Quake: Champions blog - AmDDRed

QUAKE: CHAMPIONS

Contents

1. Intro
2. Existing Gladiators
3. Id-verse Gladiators
4. Quake 3 Arena Lords
   • Tier 0 - Crash
   • Tier 1 - Sarge
   • Tier 2 - Hunter
   • Tier 3 - Klesk
   • Tier 4 - Anarki
   • Tier 5 - Uriel
   • Tier 7 - Xaero
5. Quake 3 Arena Gladiators
   • Ranger | Wrack
   • Doom | Phobos
   • Visor | Gorre
   • Slash
   • Keel
   • Sorlag
   • Bitterman
   • Grunt | Stripe
   • Major | Daemia
   • Tank Jr.
   • Lucy | Angel
   • Biker | Hossman | Cadaver
   • Patriot | Razor
   • Mynx
   • Orbb
   • Bones
6. Quake 3 Team Arena Gladiators
   • Frietzkrieg
   • James
   • Janet
   • Pi
7. Conclusions

INTRO

I've always considered Quake1 and Quake2 different games, that are in serie by name only. Though, "Scourge of Armaggon" 1st episode influenced this decision, and Armaggon is a some kind of progenitor to Q2's final boss, who knows?..

So, Quake3 was something of a id Softwaffe Multiverse, the Vadrigari Valhalla, and while being Arena game, it still had very simple, "karmaki porno", plot: you were introduced to arena by Crash, taught by Sarge, and finally spaced by Xaero. So, every character there had their lines, their small history, like Hunter and Sorlag hatred; Wrack being lost in the Arena; Klesk experiencing loud silence of missing voice of We, his all race, slowly replacing by the voices of Vadrigari telling to kill everyone… And so on, so on.

There was a joke: "Doomguy is slaughtering Hell. 1st circle, 2nd circle, 3rd circle… Finally, he finishes, every demon is killed, he's now in the Paradise. Angels fly to him - Hey, Doomguy, you're so great, no demons, glory to you!. Doomguy takes a look around and swithes on a chainssaw: "The Final Circle!"".

So, these warriors are lost in their battles, that's their personal hell - they can't stop no more, like in Sarge's intro. Or maybe Vadrigari have taken their projection with body and certain state of mind, so these are trapped in ethernal respawn cycle, and Xaero like no one knows this, as a budhist dressed guy. :)

And this is very much like Q1, which was very Lovecraftish, with brilliant OST by Trent Reznor a.k.a. NIN that fit it like a glove, like Mick Gordon's music to Doom2016+ - and not even first, menu track, but the others, with crazy ambient, with whispers, probably, those that talked with Klesk after all (and this kind of industrial metal OST was something that was missing in Q4). For Q2 we had Q4, QW:ET, and I'd love to return to Q1 Universe, to have brutal gameplay in environment of Clive Barker's Undying or Call of Chtulhu or Magrunner: Dark Pulse. Like Doom3. But with Chtulhu instead of Hell. :)

Also Q3 with all these characters marked the history and potential plots for another games: another dimensions of Q1, Strogg war of Q2, distopia cyberpunk streets of future Earth, interstellar travels with pirates and so on, just read the bio and phrases of chars.

Well, I hope that Quake Champions will be a true continuator of Q3A. And here are some my ideas what could be taken from old id classic to new incarnation.

EXISTING GLADIATORS

Well, for now in QC there are Ranger, Scalebearer, Visor, Anarki, Sorlag, Clutch, Nyx,Slash, Galena, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, Doom, Keel, Strogg&Peeker, Death Knight, Athena and Eisen.
Part of these gladiators have been seen earlier:

• Ranger is a classic hero of Quake1;
• B.J. is a classic hero of Wolfenstein;
• Doom Guy/Slayer is a classic hero of Doom;
• Visor, Anarki, Slash, Sorlag, Keel are gladiators in Q3A;
• Nyx might be inspired by Q3A Mynx gladiator:
  
  
  
• Galena is might be inspired by Q3TA Crusader faction and Hexen/Heretic games:
  
  
• Clutch is inspired by Q3-wanna-be-successor Reflex Arena standard (well, only) character; I'd better had TankJr, which, basically, has about the same proportions...
  
