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(Evocati NDA) Star Citizen Alpha Engineering Tech-Preview Playtest
Audience: Evocati (NDA)
Channel: TECH-PREVIEW
Build: 10553279
Testing Focus
- Engineering Gameplay Systems
- Power Management
- Heat and Life Support Systems
- Fire and Relay Mechanics
- Component Damage and Repair
Known Issues
- Avoid salvage ships for this test as their components are having issues in this build
- We are expecting some more than normal amount of Client crashes in arena commander
- Multi-System - PU - Jump Point - Art / Lighting / Locations - A Momentary White Flash appears when nearly ending a Quantum Jump
- TECH-PREVIEW - PU - Stanton - ArcCorp - Locations - Art / Graphics - ArcCorp is missing its texture assets and is pink in color
Features & Gameplay
- Ships
- Power Management of items
- Through Engineering screen
- Through MFD
- Engineering Screen is active
- Room overview
- Notifications for failure
- Power management
- Creating presets
- Component turn on and off control
- Diagnostic Screen MFD
- Overview of all components
- One time repair through button click for completely broken items (to allow single seaters a one time off repair)
- Critical state and health overview of all components
- On and off control of all components
- Heat management of items
- Items that are powered will produce heat that needs countering of coolers
- Overheated components will shut off to cool down again
- Life Support Management
- Life Support will manage breathable atmosphere and temperature of rooms
- Not yet affected by players breathing
- Affected by fire
- Affected by venting the ship
- Fire on ships
- Fire can spread
- Fire can be triggered through overheated components: Fire can get triggered through damaging of components
- Shooting components with energy or ballistic weapons
- Fire can get extinguished (Venting of rooms or Fire extinguisher)
- INFO: Right now temperature needs to be brought down to prevent reignition
- Relays connect items throughout the ships
- Relay function changed and is not in yet
- GOAL: Fully intact relays allow the full power throughput, that means each fuse that gets destroyed will reduce the total power available in the ship
- CHANGE: Relays are not the hard weakpoint anymore, where if you lose all fuses you render that part of the ship dead
- Component damage
- Ship weapons will penetrate the hull and damage the components below
- Component death will result in component not being functional but it can be repaired
- Power Plant can go into a critical state that will make the ship explode
- INFO: Cannot be countered yet but is supposed to get countered through repair or removing the powerplant if possible
- INFO: Armour of ships is not yet in (did not make it in time)
- Weapon balancing
- Updated weapon balancing to account for penetration and new damage
- Ship component balancing
- Full new balancing for components
- Heat generation (new)
- Update of health
- Damage resistances
- FPS
- Repair gun now repairs components (Repair rate updates RMC consumption update)
- Fire Extinguisher cools down and extinguishes fire
- Power Management of items
(Waka’s Day) We are currently working through getting 4.4 ready for Evocati testing later this week.
Tech preview has closed
(Thor’s Day) We are currently still working on 4.4 with the goal of getting a build ready by the weekend for Evocati. We are also working on further LIVE hotfixes with the intent on putting those out as soon as they are ready.
