Quake Champions Season 25

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