Quake Champions PTS Update for 02-29-2024 is live. New Tower of Koth Duel Variant, Spring décor is blooming!

Good Afternoon Quakers! A few house keeping details to start off with. Season 22 looks to be extended to March 14th while content for Season 23 gets finalized. Speaking of content: The Dark Zone is being resized to 125% of its original size (this may change original resize was 133%), Tower of Koth is getting an updated variant for Duel & 2v2 Game Modes. This is a slightly smaller map that has the back Cathedral portion removed. Spring décor added for maps: Awoken, Deep Embrace, Ruins of Sarnath, and Tower of Koth. Also a new Spring Podium has been added. For you Quake 4 fans all 8 of the Squad Profile Icons are being added.

Future Content (WIP)

I won’t dive too much into this now, but Sync has confirmed a bit more on what to expect in some future updates this year. While Tower of Koth is currently getting a variation for Duel & 2v2 it looks like more maps are also going to get this treatment. Next up most likely being Lockbox which was shown off at the same time as Tower of Koth on discord (read more about that conversation). The focus seems to be on larger maps that could be altered for better Duel & 2v2 play. Additionally a new larger map targeted for 4v4 modes like TDM, CTF, SAC, etc will be in the works soon as well. Expect more information about this content later this year.

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2024-02-29

New:

Quake 4 all 8 Squad Icons

Spring Podium

Shotgun Pattern Updates:

SG : 1 / – / 7 pellets
SSG: 1 / 4 / 7 pellets
🗒️ Each now, once again, has a centered pellet. Both weapons now have the same 7 pellet outer ring, and the super shotgun has an additional inner ring of 4 pellets.

Map Updates:

Awoken – Spring décor, fog has cleared, the sun is out

Deep Embrace – Spring décor, and a visitor or two have arrived

Ruins of Sarnath – Spring décor

Tempest Shrine – Spring décor, rain and lightning has stopped, sky is clearing

Tower of Koth – Experimental TP changes reverted, temp geometry replaced

Service Updates:

Anti-cheat updates

**Add the Quake Champions PTS to your Steam Account**

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 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. In the Quake Champions Steam store right about the play game is the text box about the the Pubic Test Server. 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.