  
• Strogg & Peeker is inspired by Strogg classes from the Quake Wars: Enemy Territory:
  
  
• Death Knight is a direct link to an enemy of Quake Guy:
  
  
  
• Athena is Quake II multiplayer model, that was released as a toy:
  
  
  
• Scalebearer with Eisen are something new;
• The Beastmaster is someone new but was planned since very beginning and not clear if he's going to appear but his pictures were created a long time ago, and they are found in Quake Champions Winter Season 13 Battle Pass:
  

ID-VERSE GLADIATORS

And I guess there is a place for another gladiators from the other Id Software games, the Id-verse. And let's think about what they could be.

Quake 3 gladiators are not heroes, not nice and handy characters; they are anti-heroes, the fallen one, those who stuck in a battle for too much time, like forever. If collect those guys, then it would look like Suicide Squad, Predators or Broforce company. Some stereotypical, even archetypical guys with special skills...

I think, that as other id Software games characters are used, then probably, they are first candidates to appear as a new Gladiators.

• Commander Keen: can't say if the game will have its gladiator in "Quake: Champions" :).
  
  But who knows, Billy 'Blaze' Blazkowicz II, the father of Doomguy, the son of Quakeguy and Jesse Blazkowicz, and the grandson of BJ may have some trumps in his pockets! Especially, if we take into consideration that he was on Mars and according to Youngblood's info, Nazi ignored Mars because of reason that left only some burnt things (to Hell and Back skin info).
  
  But according to Doom's eastereggs, he was not so lucky after all... Evil hates Blazecowitch family :) Or these are the tries to scare the Doomguy by showing him his dead father :))
  
  
  
• Wolfenstein: Blazkowicz - already there;
  
  
  
• Wolfenstein: Youngblood: the missing link between BJ and Quake Guy, Blazkowicz sisters. Zophia and Jessie, the loving wife of Ranger and the mother of Keen and his sister. They are more like sidekicks to the main stories, but still they have strength to fight and superabilities to use. And Soph could be the main protagonist with possibility to have Jes skin as well.
  
  SPECIAL ABILITIES: from Youngblood, there are passive abilities like double jump and sliding. And for active ability I'd have added telekinetic push. Or even ability from Bullet/Grenade God perk.
  
  
• Doom: the Doom Slayer/Guy - already there;
  
  
  
• Quake1: Quake guy a.k.a. Ranger - already there;
  
  
  
• Quake2: quake2 guy a.k.a. Bitterman - he had his model in Q3A, but he's kinda very standard and hard to understand what his special abilities will be and special outfit...
  
  
  
• Quake4: Matthew Kane - Stroggified human, looks cool for a gladiator, and his special ability is reading and Strogg texts; at least his outfit could be modified to show Strogg speznaz variations. Well, it always thought that Visor is stroggish, but he appeared to be Moscowish. Well, Matthew Kane will be the real Strogg Renegade.
  
  
  
• Quake Wars: Enemy Territory: probably, parts of Strogg soldiers were so cool, that it was decided that it will look cool as a new Quake Champion, Strogg & Peeker.
  
  
• RAGE: main protagonist of the game is Nicholas Raine.
  SPECIAL ABILITIES: His special ability might be Defibrillator Charge: +25 HP and electro charge for everyone around, as it was in the game itself.
  There was also car/droid/turret spawn ability, and I liked that walking mechanical ally, but I guess Strogg and Eisen would be enough. But who knows? Anyway, I think defibrillation defines Raine better.
  
