The Vulture can craft fuses now
Wakapedia-CIG
weâve run into 1 new server crash but stability is much better overall and that crash has only happened once. weâre looking at it in about 20 min or so to see then
Wave 2 is now open for PTU! Evocati/Owners will get access to fly the Zeus on PTU starting in just a few minutes (may require restarting the game and recopying account)
(Tysdagr) We are currently putting together a new 3.24.2 build for release to Wave 2 tonight with potential for opening up to further waves if stability improves.
Added onto MOTD: âWe are getting closer to the next TECH-PREVIEW build which could happen as early as Thursday this week!â
Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.2 PTU.9364372 Patch Notes
Audience: Wave 2 (potential for further waves after a after a couple hours monitoring)
Features and Gameplay
Gameplay
- Quantum Travel Polish
- We have made large adjustments to Quantum Travel speeds, accelerations, fuel storage, use, and prices in 3.24.2 that will help balance movement around the PU. Ship fuel tank sizes have been balanced across all ships to adjust for archetype with some getting less fuel and others being able to hold more. Quantum Drives have all been adjusted for fuel use, speed, and acceleration to balance ship travel based on shorter and longer distance archetypes. Cooldown times have not been adjusted.
Ships and Vehicles
- Cannon Max Ammo and Regen Balance Pass
- Modified the default Ship Power distribution to allocate full power to most pools, but less to triangle pools
- Zeus Art, Lighting, and Interactions Polish Pass
- MFD Polish: Added support for multiple pips connected together
- Greatly Increased Ship Turret Health Pools
- Reduced A2/C2 Held Countermeasures
- Added new Textures / Materials to Holographic MFDs
- Improved Prospector Radar Grounding effects
** Weapons and Items**
- Karna Recoil Pass
Bug Fixes
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - ASOP / Locations - Personal Hangar - Retrieving a ship results in âWe are unable to deal with your request at this timeâ and no ship (STARC-121382)
- Fixed - PU - Front End - Friends / Party Feature - Party Leader not able to pull party members into the Persistent Universe
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / VMS - Refuelling Hydrogen takes Playerâs credit without refuelling and will increase cost after purchase (STARC-130302)
- Fixed - Weapons penetrate hull and do multiple instances of damage (STARC-131491)
- Fixed - PU - mobiGlas / UI - Stanton Star will be set as the first stop when setting a route (STARC-131879)
- Fixed - F7A MK2 and an incorrect, extra power plant (STARC-131565)
- Fixed - SRV Towing mode HUD is offset and not facing the pilot (STARC-130267)
- Fixed - PU - UI - Visor & Lens / Graphics - Chat windowâs text becomes blurry in the FPS HUD (STARC-131284)
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles - Vehicle tractor beams will not activate
- Fixed - Drake Corsair - PU/AC - Vehicles/Hotkeys - Corsair wings do not extend with the cycle configuration hotkey but work with the interaction prompt on dash (STARC-130099)
- Fixed - Anvil Carrack - Vehicle / Art / Visarea - There are portal/visarea culling issues entering and leaving the Carrack medical bay (STARC-131523)
- Fixed - Anvil Valkyrie Liberator - Vehicles - The Valkyrie Liberator is missing from the vehicle selection list in the mobiGlas, ASOP / Hangar (STARC-131700)
- Fixed - Drake Interplanetary Caterpillar - Caterpillar Module 1 exterior open/close is not interactable (STARC-119129)
- Fixed - RSI Constellation Series - PU / AC - Vehicles / Weapon Components - Stock Missiles will be loose in the cargo bay when retrieved/accessed (STARC-130042)
- Fixed - Origin 400i - Ships / Vehicles / Art - Elevator - Elevator Panel buttons disappear on upper floor (STARC-130245)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Locations / Art / UI - Crusader - Orison - Green Circle Apartments - August Dunlow Spaceport - Elevator panels have bright blue background and narrowed list/column of buttons (STARC-130850)
- Fixed - MISC Freelancer ALL Variants - PU - Stanton - Vehicles / UI / MFD - Ship does not have annunciators visible in the cockpit.
- Fixed - PU - Commodity Kiosks - Area 18 / Orison - Players are unable to set the amount of RMC to buy, making purchasing impossible
- Fixed missing Constellation Phoenix Emerald Elevator and Cargo Lift
Technical
- Fixed 9 Client Crashes
- Fixed 1 Server Crash
- Fixed 4 Deadlocks
@GeneralNews
(Wakaâs Day) We are currently putting together a new 3.24.2 PTU build for release later today to all backers.
