Star Citizen Alpha 3.17.2s PTU.8145195 Patch Notes

Alpha Patch 3.17.2s has been released to the PTU and is now available to test! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.17.2-PTU.8145195.

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 %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

We will be running Siege of Orison on Sunday for 6 hours starting at 12:00 CDT | 17:00 UTC!

Player Capacity Server Test

Tonight’s build should see servers running at about 110-120 player cap. During Siege of Orison on Sunday we are testing 75-85 players per server.

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

UI – Party Markers will not attach to a player that is incapacitated
UI – Medical Beacon – Player Medical Beacon UI is not in correct location
Vehicles / Ships – Shields – Weapon fire penetrates shields when ships are moving
Multivehicle – Ships floating in the hangar when stored with the engines left on then retrieved again
Vehicle / Spawning – The Khartu-Al spawn on the hangar floor sideways
Various Locations – AI / NPC – AI will become stuck in environment and float upwards
Network – Actors are teleporting around after networking updates (Ongoing improvements and testing)
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
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

Updated combat assist beacons to only display on screen notifications to players who are currently in a vehicle

Core Tech

Updated ReShade to version 5.3

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue causing crash recovery being inconsistent
Fixed an issues causing Multiple ships to lose their engines after repairing and storing the ship
Transport beacon destination List should now create Transport beacons from Port Tressler and all options beneath it in the list
Zeta-Prolanide Salvage Claim mission should now correctly spawn all needed cargo boxes
Pinned targets should no longer unpin when toggling third person camera