• RAGE 2: Walker, Texas Ranger (the guy to the right) - or simply, Ranger Walker, with a gender identification problem, if you know what I mean. And I wonder if a title 'Ranger' somehow relates to Quakeguy?.. It shouldn't be according to timeline, but as Quakeguy in QC has this RAGE-looking skin...
  SPECIAL ABILITIES: Anyway, his/her abilities might be one of those - Shatter (Youngblood), GravJump (Doom Slayer), Defibrillation (Raine), Barrier, Rush (Scalebearer), Vortex, Constitution (passive stuff), Focus (Visor), Overdrive (BJ), Slam, Dash (Clutch), Void (Darth Vader). As the most used abilities are based on grabity, I'd vote for Slam or Vortex, though it was a good combination of piercing Barrier + Vortex...
  As well, Walker has a drone flying nearby, but I think that gravity defiance better defines the character of Ranger Walker.

QUAKE 3 ARENA LORDS

But let's checkout Q3A. First come Tier Bosses, that had their own Arena. Among other gladiators only few had their own 'home'.

TIER 0 - CRASH

ARENA: Q3DM0 "Introduction"

Basically, she looks like Doom female version and she was never considered as a boss. But still it was a nice model. And she's your crash course instructor - your trainer to pass Sarge!

Well, I wonder if the Doomgirl a.k.a. Crash is a Quakeguy's daughter in this Blazkowitz family Santa-Barbara story…

SPECIAL ABILITIES: I see Crash as a light champion - she has removed few armor plates to be more agile; with improved jumping skills as a passive ability - just look at her experimental Portal-like boots! Of course, it reminds a lot of the Doomguy himself, but well, that's the Rule 63! The active ability should define Crash individuality more, but what it would be - that the question is. Maybe, some energy/plasma shield, as originally her armor is reflecting blue? Like, she needs a force field so that a rookie doesn't harm her…

TIER 1 - SARGE

ARENA: Q3TOURNEY1 "Power Station 0218"

Well, it's kinda eternal sargeant, very stereotypical. He's face is a combination of Arnold Schwarznegger and Clint Eastwood if we look at the model, but more like old John Cena if we watch the Q3 intro.

But, like I've already said, you can take some guy with a square face, paint it silver, give him a cigar - and voila! Remember colonel Miles Quaritch from Avatar? Or Basil Plumbey from We were soldiers?

It's interesting, that in Quake Live Sarge is without the cigar. Oh, these day's modern gaming industry!..

Sarge had to represent an older version of a Quakeguy in an earlier stages of Q3A, but then he became a different character. But on the other hand, there are rumors, that Sarge is an another descent of Billy Blaze, a brother or a clone of a Doomguy or else. It's complicated.

There's even possibility to use Doom3 Sarge, Thomas Kelly, or his opponent, Jack Campbell, they both look pretty much 'sargish'. And as for outfit, we can have skins with armor from different id games - from Doom to Quake4, including Wolfensteins. Like, Q3A lore skin, some basic marine outfit, Q1, Q2, Q4 and D3 armors.

SPECIAL ABILITIES: I see Sarge as more Q3-oriented champion, something between Visor and Ranger. As an active special ability I'd vote for ammo restoration for all of his weapons - Sarge knows what you need most in battle! As a bonus, team mates nearby could receive some ammo too. I think that this ability should not be instant, so that there would be possible to get an achievement - "Reloaded" - for killing foes in the time of ammo count-up.
And as a passive special ability I think ammo boxes and weapon pick-up should speed up ability cooldown.

P.S.: Quake Champions Winter Season 13 Battle Pass contains interesting pictures of Sarge, which suspiciosly reminds same season Grunt picture:

TIER 2 - HUNTER

ARENA: Q3TOURNEY2 "The Proving Grounds"

Well, her initial look probably was a little bit free-minded, but on the other hand she is a tribal woman most probably from tropical areas, so it's completely understandable to wear this kind of outfit. But censorship is censorship, and in Quake Live steam cards she has changed.

I think, she's the one that needs to be in Quake Champions. I guess she'll be Quake's Wonder Woman in her original outfit. Besides, she's a natural enemy of the Sorlag, so she definitely need to appear in-game.

