Spectrum MOTD:
On tonight’s 4.0.2 PTU we want to run a stress test for the first hour with everyone who is able to spawning at Area18 to stress test the transit and hangar flow.
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: We’re going to be monitoring the logs during the first hour. after that, you can set your spawn anywhere else 
The build will be out in the next 20-30 minutes and will let you choose a new spawn then
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2 PTU 9567476 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Testing/Feedback Focus
- Tonight’s build has further updates for Transit Carriages opening into Incorrect Zones and causing voids.
- Further Entity Cleanup work has been done to help stop certain entities, such as ships, getting cleaned up when they shouldn’t be.
- Pyro missions for CFP/HH should be not sharable without having sufficient reputation. In Stanton this does not apply.
Bug Fixes
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Missions - Mission Content / Enemy AI / HUD / UI - The mission “URGENT: Boarding Action In Progress” does not complete sometimes despite eliminating all enemy AI (STARC-156487)
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Jump Points - Locations / Spacescaping - Asteroids that surround the Stanton Gateway can be seen inside the Jump Tunnel and occasionally can cause fatal collisions when exiting the Jump Tunnel (STARC-138352)
- Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Audio / Vehicles / Locations - Ship engine and weapon audio missing after spawning in hangar and flying out (STARC-153799)
- Potential Fix: PU - UI / mobiGlas / Map - Starmap search bar only searches after a character is entered then deleted in search field (STARC-112111)
- Potential Fix: MISC Prospector - PU - Vehicles / Mining / UI - When cargo capacity is full the HUD displays the string @HUD_MINING_CARGO_FULL
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Missions - NPE / Tutorial - Storing the Tutorial ship at Spaceport ASOP before entering Hangar blocks ‘Your First Flight’ flow
Technical
- Fixed 1 Client Crash
- Fixed 3 Server Crashes
@GeneralNews
Spectrum MOTD:
(Tysdagr) We are currently cooking a new 4.0.2 build and targeting a PTU release later today
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2 PTU 9569712 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Testing/Feedback Focus
Tonight’s build has further updates to strengthen Transit Carriage reliability
Features and Gameplay
Ships and Vehicles
- Retuned the camera shake and vibration effects for spaceships flight while in first person
Bug Fixes
- Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles - Quantum Travel stops after crossing to new DGS (STARC-135687)
- Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Components / Weapons - Ship Weapons are sometimes not firing (STARC-153988)
- Potential Fix: Aegis Reclaimer ALL Variants - PU - Vehicles / UI - Aegis Reclaimer’s filler stations can only produce 1 SCU size boxes (STARC-156599)
- Potential Fix: PU - Missions / UI - NPE - Mission Objectives / HUD - Objectives are not correctly displaying as completed when the player completes them
- Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles - Salvage / Hull Scraping - Salvage heads are not able to scrape hull from other vehicles
- Potential Fix: PU - Mission Refactor - Missions - Salvage - Completing a subcontract variant of an Intro Salvage Contract will not unlock the Very Easy Contracts
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Supply Or Die - Depots - Locations / Freight Elevators - Commodity can disappear during transfer in the Freight Elevator
Technical
- Fixed 1 Server Crash
@GeneralNews
Spectrum MOTD:
(Waka’s Day) We are currently putting together a new 4.0.2 build for a potential PTU release later today
(Waka’s Day) Tonight’s build was red lit so we are taking this time to resolve the blocking issue and are working to get a new build out onto PTU Thursday
Spectrum MOTD:
(Thor’s Day) We currently have a new 4.0.2 build cooking for a potential PTU publish later this afternoon
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2 9573936 PTU Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Testing/Feedback Focus
- Tonight’s build has further updates to strengthen Transit Carriage reliability
- NPE Mission has been disabled in Area18 in the current build
Features and Gameplay
Core Tech
- Updated Warning/Info popups in menus to building blocks and adjusted styling, coded colors, and error code wording
Bug Fixes
