Bethesda announced a new update for Quake Champions. The servers went down for maintenance at 13:00 UTC, 28 Aug 2017 for deploying a new patch, which will include several fixes and adjustments for Quake Champions.
  • Steam: Fixed a problem with an account already linked to another Bethesda game
  • Steam: Allowed special symbols in the password field
  • Removed spam from logs
  • Removed Double XP
  • Removed QuakeCon Lightning Gun
  • Fixed: Wrong lootbox highlight for rare armor shaders for BJ Blazkowicz and DOOM Slayer
  • Fixed: Wrong legendary Machinegun drop
  • Fixed: DOOM Slayer's Thak Rune Challenge cannot be completed

Source: Bethesda.net