Spectrum MOTD:
(Thursday) Build has been taken down due to instability, investigations ongoing but likely no new build until Friday
Spectrum MOTD:
(Friday) Weâve identified the causes of the crash from last night and are currently putting together a new 3.24 build for release to the PTU later today with the intention of opening to further waves throughout the weekend
Wakapedia-CIG:
Potential for much more than wave 3 but we have to wait to see how the build is tonight
Iâm probably going to combine last nightâs notes into what we have for today since we only had the build up for such a short time
Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9284528 Patch Notes
Audience: Wave 2
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - PU - Cargo Hauling - Mission reputation hits overflow causing reputation to be negative
- Fixed - cause=30007 (STARC-122730)
- Fixed - PU - Cargo / Hull-C - When stationary in the cargo transfer area the cargo transfer does not happen (STARC-95643)
- Fixed - PU - Personal Hangar - Leaving to Menu with a ship on pad does not stow personal hangar for next shard joined (STARC-120885)
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / UI / HUD - Quantum Travel / Bed - Player can see Quantum Travel mode UI when lying down in bed after exiting the pilot seat (STARC-109016)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Cargo Hauling - Missions / Freight Elevator - Intro mission name is cut off in the freight elevator
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Mission Content / Cargo / Game Code - Only one objective is able to be completed at a time (STARC-121508)
- Fixed - PU - Cargo / Hull-C - When stationary in the cargo transfer area the cargo transfer does not happen (STARC-95643)
- Fixed - PU - Physics / Locations - Instanced Hangars - When players leave their hangar through an approved gateway, the server may not recognize they have transitioned from their hangar zone, causing global loss of physics and interior zones (STARC-120365)
- Fixed - PU - Locations - Personal Hangars - Unable to retrieve any ships at the location after retrieving a previously impounded ship, exiting to menu during retrieval or storing process, or taking elevator to spaceport during retrieval (STARC-93687)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Locations - Klescher Rehabilitation Facility - Mining / Ore Deposit / Kiosk - Attempting to sell gemstones to the Ore Deposit Terminal will return âTransaction Failedâ
- Fixed - PU - Locations - Instanced Hangars / ATC / Fleet Manager - ASOP times out retrieving vehicle following a failed retrieval cycle due to player walking on the descending landing platform during vehicle retrieval
- Fixed - PU - Missions / UI - mobiGlas - Contract Manager - Title headers when selecting a contract can be cut off/incomplete when selecting a contract for the first time after opening your mobiGlas
- Fixed issue with mission cargo not being recognized as mission related after a client crash/recover
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Area18 - Locations / Hangar Instances - Missions / Service Beacon - Medical / Respawn / Actor - Players can complete the Medical Rescue Beacon when injecting dead playerâs body with a MedPen or ParaMed gun before it despawns
Technical
- Fixed 2 Client Crashes
- Fixed 12 Server Crashes
Wakapedia-CIG:
We will monitor the build for a short while tonight and if all is well, we plan on opening to all waves tonight. Notes were combined with the previous release
sc-testing-chat announcement:
Hold tight on the PTU. Weâre working on deploying a shelf onto the PTU that should help with the crash that is looping them. Will take us just a bit of time
Spectrum MOTD:
(Monday) We are currently getting a new 3.24 build together for a PTU release later today. We have worked on resolving many issues with Blockade Runner and plan on running the global event on the PTU tonight if all goes well
Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9286717 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Testing/Feedback Focus
Blockade Runner Global Event (Running in Playtest Increments tonight after the build releases)
Features and Gameplay
Locations
- Removed 32 SCU Containers as Cargo Container Option from Outposts
Gameplay
- Tractor Beam Balance
- Multi-tool tractor beam has been restricted further to cargo masses less than 24 SCU. Rotation force on dedicated tractor beam has been increased for better rotation control.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - PU - Missions / Vehicles / UI / Cargo - âUnclaimed Cargo Awaiting Transferâ is displayed despite already loading all of the cargo (STARC-119726)
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles - When docking or retrieving a ship to a docking port at a station, the docking arm will not extend (STARC-86292)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Rest Stop (R&R) - Locations / ATC - CRU L5 Beautiful Glen Station ATC is missing (STARC-120450)
- Fixed - PU - Locations - Personal Hangars / Medical Hangars / Art - Medical elevator panels inside hangars are missing geometry
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Cargo Hauling - Mission Content / Game code - Moving cargo from the warehouse to elevator and back in the freight manager cause the cargo to be lost
Technical
- Fixed 2 Server Crashes
- Fixed a Hybrid Service Crash
Spectrum MOTD:
** (Tuesday) We currently have a new 3.24 build cooking for a possible PTU publish later today**
Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9288138 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Testing/Feedback Focus
- Blockade Runner Global Event
- Blockade Runner will start tonight shortly after build release with reduced mission requirements.
