Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.2 PTU.9357571 Patch Notes

Star Citizen Alpha Patch 3.24.2

Alpha Patch 3.24.2 has been released to Evocati, and is now available to test! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.24.2-PTU.9357571.

Characters in this new environment have been built from Long Term Persistence(LTP) data.
Currently with LTP, certain player states such as personal hangar layout, custom characters, and in-game purchased consumables are not saved between releases which will cause some items to be lost in the next update.
Audience: Currently Evocati
Server Info: PTU Channel – US Only
Long Term Persistence: Enabled
Starting aUEC: 15,000,000
Shard Player Count: 100

The current build is under NDA (Talking about features and testing is allowed but no sharing of game video, screenshots, audio, files, or accounts outside of Evocati)
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 3.24.0 environment when creating IC reports while the builds are Evocati only
Please monitor etf-testing-chat in spectrum for updates and testing instructions.
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/Feedback Focus

Stability & Bugfixes
Vehicle HUD & MFD Rework
New Character Creator DNA Faces, Beards, Tattoos, and Hair
New Acidic and Rock Cave Systems
Flight Tuning and Archetype Balance (Ongoing during PTU)
New Arena Commander Updates

Known Issues

There are still a few locations around the PU such as Grimhex, Prison, and a few areas of New Babbage and Orison that have greyed out elevator panels. New Babbage and Orison will be fine to get to the hangar but won’t let you back up into the spaceport.

PU – Stanton – ASOP / Fleet Manager / UI – ASOP terminal screen will be stuck on the getting vehicle list screen until terminal times out
PU – Stanton – Locations / Transit / Hangars – Some elevators have greyed out panels and do not respond when called
PU – Stanton – Online Services / mobiGlas / commLink – Players are unable to receive updates to their Friends List
PU – Multivehicle – Quantum Travel / mobiGlas / Star Map – Unable to plot a route to obstructed destination
PU – Stanton – Missions / UI – Mission Objectives are missing from multiple UI elements
Multivehicle – PU – Vehicles / Ship Refuel – MISC Starfarer is not refuelling other ships
PU – Harvestables – Game Code / Planet Tech / Mining – Planets and Moons have no Harvestables/Mineables
Multivehicle – PU – Resource Network – Mining and Salvage heads throttles default to 0
PU – Stanton – Multivehicle – Vehicles / MFDS / UI – Scanning MFD reverts to Ready to Scan after scanning ships with no cargo stored (STARC-130414)
Gatac Syluen – PU – Vehicles / Elevator – Syulen is missing the internal elevator (STARC-130168)
Carrack bottom right MFD has no display (STARC-130157)

Features & Gameplay

Ships and Vehicles

Ship Hud Polish

Added New weapon ammo type icons to Weapon Config Screen. Added tooltip for MFD. Changed cursor when able to scroll the Power Management List.

Reduced Overall Hull and Thruster Health for the Hornet Series Ships

Core Tech

Render to Texture Shader Improvements

-Added additive blending of source pixels to scene with multiplier
-Added additive blending of bloom with scene (with multiplier) along with a saturation factor
-Combined hard drop-shadow offset with blurred soft shadow, along with individual multipliers for both
-Added chromatic aberration with custom offsets

Bug Fixes

Fixed – Resource Network – Default power distribution does not balance pools equally
Fixed – PU – UI – mobiGlas – Starmap / Quantum Travel – Cannot set route while in close proximity to the surface of a planet (STARC-116277)
Fixed – ARGO ATLS – PU – ASOP / UI – The ARGO ATLS suit is appearing at top of ASOP list and not with the rest of ARGO ships (STARC-127256)
Fixed – ARGO RAFT – PU – Vehicles / FPS Weapons – Multi-Tool – Tractor Beam / Tractor Beam Rifle / Cargo – An invisible barrier blocks tractor beams from hitting boxes attached to the cargo grid when standing under the ship (STARC-123302)
Fixed – Multivehicle – PU – Vehicles / UI / MFD / HUD / Inner Thought – cockpit button interactions overlap the MFD after being initially hovered over (STARC-130562)
Fixed – Salvage / CryAstro / Restock – Using Cryastro restock service fill up the fillerstation to maximum capacity with salvage material (STARC-129445)
Fixed – PU – Inventory / UI – Custom Filter tick box not showing a clear selection indicator for the chosen category (BUG-197375)
Fixed – RSI Constellation Series – ( ALL VARIANTS ) – PU – Vehicles / Actor – Interactions – Interaction points to lower the elevators to enter are out of reach from the ground (STARC-130676)
Fixed – PU – Vehicles/Elevator – Carrack is missing elevators
Fixed – PU – Vehicles/Elevator – Syulen is missing elevators
Fixed – PU – Vehicles/Elevator – Hull-C is missing elevators
Fixed – PU – MFD hotkeys – There is no option to continue cycling with the MFD hotkeys
Fixed – PU – Stanton – Multivehicle – Vehicles / UI / MFDS – Ground vehicles have ship configurations in their general configurations
Fixed – PU – Front End / DNA Character Customizer / UI – Hair/Facial Hair – The Hair/beard/scalps textures will mix up and will not match each other
Fixed – Multivehicle – PU – Vehicles / Ship Refuel – MISC Starfarer is not refuelling other ships