Spectrum MOTD:
(Tuesday) Latest Client Hotfix has now rolled over onto the LIVE environment with a handful of the top client and server crash fixes
Wakapedia-CIG:
We got some great logging from it and are testing code put in to detect stuck elevators/transit and reset them. Right now this is in 4.0.2 but we may be able to hotfix it over to LIVE if testing goes well. Since this is in early testing today Iâm not trying to give hopes up just yet but will have more news later if we can port it over as a hotfix
Spectrum MOTD:
(Thursday) We are currently still working through many of the top issues that we highlighted from 4.0.1. Our current goal is to publish 4.0.2 to PTU as soon as we get strong fixes in for transit/elevator issues. This could be as early as Friday (tomorrow) or early next week (Monday/Tuesday)
Spectrum MOTD:
(Friday) Today we are going to be releasing a new 4.0.2 build to PTU for Evocati only over the weekend while we work on further transit and elevator updates. This initial build will have a new Pyro Event as well as 24+ Issue Council bug fixes to test. Goal is still to have Elevators in a much better state to open further waves. ruben bad
Evocati PTU will have the NDA back in place.
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2 9515634 PTU Patch Notes
Star Citizen Alpha Patch 4.0.2
Alpha Patch 4.0.2 has been released onto the PTU environment for Evocati to test! Launcher should now show: VERSION 4.0.2-PTU.9515634.
Testing/Feedback Focus
- 4.0.2 Release Goals
- The 4.0.2 release is highly focused on 3 key points to improve and fix as many top key gameplay issues as possible, improve connectivity/stability, and begin the latest Supply or Die Pyro Event. This build pulls in all the current bug and stability fixes that were not compatible with hotfixing into 4.0.1.
- Stability, Performance, and Bugfix Testing
- Supply or Die Event
- Without giving away the full detail, Supply Or Die is Pyroâs answer to Jumptown from the Stanton System. This event will run throughout the PTU cycle in 4.0.2 and have factions to join.
This is going to be a PVP event once out of Evocati, but during this time keep the Evocati No PVP rule in effect until further waves are open. PVP only allowed when players consent.
- Without giving away the full detail, Supply Or Die is Pyroâs answer to Jumptown from the Stanton System. This event will run throughout the PTU cycle in 4.0.2 and have factions to join.
Features & Gameplay
- Gameplay
- Max player look rotation scale for the dedicated tractor tool has been reduced to add a bit more of a weighty feel to heavier items
*Added new distance values to the spawning of salvage ships around rest stops to avoid clean up
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Ships and Vehicles
- MISC Fortune: LOD and Art Polish Pass
- MISC Guardian: LOD Transition Polish
- Tumbril Storm: Removed extra personal storage. Set correct storage amount. Change loc name for all personal storages.
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Core Tech
- Further Networking Changes to help Load Times
- AI Planet Navigation Performance Polish
- Instance Hangar Performance Optimizations
- Further Lighting and Rogue Entity Performance Polish Pass for Stanton Landing Zones
- Added new distance values to the spawning of salvage ships around rest stops to avoid clean up
Technical
- 35 possible bug fixes
- 5 client crash fixes
- 10 server crash fixes
- A hybrid crash fix
- A client deadlock fix
Spectrum MOTD:
(MĂĄnadagr) We are currently not intending on publishing a new PTU build today while testing fixes internally and targeting a PTU publish Tuesday.
Spectrum MOTD:
(Tysdagr) We are currently putting together a new 4.0.2 build and targeting a release to Evocati at first with the goal of opening up to all waves a couple hours after.
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2 9518844 Patch Notes
Audience: Evocati Only. We will assess after a couple hours for further, open waves
Features and Gameplay
Locations
- Planetary Night Brightness Polish Pass
- Biome Streaming Performance Optimizations
- Optimization Pass on Pyro Outposts
Gameplay
- Greatly Increased Distortion Falloff Times for S4 Power Plants on the Polaris, Reclaimer, and 890j
Ships and Vehicles
- MISC Starfarer: Moved the MFDs down to avoid intersecting with Advanced HUD
- Thruster Audio Gold Pass For Arrow, Lightning, and Cutlass ships
Bug Fixes
- Possibly Fixed: PU - Inventory - Storage Access/Interactables - Storing items from the actor to the Storage Access interface will drop the items and make them lose interactions (STARC-154219)
- Possibly Fixed: MISC Starlancer Max - PU - Vehicles - Starlancer MAX has no physical floor in the cargo hold (STARC-156503)
- Possibly Fixed: PU - Graphics - DX11/ Upscaling / FSR - The option to use FSR Upscaler is no longer available while using DX11 API, option still available under Vulkan (STARC-154319)
- Possibly Fixed: PU - Pyro - Contested Zones (CZ) - Checkmate Station - Design / Locations - There is no audio SFX when a door to a loot room located within the horizon route of the contested zone opens and closes
- Possibly Fixed: Stanton / Pyro - Medical Rescue / Service Beacons - Missions / UI - If a Player Respawns after another Player has accepted their Service Beacon their NavMarker will persist
- Possibly Fixed: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Design - Ground vehicles have no power to their engines by default
- Possibly Fixed: MultiWeapon - PU - Weapon / UI - Timer text for applied drugs on the AR cards doesnât fit inside the AR UI
