Greetings Champions!

We’ll be deploying an update on 06.09.2018 that includes a new map: Longest Yard, Arcade Modes, Quake 2’s Super Shotgun Vanity Skin “Trespasser”, Champion & Weapon Balance Changes and performance polish. We estimate the update process will take from 8AM EDT – 2PM EDT (11AM GMT to 6PM GMT).

Build Highlights:

New Map: Longest Yard Only the power of the Rune of Black Magic prevents the floating ruins of Volkerh’s tabernacle from tumbling into the Blind God’s oblivion-maw.

The classic bottomless space map returns! Beware railguns and ringouts in this open area map where jump pads propel you to new heights and distant floating islands.

Arcade Modes

A brand new way to queue up and play! The Arcade is a weekly rotation of rule modifiers that shake up how you play Quake Champions in fun, different ways. This month we’re introducing four new modes, one for each week of the month (in order of appearance):

Unholy Trinity Holy Trinity weapons only: the Rocket Launcher, Railgun, and Lightning Gun! This is the only mode with abilities disabled. Hot Rockets Rocket Launchers only! Your own rockets won’t hurt you (so rocket jump to your heart’s content), but they’ll do triple damage to your enemies! Mystery Champion Each time you respawn, you’ll come back to the Arena as a random Champion! Team Instagib Now you can play this one shot, one kill mode with friends!

New Weapon Skin:“Trespasser” Like a Berserker bursting out of a monster closet, the pump-action QUAKE 2 Super Shotgun likes to get up close and personal to its target, only to obliterate it.

Bot Backfill support Bots will now fill in when players leave during a match to prevent uneven games

Performance Updates

In this update we’ve included a number of performance improvements:

Gore System improvements – Decreases performance spikes caused by players respawning

– Decreases performance spikes caused by players respawning Logic optimizations – Reduces performance spikes upon respawn; score events; entity creation & destruction; and increases FPS

– Reduces performance spikes upon respawn; score events; entity creation & destruction; and increases FPS Particle and Sound Effects optimization - Reduces hitching issues

Balance Changes

Champion Balance Changes

Anarki

Cooldown 50 to 45 sec

Disable Shoot Duration 1.35 to 0.75 sec

BJ Blazkowicz

Cooldown 40 to 45 sec

Duration 7 to 5 sec

MG Rate of Fire 1.6x to 1.5x

LG Rate of Fire 1.6x to 1.45x

Clutch

Cooldown 35 to 40 sec

Duration 7 to 5 sec

Shield Hide Time 0.7 to 0.9 sec

Death Knight

Splash Bug Fix

Added Splash Damage Falloff

Cooldown 30 to 45 sec

Duration 8 to 6 sec

Flame Dot 10 to 5

Added 10 Damage on Trail (Standing on fire deals damage, similar to standing on Slash’s Plasma Trail)

Scalebearer

Improved Bull Rush target detection

Bull Rush Damage Reduction 0.5 to 0.66

Slash

Max Speed 18 to 50 m/s

Sorlag

Scale 1.15 to 1.1x

Disable Shoot Duration 1.0 to 0.75 sec

Strogg & Peeker

Delay before Charge 1.0 to 0.75 sec

Peeker Step Height 0 to 0.3 m

Visor

Duration 6 to 5 sec

Weapon Balance Changes

Machinegun

Spread 0.02 to 0.03

Heavy Machinegun

Spread 0.045 to 0.03

Zoom Spread 0.01 to 0

Shotgun

Rate of Fire 800 to 1000 ms

Super Shotgun

Rate of Fire 1050 to 1000 ms

Tri-bolt

Rate of Fire 1000 to 1200 ms

Starting Ammo 15 to 10 bolts

Max Ammo 25 to 20 bolts

Gameplay Updates

Party Queuing for Deathmatch and Instagib

Want to frag your friends in free-for-all modes? Of course you do, and now you can! Players in parties can now queue up for Deathmatch and Instagib Quck Play modes.

Misc. Gameplay

Ring outs on opponents now count as frags

Matchmaking

Added skill banding to increase size of matchmaking pools for “very low” and “very high”-skilled players

Tutorial

Scalebearer bot battle tutorial segment now replayable

Friends List Updates

Added "View Profile" Feature - Players can now access the profile page of other players on their contact lists or in their match lobbies

Hide banned players names from in-game player searches

Banned players are removed from leaderboards

UI Update

New ‘Play Now’ menu

Tutorial UI Changes

Leaderboards Moved to top navigation Panel

Store Updates

Decreased lootbox duplicate rates

Chests contain 2 items of common, uncommon, rare, epic, or legendary quality, and every box contains at least one item that’s rare quality or better!

