



Update: Maintenance has ended and CBT 13 is now live.

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Greetings, all.

On Thursday, August 3rd, at 9am ET, we will be undergoing maintenance to deploy a new patch, which will include several much requested fixes and adjustments for Quake Champions. During the maintenance period, we will need to reset some player data in preparation for a new update.

Player content that will be reset includes:

User States (Armors, Weapons, Attachments, Shaders, Currency)

Challenges



Content that will NOT be reset includes:

Champions

Friends

Skill Rating

Nicknames

We wanted to make sure that we got this information to you as soon as possible. We know that losing progression during beta testing is not desirable and we appreciate your understanding.

Here are the patch notes for the CBT 13 patch.









CBT 13 Patch Notes:

New Play Now Screen

New screen layout integrated

Player can choose multiple game modes in quick match and match-make between them randomly

Tutorial videos available from Play Now screen

New Announcer Voice

Early CBT voice back by popular demand

New Social Screen

Player can observe all current in-match players and blocked players

Player can now blacklist players, which blocks invites from unwanted users

Player can now ignore user invites

Player can now report users





Projectile issue fixes

Fixed sync issues involving projectiles and players to decrease amount of miss hits

Lag compensation implemented for state changes of collision boxes







Tech

Fixed an issue that could occur when the game would not revert to the player’s native resolution when changing to Borderless mode with a lower aspect ratio

Fixed a localization text issue

Updated the list of supported video cards for more correct auto-detect

Fixed an issue where killed players could become stuck in place and invincible

Fixed an issue where local configurations would not be saved properly when including Cyrillic letters

Fixed an issue where Champions were not synchronized with moving objects





Performance

Optimized various memory leaks





Balance

Clutch's "Advanced Shielding" passive has been removed

Clutch's Active Ability cool-down has now been set to 40 seconds

Clutch’s Health and Armor stats revised: Health from 150/150 to 100/100; Armor from 50/100 to 100/150

Slash’s Starting Armor increased +25 ap

Profile Progression: XP requirements tweaked

Random Drop: Rebalance of drop rates in Backpacks Crates and Reliquaries

Crafting: Item prices in shards and dismantle values changed







Champions

New effect for Ranger’s Dire Orb

Fixed a light effect issue affecting Anarki's Banner vanity item

Fixed an issue affecting audio during Anarki's hover board movement

Fixed issue that could occur with BJ Blazkowicz’s shooting animation while dual-wielding

Fixed a twitching animation issue with BJ Blazkowicz after being shot while idle

Enemies within 120u of the player are outlined

New Clutch acceleration icon added

Fixed an issue where rock and drill medals pop without hitting the 1000 damage requirements

Fixed an issue when RL damage through Clutch's shield





Weapons

Fixed an issue when the Lightning Gun shaft bloomed when colliding with geometry

Fixed a knock-back issue with the Lightning Gun, Shotgun, Rocket Launcher and Railgun

Fixed an issue when armor shards didn't fall when the player was killed via Gauntlet

New weapon pick-up sound, (temporary, will be updated in the future)





Challenges

Fixed an issue where the Serial Killer challenge showed the incorrect icon

Fixed an issue where the player could receive already completed Daily Challenges

Fixed an issue where Daily Challenges were not showing progress





UI/HUD

Resolved all display issues with the Health and Armor container system

yaw and pitch mouse settings added to the options screen

New smaller high resolution enemy arrow indicators

Improved reliability of enemy arrow indicators

Fixed an issue where the player count could persist in the lobby

Fixed an issue where if the player accepted a party invite while in the lobby, he was transferred in custom game

Fixed issue when Headgear thumbnails are not showing some of the champion's heads





Spectating

Red soul widget added into HUD

Fixed an issue where the Lightning Gun shaft could split into two

Fixed an issue where spectators saw red markers above the blue team

Fixed an issue where Clutch’s shield was not visible from 3rd person camera

X-Ray now turned on by default

Spectator now sees team-colored outlines on the screen





In-game

Fixed an issue when player spawned in 0 coordinates on second game session

Fixed an issue when Champion will briefly appear where killed on respawn

Fixed an issue when full session could stuck on a character presentation screen

Fixed issue when user movement halts briefly when entering a jump-pad





Sacrifice

Fixed an issue where the soul pickup HUD marker could persist when the soul isn't on its spawn place

Fixed an issue where the soul can get stuck in any wall and cannot be picked up when User stands close to the wall

Fixed an issue where the soul can be placed in overhead platform side mausoleum on Burial Chamber

Fixed an issue when Soul can become stuck on top of head statue in Side Mausoleum on Burial Chamber

Fixed an issue when enemy Obelisk marker overlapped soul carried HUD

Fixed an issue where the soul effect could be seen on the weapon in first person view

Fixed POI blinking issue

Fixed an issue where picking up the soul immediately after using an ability would cause VFX to stay, preventing the use of that ability until death

Fixed an issue where the Obelisk does not have player collision





Duel

Fixed an issue where the draft stage profile level on the nameplate was incorrect

Fixed an issue where on the death screen, the Champion in the middle always highlighted

Fixed an issue where the mouse fire input would be stuck if firing between the transition from warmup to Champion selection

Fixed an issue where the announcer would say "5 minutes warning" at sudden death

Fixed an issue where the Scoreboard would not display a time limit

Fixed an issue when Champion Vanity items did not show when displayed on the podium screen in Duel selection

Fixed an issue when the announcer says "your pick" when an enemy is picking





Misc

Various localization fixes

Removed confidential line from watermark





Chat

Fixed an issue when Global timestamps were missing zero padding

Fixed an issue when chat didn't work on player presentation screen

Fixed an issue when auto-scroll always worked with every new message





Shop

Fixed issue when loot-box text was not showing correctly

Loot Box store visuals improved

Loot Box openings now include category icons for drops

Loot Box openings now include voice over announcements for epic and legendary drops





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