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

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