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[All Backer PTU] Star Citizen Alpha 4.2 PTU 9868328 RC2 Patch Notes

Audience: All Backers

Mesh Configuration: 5:5 - 600 Players

Features & Gameplay

  • Ships and Vehicles
    • Reduced Esperia Prowler Series Cross Section Values by about 50%

Core Tech

  • Further Server Performance Improvements
  • ASD Location Performance, Floating Objects, and LOD Polish

Bug Fixes

  • Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker - Farro Data Center - hostiles are stuck inside Physical Spawn closets modules
  • Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker - Creatures / Server Recovery -The Apex Valakkar corpse will despawn after a server recovery
  • Potential Fix: Prowler Utility - Countermeasures can’t be restocked

Technical

  • Fixed 2 Server Crashes
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:video_game: (Tuesday) We are currently preparing a new 4.2 RC build for a potential PTU release today.

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Star Citizen Alpha 4.2 PTU 9873572 RC3 Patch Notes

Audience: All Backers

Features and Gameplay

Core Tech

  • Server Performance Optimizations
  • AI Performance Optimizations
  • Further Improvements to AI Navigation around doorways and spawn closets

Bug Fixes

  • Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - Locations / Collision - Valakkar Egg at Storm breaker event clips / falls through ground if you fall over (STARC-171204)

Technical

  • Fixed 2 Client Crashes
  • Fixed 1 Server Crash

@General News

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:video_game: (Wednesday) Goals for this week

- We are currently not planning on any further 4.2 PTU builds while we work on preparing the LIVE environment for a release in the coming days

- We are currently preparing a new 4.2.1 build for a potential Evocati Playtest later today/tomorrow

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Star Citizen Alpha 4.2.1 EPTU 9875737 Patch Notes

Audience: Evocati

Mesh Configuration: 5:5 - 600 Players

Features and Gameplay

  • Gameplay
    • Resource Gathering Event

A shocking discovery reveals that imprint technology is failing. An upsetting number of the population are not actually regening, meaning that death might not have been conquered after all. To calm the public, Imperator Addison relaxes restrictions on scientific exploration in a desperate effort to find a solution, leading to some dubious research initiatives cropping up in the universe.

All 4 Corporations are fighting for resources to help win a research contract. Whichever corporation has the highest amount of contributed SCU by the end of the event will be the winner of the contract. These resources can be gathered by any means necessary, the player will only be unable to partake in the mission if having a CS3 or higher.

Player’s will be tasked with different missions to achieve this including:

Resource Gathering - They ask the player to source and gather X resources.
Recover Cargo - Players go to retrieve cargo from a vessel that has broken down/attacked. Or retrieve cargo from a stolen stash.
Support Attacked Ship - Defend a cargo ship from waves of pirates trying to destroy and rob the ship.
Hauling - Retrieve resources that have been processed and are ready to be delivered.
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@General News

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:video_game: (Thursday) We are currently warming the 4.2 LIVE environment with the goal of a zero downtime deployment at 1600 UTC | 1100 CDT

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@General News

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Star Citizen Alpha 4.2 LIVE 9873572 Patch Notes

Audience: LIVE

Mesh Configuration: 5:5:600

This list is the abridged patch notes. For the full thing click here

Features and Gameplay

  • Gameplay
    • New Persistent Sandbox Activity: Storm Breaker
    • New Environmental Hazard: Radiation
    • Wikelo Emporium Exchange Updates
    • Equipment Swapping Hierarchy
  • Locations
    • Stanton Space Station and Landing Zone Exterior Proxy Pass
  • Characters & AI
    • Four New Player Hairstyles
    • New Valakkar Fauna
  • Ships & Vehicles
    • New Vehicles: ARGO ATLS IKTI, GEO IKTI, and IKTI RAD
    • New Vehicle: Esperia Prowler Utility
    • Scanning Mode and Targeting UI Updates
    • Shield Regen Updates
    • Prowler, Idris, and Starlancer Series Updates
    • Missile and Torpedo Balance Updates
    • Ground Vehicle Scanning Adjustments
    • Flight turbulence
    • Sweeping Component Health Updates
    • ATLS Freight Elevator Useage
  • Weapons & Items
    • Volt “Prism” Shotgun
    • New CureLife DeconPen Xtra
    • R97 Shotgun Balance
    • Armor Radiation Resistances

