A place to discuss all of your favorite old-school and modern arena shooters such as Quake Live, Quake Champions, Unreal Tournament, Reflex, etc.
>QCNews QC Update has moved from February to March 15 (at least devs aim for it), certainly there will be same base speeds/diffrent acceleration values/no hard cap speed across all champions, 2v2 and instagib gamemodes. High chances for crashes to be eliminated from the game. Devs ask as usual to "be patient". Current patch notes here: bethesda.net/community/topic/186034/patch-notes-early-access-update-25-01-18
>DUSKNews There will be another DUSKWorld 1v1 Tournament at 28th April. Both EU and NA will have seperate tourneys. How to sign up and rest of details are on NewBlood's Discord channel under #dusk-events tab. Episode 3 "soon™", DUSKWorld is "still in beta"
You didn't get anything from the christmas presents, so I'm gonna guess you don't get anything from the easter eggs
Oliver Bailey
what are the points of pots in general now that you get lore passively? I have a feeling way off in the future, in a tourney for money, someone's trying to remain silent, and they accidentally break open a pot and give their position away they also need to be more vocal and tell people that you can't get lore from pots, because I still see people waste their time running into these damn things
Anthony Carter
i used to think zoot was alright but his complete sperging about players thinking the new patch is shitty opened my eyes
Hudson Bennett
>what are the points of pots in general now that you get lore passively? They may do something with them eventually Otherwise, just a breakable to make the shootouts look cooler. Like the breakables on the background in Street Fighter
Evan Baker
>just a breakable to make the shootouts look cooler They actually effect gameplay way too much. Rockets explode if they hit pots instead of just breaking them and going through. On blood run at least in QL you could walk between the shotgun and wall without making sound but in QC there are pots.
Parker Sullivan
lol maybe when the next patch comes out they will make another promotional video were they shit on quakedads because there should be no pots in duel. >quake champions has somebody for everybody >now you dumb quakedads have yet another checkbox in custom games >now you can play custom games without pots in maps
I understand the idea behind it but in the end it's misguided. Even if you're not seeing a 3/30 on the scoreboard you're still going through the experience of being stomped 10 times for every lucky kill you get I've seen way too many afps die and this sort of thing is irrelevant to their survival - The genre itself is niche by design
Juan Collins
not showing deaths and levels is 100% to ensure new players they're not getting ass blasted, even though they are if a new player joins and sees that the enemy team is full of level 40s and 50s, proceeds to see that they have 5 kills and 30 deaths, then they will most likely quit so rather than create some form of legitimate tutorial, or just not group fresh installs with veteran players, they do this
James Gray
One just needs to look at loadouts and these sorts of ideas applied to QL and how unsuccessful they were Bot support would be better than ANY of these measures. Allow the newcomer to learn the maps by shooting the AI for a while, let him go online when he's ready
Parker Hall
Oh this is my thread and yakumo supporting the handholding babying of the new generation just like the trash that is Overwatch and Paladins. I hate when a game thinks I can't handle a KD Ratio and treats me like im 5 years old.
Frankly it insults me.
Joshua Lopez
If QC was doing well for player count this wouldn't be happening I don't blame them, they will try whatever they can
Mason Baker
What qc needs >Bot Support >Anti-Cheat >Player Collision >Current champion balance for Duel AND 2v2 >CTF What qc doesn't need right now >new champions >events >cosmetics >buffs to spawn stacks/spawn weapons
Ryder Cooper
what qc needs >more cute slosh outfits
Jordan King
New champs need to trickle in faster IMO I know they're not huge QoL/game improvers but speaking selfishly, they motivate me to start plating the game again for a couple of weeks
Adrian Harris
Problem is, this doesn't change anything. It doesn't stop ragers or leavers or anything like that.
What keeps people from playing this game is the fact that they have no real learning process before jumping into a live game. We need Bots, and Tutorials.
Whenever I get someone new to play this game, I take them to all the TDM maps, and i show them everything and I let them take shots at me and I teach them all the stuff I know about the game and give them a chance to play against a handicapped player and let them learn before ever getting into a live match.
Bots can do EXACTLY what I'm doing without ever someone stepping up to do it.
The game needs bots, not to hide stats.
Dominic Barnes
>What qc doesn't need right now >>new champions QC needs new content to keep players interested. It's pretty boring to play on same 5 maps and you can't even choose which map you are going to play on. I don't understand why does everything needs to be so polished. They probably have some maps designed, just fucking put them in the game but say that tournaments are only allowed to be played on "finished maps" or something. Hell they could even provide some tools for people create maps or design champions. If they had done that they might already have all q3 characters properly modeled for QC for free.
Julian Murphy
honestly zoot is right if you think strafejumping needs to be faster, go play overshit. good players will go as fast as last patch, shit players will complain on leddit/here/wherever Git Gud.
Gabriel Lee
>maps Yeah maps are valuable content. New champs are questionable when they can't balance 12 to begin with.
Adam Reyes
>good players will go as fast as last patch Only if given a lot more time to build up speed
Justin Thomas
>a lot Overexaggeration. You need 1-2 extra jumps at most to reach the same speed.
