This game looks very promising to me, games like Quake (or reflex) do sometimes put themselves in a bit of a difficult situation by making the skill ceiling really high at the get go, I can see this game being really friendly to new players but also keeping a relatively high skill ceiling.
I felt like with Quake getting and breaking to the top is very difficult unless you have been playing the game for so long because of how high the ceiling is.
This looks like a Quake/Halo 2 cross over which is very appealing to me.