Anarki, Doom Slayer, Keel, Ranger, Slash, Sorlag, Visor
Quake 3 EXCELLENT medal vanity for Ranger
Quake 3 HUMILIATION medal vanity for Death Knight
Quake 3 IMPRESSIVE medal vanity for Visor

Champion Updates/Testing

Added Blood Punch health drops to Doom Slayer’s Berserk

Game Mode Updates

Intermissions

Reduced/unified the CA/SAC round intermission times to 5 seconds
Reduced/unified the Arena Kings and Tourney modes round intermissions from 7 to 4 seconds

Arena King

Arena King's Ranger now moves at 320 ups and 1.0 accel

Map Updates

Arena King maps
- Skip picmip on all Arena King grid textures (preserving their full texture quality when picmip is enabled)

Burial Chamber
- Added new basalt columns to limit visibility and railgun line-of-sights from the lava base
- Adjusted lava base item layout, moved LA to lower perimeter (towards HMG) and moved health closer towards the entrances
- Fixed collision issue reported on a wall of the castle base
- We now allow dire orb through the second-floor windows of the castle base
- We now allow a rocket jump through the castle base broken window, removed some bars to make the RJ more accessible
- Fixed a collision issue with the lower step of the staircase leading from lava base to SG
- Fixed a collision issue with the top step of the staircase leading from the bottom of the large central ramp towards SG / lava base entrances
- Smoothed floor collision on both the upper and lower perimeter areas outside of the lava base (near SG, SNG, MH, LG)

Cursed Soul
- Added gamemode collision blockers to prevent players from standing above the three pergola's in SAC or CTF

Lockbox
- Moved LG to old TB position, moved TB to old high LA position of cave base, moved high LA position of cave base to the lower perimeter room at acid fall pool room, and adjusted the cave base cooldown positions
- Moved power-up spawn in TDM/DM to the blind oculus base (the outside base below the Ithagnal statue) where previously HA or LG has spawned
- Removed the jumppad in the cave base that leads from lower ramp to HMG, added a new route in & out of the base from the lower ramp position that now connects to the old tribolt perimeter
- Fixed the border of all caustic reflections

Vestibule of Exile
- Fixed a reported collision exploit

Warehouse
- Added CTF support
- Updated bot navigation
- Added visblocker performance improvements to warehouse cover

Miscellaneous

Resampled ~50 legacy sound assets from 11k & 22k to 44.1k to prevent performance hits caused by resampling on the fly.
Fixed missing skipPicmip flags from QL HMG, Q2 ETF, Q2 Ion Ripper
Fixed missing duplicate/dismantel offer for Strogg Hornet Wings vanity
Marked all Muzzle FX as Low Priority, making that more consistent and further improving performance when disabling Low Priority FX

SEASON 27

New Vanities

LEVIATHAN summer Rocket Launcher
RUTHLESS EZ-H2O summer Railgun
Quake 2 BLASTER Starting Nailgun
Quake 3 Q3BFG10K Rocket Launcher

Code Updates

Servers now run at 100 fps tickrate instead of 60
Clients are now limited to a maximum of 500 FPS
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 issue 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
- Flame strike direct damage reduced from 25 to 20 damage
- Flame strike trail damage increased from 0 to 3 damage per tick (this is not dot damage, this is damage from actively standing on the fire trail)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Added the CTF scoring system, personal score gained from offensive & defensive actions regarding the soul and soul-carrier
- 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

Crucible
- Performance & bot navigation updates
Cursed Soul
- Bot navigation updates
Tower of Koth
- Fixed three dire orb exploits
Ruins of Sarnath
- Potential fix for a seam on the ring-out collision that you could stand on
Vestibule of Exile
- Collision & bot navigation 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

Season 27 Hotfixes (Now Live 6/27)

Fixed LEVIATHAN Rocket Launcher from crashing spectators when viewing a player firing the weapon
Fixed LEVIATHAN Rocket Launcher muzzle flash origin in both first and third person
Fixed Q3 BFG-10K visual effects in first person Ghostwalk
Fixed VESTIBULE OF EXILE killzone height in Heavy Armor vista
Maximum ping threshold for datacenter connection raised from 150 ms to 200 ms

2025 Mid-Winter Update

MortalEmperor | Bethesda — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:34:24 +0000

Salutations Quakers,

Here are the patch notes for the Mid-Winter Update, now live:

Critical Fixes

Fixed issue that prevented the player from loading into consecutive matches while the DARK MATTER GUN was equipped
Fixed compatibility issue preventing the game from launching on Windows 10 LTSC 1809

Game Changes

Max FPS limit unlocked
The in-game Settings & Social menu can now be used during warmup or while dead, without it closing upon respawn
In Custom Game lobbies, you can no longer accidentally moved players between podiums when clicking on/through and overlapping UI
Improvements to Bot movement (movement skills, not navigation)
Arena Kings re-added to Ranked Playlist
Skill Rating values reset in Ranked

