Time to spring forward into the Arena with an all new update! This update includes new vanity content; a spring decor makeover for Awoken, Deep Embrace, Ruins of Sarnath, and Tempest Shrine; and various other fresh updates for the springtime season!

• SPRING PODIUM
  
• Sorlag SPRING EGG Vanity
  
• Quake 4 SMC Squad icons (8)

The Tower of Koth has been reworked for Duel & 2v2:

• Resized the geometry to be 90% of its original size.
  
• Adjusted stair collision
  
• Added new spawn points
  
• Removed teleporter exit speed limits
  
• Adjusted collision on both sides of the green FX tower above SNG
  
• Adjusted positioning of a breakable mesh element behind the RL TP to prevent exploitation of totems (that may still be placed there)

• Added Hitbeep Volume
  
• Added Killbeep Volume

• Optimized the elapsed frame time tracking
  
• Fixed false positives events for minor frame drops
  
• Fixed non-functioning events for major frame drops
  
• Misc code cleanup for optimizations and reduced CPU overhead

• Switched trace style from spherical ray to a point trace (removing pellet radius)
  
• Reduced starting shotgun pellet count from 17 to 8
  
  • SG : 1 / - / 7 pellets
• Reduced super shotgun pellet count from 25 to 12
  
  • SSG: 1 / 4 / 7 pellets
• Increased damage per pellet from 5 dmg 10 dmg, total damage decreased from 85 to 80 for SG and from 125 to 120 for SSG
  
• Adjusted spread values to account for the new pellet size and count
  
• Damage falloff distance increased from 6.4 to 12.8 m (256 to 512u)
  
• Fixed SSG visual FX bug where it cycled between 2 & 3 rings (between the SG & SSG spread patterns) when holding fire
  
• The display of the shotgun hit FX are no longer delayed by one frame

• This 25 hp overstack item with a 15 second respawn has been changed to a 50 hp no overstack item with a 30 second respawn
  
• Bloom FX toned down, so was to not over-emphasize the item now that it no longer overstacks

• Fixed the LOD mesh at double-health double-cooldown hole

• Resized The Dark Zone to be 125% its original size, to give players more space
  
• Cleaned up geometry, removed unseen backfaces
  
• Improved lightmap texture density
  
• Optimized lightmap with video quality
  
• Fixed hole on ramp below Tri-bolt

• The Longest Yard - Fixed the size of the rock kill volumes
  
• The Longest Yard CTF - Fixed the size of the rock kill volumes

• Fixed UHT armor loadout (Example: Ranger should spawn 100 max armor points, not 50 starting ap nor 175 overmax ap)

• Made the Quake Champions main theme available to listen to in-game. Created by Chris Vrenna (Tweaker, Nine Inch Nails), our main theme is an amazing track and it is now available in-game, debuting as an alternative main menu music selection.

• Extra decimal in sensitivity settings
  
• Adjusted the performance icon thresholds for minor frame drops
  
• Assigned the Learn, Season Pass, and Challenges UI menu background cameras to new positions to address podium visibility issues
  
• Now use the blackghost shader of the customization pip previews for vanity items
  
• Fixed sizing of Eisen's FROSTED HAT vanity
  
• Fixed sizing of Eisen's LEATHER HAT vanity
  
• Fixed missing shard dismantle offer for Scalebearer’s CYAEGHA'S GAMBIT vanity
  
• Disabled voice chat while investigating MSS platform issues

Salutations Quakers!

We've released a new update for Quake Champions:

• BOW OF EROS - Valentine's Day Crossbow Railgun
  
• WINGS OF ANTEROS - Valentine's Day Cupid Wing vanities for all champions

• Skill Rank Reset & Ranked Event Challenges

• Midair: Fixed knockback
  
• Vale of Pnath: Disabled railgun ammo pickup

• Athena: Fixed ability HUD
  
• Eisen: Only regen up to 50 ap
  
• Galena: Fixed inactive totems clearing debuffs
  
• Scalebearer:
  
  • Bull Rush damage reduction improved from 50 to 60%
    
  • Forward accel max speed increased from 425 to 450 ups

• Shotguns:
  
  • Fixed a server-side damage validation issue that resulted in blood impacts but no damage dealt
    
  • Falloff distance reduced from 9.6 to 6.4m (384 to 256 u)
• Railgun: Increased starting ammo from 5 to 10 (10 starting, 10 max)

• Unholy Trinity:
  
  • Once again spawn Health and Armor pickups
    
  • Spawn players with starting HP instead of over max health and max AP instead of overmax armor.
    
