With another work week coming to a close I had a nice nap, a little time in the Gmod Cinema, and then a stupid DOOM Slayer match in Quake Champions of our own creation.
We had a warmup match with all the bots on medium. I wanted to start another round on hard just to see what chaos would ensue, but after a couple attempts it wouldn’t let us connect to a dedicated server. That’s one shortcoming I have with Quake Champions, the inability to go through a server browser and select your own game like in other games released within the last decade. Everything is streamlined these days to work on company servers, but what happens when those are no longer supported? I’m seeing this as more of a trend in newer multiplayer games and I don’t like it. People should be able to run their own dedicated servers if they so choose. This is why to me I’ll always cherish Quake III Arena and consider it the superior game compared to Champions. It’s still an active game despite being almost a couple decades old, servers still exist and the modding community is still as alive as it ever was. Champions isn’t a bad game, and is quite a lot of fun to play. But for this being one of Bethesda’s fewest PC exclusives it’s just a stripped down version of Quake III with a modern paint job and super powers.