Star Citizen Alpha 3.17.2r PTU.8143480 Patch Notes

Alpha Patch 3.17.2r has been released to the PTU and is now available to test! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.17.2-PTU.8143480.

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 FilesRoberts Space IndustriesStarCitizenPTU. The Shader folders can be found here %localappdata%Star Citizen.

Audience: All Backers
Database Reset: No
Long Term Persistence: Enabled
Pledge Copy: Enabled
Starting aUEC: 10,000

Please monitor sc-testing-chat in spectrum for updates and testing instructions.
USER.cfg settings: r_displaySessionInfo = 1

Note: This patch does not contain all of the intended features, which will be added iteratively to the notes as they become available. Additionally, some features may be implemented in a partial state and as such are not ready for testing. When those features reach a playable state they will be detailed on the notes and added to the “Testing Focus”. Please issue council all issues related to those in testing focus and in general gameplay.

Testing Focus

Player Capacity Server Test
Turret Acceleration changes
Derelict Reclaimers V1
Derelict Colonialism Outposts
New Space Stations and Lagrange Points
Grim HEX Hospital Expansion
Combat Service Beacons V2
Illegal Collect and Delivery Missions
Player and AI Networking Updates

Known Issues

Stanton – Network – Actors are teleporting around after networking updates (Ongoing improvements and testing)
All Vehicles/ Repairing – Repairing a lost ship weapon storing the ship and claiming it again weapon is missing
Missions – Red Wind Discrete Courier – Some Delivery Boxes Cannot Be Placed to Progress Mission
VFX – Blinding lights during planetary flight near the Snake Pit race track
Animation – Weapons – All weapons are held like a pistol whilst moving in EVA
Seize the Data – Mission Feature / Law / Criminality – Destroy the Reclaimer Objective Results in CS2 for destruction of vehicle
Combat AI – UGF Missions are sometimes missing NPC spawns to complete the mission
FPS Weapons – Weapon holsters or un-holsters unintentionally
ASOP – Ships on landing pads end up in “unknown state” for location and have to be reclaimed after the ship is stored or streamed out
Missing Ships on SCOUNDREL PACK (and others) on PTU 3.17.2 (This is a PTU only issue that is being worked on)

Feature Updates

AI

Performance polish pass for FPS AI behavior

Gameplay

Service Beacon Polish Pass

Made further balance pass to combat assistance beacons. Increased enemy reinforcements on some difficulties. Removed generic criminal spawn groups and increased difficulty of the highest encounters

Ships and Vehicles

Improved the URSA Rover Brakes and Reverse Speeds

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that was preventing multiple beacons of the same difficulty level from appearing to the player
Fixed Various visarea issues with elevator doors throughout the PU
Fixed an issue with various Elevators become unresponsive and lose floor collision
Fixed an issue causing terrain to damage players at multiple Derelict Outpost locations
Fixed an issues causing Multiple ships to lose their engines after repairing and storing the ship
Hercules Starlifter variants should no longer spawn with the MFD’s pre-set to show two targeting MFDs rather than showing target & self status
Heal and Revive Beacons generated by players should now always generate a visible notification