Core Tech

  • Dynamic Rain
  • Harvestables, Flight Blades, and Bomb Rack LTP Additions
  • Various Client, Server, and Networking Performance Optimizations

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed 5 Client Crashes
  • Fixed 8 Server Crashes
  • Fixed a Hybrid-Service Crash
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:video_game: (FrjĂĄdagr) We are currently putting together a new 4.2.1 PTU build for a potential Evocati publish later today with the goal of releasing to Wave 1 later this evening a couple hours after.

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HOTFIX Channel is open with the following fixes:

►Fixes to resolve Target lock randomly unlocking and dropping targets
►We have further fixes in testing for Apex Valakkar animation stalls

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[Evocati PTU] Star Citizen Alpha 4.2.1 PTU 9886217 Patch Notes

Audience: Evocati

Mesh Configuration: 5:5 - 600 Players

Features & Gameplay

  • Gameplay
    • Added ex-collector tinted special weapons as rare loot in the PU
    • Carryables are now thrown instead of dropped when falling due to damage
  • Locations
    • Lazarus Research Facility Location Art, LOD, and Performance Polish
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Bug Fixes

  • Potential Fix: PU - Dynamic Weather - VFX - Frame rate drops will cause the rain to look jittery in third person
  • Potential Fix: PU - Location - Docking port entering ship causes black screen that cannot be escaped requires closing starcitizen entirely (STARC-166324)
  • Potential Fix: Executive Hangars have cards stuck inside (STARC-168927)
  • Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Resource Gathering - Support Attacked Ship - Mission Content - SCU score isn’t awarded upon mission completion (STARC-172293)
  • Potential Fix: Stanton - Crusader - Security Post Kareah - Core Tech - Physics - Actor / Player - Transitioning from EVA onto Kareah’s landing pads has a high chance of instantly killing the player (STARC-67072)
  • Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker / Collector / Creatures / Mining - Irradiated Apex - Some Apex Valakkar limpets will vanish when they are successfully fractured (STARC-170609)
  • Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Hurston - Lorville - New Deal - Locations - Physical Shopping - The C.O. Mustang Beta on display has raw text “<-=PLACEHOLDER=->” for the Ship purchase description when attempting to purchase
  • Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - New Babbage - Performance / Locations - Severe performance issue when loading into a Personal Hangar at New Babbage causing framerate to drop between 0.0 and 0.2
  • Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Locations - Rest Stops - ASOP Kiosk / UI / ATC - ASOP terminals are stuck on the loading animation with trace error “NO LINK TO ATC - Verify and export OC” / “Stand by, accessing list of available vehicles” (STARC-171390)
  • Potential Fix: Multiitem - PU - Vehicle / Turret / MFD - Idris gimbals are empty and weapons/missiles are unable to be equipped to them
  • Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Radar / Scanning - Targeted vehicles can be scanned when outside of the scan range
  • Potential Fix: PU - Transit / Locations - Art / Graphics - Area18 - Transit carriages have severe visarea and lighting issues when used
  • Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker / Collector / Creatures / Mining - Irradiated Apex - Some Apex Valakkar limpets will vanish when they are successfully fractured (STARC-170609)
  • Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Ships / Personal Hangars - Ships Delivered in Personal Hangars are not Properly Positioned and can be damaged (STARC-118610)
  • Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - Locations / AI - Juvenile and Adult Valakkar can remain unresponsive with no collision and cannot be killed during Apex fight at the Research facility
  • Potential Fix: PU - Core Tech / Game Code - Entity Recovery - Player actors can end up in a recovery loop when falling through Freight Elevators that are on planetary surfaces
  • Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Target lock - target lock is unlocked at random radar for targets is dropped (STARC-167879)
  • Potential Fix: PU - Instance hangars - Law - Hangar Trespassing is NOT relocating players who are trespassing in someone elses hangar (STARC-147077)
  • Potential Fix: PU - Cargo / UI / Mounts - Freight Elevator - Freight Manager UI doesn’t provide enough context on why un-owned ATLS suits are obstructing the elevator
  • Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Resource Gathering - Mission Content / Priority - mobiGlas - Accepted Mission by Another Player Disappears and Reappear after 2 minutes
  • Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Radiation / UI - Radiation widgets stay present on HUD after you take a suit off