Her outfit can be modified in a various ways - Tribal, Predator, Barbarian, Aztec, African, Celtic... Like Heavy Metal Predator or else.

It would be cool if shaders would change her battle tattoo/drawings.

IMHO, Hunter reminds me Rosario Dawson very much. And it's interesting that there are rumors about her participating in Star Wars Mandalorian s2, as Ashoka Tano, with all these tatoo-like attributes...

This one I've tried to draw by myself. Personally, don't know why, but I associate her with Amazonian forests, afro-brazilian culture, shamanism and dreadlocks. For example, the distant future, planets get colonized, and like in Ender's sequels, Hunter is from Lusitanian colony that being attacked by sorlags, forced to flee to the forests and abandon civilization, and there human revive as tribes copying elements of sorlag's culture to survive. And our hero, Hunter is a woman that is the last of her tribe, and she takes the burden of being her tribes Spiritual Mother and Avenger, while her antagonist Sorlag is being Mother and Dark Gods shaman of her tribe.

SPECIAL ABILITIES: There is question about her active ability and passive as well, someone offered ability to see the footprints or injured enemy, but it could be thought out.

P.S.: Quake Champions Winter Season 13 Battle Pass contains interesting pictures of Hunter:

TIER 3 - KLESK

ARENA: Q3TOURNEY3 "Hell's Gate"

According to the lore Klesk is telepathic and hears voices; I hope there will be possibility to get 'Flisk'-looking Klesk.

SPECIAL ABILITIES: I'd say that he could make visions to appear: so everyone around will hear strange sounds, will see distorted, and two or more bots same as him will appear as distractions, shooting same time.

P.S.: Quake Champions Winter Season 13 Battle Pass contains interesting pictures of Klesk:

TIER 4 - ANARKI

Implemented.

ARENA: Q3TOURNEY4 "Vertical Vengeance"

Now it's looks like classic extraverted Cyberpunk Hacker or else. But the thing is that original Anarki had mouse sewed, which ment that he was totally introverted, not allowing anyone to get inside of his thought. And it was inspired by a gamers that spend all their time in-games, thus game reality becoming their reality - Q3 Anarki was in his cybervision only.

Very good analysis of this character you can find HERE.

TIER 5 - URIEL

ARENA: Q3TOURNEY5 "Fatal Instinct"

Vadrygar original hero or anti-hero, and most probably, he's a demon, Doom's antagonist.

SPECIAL ABILITIES: there are two options for his special ability: it's a fog/mist from his arena; or a pentagram setup for imidiate teleportation in case of need.

TIER 7 - XAERO

ARENA: Q3TOURNEY6 "The Very End of You"

Zen-Zero is a cybernethic monk. Anyway, there's plenty way's to upgrade this guys outfit (including Bruce Lee costume) as despite his cyber-something from the back, he's quite stereotypical. And talking of Visor's mask - he was not the only one with mask, you know!

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Hard to say what is his ability, but something could be done about meditation - like health restore, or like taking Q3TA powerup, he'll be invincible and static for a period of time; for a passive ability he might have 'flying tiger, crouching dragon ability' - double jump, for example. Or not, as Doom guy already have this ability. Otherwise, Xaero may turn into his opponent for a short period of time.

P.S.: Quake Champions Winter Season 13 Battle Pass contains interesting pictures of Xaero:

QUAKE 3 ARENA GLADIATORS

And there are other guys. Some of them have multiple skins, and it would be nice to be taken into consideration when creating outfit for a certain character.

My drawings about some of the gladiators:

RANGER / WRACK

Implemented.

ARENA: Q3DM1 "Arena Gate"

It's interesting, that after Doom-girl, instructor, you meet Quake-guy. Ranger's lost, and so do you. And you gotta find your way out of this Arena hell :)

But there is skin called Wrack - another one talking name - and I'd like to know more about another one quake-guy, lost in Slipgates… It would be nice optionto make him look like Wrack for variability in look. At least, some mustache with beard would do.

