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.9366112. 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: All Backers Long Term Persistence: Enabled Starting aUEC: 15,000,000 Shard Player Count: 100 Testing/Feedback Focus Stability & Bugfixes Zeus ES & CL (Evocati and owners will receive these in the build) 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) Quantum Fuel Adjustments New Arena Commander Updates Known Issues Not tonight but the next 3.24.2 build after should have a fix in for the fuel prices. They were getting multiplied incorrectly by backend resource network systems so getting worked on now to update later this week. PU - Weapons - Shopping - There is no P8-AR ammunition being sold in the PU PU - Shopping / UI / Shopping Kiosk - Shop UI is horizontally stretched and can't be interacted with 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. 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 Increased Opacity of shield hologram material on Vehicle RTT Self and Target Status MFD visor casts Ship MFD/HUD UI Polish Pass MFD and Annunciator Audio Polish Pass Bug Fixes Fixed an issue causing spawn closets in UGFs to now spawn NPC AI Fixed - PU - Stanton - UI / Performance - Turret UI names are being shown around Points of interest causing framerate drops (STARC-130999) Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - MFD - Cockpit MFD UI may be larger than the bounds of the screen so that the edges are cropped Fixed - Controls - Pilot / Copilot - Vehicle / Multivariant - RSI Zeus ES/CL - Intended seat control hierarchy sometimes not respected between pilot copilot and gunner seats (STARC-131940) Fixed - RSI Zeus Mk. II Series - ( ALL VARIANTS ) - PU - Vehicles / Art /GFX - Lighting - Black artifacts/pixelation can be seen around edges and exterior airlock Fixed - Roberts Space Industries Zeus ( ALL VARIANTS ) - PU - Vehicles - Zeus Pilot (Center) Chair Can't Exit (STARC-131941) Fixed - PU - Stanton - Locations - Art / Collision - Personal Hangars - The landing lights on the loading platform of Self Land hangars float above the loading gate causing collision issues with vehicles (STARC-130055) Fixed - ARGO RAFT - PU - Vehicles - QT - Players can fall out of ships by walking around during quantum travel (STARC-61913) Fixed - Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / UI - MFDs do not display or are misaligned when entering some turrets (STARC-130557) Fixed - Anvil Hornet F7C MK I - PU - Vehicles / Components / UI - mobiGlas / VMA - Vehicle Loadout Manager has Empty Configurable Slot (STARC-113993) Fixed - PU - Stanton - Graphics / Vehicle MFDs / Ships / UI - Thrusting [ WASD ] and using Boosters [ L-SHIFT ] while inside any type of Avenger ship while the game's graphic setting is set to low, will cause MFDs to blackout (STARC-130246) Fixed - OMNI AFS Sapphire Armored Flight Suit - PU - Actor - Armor - Weapon item port placement is by the suit's legs at ankle length (STARC-129852) Fixed - Esperia Prowler - PU - Vehicles / GFX / Art - VisArea issues around components near pilot seat Fixed - Stanton - Commodity Kiosks / UI - Unable to select specific location inventories while armor is equipped Fixed - PU - Locations - Transit / Hangars / Elevators - LEO Hangar elevator stuck on Elevator Called and does not open Removed incorrect, extra shield components from the Starfarer Technical Fixed 6 Client Crashes Fixed 5 Server Crashes Fixed a Server Deadlock