Bracket http://125fps.challonge.com/sundaycup77
When: 23 Apr 2017, 10:00 CST
MapPool: Sinister, Furious Heights, Aerowalk, Cure, LostWorld, Bloodrun and Silence
Mapchoice - drop first. Cointoss loser starts drop.
PrizePool: 1000RUB+500RUB and season points for top-8; <TBA> for season final
Rules:Full Double Elimination, Winner Bracket: BO1 till the semifinal, BO3 WB semi, WB final and Grandfinal (two BO3 if it will be needed); Low Bracket: BO1 all matches (including LB final).

Art:
- Effect optimisation: burst impact, increased spark gravity, reduced number of sparks by 20%, better spark orientations, reduced spark length, increased spark width
- Effect optimisation: rocket explosion, redcued number of sparks by 33%, reduced spark lengths, better spark orientations
- Effect optimisation: blood particles duration now 1.5 seconds (was 2.0 seconds)
- Removed ribbon trails off plasma eject cases
- Shell casing duration reduced from 10 seconds to 5 seconds (making it a max of 10 casings laying around per person for 5 seconds of sustained fire)

Cosmetics:
- Modified Jaguar head to reduce clipping
- Added Plague head
- Added Bunny Head
- Added Turtle Head





Maps:
- Furnace (dp5) has had an art pass
- Fixed name for Stage 1 Combat
- Changed name for Stage 2 Combat to follow the same convention
- Aerowalk update: now in sync with workshop version for match making (previous clip fixes)

Code:
- Added Announcer - He says things about the match and things you do
- Greatly improved performance of client-side particle collision
- Added map editor sun enabled property
- Added cl_weaponcycle to UI
- Teleporter meshes now appear in the content browser
- Fixed post-fix string issue on date formatting
- Fixed issue where bridge tool would fail when two source edges (from different brushes) were identical
- Increased max length of addon description
- Fixed case sentitivity lua error when calling callWidgetDrawOptions() or callWidgetGetOptionsHeight() with incorrect case (would break Menu.lua if clicking on addon with same name as widget, but different case)
- Fixed flicker when selecting addon/widget in menu, selection is now drawn next frame (after filtering occurs)
- Players no-longer suicide if they change to the team they're already on (important for master server drop-in on team games)
- Changed MM disconnect hover info from "Disconnecting will count as a loss, and you will incur a time penalty" to "Disconnecting will count as a loss" as we don't give time penalties anymore
- Sounds in these effects are limited to max length of 3 seconds:

internal/items/armor/armor_green_pickedup.effecttxt
internal/items/armor/armor_red_pickedup.effecttxt
internal/items/armor/armor_yellow_pickedup.effecttxt
internal/items/health/health_50_pickedup.effecttxt
internal/items/health/health_mega_expire.effecttxt
internal/items/powerup_protect/powerup_protect_pickedup.effecttxt
internal/items/powerup_quad/powerup_quad_pickedup.effecttxt

- Shotgun low ammo warning is now at 5
- Added Gamma Slider and r_gamma
- Dropped weapons (i.e. backpacks containing ammo) are now pickup-able when you have full ammo of the dropped weapon type (and can utilize the ammo).
- Team spawns: We no-longer favor spawns that have friendly's near by. An enemy have rough-los to a spawn will now fully block it from being used.(note: If all spawns have rough-los from am enemy, it falls back to distance-bias based spawn.)
- If you disconnect mid MM game via console, it will now correctly remove you from MM queue (this also catches case when connection is interrupted)
- If you disconnect post MM game via console/menu, it will now correctly remove you from MM queue
cl_predict_items now defaults to 0

Matchmaking:
- Full MM ladder now shown
- Added drop in/out for casual modes
- Match history now can be filtered by player
- Doubles earns 15 CP, CTF earns 20 CP
- Losers now receive 20% CP reward
added matchhistoryraw/ for importing to your own databases
- Competitive MM unavailable below level 15
- Added 'Proving Grounds' playlist - Thread Here

Lua:
- Replay editor now hides with cl_show_hud
- TeamHud: fixed an error due to clients disconnecting
- Fixed issue where widget selection wasn't being applied properly
- Added AccelMeter widget

Willits on bringing in new players : I think that if you've been playing army-realistic-style FPSes for a while, Quake will feel quite refreshing. For those, it will feel quite new, even if you're playing against a 40 yo player that's been into fast arena shooters for 20 years.

Zero4 : Right now the keyboard-mouse setup is very popular and has become second-nature but at the age of Q3 it was something new that we all had to learn. I think that the generation that learned to play with this setup will be able to share that experience with newer generations and I think that's great.

Implied by journalist : id software is heavily pushing into esports (third party) to promote its game like hell

ZeRo4 on spectator features : This is one of our main goals. One of the things that we've learned over the years is that to create an established esports game you need to make it very spectator-friendly. We are working HARD on the spectator features to be able to capture all the highlights that are happening in the game.

Reporter : Aren't you afraid knowing this is a fast FPS we're talking about ?

ZeRo4 : That's clearly one of our bigger challenges. We're hoping that our spectator features will be able to give out this speedy, brutal kind of game that we're releasing to the general audience.

Implied by journalist : 4v4 or 5v5 we will have to wait and see what's best (= idsoftware still doesnt know that but either 4 or 5)

Willits : For now, as modes go, we've been trying to see deathmatch, team deathmatch and we have tried different other popular modes

(Duel starts at 6:20)

Bracket http://125fps.challonge.com/sundaycup76
When: 16 Apr 2017, 10:00 CST
MapPool: Sinister, Furious Heights, Aerowalk, Cure, LostWorld, Bloodrun and Silence
Mapchoice - drop first. Cointoss loser starts drop.
PrizePool: 1000RUB+500RUB and season points for top-8; <TBA> for season final
Rules:Full Double Elimination, Winner Bracket: BO1 till the semifinal, BO3 WB semi, WB final and Grandfinal (two BO3 if it will be needed); Low Bracket: BO1 all matches (including LB final).

Bracket http://125fps.challonge.com/sundaycup75
When: 09 Apr 2017, 10:00 CST
MapPool: Sinister, Furious Heights, Aerowalk, Cure, LostWorld, Bloodrun and Silence
Mapchoice - drop first. Cointoss loser starts drop.
PrizePool: 1000RUB+500RUB and season points for top-8; <TBA> for season final
Rules:Full Double Elimination, Winner Bracket: BO1 till the semifinal, BO3 WB semi, WB final and Grandfinal (two BO3 if it will be needed); Low Bracket: BO1 all matches (including LB final).