Star Citizen Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8385683 Patch Notes

Alpha Patch VERSION 3.18.0-PTU.8385683 has been released to the PTU, and is now available to test!

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
Server Region: US/EU/AUS/ASIA
Database Reset: Yes
Long Term Persistence: Enabled
Pledge Copy: Enabled
Starting AUEC: 1,000,000

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

Testing Focus

Salvage – Hull Scraping
Platform Assault on Orison
Security Post Kareah Reactivation
Courier Delivery Missions Update
Sandbox Prison Activities
Drake Vulture
Sand Caves
Daymar Crash Site
Stanton Racetrack Locations
Greycat PTV Race Track
New Rivers (40 New Rivers on Hurston and microTech)
Additional Derelict Outposts
Restricted Areas v3
Arena Commander Quality of Life Updates

Known Issues

Server FPS Drops severely and for extended periods
Multiple Locations- Locations / Transit – It is possible for all carriages on a transit manager to despawn / fail to spawn initially
Transit – Elevators and Trams are “Jittery” during transit of Player Character
UI – Quantum Travel – Markers Will Randomly Disappear After Quantum Travel With No Route Set
Aegis Reclaimer – All Variants – Reclaimer main on-elevator control panels do not respond to input
RSI Constellation Multivariant – Vehicles / Ships / Docking – The snub fighter lacks interaction prompts to enter it, making it unusable
Actor – Inventory – Equipped Ammo Clips Fall Off the Player
Multivehicle – Audio – Missing Audio/SFX with QT travel
Scanning not showing advanced statistics and details
Salvaging – Some ship wreckages erroneously give “No Material” text and do not let you salvage
Vehicles/IFCS – When flying near another ship, ship seems to hit an invisible box that kicks it in random directions
Cargo – Performance – High capacity cargo vessels, when loaded, can cause a severe performance drop on both client and server
Actor Feature / Law – Respawn – If a player is placed into Klescher after being rescued with a crime stat, the player is respawned in the facility still incapacitated
Breach & Steal – Design/Missions/Locations – The target Reclaimer “October Rising” will disappear when you get very close to it, makin the mission impossible.
Ship / Commodity Trading / Cargo Inventory – Selling some of the cargo while the vehicle is stored cause the cargo to show at max inventory capacity
Selling – Commodity Kiosk / Cargo – Large amounts of cargo sold at once will cause the transaction to fail the cargo will be taken and no money will be granted
Law & Criminality – Commodities / Cargo – Stolen Cargo does not behave as such and can be sold as legal cargo if the ship with the cargo is stored
Ships – Cockpit – Actor animations – Occasionally unable to exit ship seat
Locations – Transit – Elevators – Players can fall through Elevators
Rest Stops (R&R) / Rundown Station (R&R) – Design / Transit / Location – The player is unable to call elevator from hangar interiors
Multiple Locations – ASOP Terminal / Ships – When storing a ship, the ASOP terminal will set the ship status to “Claim” instead of “Retrieve.”

Bug Fixes

Fixed – Insurance / UI – ASOP – When ships are retrieved from ASOP that will replace an unstowed ship on a pad, the unstowed ship is destroyed and nothing is retrieved from hung ASOP UI

Technical

This build has further server stability fixes to help with memory leaks. We will be monitoring this build thoroughly over the weekend. (even more so during the stress test times)