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Season 28 Update Notes

Quake Champions · Community Announcements · November 17, 2025

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New Vanity Content

·       Added the Quake 4 NAPALM LAUNCHER Tri-bolt, available in the Store & Battle Pass

·       Added the Volkerh BLACK MAGIC Podium, available in the Battle Pass

 

Ranked Skill Ratings Reset

·       Leaderboards and Skill Ratings have been reset for all game modes

 

Champion Movement Updates

Light Champion Speeds

·       Athena – Max ground movement speed decreased from 1000 to 750 ups

·       Nyx - Max ground movement speed decreased from 2000 to 750 ups

Medium Champion Speeds

·       Base movement speed increased to 320 ups

·       Max movement ground speeds decreased to 650 ups

Heavy Champion Speeds

·       Base movement speed increased to 320 ups

·       Max movement ground speed decreased to 600 ups

Additional BJ Blazkowicz Changes

Additional Clutch Changes

·       Added Single-tap Dodge, which can now be performed via a special movement dodge key bind

·       About Single-Tap DODGE

·       Added a DODGE DOUBLE-TAP TIME control setting to choose the time window in which a double-tap dodge can be performed

·       Added a GROUND DODGE passive in addition to his Air-Dodge

·       Removed Forward Accel

·       Speed Clamp Deceleration In Air increased from 1.3 to 10 m/s2 - this controls how quickly they are brought back to max speed while in the air moving above max speeds

·       Added a stamina system that allows 3 dodges in succession and regens stamina after each dodge is performed, restoring up to 3 dodges

Additional Death Knight Changes

·       Added Tempered Steel passive that provides an Armor Steal effect and when an enemy takes damage from fire, half of that damage is converted to ap for Death Knight.

·       Increased Death Knight Fire Dot, for both Flame Strike and Charring Gauntlet, from 3 to 6 damage per tick

·       Reduced frequency of damage from standing on the Fire Trail from every 100 ms to 250 ms

Additional DOOM Slayer Changes

·       Blood punch health bubbles can now be picked up immediately when they drop

·       Fixed the positioning of the Doom Slayer's DOOMGUY COLLECTIBLE vanity

Additional Galena Changes

·       Added a vampiric Life Steal effect when an enemy takes damage from an unholy totem; half of that damage is converted to HP for Galena.

·       The damage dealt from an empowered totem, a totem when 3 totems have been placed, has been reduced from 75 to 50.

Additional Keel Changes

Additional Strogg Changes

·       Stroyent no longer drops from Strogg kills, but now drops from Peeker kills

·       Stroyent now grants some ammo in additional to health and cooldown: 25 bullets, 3 shells, 3 rockets, 25 cells, 3 slugs, 25 nails, and 3 bolts

·       Peeker health reduced from 90 to 80 hp

Additional Sorlag Changes

Additional Visor Changes

·       Added Piercing Shot passive; Visor now deals 90 railgun damage when zoomed during ability

Main Menu & Play Now Updates

 

New Special Movement Settings

·       SPECIAL MOVEMENT: Set the key you use to perform champion specific special movements, currently supports Clutch Dodge

·       USE SPECIAL FOR AIR-DODGE: Choose whether to use the classic double-tap, the new single-tap special, or both keybinds to perform an Air-Dodge

·       USE SPECIAL FOR GROUND-DODGE: Choose whether to use the classic double-tap, the new single-tap special, or both keybinds to perform an Ground-Dodge

·       SPECIAL DIAGONAL DODGE: Choose whether to dodge forward/back or strafe when holding both a forward/back and left/right key.

·       DODGE DOUBLE-TAP TIME: The time window to double-tap a directional key to perform a Dodge

 

Weapons

·       Starting Shotgun rate of fire buffed from 1000 to 850 ms

·       Starting Shotgun & Super Shotgun ground knockback adjusted to create more vertical lift

·       Lightning Gun rate of fire reduced from 1 shot every 42 ms to every 48 ms

·       Lightning Gun in-air knockback reduced from 208 ups to 175 ups

·       Lightning Gun ground knockback adjusted to create more vertical lift

·       Railgun: decreased damage from 90 to 80

·       Railgun ground knockback adjusted to create more vertical lift

 

Items, Power-Ups, & Status Effects

·       Changed Item Pickup Detection: If multiple players are within the pickup radius of an item, the player closest to the item will now get the item

·       Quad Damage and Protection now extend their duration by 30 seconds when picking up an additional power-up of the same type. Previously, it would reset to 30 seconds of time remaining.

·       Fixed the status effects UI, where timer icons would not refresh to full when a Damage Over Time effect was reapplied, such as stepping into a second wall of fire while already having an active fire dot.

·       Quad Damage will now deal up to 3x extra knockback, with a maximum upper cap of 160u of knockback force

·       Added a Max Knockback Scale (3.0x)

·       Added a Max Knockback Force threshold (160u)

 

Spawn Code

·       In Ranked modes, you will now see more variety in respawn destinations; it now considers the two best spawn points and chooses between them, instead of a single forced spawn location

·       In Team modes, you will now respawn near teammates more often

 

Clan Arena

 

Crucible Updates

·       Item layout updated:

o   Railgun moved to the lava pit

o   Shotgun moved to the HA Rocket Launcher location

o   HMG moved to the old SG location

o   LG-side LA moved to the old RG spot

o   Upper LA removed

o   3 Cooldowns near old MH moved to old upper LA spot

o   Updated spawns

 

Cursed Soul

·       Performance improvements

·       Updated map geometry to declutter the environment and to improve

·       Updated the item layout. Item placements have changed; the map has only one Rocket Launcher and one Lightning Gun pickup.

 

Insomnia Updates

 

Audio Updates

·       Fixed some cases where Anarki board sounds would persist while dead

·       Fixed several cases where teammate volume controls functionality was missing for some Shotguns, Tri-bolts, and Rocket Launchers

·       Fixed turret shot sounds in 7.1 surround sound

·       Adjustment to the water railgun sound fx

·       Adjusted the base HMG shot volume over distance

 

Misc Updates

·       Shader cache updated

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