Quake Champions Season 23

Grab your sunscreen, Quakers, we're hitting the beach in Season 23 with some summer-themed vanities, including an all new weapon skin!

New Content

• Added JETSCREAM, a bubble gun vanity for the starting Nailgun

New Features

• Team Player Heads setting - Toggle the display of each team's player portraits at the top of the HUD in team games

Weapon Updates

• Updated Shotgun, increased near and far spread & damage falloff values

Champion Updates

• Athena - Fixed cooldown HUD timings

• Clutch - Starting armor lowered from 100 to 75

• Scalebearer:

  • Fixed the crash in Ability FX when activating on jumppads

  • Re-activated the now working Bull Rush FX

  • Bull Rush damage lowered from 75 to 50 when moving below 400 ups

Gameplay Updates

• Added Team Player Heads to the HUD in all team games

• Teammate Power-up Carriers (quad, protection, soul, flag) will now show up solid power-up colored when behind walls, so that you can easily find, track, and coordinate with your friendly power-up carrier

• Added new support to show on the Team Player Heads UI when a player has both Quad Damage and Protection (previously the Quad display would override the Protection display)

• Reduced power-up and weapon vertical pop-up when dropped

Map Updates

• Removed Spring Décor & Environment updates for Awoken, Deep Embrace, Ruins of Sarnath, and Tempest Shrine

• The Molten Falls - Added spawning platform to Mega Health spawn

• Tower of Koth (Duel/2v2) - Fixed spectator fixed camera positions that were located outside of the map

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur at the end of the match (right when the matchlimit hit)

• Fixed Announcer Volume, slider was missing from settings

• Fixed Scorelimit issues in Unholy Trinity (Announcer and medal placements were incorrectly based on fragcount at the end of the match instead of the score.)

• Fixed not being able to throw the soul in Sacrifice when someone was directly behind you, by lowering the soul's player collision radius from 0.8 to 0.3m

• Fixed potential for wrong first-person pain sounds from occurring when over 100 HP, or when playing a game mode with a base health above 100 HP, or when holding protection

• Added a cooldown for Champion VO to reduce overlap. (This does not include nor prevent pain sounds or low HP VO from triggering.)

• Fixed QPL Belt 2023 missing power-up & menu FX shaders

• Learn section updated with latest weapon changes