Star Citizen Alpha Patch 4.0
Alpha Patch 4.0 has been released to Wave 2 testers! Patch should now show: VERSION 4.0.0-EPTU.9458608.
Characters in this new environment have been built from Long Term Persistence(LTP) data.
Currently with LTP, certain player states such as personal hangar layout, custom characters, and in-game purchased consumables are not saved between releases which will cause some items to be lost in the next update.
Server Info: EPTU Channel – US Servers
Audience: Wave 4
Long Term Persistence: Enabled
Mesh Configuration: 4:6:500 (4 Servers in Stanton, 6 Servers in Pyro, 500 players total on the mesh)
Starting aUEC: 15,000,000
Testing/Feedback Focus
- Server Meshing
- Pyro Star System and New Locations
- Contested Zones
- Jump Points
- Advanced HUD View
- Spawning Into Hangars
Known Issues
- PU – Multisystem – Locations / Inventory / Actor – Local and Personal Inventory may disappear when force respawning (Workaround: Force Respawn again)
- PU – Pyro – Rundown Station (R&R) – Checkmate – Locations / AI – AI are spawning out of bounds floating inside of the station
- PU – Pyro – Rundown Station (R&R) – Multiple Locations – Locations / Physics / Vehicles – Players flying in the vicinity may explode consistently at random
- PU – Medical Insurance Terminal / UI – Regeneration kiosk UI does not update after transferring imprint
- Stall – Client – PU – Jump Points – Performance – There is a brief client stall when travelling through the Jump Point Tunnels
- PU – Stanton – ASOP / Locations – Personal Hangar – Retrieving a ship results in “We are unable to deal with your request at this time” but does not timeout fail
- PU – Actor – Inventory – UI / Interactions – Helmets can’t be dragged to equip when carrying/holding the helmet in the hands of the player to their head as the port will be missing
- PU – FOIP / VOIP – Audio – Players cannot hear other players through any audio channel
- PU – Stanton – Multiple Locations – Transit / Network – Transit will intermittently desync off course
- PU – Hostility not being wiped by QT
Features & Gameplay
Gameplay
Backpack and Armor Capacity Updates
Increased Occupancy Volume for Backpacks to Prevent Backpack Inventory Nesting. Further Armor size updates to allow some items back into med/heavy armor such as water bottle and med gun.
– Implemented Health/Wear functionality on Fuses so Fuses Lose Health Over Time When Connected to a Contested Zone Door
– Updating Spawn Closets tags to ensure the correct NPCs spawn in the correct locations of a Frontier Outpost
– Adjusted the Jurisdiction of all outposts on the Starmap to make sure they show who respectfully owns it
Ships and Vehicles
Advanced HUD Polish
– The speed limiter will now have a value of 100% by default
– The speed limiter will now show up in the MFD config screen
– The speed limiter value will not change between master modes anymore
– Fixed Velocity bar Behaviors
– Moved the speed and acceleration limiters to discrete mousewheel up / down actions instead of an axis. This also fixes accidently triggering weapon group changes when the limiters change.
– Unused speed actions (set to SCM, set to target speed) have been removed
– Binding names have slightly changed. If you use the limiters on your setup you might need to rebind them
– Moved Ship Alerts to Visor
Additional Ship Updates
– Added Missing Annunciator panel to Reliant, Nox, Mantis, Scout, Defender
– Added Mining HUD to Mole Pilot Seat
– Mining UI: Updated Mining Bars and Setup With ARGO Style
– Crusader Intrepid: Adjusted exterior proxies that were clipping into the cargo bay, stopping tractor beams from working (Should fix STARC-139944)
Core Tech
Personal Instanced Hangar Spawning
Tonight’s build will further test instanced hangar spawning in all shards. This will allow players who have completed (or skipped) the NPE mission to get faster into space; spawning in their own property. This is not a temporary change to avoid transit. You will also not spawn in rental hangars, so if you park in a different LZ or station you will wake up in a Hab.
