TL;DR It's not Quake Arena, but it has promise

The champions are pretty diverse and fun in styling (v disappointed no eyeball on legs though, even if it is a bit oddjob-y), but this can leave into a massive imbalance in play style. Not so much from their speed and health stats etc, but more from the active abilities. Doom Slayer and big warlord bloke need to be -heavily- nerfed, because there really isn't much defence outside of spamming rockets and you kind of have to just accept your fate.

Rockets. The only thing worth really shooting is rockets. And railgunning, but you're more likely going to only be looking for rockets and rockets and rockets and rockets. I'm not really sure what the trigun was really put in there for apart from a bit of space filler, would've much preferred a return from the plasma rifle.

Outside of all that, the major major issue lingering (I know it's early access) is in the match joining. Throwing a server browser in would really be a godsend, because the whole unknown waiting around while it counts out how long you've been waiting for gets tiring quickly. I understand with the whole loot box inclusion it gives players time to mess about with their vanity items while waiting for a match, but it doesn't really feel good - especially in the case of arena shooters - because you can end up with these odd delays between high adrenaline fights. The minute you finish a round there seems to be just a sudden drop straight back to the lobby, leaving you twiddling your thumbs wondering where all the action suddenly disappeared to.

Most will be happy to know the microtransactions don't add anything apart from costumes and gun skins and colours, as far as I'm aware. Also nice to see they included some of the old Quake models as unlocks. Now I can pretend I'm blatting the yetis from Quake 1 with the original nailgun while I dissasociate from being continually killed by some guy spamming the doom slayer berserk button.

Overall, 4 rockets out of 5 at developmental stage, needs a lot of tweaks but I'm kind of just happy Quake still exists.

TL;DR It's not Quake Arena, but it has promise The champions are pretty diverse and fun in styling (v disappointed no eyeball on legs though, even if it is a bit oddjob-y), but this can leave into a massive imbalance in play style. Not so much from their speed and health stats etc, but more from the active abilities. Doom Slayer and big warlord bloke need to be -heavily- nerfed, because there really isn't much defence outside of spamming rockets and you kind of have to just accept your fate. Rockets. The only thing worth really shooting is rockets. And railgunning, but you're more likely going to only be looking for rockets and rockets and rockets and rockets. I'm not really sure what the trigun was really put in there for apart from a bit of space filler, would've much preferred a return from the plasma rifle. Outside of all that, the major major issue lingering (I know it's early access) is in the match joining. Throwing a server browser in would really be a godsend, because the whole unknown waiting around while it counts out how long you've been waiting for gets tiring quickly. I understand with the whole loot box inclusion it gives players time to mess about with their vanity items while waiting for a match, but it doesn't really feel good - especially in the case of arena shooters - because you can end up with these odd delays between high adrenaline fights. The minute you finish a round there seems to be just a sudden drop straight back to the lobby, leaving you twiddling your thumbs wondering where all the action suddenly disappeared to. Most will be happy to know the microtransactions don't add anything apart from costumes and gun skins and colours, as far as I'm aware. Also nice to see they included some of the old Quake models as unlocks. Now I can pretend I'm blatting the yetis from Quake 1 with the original nailgun while I dissasociate from being continually killed by some guy spamming the doom slayer berserk button. Overall, 4 rockets out of 5 at developmental stage, needs a lot of tweaks but I'm kind of just happy Quake still exists.