PTU client update dropping in a few minutesWeâre doing a short [4.0] downtime at 4pm to update the client and servers to add more jump point logging, help fix frame hitches entering the jump point, as well as fix exit location of jump point
(Sunnudagr) Today on the 3.24.2a PTU we are running a 3 hour timed playtest along with the QA team for the Save Stanton Global event! This will start at 2pm CDT | 20:00 UTC Playtest and Feedback Thread
Wakapedia-CIG:
Still in discussion but 3.24.2a current goal is to go onto LIVE early Tuesday
(MĂĄnadagr) We currently have a new 3.24.3 build in testing with the goal of releasing this onto the PTU this afternoon.
(MĂĄnadagr) We currently have a new 3.24.3 build in testing with the goal of releasing this onto the PTU today. We will be running a few of the IAE Halls on an accelerated schedule starting tonight
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: Might be a soul crush (build fail). Still discussing. You all like being able to QT around places right? XD
(Tuesday) We are currently warming up LIVE servers to update to 3.24.2a today. This will be a zero downtime deployment when ready and rebuild player data from LTP. Will update here when closer to update time
MOTD updated
(Tuesday) 2 Goals for today
- We are currently warming up LIVE servers to update to 3.24.2a today. This will be a zero downtime deployment when ready and rebuild player data from LTP. Will update here when closer to update time.
- We are currently putting together a new 3.24.3 build for release to all backers on PTU today. To keep expectations, we are still in the final stages of getting new ships polished so not in the PTU builds just yet!
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: 
Currently aiming to send out 3.24.2a onto LIVE in about 1 hour at 4:30pm CDT | 21:30 UTC. This will be a zero downtime deployment and will remake characters from LTP data.
Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.2a LIVE Patch Notes
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.
Items not saved to LTP Include:
- Hangar Decoration Customizations (Decorations will be returned to playerâs home location inventory)
- Medpens, Ammo, Ongoing Rentals and Refinery Jobs, and Character Customization (Make sure to Export your Custom Character)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - ASOP / Locations - Personal Hangar - Retrieving a ship results in âWe are unable to deal with your request at this timeâ and no ship : TimeOut Fail (STARC-129836)
- Fixed - PU - Locations - Majority of transit managers can stop functioning for a given shard for hours with no Entity Graph lag present (STARC-133703)
- Fixed - PU - Interaction / ASOP / Server Recover - A Player interacts with an ASOP while a server error occurs can block this kiosk from being interacted with by another player (STARC-73038)
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Vehicle Components - Quantum Drives - Cannot initiate quantum jump (STARC-131460)
- Fixed - PU - Hauling Missions - Hauling missions give full reward without delivering all cargo when the âSubmitâ button is pressed (STARC-120213)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Actor / Health - Audio / SFX - Medical / Respawn - Permanent Incapacitated Audio loop after respawning (STARC-121829)
- Fixed - Controls - Pilot / Co-pilot / Gunner - Vehicles - RSI Zeus ALL VARIANTS - PU - When a player is in the co-pilot or gunner seat, the player in the pilot seat will not be able to swap between SCM and NAV modes
- Fixed - PU - Transit - Transit appear to be failing to stream back in after being streamed out
- Fixed - AC - Spawning not possible after rejoining lobby (STARC-130221)
Technical
- Fixed 9 Client Crashes
- Fixed 23 Server Crashes
- Fixed 3 Hybrid Crashes
- Fixed multiple issues with Extremely High Entity Counts in Stanton
- Made Further Client Physics Performance Improvements
- Made Further Background Service Stability Improvements
@GeneralNews
Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.3 PTU.9405451 Patch Notes
Audience: All Waves
Testing/Feedback Focus
Note: Todayâs build does not have new ships available just yet. We are planning on adding these during PTU phases for 3.24.3 before release.