(Frjádagr) We are currently putting together a new 4.4.0 build for a possible Evocati PTU release tonight. We are also working on a new 4.3.2 client/dgs hotfix for later this evening
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Contested Zones - Lootables / Interaction / Locations - Orange Armor Loot Boxes Aren’t Interactable
- Potential Fix: PU - Locations - Cargo / UI / Vehicles - Commodities Kiosk - Purchasing cargo directly to a stored vehicle is not possible as you cannot select an amount for the selected commodity
- Potential Fix: PU - Missions / mobiGlas / UI - Collector - Wikelo Emporium - The “Trade Merc Scrip for Favors” banner is giving Players the “Trade Council Scrip for Favors” mission
- Potential Fix: PU - Onyx Facility - Missions / mobiGlas / UI - “Retrieve Seismic Data” mission not completing despite all objectives being completed
- Potential Fix: ARGO Mole / ROC DS - PU - Vehicles / Mining / UI - Mining UI and scanning HUD are not working when targeting a mineable from the mining turrets
- Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles/ PDC - PDCs are not firing not targeting missiles or ships
- Potential Fix: ANVL Paladin - PU - Vehicles - Paladin body damage transfers to cockpit in the target status hologram
- Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles - Vehicle MedBeds medgel interaction ports absent
- Potential Fix: Anvil Paladin - PU - Vehicles / Art - The players idle animation is incorrect when sitting in the habitation bench seats
- Potential Fix: Multi-Item - PU - LTP - Core Tech - Medals do not persist between patches
- Potential Fix: PU - Missions - Hauling - Some Hauling missions are giving extra mission cargo
- Potential Fix: PU - Armor - UI / Inventory - Narrative - ORC-mkX Core Armor series mislabeled as Light Armor in the Item Description on the Inventory UI
- Potential Fix: Anvil Asgard - PU / AC - Vehicles / Turrets - Top missile turret can be easily destroyed (40x increase in turret health)
- Potential Fix: Sol-III Helmet Aviator - PU - Armor / Character - Sol-III Helmet Aviator will remove facial hair when equipped
- Potential Fix: Morozov SH-I Helmet Series - PU - Actor - Armor - Lightning / GFX - The Helmet’s Flashlight is lighting up from the default left temple
- Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Damage / Weapons - No distortion damage in latest patch
- Potential Fix: Anvil Paladin - PU - Vehicles - Right gunner’s seat is missing its right footrest
- Potential Fix: Anvil Paladin - PU - Vehicles - Co-Pilot Missile operator mode does not display correct missile payload number
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Wikelo’s Emporium / The Collector - Mission Content / UI - Multiple missions are missing a required item for mission completion (ATLS, Polaris, armors, and weapons)
- Potential Fix: Greys Market Shiv - PU - Vehicles / VFX - The Shiv’s engines animate as on when the ship is off.
- Potential Fix: Aegis Idris series - PU - VMA - Idris IFR-BC7 Turret fitting can break attaching on VMA leaving the turret empty
- Potential Fix: Drake Corsair - PU - Vehicles / Art - Landing gear bays fail to animate on close
- Potential Fix: RSI Apollo ( All variants ) - Vehicles / Art - Objects get stuck in Apollo Medbay doorway due to invisible collision at edges
- Potential Fix: PU - Salvage - UI / Narrative - Refinery - Construction material scrap rubble and salvage names are cut off when viewing them in the refinery kiosk
- Potential Fix: AEGS Reclaimer - PU - Vehicles - Reclaimer: PDC hardpoints have tokens names in VLM
- Potential Fix: PU - Missions / UI / mobiGlas - Destroy Satellite - Mission name and description are blank in contract manager
- Potential Fix: ORIG 400i - PU - Vehicles / Art - Sofa on habitation floor has a bugged material, missing part of the mesh
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Farro Datacenters - Locations / Design - “No Access” Single door spawn closets open from both sides allowing players to walk into them
Technical
- Fixed 4 Server Crashes
Star Citizen Alpha 4.4.0 PTU 10591300 Patch Notes
Audience: Evocati Only (Standard Evo NDA)
Mesh Configuration: 6:2:2:600
Features & Gameplay
- New Star System: Nyx
- Implementing the Nyx star system into the persistent universe. In tonight’s build, Nyx will include Delamar, Levski, and New Jump Points, but not the three planets Nyx I, Nyx II, and Nyx III.
- For this initial test, we are expecting Cross-System hauling and Exterior Freight Elevators to partially function but we are not collecting feedback on this just yet.
Ships and Vehicles
- PDT changes
- PDT’s guns alpha damage has been reduced by 50%, resulting in an overall DPS decrease.
- PDTs mass has been lowered, as their previous weight was considered too high.
- Missile/Torpedoes changes
- Missile health has been reduced by the same percentage as the PDT alpha damage reduction (approximately 50%).
- Torpedoes health has also been reduced, though to a lesser extent, around 33% less HP overall.