DOOM / PHOBOS

Implemented.

ARENA: Q3DM2 "House of Pain"

Doom Slayer is implemented as well, so I'd talk of Phobos. If you remember Doom3: RoE, then marine's outfit was different from D3: green vs. blue (btw, RoE doomguy's name was John Kane - is he somehow related to Q4 Mathiew Kane?..). So, Phobos - is a third guy from a forgotten add-on, Lost mission. And he should have orange suit :) Anyway, on a new engine, it's just shaders, not entire skin change.

VISOR / GORRE

Implemented.

He's already implemented and I think he looks gorgeous, so there's no need to turn to his look in Q3 or his clone Gorre. Though it would be interesting to see the fight, who's the best. Like Ryu vs. Ken :))

In comics, Visor and Prime had their fights, and it would fun to see a short movie of Visor arrival to the Ranger's base, after Ranger has cleansed it up.

SLASH

Implemented.

This girl is already implemented a bit censorshipped. Otherwise, she's like Harley Quinn of IdVerse.

Interesting analysis of this char you can find HERE.

KEEL

Implemented.

Well, this is another one human cyborg, this time with some alien tech. Shoots grenades in QC. But original Q3 version of Keel is more mature and interesting than kinda stereotypical QC Keel, IMHO.

SORLAG

Implemented.

This girl is implemented too but her initial model looks a lot more different from QC Sorlag. It was more untraditional, and really, looks like Scalebearer with a strange legs and head.

BITTERMAN

Some say that he looks like Bruce Willis, and that he was Q2 war hero, but Q2 was oldskull game that had a player as action hero, not some Gordon Freeman or else guys, who steals all the glory afterall...

On the other hand he has quite strange hairs, and alternative skins, so as his fate was unclear after killing Macron (not the French president, you know), so he might become something of a Matthew Kane, only with completed and updated program, so he will become something of a Terminator.

GRUNT / STRIPE

Another one anonymous grunt from Q2 Strogg War. There is a suspicion that he was planned to be used in cancelled Q4 Awakening DLC.

But otherwise, even the bio of his reskin - Stripe - isn't helping.

P.S.: Quake Champions Winter Season 13 Battle Pass contains interesting pictures of Grunt, which suspiciosly reminds same season Sarge picture; as well, I've added two famous baldies for reference:

MAJOR / DAEMIA

Like in the case of Bitterman, nothing to add here: it's a Major, Q2 playable character (in MP, of course). With Bitterman, Sarge and Grunt, she makes a nice Strogg War team. Beside's that - well, cool looking fighter. She could speak spanish, as her another skin - Daemia - does.

TANK JR.

Strogg War enemy, that has a lot to tell to humans. Well, I guess we can forget about seeing him in-game as there's Clutch. But.. who knows?

LUCY / ANGEL

Lucy is "a former prison guard, she crossed the line and ended up on the other side of the bars" - her bio tells us.In a combination with Angel, I see a story of her being captured by a crazy scientist maniac during some prison riot "Natural Born Killers" alike and turned into a cyborg piece of art. And like Frankenstein, she lived and killed her recreator.

Of course, Hossman/Biker/Cadaver is not a scientist, but he as a prisoner might be related to this story and thus can become an archenemy of Lucy. It could be a nice pair, couldn't it?..

SPECIAL ABILITIES: I'd set her as a heavy champion with energy explosion special.

Part of the Femme Fatales of the Q3A, including Slash, Lucy and Hunter:

BIKER / HOSSMAN / CADAVER

Well, I'd create a mixture of a Biker and Hossman. He doesn't look like something special (even from the Q3), but he's looking cool and could have a variation of his outfit, including Cadaver prison robe.

