Quake Champions 2024 Mid-Winter Update

Salutations Quakers!

We've released a new update for Quake Champions:

New Content

• 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

Map Updates

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

Champion Updates

• 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

Weapon Updates

• 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)

Game Mode Updates

• 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

Economy Updates

• 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

Sound Updates

• 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

Misc Fixes

• 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• Fixed nvidia outdated driver issue in Linux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

Service Updates

• Anti-cheat updates
• Updated encryption cert