Map Updates

The Longest Yard CTF - Moved RG to center, moved MH to high base, moved HMG to lower base
Cursed Soul - Updated vegetation outside the map

Early Preview of Season 26 content for Gold Ranger owners

Quake 3: Team Arena's TETANUS SHOT Starting Shotgun
Quake 3: Team Arena's PROXIMITY LAUNCHER Tri-bolt
Quake 3: Team Arena's VULKAN Heavy Machinegun

Bug Fixes

Heavily reduced the purple screen flash, caused by the DARK MATTER GUN projectile, when firing and moving forward
Fixed missing passives (for BJ, Eisen, and DK) in Clan Arena and Round Duel
Fixed third person muzzle FX locator for Old Painless Q2 Chaingun

Quake Champions Season 25

MortalEmperor | Bethesda — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:44:29 +0000

Salutations, Quakers! In this December update we've got a whole lot of NEW: vicious new vanity items, new custom game options, and two new competitive modes! Plus, some map fixes and miscellaneous updates. Check out the full notes:

New Content

Quake 2 CHAINFIST Gauntlet

Quake 4 DARK MATTER GUN Rocket Launcher

Quake Wars STROGG LIGHTNING PISTOL Lightning Gun

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

Fall Hotfix 2

MortalEmperor | Bethesda — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:14:46 +0000

New

Added Quake 3 PUMMEL Gauntlet shaders to shop & customization

Fixes

Fixed a crash that could occur from missing network data during a projectile flyby event
Fixed audio compression
Molten Falls - Fixed items and power-ups from landing on a basalt column outside mega, instead of despawning

Service Updates

Fixed the loottable from failing to return a reward in backpacks, chests, and reliquaries
Fixed new Daily Challenge from failing to refresh with new challenges
Updated the AMD GPU Service Library
Updated the D3D Compiler Library

Quake Champions - October 3 Hotfix

MortalEmperor | Bethesda — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:47:16 +0000

We've fixed some issues in today's hotfix, now live:

Fixes

Fixed a crash that could occur when another Keel player or a bot fires a grenade that explodes after bouncing and hitting no opponents
Fixed Keel's grenade explosion from showing up at the map origin
Fixed Keel grenade explosions not being visible when directly hitting players or when taking a direct hit from Keel's grenade
Fixed Doom Slayer Berserk speed
Fixed Athena's pull speed. Holding backwards will no longer cause her pull speed to be slower than intended
Fixed double body collisions during Athena grapple body slams
Fixed Athena's missing grapple flyby sound
Fixed the ETF Rifle's fletchette nail visibility
Fixed a hit beep bug when the damage dealt was exactly 25, 50, or 75
Fixed errors from deprecated sound event sources
Fixed gore blood FX particle emission source
Fixed breakables FX generation
Fixed Q4 RL explosion sounds
Replaced pitching effects in projectile flyby sound events

Service Updates

Anti-cheat updates
Updated the AMD GPU Service Library
Updated the D3D Compiler Library

Quake Champions Season 24

MortalEmperor | Bethesda — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:33:15 +0000

We're at ground zero for Season 24, and there will be a reckoning with some brand new weapon vanities inspired by the Quake II Mission Packs! Check out the full notes for today's fall season update:

New Battle Pass & Store Content

Added the PHALANX PARTICLE CANNON Tri-bolt from Q2: The Reckoning

Added the ETF RIFLE Super Nailgun from Q2: Ground Zero

Added the ION RIPPER Rocket Launcher from Q2: The Reckoning

Performance Optimizations

Code optimizations for CPU & Memory
Optimized sound events, reducing their CPU & Memory loads
Optimizations to Tri-bolt water impacts
Fixed two memory leak fixes
Marked several effects as low priority and renamed the 'Weapon Effects' option in Adv Video to 'Low Priority FX'

Sound Updates

Improved the volume and mixing of the footstep and falling sounds
Elevation sound balancing is now only for third-person steps and jumps
Improved the firing sounds for the Freezegun (1st & 3rd) and the Disruptor Plasmagun (1st)
Teammate Volume now defaults to 10
Marked unnecessary first-person weapon sounds as ambient for Gauntlets, Q4 SNG, and Q2R Tri-bolt (PPC). These will now be affected by the Ambient Volume slider and from the silent-walking ambient stun.
Project is back to 44.1k instead of 48k to address some mixer performance issues
Resampled some of the legacy 22k sound sources to 44.1k
Enemies once again have 3 pain sound ranges (1-25, 26-50, 51-75)
Reduced the 1st person volume of Slash's skating sounds
Reduced the chance of Anarki & Slash's long VO from playing