So, I can imagine some story of him, that his name is Hossman, was the biker gang leader (like "Hell raiders"), once robbing some van found a Necronomicon, started reading it, couldn't stop, organized cult with human sacrifice, got caught and electrified. Well, that's somehow reminds me "Mandy" movie… But Hossman himself reminded me of Tom Savini's character Sex Machine from Dusk till Dawn, and Biker has something common with John Carroll Lynch's character Mr. Jingles from American Horror Story 1984.

Story can be various, like escaping prison, got skinned alive and like Rasputin not be killed; or some Hellraiser stuff, when his suffering are brought from the other dimension, so then he's wondering the Elder Realm with endless pain and anger, as he suffers and he still cannot die. Somewhat of Quake's cthulhified version of Ghost Rider, which is funny as Cage has played as well in "Colors Out of Space", based on Lovecraft story…

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Cadaver info can be useful for the brainstorming, and his guts falling out, electric chair can form, for example, a following situation: activated special ability reveilles the last mental image's painful agony of biker Hossman, and it will be the electrified skinless shouting loud cadaver that drops the weapons but uses his guts like the lasso of the Ghost Rider to get closer, choke and electrify the victim, with an effect of a Tazer from Payday2. In the name of Ithagnal, god of Lockbox and electric Shambler, probably?

PATRIOT / RAZOR

This guy reminds me of two action movie superstars, Tango & Cash, combined in one. Or Snake Plisken and Stallone's image with t-shirt w/o sleeves (like, 'Lock up', 'Cliffhanger' and, of course, 'Rambo').

Razor story is kinda typical, but Patriot's more interesting: we can read about his active ability - he's a vampire. So, while active ability he could convert damage done to others. And of course, Patriot can share his original model - Razor - outfit. Btw, of course, it's fan's depiction of Razor up there, but it correlates well with potential cyberpunk games of Sin and Daikatana from this list…

As well, Razor kinda looks like Micky from Natural Born Killers (and Mynx gonna be his Mallory…), and recalling that Tango & Cash was also about some Prison Break, we can have a "Prison" subplot with Lucy, Biker, Razor and others.

Well, how about Quake 5/V to be about prison break situation? Quake franchise was always a synthetic one, consisting of different "dimensions" connected by pretty similar gameplay, and here we already have a set of characters then could be used in a manner of "MagRunner: The Dark Pulse", "Kingpin", "Escape from Butcher's Bay" and "System/Bioshock": the prison is just an opportunity to experiment with Strogg technologies and having ethical limits set to low, local scientist, the one similar to Visor comics line - maybe the one, allows himself to do some occult things, thus opening a door for the RAGE madness of Elder Gods voices. And our hero would have to go through a riot, guards, special forces, stroggified units, cthulhified units, fiends and finally to get to the Elder dimensions. And in his journey he'd meet, in a G-Man way, Ranger, the demi-god, like Kratos fighting the spawns of Elder Gods, going through portals like it's his home…

SPECIAL ABILITIES: well, like it was told before, Patriot's active ability can be vampirism - absorb damage done to other players as a health while activated, in the name of Volkerh. Or in a style of "make Quake great again!" he can get some temporal buff, like regeneration while activated; or like national debt - all the damage he receives is applied only after the activation is over. As for a passive ability - well, maybe, something like Galena's health gathering but in this case this would be a somewhat of a battle frenzy - each damage done to other player or vice versa shortens the cooldown of the active ability.

MYNX

ARENA: Q3DM3 "Arena of Death"

Well, her name tells it all: 'Someone or something that is fucking great or can dominate at ease' (c) urbandictionary. With such a name, bio, and lips of Angelina Jolie, she wouldn't make to the modern gaming world. So they replaced it with Nyx, who looks kinda similar, but different.

ORBB

ARENA: Q3DM3 "Arena of Death"

Orbb is an interesting thing: it's like journalist on war that decided to take weapon instead of camera in his hands. Also, it's player inpersonification than some archtype or popular hero inspiration: you run with your hands, and you have only eye; hard to say what skills it might have - manchkinism? :) But it's cool looking character. Interesting analysis of this char can be found HERE.

