Quake Champions will go to Early Access on August 22

Bethesda announced on their official forum, that Quake Champions will officially exit the Closed Beta phase and enter into Early Access on the Bethesda.net launcher and on Steam. Early Access will also bring a ton of new content to the game, including a brand new maps, new features, and a new Champion - the DOOM Slayer.

The Champions Pack
Players who want to jump in and frag their way to global dominance will be able to buy the Champions Pack, which will unlock all current and future Champions as well as other exclusive in-game bonuses for $29.99, 25% off the final retail price of $39.99.

To play Quake Champions during Early Access, players can buy the Champions Pack, which includes:

All 11 current Champions, including Ranger, Visor, Scalebearer, Nyx, Anarki, Clutch, Sorlag, Galena, Slash, Wolfenstein’s BJ Blazkowicz, and the new DOOM Slayer
All future Champions, including at least six additional Champions expected to release before the end of 2018, and any that follow
An exclusive Early Access skin for Ranger, available only during the Early Access period for Champions Pack players
Three Reliquaries (loot chests containing three in-game items for profile, Champion and weapon customization, including skins, shaders, nameplates and more)

Quake Champions’ free-to-play version will launch at a later date. However, players who previously redeemed a Closed Beta key will be able to continue playing Quake Champions in free-to-play mode, only via Bethesda.net. These players will play on the same servers as Champions Pack owners and have the option of upgrading to the Champions Pack or buying additional Champions at any time. Players new to Quake Champions will need to either buy the Champions Pack or wait until free-to-play mode launches at a later date.

Put a little DOOM in Your Quake!
Quake Champions’ newest playable Champion, DOOM Slayer, comes straight from the depths of hell to the Arenas, wielding his pounding fists and an unceasing thirst for blood. Fans of DOOM can run amok using DOOM Slayer’s active ability, Berserk – smashing enemies into bloody piles of gibs with his bare hands. DOOM Slayer’s passive ability will also be familiar to DOOM fans; reach new heights with Double Jump, which allows the DOOM Slayer to jump a second time while in mid-air.

Additional Content & Features Going Live at Early Access
In addition to the new Champion, Quake Champions Early Access will also introduce a host of new content and features for players, including:

Two New Maps: Church of Azathoth and Tempest Shrine
Rune Challenges: Players will be reward for completing new Rune Challenges found in Backpacks
Lore System: Players will find Lore Items hidden throughout Arenas in vases. By collecting all 10 Lore Items for a specific Champion, they will unlock that Champion’s high-end Lore Skin.
Improved New Player Onboarding: New features to help get fresh fraggers up to speed include a movement tutorial, shooting gallery and the ability to choose a skill level
New Customization Options: New options include new Champion skin sets and weapon shaders
In-Game Voice Chat

Source: Bethesda.net

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ID/Beth will be doing a stream and AMA for the early access:

In celebration of our Early Access announcement, we'll be having a Twitch livestream on Friday, August 18 at 1pm ET with id Software. The team is ready to talk Early Access, the Champions Pack, the Early Access game update, DOOM Slayer, the launch of Quake Champions on Steam on 8/22, upcoming game fixes and improvements, and the future of Quake Champions. In addition, we'll be taking your questions live during the stream. We'll be grabbing questions in Twitch chat, on social media, and here on Reddit, so feel free to ask us anything you want.
We look forward to sharing more about Quake Champions Early Access!

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/QuakeChampions/comments/6ubkpn/early_access_twitch_livestream_aua_with_id/

posted 7 years ago

Anonymous (176.182.100.141)

haha, they just dont care about players 30 dollars for bug..not for me

neeple

I hope one of those new maps is for duel. Especially with Quakecon so close and all the weekend duel cups going on

Doomslayers ability sounds really annoying to deal with and the passive seems really strong. Even stronger than Nyxs walljump potentially given that you dont have to rely on geometry. Interested to see how the character actually works though

Generally this is all good stuff that could bring a lot of new players in if done right. And thank fuck I can delete the bethesda launcher soon

azxx

And thank fuck I can delete the bethesda launcher soon

I wouldn't be so sure. There's a good chance it'll be like UPlay, where launching the game from Steam launches UPlay and then launches the game. It's convenient enough IMO but can annoy others.

noctis

They already said that this won't be the case in an AMA.

Aha, that sounds good.

Anonymous (31.132.177.234)

These 2 new maps in early access are Sac maps, but devs told on AUA-stream that new duel map (compact as Corrupted Keep, but more vertical) is out in couple weeks after 22nd of august.

Oh cool, I missed that on the stream. Cheers

lemming

Still massive FPS drops up to 50FPS afer months in development. Saber must be the most incompetent dev team in existence. And all the while a working game engine - with vulkan support too - is sitting there with id. All it needed was a brand new and working netcode. But no. We don't have that either yet. Instead we get the third attempt at making rockets work. This time it'll be great they said. Yeah right.