#QuakeChampions Mid-Season 2023 Update for Season-17 is Live Now!

Good morning Quakers. This morning we received a Mid-Season Update for Season 17. This update includes the New Love Shaft Lighting Gun for 1500 Platinum, Many Arena updates: including a new secret overstack 50HP Health Bubble, Eisen’s Turret has been reworked, Yellow shield status effect for Clutch, and Scale has been changed to be Protection-green, and of course so much more Check the full set of Patch Notes below.

New Content

🌟 Added LOVE SHAFT Lightning Gun for 1500 Platinum in the in-game store.

Map Updates:
Crucible:
🔹 Promoted the secret overstack health bubble in Duel into a new 50HP overstack health item with new visuals of its own, and a 25 sec respawn time.
🔹 Moved Power-up to center low, made the 50HP in all modes on the lava pool column
🔹 Fixed a large number of collision, mesh, and visibility issues reported on PTS
🔹 Performance improvements
Deep Embrace:
🔹 Fixed exploit outside the MH window
Insomnia:
🔹 Fixes to stair collision in blood pool
🔹 Fixed visibility blocker issue in the Heavy Armor room
The Longest Yard Capture the Flag version:
🔹 Fixed missing collision on center side rocks

Champions Updates:
Eisen
🔹 Turret now despawns 1 minute after being deployed
🔹 Restored turret deploy delay from 1 to 2 seconds
Keel:
🔹 Decreased cooldown between grenades from 800 to 500 ms

Game Updates:
🔹 Fixed Player is not blocked from voice, text or invites from non-friend Microsoft Store players when the privilege is set to Friends on Game Pass
🔹 Fixed Player is still able to hear player after muting them on Game Pass
🔹 Fixed Microsoft Store player that is in-game friends with Steam player may not hear voice chat with the setting set to in-game friends on Game Pass
🔹 Updated CPU & GPU autodetect settings database to have knowledge of all currently available hardware
🔹 Fixed the missing icon for the Stroyent pickup item
🔹 Fixed Keel’s ability description grenade count
🔹 Updated the “yellow shield” status effect icon, shown for Clutch & Scalebearer’s which denotes their damage reduction during ability, to be protection-green.
🔹 Fixed an issue with the Inverted Mouse option storage
🔹 Fixed an issue with the Damage Indicator option
🔹 Fixed multiple engine issues, mostly related to synchronization between the game scripts & the engine code. These are minor errors & warnings, just some maintenance.

Service Updates:
🔹 Performance updates
🔹 Anti-cheat updates
🔹 Security updates

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all bugs need to be posted in the “bug-reports” channel under the “QC FEEDBACK” header in the official discord. link to that channel here: discord.gg/uy3VBbd83f Clips, or screenshots of your issue are very useful for the developers.