Weapons

Machinegun
- Spread reduced from 0.02 to 0.01
Shotgun
- Is 16 pellets, rings of 1, 3, 5, 7 - 5 damage each. A total of 80 damage.
Super Shotgun
- Is also 16 pellets, rings of 1, 3, 5, 7 - 5 damage each. A total of 80 damage.
- However, the SSG now gains bonus damage based on range. The range damage, is up to 40 additional points, bringing the total possible damage to 120. Full bonus granted within the first 5 meters and then falls off linearly until there is no range bonus at 10m.
Shotgun & Super Shotgun
- Falloff distance is 1 point of damage every 19.2m. Falloff is now greatly reduced due to the above changes.
- Decreased nearspread from 0.6 to 0.25 m
Nailgun
- Damage increased from 12 to 15
Super Nailgun
- Damage increased from 15 to 20
Nailgun & Super Nailgun
- Nail projectile collision reverted to a point trace, for performance (and balance)
Tri-bolt
- Projectile collision reverted to a point trace, for performance
Rocket Launcher
- Reverted rocket projectile collision reverted to a point trace, for performance
Lightning Gun
- Damage increased from 6 to 7

Champions

Clutch
- Air-Dodge reduced from 9.02 to 8 m/s and to 7 m/s during shield usage
DOOM Slayer
- Berserk mechanics improved to make it more reliable, including hit detection and jump-punch physics
- Can no longer double jump during Berserk

Maps

Cursed Soul
- Lighting improvements
- Quad and Protection now swap locations each spawn
- Fixed collision on sand patch at the top of the water well
- Fixed a seam right of the doorway from the NG room to the MH room
- Fixed a seam below the pillar at vista hallway
- Fixed spectator camera orientations
- Fixed entity visibility issue at dungeon staircase entrance
- Fixed entity visibility issue at 2x25hp staircase
- Improved collision at SNG pillars
- Reworked the collision on the lava pillar ramp
- Added an additional broken pillar at lava pillar ramp to better hint at the clipped wall
- Fixed a seam in a doorway near upper crypt
- Improved collision at stone to health jump in throne room
- Improved collision at lava teleporter dropdown
- Minor skybox updates
Citadel
- Fixed bots to getting stuck on the soul obelisk in Sacrifice
Lockbox
- Item layout changed a lot; have fun!
- Trap updated, now deep and deadly

Miscellaneous Updates

Permanently unlock Ranked if you've ever reached Level 25
Fixed on-screen FX during Picmip (so that they no longer get mipped), ex: sorlag spit, dk fire, health damage, ghostwalk fx
Fixed Peeker drone HUD when using Picmip
Fixed the missing Aquamarine shader for the Q2 Malediction Railgun
Fixed Anarki Striker beard shaders

Quake Champions - QuakeCon 2024 Update

MortalEmperor | Bethesda — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:56:06 +0000

Salutations, Quakers! We're just TWO WEEKS AWAY from QuakeCon, and to celebrate we're releasing a brand new map in today's update: CURSED SOUL! Plus: a new QuakeCon bundle is available in the store, and we'll show you a sneak peek of a FREE reward coming August 5-12!

New Map: Cursed Soul

The ankh is a symbol of resurrection, and you'll be subjecting your opponents to a lot of respawning in this all new 8-player map!

Available for modes: TDM, DM, SAC, CTF, CA, IG, UHT, and I9.

QuakeCon Qontent

QuakeCon 2024 Nameplate & Profile Icon store bundle (available now!)
QuakeCon Tri-Bolt - Free login reward available August 5-12

New Audio Setting

Teammate Volume - Lowers or mutes your teammate's movement, VO, and shot sounds

Sound Engine Updated

FMOD upgraded from 1.08.13 (2016) to 2.02 (latest stable)
Improved sound quality, increased sample rate from 44.1 kHz to 48 kHz
Increased max sound channels from 50 to 256 to address sounds cutting out
Fixed Surround Sound support for 5.1 and 7.1
Sounds above and below the player’s eye line now have distinct EQ balancing to make their vertical position discernible
Optimized sound events for reduced CPU usage
Fixed distance attenuation and occlusion for item pickup sound events
Fixed Tri-bolt third person sounds from playing the incorrect vanity Tri-bolt sound set
Removed the HRTF option in favor of the new audio system

Weapon Updates

Shotguns updated for improved damage and consistency in close & mid-range fights. Pellet counts, spread, falloff all adjusted, but total damage and DPS unchanged.

Map Updates

Crucible - Respawn locations reworked

Miscellaneous

Fixed Tri-bolt third person FX for Sunrise 69

Anti-Cheat Updates

Fixed anti-cheat compatibility issue with 2000-2010 era CPUs