Was fun, the never ending pursuit of balancing game balance with adding new stuff just watered it all down with the glaring obvious detail: stop all the hero bullshit and just make us all equal. At least a mode for that.
Instead, speed, armour, health was all varied and unique "balanced" in their minds against active and passive perks per character.
replyA lot of potential, killed by committee
The problem is there exists a version of Quake Champions where everybody plays equally. It's called Quake 3: Arena.
replyThe thing is, Q3A was originally supposed to be a sort of primitive hero shooter, with the various characters falling into different classes: fast, lightly armored "light" characters, more robustly armored but slow "heavy" characters, and a class in the middle. This was scrapped before release.