Isaiah Lewis
More like 3-4. There is guaranteed deceleration on the first and third jumps, counting the circlejump They will fix this probably
Daniel Perry
if there's no patch this weeks Thursday we riot.
Julian Williams
Isn't it assumed that the next patch will be in April since we just had a patch 5 days ago?
Benjamin Flores
>guaranteed deceleration on the first and third jumps, counting the circlejump The fuck? Turn on your speedometer nigga. The number doesn't go down. If it does, you're just too dumb to understand how it works.
Levi Ortiz
Yes. user is shitposting You haven't seen the graph/explanation yet? The speedometer number is not accel, it's speed, that's why it doesn't go down. But your accel absolutely goes down
Alexander Gomez
It would require negative acceleration for the speed to go down What happens is that the number doesn't go up as fast as it should, because you lose acceleration at two points during your SJ sequence That is, you decelerate at points
Nicholas Lewis
>Xavier "I can get 800 ups with 8 jumps on ranger" Dhorne is right ok bud
Kayden Gonzalez
I'm just gonna post this Duel from Dreamhack (late Dec 2017) Everyone who is blind enough to claim the game got faster can just refer it to in the future
>muh fast Honestly QC is still faster than QL. Even with the slowdown patch. All the passive movement shit like double jump just makes it more upfront shoot-y and less control-y. Compared to earlier iterations of qc, yeah its a bit slower, but compared to vq3/ql and such it's just noticeably faster.
Isaac Clark
Back to overwatch it goes.
Jacob Stewart
>Honestly QC is still faster than QL. It's not, nor it ever was QL is 320 base, working SJ and uncapped speed QC has never been like that, even when SJ worked 1:1 to QL there were speedcaps
Hudson King
The air accel for the default player actor in QL is also much higher I think Visor comes the closest in QC currently, but it's still lower
Dominic Brooks
>game plays faster >ITS MATHEMATICALLY SLOWER Who gives a fuck? It's faster with a slower basic movement
Zachary Turner
Why are the quakedads queuing at 2:49AM, don't you guys have jobs or kids or some shit
Jaxon Martinez
>>game plays faster it doesn't though.
Sebastian Green
I'm not sure what you mean by "plays faster", and how the basic fact that movement is considerably faster in QL would be irrelevant to that The TTK is so much higher in QC, everyone has fat stacks and spawns with armor I don't put speed in a pedestal like you, but you're just factually wrong about QC's speed in relation to QL/Q3 I wonder how many other Quakes you have even played, as QC is easily the slowest of the series
Camden Green
Platinum example: Rapha vs Evil in QL game time Compare it to ANY qc final. QC is faster han QL
Isaac Butler
Just EU queueing into NA for easy elo, because NA is just so shit.
Eli Allen
You're forced to run the 15 minutes in QL Duel, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say You should count how long it takes to 9 frags in QL contrasted to QC, then Still, it will depend on the playstyle of the people playing. Even in QC you can have Duels that end in like 2 minutes and others that run the clock
Brayden Long
Frags are faster because of the movement abilities and active abilities enabling chasing/kill confirming. 1200 UPS rockets too..
Tyler Ross
>You should count how long it takes to 9 frags in QL contrasted to QC in aerowalk it's about 5 frags in minute.
Camden Morales
Can you tell them to stop? I just wanna have some fun...
Justin Sullivan
Time to kill (I assume this is what you mean by "frags") seem slower to me, especially after the patch that buffed stacks Just look at how long the average LG 1v1 lasts in QC Duel compared to QL Duel 1200ups rockets barely make a difference, It's obvious they changed it from QL's 1100 to allow for Lights to be more hittable by them (at least originally, with the current speeds they may want to reconsider the RL speeds, though I'm not crazy about the change since everyone's used to the current rocket's timing since CBT) And few actives allow chasing, and QL-style SJing allows chasing better than most active abilities barring like Bearer's or some shit Another thing is the size of QC Duel maps, they're mostly pretty large. Blood Run in QC is smaller, sure, but something like Sarnath or the new DM6 would be pushing to become a Duel map in QL >inb4 Elder What a beloved map, right. I loved getting killed by the elevator bug
Nolan Smith
>TTK It's longer for a reason. Without mega/red/yellow you have 100/100 in QL In QC it varies depending on your champ, lights probably die faster than a player in QL. Heavies are heavies, you can't really make them die faster. And if we're on the topic of TTK, how about 0.0 seconds? Some abilities allow burst that you wouldn't be able to do in QL. >LG duel I'm just going to contradict myself. I don't give a fuck. Slower base movement makes ADAD worse which results in faster kill times with LG. >SJ is better chasing tool SJing doesn't allow you to bypass defensive spam. Meanwhile you have teleporting, 50% damage reduction charge, invisibility+invincibility, wallhacks, a fucking SHIELD with a high speed dash Just tell me more about jumping is better at chasing down frags than QC abilities.
Sebastian Martin
Vale, ZTN, corrupted are all pretty good duel maps. I wish they came up with more small maps.
