Good evening Quakers. We had PTS update very early this morning, so I’ll leave those PTS notes below. Season 15 has been extended to at least next week. currently 8 DAYS REMAIN FOR SEASON 15. With these additional days added we are also starting to see the content expected for Season 16. Currently we have Totem exploits, Arena Collison polish | Performance fixes, Quake 2 Joker Vanity Skin for the Tri-Bolt, and lastly we now have Ranger Pure Gold, and Pure Silver skins. The Pure Gold skin is 10000 platinum while the Pure Silver skin is 10000 shards.
ARTICLE FOR PAST 2 PTS UPDATES
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1.16.RETAIL.98920/98994
2022-09-13
New Content:
🌟 Added Ranger Pure Gold & Pure Silver Shader bundles to the Store
🌟 Season 16 Battle Pass Updated
Map Updates:
🔺 Deep Embrace – Fixed visibility line of Sight (LoS) from bridge to murder hole
Game Updates:
🔺 Fixed Ranger Raider Pure Gold & Pure Silver facial hair
🔺 Updated the Ranger Pure Gold & Pure Silver texture info
🔺 Fixed the Q2 GL TB ammo reload in centered view
🔺 Fixed the Q2 GL TB MM Texture Quality
🔺 Fixed the Q2 GL TB’s no-longer-empty state after firing all bolts and then picking up tri-bolt ammo without having switched away from the empty weapon
🔺 Fixed the Q2 GL TB muzzle flash timing
🔺 Fixed the Q2 GL TB hrtf explosion sound event
🔺 Temporarily disable the GDK logging and GDK Invite Controller
🔺Updated new strings, fixed typos
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The PTS is a Public Test Server that many games come with. It is completely optional to be part of the PTS, and does require an additional download to take part of. The purpose of the PTS for us as Quake players is it allows us to preview upcoming skins, arenas, and gameplay changes in general before they are added to the Live | Main Game servers. It also doubles as bug testing. In fact all bugs, or issues in the PTS should be put in the official discord in the “public-test-server” channel. If you can you should try and find a buddy to test with. Two heads are better than one. You can find people to party with in the “party-finder” channel.
If you want to access, or rather download the PTS you can do this on the Steam client quite easily. Just to note though like other PTS downloads you are usually downloading the entire game plus the new additions, or changes. The PTS download for Quake Champions is currently just over 30 Gigabytes. Keep that in mind if you want to participate. Things that you accomplish in the PTS version DO NOT transfer over to the main game. That said you can also demo stuff in the PTS that you may not own yet in the main game.
Lastly, the PTS is not a representation of what will hit the Live servers at any time. As the values can be changed | reverted, or removed at any point during the PTS update period.
*When first launching the PTS your game may “compile” for a few minutes. Do not worry as this is completely normal.
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In Steam just type “quake” in any way in your library search tab, and “Quake Champions PTS” will appear in the games folder below the search bar.
HAPPY FRAGGING FOLKS, AND WE SHALL SEE EACHOTHER IN THE ARENAS.