Good Afternoon Quakers. We have actually received two PTS updates since our mid-winter update, so I’ll leave them both below.
NEW UPDATES
0.14.DEV.84238/84262
2022-03-04
🔹 Sound – Reverted max sounds value (most likely culprit for the sound issues in the LIVE build)
🔹 Sound – Fixed a mixer volume level issue for footsteps/landings
🔹 CLUTCH- Dodge Cooldown added (death to mouse wheel abuse)
🔹 SCALEBEARER- Movement reworked (death to wiggle-turn abuse, alas no more full-speed 360s)
🔹 Optimized Hitboxes (maybe a small performance improvement)
🔹 Exile – Fixed collision issues near the front of the ice wall opening
🔹 Some weapon shader masks updated.
🔹 Power-up shader fixes for Fedora & Icarus vanities
🔹 Store bundle for Scrag Hood + Bottled Embryo
🔹 UI – Added a [!] after the video settings options that require a restart
Backend Update:
🔹 Maintenance Updates
🔹 Anti-cheat Updates
OLD UPDATES
0.14.DEV.83371/83469
2022-02-24
Backend Update:
🔹Added Athena Vanity – Commandeered Icarus
🔹Added Strogg Vanity – Icarus GravPack
🔹New content under development re-added for further testing.
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 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 both Steam, and the Bethesda Launcher quite easily. Just to note though like other PTS downloads you are usually downloading the entire game plus some. The PTS download for Quake Champions is currently just over 30 Gigabytes. Keep that in mind if you want to partake. 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.
*When first launching the PTS your game may “compile” for a few minutes.
In steam all you have to do is type in any way of “QUAKE” in your games search bar, and it will pop up as “Quake Champions PTS“. It is consider its own “game” so to speak on steam. Just download it as you would any other game.
For the Bethesda Launcher the Quickest way to access it is as followed. Make sure you have the “GAMES” tab selected, and on “My Library” in the drop down menu.
From here just scroll down until you hit your “QUAKE” section, and download “Quake Champions PTS”.
HAPPY FRAGGING FOLKS, AND WE SHALL SEE EACHOTHER IN THE ARENAS.