  • Added damage bonus scoring system (+1 point for every 100 damage dealt)
    
  • Scorelimit increased to 250
    
  • Re-enabled blood pools
• Sacrifice:
  
  • Reduced the world collision radius of the soul (0.5m to 0.0125m)
    
  • Increased the player collision radius of the soul (0.5m to 0.8m)
• Clan Arena: Improved bot logic -- they will not stop fighting

• Champion platinum price reduced from 400 to 250
  
• Weapon platinum price reduced from 1000 to 500; shard price reduced from 500 to 250
  
• Vanity item platinum price reduced from 500 to 250
  
• XP Booster platinum price reduced from 300 to 250; shard price increased from 200 to 250, but extended from 3 days to 7 days
  
• Rename service platinum price reduced from 1000 to 500
  
• Holiday items are now available year round
  
• Fixed missing shard offer for Scalebearer's MILITARY ISSUE GUARD vanity

• Shortened length of explosion sounds from 5-6 seconds to 3 seconds in length
  
• Reduced the volume and duration of the rank down sound fx

• Fixed SCORPION Super Nailgun spectator crash
  
• Fixed SCORPION Super Nailgun quad firing & idle animations
  
• Fixed nvidia outdated driver issue in Linux
  
• Updated Scalebearer passive descriptions
  
• Updated Eisen passive descriptions
  
• Updated Galena passive descriptions
  
• Updated Visor passive descriptions
  
• Disabled in-game lore drops (available in Champion progression)
  
• Fixed Clutch SUPREME INTELLIGENCE top hat & monocle vanity when attached to the Pro League head

• Anti-cheat updates
  
• Updated encryption cert

Quakemas is (almost) here, and its wintry winds have blown in an all-new update!

• Winter Podium
  
• FROSTGORE Rocket Launcher
  
• Awoken Winter
  

• Added Ally Names & Enemy Names controls in HUD Settings

All Champions

• Updated hitboxes
  
• Cooldowns increased from 45 to 60 sec

Anarki

• Max speed reduced from 640 to 625 ups

Athena

• Grapple count from 2 to 3
  
• Swing damage from 25 to 20
  
• Rope break at 75 dmg
  
• Removed Stockpile passive
  
• Increased delay between grapple usages from 0.8 to 1 sec

Clutch

• Size scale reduced from 1.2 to 1.15x
  
• Reduced gear shift delay from 2nd to 3rd forward accel stage from 1.25 to 1.0 sec

Death Knight

• Reduced ability duration from 7 to 5 sec
  
• Reduced fireball speed from 800 to 666 ups

Eisen

• Added Armor Regen passive
  
• Fixed sinking turrets, so we no longer de-spawn turret after 1 minute

Galena

• Totem detonates when target is within 3m but damages up to a 4m range
  
• Slower health decay rate

Keel

• Splash damage reduction passive will no longer apply towards Telefrags
  
• Reduced grenade knockback from 100 to 50, to match 1:1 with their 50 dmg (self knockback unchanged)

Ranger

• Dire Orb touch damage reduced from 25 to 15 dmg

Scalebearer

• Forward Accel max speed reduced from 500 to 425 ups
  
• Forward Accel now uses ground friction
  
• Stomper damage capped at 25 dmg over 395 ups
  
• Bull Rush max speed reduced from 800 to 700 ups
  
• Bull Rush damage simplified to 75 dmg
  
• Bull Rush damage reduction reduced from 67 to 50%
  
• Bull Rush shoot delay increased from 0.2 to 0.4 sec

Slash

• Max speed reduced from 750 to 700 ups

Sorlag

• Reduced max speed from 625 to 600 ups

Visor

• Added a 10% speed boost during ability usage

Starting Machinegun

• Spread reduced from 0.03 to 0.02
  
• Damage reduced from 8 to 6
  
• Air Knockback lowered from 8 to 7 (to match the ground knockback)

