Star Citizen Alpha Patch 4.0
Alpha Patch 4.0 has been released to Wave 1 testers! Patch should now show: VERSION 4.0.0-EPTU.9432503.
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.
Audience: Wave 1
Server Info: EPTU Channel – US/EU Servers
Long Term Persistence: Enabled
Server Meshing: Enabled
Mesh Configuration: 2:2:380 (2 solar systems, 2 servers per system, 380 players total per mesh)
Server Recovery: Enabled
Starting aUEC: 15,000,000
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/Feedback Focus
- Performance, Stability, & Bugfixes
- Server Meshing 2:2:380
- Pyro Star System and New Locations
- Contested Zones
- Jump Points
Known Issues
Client stability around jump points may be a bit shaky tonight. We have a possible hotfix in the works for later tonight on EPTU so proceed with caution when loitering around Jump points until the fix is out!
Tonight’s build has a cvar enabled to remove rep requirements from missions, so you will see many extra missions that are normally locked behind reputation gains
- PU – Stanton / Pyro – Jump Points / Art / Vehicles – Jump Tunnel VFX become extremely distorted during use
- Stall – Client – PU – Jump Points – Performance – There is a brief client stall when travelling through the Jump Point Tunnels
- PU – Pyro – Elevators / Personal Hangars – Ruin Station – Locations – Elevators from personal hangars to the entrance can send the player to an incorrect elevator
- MISC Starlancer Max – PU – Vehicles – Starlancer Max landing gear won’t deploy but ship speed is limited as if they were
- PU – Pyro – Locations – Checkmate – Medium Hangar blocked by station geometry
- 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
- Multiweapon – PU – Actor / Animation / Weapons – Both male and female actors do not animate while reloading weapons
- PU – Pyro – Orbituary – Locations / Art / VisArea – Navigating from assigned hangar elevator to “Entrance” opens to a VisArea portal above medical clinic
- 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
- PU – Derelict settlements – Locations / AI / Spawn Closets – AI do not move after spawning
- PU – Multivehicle – Quantum Travel / mobiGlas / Starmap – Unable to use plotted route to planetside location while in planet orbit
- PU – Missions / AI – Repel Raid on Orison – Combat AI are not spawning and automatically is failed
Features & Gameplay
AI
– Added New Fauna: Quasi Grazer
– FPS AI Cover Usage Polish
Gameplay
FOIP Tracking Refinements
Various improvements to the tracking stability and quality of Face-Over-IP. Added Head rotation tracking. Refined tracking algorithm. Improved motion with wider range of motion for the mouth. Stabilization to help jitter in low light and high light conditions. Secondary motions added for extreme poses.
Made Further Mission Refactor Progress
More missions will be available but still very much work in progress. This will also disable the Service Beacons tab for the initial 4.0 release but will not affect medical beacon use. Added auto pagination to Contracts. For 4.0, many missions will be very localized, some down to the exact point of interest you are at.
– Split objectives in contract panel based on whether they are in the player’s solar system or not, for displaying distances and sorting
Ships and Vehicles
Further Ship Inclusions
Added further inclusions from 3.24.3 into 4.0 for Starlancer/Polaris/Intrepid/Terrapin/Terapin Medic
Carrack Feature Updates
The Carrack has has been updated to include the option to deploy and undeploy its blast shield through a new interaction added to the cockpit. We have also added a new interaction to open and close the cargo pods for outside access to load cargo in and out of the ship. This currently keeps the cargo pods in their current raised state near the ship and does not have all the intended audio.
Core Tech
– Made Further Entity Physics Performance Improvements
– Made Further Client Performance Improvements
– Made Multiple AI Locomotion Performance Improvements
– GPU VFX Particle Performance Improvements
– Improved Jump Tunnel Performance to reduce Studders
– Optimized Gas Cloud and Asteroid Sampling Performance
– Made Multiple Planetary Streaming Performance Improvements
– Holographic HUD/MFD Shader Polish
– Made Further Water Reflection Improvements
– Further Jump Point UI, VFX, and Lighting Polish
– Added New Spawn queue logic to queue players joining a new shard all at once. (Will adjust how many players can join per 10 second window before hitting a queue as we monitor time but will help smooth out initial shard issues)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Rundown Stations – Multiple Locations – Locations / Hangar – Hangar disappeared after player arrival (STARC-132991)
- Fixed – PU – Vehicles – Jump points – no quantum jumping after failing jump through a jump gate (STARC-133008)
- Fixed – PU – Mission Refactor – Missions / Locations – Local Mission not available at mission location
- Fixed – PU – AI / Locations – AI are not moving or leaving their spawn closets across multiple locations
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Contested Zones (CZ) – Interactables / Locations – Cannot open Blue and Red doors in Contested Zones (STARC-139773)
- Fixed – Multivehicle – AC/PU – Vehicles / Controls / Vehicle Components – Vehicle turrets are locked in their default position and cannot be turned (STARC-135680)
- Fixed – Pyro – Narena’s rest ground is not level with the buildings (STARC-137176)
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Gateway Station – Stanton Gateway Station – Locations / Hangar – Player cannot get hangars for the vehicle (STARC-136913)
- Fixed – Jump Points – Code – Jump Point should remain open while ships are entering after timer expiry
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Frontier Outposts – Creature Animation / AI – Some Marok appear frozen / immobile in the air
- Fixed – PU – Pyro – Frontier Outposts – Freight Elevators / Personal Hangars – Locations – Freight Elevator show “Elevator Obstructed” with nothing on the elevator
- Fixed – PU – UI – MobiGlas – Starmap – Map is not focusing on selected marker after transitioning to a new solar system
- Fixed – Code – AI – FPS – Throwing Grenades – NPCs cannot throw grenades from cover
- Fixed – PU – Stanton – Network – Subdivision – Vehicles – Door panel and doors become unresponsive after switching DGS during QT
- Fixed – PU – Mission Refactor – Mission Content / Reputation / mobiGlas – Bounty Hunter missions are offered in an incorrect order
Technical
- Fixed 10 Client Crashes
- Fixed 9 Server Crashes
- Fixed a Hybrid Service Crash
- Fixed 3 Server Deadlocks
