Quake Receives Its “First Major Update” For Nintendo Switch

The enhanced version of Quake was released on the Nintendo Switch back in August, and now a few months later the game has received its very first “major update” for all platforms.

It includes improvements to the controls, maps, online multiplayer, bots, and a lot of bug fixes. Here are the full patch notes, courtesy of Bethesda’s official website:

ALL PLATFORMS

Controls

• Improved analog stick input on controllers – now more responsive by default
• Added deadzone, aim acceleration, exponent and aim smoothing options to tweak gamepad input in the Input Options menu

Map Improvements: Dimension of the Machine

• Hell or Dark Water (MGE3M2): added checkpoint spawns in co-op after traps section
• Grave Machine (MGE4M1): added checkpoint spawns in co-op and fixed pain triggers around pentagram
• A Grave Mistake (MGE4M2): added checkpoint spawns in co-op and pain triggers to prevent falling through and skipping them

General Improvements

• Save game process is faster on large levels
• Hosts are now identified by an icon instead of a color to make it easier to distinguish for color blind players
• Weapon wheel HUD element is no longer cut off on local multiplayer vertical split-screen

Online Multiplayer

• Removed visible game limit in match browser
• Improved Scourge of Armagon client-side prediction

Bots

• Added bot support for the following levels:
  • The Slipgate Complex (E1M1)
  • Castle of the Damned (E1M2)
  • The House of Chthon (E1M7)
  • The Elder God Shrine (E4M3)
  • Shub-Niggurath’s Pit (END)
  • The Edge of Oblivion (HIPDM1)
  • The Pumping Station (HIP1M1)
• Improved bot melee attack, swimming and weapon selection behaviors
• Added text dialogues for when bots make kills or get killed
• Improved bot handling of elevators
• Improved bot navigation on The Abandoned Base (DM3)

BUG FIXES

ALL PLATFORMS

Gameplay

• Fixed backward movement speed accidentally being set to walk
• Game speed now correctly resets after using the Weapon Wheel
• Resolved a bug that could result in the player getting stuck when jumping out of the water
• Turning off friendly fire no longer prevents self-damage

Audio

• Fixed rare audio crash in Scourge of Armagon
• Resolved issue that caused excessive clipping when multiple sounds play simultaneously
• Resolved an issue in which the wrong audio track was playing during the Scourge of Armagon demo
• Fixed an issue in which Track 11 was playing instead of Track 10 on Gloom Keep (E1M5), The Wizard’s Manse (E2M5), The wind Tunnels (E3M5) and Hell’s Atrium (E4M5)

Maps

• The Silver Key no longer shows up in Hell’s Atrium (E4M5) on Deathmatch
• Fixed an issue in which some decals were oriented incorrectly in Scourge of Armagon
• Fixed a lighting bug in The Door to Chthon (E1M6) that caused the darkened path to be lit prematurely
• Darkened lighting on the roof to restore the original visual effect on Shub-Niggurath’s Pit (END)

General

• Usernames with quotation marks now appear correctly in game
• Spanish episode end slate text is no longer cut off
• Texture smoothing setting restores correctly after deactivating the Quake 64 add-on
• Fixed bug in which enhanced Ogre model would sink into ground plane after death

Online Multiplayer

• Resolved issue when sounds would drop and entities disappear or flicker during online play

Bots

• Resolved issue where bots would not grab needed pickups
• Bots should now see all triggers and doors as shootable
• Bots no longer linger in slime or lava for too long
• Removed Bot support on maps that lack waypoints
• Fixed issue in which bots tried to re-use single-use buttons and triggers

Have you downloaded this update yet? If you still not sure about this game, why not check out our writen review or the video review above – we gave it 10 out of 10 stars.