- Additional Ship Updates
- Anvil F8C Lightning: Buffed Forward Gs and Roll angular speed
- Slight adjustments to angular acceleration to the Anvil Hawk, Anvil Arrow, and Esperia Scythe
- Slight Medium Interceptor tuning improvements for flight performance (Saber Raven/Firebird, Buccaneer, herald, Mantis)
Bug Fixes
- Potential Fix: PU - Error - Error 41013 - Error 41013 can appear upon logging in/loading screen into PU after restarting/closing the game
- Potential Fix: PU - Commodity Trade / Economy / Locations - Commodities cannot be sold at TDD locations
- Potential Fix: PU - Onyx Facility - Level Design - Keycode door in security room doesn’t work - code is not accepted
- Potential Fix: PU - Cargo / Commodities / Vehicles / Cargo ATC - ATC fails to detect vehicles within the loading zone or fails to initiate cargo transfers IF THE VEHICLE IS NOT PARALLEL WITH THE CARGO TRANSFER BOX
- Potential Fix: Pu - Vehicles - Medical - Ursa Medivac medical screen does not deploy upon bed utilization.
(Mánadagr) We are currently putting together a new 4.4.0 build for an Evocati publish later today. We are also testing a new Tech-Preview build for a potential Evocati engineering test tomorrow
(Evocati PTU NDA) Star Citizen Alpha 4.4 PTU 10607776 Patch Notes
Audience: Evocati Only (Standard ETF NDA)
Server Info: PTU Channel - US Only
Build: 4.4.0-PTU.10607776
Mesh Configuration: 6:2:2:600
Starting aUEC: 15,000,000
Long Term Persistence: Enabled
Testing/Feedback Focus
- Stability & Bugfixes
- Nyx / Levski / Delamar
- Cross System Hauling
Known Issues
- PU - Nyx - Jump Point Stations - Locations / Art / Design / Hangar - Instanced hangars are staying closed when requested
- PU - Nyx - Levski - Locations / ASOP Terminal / Fleet Manager - Vehicles are in claim state upon retrieving
- PU - Nyx - Delamar - Levski - Locations - UI / Quantum Travel - Vehicles - mobiGlas / Starmap - Levski Quantum Travel marker is not present and can’t be travelled to
- PU - Multi-System - Locations / Starmap / Quantum Travel - Quantum Markers for Pyro-Nyx Jump Point and nearby Rest Stop Station are not visible
- Stall / Freeze - Client - PU - Multisystem - Locations - Commodity Kiosk / TDD - Client will freeze / stall when accessing Commodity Kiosks
- Multi-Location - PU - Stanton - Locations / Actor Respawning - Players may not respawn at their primary residence after self-destruct or force-respawn
- PU - Nyx - Levski - AI / Location - Social AI are killing each other in Levski
- MISC Hull C - PU - Cargo / Vehicles / Missions - Hull C not loading cargo
- PU - UI / Inventory - Freight Elevator - Kiosk - The Search function of Freight Elevator terminals ignores localized item names
Features & Gameplay
- Ships and Vehicles
- Additional Ship Updates
- Vanguard Hoplite: Reduced Nose HP. Increased Body HP.
- Additional Ship Updates
Bug Fixes
- Star Citizen Alpha 4.4.0 currently contains nearly 150 bugfixes for issues occurring in 4.3.2, 37 of which originated from the Issue Council.