Heavy Machinegun

• Spread reduced from 0.03 to 0.01
  
• Zoomed spread reduced from 0.009 to 0
  
• Unzoomed damage reduced from 10 to 9
  
• Air Knockback lowered from 8 to 7 (to match the ground knockback)

Starting Shotgun

• Reduced air knockback from 3.75 to 2.5 per pellet (to match the ground knockback)

Super Shotgun

• Reduced air knockback from 3.75 to 2.5 per pellet (to match the ground knockback)

Lightning Gun

• Use a point ray trace instead of cylinder radius

Railgun

• RG starting ammo reduced from 10 to 5
  
• RG max ammo reduced from 25 to 10
  
• RG low ammo warning reduced from 5 to 2
  
• Railgun - Air knockback reduced from 80 to 60 (to match the ground knockback)

• Increased the value of Armor Shards from 5 to 10 hp
  
• Reduced dropped shard count from 3 to 2
  
• Drop armor shards in a tighter circle

• Unholy Trinity - Spawn players max hp & max ap
  
• Unholy Trinity - No longer spawn or drop items
  
• Unholy Trinity - Blood pools are no longer active
  
• Sacrifice & Sac Tourney - Reduced soul extraction time from 3 to 2.5 sec

Blood Covenant

• Added railgun ammo to lower pillar cooldown ledge (new ammo in Duel and moved TDM ammo to this location)

Corrupted Keep

• Fixed exploit outside HMG bones

Crucible

• Fixed ledge collision exploit behind HA

Insomnia

• Duel layout for all modes
  
• Moved HA room cooldowns to near the MH LA ledge
  
• Moved HA room upper jump pad health to the HA room ledge
  
• Fixed brickslide wall collision near SNG
  
• Fixed power-up fx
  
• Fixed exploitative collision above HP stairs between LG & SNG

Ruins of Sarnath

• Fixed exploitative collision above HA jump pad

The Molten Falls

• Fixed exploitative collision above LG stairs
  
• Moved the cooldowns from SNG to mid-level door in the main courtyard
  
• Removed one cooldown from the banana bones

Vale of Pnath

• Fixed exploitative collision above RG
  
• Added RG ammo near the TP window
  
• Added RL ammo to the LG cave
  
• Added LG ammo to the HA mid-level
  
• Removed SG ammo from center tower
  
• Removed HMG ammo from TP window

Vestibule of Exile

• Updated some troublesome collision

• Fixed pain sound percentage issue in modes where max health is set to above 100
  
• Reduced pain sounds to two pain events, one below 50 hp and one below 25 hp
  
• We now use the previous 100 & 75 pain sounds to generate the 50 hp sound event, to give more separation clarity between the <50 and <25 pain sounds
  
• Increased the volume of the third person pain sounds, bringing them to the same db levels, and added a new low pain sound for DK that isn't just him saying "Ow!"
  
• Removed the delays in elements of the Love Shaft shot sounds
  
• Bots disabled in all Quick Play modes (this test is backend updates only & not build dependent)
  
• Fixed Scorpion SNG spectator crash
  
• Increased telefrag radius from 0.5 to 0.8 m (same as Dire Orb & Ghostwalk)
  
• Fixed on-screen acid in picmip
  
• Fixed TORMENTOR barrel fx during Ghostwalk
  
• Simplified Leaderboard data, to remove inaccurate or incomplete stat data
  
• Disabled Arena Kings leaderboard
  
• Defaulting to Direct Mouse Input
  
• Disabled Razer Chroma by default
  
• Reduced texture load for High and Ultra
  
• No longer selling reliquaries in the store (still available as login rewards)
  
• Fixed Warehouse loading screen

• Anti-cheat updates
  
• Fixed Linux/Proton direct input support

Salutations, Quakers!

In our latest update, we've got a haunting amount of new Fall-themed items available for you in the store and seasonal Battle Pass! This update also includes selective picmip advanced video settings, allowing you to choose map level of detail to your liking.

Plus, a new Arena Kings map, game balance changes, fixes, and upgraded server hardware!

