Star Citizen Alpha Patch 4.2 PTU

• Audience: All backers
• Server Info: PTU Channel - US Only
• Long Term Persistence: Enabled
• Mesh Configuration: 5:5 - 600 Players
• Starting aUEC: 15,000,000

Testing/Feedback Focus

• Stability & Bugfixes
• Storm Breaker All Phases
• Apex Valakkar
• Dynamic Rain
• Radiation
• VOLT Laser "Prism" Shotgun
• ARGO ATLS IKTI and IKTI GEO
• New Wikelo Ship Additions
• New Hairstyles
• Sterling Exploration Suit

Known Issues

• Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Quantum Travel - Ships streaming in or streaming out locations on a quantum travel jump has performance drops and frame freezing
• Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Target lock - target lock is unlocked at random radar for targets is dropped
• Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Target lock - target attacker stops working when a target lock is lost due to locking range or radar dropped
• PU - mobiGlas - Asset Manager / NikNax - mobiGlas / Inventory / UI - The Assets Manager / NikNax app gets stuck at infinite loading and never loads assets
• PU - Mining / Saddlebag / Cargo Grid - Argo and MISC Saddlebags do not snap to the Argo RAFT's Cargo Grid
• PU - New Babbage / Brentworth Care Center - UI / Medical Screens - Check-in medical kiosk is stuck on “Checking availability” loading screen
• PU - Ship Battles - Ace Pilot/Assault - Proximity Tracker - Action Area - Logic fails to continue when over 20km away from the tracked object or Action Area Origin

Features & Gameplay

Gameplay

Ships and Vehicles

• Added Behring CST-313 Castillo Bomb Rack to PU Shops (Centermass ect.)
• Slightly Reduced ARGO ATLS GEO IKTI Landing Dust Effect

Weapons and Items

• Volt Shotgun VFX Polish to make Impacts more Impactful

Core Tech

• Further Server Performance Optimizations

Bug Fixes

• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Locations - Klescher Rehabilitation Facility - Mining / Inventory - Players are unable to store mined Ore into their inventory properly and Ore will be dropped to the ground after attempting to be stored
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker - VFX / Visor - Rain droplets are present on the screen in third person when inside the research facilities
• Potential Fix: PU - Comms Notifications - Graphics / UI - 3D comms call has no shadows rendering
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker / Collector / Creatures / Mining - Irradiated Apex - Some Apex Valakkar limpets (Pearls) will vanish when they are successfully fractured (STARC-170609)
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker - Mission Content / Exploit - Valakkar Egg can be taken from the nursery with a tractor beam skipping the egg procedure (STARC-169639)
• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Landing Zone (LZ) - Area18 - Locations / Design - There is no restricted flight zones set up around Area 18 (STARC-166057)
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro IV - Farro Data Center IV - Locations - Farro airlock asphyxiates player (STARC-168893)
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker - Locations - Players can use the tractor beam to insert the egg into the Pylon before the cooldown timer is up
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro / Pyro I - Storm Breaker - Lazarus Complex - Exploit - Tractor Beam can clip through the door and grab the ATLS IKTI (STARC-169565)
• Potential Fix: ARGO ATLS All Variants - PU - Mounts / Physics - ATLS suit will not move when operated by the player while it is attached to any cargo grid (STARC-169608)
• Potential Fix: PU - Freight Elevators - UI / Locations - Cannot fill freight elevator to full capacity with commodity crates (STARC-168922)
• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Landing Zone (LZ) - New Babbage - Freight Elevators - Design / Locations / Physics - Cargo overlaps other crates and spawns outside the cargo grid when a fully loaded freight elevator retrieves it from the warehouse "
• Potential Fix: Pu - Stanton - Wikelo's Emporium - The Collector - Locations / Collision - There is no collision on the bridge railing
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Radiation / UI - Widgets for body and suit radiation begin to flash red at the incorrect values
• Potential Fix: PU - Locations / UI / Shopping Kiosk - Delivery location when purchasing any item is missing if the Player doesn't change the location in the drop down
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro / Locations - Ruin Station - Hangar doors open but another wall/set of doors with partial collision prevents exit (STARC-148211)
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Pyro 1 - Storm Breaker - Lazarus Research Laboratory - Locations / Design - Multiple areas of the research lab exterior are missing markup required to make them visible to the player on the minimap
• Potential Fix: PU - Actor - Actor Status - Medical / Consumables - OxyPen only refills oxygen by a small percentage or none at all
• Potential Fix: PU - Creatures - Irradiated Kopion - Kopion plays attack animations but does no damage to player
• Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - Locations / Design / Interactions - Security doors lack their inner UI and prompt if door hasn't been used to enter the Data Processing room

Technical

• Fixed 1 Client Crash
• Fixed 2 Server Crashes