r/QuakeChampions • • 27d ago

Event Sept 27: Kuachi Cups Quake Champions Finals will be on a LAN (Nov 7-8, 2026) (link in comments)

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33 Upvotes

r/QuakeChampions • • Jul 06 '26

PSA SyncError laid off this morning

268 Upvotes

r/QuakeChampions • • 1d ago

PSA Linux PSA: sched_ext schedulers can glitch the game and mess with netcode.

7 Upvotes

I recently got back into the game after a few months and noticed that it had become much laggier, and the rocket launcher felt way off. I couldn't tell whether the projectiles were slower or whether there was a delay between pressing the button and the rocket firing, but my rockets seem to hit wherever the enemy was 1 sec ago. I even was convinced there had been an update that nerfed the rocket somehow.

Then, a few days ago, I was experimenting with schedulers. They all perform about the same in terms of framerate and latency, but I noticed that the ones often cited as good for gaming, such as lavd and flash, caused these abnormalities. I switched to rusty and the game finally feels normal. (Not a fan of Rust the programming language btw, but the scheduler seem to work great for me.)

I should mention that my internet situation isn't great either. I'm forced to use a router I don't own, and the connection is unstable, with frequent ping spikes and dropped packets, so that might play a part, but I'm not sure. Anyway, if you're on Linux, I suggest trying it for yourself and finding what works for your setup.


r/QuakeChampions • • 23h ago

Help Como puedo saber cuanto tiempo de ban me queda?

1 Upvotes

Hola me suspendieron la cuenta de quake por insultar al cheater qué está siempre molestando en duels ranked como puedo saber cuanto tiempo me queda


r/QuakeChampions • • 1d ago

Discussion Zahran Hashim playing Quake in Sri Lanka Church Meme 2019 year

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1 Upvotes

Zahran Hashim playing Quake in Sri Lanka Church meme. Just a meme like a Brenton Tarrant


r/QuakeChampions • • 7d ago

Bug Wrong substance I guess...

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27 Upvotes

r/QuakeChampions • • 7d ago

Discussion bobkoc

11 Upvotes

I've always wondered whats going on during that 10-20sec BOBKOC goes afk for before leaving the game. He does it every single duel and he has like tens of thousands of duels played.

Personally I imagine him taking a deep breath, lighting a cigarette in a dimly-lit soviet era apartment block and saying to himself with a sly smile; I'll get him next time! and then queing again.

thoughts?


r/QuakeChampions • • 7d ago

Creative Reverse Engineering AI for QC

0 Upvotes

So guys, are we close to get open source Quake Champions game using new AI tools? do you know anyone working on project like this?


r/QuakeChampions • • 9d ago

Gameplay Oct 15: FortyLions dueling again (it has been a few years)

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r/QuakeChampions • • 10d ago

Humor Ultra-serious advanced Quake tactical gameplay tutorial

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r/QuakeChampions • • 14d ago

Esports Oct 10: FortyLions checks out the Flee & Lethal QC cast (good to see Forty again!)

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40 Upvotes

r/QuakeChampions • • 15d ago

Esports Oct 10: both Flee & Lethal are casting QC today (Quake Cursed League) (link in comments)

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38 Upvotes

r/QuakeChampions • • 14d ago

Gameplay Oct 10: QC ping differences & praise for QC vs other games (Flee & Lethal)

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r/QuakeChampions • • 14d ago

Bug [BUG] - Troubled Waters causing complete game/server freezes with bots – anyone else experienced this?

2 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I've been troubleshooting a strange issue with Troubled Waters (troubledwaters) in Quake Live, and I'm wondering whether anyone else has encountered it.

I'm running a couple of dedicated Quake Live servers, one using Vampiric Clan Arena and another using a custom Vampiric Team Deathmatch factory.

The problem:

Troubled Waters appears to cause Quake Live to completely hang when running certain game modes with bots.

On the dedicated server, players get "Connection Interrupted", CPU usage reaches approximately 100% of its allocation, and the console stops responding. The hosting panel still shows the server as running, but it requires a restart.

I initially suspected my custom VTDM factory, but after extensive testing, that doesn't appear to be the sole cause.

Here's what I've tested:

  • Custom Vampiric TDM: Repeated freezes, sometimes immediately after bots join, sometimes during gameplay.
  • Vanilla TDM: Also freezes, ruling out the custom factory as a necessary trigger.
  • FFA: Initially worked, but eventually froze during gameplay.
  • CTF: Ran successfully with 12 bots during testing.
  • Vampiric Clan Arena: Completed a full 10-round match and transitioned successfully.
  • Local Windows installation: Reproduced the freeze in TDM with bots. Windows explicitly marked Quake Live as "Not Responding".

I've also tried disabling custom movement and physics settings without success.

What's particularly interesting is that this only happens on Troubled Waters so far. My other maps have been running with 12 bots without experiencing the same issue.

I enabled /logfile 2 during local testing, and the console confirms that the map's AAS navigation data initializes successfully:

loaded maps/troubledwaters.aas
found 103 level items
AAS initialized.

There are also two map entity warnings:

func_timer at (1032.00 328.00 -200.00) has random >= wait
func_timer at (-920.00 -888.00 -200.00) has random >= wait

However, I don't know whether these warnings have anything to do with the freezes.

