Star Citizen Alpha 3.17.0y PTU.8048627 Patch Notes

Alpha Patch 3.17.0y has been released to the PTU, and is now available to test! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.17.0-PTU.8048627.

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.

Current Audience: All Waves
Database Reset: Yes
Long Term Persistence: Enabled
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

This build contains further asset streaming and loading optimizations. 3.17 contains new streaming changes that we are testing on the PTU and players may experience infinite loading or very long load times along with possible missing assets in game such as elevators or ships not streaming in. We are updating and fixing these issues as we find them and each new build will hopefully address these more and more.

Ship Positional Desync Test

In 3.17.0 we have put in a networking update that should reduce ship to ship desync. We would like to know how well this update works and if there are any observable knock-ons. Relative to 3.16, you should feel as though the facing direction and position of other player ships are much more accurate and real time. We have created a feedback thread in spectrum so please let us know about any potential issues with this that could include ship jittering, rubberbanding, jittering, and other effects of that nature.

Due to recent improvements on desync we have uncovered hitreg bugs which we likely cannot resolve for 3.17. In the direction of the velocity vector the collision shape of a ship will be slightly in front of visual model (the exact offset is velocity dependent). There is currently no work-around so avoid hovering inside the velocity vector of another ship and lead your shots a bit more during combat.

MISC Hull-A
Lorville Hospital and Space Station Clinic Variations
River
Coffee Shop Vendor
Ship-to-Ship Refueling
Mining Gadgets
Shopping and Selling T0
Ship and Ship Components Inventory Updates
Player Injury Updates
DNA Head Texture Updates

Known Issues

Assets are shaking causing visual discomfort
Turret acceleration changes have been reverted to pre-3.17.0 while we work on rebalancing and will be coming back in a future release
Players cannot buy components directly into ship storage (will be coming later in the PTU cycle)
AR Markers are present when opening the mobiGlas which can make it hard to read
Ships can explode after players exit them
While docked to a Starfarer the Valkyrie will continuously tilt instead of remaining stationary
Ship retrieval can time out and place a ship in a claim state
Equipment loadout stuck and remains highlighted grey
Items do not immediately transfer from loot crate to personal inventory
It’s not possible to “De-select” attachments on FPS weapons in shops that sell them
Unable to see some accounts when adding to friends list
Combat Assistance Mission Fails to Progress – Hornet Pirate AI Pilot Doesn’t Load In stalling the mission when destroyed
Undocking ships can result in desync issues causing ships to disappear, move to other locations, or become unusable

Feature Updates

Locations

Reduced the number of rocks inside the river

Gameplay

Ship Weapons Rebalance Pass

Distortion weapons have been replaced with laser repeaters in player and AI variants of the Arrow, Hornet, Terrapin, Cutlass, Freelancer, Hull A, Prospector, 600i, 85X, and Constellation.

Bug Fixes

Medium and small ships docked to the Starfarer / Starfarer Gemini should no longer fall in atmosphere while refueling
The Drake Cutlass Red should no longer be missing its Storage Compartment
Origin 890 Jump elevator to the front manned turret should no longer be missing
Rain VFX should no longer move in the wrong direction on the Carrack’s canopy