PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Learn the three spawn pairs before you learn the frags. Wrong first 10 seconds is the round.
• ▸ Heavy and Mega are the whole rotation — do not rocket-jump off stacked HA just to take a rail peek.
• ▸ Tele/rocket and stairs are the common cross. Hold the high floor when you have stack.
• ▸ Mediums own this map. Nyx and Athena are the Light exceptions. Eisen / B.J. are the skip.

via VENGEUR Explains AWOKEN (chapters: starting spawns, HA/mega, spawn forcing)

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Rail Curve / Banana is the control hall — it feeds Rail and Mega (DM) or Heavy (Sacrifice).
• ▸ Bridge is high ground onto the balcony. Splash knockback into the void is the real kill.
• ▸ Nyx wall-jumps the bridge ↔ rail. Do not stand still on the pad.
• ▸ Mediums except Eisen and B.J.; Lights: Nyx and Athena; Heavy: Clutch. Vengeur’s listed picks.

via VENGEUR Explains BLOOD COVENANT + QC Wiki areas + r/QuakeChampions (Nyx bridge)

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Play it as ZTN: control the vertical, do not over-peek the rail hallway.
• ▸ Season 30 tele from Tri-bolt mid into SNG / power-up is the new steal route — learn it or eat it.
• ▸ Ranger is the tutorial default. Lights that can leave after a lost peek (Nyx, Anarki) survive the tight rooms.

via VENGEUR Explains BLOOD RUN + Season 30 Steam notes

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Two green armors, not three — the full circle (Heavy then Mega) is under 10 seconds if you know the loop.
• ▸ There is no rail in duel. LG, rockets, and nails do the map. Do not hold a rail peek that is not there.
• ▸ Spinal Hall Mega + slipgate up to LG. Broken wall is the escape toward Noden’s Outcropping.
• ▸ Outcropping HMG is a splash death into lava if you stand still. Time shards matter here more than on Awoken.

via VENGEUR Explains CORRUPTED KEEP + Liquipedia / QC Wiki areas

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Three spawn pairs: Big Armor ↔ LG, Rockets ↔ Big Armor, Small Armor ↔ Rail. First ten seconds are hectic.
• ▸ Start nailgun so nobody rushes your spawn. Fake sound; do not run the rocket spawn if they spawned on you.
• ▸ Mega room is held from the top. Wait for them to drop, then follow. Pillars block LG while you rocket.
• ▸ Small platform behind Mega is the drop-out. Big Armor: stay near the tele so you can leave if railed.

via ZenAku — How to DUEL Vale of Pnath (2018)

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Hold the Eye of Cthalha even on the two-minute power-up cooldown — Mega and rockets live there.
• ▸ Cistern corridors are Galena / Slash trap country. Ziggurat stairs are the open high ground.
• ▸ Season 30: Super Shotgun spawn faces you now. Do not turn 180 out of muscle memory.

via QC Wiki announcement + Season 30 notes + Toxjq vs VengeurR VOD

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Do not stand on the fall lips. Knockback is the map.
• ▸ Control is still the duel: items first, aim second. Tox’s VOD is a clinic in holding LG without over-peeking.

via QCP Toxjq vs VengeurR (Molten Falls half) + Cursed League pool

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Item timing still decides it — Rapha talks stack and making the opponent weak for the next cycle.
• ▸ Do not donate the Mega just to take a speculative rail. Give up space, keep stack.

via QCP Rapha vs Spartie (Deep Embrace half)

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Long sightlines punish Lights that peek without stack. Death Knight / Sorlag show up in high-elo VODs for a reason.
• ▸ If you lose the first item, leave. Exile snowballs when someone holds mid with rockets.

via QCP Rapha vs Zenaku (Exile)

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ HMG window is a real peek after the Season 30 mesh fix — do not treat it as a broken hole.
• ▸ Galena totems work in the tighter rooms. Death Knight stack holds the open mid.

via Season 30 notes + MeatRACK84 Insomnia duel

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Outcropping leap over lava pays Mega, rockets, and a tele onto the power-up. Miss it and you are in the melt.
• ▸ Molten Underground is cooldown + health for fast movers. Clutch’s dodge reset on stairs is the party trick — bind it only if you can actually hit it.

via QC Wiki areas + Zephyrin Xirdal Clutch movement (Burial Chamber)

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Play the size Season 30 actually queued. Small layout for DM/TDM; large layout still has the new beam over the mid tele.
• ▸ Mid-level tele is a sound cue. Do not take it blind into a stacked Heavy.

via Season 30 Steam notes + maaGames fly-through

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Chapel and crypt are chokepoints. Do not donate both by peeking the gallows with no stack.
• ▸ Season 30: unused OOB jumppad is gone. Play the flags that are actually in the mode.

via QC Wiki + Season 30 map notes

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Aeon Crystal mid: Mega + SNG. Slipgate to the high pad, then the jump to Mega. Fall is the Cesspool.
• ▸ Cesspool is a curse and a reset. Leave it with stack, do not farm it.
• ▸ Full Quake loadout lives here including Quad and Protection in DM.

via Church of Quake Lockbox sheet + QC Wiki

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ Mega Room is the hold. Flooded Hall is the rotate. Lighthouse peeks are rail food.
• ▸ Knockback into water is the tax for standing on the harbor lip.

via QC Wiki area names (Harbor, Lighthouse, Mega Room, Flooded Hall)

PLAYER TIPS

• ▸ If you are not stacked, you do not peek the pad. Knockback is the whole map.
• ▸ Rail first, rockets to finish. Do not gauntlet on the lip.

via QC Wiki + the Q3DM17 read (same pad)