- Potential Fix: PU - MultiSystem - Starmap / Quantum Travel - Traveling to a marker will cause the ship to make a U-Turn (STARC-105462)
- Potential Fix: PU - Mission Refactor - Missions / ASOP - NPE - Disconnecting during NPE then signing back in after the Pisces Rental has expired will cause the Player to only see blank and black ASOP screens (STARC-146295)
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Area 18 - Astro Armada - Locations / Vehicles - Anvil Hawk missing from display (STARC-157384)
- Potential Fix: PU - Mining - Overcharge Mineable Rocks (even the slightest amount) destroys all mining modules and potentially damaging the ship (STARC-157450)
- Potential Fix: PU - Mission Refactor - NPE - Multiple Locations - Missions / UI / mobiGlas - Mission stops progressing after landing in hangar (STARC-154052)
- Potential Fix: PU - UI - Frontend / Main Menu - Kicked from Party Notification is cut short on the Front-End Notifications list text box (STARC-118873)
- Potential Fix: Crusader C1 Spirit - PU - Vehicles / UI / PIT - There is no UI button on the console to access the remote turret and the buttons on the interaction wheel do not function (STARC-127623)
- Potential Fix: PU - Weapons / Shopping / Shopping Kiosk - The Ripper SMG Battery is not available at any shops
- Potential Fix: PU - Firesale / Yard Rush - Missions - Event mission payout amounts displayed to not match expected values
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Frontier Outposts - Locations / Design / UI - Shopping Kiosks do not accurately display the true cost of items on display (changed currency to show full value with comma separators)
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Firesale / Yard Rush - Locations / Collision - Players can exit the interior PhysGrid and fall through the planets surface by mantling through the wall
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Rundown station (R&R) - Orbituary - Locations / AI - No AI is spawned in the Cargo desk and Ship Dealer
@GeneralNews
Spectrum MOTD:
(Friday) We currently have a 4.0.2 build cooking for a potential PTU release later today with a 1 hour Area18 stress test for transit as soon as we go out
For the weekend, we are looking to get more mission completions for the Supply or Die event. If you are able to, run through the missions and we will be looking through all the data on Sunday!
4.0.2 PTU info - SC-Testing-Chat - Wakapedia-CIG:
- We have some further changes to transit going into today’s PTU build for more self healing carriages and code cleanup. For the 1st hour after the build goes out (no eta) we are looking to run another stress test in Area18 for transit and hangar flow to gather extra logging put into the build.
- 3 more ships should be making their way into the PU ship shops in today’s PTU build, one of them will be at Area18
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2 PTU 9576843 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Testing/Feedback Focus
- Tonight’s build has further updates to transit self-healing and code cleanup as well as more focused logging to narrow down some final issues encountered.
- Further work has gone into the build to help with long load times as well. We suspect there is more to go but are working to reduce these.
Features and Gameplay
Ships and Vehicles
- New Ships Added to PU Ship Shops: Zeus CL and ES (NewDeal Lorville), Misc Starlancer (NewDeal Lorville and AstroArmada Area18)
Core Tech
- Updated Loading Screens
Bug Fixes
- Potential Fix: Stanton / Pyro - Medical Rescue / Service Beacons - Missions - Players will not pay out or be rewarded any UEC for completing Medical Rescue Service Beacon Contracts (This may also be causing lots of medical beacons to stick on the contract manager)
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Firesale - Watcher’s Depot - Missions / mobiGlas / Locations - Watcher’s Depot location is missing from Terminus and the Starmap
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton/Pyro - Scanning UI - Ships / Vehicles / UI / Mining - Mineables are Labelled John Doe
Technical
- Fixed a Client Crash
@GeneralNews
Spectrum MOTD:
**(Monday) We are currently cooking a new 4.0.2 PTU for a potential PTU publish later today. **
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2 PTU 9580815 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Testing/Feedback Focus
- Tutorial Missions have been disabled for 4.0.2. For tonight’s build, you may see a black background on the menu screen.
- We have finalized fixes for the largest causes of long load times into the PTU, especially into certain Pyro locations.