Christopher Butler
ZTN and Corrupted are the same map. ZTNKeep originally
Evan Robinson
He meant ztn3 (Blood Run), not ztnkeep
Joseph Turner
anyone in the EU wanna house me, i just wanna 1v1 bros
>instagib mode added >neither niggers nor immigrants flock to the game what the fuck
Caleb White
>join instagib match >one frag left
thanks tim :)
Nathan Garcia
reminder that normies will forever play games like fortnite and overwatch because they are only capable of consuming whatever is popular at the time and the concept improving or playing the same game for more than a year is completely alien to them as they browse their twitch feed for hot epic PUBG epic moments between family guy funny moments I wish PC gaming was still niche
Brandon Price
Battle Royale is a meme and like all memes it will eventually die
Ryder Foster
To whoever user memed me into believing BJ's dual wielding was back to 200% (like he was when he was introduced): Fuck you I bought him and it OBVIOUSLY isn't. Every weapon has a different firing speed bonus with dual wield. Automatic weapons see the least boost, semi-auto ones (like RL) see the most, with weird outliers like the SSG which shoots only a bit faster despite being semi-auto and the Tribolt which gets crazy fast despite being burst-fire
Charles Hughes
HUHNG
Adam Murphy
To be honest sperging out about death count be removed from the scoreboard as some sort of IT'S PANDERING TO THE NEWBS! #NOTMYQUAKE #METOO shit is the epitome of elitist circle jerk 1300elo duelers
Connor Watson
marriage
Elijah Cook
Thing is a about these popular games that they pander to the most selfish and childlike people possible no matter what age. Wind the clock back a bit and you have esports revolving around titles that if you play them you yourself had to put effort in in order to win. Be it SC,WC3,CS,Q3 in order to have fun in the first place you needed to improve a bit to compete. Now let's look at what kind of games are popular now. PUBG,FORTNITE(only recently),OW,DOTA2,LOL. What do these games all have in common? The team aspect. Not only will people play anything no matter how badly of a game it is (PUBG for example) as long as they can play it with friends and have collective "success" moments in that game. Gaming is a social experience now more than it is about playing the game itself. Further more these type of team focused games like OW,DOTA2,LOL encourage solo playing kids to not focus on their own mistakes since there's roles and stuff they have always someone else to blame be it a bad pick for the team composition or just the other person being sooooo bad at what they're supposed to be doing. Honest improvement and actually enjoying the game is not the first need of this generation.
Joseph Rodriguez
Who though that trying to compensate speed with stack+model size was good idea? Trying to play with anarki is just retarded because even if you are fully soft stacked and take one rail then you can't show again because you are railable. Trying to abuse speed is also pointless because there's really nothing to collect on map once you are fully soft stacked. Not worth even trying to get major item because dealing damage is just better option and ranger can always out run you to one major item.
Jason Allen
Post 'em lads Let's see how good /arena/ is at the only mode worth a damn in QC
>fat bald cuck doesn't even talk with nigrah in 2x2 ranked
lmao
Daniel Hernandez
post your fucking rank shitter
Logan Wood
too much of an old fps pro to talk to common people. read his info. don't forget to subscribe and share really helps him out.
Ayden Harris
0 at everything because >30+ minute queue with no pop since fucking december each time i try so i stopped bothering
Andrew Murphy
Oddly high KDR for Duel, nice Even pros have like 1.3 or 1.4 because due to the format it's very hard to get a huge frag lead, and easy to die off the enemy's respawn if it was a close fight
Ian Russell
One of the diamonds, idk which I left my placement matches at diamond and have been there ever since
I feel bad for people who got into QC late. It's impossible to get a Duel now Maybe when it goes f2p there will be people
Ryan Young
at least in EU you can find bronze - silver matches easy. Higher queu times in morning and midday but in the evening you can find matches pretty easy - 5min queu.
Dominic Baker
I've been playing since the first closed beta, just never touched duel since so much bullshit was involved (lg wiggling, rails missing between legs/armpits, 3 direct duds in a row, adad making you impossible to hit etc), and also I haven't touched quake for 5-6 years Now that things mostly work the way they should*, I can only give up after spending ages in queues that never pop *sng, 100 damage totems and le close range doubletap instakill meme can fuck right off
Jeremiah Cox
Has anyone else noticed that the Q3 Gauntlet has UAC branding on it? Elsewhere on the model it also says "Mixom", which is the company that made the Chainsaw in Doom 3 and Doom 2016. I had no idea the Gauntlet came from the Doom universe I wonder why the UAC ever manufactured a weird futuristic melee weapon clearly meant for gladiatorial combat
>clearly meant for gladiatorial combat it's going to be a home defense aperatus sold by the UAC to regular citizens while earth is being run over by demons. think of it as "non-gun" way of home defense.
Brayden Stewart
>UAC causes demon invasion >sells weapon against it pottery
Brandon Ward
>rages at every death >throws his headset down when he loses to 2200+ elo players like he deserved the win I wouldn't want someone like that talk to me Pretty sure nirah is better than him, when I played him in ranked it was either close loss for me or i just stomped him because he was constantly in rage. I played nirah in duel a bunch of times and I don't think I was ever able to win a bo3, closest was probably 2-3.