Quake Champions - A Message To The Community 

Never played quake but this video makes me interested in it!

They will probably just add a mode that removes the specials.

"How about you become a good ambassador for the game?" Respect Sir, You deserve it. Good video.

I love how you are how chill you are in your videos.

I'm so ready for this game. Thanks for making this video. I never picked it up because my one experience was just maddening with the constant toxicity and being kicked out of servers left and right. I'm really hoping this turns out great with all the new comers.

That's why I don't get into Quake but I really want to...I don't wanna be banned from every server for being a noob.

Love you for making this, everyone being negative about the champions but its got a great chance of making quake special like it once was, im only in my teens but have played and really enjoyed all the quake games. Hope this is the same way

I really can't express just how good this video is. Very well said!

Good video. I am also a ctf purist, but from the q1 days, and your experience eerily mirrors mine. Cheers for the openmindedness you're sharing here, it's much needed by this community sometimes.

Great attitude dude.

Great video, I stuck around on your channel for your amazing mouse reviews and loved the gameplay you use to test the mouses. Bought Quake Live myself and i'm enjoying it to the fullest!

Never played Quake before, but definitely interested from watching your channel! You're always so positive! Keep it up!

Despite of playing the game since Quake 2 MP and being able to strafe jump backwards, I get FLAMED on servers for not being 'good enough'. I don't play everyday and lose touch at times! I'm GLAD you addressed this issue. Although the it's the best game out there, it just turns regular folks all egoistic once they get really good. You really have to give n00bs a chance.

Old Q3 Player here, spent hours and hours in that game, still play from time to time on steam, love it. Quake 4 was a mistake.. tried couple hours and didn't like it. Played the Beta of Quake Champions that ended yesterday, oh man.. the feeling, the strafe, the rocket jump, the Q3DM6 map re-created.. railgun, shotgun, machinegun, lightninggun.. its awesome, its like play Q3 on a new graphics engine. I was able to notice some newbie players, but also some players with really good skillz, old players i will say.. you could notice them by the way the move, aim, switch weapons and attack. I'm sold and i'm gonna be buying it to support the devs.

Very positive outlook ,you deserve all the props for this and you sold me on starting up Quake Champions for the first time. Thanks !

You have a superb outlook on things. This was a great video :)

I want to start playing because of you and your channel!

I've been watching your videos since a long time already, and since that i wanted to give Quake live a try, sadly when i joined a server i got insta kicked for "being a noob" hopefully with Quake champions things will change! Keep up the good work man, you're amazing!

never even knew what quake was until watching you but now I'm hyped for quake champions. Keep up the great content man

You're awesome man! Keep up the positivity and sharing the good vibes my man!

Thank you for this video. it's fantastic and serves to make a very good point. Love it.

Hey! A shoutout from the UT community - we also deal with the same problems. Let's hope the AFPS genre has a renaissance!

Thanks for sharing your passion with others. Subscribed. Quake lives!

Thanks To You, I Bought Quake Live, and in fact i fell in love with it after 2 days already. It's really fun to play but hard at first because your new and Don't​ know the REAL basics. This had recently became my main since it's what my Dad likes, Now I'm​ recently about to stream Quake live either each day or each week

The problem with quake in its state is that the meta has come to a point that even some of the high tier players got bored. Just adding one ability to each character can allow them to change the meta to keep the game fresh

Threewave's "Classic CTF" for Quake 3 was actually very good. Mainly because it brought back the grapple. :D DeltaCTF for Quake 4 was shaping up very well too as I recall (although it was a decade ago!) I'm really excited about Quake Champions - *but* I'm a CTF/objective player. I find deathmatch boring, and I'm not a great dueller so that's frustrating. For me, QC will stand or fall on whether it offers me what I want. But I my God I want it to succeed!

I fully agree with you on everything. I'm also optimistic for quake champions. I recently picked it up this past weekend as I felt the need for a quake title. The last one being quake 3 back in 2007 or so. In any case. I loved every moment of quake champions. Felt like the old recipe with a few new twists which made it exciting. Hopefully more people join in on the fun

Was never really into Quake but your channel has seriously inspired me to go download it.

