You should probably link the article you are referring to

Sounds like it'll good if they make Overwatch, but with all the features Blizzard doesn't allow: custom HUDs and crosshairs, super-low graphics settings for clarity, hidable viewmodels, better movement, etc.

Oddly, you can see the link if you quote Aquila's post.
http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/25/12273082/get-the-details-on-quake-champions-playable-characters

Edited to include the link, the post hid it.

If they don't include a classic duel mode rip quake

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One of the devs mentioned Quake Champions having all the modes one would come to expect from Quake in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvDyLCadGGY

so its going to be overwatch but not shit?

and here i thought the wallhack guy was gonna be op

Orbb when?

damn sounds like I get to fight two annoying ass blink characters in two different games

Yeah... Why?

I've always wanted quakeverwatch

who is this trying to appeal to? like quake players surely dont want this gimmicky bullshit and overwatch players arent gonna convert because they already have overwatch... i dont see the point in them doing this

HOLY HYPE

http://i.imgur.com/p8GcAzT.png

why would they make a new quake with gimmicks
when they could just improve on quake live and popularize that game

What Quake Champions could have been

FP arena shooters have been falling out of style for years and this is a way they cut themselves into the market and capitalize off the new popularity of FP class based shooters.

edit: And the biggest problem with that is Quake is built on this "dead" genre (sparing singleplayer), so they will have an insanely difficult time bringing in new players; this is the easiest way for them to do that. They already have all the mechanics there they just have to make the classes and balance them.

I understand quake live how it is could never be super popular because it's a classic arena shooter
but I was thinking they could just add a class based mode to quake live and up the price a little

though I'm guessing they didn't do that because making a separate new release makes more money

If they did that, making an original Quake game and adding a class mode to it, nobody would play the class mode. Since the genre is so unpopular only old Quake fans would be buying the game and old Quake fans don't want classes since it deviates from what they're used to too much.

Updating Quake Live wouldn't work since the game is old and ugly.

tbh I think people need to wait and see just how gay the abilities are. If the (esports part of the) game is 90% CPMA but you can pick up "power orbs" that give you class abilities it won't really matter. If they try pushing it too much like TF2 or overwatch and make it team based with objectives it'll be shit tho

Quakeguy: can teleport forward
Visor: has wallhacks as part of gameplay
Nyx: runs fast, becomes temporarily invincible
Big ass ork: has big health, can charge

heh at least they aren't adding 20 classes at once but i really don't like the wallhack as part of gameplay part

updating quake live wouldn't matter because there simply isn't a market for the traditional arena-shooter anymore.
also some people *cough*CoD*cough* has gone really far in graphics with an engine based on q3

the IW engine is about as closely related to the quake live engine as TF2 is. By the time they added all the support for particles and rendering techniques modern AAA games need to have, they'll have done most of the work of making a new engine.

So are they all going to have different weapons and health, or is it going to be normal Quake and choosing your character is simply choosing your ability ?

EDIT : "Players will have the ability to pick up any weapons from the map, regardless of their champion of choice."

tbh if it's overwatch but with quake engine and movement I'd play the shit out of that even if it wasn't an actual arena fps.

they say the scale bearer is the tank class so they will probably add different health for each class