Quake Champions PTS Update for October 29th 2024. New Competitive Modes: TDM & CTF Tourney Modes.

Good Afternoon Quakers! Short but much requested update is happening today. Team Death Match & Capture the Flag are receiving a competitive known like Sacrifice. These modes are Called Team Death Match & Capture the Flag Tourney Mode. Sine these are new modes please report all bugs in the official Quake discord.

Want to play these new modes come join the fragging on Church of Quake’s discord where we have a pubobot to keep the games going: https://discord.gg/gXWa42brc5

2024-10-29

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DEC PTS 3

New Competitive game modes added to Custom Game: CTF Tourney

1-8 players, no bots. One-champion-limit-per-team, no breakables, no killer target cams, and no killer death HP stacks

TDM Tourney

1-8 players, no bots. One-champion-limit-per-team, 30 second weapon respawn times, no item timers, no breakables, no killer target cams, no killer death HP stacks, 10s->5s max forced respawns, and Friendly Fire (will initially test 50% damage).

Changes

CTF – Testing a larger flag pickup trigger, 0.5m to 0.8m radius
CTF – Once again testing disabling active abilities when picking up the flag
Friendly Fire – Can be tested in TDM Tourney. This is a new untested feature and may have an assortment of bugs. You should deal half damage to teammates, no knockback is expected, and there should be a custom deep hit sound when hitting teammates.

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.