Star Citizen Alpha 3.19.0 PTU.8477529 Patch Notes

Star Citizen Patch 3.19.0 8477529

Alpha Patch 3.19.0 has been released to the PTU, and is now available to test! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.19.0-PTU.8477529.

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 FilesRoberts Space IndustriesStarCitizenPTU. The Shader folders can be found here C:Users%username%AppDataLocalStar Citizen.

Audience: All Backers
Database Reset: Yes
Long Term Persistence: Enabled
Pledge Copy: Enabled

Testing Focus

This build contains extra logging for us to track down some leads we have on players becoming invisible to others.
Fleet Week Events will be running over the weekend!

General Stability and Performance
AI FPS Combat Improvements
Lorville Skyline 2.0
Salvage Contract Missions
Tractor Beam – T0.5 – Item Attaching and Detaching
Ghost Hollow Reclaimer PVP Mission
Mission Density Management
Mining Balancing v01
New Player Experience

Known Issues

Ships can explode from collision with invisible asteroids
Player corpses will not despawn at Grimhex
Art assets will clip through the Train during the journey in Lorville
The entrance of the Lorville hospital has a large Visarea issue
Substenance items lack “Store” option when carrying the item in Inner Thoughts
Players cannot see partied player ships when Quantum Linking together
Front End – Friends/Party Feature – Main Menu – Party member gets kicked back to the Main Menu when Party Leader launches game to PU
Multilocation – Locations / Shopping / Interactions – Pharmacy kiosk terminals “Use” interface and Interactions are misaligned
Weapon Feature / Game Code – Tractor Beam – If you activate the tractor beam in hangar, you can bring the activated tractor beam back and use it in armistice zone
Aegis Reclaimer – Ships / Vehicles – Ship Features – Reclaimer has no rear Elevator interaction from ship exterior
ARGO MOLE – Vehicles / UI – The interaction prompts for ALL mining turrets are easy to miss/in unintuitive locations for players
CNOU HoverQuad – Vehicles / Locations – The vehicle spawns slightly stuck in the ground
Multivehicle – UI / Vehicles / Mining – Mining UI is appearing in Low Resolution
Racing – Locations – A specific rock formations on the Yadar Valley race track are visible to some player and not others
Crusader – Security Post Kareah – Core Tech – Physics – Actor / Player – Transitioning from EVA onto Kareah’s landing pads has a high chance of instantly killing the player
Transit – Area18 – Orison – Shuttles/Trains/Trams – Players are falling through sometimes disappearing trams and shuttles to their deaths
RSI Constellation Multivariant – Vehicles / Ships / Docking – The snub fighter lacks interaction prompts to enter it, making it unusable
Locations – ArcCorp / Crusader – Area18 / Orison – Core Tech / Transit Systems – The Trams are out of sync with the station timers, causing trams to overlap or not appear on time
Multilocation/Multivehicle – Shopping – Store kiosks won’t populate locations if certain ships are stored
Multitool – FPS Hull Scraping – The Salvage attachment has the VFX of the tractor beam and does not function
Security Post Kareah – Mission Content / Art – VisArea – Contraband screens have a visarea issue
Yela – Grim Hex – Mission Giver – AI / Missions – Wallace Klim becomes stuck under the floor near the hangars after being streamed out and streamed back in

Feature Updates

Gameplay

Significantly Reduced Ship Weapon/Component Sell Prices to Shops as a Temporary Adjustment
Adjusted Hints Overlay to Lessen Overlap with Ship HUD

Bug Fixes

Fixed – Vehicles – Misc Prospector – Repair / Rearm – Saddlebags not replaced during repair after being destroyed
Fixed – Missions – Salvage Contracts / Lawful – Multiple Salvage claims spawn near each other or in the same exact location.
Fixed – Design / UI – Tutorial Text overlays ship HUD and can be difficult to read
Fixed – Drake Dragonfly ALL Variants – Vehicles / Animation – The Drake Dragonfly series ships exit animation is broken and will not play