The characters also have distinct personalities, which is a welcome change for the Quake universe. Those two are the outliers-for the most part, the champions have similar base stats, with one carrying a little armor here and another running a little faster there.

After playing Anarki, Scalebearer felt like he was moving in slow motion, and extra health points don’t make that much difference when someone’s shooting rockets at you. Scalebearer spawns with almost twice the health of Anarki, the transhumanist hoverboard rider-but Anarki is also around twice as fast. The difference was most noticeable while playing Scalebearer, the heavily armored juggernaut. Despite this, my K:D ratio was similar across several different champions. Speed and health points are the easiest differences to spot, but I'm sure there are other differences running under the hood. There were nine characters available during the beta weekends (more are yet to be announced), and they do have noticeably different stats.

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