Quake Champion beta screenshots looks like Doom, 12 champions confirmed, Gameplay looks good

Its using the same engine as Doom so not surprised.

It might boast character abilities, but it’s definitely still a Quake game. Whatever cues id Software have taken from the unrivalled success of Blizzard’s Overwatch, they’ve been subtle about it - at launch Quake Champions will launch with 12 characters, each one boasting a primary and passive ability as well as distinct armour, health and speed ratings. But that’s where the comparison ends: Quake Champions still clings on to relics from the FPS genre’s past like weapon and armour pickups, high-speed movement and jump pads. Movement and precision reign supreme in Quake Champions, just as they did back in the original.

The focus in each multiplayer match is always divided up equally between scrambling for vital pickups, and using them to decimate enemies and up your frag count; abilities are useful extras. Quake Champions is an old school multiplayer arena shooter first and foremost.

You can sign up for the first instalment of the Quake Champions beta here. There’s still no specific start date for the closed beta, but with Bethesda releasing a glut of information about the game’s weapons, arenas and characters at the same time, there’s a good chance it’s just around the corner. This seems to have been confirmed by a Tim Willits in an interview with Russian esports site GoodGame.ru where he said that the Quake Champions closed beta would begin “in a few weeks.” Not long until the frag videos begin then.

Gamespot have reported that the Quake Champions beta will begin on April 6, 2017, although this will only include a small number of those who signed up. Additional players will be granted access as time goes on.

This is a "wait and see".

i still need to see this for myself

Eh, I'm open minded. A Quake III with prettier graphics would have been a good game, but it wouldn't advance the series or the genre. Doom 2016 had a whole bunch of modern touches to go along with its throwback base, and it worked really well.

I say people should give this game a chance.

Eww. Doom fuggin sucked. This looks like Doom with Overwatch ripoff elements thrown in. Devs can't come up with anything new? What is this 1997?

Looks not bad to me, I think id Software need to buff player's speed a bit.

This looks good once it goes through beta we will see a lot of improvements

Looks like someone hasn't played Quake before

Incoming extreme nit-pickyness. I hope the game does well, would be great to be able to sink my teeth into a healthy arena shooter. I was too young to be able to get into UT and UT 2004 multiplayer so if this one could survive that would be great.

It will get better once we test the beta

As it was in the late '90s, I'm looking forward to Unreal Tournament a hell of a lot more than Quake.