What's the best version to play right now?
Quake thread
Elijah Butler
Parker Gray
Everything but Champions.
Sebastian Butler
Champions might actually be the most forgiving and a solid entry point into the series, but despite ability nerfs, it's still unbalanced by design.
Cons - 3 different champ health/armour pools
Pros - No fall damage, hold space to autojump, vaulting over short ledges, item timers, people playing modes other than clan arena
It might be the best casual Quake, but if you want true boomer points, you should play 3 or Live
Henry Cook
Quake Champions is literally "quake for the Overwatch crowd"
>Have to pick a "hero", each with unique abilities
>Recharging "I win" button so the noobs can get an easy kills from time to time
>Strong focus on cosmetics, to the point of showing off every hero at the beginning and end of every frikkin' fight.
>No proper community feel, but matchmaking against a new set of stragers every match
>Lootbox opening between matches, with animations that are near identical to overwatch
Quake is dead.
Angel Martinez
As a 1000 hour Quake Live player, I have to say there are some key differences between the title and Quake Champions. The most obvious would be matchmaking and the inclusion of abilities, but I don't feel those are that important.
1. Netcoding. QC was unplayable for me until I got an ethernet cable. I was lagging constantly very noticeably and it was very distracting.
2. Movement. In QC I haven't experimented with all the characters but some i.e. the Ranger feel a lot slower than the QL movement.
3. Hitreg. The hitreg in QC is far superior to QL. It's a lot trickier landing shots in QC. If you're a longtime QL player you'll know that that game's hitreg is abysmal. You rail people around corners all the time in that game. In QC you'll be missing shots you thought you should have hit, not the reverse.
4. Audio. The audio design in QC is much harder to use for gameplay information ie enemy movements than the QL audio, at least in my opinion.
The major strengths QC has are: its meta, its free, it has matchmaking, it has an active scene in most gamemodes.
The major strengths QL has are: dedicated servers so you can get to know people and will still be playing with those same people years later, prettier simpler less "epic" graphics, and its clan arena scene is really strong.
People that tell you QC is trash probably don't really understand much about Quake to be honest, and that's coming from me as a relatively new player.
Jose Morales
>People that tell you QC is trash probably don't really understand much about Quake to be honest, and that's coming from me as a relatively new player
Yes, we need more overwatch players educating us on why we don't understand Quake.
Camden Perry
if they made quake live free instead of champions then arena shooter would probably be alive now
Ian Adams
They shoulda just made Quake1.5 with tacked on multiplayer.
Aaron Fisher
Quake live was literally free for a good while, if you downloaded while it was free then you could keep it later
Blake Howard
oh so people are really not interested in the genre anymore