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Locations / Transit - Levski Hangar Elevator interior panel becomes unresponsive to player input (STARC-184462)
- Potential Fix: MISC Hull C - PU - Cargo / Vehicles / Missions - Hull C not loading cargo (STARC-177335)
- Potential Fix: Nyx - Levski - Network / Locations / Server Error - Player in an elevator was repositioned stuck inside the elevator shaft after server error recovery
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Jump Point Stations - Nyx-Pyro Jump Point - Locations / ATC / Design - Instanced hangars are de-spawning after being requested
- Potential Fix: Multivehicle - Destruction / Damage Behavior - Vehicle body does not break apart on vehicle death
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Jump Point Stations - Locations / Narrative / Starmap - Nyx-Pyro Jump Point station incorrectly called Stanton Gateway in Starmap
- Potential Fix: PU - Locations - Klescher Rehabilitation Facility - Elevators are backwards preventing players from leaving after serving sentence
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Locations / Art / Collision - Invisible boulder blocking entrance to Conscientious Objects shop
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Visarea / Elevator / Locations - Visarea inside elevator of Teach’s
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Delamar - Levski - Locations - Transit System / Elevators - Misplaced elevators on Customs level causing players to fall
- Potential Fix: Multi-System - PU - Locations / Freight Elevator - Nyx Jump Points - Unable to lower Freight Elevator from Freight Manager
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Locations / Art - Exterior landing pads LOD culled too close
- Potential Fix: PU - AI / Dialogue / Facial - Social AI - Vendor audio / face animation desync
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Locations / Elevators / Visarea - Elevator doors to Grand Barter and Refinery have visareas
- Potential Fix: Front End - Main Menu - UI - Primary Residence Selection Button for Nyx labeled as “@UI_PREGAME_NYX_NAME” (STARC-184312)
- Potential Fix: PU/AC - Ships/Vehicle - Weapons - C-788 Combine Cannon does not deal any damage (STARC-106593)
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - ReplaceMe Balls / Art / Locations - ReplaceMe Balls seen in multiple Levski locations
- Potential Fix: RSI Polaris - PU - Vehicles - Polaris main elevator panel is blank
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - New Babbage - Spaceport - Regal Luxury Rentals - Clerks AI missing from shop
Technical
- Fixed 1 Server Crash
(Tysdagr) We are currently putting together a new 4.4 build for a potential Evocati PTU release later today
Star Citizen Alpha 4.4.0 PTU - 10619900
- Audience: Evocati Only (Standard ETF NDA)
- Mesh Configuration: 6:2:2:600
Features & Gameplay
- Locations
- Delamar / Levski: Further Art, lighting, LOD, and performance polish
Bug Fixes
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - AI / Location - Social AI are killing each other in Levski
- Potential Fix: PU - Cargo Hauling / Vehicles - MISC HULL-C ) - Automated cargo loading does not begin, “vehicle must be stationary” message displays regardless of vehicle’s state
- Potential Fix: PU - MISC Hull C - PU - Cargo / Vehicles / Missions - Hull C not loading cargo
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Social AI / Locations - Civilian can be seen walking through the door attempting to escape Cafe Musain backroom
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Art / Locations - Misaligned geometry at some External Freight transit elevators allows player to fall out of bounds
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Art / Locations - ReplaceMe ball at the entrance of External Freight elevators
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Locations / Visual - Teach’s Ship Shop terminal has a misaligned interaction prompt (STARC-184317)
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Transit / Art / Locations - Mercy and Habs elevator carriages offset on arrival
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Jump Point Stations - Locations / Art / Design / Hangar - Instanced hangars are staying closed when requested
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Landing Zone (LZ) - Levski - Locations / Art - Cargo store exterior misaligned causing interior view obstruction and visible exterior gaps
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Locations / Transit System / Art - The Levski Transit Arrival Timers of Level 00, 01, and 02 remains at 00:00 (STARC-184354)
Technical
- Fixed 1 Client Crash
- Fixed 1 Server Crash
(Waka’s Day) We are currently putting together a new 4.4.0 build for a potential Evocati PTU release later today. Current Evocati Engineering Tech-Preview goal is to have a build ready by Thursday with the possibility of a test on Thursday or Friday.
[Evocati PTU NDA] Star Citizen Alpha 4.4 PTU 10629355 Patch Notes
Audience: Evocati Only (Standard ETF NDA)
Mesh Configuration: 6:2:2:600
Features & Gameplay
- Locations
- Levski: Interior and Exterior LOD, Lighting, Art, and Performance Polish
- Glaciem Ring: Asteroid LOD and Performance Polish
Bug Fixes
- Star Citizen Alpha 4.4.0 currently contains nearly 140 bugfixes for issues occurring in 4.3.2, 33 of which originated from the issue council.
