HAPPY HOLIDAYS QUAKERS!
Our Winter Update is LIVE with new wintry rewards; game balance updates; a new game mode: Arms Race); and more! Read on for the full patch notes:
WINTER WEAPON: FREEZE GUN
- Pelt your enemies with a barrage of snowballs with this winter themed Super Nailgun.
NEW SORLAG VANTIY: BANDAGES
- Lick her wounds and wrap them up.
NEW SEASON 5 REWARDS
Battle Pass Season 5 progression and rewards are now available, including:
New Battle-Pass Rewards:
2 Weapons
- BOOMER Shotgun
- DOUBLE-BARRELED Super Shotgun
45 Champion Vanities:
- Anarki SNOWMAN
- Athena GIFT-WRAPPED
- Athena JOLLY HAT
- Athena SNOWMAN
- Athena THE CRYSTAL QUEEN
- BJ Blazkowicz SNOWMAN
- BJ Blazkowicz TRAIN ENGINEER CAP
- Clutch GIFT-WRAPPED
- Clutch SNOWMAN
- Death Knight SNOWMAN
- Death Knight WINTER BEARD
- Doom Slayer SNOWMAN
- Eisen ELF HAT
- Eisen SNOWMAN
- Eisen TRAIN ENGINEER CAP
- Galena FROSTED TOP HAT
- Galena GIFT-WRAPPED
- Galena THE COLD-HEARTED QUEEN
- Galena WINTER DOE
- Keel SNOWMAN
- Keel TRAIN ENGINEER CAP
- Keel TUTU
- Nyx FROSTED TOP HAT
- Nyx GIFT-WRAPPED
- Nyx THE SNOW QUEEN
- Nyx TRAIN ENGINEER CAP
- Nyx WINTER DOE
- Ranger SNOWMAN
- Ranger THE FROST KING
- Ranger WINTER STAG
- Scalebearer SNOWMAN
- Scalebearer TRAIN ENGINEER CAP
- Slash FROSTED TOP HAT
- Slash GIFT-WRAPPED
- Slash THE ICE QUEEN
- Slash TUTU
- Slash WINTER DOE
- Sorlag FROSTED TOP HAT
- Sorlag GIFT-WRAPPED
- Sorlag THE COLD-BLOODED QUEEN
- Sorlag TUTU
- Strogg & Peeker ELF HAT
- Strogg & Peeker GIFT-WRAPPED
- Strogg & Peeker SNOWMAN
- Visor FROSTED TOP HAT
- 7 Ithagnal Lore Scrolls, earn the complete set to unlock Ithagnal
Weapon Shaders
- 75 Platinum
- 116 Shards
- 1 XP Booster
- Bonus Progression beyond Level 100, players can earn an additional 10 Reliquaries, 100 Shards, and 100 Platinum.
NEW ARCADE MODE: ARMS RACE
Get kills to earn the next weapon in the sequence:
- Rocket Launcher - 8 kills
- Lightning Gun - 7 kills
- Railgun - 6 kills
- Heavy Machine Gun - 5 kills
- Super Shotgun - 4 kills
- Super Nailgun - 3 kills
- Tribolt - 2 kills
- Gauntlet - 1 kill
- First to complete the sequence and earn 36 frags wins.
- No Abiltiies
- No Self-Damage
- No Weapon Pickups
- No Power-ups
GAME UPDATES
- Fixed a stats overflow that was both breaking players profile pages and preventing the end-game Battle Report from displaying. This was affecting players who had more than a month of in-match playtime for one or more Champions
- Suicides no longer count as both a kill and a death, and will decrease the Scoreboard K/D ratio
- Keypad Enter can now be used as a second Enter key
- Fixed Nyx Ghost face which had duplicated geometry on top of itself, creating a visual seam at the eyebrows
- Extended match delay following Sudden Death by 2 seconds in Duel, 2v2, and CTF
- Fixed the stripes on the United Kingdom flag profile icon
- Re-integrated the EBONY & IVORY Shotgun as Premium Shaders for the EL DIABLO super shotgun. If you owned either of these shard-weapons but you did not own the EL DIABLO, you have also been granted the EL DIABLO for free
- Re-integrated the original Quake Wars railgun skin for the ERADICATOR as a Premium Shader
- Updated Daily Challenges to introduce a platinum reward for completing 3 matches
- Fixed a large number of camera positioning bugs in Customization
- Added a game mode icon for Unholy Trinity
- Fixed the combination of the Nyx Ascension (lore skin) and the Jolly Hat vanity.
SOUND UPDATES
Overview (Stereo & Surround)
- Increased the frequence of Jump VO events from 20 to 100% of the time, so you always hear an audible grunt when a player jumps
- Incresaed the volume of Doom Slayer’s movement sounds effects
- Removed RG and LG hum sounds from a Nyx when in Ghostwalk
- Fixed first person death sounds when dying at 1HP (pain sounds were playing instead of death screams)
- Increased the volume of the power-up wear off notification
- Increased the volume of the MG & SG first person sounds
- Reduced Ranger to one low pain health sound, the newer more identifiable yell
- Reverted Breakable sounds to a linear falloff, they were too quiet at a reasonable distance
MAP UPDATES
Awoken
- Fixed root and staircase wall collision in the RL/NG room
- Disabled lower HA spawns in Duel modes
- Fixed hole in archway between NG and HA
Blood Covenant
- Removed the two visible LG stairwell spawns from Time Limit Duel (one remains in the stairwell, but not in line-of-sight of the lower archway
- Removed one spawn in front of the Bridge Stairwell from Time Limit Duel.
- In the three locations with double 25H HPs in TDM, made FFA modes have the same 50 HP layout
- Fixed heavy armor staircase collision, players were getting caught especially along the interior wall.
Blood Run
- Moved the Light Armor near nailgun to the Power-up ledge
- Reduced the 50 HP in the Hourglass hallway to 25 HP in Duel modes
- Repositioned ammo boxes near Tri-bolt
- Fixed additional hole/seam in the geometry near Heavy Armor (Hourglass side)
- Fixed additional hole/seam in the geometry near Heavy Armor (HA Side)
- Fixed holes in the archway geometry in the Hourglass hallway between Hourglasses and Power-up
- Fixed clipping at the HA wall statues
- Added anti-totem & anti-turret volumes in the ceilings of 5 major areas to prevent explotation
Burial Chamber
- Fixed holes in lower wall near tri-bolt
- Fixed collision on staircase wall near tri-bolt
- Enabled Winter Lights
Corrupted Keep
- Fixed stair collision in NG and upper MH room.
- Added anti-totem/turret domains outside the map near bones and ng->ha shards.
- Removed collision from archway floor trim near mega health
Lockbox
- Fixed acid pool collision near RG tp
- Reorientated spawns in the Mega Health room, so that they do not point the player towards the toilet bowl causing them to accidentally fall in upon spawning
The Longest Yard
- Replaces the HMG and bullets with SNG and nails
- Cleaned up the positioning of the RL and rocket ammo pickups
The Molten Falls
- Fixed clipping at the LG jumppad
- Fixed clipping above the LG
- Fixed wall collision near RG jumppad
- Added anti-totem & anti-turret volumes near MH, RG, and RG TP to prevent exploitation
- Fixed the alignment of the barred door wall in center mid
Ruins of Sarnath
- Allow players to shoot through the ceiling grate above LG.
Champions
Scalebearer
- Reduced heavy weight passive damage from 320/25, 400/50, 500/75 to 400/25, 500/50.