Quake is: FPS; hobby-grade coop campaign; genre-blended, multi-mode co

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Lumpy the Cook: Feb 4, 2011; Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

In Training posted:

In an interview last week, Willits said that players who want to can play a single character, a Champion named Ranger, for free. Or they can buy the Champion Pack and get unlimited access to Ranger and all his other friends for a fixed price.

�At its core, it�s a free-to-play game,� Willits said, �with the option to buy the Champion Pack and just get in and play with all the Champions. There are a number of Quake players that just want to play their Quake, right? And they are familiar with the business model of our previous games, and they are totally fine."

Players who buy the Champion Pack � the de-facto full-price version of the game � will get Ranger and all the other Champions that the game launches with. Everyone else will be able to pay the in-game currency, called favor, to play other Champions for a finite period of time.

But, there�s other ways to burn off excess currency as well. Players can spend favor on backpacks, which will enable them to take on rune challenges. Succeeding at a rune challenge will grant players reliquaries, which they can open to reveal new Champions and new skins.

�We do feel it's more approachable,� Willits said, �and we feel that with our team game modes, and then especially our dual mode, that we can fill a hole that's missing in esports today."

�We do have a really nice advantage, because lots and lots of the pro players got their start playing Quake. And yeah, they're playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive now and, Overwatch, but their first love is Quake. So we want to get that critical mass where you have enough players and then we want to ... expand our competitive play, our league play as we move into late this year and next year.�

play other Champions for a finite period of time.