Alpha Patch 3.18.0c has been released to Evocati, and is now available to test! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.18.0-EPTU.8298048.
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 FilesRoberts Space IndustriesStarCitizenEPTU.
Database Reset: Yes
Server Location: US Only
Long Term Persistence: Enabled
Pledge Copy: Enabled
Starting aUEC: Yes
The current build is under NDA
Please log out then back in on the issue council site to see the Evocati environment there. Please make sure to only select the Evocati 3.18 environment when creating IC reports while the builds are Evocati only
Please monitor etf-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
- Salvage – Hull Scraping
- Platform Assault on Orison
- Security Post Kareah Reactivation
- Courier Delivery Missions Update
- Sandbox Prison Activities
- Sand Caves
- Daymar Crash Site
- Stanton Racetrack Locations
- Greycat PTV Race Track
- New Rivers
Known Issues
- If you run into a “Ghost Client” when attempting to launch the game saying that it is already running, you may need to go into task manger and find Star Citizen or EAC and end task.
- Inventory – Equipment – Equipped items are lost from character after 30k
- Character Customizer – Stuck on “Saving Character” on the Front End menu after the first time joining PU
- Invisible ship present in the spaceport / IAE halls when entering the server for the first time
- PES – Core Tech – Characters not properly stowed after logout ; able to be observed while not logged in by other accounts
- Multivehicle – VMA – Vehicles / Ship Components / UI – Unable to customize any ship within the Vehicle Loadout Manager
- ASOP terminal hangs on “Please wait while your vehicle is being delivered”
- Locations / Hurston/Lorville – Commodity Kiosk – UI – UI may become blurry/illegible while in use
- Load / Location – More than one player can load into a habitat bed at the same time
- Transit – Elevators and Trams are “Jittery” during transit of Player Character
- Derelict – Missing Salvage Wrecks
- UI / Vehicle HUD – It is possible for the Vehicle HUD to vanish for the player during flight and combat
- Stanton – Interactions – Terminals are not responsive and some are not resetting
- Performance – 3rd person Camera – Massive stutter when using external view / F4 view for first time
- Vulture pitches down in atmosphere when locking pitch/yaw
- The Corsair does not respond to either Expand Configuration or Retract Configuration bindings
- Orison – Mission Content / Locations – A hostile AI is stuck inside a wall at HMR-A and one hostile appears missing at BWD-G for Bounty Assignment: Neal Garrison mission
- Inventory / Loot Boxes – Loot Boxes will Disappear on Approach or after Opening
- Multiple Locations – Actor Feature / UI – Medical – Player unable to heal injuries in med bed
Feature Updates
Locations
- Polish Pass on PU Race Tracks
- Added Salvage Beam Modifiers to Shops
Core Tech
- Gen12 Rendering performance pass
- Drake Vulture – Thruster smoke converted to GPU rendering
- Sand Cave VFX and Particle LOD Polish Optimizations
Bug Fixes
- Fixed – Hospitals – Multi-location – No flight suit or helmet in inventory when respawning at hospitals
- Fixed – NPCs – Cutlass Black Reinforcements Do Not Exit Ship
- Fixed – Mantling in prison not working in the escape route
- Fixed – Drake Vulture – The UI Elements of the Lower Salvage UI are too small
- Fixed – Usables / Spawning – The player is unable to get up from the hab bed after spawning in
- Fixed – Hull Scraping – Ships / Vehicles / Game Code / Weapons – The Hull Scrapers function within Armistice Zones
- Fixed – Hull Scraping – Vehicles / SFX – SFX are missing while ship hull scraping beams are actively scraping
- Fixed – Hull Scraping – Vehicles / VFX / Lighting – Toggling between 3rd and 1st person, while the Salvage Beam is active, will remove parts of the VFX and Lighting
- Fixed – Derelict Colonial Outposts – Locations / AI – AI Continually attempt to walk through solid geometry at derelict outposts
- Fixed – Lorville Outskirts – Art / Locations – various pipes around the race track are missing collision
- Fixed – New Babbage – Art / Graphics / Locations – Missing doors in New Babbage spaceport customs
- Fixed – Orison – Race Track – Design / Locations – If player abandon and/or topple over the Greycats on the race track they are not cleaned up and do not respawn at the race pit
- Fixed – Cargo / Commodity Kiosk – Ships / Vehicles – Game Code – When unstowing a ship full of cargo, or selling from an already unstowed ship, the commodity kiosk will fail to sell cargo and a “Transaction Failure” will occur
- Fixed – Ore Sales terminals are not detected laden mining ships with ore at that station
- Fixed – Port Olisar – Commodity Kiosk inventory locations drop down menu is not in alphabetical order
- Visor fog effects should no longer be much more intense with Gen12 turned on and completely blur vision once the player has wiped their visor
- Fixed an issue causing some Crusader AI to not spawn at Security Post Kareah
- Fixed an issue causing player to be unable to control their character after dying, force closing the client, and then reloading back into PU
- Daymar Crash Site should no longer be missing many Assets and textures
Technical
- Fixed 11 Client Crashes
- Fixed 9 Server Crashes
- Fixed Multiple Gen12 GPU crashes
Patch News
Patch Watch
Guide
New ship & vehicle
Patch List
EVOCATI
- Alpha 3.18.0 EPTU.8249922 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0b EPTU.8267942 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0c EPTU.8272918 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0d EPTU.8276733 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0e EPTU.8280883 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0f EPTU.8287271 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0g EPTU.8291026 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0a EPTU.8295399 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0b EPTU.8296278 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0c EPTU.8298048 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0d EPTU.8299445 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0e EPTU.8302141 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0f EPTU.8303607 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0g EPTU.8305317 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0h EPTU.8306697 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0i EPTU.8307773 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0j EPTU.8311073 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0k EPTU.8312268 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0l EPTU.8313558 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0m EPTU.8313827 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0n EPTU.8316737 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0o EPTU.8318232 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0p EPTU.8319238 Patch Notes
WAVE 1
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8319689 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0r PTU.8321451 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0s PTU.8322192 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0t PTU.8323027 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0u PTU.8324837 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0v PTU.8328236 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0w PTU.8335445 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0x PTU.8340717 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0y PTU.8342974 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0z PTU.8344026 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8345033 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8346551 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8349208 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8352563 Patch Notes
WAVE 2
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8356208 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8358255 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8361845 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8362604 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8364000 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8365461 Patch Notes
OPEN PTU
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8373877 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8374786 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8376002 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8378122 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8378932 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8380401 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8381034 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8382259 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8383510 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8384444 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8385683 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8387153 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.0 PTU.8389318 Patch Notes
LIVE
3.18.1 PTU
- Alpha 3.18.1 PTU.8410680 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.1 PTU.8411181 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.1 PTU.8412394 Patch Notes
3.18.1 LIVE
3.18.2 OPEN PTU
- Alpha 3.18.2 EPTU.8414091 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.2 PTU.8428298 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.2 PTU.8435197 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.2 PTU.8437209 Patch Notes
- Alpha 3.18.2 PTU.8439852 Patch Notes