WAIT WHAT CHAMPIONS IS FREE?

I'm new!! Thank you for saying this 😊 I love the game so far and am playing everyday❤

I am new to quake bought quake live a couple months ago because of your reviews and it really brought my attention to the series and I'm really anticipating Champions. especially after playing about an hour of the beta

Really liking your videos man, great commentary, nice to listen.

Well reasoned logical argument. Hopefully it turns out good.

You sir, are a very mature and insightful person. More people need to be like you.

Awesome. I actually got into Quake because of your vids (champions) amd I LOVE it

Thx for such a great video, im new to play Quake, but I grew up with the game and i LOOOOVE IT!!!!! I will support all new players and what to help to get a GREAT Community for such a GREAT Game!!

some of my worries have been quite diminished, and im actually quite pleased they gave a character crouch sliding. however, the one thing that I really cant stop wondering about is the effect that spawning with armor and armor pickups giving different armor values will have on the gameplay. it seems as though it would be rather easy for certain characters to become dominant simply because they are rewarded more for map control. the abilities dont worry me so much, but doesnt different health values and armor pickups / spawning with armor completely circumvent map control in the first place? also, i saw an image of character stats that implied characters would be given movement speed caps, with the highest being at 800ups. Why? i hope the extra mobility of the squishier characters gives them an edge that proves me wrong about map control, and that rocket jumping and speed in general end up being fine. regardless, im excited to play the game asap :)

Honestly, after watching a lot of your videos I kind of want to get into quake.

I like your mindset. I'm only 20 and quake was before my era but it has been on my radar for like 6 years now. In the past I put q3a on school computers and had fun play with my friends but never managed to get into quakelive because as you mentioned lots of long time and very good players destroyed me and it just set me off the whole thing. Quake Champions will finally give me a chance to play quake without getting destroyed, hopefully it turns out well.

Hey nice video mate and yes this is exactly whats needed... I posted in the QC forums about this about 3 months ago saying the devs really need to get behind/communicate with the current q3a/live community for QC to work imo it will fail if they current community stays the same! Cheers for the time making the vid NeK

I played my first game of Quake Champions just today. I got my ass handed to me, (but I did manage to stay alive for more than 20 seconds at a time) but those 5 kills I managed were awesome.

Quote from video: "I'm going to buy the champion pack just to support quake and the dev team. They've given me my favorite games for the last 18 years" Who is they? You mean John Carmack who was forced out and then sued? Or do you mean the parent company that legally assaulted Mojang over garbage issues? Perhaps romero, mcgee, jaqauys... hmm. Maybe it's not the same people who have brought you your favorite games after all.

Cheers for making this vid and giving some voice to the people like myself who are keen to learn but a little weary of the learning curve/community. I haven't played quake in years and never outside of closed LAN scenarios but this game has a special place in my heart with 100's of hours of fun had. Since them good old days ive played nothing but shooters (CSGO, TF2, OW and my favourite R6:Siege) but I gotta say I'm super excited for quake champions. I'm honestly really intimidated by everyone's rail and rocket jumping skills but I think i'll get there with some practise. Fingers crossed I get into the beta too! (aussie also)

About time someone speaks on how I feel about quakelive and it's community of players! Great Job Zy.

Terrific message.

2:48 the best shot I've ever seen in my entire life.

What a beautiful beautiful message! Thank you!

Keep us updated with Quake champions news. Subed from AU

I am a simple man. I see ARENAFPS, I click Like.

q4max. it fixed q4 pretty damn good. 125fps, solid mouse input, better netcode than on launch etc.

Damn, it's been years since I've played Quake! I think that I'm going to dig out my old Kingston trackball and joystick for this one! Subbed btw :)

hey indeed looking forward to champion ! Used to rock instagib q2 and have been waiting for this for a while now !! See ya in game when champion is out !

U are the best.