• Fall Podium (Battle Pass only)
  
• ORGAN GRINDER Gauntlet
  
• SCORPION Super Nailgun
  
• EELSBANE Lightning Gun
  
• MALEDICTION Quake 2 Railgun
  
• Visor JACK-O-LANTERN Vanity (Battle Pass only)
  
• Death Knight CHEF KNIGHT Vanity (Battle Pass only)
  
• Clutch SUPREME INTELLIGENCE Vanity (Battle Pass only)
  
• TRENCH Arena Kings Map
  

• Selective Picmip Advanced Video Settings
  
• Two new crosshairs added

• Champions now have unique VO when killing opponents via a Ring-Out
  
• We now sort all unlocked Profile Icons, Nameplates, and Podiums to display grouped together, before listing the unavailable locked customizations
  
• Re-Added Duel Rounds, Sacrifice Tourney, Mystery Champions variants, and AAArena to Custom Game
  
• Sorted TDM back to the top of the Custom Game game mode list
  
• Increased Instagib fraglimit from 50 to 100
  
• Battle Pass - Hide the podium from view in the background

• Fixed Duel Rounds & Sacrifice Tourney modes
  
• Fixed Galena's Totems not clearing dot debuffs when overmax health
  
• Display Arena King Rating in Match Lobbies (instead of their Duel SR)
  
• Fixed timestamps in Chat
  
• Fixed SUMMER BLAST water tank visibility in Ghostwalk
  
• Increased the size of the Datacenter UI to support a larger number of datacenters before needing to scroll
  
• QCON SNG - Fixed projectile synchronization time
  
• Fixed a large number of animation issues for 14 weapons
  
• Fixed invalid items that were dropping in lootboxes, causing an empty slot to be awarded
  
• Fixed a number of fx issues for the lootbox opening sequences
  
• Fixed the rarity levels for the TRESPASSER, TERMINATOR, PAINKILLER, N22, EL DIABLO, and BOOMSTICK Shotgun Shaders
  
• Fixed char id for Athena No FX wings (was set to Keel), causing an issue during lootbox openings
  
• Constructor SNG - Fixed idle animation state after shooting
  
• Fixed a crash in the footstep code crash caused by bots
  
• Fixed the ETQW, Q2, Q3, and Q4 railgun hums to match the volume of default rg hum
  
• Increased the size of nails for QCON Nailgun
  
• Fixed BJ Profile VO actor
  
• Added an icon for Arena King Challenges
  
• Removed 48 unused vanities to prevent their texture data load
  
• Fixed some the rarity level and bundle descriptions for some weapons bundles in the store

• Anti-cheat Updates
  
• Upgraded server hardware and new hosting for:
  
  • APAC, South (Sydney)
    
  • APAC, North (Seoul)
    
  • APAC, Central (Singapore)
    
  • EU, Central (Frankfurt)
    
  • EU, West (London)
    
  • EU, South (Milan) - NEW DATACENTER
    
  • NA, East (Virginia)
    
  • NA, West (California)
    
  • SA, East (São Paulo)

We have released a hotfix that updates the game with new content and server updates.

• New Arena Kings map, DIVIDE - Two opposing cliffsides with minimal cover divided by a foggy ravine that will deal minor damage and teleport the player back up if they fall in!
  
• New Arena Kings map, MIDAIR - Box map with a no-damage "red zone" at the ground level. Shoot your opponent dealing knockback to knock them up into the air and out of the red zone where they then become vulnerable!

• Fixed Rank Duel Champion pick stage
  
• Separated Arena Kings into its own playlist, now with its own Leaderboard and Skill Rating value

• Ringside - Added a new grid texture to the outer walls, updated loading and lobby art

• Added new Datacenter locations:
  
  • EU, North (Oslo)
    
  • NA, North (Toronto)
• Upgraded server hardware for:
  
  • APAC, Central (Singapore)
    
  • APAC, North (Seoul)
    
  • APAC, South (Sydney)
    
  • NA, East (Virginia)
    
  • NA, West (San Jose)
• Upgraded server hardware and new housing for:
  
  • AF, South (Johannesburg)
    
  • APAC, West (Mumbai)
    
  • EU, East (Warsaw)
    
  • NA, Central (Dallas)

QuakeCon 2023 is less than a month away! Today we released an update with a new mode, three new training maps, and QuakeCon goodies in the store!

