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Quake Champions Closed Beta - now online 24/7 + BJ, 3 new maps

Skyzard

Banned
https://quake.bethesda.net/en

Welcome to the Quake Champions Beta! We’ve made a lot of changes in this build, many of which we just revealed at the Bethesda E3 Showcase! The first big change is that beta is now open 24/7! That means you can just in and play any time you want, unless we have a maintenance window or are deploying a future patch. We’ll keep you in the loop about any planned outages.
We’ve also added a LOT of goodness. Here’s the list of other new additions that you can check out right now:

NEW Champion:
B.J. Blazkowicz added to the Champion roster!
• Dual Wield (Active)

BJ calls for back-up and answers his own call. Double [censored] weapons, BJ takes turns firing them in rapid succession to lay down some heavy fire, but he will burn through some serious ammo to do so.

• Regeneration (Passive)
BJ can regenerate any damaged health inside one 25 HP block, if he doesn’t receive damage for 3 seconds.
• Stats:
• 100 / 100 HP
• 25 / 50 AP
• 310 -> 560 ups

• Customizations includes 3 outfits and 1 vanity item.

NEW Weapon:
• New weapon added – The Tri-Bolt!
o The Tri-Bolt fires three bolts armed with timed explosives. Each bolt fires in quick succession, allowing the user to concentrate or spread the fire as needed.

NEW Maps:
- Lockbox added -- a new Ithagnal themed arena for Sacrifice, Team Deathmatch, and Deathmatch
- Blood Run added -- a new Volkerh themed Duel arena
- Corrupted Keep added -- a new Goroth themed Duel arena

Custom Game:
- Party with friends to play private matches on the arena and game mode of your choice!
- Party Leaders can pre-configure teams in the Match Lobby by dragging players between pillars.
- Start Match button will be disabled if the amount of players present is lower than required
- Start Match button will be disabled in Duel mode if players don’t have 3 Champions available

NEW Spectator Mode:
• Spectator mode added within Custom Game!
o Invite friends to your party and drag them to the Match Lobby Spectator Box to allow them to spectate the match.
o Spectators can toggle camera modes between players, rooms, and free-float by pressing [L. SHIFT].
o Players can cycle through players or rooms with [LEFTARROW] and [RIGHTARROW] or by pressing [1]-[0] number keys for specific players or rooms.
o Spectators can press [X] to toggle x-ray outlines to see players locations through walls to help follow the action.

Main Menu UI:
• Added Tutorials section.
• Updated Loot Box Store
• New Shader Customization preview icons (now correctly matching their patterns)

NEW Tutorials:
• We have added the first three videos in our series of Beta Tutorials – “Welcome to Quake Champions,” “Health, Armor, & You: Controlling Your Stack,” and “Power-Ups: Turning the Tides of War.”
• These videos are currently accessible by clicking the Movie icon on the Main Menu.

In-game:
• New initial spawn points in Duel for Ruins of Sarnath
• Adjusted item placements on all maps affecting all modes
• Fix for not being able to pick-up armor shards or the Soul until only after their bounce animation ends

Music:
• Added new music set for the Dimension of the Doomed (Goroth themed maps: Burial Chamber, Corrupted Keep)
• Added music set for the Netherworld (Ithagnal themed maps: Lockbox)

Known Issues:
• A party of more than two players may enter a Duel lobby. The Start Match button is not disabled if the extraneous players remain present on the pillars instead of being moved to Spectator. Players who are still stuck on the podium after two Duel players are selected will be presented with an error message that you've been "kicked from the match." Upon receiving this error, you will need to restart the client to continue playing.

https://bethesda.net/community/topic/62542/quake-champions-beta-e3-patch-notes

Seems like it's still closed beta but apparently easy to get into. Used to only be online on weekends.
 

Sianos

Member
New weapon added – The Tri-Bolt!
o The Tri-Bolt fires three bolts armed with timed explosives. Each bolt fires in quick succession, allowing the user to concentrate or spread the fire as needed

Is that the Beggar's Bazooka?!?!

If I pull off wild rocket jumps using this, I've found my new game of forever.
 

ClumpSoul

Neo Member
I really wanna see what the new Blood Run looks like

BJ's active ability also sounds crazy, might have issues balancing that.
 

Skyzard

Banned
Definitely going to check this out tonight. What's the general consensus from those that have tried it?

On the game itself? It's fun. Not balanced like older quakes where it's a level playing field (other than which weapon you spawn next to), but definitely fun and the mechanics are interesting.

You can swap heroes out whenever.

I hope they don't drop the ball with an equal stats mode though.

On BJ - he's cool. Not sure how much I'm supposed to talk about it but not all weapons will fire simultaneously (instead taking it in turns, which isn't that useful).

But with the right weapon, like the machine gun and lightning gun, you get a lot of extra damage output, but it doesn't last for long and his health and armor aren't as high as some other characters.

They are doing various things to balance out the different champions.
 

luka

Loves Robotech S1
awesome news, can't wait to check out blood run.

hopefully i can pull myself off of tekken 7 long enough to put more time into this :p
 

bee

Member
only had chance for a few games last night, seeing a double lg coming towards you is not good! lock box seems like a fun map, some funny kills in the funnel section. too early for a real impression of the tri bolt weapon but seemed like it could do with a shorter fuse time on the explosions to me, they seem to have gotten rid of the extra zoom dmg on machine gun and added a circular charge up on rail zoom so you don't just get 90dmg instantly now, which is good

they also changed the item locations on burial chamber which is annoying but definitely better balanced, lot less lg kills now
 
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