– Further Network and Interaction Delay Improvements
– Physics Performance Optimizations
– Entity Cleanup Optimizations
– Spawn Closet and Fauna Performance Optimizations
– Jump Tunnel: Performance Optimizations to Reduce Stalls. Audio Mixing Polish
Bug Fixes
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – ALL Contested Zone (CZ) – Locations / Art / Interactions – The client visibly stalls when opening a loot box
- Fixed – PU – Stanton – Cargo Hauling – Mission Content / Game Code – Cargo isnt being properly counted when being delivered
- Fixed – Crusader Spirit ALL Variants – PU / Editor – Vehicles / Design – Rear ramp lights are offset from the ramp (STARC-130160)
- Fixed – PU – Tractor / Cargo / Hangar / Performance – While in Detaching Tractor Mode, moving Containers in Hangar cause Severe Performance Issue (STARC-138794)
- Fixed – PU – Locations – Outposts – Hurston / Inventory / Economy – Kiosk / Fleet Manager – Location services are not functional at Hurston outposts, blocking trading, fleet manager, and local inventory management (STARC-116193)
- Fixed – PU – Stanton / Pyro – Salvage Contracts / Localization / Mission Content / UI / mobiGlas – No primary objectives displayed in the contract details
- Fixed – PU – Stanton / Pyro – Shopping / Shopping Kiosk / UI – Wallet is rounded off to the nearest million in Shopping kiosks (STARC-144307)
- Fixed – PU – Stanton – ArcCorp – Area18 – Camera / Locations / Art / Core Tech – FOV – Multiple areas across A18 have visarea/portal issues when the Field of view is wide (STARC-104962)
- Fixed – PU – Klescher / Law / MobiGlas – Prisoners are unable to transfer Merits while the Receiver is Offline (STARC-134850)
- Fixed – PU – Inventory / Actor – Dragging items on to the player character causes them to move (STARC-142680)
- Fixed – PU – Multi-System – Multiple Locations – Locations / Hangars – Player’s hangar disappears on player arrival
- Fixed – MISC Starfarer – PU – vehicles – Starfarer Fuel does not flow from pod with its valve open to another pod
- Fixed – Multivehicle – PU – Vehicles/ Hud – Vehicle dashboard interaction text is blurry with Advance hud active
- Fixed – PU – UI Tech / Loot Screen – Items and Weapons are not correctly rendered in the Loot Screen
- Fixed – Crusader Intrepid – PU – Vehicles / Components / Physics – The cooler cannot be removed from the component bay in engineering (STARC-140233)
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Gateway Station – Stanton Gateway Station – Locations / Collisions – Player running on the stairs of refinery floor can fall out of map and die (STARC-143151)
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Contested Zones (CZ) – Orbituary – Starmap / Locations / UI – Map disappears when attempting to move the Starmap
- Fixed – MultiWeapon – PU – Weapons / Code – Tractor beam can tether to target in supporting mode, preventing movement / use of the Tractor Beam feature
- Fixed – Global – Gamewide – Audio / SFX – Footsteps sound as if the player / NPC is walking on rock / concrete when walking on any material
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Eliminate All – Mission Content / UI / mobiGlas – The mission objectives are incorrect for Eliminate All missions
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Rundown Stations – Ruin Station – Contested Zones – Locations / AI – If a player dies after killing other players in the contested zone they retain hostility on respawn
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Mission Refactor – Asteroid Base – Mission Content – Destroy Items – KillShip – Mission progress is not retained upon relog after client crash during the Kill Ship phase
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Ruin Station – Mission Refactor / Missions / UI / Bounty Hunter – KillShip – The mission marker for some Ruin Station KillShip bounties is inside the station
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Destroy Items – Outpost – Mission Content / Locations – Mission logic does not continue after the PreInit has finished, making the mission impossible to complete
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Rundown Stations – Locations – Armistice Zone can be inside personal hangar preventing use of FPS weapons and vehicle weapons
- Fixed – PU – Stanton – Locations / Art / Graphics – UGF – Various screen panels inside UGF locations display their image stretched out of proportion
- Fixed – PU – AI / Vehicles – Dropship reinforcements don’t work with the Valkyrie ship
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Eliminate All – Mission Content / AI – Enemy AI are not consistently spawning at the mission location
- Fixed – PU – Jump Points – Ships / Vehicles / VFX / UI – Ship Shaped Jump Point VFX/Silhouette visible during Jump Tunnel
Technical
- Fixed 13 Client Crashes
- Fixed 6 Server Crashes
- Fixed a Server Deadlock
- Fixed a Hybrid Crash
