Quake Champions Megathread

Automobili3XF · March 25, 2018, 9:35pm

And the loot boxes, SOOO many loot boxes

Big_Al_Tech · March 25, 2018, 9:38pm

Cosmetic loot boxes are fine imo
inb4 “but its gambling”

bedHedd · March 25, 2018, 11:55pm

I thought they fixed it?

Automobili3XF · March 26, 2018, 12:09am

Seems fixed to me, haven’t had any major randomness happen in a while…

bedHedd · June 3, 2018, 2:59am

does anyone else get frame rate issues? My fury peaks at 110 at low settings

bedHedd · June 11, 2018, 3:53am

quake champions in early acess; free until June 21 and champions pack sale

bedHedd · June 13, 2018, 4:37am

https://steamcommunity.com/id/BedHedd/recommended/611500
wrote a review on steam

bedHedd:

Played in the open beta on bethesda launcher. Most of my initial issues with servers and frame rates have already been solved in the recent patch.

To new players, if you are getting lag/server latency try changing the server region to a ping that is reasonable to you.

After playing Overwatch and TF2, Quake Champions feels like a new breath of fresh air. The fact that there are no locked classes combined with the fast movement makes the game fun in a chaotic way. The background music is amazing and can be listened to repeatedly. I can’t wait for more maps and gamemodes to be brought to the game.

I look forward to the new changes and features that will come in the future

Some feedback for the devs

please seperate into 2 queues one for mixxed(quick play) and one with game modes seperated (like Overwatch’s queue) or make a preference for specific game modes(like TF2).

the removal of control from picking game modes makes it very frustrating to get stuck in a mode you don’t enjoy and is worsened if it takes a long time to queue for a game

certain champion abilities are better for certain modes thus are used certain modes such as Doomslayer and strogg in instagib or visor in DM, so adjustments can be made either to the abilities themselves or to the game mode itself

certain maps(like lockbox) are designed for certain game modes(sacrifice) do not work out well in death match or team deathmatch scenarios

on the topic of maps please make an option in the graphics settings to disable weather effects as the rain can cause performance issues. My frame rate generally drops on maps such as Ruins of Sarnath and Tempest Shrine compared to maps like blood covenant and burial chamber. I realize the game will be further optimized when it leaves early acesss, but weather effects blur the screen and makes it harder to identify other players.

other than map adjustments I think some reworks to the protection in deathmatch can be implemented, a duel with a person with protection feels less fair than one with a person with quad damage. With Quad damage it is very high risk high reward, but with protection it is the polar opposite. The counter to protection is similar to Quad damage in that if everyone focuses you can’t win, but the payoff doesn’t feel as good as going on killing spree with Quad damage.

A suggestion might be to reduce protection or replace the powerup to a movment based powerup(i.e faster movement speed, higher air control, etc) that way it maintains the same mentality of high risk high reward with quad damage. I am not suggesting the complete removal of protection as it provides an element of strategy in team based game modes.

Big_Al_Tech · June 14, 2018, 2:14am

The netcode is still abysmal. Instagib just shows it off really well, getting shot when getting into cover, getting killed after taking the teleporter etc. On top of that there are just not enough players… idk, they are going to have to pull a miracle for this game to gain traction.

bedHedd · June 14, 2018, 2:43am

Which servers are you playing on? Because I have not encountered the netcode issues. I know I had ping issues, which was solved by switching to cities closer to me

Big_Al_Tech · June 14, 2018, 4:42am

Same choices as you.

bedHedd · June 14, 2018, 4:44am

that’s unfortunate.
Hopefully it will get better for you

kewldude007 · June 14, 2018, 7:55pm

bedHedd · June 19, 2018, 6:39pm

Truth, either remove it or make it not instakill

Big_Al_Tech · June 19, 2018, 6:44pm

this^

Honestly wouldn’t mind keeping rangers ability though, can be pretty fun in instagib.

bedHedd · June 19, 2018, 6:46pm

Haven’t played older versions, did gauntlet instakill?

Big_Al_Tech · June 19, 2018, 6:50pm

Not to my knowledge, does a lot but pretty sure if you had armor stacked you could live…

oldgek · June 19, 2018, 7:11pm

I only played a bit of Quake III on LAN with few friends, so pardon my ignorance, but I liked the abilities thing.

Separate game mode without abilities would be better, coz then you don’t remove something not-so-old-school players like.

bedHedd · June 19, 2018, 7:17pm

I agree, I think they should adopt what TF2 has, where you can have a preference for the game mode. The voting system should be like the TF2 where it shows up at the end of a round for map picks.

Or maybe have it like overwatch where you have quickplay(vanilla mode with random maps and objectives) and arcade(wacky maps or modes).

The current system seems to be that way because they “don’t want to divide the player base” but really I think it is failing at that. If you want to play instagib, but don’t want to play DM you are most likely to just leave before dm starts

bedHedd · June 20, 2018, 4:47am

Do you get frame rate issues on corrupted keep? Have my graphics setting to low and I struggle to maintain 70fps on that map.

bedHedd · June 20, 2018, 5:01am

Found some fixes, will try them tomorrow