Features and Gameplay
Ships and Vehicles
- Re-added Misc Starlancer Max (NewDeal Lorville and AstroArmada Area18)
- MIRAI Guardian QI: Insurance Claim Timer and Cost adjustments (12 minutes base - 6180 aUEC 3 minutes expidited)
Bug Fixes
- Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Fuel - Fuel is not updated properly to the ships fuel tank when crossing DGSmesh (Server authority) (STARC-137758)
- Potential Fix: PU - Locations / Transit - Queuing an instanced hangar and another location, the elevator carriage never reaches the destination and blocks Gateway [0] (STARC-157256)
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Mission Refactor - AI / Missions / Mission Feature - Enemy AI do not spawn upon arriving at the location (STARC-148377)
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - ASOP / Locations - Personal Hangar - Retrieving a ship results in “We are unable to deal with your request at this time” but does not timeout fail (STARC-140959)
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Derelict Settlements - Locations / AI - Social AI - NPCs can walk into the fire pit causing them to take damage and sometimes die (tweaks to hazard volume sizes and navigation exclusion zones)
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Firesale - Depots - Locations / Freight Elevators - Commodity can disappear during transfer in the Freight Elevator
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Firesale - Depots - Prospect Depot Locations / Shopping - One of the commodity shop terminals is not working
- Potential Fix: The Gladius is constantly playing the “ship pass-by” audio when viewed from a third party
Technical
- Fixed a Client Crash
- Fixed a Hybrid-Service Crash
@GeneralNews
Spectrum MOTD:
(Tuesday) We are currently building a new 4.0.2 build for a potential PTU release later today. This is a LIVE RC for later this week.
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2 PTU 9584587 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Testing/Feedback Focus
- Medical Beacons have been disabled while Tutorial Missions have been re-enabled for 4.0.2
- We have finalized fixes for the largest causes of long load times into the PTU, especially into certain Pyro locations.
Bug Fixes
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - ArcCorp - Area18 - Empire Medical Services Hospital - Locations / Graphics / Art / Visarea - Visarea issue when entering Area18 Hospital (STARC-118821)
- Potential Fix: ASOP / Ship / Cargo - Upon the Ship auto storing through leaving game or leaving hangar; on initial retrieval the Cargo disappears and Cargo Grid is locked from being used
- Potential Fix: Quantum Travel Update fails to start after ship storage or client crash
- Potential Fix: Front End - Art - Animated background missing from main menu
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Missions - NPE / Tutorial - Your First Flight does not Complete after the last objective (Check Journal) is cleared
- Potential Fix: Critical: PU - Missions / UI - NPE - The Mission markers are missing from the Tutorial Missions and blocking progression
@GeneralNews
Spectrum MOTD:
(Wednesday) We are currently working on a 4.0.2 RC2 Build for potential release onto PTU later today
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2 PTU 9587261 RC2 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Testing/Feedback Focus
- New Player Experience will be enabled in Lorville and New Babbage for 4.0.2
- Further Transit code cleanup has gone into tonight’s build to help reduce further issues
Bug Fixes
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Instanced Hangars - Ships / Vehicles / Game Code / Locations - Instanced/Staging Hangars are not Force Storing/Closing correctly when the Player Leaves via Elevator
- This fix may also affect other hangar stowing issues that have been occurring such as ships getting stuck in hangar when another is called and ships getting in an unstowed state when disconnecting in various ways while it is in the hangar
- Potential Fix: AI Defense Area is breaking and causing issues with AI attacking during the Destroy Supply Lines Event Mission
@GeneralNews
Spectrum MOTD:
(Thursday) We are currently putting together a new 4.0.2 RC3 build for a potential PTU release this afternoon
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2 PTU RC3 9589006 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Testing/Feedback Focus
- Tonight’s build has further updates to transit self healing code to help reduce further issues with transit getting stuck and not responding.
- 4.0.2 has many exploit fixes as well that have been included. Due to the nature of these, we don’t mention which are fixed.
Technical
- Fixed a Client Crash