Star Citizen Alpha Patch 3.24.2 Alpha Patch 3.24.2 has been released to the PTU, and is now available to test! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.24.2-PTU.9361816. 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: Wave 2 Server Info: PTU Channel Long Term Persistence: Enabled Starting aUEC: 15,000,000 Shard Player Count: 100 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 SHIP spawns on floating hangar lights (Work around is to go to lobby and spawn ships or store a ship as animations wont have to play) Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Vehicle Components - Quantum Drives - Cannot initiate quantum jump (low chance STARC-131460) QT Workaround: De-allocate all power from systems in power management Re-allocate power to Quantum Drive and other systems. PU - UGF / Mission Content / Locations / AI - AI are not consistently spawning inside or around UGFs (STARC-130858) Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles - Shields are not negating or blocking damage from weapon fire (STARC-130934) Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Components - Unable to pull components out from their sockets PU - Stanton - UI / Performance - Turret UI names are being shown around Points of interest causing framerate drops (STARC-130999) PU - Stanton - Locations - Hangars / Network - Hangar at Baijini Point is despawning whilst the player is using the area, without external factors, leaving them stuck inside LEO geo PU - Stanton - Online Services / mobiGlas / commLink - Players are unable to receive updates to their Friends List PU - Stanton - ASOP / Locations - Personal Hangar - Retrieving a ship results in "We are unable to deal with your request at this time" and no ship PU - Harvestables - Game Code / Planet Tech / Mining - Planets and Moons have no Harvestables/Mineables PU - NPE - Missions - Multiple Locations - Tutorial does not progress after leaving the HAB elevator Carrack bottom right MFD has no display (STARC-130157) Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / VMS - Refuelling Hydrogen takes Player's credit without refuelling and will increase cost after purchase Corsair co-pilot loses manual gimbal after remote turret (STARC-130625) Features & Gameplay Ships and Vehicles Misc Starfarer: Added new Annunciators to the Pilot Dashboard Weapons and Items Added Behring P8-AR Rifle Mags to Shops Temporarily removed the MultiTool reload screen until battery draining requires reload to function Bug Fixes Fixed - PU - Multi-System - Locations / Transit - Some elevators have greyed out panels and do not respond when called (STARC-130391) Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Locations / Physics - Ships fall through hangar elevator platform on retrieval resulting in being stuck under hangar Fixed - PU - Stanton - ASOP / Fleet Manager / UI - ASOP terminal screen will be stuck on the getting vehicle list screen until terminal times out Fixed - PU - Stanton - Arial - Planet Tech / Locations - Arial missing surface (STARC-130335) Fixed - PU - Stanton - GFX / Performance - If a player moves their mouse pointer off screen while they have the game open, the game's performance will start to degrade until the mouse pointer has return back to the game Fixed - Origin 400i - Ships / Vehicles / Art - Elevator - Elevator Panel buttons disappear on upper floor (STARC-130245) Fixed - ARGO_ATLS - PU - Mounts / UI / ASOP / Fleet Manager - The ARGO ATLS has placeholder text (STARC-131162) Fixed - MSR now has Size 3 shield, but quadrants not adjustable (STARC-131203) Fixed - Mutlivehicle - PU - Vehicles/UI - Radar/Ping - Scan operator mode UI is missing ping signatures for returned pings (STARC-131483) Fixed - Argo Mole ( All Variants ) - Mining - MFDs - PU - The MFD's will disappear once the player enters the mining turret seat (STARC-130114) Fixed - PU - Multivehicle / Game Code / Resource Network / Controls - ASOP Spawned Vehicles headlights are Enabled and need to be Toggled Twice to turn off (STARC-129843) Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles - unable to influence Drake Cutter internal lights (STARC-111858) Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Ship Refuel - MISC Starfarer is not refuelling other ships Fixed - PU - Missions - The Price of Freedom/MissionGiver - Price of Freedom cryopods on the caterpillar do not show prisoner numbers or "release" Fixed - Stanton - PU - Resource Network - Ships / Vehicles / Components / Game Code / Multivehicle - Components are Overheating even when Provided Sufficient Coolant Fixed - MISC Prospector - PU / UI - Vehicles - Prospector radar is projected over and above the ship panel Fixed - SC - Ships / Art - Anvil Carrack - Carrack command station MFDs UV are displaying incorrectly (Clipped at the bottom) Fixed - AC - Frontend - Hangar Anims are noticeably loud in AC Front end Fixed - AC Rentals are not functioning Technical Fixed 4 Client Crashes Fixed 5 Server Crashes