Quake 5 will be called QUAKE Champions.
Homepage of the game: https://quake.bethesda.net/en
Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa-6fQyNkZo
Announcement video: https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda/v/72129877?t=01h14m50s
Bethesda's page on it: https://bethesda.net/#en/events/game/quake-ch.../06/12/147
Aftershow interview with Tim Willits (id software studio director) : http://esreality.com/post/2821458/quake-champ...pid2821777
- Saber interactive named as partner dev --->
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber_Interactive
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https://twitter.com/syncerror ---> QUAKE Design Manager on @QuakeChampions
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https://twitter.com/mikerubits ---> Currently working on @quakechampions!
mIRC with sp0nge --->
<heartlesss> Hello sponge-. I know you're probably not allowed to answer this question, or you probably don't know yet, but will there be any doom character model in quake champions ? :D
<heartlesss> And will you be working on the game ?
<sponge-> you are correct in that i can't answer anything that hasn't been made public
<sponge-> and yea i am on the team
<heartlesss> what is your role within the quake champions dev team ?
<sponge-> mostly programming, backend, just floating around whatever needs to be done
<heartlesss> ok :)
Some features of the game:
- Character abilities
- PC only
- Willits up on stage talking about speed
- No single player
- 'Strafe jumping' was literally said on the stream
- Gauntlet
- "Competitive Arena FPS"
- Described as "challenge", "rush", "fast"
- Class based, different players have different abilitie
- Will be e-sport orientated
- Bethesda to support tournaments beyond QuakeCon
- Multiplayer only? No mention of campaign.
- 120hz, uncapped framerate gameplay
- Strafe jumping
- Campgrounds a playable map?
- Visor has wallhax?
- Ranger can teleport?
- Grunt/Scalebearer has some kind of dash/charge move?
- Mynx/Nyx has glowing hair, dodge move?
- Rocket launcher looks like classic Q3 style model
- Machinegun looks different than Q3 style model
- Lightning gun, rail gun, shotgun, gauntlet
Current characters models names as seen in the teaser:
- Ranger
- Visor
- Nyx (female character, basically an "update" of Mynx from quake 3)
- ScaleBearer (
http://esreality.com/post/2821458/quake-champ...pid2821707 , brand new character)
AHAHAH: http://imgur.com/G75eNvI
dem0n thoughts on a possible duel mode:
http://esreality.com/post/2821458/quake-champ...pid2821813
GogettO made an interesting point:
http://esreality.com/post/2821458/quake-champ...pid2821932
Kaboosh made an interesting point too:
http://esreality.com/post/2821458/quake-champ...pid2822098
phy1um thoughts/reaction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG49BX4sNfg
What about you ? What do you think ? Are you happy/sad ? Do you think that id will fail once more like they did with q4 ? New DOOM's success has given you hope ? AWESOME, CAN'T WAIT ?! SHIT, QUAKE3/LIVE FOR EVER ?! Quake reborn ? Quake is dead ?