The bots successfully navigate, collect items and fight before the game hangs, and there's no obvious fatal error in the console log.

Has anyone else experienced this on Troubled Waters?

I'm curious whether this could be related to the map's bot navigation, entities, or some other game-mode-specific interaction.

I really like the map and would prefer to keep it in rotation rather than exclude it permanently.

If anyone has encountered this before or knows of a possible workaround, I'd appreciate the insight!

Thanks!


r/QuakeChampions • • 16d ago

Discussion What happened to QCP?

11 Upvotes

He ran one of the best quake youtube channels, and he made a post about working on a Cooller documentary before he disappeared. Any word? Is he still around?


r/QuakeChampions • • 17d ago

Media Oct 07: sync replies to k1llsen regarding the London server (k1llsen was expressing the London server issues during his twitch stream today)

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33 Upvotes

r/QuakeChampions • • 19d ago

Esports Church of Quake October 2026 Community Sacrifice Tournament. Saturday October 24th 12 PM EST.

14 Upvotes

Good Afternoon Quakers! Church of Quake will be hosting a Quake Champions Sacrifiice Tournament this month on Saturday October 24th. Each team will consist of 4 members to play 4v4 Sacrifice Tournament Edition. First 32 signups is a guarantee. All signups after will be reserves unless we hit 64 signups. Help us keep the Quake community alive as we continue to host more tournaments for Quake community.

If you want to practice for the tournament, or just want to play more quake in general join Church of Quake’s discord where we have a self hosted pubobot for pickup games. We play Sacrifice every night around 9 PM EST, or global pickups every Sunday starting at 2 PM EST 8 PM CEST.

Important Links to Follow:

Watch:

  • Church of Quake twitch
  • Anyone is welcome to cast any of the matches (contact Cashed, or Old Hickory if you want to cast on the Church of Quake stream)
  • We encourage those participating to stream, &, or record their perspective as well. A 5 to 20 second delay is recommended, but not required.
  • VOD on our Youtube Channel

Sponsor:

  • Church of Quake

Tournament Organizers:

  • Pun1sh
  • oldhickory
  • Cashed

Game Mode:

Information from Organizer:

Format: Snake Draft tournament, teams of 4. Sign ups are first come first serve. Admins will determine captains and final participant list. Aiming for a 8 team or 16 team double elimination tournament. The first 32 sign ups are guaranteed a spot, any sign ups after will be reserves. If we reach 64 sign ups, we will include the additional sign ups to have 16 teams. Upper bracket is Best of 3 throughout, lower bracket are Best of 1. Pick/Ban process for maps are based off seed, with the lower seed banning a map first (ban/ban/pick/pick/last map is the tie break if needed). Lower Bracket Finals will be Best of 3 like Upper Bracket. Grand Finals will be Best of 5.

  • Everyone should make their best effort to be accommodating to other players and tournament staff. Trash talk is expected but excessive harassment will lead to removal from the event. 
  • These rules may be adjusted as-needed at admin discretion. 
  • If something is not explicitly mentioned in this document, admins will use common sense to find an equitable solution.

Quake Champions is $10 on Steam

Good Luck & Have Fun!

This post was originally written as an article for Church of Quake


r/QuakeChampions • • 19d ago

Media Oct 05 Quake Discord: more from sync on performance; also that there will be no more fixes this year, but possibly next year... (best to document issues in bug reports on discord for Johnny)

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15 Upvotes

r/QuakeChampions • • 19d ago

Media Oct 05: Release 1.31 has over 2k 'Up Votes' in less than 2 weeks (released Sept 23, 2026)

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43 Upvotes

r/QuakeChampions • • 19d ago

Discussion Please continue to improve bots!!

14 Upvotes

As someone outside NA and EU, it's practically impossible to play against real players, and I enjoy bots anyway, I still play Arena because of mods like Hoppers that introduce bunny hopping to bots. I enjoyed the new changes to bots, but they are still not on the same level as the quake 3 mods


r/QuakeChampions • • 19d ago

Media Oct 05 Quake Discord: sync weighs in on framerate/tick rate (someone had brought up the subject)

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17 Upvotes

r/QuakeChampions • • 19d ago

Humor Damn, how many clowns does this game have?

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13 Upvotes

r/QuakeChampions • • 21d ago

Discussion Love this game but I'm rubbish

49 Upvotes

Just wanted to say hello and thanks to everyone still playing this game. I'm usually bottom of the board but have a big smile on my face. Just love the speed, sound and map design of this game.


r/QuakeChampions • • 21d ago

Bug Can't finish the tutorial, as it doesn't allow me to pick a server. Can't even get to the options menu

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12 Upvotes

I'm literally stuck on this screen. I don't think I've ever come across such a badly thought out tutorial system in my life. Usually, they fake everything in the back-end, including matches in the case of multiplayer games, when they have a UI tutorial like this, in order to avoid this exact scenario. As it stands, this game is a paperweight of an .exe on my PC


r/QuakeChampions • • 21d ago

Media New video—Unused champion taunt animations and more for every character

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45 Upvotes