I totaly agree with you, we have to give it a chance and I was actualy surprised by the beta, there still need to be some abilities to be balanced but for a beta it was better than expected. It will prolly be good to attract new players and shouldn't disturb too much older players as the core is still the same. We'll have our own "pure" mode anyway without abitilies, at least for 1vs1 I'd hope. You're right that if we don't welcome and help new players, we'll shoot ourselves in the foot and I can see why no one other than 25-35 years old guys liked Quake Live as if they haven't played Q3 before, they'd get completely raped big time by all the veterans and then simply ragequit and uninstall the game. I was surprise to see a classic weapon such as the Plasma not be part of the game, and I guess the Nailgun has replaced it perhaps because they both behave the same but the plasma makes it too "messy" visualy? I played the beta, at least the last 2 days out of 4 cause no one could connect to the servers. They better not force the FFA to 10 players because it's WAY too much crowded and spammy. Should be 6 players idealy, 8 at the very most, and 8 for TDM but I could still manage to deal with 10 but definitely not more! The quad is abusive in it's current state and rail shouldn't deal 100 dmg instead of 80 when zoomed-in. Surprisingly abilities are fun and better that I've thought, it's no Overwatch BS trust me. I haven't bought a game day 1 since UT3 in 2007 which I shouldn't have but this Quake is a a super safe bet. Now my only hope is that this time they won't abandon the community like they did with Q3 and Quake Live, and that they'll listen to Pros, Veterenans and people on their forum or else we're all doomed until the next Quake in 15 years (-_-)

Subscribed after this video. I have not played any Quake multiplayer since Q3A, which I played from 1999 to maybe 2001 or 02. Really looking forward to Quake Champions.

I love the effort you put into videos and after them, I see you replying all the time which I never see for any other youtubers that have 50k> subs (I understand it for big youtubers as they have thousands of comments) if they want to grow there channel they have to work hard like you! Rip inglehs

That's my current problem with gaming community in general is the toxicity. With it's rise and increase in player base gaming for me at least online gaming has become almost unbearable. If it isn't a toxic community then it's the cheats and hackers that quickly flood any popular game. With Quake Champions going F2P and in-game currency means hackers will be in there masses to try rank accounts and sell them on. Let alone players that just want to have great stats and claim to be awesome with their aim-bots set to max which then causes the community to become toxic because it's so hard to tell who's actually a skilled player and who's a aim-bot cheater. If only LAN's were still a thing...

I hate it when people bashing on Quake 4.

Quake is the game that both made me good at video games and also the desire to get better at them. I remember the days of going 0-40 on a regular basis back when I found this franchise back in the height of Quake Live's run. It took me forever, but I learned to appreciate both the esport side of the game and the fun you could have with insta-ctf. Now that I'm close to Masters in Overwatch, I appreciate the lessons I learned in Quake. I hope that Quake always is the place to learn those mechanics. That it remains as pure as possible. I believe that Quake's new champions mechanics raising the bar is what quake needs to appeal to people like me, while being accessible to new players and new players of the genre.

Fellow Aussie here who grew up on Quake 1 and later Quake 3... love the video and the message it pushes. I too am incredibly optimistic about Q:C... look forward to seeing you in the beta whenever they unlock it down under haha.

Finally someone gets it. This backlash against quake champions from people who never played it and only want a quake 3 remake is getting on my nerves. This is probably because I've never been into quake and probably renders my opinion invalid to quake players.

ZY IS A FUCKING GOD

you really make some top quality videos that aren't even about mice. very nicely said... a bit late to quake but i love these games

Hit the nail on the head. My thoughts exactly. Subbed!

