Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.3 PTU.9410828 Patch Notes
Audience: All Waves
Testing/Feedback Focus
- IAE Halls
- New Global Event: Save Stanton Phases 1-5 running Saturday/Sunday
- New Vehicle: Starlancer Max
- New Vehicle: Polaris - The Captain’s Quarters will be locked on initial 3.24.3 release as it’s still undergoing iteration (more details will be provided in the upcoming Polaris Q&A). The rest of the ship, however, is ready for testing.
Features and Gameplay
Gameplay
- Starmap Objectives Panel Polish
- Added buttons to view accepted/tracked contracts in contract manager. You can now track and untrack accepted contracts from starmap, and clicking on tracked objective in the list focuses on the marker.
Ships and Vehicles
- Added New Ship: RSI Polaris
- Added New Ship: MISC Starlancer Max
- Vehicle MFDs: Improved layout on target status screen to reduce overlaps
- Reduced Brightness of Starfarer Annunicator Panel Origin Rays
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - PU - Multi-System - Turrets - Station Defenses Don’t Respond to Aggression in Armistice STARC-122638
- Fixed - PU - ASOP Terminal / UI - When accessing an ASOP Terminal, there is a chance the user will be instantly kicked out of the interface
- Fixed - Nomad - PU - Vehicles / Art - There is a Portal / VisArea issue at the entrance of the Nomad STARC-136953
- Fixed - Esperia Prowler - PU - Vehicles / GFX - VisArea / Lighting - Several parts of the exterior ship are unlit by the environment
- Fixed - Drake Corsair - PU - Vehicles / UI - Side turret HUD is incorrect
Technical
This build has further stability improvements to help reduce server stalls.
- Fixed 3 Client Crashes
- Fixed 5 Server Crashes
- Fixed 3 Server Deadlocks
@GeneralNews
Polaris - The Captain's Quarters will be locked on initial 3.24.3 release as it’s still undergoing iteration (more details will be provided in the upcoming Polaris Q&A). The rest of the ship, however, is ready for testing
@Wakapedia-CIG
Day 3 and 5 of the expo is what you probably want if you're looking to rent a couple things
New halls will rotate in every 5 hours
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: 
We are having a breif(sic) outage on the 3.24.3 PTU because of the amount of players rushing in overran the scaling limits 
Will catch up soon
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: Due to the load, it’s causing some delays with the Owners Wave 1 getting the polaris and starlancer max so might take a slight bit of extra time
(Mánadagr) We are currently putting together a new 3.24.3 build for release onto the PTU later today
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: Just got the 30 minute heads up from qa for the 3.24.3 build on PTU
[All Waves PTU] Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.3 PTU.9412741 Patch Notes
Features & Gameplay
- Ships and Vehicles
- Polaris Performance, Lighting, VFX, and Art Polish Pass
- Starlancer Max Art, VFX, and Lighting Polish
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - Polaris Torpedo’s do not restock STARC-138719
- Fixed - RSI Polaris - PU - VFX / Vehicles - Atmo heating effect is too small / weak for the ship
- Fixed - RSI Polaris - PU - Vehicles / Design - Polaris turrets have incomplete atmosphere volume STARC-138741
- Fixed - FPS Gameplay / Mounted Turrets - Resource Network - Mounted turrets located at various FPS locations do not fire
- Fixed - Aegis Sabre Raven - PU - Vehicles / Art - Sabre Raven’s weapon rack spawns outside of the ship when equipped with a Livery STARC-133636
- Fixed - Origin 400i - PU - Vehicles / Art / GFX - Visarea - There are visarea issues with the component bays and cargo bay door in the 400i STARC-105219
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - IAE2024 - New Babbage - Locations / Vehicle - Day 3 MISC - The ramps of the MISC Starfarer and MISC Starfarer Gemini do not extend blocking access to the vehicle STARC-69579
Technical
- Fixed 1 Client Crash
- Fixed 8 Server Crashes
little tidbit from the datamine: the NPC last names Bundy and Epstein have been removed and replaced with Burgess and Edelstein respectively
gee i wonder why!