BONES

And, finally, Bones, simply bones: "This fearsome foe showcases the powers of the Vadrigar, for it has no true life of its own". I guess, it was a showcase of the powers of the developers :), and Bones cannot be counted as a real gladiator with some backstory and personality. On the other hand, he can be Terminator!

But being honest it's a basic model, especially from the ideas perspective, so instead we can find several spiritual successors of Bones - starting from stroggified Bitterman, continuing with Frietzkrieg (see below) and finishing with Death Knight.

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Well, we can go into the Terminator idea deeper, and to make him a light champion, with passive ability of Silent Person, so that it makes no sound like a ghost, and active ability to make Bones only-walking, but invincible, or at least, give him permanent armor of 200 while the ability is active.

QUAKE 3 TEAM ARENA GLADIATORS

Being honest these were too little and too uninspiring. All new Q3TA characters were lacking charisma, unlike the original characters. But let's discuss.

FRIETZKRIEG

ARENA: MPTOURNEY1 "House of Decay"

Well, this one is a nazi frankenstein of a WW2, a perfect counterpart to BJ. But his look is rather strange. This can be fixed by using the parts of Machinegames's Wolfenstein Nazi's. And this time it won't be Vadrigar responsibility, but alternative future Nazi experiments: something between Frankenstein and Universal Soldier. Thus it can make this character more complicated, somewhat like Robocop serving for the Reich: like there's a program and there's a personality behind. Well, you've seen this kind of scenario in Q4, Prey, Wolf: New Order - considering the last one it even won't contradict the lore!

For example, we can imagine some kind of newest cyborg modification from Wolfenstein: Youngblood 80's, mixture of robot ÜberSoldaten und zombie Supersoldaten. Probably, robot's direction is more interesting, as they fit Quake's action-oriented pace. Then we can take his human nazi fellows parts as the cosmetics.

SPECIAL ABILITIES: On the one hand, same as Grenade Launcher has become a special ability for Keel, Proximity Launcher may become a special ability for Frietzkrieg, especially as a Q3TA introduced weapon. But on the other hand some robot characteristics taken as a special ability, for example, Haste. Or wall climbing or simply sticking to it. And if a very convenient control of dashing from Doom Eternal would be introduced in QC, instead of annoying double tapping, then I'd suggest instead of Haste to take Dash as a passive ability.

JAMES

Same as Janet, this guy looks very cool on Q3TA loading screen, but otherwise, still a generic warrior. He might be Q3TA dedicated update special outfit for Death Knight - well, DK's lore outfit resembles him very much, though DK is not holding his back straight, unike James does. Well, Galena and DK are even look like some priests of something, same as Janet & James. Though, Visor can use a bit of it, like helmet :)

On the other hand, he might resemble Doom 2016/Eternal Sentinels. Friends of Doom Slayer. And exactly here some of the Doom 2016 multiplayer reskins might be used, as well, as part of Betrayer and Marauders… This might be the beginning transformation of the Sentinel into the Marauder…

JANET

Extremely lazy bio, something similar to the Mynx, but this time just a celebrity dreaming of killing everyone. IMHO, like Nyx replaced Mynx, Galena replaced Janet - especially, if we check her apprentice skin. Otherwise, it's hard to think out something really interesting for Janet, her additional outfits, fitting Quake Grim Multiverse, and special abilities. Well, for me, she was just another sexy chick from the end of the 90s game industry. But there are even fans of her.

