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On 2017-06-02, Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote:
> - Quake Champions (beta).   Fun!  It's Quake alright.  But, how
> interested I can remain in an arena shooter these days is up for
> debate.  Part of what made the original Quake magical was what the
> modding community did with it.  This was the birth of TeamFortress and
> similar spin offs, and I doubt anything like that will be possible
> with this title.  I'm not sure if I will even buy it, because
> apparently it's going to be a freemium offering (offering a free to
> play model where it takes longer to unlock each champion), and I doubt
> I would be able to carve out enough time in my schedule this day to
> really play all champions or even care about their abilities.  I do
> love the occasional twitch/arena game, so I may jump into it
> occasionally for that.  I actually found Doom (2016) mutliplayer to be
> a bit more addictive, but Quake Champions might be a good option for
> the occasional twitch fix.

I dipped my to into Quake Live (Q3A in a browser) a few years ago and
found I could still hold my own, landing about 3rd or 4th in a 10
player game.

Playing Quake Champions I'm consistently between last and third from
last which is disappointing! Maybe that's because it's in beta so the
only players are hardcore fans.

The main changes from Q3A are the updated graphics and the announcer
calling out when Quad Damage is about to spawn. This makes nice choke
points around the Quad which is a new dynamic.

I'm not a fan of the new Quad logo or sound, I used to really like the
fuzz guitar effect from the earlier games. 

-- 
-Toby
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