Did you break NDA by showing that footage? Or was that released by bethesda

you dont make games fun, and neither does the community, games are either fun or they are not and thats ENTIRELY SUBJECTIVE, you could be the best ambassador to the game you can but i still wont care about quake champions or overwatch, because i simply dont like arena games with a trillion different characters and then a bunch of developers changing how they play every patch to "to make it more interesting" by nerfing/overpowering stuff. For example, if i play an old school duel and the other guy destroys me, im still having fun as long as i understand wtf is going on, because im actually learning to play better, but if i boot up this crap i dont even know wtf is going on because theres a trillion different toons that do different stuff on modified ugly versions of my beloved maps to boot, and my mind automatically gets transported into that big bang theory scene: the 3 dimensional chess scene, just because you add 2 other boards doesnt make chess better you guys have been trying to get "new players" for ages and its not happening, whatever you get it will be gone in the first 9 months, overwatch plays better than this, and overwatch is pretty lame (have it installed, last game was 2 months ago) Step one has to be making a good game, not throwing shit up and see if it works or just going "well, lets hope the community can make it work" lets face it, this game is worse than its predecessors, and i get that theres people that can vote to the same terrible candidate every election, but Vaas is right, doing the same thing, over and over and over again, expecting shit to change, is CRAZY i also dont get why some people are fine with someone trying to sell you something you dont really like much just because they made something in the past that you loved, specially considering these guys probably have nothing to do with whoever made the previous games, so this isnt even loyalty to something you are not sure about, its loyalty to a... to an intellectual property, a brand

Well done on many levels! Great message about quake as "we" know it and a well made video. Excellent.

Really nice eye opening video. I really love quakelive and so it's hard for me to see some of the changes they've made with QC. But you are right. We should give it a fair chance.

And the things you mentioned about previous quakes, those are differences in gameplay. They didn't really dumb anything down like they're doing wit QC. For a quake "veteran", it's a bit troubling that you don't realize that the heroes, sorry, champions have different speed caps. Even with the fastest champion, going at the max speed, you'll never reach speeds attainable in previous quakes right? So here's how they dumbed it down. Speed cap: A huge part of quake has always been about the movement and speed. Going as fast as you possibly can in situations based on how good your technique is and area you're in has just gone out the window. I think the fastest champion revealed so far is around 800 ups at the most. In q3, that can be achieved by a good circle jump and 2-3 strafe jumps. If quake was an animal, you just neutered it with speed caps. And for anyone that doubts, check interviews, check quake.com, they show rough attributes (including top speed) for each champion. Item timers: Another big part of gameplay in quake has been about controlling different weapons, armors, power ups so you have as much resources as possible while your enemy has as little as possible. With item timers, there's another aspect of the game right out the window. No longer will we see guys like rapha exploit an opponent's mistake of not remembering when an item spawns. Watching how a player goes from no info at all to little by little collecting what he needs to regain control and turn the tables on an opponent. Abilities: Teleport/blink: I don't know how many times people have won or lost a fight, position, item, or even match because they either messed up a maneuver or successfully executed one. Now with ranger, there's no need to have to rely on your movement skill at critical moments in order to get an advantage over your opponent. Now, you just mash that button down and away you go, literally. I doubt these maps will be in QC, but as an example, imagine how boring maps like Hektik or Toxicity would be if people could just teleport away after picking up MH or RA. There would be no risk involved, because you wouldn't have to worry about messing up a jump to get out of there, you just blink away to safety. Yes, q3/ql did have a personal teleport that could be picked up. However, there are a couple key differences. One, the teleporter in q3/ql sent you to a "random" location on the map, you didn't have any control over where you went exactly. And two, it was never an item available in any competitive mode. Wallhack: Seriously? It's an insanely cheap game mechanic, whether it's part of a program a cheater is using, or it's a feature in a n00bified single player game, it's awful. You have done literally nothing to earn the information you gained by using it. Currently in quake, you can be fairly sure where your opponent is based on his stack, what weapons he has or doesn't, and which items are up. It requires some brainpower to keep track of those things. In QC, there's no need for that. Not sure where the enemy is when you're about to make that jump to grab that weapon or armor? No problem, just activate your trusty wallhack and see if he's in the area. Ah, taking more risk out of the game, so exciting. For a "skill based fps", they sure have introduced many things that either take away the need for a particular skill completely, or at least severely diminished its usefulness.