- Stability & Bugfixes
- IAE Halls at New Babbage
- Save Stanton Global Event
Known Issues
IMPORTANT! Multivehicle - PU - Stanton - Vehicles / Quantum Drives - <a:WeeWoo:608598362295631874> Quantum Drive is not allocated any power by default upon entering NAV mode <a:WeeWoo:608598362295631874>
Features and Gameplay
Ships and Vehicles
- Updated MISC Starfarer Annunciator Scale
- Realigned MISC Freelancer Annuciators to be Vertical
- Updated Redeemer to Front/Back Shields with 2x size 2 shields
- Made Slight adjustments to Flight Tuning for the Mirai Fury and Aegs Sabre Firebird/Peregrine
- Added Rentable Ships in Arena Commander: Sabre Firebird, Anvil Hornet F7C MkII, and URSA Medivac
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - Anvil Aerospace Carrack - PU - Vehicles - Carrack medical screen grants access to inventory upon striking ( F ) [ short press ] instead of medical screen
- Fixed - Hull A No atmosphere in Cabin (STARC-130810)
- Fixed - PU - UGF - Missions / AI / Locations - Ninetails and Guard AI are overlapping and clipping in each other outside of the UGF (STARC-134907)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Locations / AI - Turrets cannot be targeted (STARC-133658)
- Fixed - Origin 400i - Ships / Vehicles / Art - Elevator - Elevator Panel buttons disappear on upper floor (STARC-130245)
- 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 - Origin 600i All variants - PU - Vehicles / Tech Art - Interior of the 600i doesnât render properly through doors (STARC-131448)
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU/AC - Vehicles / Resource Network - Full Power weapon assignment takes additional power away from other systems (STARC-133570)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - GLOBAL - Locations / Lighting - Illumination Issues with light probes and popping shadows (STARC-133622)
- Fixed - Multivehicle - Physics / Collision - Mining / Items / Mining Pods - Detached Mining Pods improperly collide with vehicles and prevent players from loading them into other ships (STARC-120794)
- Fixed - PU / AC - Clio - Locations / Graphics / Vulkan - The water on Clio has striping effect when flying nearby with Vulkan enabled (STARC-131702)
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Art / Vehicle Components - Vehicle components and interactables remain static when the vehicle is destroyed
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Resource Network - Animating vehicle weapons are powered on and in their âdeployedâ state when spawned from an ASOP terminal
- Fixed - Gemini LH86 Pistol - PU - Weapons / VFX - Muzzle flash is not present when firing
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - MicroTech - Distribution Centers - Locations / Art - Planet surface has visual artifacts when arriving at POIâs
- Fixed - Aegis Sabre - PU - Vehicles / Art - Aegis Sabre has pixelated reflection texture on the cockpit canopy glass
- Fixed - Banu Defender - Vehicles / UI / MFD / HUD - Unable to complete scan of other vehicles or see scan results (copilot now also has radar control)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - UI / Shipping & Delivery Kiosk - Shipping & Delivery Kiosk(Covalex)'s screen will be stuck on âPlease Standbyâ after pressing âPickupâ
- Fixed - Salvaged Skull 4 SCU Container - PU - Art / Inventory - 4 SCU variant of the Salvaged Skull set has the appearance of a default 4 SCU Container
Technical
- Fixed 6 Client Crashes
- Fixed 12 Server Crashes
- Fixed 3 Server Deadlocks
- Fixed 1 Hybrid Crash
- Made Several Audio Performance Optimizations
- Made Several Out Of Memory Server Improvements
@GeneralNews
[Evocati Playtest] Star Citizen Alpha 4.0 Playtest #8
Tonight on the EPTU channel we will be running another Evocati only playtest with SC Alpha 4.0! Our goal is to continue to leave the build up on EPTU.
For todayâs test, Evocati will be fully allowed to show off this build, so you will be allowed to stream, make videos, and share screenshots of this test!
This current test will focus fully on 4.0 with and will include a 4 DGS server mesh starting with 380 player count per shard and 2 servers per solar system.
This will be a temporary Mesh configuration. Weâre aiming to encourage zone transitions and monitor performance with additional tuning for these initial tests and will continue to increase it as we move through PTU.
Updates Since Previous Test
- Several further physics and memory server performance improvements
- Fixed Several Client, Server, and Hybrid crashes
- Made Further Performance Improvements for Planetary Streaming on the GPU and Large Entity Count Performance
- Made Further steps into Service refactors for moving the Mission and Corpse Markers to the Services instead of DGS authority
- Made Further AI Locomotion Optimizations around Contested Zones
- Made Further Player Animation Networking Improvements
- Weapons that charge should have their charge action queued
- Fixed - PU - Stanton / Pyro - Locations / Jump Gates - Pyro and Stanton jump gates wonât open
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Multivehicle - Quantum Fuel Consumption Equal Across Ships (STARC-132208)
- Fixed - IFCS - Pilot - ESP dampening can be hacked (STARC-137929)
- Fixed - PU / AC - Clio - Locations / Graphics / Vulkan - The water on Clio has striping effect when flying nearby with Vulkan enabled (STARC-131702)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton / Pyro - Multiple Locations - AI / Locations - AI bullets are shooting in a different direction than where they are aiming (STARC-137167)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Locations - Klescher Rehabilitation Facility - Actor / Interaction / Kiosk - Interacting with the Ore Deposit Terminal in the Prison Mines makes the player walk backwards out of range of the terminal (STARC-130761)
- Fixed - Multi-Ship - VFX - Sub mesh names for engine/thruster glows not working
- Fixed - PU - Mission Refactor - Missions / Locations - Some Salvage Contracts take the player to locations that do not generate a salvage claim
- Fixed - Freight Elevator - Freight manager lets the user move more SCU to the elevator than it can hold by using âMove To Elevatorâ buttons
- Fixed - CRUS_Starlifter_M2 - vehicles - weapons - turrets - Hercules turret doesnât fire when set to staggered fire (STARC-85198)
For tonightâs build we fully recommend staying in the Stanton System due to large performance issues around Pyro
(Thorâs Day) We are currently putting together a new 3.24.3 build to update the PTU for all backers later today. Goal for this build is stability and will not have IAE or Global Events running.