• New Ranked Mode: Arena Kings - Two Rangers enter, only one will leave victorious. Eliminate the enemy to win the round. Win 10 rounds to claim the crown. Aim training game mode featuring the new Training Stages
  
• New Arena: GRIDLOCK - Aim training with room to move
  
• New Arena: RINGSIDE - Aim training surrounded by a deadly ring-out zone
  
• New Arena: WAREHOUSE - Aim training with cover
  
• Quake Pro League 2023 Belt Vanities added (Grand Champion reward)
  
• QuakeCon 2023 Store Bundle (available now):
  
  QuakeCon 2023 Profile Icon
  • QuakeCon 2023 Nameplate
    
  • QuakeCon 2023 Podium

• Anarki:
  
  • Fixed injection sound effect not being stopped on death
• Keel:
  
  • Grenade Swarm - Changed grenade explosion timing, no longer explodes after 3 seconds, instead it will bounce once and explode on second impact
    
  • Reinforced - Improved splash-damage reduction from 15% to 20%
    
  • Reinforced - Added improved self-damage reduction from 50% to 60%

• Super Shotgun - Reduced in-air knockback from 2x to 1.5x (5 to 3.75)
  
• Splash Damage - Reversed the recent trace reversal distance change

• Temporarily removed the Cubemap Reflections option due to some issues that persist
  
• Fixed Summer Blast animation issues resulting from quad pickups
  
• Updated Shotgun fx when Weapon Effects is disabled
  
• Reduced maximum warmup time from 120 to 90 sec
  
• Rebuilt integrated ShaderCache
  
• Added support for nameplates in the store to have descriptive text

• Anti-cheat updates
  
• Streaming apps no longer need to be ran as Administrator

Salutations, Quakers!

Today's Season 19 update features improvements and optimizations to the game engine, in addition to balance changes and beach-themed Battle Pass content, just in time for summer!

We have also included the Season 17 and Season 18 patch notes below the current season's notes, for your perusal.

We're going to the beach in this season's Battle Pass, with items like a new surfboard for Anarki; a fishing hat for BJ and a sun hat for Nyx; new watergun skins for the Lightning Gun and Tri-bolt; and your own little slice of the sandy shore with a new Summer Beach Podium!

• Set a max fps cap at 300, to address gameplay issues we have identified occur when your opponents are running higher framerates than their max packet rates
  
• Increased max packet rate from 200 to 300
  
• Reduced max Lag Compensation period and history size from 300 ms to 200 ms
  
• Engine optimizations, improvements for CPU bound users
  
• Reintegrated Nvidia Reflex
  
  • Updated to the latest Nvidia SDK
• Fixed crash in the Chromium Embedded Framework when viewing the Learn section in the Main Menu

We added a new advanced video options mention, which contains the following new options:

• Fog Volumes - Disable fog volumes
  
• Transparent Particles - Disables all transparent particle fx
  
• Cubemap Reflections - Disables cubemap reflections
  
• Screenspace Reflections - Disables screenspace reflections
  
• Light Shaft FX - Disables light shaft fx, such as god rays from the sun
  
• Water Simulations - Disables water simulations when shooting or moving through liquids
  
• Water Caustic FX - Disabled caustics fx
  
• Scorchmarks Effects - Disable weapon scorchmark decals
  
• Weapon Effects - Disable all weapon end effects, such as explosions and sparks.

We also added a new game option:

• Champion Blood FX - Disable blood on hit and death

• Awoken: Fixed orb collision exploit above power-up hallway
  
• Crucible: Simplified stone textures, removing lava sub materials
  
• Corrupted Keep: Fixed an FX issue which may have been hindering map performance
  
• Deep Embrace:
  
  • Fixed exploitable rock on the docks ring-out
    
  • Added a texture management config to manage texture quality
    
  • Fixed dire orb exploit near power-up
    
  • Fixed exploit near LG LA
• The Molten Falls: Fixed exploit near bones ring-out between RG & SNG
  
• Vale of Pnath: Fixed collision on HA churro pillar
  
• Vestibule of Exile:
  
  • Fixed wall collision left of the HA jumppad
    
  • Fixed two collision issues where players could get stuck, one in the narrow foggy tunnel, one next to the HA jumppad

• Keel: Reduced delay between grenades from 500 ms to 400 ms

• Starting Shotgun:
  • Reduced damage falloff range from 386 u to 256 u (9.65 m to 6.4 m)
• Starting Nailgun:
  • Increased damage from 10 to 12
• Super Shotgun:
  • Reduced damage falloff range from 386 u to 320 u (9.65 m to 8 m)
    
