Duel in Quake Champions: Ready For e-Sports

Over the last three days everyone has had a chance to take a glimpse at the upcoming Quake title and some have even been lucky enough try it. While most of the game is a mystery, a lot of new information has become publicly available. One such piece of information that has been disclosed by Tim Willits, of id Software, is sure to cheer up a lot of people. Duel in Quake Champions is happening and it will be built with e-sports in mind. The champion abilities will stay in duel as it is now a part of the core game.

“There is a hole with one-versus-one, it's missing from first-person eSports,” says Willits at PAX East, where the game is being demoed publically for the first time. “The title fights are great for Quake so our Duel mode is going to be uniquely Quake, but will still incorporate the champions.”

To show that they are serious about duel, id Software have already lined up a number of professional players to play-test the mode in order to collect quality feedback.

“We have Duels [working in-game] but we need to get more pro players to play it, just to make sure they like it. We have some coming up to id next week,” explains Willits.

Source: PCGamesN

neeple

Was a little scary when all they would talk about were their new team modes. I thought Duel was going to be neglected somewhat, but this is very comforting

posted 7 years ago

filo

ye well, they had duel for to many years as a main tournament event, i never saw it as an option to not have 1v1 in QC.

I always knew they'd have it, but I thought it could end up being ignored in favour of more approachable game modes, or that they would just lump us with "classic" duel and then focus on sacrifice or something.

But this article makes it seem like they will put some real energy behind it

Qvist

It will be interesting to try. I wonder if top players will change champions depending on map, opponent, during maps or stick to one.

lemming

This game needs an esport ready teammode, not duel.

hYperion

Exactly. Duel is fun - for hardcore players.
If they want to attract the masses and build a big player base duel is not the right way.

If they focus on duel they will not have a relevant scene outside from sponsored tournaments, instead they will (at best) have an elite group of a few hundred duel players. Probably less after a while.