Features and Gameplay
Weapons and Items
- Increased the Multi-tool Tractor Beam Rotation Force
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - PU - Cargo Hauling - Mission Content / Cargo - 32SCU metals boxes cannot be detached from the cargo grid (STARC-123428)
- Fixed - PU - Transit - Crash recovery - After a server crash recovery the elevator will despawn causing the actor to fall through station/LZâs (STARC-119874)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Armor - Aril Greycat Backpack series - Aril Backpack does not properly appear on playerâs back when equipped (STARC-103029)
- Fixed - PU - Missions / UI - Blockade Runner - White expired Zeta Prolanide Containers have placeholder label (STARC-122856)
- Fixed - PU - Missions / AI - Boarding Action in Progress - Friendly FPS AI on board cause the hostile AI ships to attack the 890J (STARC-113942)
- Fixed - PU - Missions / Vehicles / UI / Cargo - âUnclaimed Cargo Awaiting Transferâ is displayed despite already loading all of the cargo (STARC-119726)
- Fixed - PU - Freight Elevators - UI - Items behind warehouse filter menu bar can cause tooltips to persist on screen and stop updating (STARC-123061)
- Fixed - PU - UI - Commodity Kiosk - The cost per SCU/UNIT value above the Box size selection is bugged and incorrect: Warehouse flow only
- Fixed - PU - Personal Hangar (home location only) - Leaving to Menu with a ship on pad does not stow personal hangar for next shard joined (non home locations may still break)
Technical
- Fixed 1 Client Crash
- Fixed 4 Server Crashes
- Made further updates to help with unintended excessively high entity counts around the PU
Wakapedia-CIG:
Special callout for todayâs build! We have a longstanding bug that we have been looking into for a while that we feel like has a very good fix in for in tonightâs build.
Fixing - PU - Locations - LaGrange Points - Ships can explode from collision with invisible asteroids (STARC-22985)
This fix is for invisible rocks and asteroids. We are quite confident this fix fully stops this issue but please let us know in the notes thread if they still occur after our patch drops on PTU later today!
