Happy Holidays, Quakers!

Our Winter Update is live with new wintry rewards; game balance updates; a new game mode: Arms Race); and more! Read on for the full patch notes:

NEW STORE ITEMS

WINTER WEAPON: FREEZE GUN

Pelt your enemies with a barrage of snowballs with this winter themed Super Nailgun.

NEW SORLAG VANTIY: BANDAGES

Lick her wounds and wrap them up.

NEW SEASON 5 REWARDS

Battle Pass Season 5 progression and rewards are now available, including:

• New Battle-Pass Rewards:
• 2 Weapons
• BOOMER Shotgun
• DOUBLE-BARRELED Super Shotgun
• 45 Champion Vanities:
• Anarki SNOWMAN
• Athena GIFT-WRAPPED
• Athena JOLLY HAT
• Athena SNOWMAN
• Athena THE CRYSTAL QUEEN
• BJ Blazkowicz SNOWMAN
• BJ Blazkowicz TRAIN ENGINEER CAP
• Clutch GIFT-WRAPPED
• Clutch SNOWMAN
• Death Knight SNOWMAN
• Death Knight WINTER BEARD
• Doom Slayer SNOWMAN
• Eisen ELF HAT
• Eisen SNOWMAN
• Eisen TRAIN ENGINEER CAP
• Galena FROSTED TOP HAT
• Galena GIFT-WRAPPED
• Galena THE COLD-HEARTED QUEEN
• Galena WINTER DOE
• Keel SNOWMAN
• Keel TRAIN ENGINEER CAP
• Keel TUTU
• Nyx FROSTED TOP HAT
• Nyx GIFT-WRAPPED
• Nyx THE SNOW QUEEN
• Nyx TRAIN ENGINEER CAP
• Nyx WINTER DOE
• Ranger SNOWMAN
• Ranger THE FROST KING
• Ranger WINTER STAG
• Scalebearer SNOWMAN
• Scalebearer TRAIN ENGINEER CAP
• Slash FROSTED TOP HAT
• Slash GIFT-WRAPPED
• Slash THE ICE QUEEN
• Slash TUTU
• Slash WINTER DOE
• Sorlag FROSTED TOP HAT
• Sorlag GIFT-WRAPPED
• Sorlag THE COLD-BLOODED QUEEN
• Sorlag TUTU
• Strogg & Peeker ELF HAT
• Strogg & Peeker GIFT-WRAPPED
• Strogg & Peeker SNOWMAN
• Visor FROSTED TOP HAT
• 7 Ithagnal Lore Scrolls, earn the complete set to unlock Ithagnal Weapon Shaders
• 75 Platinum
• 116 Shards
• 1 XP Booster
• Bonus Progression beyond Level 100, players can earn an additional 10 Reliquaries, 100 Shards, and 100 Platinum.

NEW ARCADE MODE: ARMS RACE

• Get kills to earn the next weapon in the sequence:
• Rocket Launcher - 8 kills
• Lightning Gun - 7 kills
• Railgun - 6 kills
• Heavy Machine Gun - 5 kills
• Super Shotgun - 4 kills
• Super Nailgun - 3 kills
• Tribolt - 2 kills
• Gauntlet - 1 kill
• First to complete the sequence and earn 36 frags wins.
• No Abiltiies
• No Self-Damage
• No Weapon Pickups
• No Power-ups

GAME UPDATES

• Fixed a stats overflow that was both breaking players profile pages and preventing the end-game Battle Report from displaying. This was affecting players who had more than a month of in-match playtime for one or more Champions
• Suicides no longer count as both a kill and a death, and will decrease the Scoreboard K/D ratio
• Keypad Enter can now be used as a second Enter key
• Fixed Nyx Ghost face which had duplicated geometry on top of itself, creating a visual seam at the eyebrows
• Extended match delay following Sudden Death by 2 seconds in Duel, 2v2, and CTF
• Fixed the stripes on the United Kingdom flag profile icon
• Re-integrated the EBONY & IVORY Shotgun as Premium Shaders for the EL DIABLO super shotgun. If you owned either of these shard-weapons but you did not own the EL DIABLO, you have also been granted the EL DIABLO for free
• Re-integrated the original Quake Wars railgun skin for the ERADICATOR as a Premium Shader
• Updated Daily Challenges to introduce a platinum reward for completing 3 matches
• Fixed a large number of camera positioning bugs in Customization
• Added a game mode icon for Unholy Trinity
• Fixed the combination of the Nyx Ascension (lore skin) and the Jolly Hat vanity.

SOUND UPDATES

Overview (Stereo & Surround)

• Increased the frequence of Jump VO events from 20 to 100% of the time, so you always hear an audible grunt when a player jumps
• Incresaed the volume of Doom Slayer’s movement sounds effects
• Removed RG and LG hum sounds from a Nyx when in Ghostwalk
• Fixed first person death sounds when dying at 1HP (pain sounds were playing instead of death screams)
• Increased the volume of the power-up wear off notification
• Increased the volume of the MG & SG first person sounds
• Reduced Ranger to one low pain health sound, the newer more identifiable yell
• Reverted Breakable sounds to a linear falloff, they were too quiet at a reasonable distance

MAP UPDATES

Awoken

• Fixed root and staircase wall collision in the RL/NG room
• Disabled lower HA spawns in Duel modes
• Fixed hole in archway between NG and HA

Blood Covenant

• Removed the two visible LG stairwell spawns from Time Limit Duel (one remains in the stairwell, but not in line-of-sight of the lower archway
• Removed one spawn in front of the Bridge Stairwell from Time Limit Duel.
• In the three locations with double 25H HPs in TDM, made FFA modes have the same 50 HP layout
• Fixed heavy armor staircase collision, players were getting caught especially along the interior wall.

Blood Run

• Moved the Light Armor near nailgun to the Power-up ledge
• Reduced the 50 HP in the Hourglass hallway to 25 HP in Duel modes
• Repositioned ammo boxes near Tri-bolt
• Fixed additional hole/seam in the geometry near Heavy Armor (Hourglass side)
• Fixed additional hole/seam in the geometry near Heavy Armor (HA Side)
• Fixed holes in the archway geometry in the Hourglass hallway between Hourglasses and Power-up
• Fixed clipping at the HA wall statues
• Added anti-totem & anti-turret volumes in the ceilings of 5 major areas to prevent explotation

Burial Chamber

• Fixed holes in lower wall near tri-bolt
• Fixed collision on staircase wall near tri-bolt
• Enabled Winter Lights

Corrupted Keep

• Fixed stair collision in NG and upper MH room.
• Added anti-totem/turret domains outside the map near bones and ng->ha shards.
• Removed collision from archway floor trim near mega health

Lockbox

• Fixed acid pool collision near RG tp
• Reorientated spawns in the Mega Health room, so that they do not point the player towards the toilet bowl causing them to accidentally fall in upon spawning

The Longest Yard

• Replaces the HMG and bullets with SNG and nails
• Cleaned up the positioning of the RL and rocket ammo pickups

The Molten Falls

• Fixed clipping at the LG jumppad
• Fixed clipping above the LG
• Fixed wall collision near RG jumppad
• Added anti-totem & anti-turret volumes near MH, RG, and RG TP to prevent exploitation
• Fixed the alignment of the barred door wall in center mid

Ruins of Sarnath

• Allow players to shoot through the ceiling grate above LG.

Champions

Scalebearer

• Reduced heavy weight passive damage from 320/25, 400/50, 500/75 to 400/25, 500/50.