[All Waves PTU] Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.3 PTU.9408732 Patch Notes
Features & Gameplay
Ships and Vehicles
- Aligned Misc Starfarer annuciators to be vertical and made smaller
Core Tech
- Further Weapon Particle GPU Performance Improvements
- Further Entity Spawner Reliability Improvements
- Add MT graph to r_displayFrameGraph
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Actor / Health - Audio / SFX - Medical / Respawn - Permanent Incapacitated Audio loop after respawning (STARC-121829)
- Fixed - PU - Missions / Vehicles / AI - There is a duplicate Hangar platform that can appear on Floor 1 of the 890J (STARC-132042)
- Fixed - Drake Cutlass Blue - PU/AC - Vehicles / Vehicle Components - The Cutlass Blue spawns in the PU and AC with no fuel tanks (STARC-129870)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - microTech - Bloodshot Ridge - Locations / Art - Hole in the floor inside a building in Bloodshot Ridge (STARC-134858)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton / Pyro - Locations - Medical - Art / Interactions - Terminals of medical beds are black (STARC-130219)
- Fixed - Cyclone MT - Stanton - Vehicles/ Missile Operator mode /Missiles - Tumbril Cyclone MT missile racks are not functioning (STARC-2438)
- Fixed aspect ratio of Freelanceer and Starfarer Annunciator Panels
- Fixed - PU - Art / Locations / GFX - microTech - Ghost Hollow - There are ReplaceMe balls on the inside the derelict Reclaimerâs cockpit/bridge stair area/entrance
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles - Quantum Drives - quantum travels starts and then stops
- Fixed - Aegis Sabre - PU - Vehicles / Art - Aegis Sabre has pixelated reflection texture on the cockpit canopy glass
Technical
- Fixed 2 Client Crashes
- Fixed 5 Server Crashes
Spectrum MOTD - Update:
**(FrjĂĄdagr) 2 Possible goals today/tomorrow
- We have a new 4.0 build in the works for Evocati
- We have a possible 3.24.3 build being worked on for release today or tomorrow for all backers. **
Wakapedia-CIG:
3.24.3 is going to be a late one tonight. 4.0 is just getting out to Evocati in the next 30 minutes or so then the team will focus on working on the PTU build
[Evocati Playtest] Star Citizen Alpha 4.0 Playtest #9
Updates Since Previous Test
- Fixed Several Client and Server Crashes
- Mission Service Update to update and move many missions onto the Service side instead of on the DGS
- New Terrain Modifier Streaming Performance Improvements
- Further Jump Tunnel Polish and New Shaping Calculations
- Instanced Hangar Streaming Performance Improvements
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - PU - Mission Refactor - Mission Content / UI - Mission Markers and Objectives do not update when Travel Objective is completed
- Fixed - PU - Mission Refactor - Missions - Mercenary / Eliminate All - There are no increased difficulty Eliminate All Contracts available to the player after the Intro is completed
- Fixed - PU - Missions / Locations - Region locality does not take into consideration certain space locations, locking players out of missions they can accept in mobiGlas
- Fixed - SC - Creatures - Quasi Grazer - Quasi grazer entity is missing in 4.0 builds
- Fixed - PU - Stanton/Pyro - Jump Points - Ships / Vehicles / Game Code - The Distortion Build-up is Inconsistent
- Fixed - [Party Markers] - Player markers do not display name of the party member
- Fixed - PU - Vehicle MFDs - Scanning - Scanning data does not persist in other flight modes such as combat and missile
- Fixed - Drake Herald - PU - Vehicles / Art - Fire VFX appears squared in shape when the vehicle is destroyed
- Fixed - RSI Constellation Series - PU / AC - Vehicles / Weapon Components - Stock Missiles will be loose in the cargo bay when retrieved/accessed STARC-130042
- Fixed - Drake Cutlass Blue - PU/AC - Vehicles / Vehicle Components - The Cutlass Blue spawns in the PU and AC with no fuel tanks STARC-129870
The 3.24.3 build is in the QA team's hands already but it will be a while yet. Late night! Get some food, relax a bit, I'll let you know when we are closer
IF chat is good, I might be able to convince the ship gods to let all of Wave 1 use the ship on PTU the rest of the PTU cycle starting tonight```