I expected I'd play a little bit of Quake Champions, enjoy myself, then quickly tire of it. That prediction was spot on for the normal modes, which are fine but leave me with a niggling feeling that I'd be enjoying myself more in Overwatch. Don't get me wrong, they're very different games and that's the point - I prefer pursuing an objective to the chaos of a deathmatch.

Unless everyone has a one-hit-kill laser rifle.

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