Quake Champions Season 21 Update

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

NEW CONTENT

• Winter Podium
  
• FROSTGORE Rocket Launcher
  
• Awoken Winter
  

NEW SETTINGS

• Added Ally Names & Enemy Names controls in HUD Settings

CHAMPIONS UPDATES

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

WEAPON UPDATES

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)

ARMOR UPDATES

• 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

GAME MODE UPDATES

• 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

MAP UPDATES

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

MISCELLANEOUS UPDATES

• 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

SERVICE UPDATES

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