Spectrum MOTD:
(Wednesday) We are currently putting together a new 3.24 build for release onto the PTU later today
Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9290875 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Features and Gameplay
Ships and Vehicles
- Added many new Cargo Hauling Rentals to all Rental Shops (except Vulture for now)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Planetary Rocks and Asteroids becoming invisible and causing player collision and explosions (STARC-22985)
- Fixed - PU - Personal Hangar/ATC - When an instanced hangar is assigned an exit door, the external door does not open properly (BUG-179699)
- Fixed - PU - Personal Hangar - Leaving to Menu with a ship on pad does not stow personal hangar for next shard joined (STARC-120885)
- Fixed - Stanton - Players are observing extremely high entity counts across Stanton as well as high memory usage
- Fixed - Ships and Vehicles that are parked anywhere inside of a personal hanger are always stored when the player exits to menu
- Fixed - PU - Missions / Hauling / Cargo - Mission offerings below rank 4 of hauling career can force players to accept boxes 16 SCU and up, blocking early freight ships from completion
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Locations / Hangar - VMA - Vehicle cannot use the repair, restock and refuel services in hangar until it has left and landed again
- Fixed - PU - Location / Freight Manager - Freight Manager kiosks can become stuck with âLoading Contentsâ or âTransfer Completedâ popup
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Cargo Hauling - Mission Content / Game code - Moving cargo from the warehouse to elevator and back in the freight manager cause the cargo to be lost
- Fixed Kopion Horn sell prices being lower than intended
Technical
- Fixed 4 Client Crashes
- Fixed 4 Server Crashes
- Fixed a Hybrid Service Crash
- Fixed a Client Crash Related to Intel 13/14th gen CPUs
Spectrum MOTD:
** (Thursday) We are currently putting together a new 3.24 PTU build for release later today with many new high entity count fixes, fixes to medical gurney physic spams, and ground vehicle gravity adjustments.**
Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9292402 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Features and Gameplay
Locations
- Added final polish rental hauling ships to Cargo Decks, New Babbage, and Orison
Ships and Vehicles
- Ground Vehicles Physics Improvements Polish to help with movement and tractor beaming
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Locations - Cargo / Freight Elevators - The freight elevators at scrapyards have no cargo grid (STARC-124005)
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles/inventory - External Vehicle storage can be removed and carried by players (STARC-122625)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Minimap - Locations - Other playerâs personal hangars show up on the mini-map and may overlap (STARC-119256)
- Fixed - Drake Interplanetary Vulture - PU - Vehicles / ladder - The Drake Vulture external ladder causes actor to climb 90 degrees to the left mid air and then fall (STARC-112803)
- Fixed - PU - Performance - Medical Gurneys clipping under floor in Instanced Hangars (Also should stop the physics log spam)
- Fixed - Stanton - Ships / Vehicles / Hangars - Ships will sometimes clip through the ship elevator when being called up
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles - When a ship is docked and a player logs out the docking collar stops working for docking on subsequent docking attempts
Technical
In this build weâve made further updates to reduce âpersonal hangars leakingâ and spamming entities throughout the rest of the PU. This should help greatly reduce large amounts of entities and help with performance.
- Fixed 1 Client Crash
- Fixed 3 Server Crashes
Spectrum MOTD:
** (Friday) We are currently putting together a new 3.24 build for release onto the PTU later today**
Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.0 PTU.9293935 Patch Notes
Audience: All Backers
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - Tractor Beam - UI not updating whether the targeted box can be lifted or not until firing beam
- Fixed - PU - Cargo / Missions - Cargo Hauling - Hauling Containers placed next to Hangar pad will disappear when a ship is retrieved (STARC-122318)
- Fixed - PU - Cargo Hauling - Mission reputation hits UINT_MAX overflow causing reputation to be negative (STARC-121699)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - ASOP / Fleet Manager / UI / Personal Hangars - When another player is on the pad in a hangar instanced on top of yours, you canât deliver or retrieve a ship and it reverts you back to the ASOP list
- Fixed - PU - Actor - Inventory- Items drops to floor when trying to combine them in inventory (STARC-118542)
- Fixed - PU - Freight Elevators - Large ships can obstruct nearby freight elevators when landed on pads at outposts (STARC-119181)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - UI - Commodity Kiosk - Total SCU count does not update on commodity kiosk (STARC-119542)
- Fixed - PU - Actor - Inventory- Items drops to floor when trying to combine them in inventory (STARC-118542)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Locations / Cargo - Elevator shows blocked error when attempting to store stolen mission cargo
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Cargo Hauling - Mission Content / Game Code - Returning the cargo after abandoning the mission does not finish the mission
Technical
- Fixed 1 Client Crash
- Fixed a Hybrid Service Crash
Spectrum MOTD:
Weâre currently working on a 2 option hotfix for the issue. It appears to be related to a bugfix from tonightâs build (Fixed - PU - Cargo / Missions - Cargo Hauling - Hauling Containers placed next to Hangar pad will disappear when a ship is retrieved (STARC-122318)) Weâre working on 2 hotfixes to test, 1 that backs out the change, and other that has a chance to resolve it. Once ready weâll push it out to you all but could be a couple hours!