Star Citizen Alpha Patch 3.24.2
Alpha Patch 3.24.2 has been released to Evocati, and is now available to test! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.24.2-PTU.9357571.
Characters in this new environment have been built from Long Term Persistence(LTP) data.
Currently with LTP, certain player states such as personal hangar layout, custom characters, and in-game purchased consumables are not saved between releases which will cause some items to be lost in the next update.
Audience: Currently Evocati
Server Info: PTU Channel – US Only
Long Term Persistence: Enabled
Starting aUEC: 15,000,000
Shard Player Count: 100
The current build is under NDA (Talking about features and testing is allowed but no sharing of game video, screenshots, audio, files, or accounts outside of Evocati)
Please log out then back in on the issue council site to see the Evocati environment there. Please make sure to only select the Evocati 3.24.0 environment when creating IC reports while the builds are Evocati only
Please monitor etf-testing-chat in spectrum for updates and testing instructions.
Note: This patch does not contain all of the intended features, which will be added iteratively to the notes as they become available. Additionally, some features may be implemented in a partial state and as such are not ready for testing. When those features reach a playable state they will be detailed on the notes and added to the “Testing Focus”. Please issue council all issues related to those in testing focus and in general gameplay.
Testing/Feedback Focus
- Stability & Bugfixes
- Vehicle HUD & MFD Rework
- New Character Creator DNA Faces, Beards, Tattoos, and Hair
- New Acidic and Rock Cave Systems
- Flight Tuning and Archetype Balance (Ongoing during PTU)
- New Arena Commander Updates
Known Issues
There are still a few locations around the PU such as Grimhex, Prison, and a few areas of New Babbage and Orison that have greyed out elevator panels. New Babbage and Orison will be fine to get to the hangar but won’t let you back up into the spaceport.
- PU – Stanton – ASOP / Fleet Manager / UI – ASOP terminal screen will be stuck on the getting vehicle list screen until terminal times out
- PU – Stanton – Locations / Transit / Hangars – Some elevators have greyed out panels and do not respond when called
- PU – Stanton – Online Services / mobiGlas / commLink – Players are unable to receive updates to their Friends List
- PU – Multivehicle – Quantum Travel / mobiGlas / Star Map – Unable to plot a route to obstructed destination
- PU – Stanton – Missions / UI – Mission Objectives are missing from multiple UI elements
- Multivehicle – PU – Vehicles / Ship Refuel – MISC Starfarer is not refuelling other ships
- PU – Harvestables – Game Code / Planet Tech / Mining – Planets and Moons have no Harvestables/Mineables
- Multivehicle – PU – Resource Network – Mining and Salvage heads throttles default to 0
- PU – Stanton – Multivehicle – Vehicles / MFDS / UI – Scanning MFD reverts to Ready to Scan after scanning ships with no cargo stored (STARC-130414)
- Gatac Syluen – PU – Vehicles / Elevator – Syulen is missing the internal elevator (STARC-130168)
- Carrack bottom right MFD has no display (STARC-130157)
Features & Gameplay
Ships and Vehicles
Ship Hud Polish
Added New weapon ammo type icons to Weapon Config Screen. Added tooltip for MFD. Changed cursor when able to scroll the Power Management List.
- Reduced Overall Hull and Thruster Health for the Hornet Series Ships
Core Tech
- Render to Texture Shader Improvements
-Added additive blending of source pixels to scene with multiplier
-Added additive blending of bloom with scene (with multiplier) along with a saturation factor
-Combined hard drop-shadow offset with blurred soft shadow, along with individual multipliers for both
-Added chromatic aberration with custom offsets
Bug Fixes
- Fixed – Resource Network – Default power distribution does not balance pools equally
- Fixed – PU – UI – mobiGlas – Starmap / Quantum Travel – Cannot set route while in close proximity to the surface of a planet (STARC-116277)
- Fixed – ARGO ATLS – PU – ASOP / UI – The ARGO ATLS suit is appearing at top of ASOP list and not with the rest of ARGO ships (STARC-127256)
- Fixed – ARGO RAFT – PU – Vehicles / FPS Weapons – Multi-Tool – Tractor Beam / Tractor Beam Rifle / Cargo – An invisible barrier blocks tractor beams from hitting boxes attached to the cargo grid when standing under the ship (STARC-123302)
- Fixed – Multivehicle – PU – Vehicles / UI / MFD / HUD / Inner Thought – cockpit button interactions overlap the MFD after being initially hovered over (STARC-130562)
- Fixed – Salvage / CryAstro / Restock – Using Cryastro restock service fill up the fillerstation to maximum capacity with salvage material (STARC-129445)
- Fixed – PU – Inventory / UI – Custom Filter tick box not showing a clear selection indicator for the chosen category (BUG-197375)
- Fixed – RSI Constellation Series – ( ALL VARIANTS ) – PU – Vehicles / Actor – Interactions – Interaction points to lower the elevators to enter are out of reach from the ground (STARC-130676)
- Fixed – PU – Vehicles/Elevator – Carrack is missing elevators
- Fixed – PU – Vehicles/Elevator – Syulen is missing elevators
- Fixed – PU – Vehicles/Elevator – Hull-C is missing elevators
- Fixed – PU – MFD hotkeys – There is no option to continue cycling with the MFD hotkeys
- Fixed – PU – Stanton – Multivehicle – Vehicles / UI / MFDS – Ground vehicles have ship configurations in their general configurations
- Fixed – PU – Front End / DNA Character Customizer / UI – Hair/Facial Hair – The Hair/beard/scalps textures will mix up and will not match each other
- Fixed – Multivehicle – PU – Vehicles / Ship Refuel – MISC Starfarer is not refuelling other ships
Technical
- Fixed 3 Client Crashes
- Fixed 3 Server Crashes
- Fixed 1 Server Deadlock
Patch News
Patch Watch
Guide
New ship & vehicle
Patch List
EVOCATI
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9221646 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9228584 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9235725 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9236885 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9238273 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9239996 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9245212 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9246506 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9249462 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9250981 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9252113 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9256674 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9259600 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9261418 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9263673 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9265382 Patch Notes
Wave 1
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9266874 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9268261 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9269517 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9271280 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9272657 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9277884 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9278907 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9280065 Patch Notes
Wave 2
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9281908 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9283212 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9284528 Patch Notes
Open PTU
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9286717 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9288138 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9290875 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9292402 Patch Notes
LIVE
- Alpha 3.24.0 LIVE 9296942 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.24.0 LIVE 9296942-9301716 HOTFIX
- Alpha 3.24.0 LIVE 9296942-9302872 HOTFIX
- Alpha 3.24.0 LIVE 9296942-9303379 HOTFIX