But of course, she can be somewhat of a pop-star in Elder Gods Realm. So that plus another one type of gamer's taste is covered. On the other hand, after RAGE2 the id-verse is open for colorful punks! Strange that there was no additional skin made for Anarki when the game came out… Maybe some story about ranger that became a punk leader could be imagined…

PI

ARENA: MPTOURNEY2 "Death Factory"

Well, this is a very strange character, space fighter pilot, cyberpunked by some scientist after a crash (maybe the one that corrected Lucy?..). But her look is too trashy anyway - sexy borg, are you serious? And as we already have borgs in id-verse - stroggs - we can just make stroggified look of the Athena in some kind of Q3TA dedicated update… Well, you know, even Bitterman and Mathew Kane have not escaped this destiny! And this mind enslaving tech might work as a dreaming, actually throwing a lot of unlucky souls into the madness of Elder Gods Realm…

But on the other hand, Pi's being freezed in the Europa's ices is a very convenient candidate to add her into the Dream Cast, and to have highly modifiable cyperpunk outfit - illegal parts, of course, somewhat like the opposite of Alita the Battle Angel. And cyberpunk is popular nowadays :)

Well, I believe I've seen other bio with Pi being a modified sex-bot. Yeah, love, death, robot.

CONCLUSIONS

Well, it's hard to make any prophetic conclusion, especially now, with QC being Id's ugly duckling.

Well, currently the game is all about the Acting and Players, there is not so much of a World and Interaction, thus leaving only the Killer's kind, and that is bad for the game, as they wipe out all the other kinds of player, including themselves. Well, that's what actually happened: of course, QC was planned as a cyber-sport discipline, but cyber-athletes are only the top of the user's iceberg.

Game should be explorable, it should be worth talking about.

We might think of gladiators coming in pairs, and we saw that Anarki had Slash, Scalebearer had Nyx, Ranger has Death Knight, Strogg&Peeker with Athena might be considered as a Q2 pair, Clutch has Eisen (the engineer has robot's vanity in his outfit)… So we might think about some other pairings, especially as there are some clues. Like, there's Hunter feather in Sorlag's artifacts… And Klesk appearing in Keel's story… So one of these might be in a plan for upcoming champions. For now it's solo for Visor, Galena, BJ, Doom… Doom could stand against Uriel, and BJ might rise against some Nazi - like this Q3TA Fritzkrieg. And Visor could face Patriot :) This rivalry can be used for seasonal events to provide some fuel for Social and Exploreral players this or that way.

As Visor speaking Russian, and Eisen speaking German, we can wait for more non-english speaking champions, like spanish Daemia or chinese Xaero. I dunno, mb, Hunter could be set as portuguese-speaking person. This could be decided upon the player's language selection statistics or planned target audience. :)

Then there are my preferences: I'd love to see Klesk, Sarge, Hunter, Matthew Kane, Xaero and Orbb.

It would be good to have more other id games thematic maps, more champion-based maps like it was in Q3A, or even antagonist pairs based maps. And it would be good to have maps dedicated to a certain gamemode, as a thing that is good for everything is good for nothing. As well, one champion (mb, +ability disabled) type game mode would be close to classical DM. Or TDM, with only two champs, each for different team (like Hunters vs. Sorlags)… I guess, some things can be checked in Mortal Kombat latest installment…

Also, it would be good to have QC ported on a fresh idTech7, as personally I feel very disappointed with loading times and performance of the current implementation.

As well, dashing mechanics for Clutch should be improved by allowing to use SHIFT key for it.

Otherwise, well, Id Software, just don't forget about the game and develop it, and make it work if not on Ubuntu, then with SteamPlay's Proton!..

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LINKS

Great thanks to following sites:

• Google
• DeviantArt
• Quake Wiki
• QL characters
• Few cool remade char profile pictures
• John Mueller deviant art page with QL Steam wallpapers
• Quake Champions facebook group
• Q3A charaters taunts and bio's including analysis of Anarki, Slash and Orbb
• Q3 Generation Arena mod: Gladiators divided by epochs (e.g. Slipgate/Strogg/Hell/Nazi wars)
• All id Software games are set in one universe?
• Orken World - cool looking character concepts that could be useful for Hunter remix
• Armour hairstyle - for Hunter
• Upcoming Champions
• Q3TA Janet Fan-Gallery
• Bartle's Player Types
• Quake Gods

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