Forerunner
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I keep getting an 104 error now (can't connect to server). It just randomly happens now. I guess no Quake for me today.
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Quake Champions: $30 for paid version, Doom Slayer added, 6 new heroes by end of 2018
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i'm assuming most people playing are late 20s/30 somethings on virtue of it being Quake or an arena shooter alone. especially with the $30 gate fee
but yeah unless you're a natural you'll be walking into it getting your teeth kicked in. kinda have to have a Rocky montage attitude about it
Well, to be honest, I never expected that I would be playing Quake when I'm a 33 year old mom .. but I'm really enjoying myself. And my twitch shooting skills are gone completely, but after 10 hours, I'm starting to get better again
I started the game at 0.82 kdr and now I'm at 1.45 and I didn't play that much Quake back in the day, a little bit of 3 and some QL.
I'd say the community is pretty noob friendly in the sense that the player base is probably older than what you get in most shooters so you rarely if ever encounter teenage brats acting up.
But even when this game is in the state that it is currently in (meaning buggy as hell) it's still like crack to me, feels really good to go back to this type of game. All the popular shooters these days seem all so tiresome compared to this.
I'd say the community is pretty noob friendly in the sense that the player base is probably older than what you get in most shooters so you rarely if ever encounter teenage brats acting up.
But even when this game is in the state that it is currently in (meaning buggy as hell) it's still like crack to me, feels really good to go back to this type of game. All the popular shooters these days seem all so tiresome compared to this.
Forerunner
Member
Patch!
They fixed it, lol.
They fixed it, lol.
Well that's a relief. What a dumb mechanic that was.
I've played Quake consistently for years and my KDR/win rate is 3:1. As it is right now, the game is far more tooled to beginners than it is to experienced players except insofar as a good percentage of your games are likely to contain one (or rarely two or more) player that's simply not on your level because they came from QL.
The vast majority of guys out there haven't been playing arena shooters this whole time and are either very rusty or have no experience at all with the genre. The few people that have been playing Quake this whole time are relatively rare and stand out instantly because they know what they're doing and their score reflects that.
I honestly think right now the matchmaking for me is a total dice roll wherein if I'm the only experienced player I'm going to win and if I get matched against another experienced player it's basically a duel with 4-6 other players. The amount of games I have where there are more than two experienced players has to be under 10% right now. I have to believe that, since I am the only experienced player in a lot of my games, that a significant percentage of games are being contested by inexperienced players unfettered by the presence of people like me who come directly from QL's incredibly small player base.
I've played Quake consistently for years and my KDR/win rate is 3:1. As it is right now, the game is far more tooled to beginners than it is to experienced players except insofar as a good percentage of your games are likely to contain one (or rarely two or more) player that's simply not on your level because they came from QL.
The vast majority of guys out there haven't been playing arena shooters this whole time and are either very rusty or have no experience at all with the genre. The few people that have been playing Quake this whole time are relatively rare and stand out instantly because they know what they're doing and their score reflects that.
I honestly think right now the matchmaking for me is a total dice roll wherein if I'm the only experienced player I'm going to win and if I get matched against another experienced player it's basically a duel with 4-6 other players. The amount of games I have where there are more than two experienced players has to be under 10% right now. I have to believe that, since I am the only experienced player in a lot of my games, that a significant percentage of games are being contested by inexperienced players unfettered by the presence of people like me who come directly from QL's incredibly small player base.
grandwizard
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They fixed this today.
What this is is another example of them ignoring how QL did something for no good reason and then coming around to the QL solution in an ass-backwards way. It happened with rockets, it's happening with LG, and it's going to happen with RG.
MisterAnderson
Member
Personally I like the Doom Slayer retcon to his "name", especially given the lore in Doom 2016.
Forerunner
Member
The LG is better, you actually have to aim now.
My K/D pretty much has stayed the same since I started. I started with around .9 and now I just hover around 1. Some games I do really well then other games I do poor and it knocks it back down.
My DM stats are pretty horrible though. I'm 1-24 on it, lol. I don't even try duel because I'll get destroyed.
My K/D pretty much has stayed the same since I started. I started with around .9 and now I just hover around 1. Some games I do really well then other games I do poor and it knocks it back down.
My DM stats are pretty horrible though. I'm 1-24 on it, lol. I don't even try duel because I'll get destroyed.
I think we might have been in a couple matches at the same time.
And since we posting stats, here's mine.
Forerunner
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Forerunner
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Games like this destroy me. I just can't keep up. It just makes me wonder how brutal ranked is going to be.
I think there should be a layout of blood covenant somewhere since it's an old map but you could just set up a custom game and study the maps that way too.
Edit: found dm6 aka blood covenant but bear in mind, this is the Q3 of if which is a bit different.
I don't think it's functioning as it's supposed to. I am pretty sure this current solution goes too far and that the game is now not accurately registering hits on the edges of the hitbox. There seems to be a lot of errors when either or both people involved in the exchange are moving quickly.
I play a very LG heavy style in TDM. On QL, about 35% of my kills were from LG while on QC over 50% of them are. It's not really relevant, but this imbalance can be attributed to the shorter weapon spawns in QC and the fact that the rail still doesn't really seem to work right.
Because I have like, 10 years of stats to go on I can tell you right now that the LG is, at the very least, not working how it did in QL/Q3A: In QL my lifetime LG accuracy is around 35%, playing against mostly strong players, whereas on QC it's 31% playing against mostly weak players. I didn't do any wiggling to inflate my accuracy, and even if I did it would only further prove my point that something not right is happening.
I am doubtful that this is an LG-specific problem, however, because my accuracy is down across the board. I would say that right now the rocket launcher is working pretty close to how it should be, as are the shotguns, but there are issues with just about everything else.
bee
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Yeah, I'm in there. It's more active than this thread too.
Small new patch btw.
https://bethesda.net/community/topic/117031/patch-notes-early-access-update-26-10-17
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
Pulled a Barcelona and got 6 kills in 10 seconds to win the deathmatch. The top player throughout the game raged his arse off.
bee
Member
Italian Esports Open 2017 finals day is on now
https://www.twitch.tv/esl_quake
cypher already eliminated, cooller also i think
https://www.twitch.tv/esl_quake
cypher already eliminated, cooller also i think
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
The lightning gun sucks now
In other news, rocket launcher dominates.
In other news, rocket launcher dominates.
I'm gonna have to agree Doom Slayer sounds pretty shit and is an assault to the sensibilities of anyone who has played any iteration. Thats some focus group bullshit.
llien
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abracadaver
Member
What happened to the gore update?
After initially playing some of this on Bethesda Launcher I got a bit tired of 11GB "patches" and uninstalled it. Bethesda emailed me a key for the free version on Steam (I thought Steam was only getting the paid version) but there doesn't seem to be a ton of people playing it? TDM matches are topping out at 3v3 and that has to be a more popular mode than Sacrifice.
dragonfart28
Banned
The lightning gun sucks now
In other news, rocket launcher dominates.
And now LG is good.
Presumably coming later this year which I don't mind. Technical fixes, balance changes and new maps should take priority imo.
Matchmaking has always been in but since the player counts are quite low, the chances of matches getting filled only with players at the same skill level are low too.
MiguelItUp
Member
You think so? I always thought it looked fine. To me, there are/were other important issues with the game that were holding it back.
GamingArena
Member
Just look at your champions if you can choose any of them compared to only Ranger you have Full unlocked version...