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: 
Not tonight but the next 3.24.2 build after should have a fix in for the fuel prices. They were getting multiplied by some backend resource network systems so getting worked on now to update later this week
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: Fixed - PU - Stanton - UI / Performance - Turret UI names are being shown around Points of interest causing framerate drops
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: The build will go out directly to all backers unless QA finds new blocking crashes in the build. So far so good! Estimating at least another 1.5 hours on build release though.
[All Waves PTU] Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.2 PTU.9366112 Patch Notes
(Significant) Known Issues
- Not tonight but the next 3.24.2 build after should have a fix in for the fuel prices. They were getting multiplied incorrectly by backend resource network systems so getting worked on now to update later this week.
Features & Gameplay
Ships and Vehicles
- Increased Opacity of shield hologram material on Vehicle RTT Self and Target Status MFD visor casts
- Ship MFD/HUD UI Polish Pass
- MFD and Annunciator Audio Polish Pass
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue causing spawn closets in UGFs to not spawn NPC AI
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - UI / Performance - Turret UI names are being shown around Points of interest causing framerate drops (STARC-130999)
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - MFD - Cockpit MFD UI may be larger than the bounds of the screen so that the edges are cropped
- Fixed - Controls - Pilot / Copilot - Vehicle / Multivariant - RSI Zeus ES/CL - Intended seat control hierarchy sometimes not respected between pilot copilot and gunner seats (STARC-131940)
- Fixed - RSI Zeus Mk. II Series - ( ALL VARIANTS ) - PU - Vehicles / Art /GFX - Lighting - Black artifacts/pixelation can be seen around edges and exterior airlock
- Fixed - Roberts Space Industries Zeus ( ALL VARIANTS ) - PU - Vehicles - Zeus Pilot (Center) Chair Canât Exit (STARC-131941)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Locations - Art / Collision - Personal Hangars - The landing lights on the loading platform of Self Land hangars float above the loading gate causing collision issues with vehicles (STARC-130055)
- Fixed - ARGO RAFT - PU - Vehicles - QT - Players can fall out of ships by walking around during quantum travel (STARC-61913)
- Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / UI - MFDs do not display or are misaligned when entering some turrets (STARC-130557)
- Fixed - Anvil Hornet F7C MK I - PU - Vehicles / Components / UI - mobiGlas / VMA - Vehicle Loadout Manager has Empty Configurable Slot (STARC-113993)
- Fixed - PU - Stanton - Graphics / Vehicle MFDs / Ships / UI - Thrusting [ WASD ] and using Boosters [ L-SHIFT ] while inside any type of Avenger ship while the gameâs graphic setting is set to low, will cause MFDs to blackout (STARC-130246)
- Fixed - OMNI AFS Sapphire Armored Flight Suit - PU - Actor - Armor - Weapon item port placement is by the suitâs legs at ankle length (STARC-129852)
- Fixed - Esperia Prowler - PU - Vehicles / GFX / Art - VisArea issues around components near pilot seat
- Fixed - Stanton - Commodity Kiosks / UI - Unable to select specific location inventories while armor is equipped
- Fixed - PU - Locations - Transit / Hangars / Elevators - LEO Hangar elevator stuck on Elevator Called and does not open
- Removed incorrect, extra shield components from the Starfarer
Technical
- Fixed 6 Client Crashes
- Fixed 5 Server Crashes
- Fixed a Server Deadlock
and pushed
(Thorâs Day) We are currently working on a TECH-PREVIEW build for a playtest starting early this afternoon with many updates to RMQ/Meshing. Test will start out at 100 players per mesh and increase as we analyze data!
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: We have lots of UI readability updates coming in the next 3.24.2 build from Zane. Chromatic aberration should respect the setting again on UI elements and stuff and much more for kiosk UIs being stretched. Goal will be tomorrow for all that.
Any performance issues are already being looked into with the LIVE QA team. They can get captures and other data to see if there is anything going on but performance is definitely being looked into
No missions [in the Tech Preview] test today, youâll see more on this once we move to 4.0 evo testing and beyond.
[All Backers TECH-PREVIEW] RMQ Meshing Playtest Round #6
Notable Changes
- Stability improvements including addressing the crash we had seen in the last test that was occurring at high player counts
- We have made changes to the territory distribution algorithm which distributes them amongst the DGSâs in the mesh, this should make for more balanced DGS performance across the mesh
- Additional performance data capture, we have made some changes on how we gather performance data to include more information about what a specific DGS in the mesh has streamed in at the time of a capture, this will help us when turning performance.
- Display info will now show how many players are on a specific DGS with you and connected across the mesh
- Many more behind the scenes changes which may not be noticeable but continue improve performance and stability as well as laying the groundwork for functionality that will arrive later