(Tysdagr) We currently have 2 goals today
- We have a new 4.0 EPTU build in the work for an Evocati publish later today
- We have a new 3.24.3 All backers PTU build in the works with further stability and server performance improvements for release today
[All Waves PTU] Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.3 PTU.9415068 Patch Notes
Features & Gameplay
Ships and Vehicles
- RSI Polaris Polish Pass
- Polaris collision and animation physics optimizations.
- Animation Sound Effects Polish.
- Greatly increased the hydrogen fuel tank holds.
- Bespoke Guns: Fully locked down the hardpoint, added a custom locked down gimbal, includes the changes to the PDC radar priority.
- Updated and tuned RSI bespoke ballistic cannon ammo and cannon.
- Cannon is now 50 RPM with high armor penetration, Moderate ballistic damage and implemented simple overheat mechanics.
- Increased VFX size of bullet trajectory to match large turrets.
- Starlancer MAX Polish
- Detachable Components Health Pass. Updated LODs for Thrusters.
- Added PDC Radar Access for Phoenix, 890Jump, and Polaris
- Vehicle Ramp Proximity Detection Polish
Core Tech
- Server Physics Entity Rotation Performance Improvements
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - Physics Grids are missing from a number of interior locations across the PU (Will fix locations like UGF gravity) STARC-130112
- Fixed - Crusader Hercules Starlifter - ALL VARIANTS - Vehicle / Landing Gear/ Ramp - Hercules spawn/land off balance on hangar floor STARC-130372
- Fixed - RSI Polaris - PU - Vehicles / Design - ‘Open Exterior’ prompt is opening the internal escape pod doors
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - IAE2024 - New Babbage - Locations / Armistice - Day 1 / Day 2 / Day 3 / Day 5 / Day 6 / Day 7 / Day 8 - Armistice Zone is not covered in some Halls and during elevator travel STARC-139028
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - IAE2024 - New Babbage - Location / Transit - All Days - Traversal in elevators taking longer then expected
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Landing Zone (LZ) - New Babbage - Personal Hangar - Locations / Art / Graphics - A large opaque plane will be visible when viewed from the ASOP/Storage Access area if hangar doors are open
Technical
- Fixed 2 Server Crashes
- Fixed 1 Server Deadlock
Updated MOTD
(Tysdagr) We currently have 2 goals today
- We have a new 4.0 EPTU build in the works for an Evocati publish later today
- A new 3.24.3 build has been released to the PTU for all backers! Limited Expo Halls and Save Stanton Event will be enabled tonight on PTU
ETF build greenlit.
[Evocati Playtest] Star Citizen Alpha 4.0 Playtest #10
Updates Since Previous Test
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Further Jump Tunnel VFX Polish and Obstacle Shaping
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Further Entity Streaming Performance Polish
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Fixed Several Client and Server Crashes
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Fixed - PU - Multi-System - Bounty Hunter - Mission Content / Vehicles / AI - Enemy ships are unresponsive / not hostile to the player and remain static in combat (STARC-138648)
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Fixed - PU - Stanton/Pyro - Freight Elevators - Locations / Inventory - Freight elevator cargo grid does not recognise cargo when placed on the grid (STARC-136933)
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Fixed - AC - Pirate Swarm - AI - Enemy AI does not spawn (STARC-131346)
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Fixed - PU - Multivehicle - Vehicles / Resource Network - Vehicle Lights cannot toggle on until player hits a redundant Flight Ready keybind (STARC-133874)
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Fixed - PU - Pyro - Contested Zones (CZ) - Design / Locations - Security keycard printers fail to produce a keycard when a player uses the console for a second attempt
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Fixed - PU - Pyro - Contested Zones (CZ) - Ghost Arena - Creature AI / BOID - Aloprats are not present anywhere at Ghost Arena
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Fixed - PU - Pyro - Frontier Outposts - Creature Animation / AI - Some Marok appear frozen / immobile in the air
Shard config is 4:380
Spectrum MOTD:
**(Waka’s Day) We currently have 2 goals today
- We are working on a new 3.24.3 build for all backers later today on PTU
- We are working on a new 4.0 Evocati build for EPTU later today**
Wakapedia-CIG:
We have a Speculative fix for docking into stations once we publish today to test out (STARC-57852)
We also have some PDC changes today that will change things a tiny bit so going to be testing those out in the PTU today after the new build
Prospector Ship HUD rework made it into today’s build