The video maker is a poser. Nobody played Q2CTF.

I tried getting into Quake live, but I feel like people try everything to get you kicked if you are not good enough. One match me and my friend got laughed at because of our elo. I really hope I get a new chance with Quake Champion. Great video and really mature opinions, thank you so much.

Great video man as always!

I thought Overwatch community is the most Toxic, didn't know quake also have toxic community

This was a great video. I completely agree with you. It's been a long time since we've had a new Quake game. I'm definitely buying this game just to support the work that's being put into it.

Best video you've made, thanks for making it. I couldn't agree more with what you said.

Quake Champions is the first Quake I have ever played in my life mainly, because I was too young for the first ones. Seeing this video just made me want to play the game even more when it finally releases. Thank you for that. :)

Very, very well presented. I have no dog in this hunt, but man, you are a well spoken young man. Keep it up!!

100% spot on... let's make quake Champions a place for everybody! I played RA2 more than CTF back in the day so I was into rocket jumping and Q3 felt right at home. If you remember q3test tons of people complained about the jump pads, the fog, the announcer... but before long they all got used to it and loved it... QC will hopefully be the same.

as usual great comments, and criticism, haven't received the Beta test key :( Hopefully I found you on a quake live, getting better each day..

you Ser are very vise and well spoken. kudos, and respect!

I really would love for you to do more videos on competitive pc games. I re-watch the one you did on black ops 3 because it was just so interesting. I know you have your favorite games as does everyone. But idk id love to see more game footage from you. love the channel and your opinions on competitive gaming!

liked and subbed - great attitude i was one of those pissed off guys going from q1 to q2 =)

man i luv u, with no reason i just luv u !!

it's been a blast to play and I can't wait for more !

Kudos man, great video. The future is bright.

Great Video RJN! Thank you....

Really interesting to hear a Quake vet talk about Q2 and the grapple again. I've met a few others that share your opinion, so much so that a friend and I are making a game in Unreal 4 that's aiming to address that interest.

I'm just a teen but I've been playing Quake basically from the moment I first sat on a PC, started with Q3 Arena, then to Quake Live (stopped playing when it became a pay-to-play game) and now came back to Quake Champions, I gotta say, they nailed everything, from the rocket jumping, to movement. They really have something to satisfy new and die-hard Quake players. Pleased!

Even after a year you posted this. This Video is a huge importance that I try to spread and show around. I agree with you on it all the way and always hated dealing with people who acting like dicks when i try to play Quake LIVE again.

Awesome vid mate. Very well said. Played lots of Quake over the years, never at a very high level mind, but always enjoyed it at LAN parties, and watching amazing jump vids. Quake pioneered rocket jumping, and that is huge. Others built upon the concept. Definitely spiritual successors like TF2 and Overwatch would not be as evolved as they are today without the quake community and the generations they inspired smashing explosives off walls. Keep doing the great work you do. ID, get this man a key for Champions. He is a great advocate for your games.

you sir are prime example of what a great player should be, thank you for being very positive

Why the hell do you only have 185k subscribers you are one of the best channels on youtube you don’t care about money or anything like that and don’t fill your videos full of ads you just make videos to help people holy crap that’s crazy man you should be on 1 million subs at least my bro you are 100% my favourite youtuber

Well said. Keep up the great videos man.

Well said. I have yet to play QC, but I remember QL fade away. I hope this grows and flourishes.

always loved the quakes, nice vid, ty :)

Never watched any of your videos before man. Not to mention the fact that I never played quake. What you've said here can be applied largely to the gaming community as a whole when a new title is released across multiple genres. I've the same attitude when it comes to people with hateful comments or just a bad attitude in general. Great message, well said I wish the best for you and your channel with the upcoming Quake Champions, might pick it up myself.

Great video, can relate and agree with everything you said. I've been playing a lot of the beta and its fantastic.

Love your work, really.

one of the best videos lately... agree totally!

Wise and mature words pal. You got yourself another subscriber.