Star Citizen Alpha 3.19.0 PTU.8472527 Patch Notes

Star Citizen Patch 3.19.0 8472527

Alpha Patch 3.19.0 has been released to the PTU, and is now available to test! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.19.0-PTU.8472527.

It is strongly recommended that players delete their USER and Shader folders for the Public client after patching, particularly if you start encountering any odd character graphical issues or crash on loading. The USER folder can be found (in default installations) at C:\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries\StarCitizen\PTU. The Shader folders can be found here C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Star Citizen.

Audience: All Backers
Database Reset: Yes
Long Term Persistence: Enabled
Pledge Copy: Enabled

Testing Focus

General Stability and Performance
AI FPS Combat Improvements
Lorville Skyline 2.0
Salvage Contract Missions
Tractor Beam – T0.5 – Item Attaching and Detaching
Ghost Hollow Reclaimer PVP Mission
Mission Density Management
Mining Balancing v01
New Player Experience

Known Issues

Player corpses will not despawn at Grimhex
Substenance items lack “Store” option when carrying the item in Inner Thoughts
Players cannot see partied player ships when Quantum Linking together
Multilocation – Locations / Shopping / Interactions – Pharmacy kiosk terminals “Use” interface and Interactions are misaligned
Weapon Feature / Game Code – Tractor Beam – If you activate the tractor beam in hangar, you can bring the activated tractor beam back and use it in armistice zone
Aegis Reclaimer – Ships / Vehicles – Ship Features – Reclaimer has no rear Elevator interaction from ship exterior
ARGO MOLE – Vehicles / UI – The interaction prompts for ALL mining turrets are easy to miss/in unintuitive locations for players
CNOU HoverQuad – Vehicles / Locations – The vehicle spawns slightly stuck in the ground
Multivehicle – UI / Vehicles / Mining – Mining UI is appearing in Low Resolution
Racing – Locations – A specific rock formations on the Yadar Valley race track are visible to some player and not others
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
Transit – Area18 – Orison – Shuttles/Trains/Trams – Players are falling through sometimes disappearing trams and shuttles to their deaths
RSI Constellation Multivariant – Vehicles / Ships / Docking – The snub fighter lacks interaction prompts to enter it, making it unusable
Locations – ArcCorp / Crusader – Area18 / Orison – Core Tech / Transit Systems – The Trams are out of sync with the station timers, causing trams to overlap or not appear on time
Multilocation/Multivehicle – Shopping – Store kiosks won’t populate locations if certain ships are stored
Multitool – FPS Hull Scraping – The Salvage attachment has the VFX of the tractor beam and does not function
Security Post Kareah – Mission Content / Art – VisArea – Contraband screens have a visarea issue
Yela – Grim Hex – Mission Giver – AI / Missions – Wallace Klim becomes stuck under the floor near the hangars after being streamed out and streamed back in

Feature Updates

Locations

Lorville LOD and Performance Polish Pass

Gameplay

Mining Polish Pass

Hand Mining Difficulty Polish Pass. Allowed Mouse Wheel to control throttle – Alt + mouse wheel to control laser intensity.

Bug Fixes

Fixed – Area18 – NPE – Design / UI – The Contract Manager shows that the tutorial missions are from ‘<-=UNINITIALIZED=→’
Fixed – Area18 – NPE – UI / mobiGlas – After abandoning the mission, the player is still unable to access mobiGlas tabs
Fixed – ANVIL Centurion – Ships / Vehicles / Collision – The Anvil Centurion is impossible to get into through natural means
Fixed – UI / Mining / Locations – Vehicles / Vehicle HUD – Charge information is missing on mining UI for smaller asteroids and fragments
Fixed – Missions / Locations / Design – Failed Negotiations – Player instantly dies when in no gravity section
Fixed – Grim Hex – Mission Giver – AI / Missions – Wallace Klim becomes stuck under the floor near the hangars after being streamed out and streamed back in
Fixed – Salvage Contractor Missions – UI / Mission Content / mobiGlas – Timer for unlawful salvage mission does not show in the contract manager
Fixed – ArcCorp – Area18 – NPE – Mission 01: Your First Steps – Initial spawn kicks you out of bed and blocks interactions preventing the mission to continue