Star Citizen Alpha 3.15.0n PTU.7835451 Patch Notes

Alpha Patch 3.15.0n has been released to the PTU, and is now available to test! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.15.0-PTU.7835451.

It is strongly recommended that players delete their USER folder 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.

Database Reset: Yes
Long Term Persistence: DISABLED (Full wipe for all accounts)
Pledge Copy: Enabled
Starting aUEC: 15,000,000

Please monitor sc-testing-chat in spectrum for updates and testing instructions.

USER.cfg settings: r_displaySessionInfo = 1

Testing Focus

Personal inventory is still undergoing UI changes as we progress through PTU and a feedback thread will be opened at a later time

Healing and Actor Status
Hospitals
Starlifter Hercules A2
Bombs
Infiltrate and Defend Missions
Loot Generation
Orison V2
Arena Commander Revamp

Known Issues

New Babbage commons is missing many assets and the bridge to connect domes. This will make locations there not accessible so you may want to avoid this area for now.

Ground vehicles and initial spawn point

With this latest update, your initial spawn chooses the location of all your ships. If you have ground vehicles through the pledge store, selecting an initial home location that supports ground vehicles, like New Babbage, would be best.

After a server crash, attempting to reconnect may result an infinite loading screen and being unable to interact with the menu

Players will need to exit the game and reload after a server crash to fix this error. This is part of the bug where players used to see a Bad Token after a crash which blocked them from re-entering but with the latest changes, that error is no longer displayed.

Pledge Items lost on death

With this upcoming change, players will now lose all items equipped to their character upon death. These items include items from the pledge store including subscriber items. We are currently looking into different solutions for this but for 3.15.x be warned that if you die with subscriber items on, you will lose them in game but they will not be removed from your account or pledge store. These will be returned upon new major patches or through an account reset.

Medical beacon does not complete mission/payment when player is brought back from incapacitation
Lighting on inventory will dim when moused over
The 600i cargo lift / elevator doesn’t appear when looking at the ship due to Visarea issues /culling (the player is able to walk onto and use the ‘invisible’ lift)
The Prospector Cargo read out does not display total capacity, or update the capacity bar accordingly
CryAstro Refuel, rearm, repair is not working at outposts and shows as Not Available
There are multiple replaceme balls around Orison
When undocking, ships will occasionally become caught on the docking arm instead of detaching smoothly
Inventory icons may block filter buttons unless scrolled fully to the top
The Player is unable to Select Ground Vehicles as a Sell Location on Trade Terminals/Kiosks
Resetting account failed to clear user items
Objective markers and QT nav points are greyed out on the player’s HUD
Ships left at outposts disappear if the player logs out then logs back in or shortly after disembarking
Downed players are dropped or bounce/spin out of control when dragged over uneven surfaces and ramps
When Collecting Minerals/Metals with the Extraction Mode Laser the Ships Cargo Randomly Empties
There is a small area with no gravity in the airlock to the Grim Hex Medical facility
When requipping items from a loot box in zero-g, equipping the torso and arms will cause large amounts of inventory camera shaking
Weapon projectiles trajectory will not behave correctly when shooting from one zone inside a ship to another outside
Multiple Heavy Armor Arms Clip/Partially Obscure some of the mobiGlas Icons
Destroying mission-spawned reinforcement type ships does not always trigger the ongoing ‘Call to Arms’ mission rewards
Missiles can hit the players ship when they are fired whilst the ship is moving forward
AC Announcer audio callout for “Match over. You have won/lost the match” can be heard multiple times at the end of a round
AC Players can spawn facing the wrong way at the start of the match or after dying
Demon Fang Combat Knife asset is missing from the game

Feature Updates

Gameplay

Inventory Polish Pass

Further style and performance tweaks have been made for all aspects of the inventory system. Updated filter system to display tabs showing quick item type sorting along with the original option for more granular filtering. Implemented new interaction dots and numbered ports for consumables (magazines, grenades, medpens). Added capacity display for consumables (magazines, grenades, medpens) on the item and as dots around the item port the item is attached to. Added double click to equip items from inventory. This should swap currently equipped gear and for consumables (magazines, grenades, medpens) should fill empty armor slots instead. Added Swap option to item contextual menu to remove the currently equipped item and replace with another. Updated the inventory to not display if the inventory they have open moves far enough away. Added capacity value the description tooltip of items that have storage space such as backpacks and chest/leg armors. Updated inventory page arrow buttons to be a bit clearer. Added interaction option to close world loot containers.