  • Increased knockback from 1.0 to 1.25 on ground and to 1.5 in air
• Super Nailgun:
  • Increased projectile speed from 1800 ups to 2000 ups (45 m/s to 50 m/s)
• Rocket Launcher:
  Increased the splash damage trace reversal from 10 u to 16 u

• Added support to play Timelimit Duel alone or vs a bot in Custom Game
  
• Added support to play Duel Rounds vs a bot in Custom Game
  
• Improved Tri-bolt aim targeting
  
• Improved respawn times
  
• Increased the "Human Teammate Defer Powerup Distance" from 768 to 1024u
  
• Increased the priority of hitscan weapons

• Fixed reverb voices not being managed by the Champion VO volume slider
  
• Spectators no longer hear "You Win", "You Lose", or "Round Draw" announcer sounds

• Fixed the third person beam muzzle size for every lightning gun.
  
• Sort champions on CTF endgame podium by Score instead of XP
  
• Fixed totem health (issue which required Peeker to need more shots than necessary to destroy the totem)
  
• Fixed Loveless LG texture quality
  
• Updated Loveless LG beam fx
  
• Fixed main menu/customization/profile podium rotation (we haven't yet had a podium where this issue was noticeable, but this had to be fixed for the new seasonal podiums)
  
• UI - Updates to Battle Report skipping logic
  
• Fixed a texture quality issue for scorch marks, trails, and explosions causing lower quality than desired at Low, Medium, & High.
  
• Moved Gore Details & Blood Enabled from Advance Video to Game Settings
  
• Moved FPS Display and Performance Icon settings options from Game to HUD Settings
  
• No longer save max fps in the backend config, as this is a hardware dependent value
  
• Updated Russian "Bug Report" localization
  
• Reduced ranked mode XP
  
• Reduced TDM 2v2 minimum respawn time from 3 to 2 seconds (previously deployed to live)
  
• Reduced TDM 2v2 maximum respawn time from 10 to 5 seconds (previously deployed to live)

• Ranking Reset - 1500 Starting SR, all tier values +300 SR from previous tier values
  
• Anti-cheat updates:
  
  • Fixed compatibility with Logitech GHub
    
  • Fixed gamepad compatibility

• Streaming applications, such as OBS, may need to be run as administrator

• Awoken: Jumppad fix near Heavy Armor
  
• Crucible:
  
  • Fixed the lava fx coming through the floor below MH
    
  • Fixed some collision issues along the lava pit exit ramp
    
  • Cleanup of rock mesh around the outside of the map
    
  • Removed two breakables near Shotgun
• Ruins of Sarnath:
  
  • Fixed collision issue near Light Armor jumppad in T
    
  • Fixed collision issue near Lightning Gun jumppad
    
  • Fixed collision issue at Heavy Armor jumppad
• The Molten Falls:
  • Fixed collision at Lightning Gun jumppad
    
  • Fixed collision at Railgun jumppad
• Vale of Pnath:
  
  • Fixed collision at Light Armor jumppad near MH
    
  • Fixed collision at Railgun jumppad

• Added DirectI/O - Improves file I/O speeds for Windows 11 users with NVMe SSD drives
  
• Added HELL-RAISER RL Shaders to the shop
  
• Added TORMENTOR RG Shaders to the shop
  
• Added Ally Arrow & Enemy Arrow options
  
• Fixed the self-podium highlighting behavior in the Lobby, when attempting to move another player to your podium position
  
• Adjusted LOVE SHAFT LG sounds - made the hum slightly quieter and the shot slightly louder
  
• Fixed a crash in the Game Pass build after dismissing a system level error message when the 'You can join multiplayer games' privilege is set to 'Block'
  
• Removed the nvidia Reflex code, while working on fixes for AMD cards
  
• Profile Page UI - Viewing other player's profile pages will now properly show what Podium they have enabled
  
• Default damage summation ALL RECENT DMG
  
• Default teammate health and armor indicators to ON and visibility to XRAY
  
• Default enemy outline ON
  
• Updated backend settings storage to properly track settings between computers
  
• Leaderboards - Removed "Best Champion" icon
  
• FX optimizations
  
• Fixed the dynamic shadow casting of the LOVE SHAFT first person model
  
• Fixed Galang projectiles appear to come from above and behind the barrel of the weapon
  