- Possibly Fixed: AC - UI - Classic Race / Grav Race - AR Markers missing for next checkpoints (STARC-153876)
Technical
- Fixed 4 Client Crashes
- Fixed 5 Server Crashes
- Fixed a Hybrid Crash
@GeneralNews
Spectrum MOTD:
(Tuesday) A new 4.0.2 PTU build has opened up for All Backers to test
Spectrum MOTD:
We currently have a LIVE Server Maintenance downtime scheduled for 7:30 AM
Spectrum MOTD:
(Wednesday) We currently have a new 4.0.2 build cooking and are targeting a PTU publish later today
SC-Testing-Chat - Wakapedia-CIG:
Hit a bit of a crash tonight in the new build so we are going to work on getting a new PTU ready for as early as possible tomorrow
Spectrum MOTD:
(Thursday) We currently have a build in testing and are targeting a 4.0.2 PTU release today
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2 PTU.9521869 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Features and Gameplay
Gameplay
- Enabled Courier Missions in Pyro System
Ships and Vehicles
- Flight Markers: Better sorting of essential markers and prioritizing ones closer to center screen
- Added new ship compass with performance improvements
- Restricted Heartseeker Weapon and Gimbal to only work on the Heartseeker mount
Bug Fixes
- Possibly Fixed: PU - Stuck in the Queue position 1 and not entering the server/loading (STARC-154900)
- Possibly Fixed: PU - Stanton / Pyro - Starmap / mobiGlas / UI - Thereâs a chance for the Starmapâs search bar and buttons to be difficult to be interacted with while using a mouse (STARC-156485)
- Possibly Fixed: PU - Stanton / Pyro - UI / Vehicles - Quantum Travel Nav Markers become invisible (STARC-154029)
- Possibly Fixed: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / HUD - pitch ladder/altimeter significantly reduces client performance (STARC-153193)
- Possibly Fixed: PU - Pyro - Depots - Locations / Core Tech / AI - NavLinks on the crates allow AI to lose collision with the Depot buildings and fall through the world
- Possibly Fixed: PU - Pyro - Depots - Locations / AI - AI walk over the fires and die at Depot locations
- Possibly Fixed: MISC Starfarer ( All Variants ) - PU - Vehicles / Vehicle Feature - Payment can not be accepted to begin the refueling process
- Possibly Fixed: Mirai Pulse - PU - Vehicles / Art - Pulse weapon does not wear
- Possibly Fixed: AC - Scoring - Pilot & Crewmember Assist Bonus - AI - Enemies destroyed by vehicle PDCs do no count towards any kills, assists or score
- Possibly Fixed: RSI Constellation Taurus - PU - Vehicles / Ladder / Stuck / Collision - Climbing up the front ladder in the Cargo Bay will cause the player to fall through the floor at the top of the ladder and get stuck (STARC-156952)
- Possibly Fixed: PU - Pyro - Multilocation - Freight Manager - The freight elevators gets an error message âELEVATOR OVERLOADEDâ when moving SCU boxes of Detatrine (STARC-156577)
- Possibly Fixed: PU - UI / Comms - Visor / Lens - Chat allows multiple subsequent spaces and allows typing channel names (STARC-154089)
- Possibly Fixed: PU - Pyro - Firesale - Depots - Locations - User becomes stuck after riding the freight elevator down at the Depots
Technical
- Fixed 3 Server Crashes
- Fixed a Hybrid Crash
@GeneralNews
Spectrum MOTD:
(FrjĂĄdagr) We are currently building a new 4.0.2 build and are targeting a PTU release later today
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2 9546856 PTU Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Features and Gameplay
Gameplay
- Disabled Courier Missions for 4.0.2 <:glorp:1231306699172745236>
Core Tech
- Further updates to help with long load times into Pyro
Bug Fixes
- Partial Fix: PU - MultiSystem - Starmap / Quantum Travel - Traveling to a marker will cause the ship to make a U-Turn (STARC-105462) (This should significantly reduce the occurrences of this but please let us know if it continues to happen too frequently!)
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Multiple Locations - Locations / Collisions / Transit - Transit in some Landing Zones have no collision, causing players to fall through the transit floor (STARC-154346)
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Locations / Art - Multiple Mission Locations Do Not Load Interiors or are missing interiors (STARC-152295)
- Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Resource Network - Weapons on UI appear powered off or allocated different power settings with UI weapons still fire and hotkeys can be used to change power (STARC-156490)
- Potential Fix: PU - mobiGlas / Performance - Performance degrades while interacting with the mobiGlas Reputation application (STARC-105304)
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Reclaim Pyro - Phase 6/7 - Missions / UI - Mission Objective Locations narrative is giving random location context compared to its actual location (STARC-152399)
- Potential Fix: PU - Locations - Multivehicle - Vehicles - When spawning a ship at a Docking Port, the ship will spawn clipped into the docking port geometry
- Potential Fix: PU - Salvage / Economy - Salvage Panels yield more RMC than expected while salvaging
- Potential Fix: Prowler Ladder is inaccessible
- Potential Fix: AC - Frontend - UI - The Squad / Friends / Party UI options are removed when you return to the AC frontend by disconnecting from a match
Technical
- Fixed 3 Client Crashes
- Fixed 3 Server Crashes
- Fixed a Hybrid Crash
@GeneralNews
Spectrum MOTD:
(MĂĄnadagr) We have a new 4.0.2 in the works and are currently targeting a PTU publish later today