Reliquaries are a premium loot box that contains 3 items of uncommon, rare, epic, or legendary quality, and every box contains at least one item that’s epic quality or better!

Misc. Updates

Store: Scroll Visibility Update

Disabled Voice Chat for Russia

Misc. Fixes

Fixed an issue with the bots not respecting the respawn time settings

Fixed an issue during match queue where game fails to start a match after saying "Match Found"

Fixed an issue where the music loop stops during the match

Added fixes for frequent hitching during gameplay

Added fixes for players having FPS and performance drops throughout the match

Fixed issue in Lockbox where Muzzle flash alters lighting of entire rooms

Added a fix for when servers added more than 8 players & bots into a match

Fixed an issue where completing Basic Training did not unlock the 2nd tutorial appropriately

Fixed an issue where Entering Customization through the Runes page from the Battle Report caused the camera to be off center

Fixed an issue where Spectators could receive "connection to dedicated server lost" prompt and experience infinite loading

Fixed an issue where the Game could become unresponsive when navigating from the statistics screen to player profile and back

Added a fix for when Death Knight Flame Strike damaged players but there was no flame effect

Fixed issue where players would spawn on fire when viewed from 3rd person

Added fix where players were unable to search Deathmatch or Instagib while in a party

Added fixes to address bots falling out of the map at start of a match with 4+ bots

Fixed issue where user may crash while on the Podium screen for 2v2 Ranked

Fixed an issue where players were not ordered correctly on post-match lineup after sudden death

Fixed a Steam store issue where String text pop-up appears when attempting to purchase Platinum with Steam Overlay disabled

Fixed an issue where Death Knight could inflict Two Fire DoT's to enemies

Fixed an issue where users could receive error 104 during matches

Addressed various in-match crashes

Fixed incorrect Champion rotation on the pre-match podium

Fixed an issue where a dark line would appear on low pre-sets on The Molten Falls

Fixed an issue where on Low settings dark textures on floor are present on Blood Covenant

Fixed an issue where finishing damage was not displayed sometimes

Fixed an issue where hitmarkers could fail to appear when damaging an enemy

Fixed an issue where Death Knight bot's name appears as a string text in matches

Fixed an issue where some weapons clip into model in 3rd person

Fixed an issue with Custom Game: Default icon and description text for Bots Setup and Difficulty dropdowns was incorrect

Fixed an issue where server and client trajectories of Dire orb in corners and obelisk appear different

Fixed an issue where there was missing light on some items

Fixed an issue where Sorlag: Pack Lord Attachments are removed when the Player quits the game

Fixed an issue where in Basic Training: Z-fighting near lightning gun in room with bot

Fixed an issue where in Basic training: missing wall geometry near portal

Improved bot UI element hit registration in Custom Game

Fixed an issue where Rocket Launcher and Tri-bolt shells damage through Clutch's shield

Fixed an issue where Death Knight: Charring: Melee Passive ability does not do the correct DoT

Fixed an issue where Strogg: Drone: Drone’s Projectiles sporadically appear invisible in third person

Improved playback performance of the start up cinematic video

Fixed an issue where after finishing custom game match a player appears on main menu

Fixed an issue with rareness colors on tooltips in lootbox sequence and tooltips in shop are different

Fixed an issue where Spectator: Sacrifice: Spectators can receive "connection to dedicated server lost" prompt and experience infinite loading

Fixed an issue where in custom game in Ranked TDM 2x2, spectator watching player of blue team always sees him in the 1st place on scoreboard

Fixed an issue where music sometimes stops during Ranked TDM match

Fixed an issue where player receives "Ring Out" medal on suicide

Fixed an issue where Pure Skill challenge cannot be completed with Nyx's From the Shadows medal

Fixed an issue where low ammo sounds from nailgun can be heard when shooting plasma gun

Fixed an issue where bots can be added on a pillar after starting a match

Fixed an issue where Menu is opened when right-clicking mouse on bot in custom game, if a player's in a party

Changed default fov parameters (120) and sensitivity parameters (3)

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