• Fixed audio config storage for Champion Quips, Soundtrack, Heavy Breathing, Hit Beep, Kill Beep, Low Health Warning, and Taking Damage Indicator which was preventing default values to be stored in the configs for new users
  
• Removed lava footstep code that was causing CPU performance issues on Crucible

• Bug fixes and optiomizations

• Added LOVE SHAFT Lightning Gun

• Crucible:
  
  • Promoted the secret overstack health bubble in Duel into a new 50hp overstack health item with new visuals of its own, and a 25 second respawn time
    
  • Moved Power-up to center low, made the 50hp in all modes on the lava pool column
    
  • Fixed a large number of collision, mesh, and visibility issues reported on PTS
    
  • Performance improvements
• Deep Embrace: Fixed exploit outside of the MH window
  
• Insomnia:
  
  • Fixes to stair collision in blood pool
    
  • Fixed visibility blocker issue in the Heavy Armor room
• The Longest Yard CTF: Fixed missing collision on center side rocks

• Eisen:
  
  • Turret now despawns 1 minute after deploy
    
  • Restored turret deploy delay from 1 second to 2 seconds
• Keel: Decreased cooldown between grenades from 800 to 500 ms

• Fixed Player is not blocked from voice, text or invites from non-friend Microsoft Store players when the privilege is set to Friends on Game Pass
  
• Fixed Player is still able to hear player after muting them on Game Pass
  
• Fixed Microsoft Store player that is in-game friends with Steam player may not hear voice chat with the setting set to in-game friends onGame Pass
  
• Updated CPU & GPU autodetect settings database to have knowledge of all currently available hardware
  
• Fixed the missing icon for the Stroyent pickup item
  
• Fixed Keel's ability description grenade count
  
• Updated the "yellow shield" status effect icon, shown for Clutch & Scalebearer's which denotes their damage reduction during ability, to be protection-green.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Inverted Mouse option storage
  
• Fixed an issue with the Damage Indicator option
  
• Fixed multiple engine issues, mostly related to synchronization between the game scripts & the engine code. These are minor errors & warnings, just some maintenance.

• Performance updates
  
• Anti-cheat updates
  
• Security updates

Season's greetings, Quakers!

It's the holiday season, and that means a new Quake Champions update with a ho-ho-host of new content—including an all-new map, Crucible!

It is when the souls of the damned are tested and forged beneath the endless pool of night in the cauldron of the ebb and flow, which one discovers their true worth: nothing.
Crucible is available for Duel, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Clan Arena modes!

Podiums are a new type of vanity item to collect and display beneath your Champion in the Lobby! Players can now access Podiums through a new customization menu in their Profile. (Listed just below the Profile Icon & Nameplate customization.)

• Added Quake 3 Grenade Launcher as WARTHOG 3000 Tri-bolt
  
• Added Quake 4 Grenade Launcher as GALANG Tri-bolt

Anarki

• Reduced speed boost during Adrenaline use from 20% to 10% faster

Athena

• Reduced number of grapple charges from 3 to 2
  
• Added an 800ms second cooldown between throwing grapples
  
• Added Stockpile passive, picking up ammo grants 10% cooldown
  
• Increase damage that can be sustained before breaking the rope from 50 to 100
  
• Collision knockback reduced from 100 to 50

B.J. Blazkowicz

• Increased rate of fire of Dual Wield TB & RL from 1.33x to 1.5x faster.
  
• Reduced the size of his upper and lower arm hitboxes

Clutch

• Reduced the volume of the first person jump and dodge sound effects

Death Knight

• Changed to the Flame Dot from 10 dps for 7 seconds to deal 15 dps for 5 seconds

Doom Slayer

• Allow the Berserk to be cancelled after 2 seconds of activation

Eisen

• Reduced turret deploy time from 2 to 1 second
  
• Increased turret turn-speed from 180 to 270 degrees per second

Keel

• Reduced number of grenade charges from 5 to 3
  
• Increased cooldown between shooting grenades from 400 to 800ms
  
• Increased movement speed to match that of a medium
  
• Increased the cooldown reduction of the Stockpile passive from 5% to 10%

Nyx

• Reduced Ghostwalk telefrag damage from 125 to 100

Ranger

• Reduced Dire Orb total telefrag damage from 125 (25 touch + 100 telefrag) to 100 (25 touch + 75 telefrag)