Technical

  • Fixed 6 Client Crashes
  • Fixed 7 Server Crash
  • Fixed a Server Deadlock
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This build will be up for around 1-2 hours to check viability before opening up to Wave 1

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Wave 1 at the top of the hour

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:video_game: (MĂĄnadagr) We are currently not planning on a new 4.2.1 PTU build today as we progress with further content updates we are planning to add as soon as Tuesday along with starting to open up to all waves by end of week.

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:video_game: (Tysdagr) We are currently putting together a new 4.2.1 PTU build with the potential to publish to Wave 2 later today.

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Disabling ground flight turbulence for 4.2.1

Reduced BEHR Ballistic Gatling S7 Bullet Spread

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[Wave 2 PTU] Star Citizen Alpha 4.2.1 9893855 PTU Patch Notes

Audience: Wave 2

Mesh Configuration: 5:5 - 600 Players

Features & Gameplay

  • Gameplay
    • Resource Gathering Polish: Cargo Amount Polish to be more in-line with expectations of size. Payout and Economy Balance
    • Moderate Increase to Carrying Capacity for All Backpacks

Ships and Vehicles

  • Disabling ground flight turbulence for 4.2.1
  • Cycle Friendlies now only cycles non-hostiles
  • ATLS IKTI gun Muzzle projectile Visual Improvement
  • Enabled Countermeasures in Esperia Prowler Variant copilot seats
  • Reduced BEHR Ballistic Gatling S7 Bullet Spread
  • Increased Talon self destruct to 30s so you have time to escape before explosion

Bug Fixes

  • Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Resource Gathering - Recover Cargo - Mission Content / UI / mobiGlas - Large Recover Cargo mission objective states the incorrect number of SCU required for mission completion
  • Potential Fix PU - Resource Gathering - Crusader Industries - Missions / mobiGlas / UI - “RESOURCE DRIVE: URGENT MATERIALS NEEDED” contract shows “surface of Waka” in the Details section (STARC-172281)
  • Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Resource Gathering - Missions - There is a chance for the mission to not progress after arriving at the go to location (STARC-172300)
  • Potential Fix: PU - Creatures - Valakkar - Irradiated Apex - The limpets on the Apex Irradiated Valakkar cannot be mined using a mining multi-tool
  • Potential Fix: PU - Locations / Cargo - Freight Kiosk / Freight Elevator - Freight Manager gets stuck on Loading Contents after exiting the kiosk UI while the platform is descending (STARC-162498)
  • Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Rundown Stations - Shopping / Selling - Cargo Deck - Shopping display items are missing from the hangers and mannequin
  • Potential Fix: PU - Locations - Shopping - Pembroke and Novikov suits are not available to buy in Refinery Shops (STARC-147008)
  • Potential Fix: PU - Grim HEX - Locations / Shopping / Armor - Defiance Armor is not displayed on mannequin and not available in Shop Kiosk (STARC-152109)
  • Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - AI - Apex Valakkar can lock into an animation and stop moving
  • Potential Fix: Esperia Prowler ( All variants ) - PU - Vehicles - Prowler variants MFD HUD Buttons Are Duplicated in co-pilot seat. This behavior is not observed in pilot seat.
  • Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker - Creatures / Server Recovery - The Apex Valakkar molehill will not despawn at the end of the fight if a server error occurs during
  • Potential Fix: PU - Missions - Resource Gathering / Resource Drive - Recovered cargo from the mission doesn’t recognized as “Contract Orders” at the Freight Elevator (STARC-172660)
  • Potential Fix: Resource Gathering - mobiGlas / UI - “The Fundamentals of Mining” journal entry does not exist (STARC-172494)

Technical

  • Fixed 2 Client Crashes
  • Fixed 3 Server Crash
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:video_game: (Waka’s Day) We are currently not planning on a new 4.2.1 PTU release today with the goal of working on further LIVE hotfixes to roll out Thursday morning during a potential LIVE maintenance.