Quake Champions already has Doom’s Doom Slayer and Wolfenstein’s B.J. Blazkowicz as playable characters, but IGN asked developer id Software whether or not it could slowly become the Bethesda equivalent of Super Smash Bros, which they said was “in high consideration.”

“As soon as I got hired on, I was like ‘we’re doing that, right?’” community developer Joshua Boyle told me with a laugh at QuakeCon 2018. “This is something that somehow hasn’t existed in FPS, and we have such a great space for it.”

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Last year, studio director Tim Willits notoriously said he’d enjoy seeing Skyrim’s Dragonborn added to Quake while speaking with GameReactor at QuakeCon 2017. During that same interview, he also discussed what it would be like to add Corvo or Emily from Dishonored, or the Vault Dweller from Fallout, but so far none of those ideas have shown up in the actual game.

“ It’s definitely, I’d say, in high consideration.

So when I asked Boyle about the idea, he made it clear they've definitely thought about it, but didn't confirm any plans one way or the other. “Arena [shooters] aren’t that different than how it is in Smash, where it’s like ‘this is the theme of Animal Crossing or this is the theme of that game,’” Boyle explained. “But we haven’t gone too nuts yet with maps at all, and I’m not saying we will or we won’t.”

So we still don’t know for sure, but Boyle did say "I think already the proof is in the pudding, in the sense that we’re not just stuck to all these different Quake franchise [characters] that are from different iterations of Quake.”

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“We’ve already got Doom and we’ve already got B.J. in, which are obviously id pillars, right?” Boyle said, but similar to Willits last year, he looked outside of id games as well. ”It’s definitely not out of the realm of possibility that, you know -- Bethesda and ZeniMax have a very wide umbrella that we’re all under. It’s definitely, I’d say, in high consideration.”

Quake Champions just went fully free-to-play, and you can find out exactly what that means here.

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