Slash

• Reduced speed boost during Plasma Trail use from 25% to 10% faster

Sorlag

• Reduced the size of her head, arm, and leg hitboxes

Strogg

• Reduced Stroyent healing from 25 to 20 HP

Exile

• Redid all of the map collision, hopefully fixing all Dire Orb and Peeker exploits, and fixing the uncomfortable ramped walls (except in the foggy cooldown tunnel where it's expected)
  
• The map has been renamed to its original full name, Vestibule of Exile
  
• Simplified ambient soundscape

Insomina

• Fixed visibility issue near tribolt ledge
  
• Fixed collision of the blood pool archways
  
• Fixed staircase collision exiting both ends of the bloodpool hallway

Tempest Shrine

• Fixed CTF flag placement at Point B

The Dark Zone

• Fixed players spawning at the same location in the corridor near the heavy armor

Tower of Koth

• Fixed visibility blocker issues on the other Maw staircase
  
• Bot nav updates, trying to resolve the issue of bots looping through the MH teleporter

Vale of Pnath

• Fixed collision along SG wall

Clan Arena

• Healing Blood Pools are no longer active in Clan Arena modes

• Updated Pure Gold bundle to include a new Ranger Pure Gold Profile Icon & Pure Gold Pillar.
  
• Updates to Pure Gold textures
  
• Fixed Pure Gold & Pure Silver shader icons
  
• Improvements to the Nvidia Reflex implementation
  
• Optimization pass on weapon end effects
  
• Optimization pass on Railgun trail affects
  
• Optimization pass on big flame particle affects
  
• Updated Flintlock power-up shaders
  
• Fixed ranked leaderboard favorite champion, now uses Most Frags in Duel
  
• Reverted recent Sorlag acid color changes
  
• Fixed a typo in the Death Knight Necrosis outfit torso description
  
• Fixed the cause of the UI_BACKEND_ERROR_10004
  
• Fixed a crash due to a race condition on start-up
  
• Fixed Q2 TB muzzle animations in first and third
  
• Fixed Q1 TB muzzle animations in first and third
  
• Fixed Q3 RG animation errors

• Reduced the volume of the ability ready sound effect

• Improvements to Microsoft Store entitlement consumption
  
• Fixed external invites in the MS Game Pass build
  
• Fixed external platinum purchasing in the MS Store

Salutations, Quakers!

Our Season 16 Update is now LIVE! This update includes new cosmetics, balance changes, bug fixes, and more!

• Added JOKER - Quake 2 Grenade Launcher Tri-bolt Vanity Weapon
  
• Added Ranger Pure Silver Shader
  

• Added JOKER and JOKER Basic Shaders Bundle
  
• Added Ranger Pure Gold
  
• Added Ranger Pure Silver

• Corrupted Keep
  • Fixed exploitative player hiding spot in ring-out area
    
  • Fixed two exploitable totem/turret spots outside the Super Shotgun and Tri-bolt windows
• Deep Embrace
  
  • Fixed wall collision near Lightning Gun Light Armor
    
  • Fixed orb exploit at the dock teleport exit
    
  • Fixed collision near dock teleport exit
    
  • Fixed visibility issues near the murder hole (double health, double cooldowns)
• Insomnia
  
  • Improved collision of an archway near LG
• Ruins of Sarnath
  
  • Fixed an exploitable totem/turret spot in the upper walls in the hallways surrounding the central room

• Death Knight - Fixed Fire Trail activation. Removed damage from standing on the trail, in exchange for it 100% applying the fire dot (which is still 10dmg/sec for 7 seconds)
  
• Sorlag - Ally spit now has blue steam above it, so you know it's safe

• Fixed issues that prevent some sound events from playing when multiple occurrences happened within a narrow timeframe:
  
  • rocket explosions within 200ms
    
  • jumppad sounds within 100 ms
    
  • jump sounds (from the same champion type) within 100 ms
    
  • steps sounds (from the same champion type) within 100 ms
    
  • pain sounds (from the same champion type) within 500 ms
• Fix for NVIDIA Reflex issues on unsupported cards
  
• Removed Beta Terms link from Legal Docs

• Anti-cheat updates