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Delamar - Levski - Locations - UI / Quantum Travel - Vehicles - mobiGlas / Starmap - Levski Quantum Travel marker is not present and cant be travelled to
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Locations - Shopping - Nyx Cordy’s shop does not sell backpacks
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Art / Locations - Misaligned geometry at some External Freight transit elevators allows player to fall out of bounds
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Actor / Asphyxiation / Locations - Actor Asphyxiation occurs in multiple areas
- Potential Fix: Multi-Location - PU - AI / Locations / Vendor (Bar) - Bartender sometimes took 10-15 seconds idle animation before serving the drink to the players and sometimes does not serve (STARC-181978)
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Art / Locations - Hangar Transit elevators are slightly too low down in the hangar
Technical
- Fixed 1 Server Crash
(Thor’s Day) We are currently putting together a new 4.4 PTU build for a possible Evocati publish later today with the potential of Wave 1 a couple hours after if stable
[Evocati PTU NDA] Star Citizen Alpha 4.4 PTU 10633661 Patch Notes
Audience: Evocati Only (Standard ETF NDA) Potential for Wave 1 within a couple hours of release to PTU
Mesh Configuration: 6:2:2:600
Features & Gameplay
- Locations
- Levski & Delamar Polish
- Audio and Music, Lighting, Art, LOD, and Performance Polish. New Levski NPC voice lines. Added windows to hospital viewdeck and fixed view distance into view rooms from outside. Hangar set dressing cleanup.
- Ships and Vehicles
- MaxOx Neutron Cannon Art Refactors
- Updated several MaxOx Neutron Cannons’ art style and geometry: Size 1, 2, and 3.
- Weapons and Items
- New FPS Weapon: Ballistic Missile Launcher “Boomtube”
- Three rockets tapped together in a tube releasing this single deadly payload. This weapon has high spread and an arming distance leaning into its chaotic unpredictable nature of finding the sweet spot distance.
- The Design intent with this weapon is a high power explosive with a singular magazine, finding the sweet spot between being close enough to deal with the weapons inaccuracies but not close enough to trigger a dud (arming distance). Two key notes is that this weapons projectile is slow (135) and performance is heavily dependent on the gravity of the envrioment as lower gravity allows for less projectile drop
- Boomtube Stats
- Weight: Light
- Damage: Around 2.5x more powerful than a charged railgun
- Projectile Velocity: 135
- Aim down Sight Time: 0.4
- Mag size: 1
- Spread: High
Bug Fixes
- Star Citizen Alpha 4.4.0 currently contains nearly 140 bugfixes for issues occurring in 4.3.2, 33 of which originated from the issue council.
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - ASOP Fleet Manager / Locations - Levski ASOPs unable to retrieve ships “We are unable to deal with your request at this time” error
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Locations / Transit - Levski Hangar Elevator interior panel becomes unresponsive to player input
- Potential Fix: PU - Freight Elevator / Cargo - Small entities can clip into the gate and get stuck which can stop the FE flow
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Actor / Asphyxiation / Locations - Actor Asphyxiation occurs in hab areas and barter junction
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Art / Locations - Central Lift UI arrows are facing the opposite direction to direction of travel
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Landing Zone (LZ) - Levski - Locations / Design - Landing Services are not available for docked vehicles
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Levski - Social AI / Locations - Civilian in VIP area of Cafe Musain can be found standing on table
- Potential Fix: PU - Nyx - Landing Zone (LZ) - Levski - Locations / UI - The Quantum Travel marker is offset from the actual position of the location (Levski arrival radius set to 60km)
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - ASD Facility - Missions / mobiGlas / UI - Hauling - Contract Destination in the “Description” and “Primary Objectives” changes after Accepting (STARC-176196)
We are opening Wave 1 4.4 PTU in a few minutes. Don’t set your spawn point to a JP station or you will have a bad time.
** Wave 1 is now open!**