Star Citizen Alpha Patch 3.24.0

Alpha Patch 3.24.0 has been released to PTU, and is now available to test! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.24.0-PTU.9277884.

Characters in this new environment will be built from LTP data so items such as medpens, ammo, rentals, and refinery jobs will be lost.

Audience: Wave 1 (possible wave 2 Saturday morning if fixes work)

Server Info: PTU Channel – US/EU

Long Term Persistence: Enabled

Replication Layer: Enabled

Server Recovery: Enabled

Starting aUEC: 15,000,000

Testing/Feedback Focus

Persistent Personal & Instanced Hangars Freight Elevators Storage Access Hangar Decorations Cargo Hauling Missions

Blockade Runner Global Event

Known Issues

PU – Stanton – Orison – Locations / Shopping – Physical Shopping – Quick buying items on display at the Orison Vision Center ends in transaction error about invalid Player Inventory PU – Missions / UI / Reputation – Affinity appears to decrease after successful mission (UI Issue and reputation is still increasing) – 100% Repro PU – UI – Kiosks / Terminals – Global Chat – Pressing Enter when interacting with any terminal opens the Global Chat causing player to lose game interaction – 100% Repro PU – Stanton – GrimHEX – Locations – Transit – Hangar Elevators – Hangar Instance elevators can be called and arrive at the current floor but the doors do not open – 100% Repro PU – Personal Hangars – Locations – Personal Hangars do not open when contacting ATC to take off or land at a destination (High Chance) PU – Stanton – ASOP / Locations – Retrieving a Hull C at locations without a docking port will display ‘unable to handle your request at this time’ PU – Stanton – Security Post Kareah – Locations / AI – AI are missing inside of Kareah, only outside Guard AI spawn PU – FOIP / VOIP – Audio – Players cannot hear other players through any audio channel Turrets can get stuck firing nowhere near their target PU – Stanton – Multiple Locations – Transit / Network – Transit will intermittently desync off course PU – Hostility not being wiped by QT PU – Derelict settlements – Locations / AI / Spawn Closets – AI do not move after spawning PU – HUD – Vehicle – Ship warning/alert text is very small and can be difficult to read PU – Multivehicle – Quantum Travel / mobiGlas / Starmap – Unable to use plotted route to planetside location while in planet orbit PU – Missions / AI – Repel Raid on Orison – Combat AI are not spawning and automatically is failed Multivehicle – Vehicles – G-force induced head movement is excessive PU – Actor / UI / Locations – Area18 / MobiGlas / Map – Various parts of Area18 Central can’t be routed to via mobiGlas Map based on player location

Features & Gameplay

Gameplay

Updated Rank on certain Hauling Missions to improve progression

Ships and Vehicles

Updated Aurora series cargo physics proxies to help manual loading of cargo

Bug Fixes

Fixed – PU – Stanton – ATC/Hangars – ATC gateway queue appears to get slowed down and causes hangars to not open with higher traffic (STARC-120837) Fixed – PU – Transit/Elevators – Elevators are present but panel buttons stop functioning (STARC-121322) Fixed – PU – Freight Manager – Hauling Missions – UI / Locations / Missions – Extra Mission Cargo icons show in the Freight Manager Kiosk (STARC-119867) Fixed – PU – Network / Actor / Locations – Local area is temporarily missing atmosphere after Server Recovery causing the player to take varied amounts of damage (STARC-104335) Fixed – PU – Stanton – Personal Hangar – Freight Elevator / Cargo / Kiosk – Players will receive “Internal Error” prompt when attempting to transfer items/cargo to warehouse from the freight elevator (BUG-177957) Fixed – PU – New Babbage – Personal Hanger – ASOP/Vehicles – After retrieving a ground vehicle via ASOP all ASOPs will send ground vehicle to garage and breaks hangar if location isn’t the player’s Primary Residency (BUG-183149) 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 – UI – Inventory – Item Previews in the Inventory Interface are larger than intended (STARC-104826) Fixed – PU – Openable Cargo – Stor-All Containers can be placed from Storage Access kiosks (STARC-118516) Fixed – PU – Personal Hangar – Leaving to Menu with a ship on pad does not stow personal hangar for next shard joined (STARC-120885) Fixed – PU – Locations – ATC – ARC-L5 ATC attempts to assign players a non-instanced, numbered hangar in the old way of assigning hangars (STARC-121020) Fixed – MISC Starfarer Series – ( ALL VARIANTS ) – PU – Vehicles / Balance / Flight – The Starfarer series tuning resembles heavy fighter archetypes instead of a heavy industrial ship (STARC-119251) Fixed – PU – Lorville – Locations – Lorville Perimeter Gates 01 – 06 have misaligned fans (STARC-110971) Fixed – PU – Commodity Kiosk – Autoloading costs are incorrectly calculated at Loreville to be higher than intended Fixed – GLOBAL – Turrets – Manned – AI / Vehicles – AI Manned Vehicle Turrets do not fire Fixed – PU – Hurston – Lorville – Central Business District – Transit / Collision / Locations – All transit station doors at the Central Business District are missing collision and geometry Fixed – Origin Jumpworks 135c – PU – Vehicles/Cargo – 1SCU boxes are extremely difficult to get into the cargo hold if at all Possible Fix – PU – Stanton – Area18 – Locations / Personal Hangar – Crash recovery – Ships / Vehicles / Impound – After a server crash recovery the ship will get impounded, and the actor will teleport under the city of Area18

Technical

Fixed 2 Server Crashes