Law System Updates

Updated most crimestat 1 crimes to be misdemeanors which will still grant the same crimestat but can now be paid off at a fine terminal to remove. (note, the stations will still shoot at you with a CS1) Not paying off a crime at a terminal will escalate the fine and CS impact after a week. Reduced the cooldown between crimes for assaults so they will impact your crimestat more if they happen in succession. Greatly increased the crime stat contribution for all misdemeanors so that fines are much more important to pay off.

Downed State Polish Pass

Updated downed UI to be clearly visible while downed. Increased revival service beacon reward to 15k, up from 10k credits.

Healing and Medical Polish Pass

Disabled tractor beaming, healing, and drugging of other players in greenzones. Drug efficacy balance pass, and adjusted effects of Resurgera to be equally more aggressive towards BDL decay and other drugs’ durations.

TVI QOL Updates

Added options to have velocity indicator: Always on, fading (defualt), or always off.

Body Dragging Polish

Made some teaks to body dragging to make it behave more consistent and less jittery.

Made intro and rehire UGF missions shareable
Added a small reputation penalty for failing or abandoning a delivery intro or re-hire mission

Ships and Vehicles

400i Polish Pass

400i landing gear reverted back to it’s previous, lower state. Door panel updates: new UI, removing light buttons where not needed & labeling locations.

Core Tech

Made several AI sync improvements to help reduce them teleporting short distances
Optimizations for planet terrain and ocean tessellation based on screen size

Major Bug Fixes

Fixed bug where all players on the server would have their controls frozen when one player surrendered to the pilot security
Fixed an issue causing the main menu interface to have larger buttons and text and intended
‘Try on’ option on mannequin in stores should no longer delete currently equipped gear
Fixed an issue causing players to not be able to place other downed players onto medical beds
Ships on landing pads should no longer end up in an “unknown state” for location after the ship stored
Many of the Wheelchairs, Walkers and Gurneys within hospitals should no longer spawn in colliding with geometry and constantly making loud banging / rattling
Inventory UI should no longer cause several items to share the same inventory icon when moving multiple items
Items should now correctly saved in a player’s inventory after the player loots a crate
Greycat ROC personal inventory should now open correctly when interacting with it
Inventory UI should no longer sometimes close immediately when looting a player/npc inventory.
Fixed an issue causing healing gun healing cards to sometimes not close
Fixed an issue that allowed players to temporarily heal and administer drugs to corpses via the advance mode on the medical gun
BEHR Telescopic S2 X4 sight should no longer shoot straight upwards when ADS
Fixed an issue causing the ‘Switch Fire Mode’ button to only work once in manned turrets
Mining nodes will no longer drop out of Personal Inventory instead of the ore
600i cargo elevator should no longer be misaligned
Drake Dragonfly HUD should no longer be out of position
Players corpses should no longer disappear after dying in certain locations and therefore will not be lootable
Downed players should no longer bounce/spin out of control when dragged over uneven surfaces and ramps
Players should now be able to interact with the inventory again after closing the external inventory of the Gladius or Sabre
Clear Out Site / Clear Criminal Nest should now spawn all criminal AI correctly so that the missions can be completed fully
Players should no longer be able to store weapon attachments via an equip prompt without having a valid inventory, which caused them to losing the item permanently
Prospector ladder and door should now open correctly
Saved Christmas at New Babbage!
“Missiles – armed missile count can loop” should now persist sessions
The missile counter should no longer loop back to one, regardless of the loop option being set to “NO”
Fixed an issue causing polygon spikes to occasionally appear around Lorville and Hurston
RSI Constellation Taurus should no longer have debug text on rental kiosks
Target’s velocity should now display correctly and no longer always display as 0 m/s
Tobii Gaze Tracking should now be able to be used without active head tracking source
Missile pickup in arena commander should now refill correctly while not in missile operator mode