![]() The Doom³ marine, main protagonist, made its way somehow, as a Doom Slayer skin, with an optional helmet-less head accessory.Arenas gave us a good impression of how Id characters would look with their own abilities way before this game was announced.As one of the devs said on the September 28th stream, "It took 20 years, but finally, the humans and Strogg have found a way to cooperate". Athena being able to use Strogg's Peeker to take a ride.A year later, everyone's movement abilities were streamlined and ability cooldown times unified, thus defeating the bug. This led to Clutch reaching Anarki-like and Visor-like speeds in a shorter time than them. December '17 patch granted bunny hopping and forward acceleration to many champions and removed Clutch's dodging cooldown.Most of the cast is Original Generation, not coming from any other game, and even those who do have histories which weren't explored in their home series. Fanfic Fuel: Same deal as with Quake III: Arena. ![]() ![]() Not to mention that, well, he is the face of the franchise. Ensemble Dark Horse: While he isn't exactly unknown in the Quake universe, Ranger has his good share of fans for being an extremely balanced character which encourages high mobility: the "Son of a Gun" passive allows him to take less damage from his own weapons, thus encouraging Rocket Jump, and his "Dire Orb" ability is basically the game's take on the Translocator.While the reception of Champions has been mixed-to-positive, its appeal has remained quite a niche. On the other hand, potential newcomers that were expected to be brought in by the Hero Shooter aspects were unfamiliar with Quake, its universe, and the arena shooter gameplay it's known for, and were largely alienated by the relatively high skill floor when compared to contemporaries of the genre like Overwatch and Paladins. On one hand, you have the notoriously purist and somewhat niche old guard of Quake fans who were disappointed by such a major shift from the expected fast-paced, player-dependent, high skill-ceiling arena shooter gameplay. ![]()
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