#QuakeChampions PTS Update for 09-07-2022 is Live!

Good morning Quakers. We Have our latest PTS update out today September the 7th, 2022.

Unified changelog for the current PTS:
1.16.RETAIL.97108/98218
2022-09-07

Map Updates:
🔹 Corrupted Keep – Fixed exploitative player hiding spot in ring-out area
🔹 Corrupted Keep – Fixed two exploitable totem/turret spots outside the SSG and TB windows
🔹 Deep Embrace – Fixed wall collision near LG LA
🔹 Insomnia – Improved collision of archway near LG
🔹 Ruins of Sarnath – Fixed an exploitable totem/turret spot in the upper walls in the hallways surrounding the central room

Champion Updates:

🔹Death Knight – Fixed Fire Trail activation. Removed damage from standing on the trail, in exchange for it 100% applying the fire dot (which is still 10dmg/sec for 7 seconds)

🔹Sorlag – Ally spit color now blue, so you know it’s safe

Game Updates:
🔹 Fixed issues that prevent some sound events from playing when multiple occurrences happened within a narrow timeframe:

rocket explosions within 200ms
jumppads sounds within 100 ms
jump sounds (from the same champion type) within 100 ms
steps sounds (from the same champion type) within 100 ms
pain sounds (from the same champion type) within 500 ms
🔹 Potential fix for NVIDIA Reflex issues on unsupported cards
🔹 Finished Ranger Gold & Silver skins for Premium Gold & Silver Shaders
🔹 Updates to the Xbox Game Bar player invite system
🔺 Logging added for continued Game Pass work

Service Updates:
🔹 Anti-cheat updates

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 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.

*When first launching the PTS your game may “compile” for a few minutes. Do not worry as this is completely normal.