Star Citizen krijgt nog snel één update in 2021

Met het eind van het jaar aan de horizon, trekken veel ontwikkelaars de kantoordeuren achter zich dicht voor een welverdiende vakantie. Anderen hebben echter juist extra hard gebikkeld om nog even iets te presenteren voor 2022 arriveert.

Daar hebben we de nieuwe update voor Star Citizen, Alpha 3.16, aan te danken. De volledige patch notes zullen we onder dit bericht plaatsen (onder de video), maar de belangrijkste vernieuwing is een PvP mode Jumptown 2.0, die geïnspireerd is op het populaire community event. Hierin moeten Lawful en Criminal spelers vechten om drugs in het Stanton system.

De Drake Cutlass Steel is een nieuw schip die de bekende Drake Cutlass een make-over geeft. Weg is de opslag en in plaats daarvan krijgen we achttien jump seats om snel te troepen naar het slagveld te brengen, compleet met wapens als door-mounted guns, turrents en gatling guns. En dat is slechts het begin.

Grav-Lev physics zijn substantieel verbeterd, zodat hover bikes een stuk fijner besturen. Ze zouden hierdoor betere moeten aanvoelen, stabieler moeten rijden en het gebruiken van hover bikes in zijn geheel een stuk aangenamer moeten maken.

Tenslotte zijn er nieuwe bounties en spoedig derelict ships in Stanton te vinden voor zij die de buit het liefst snel binnenhalen.

''2021 is wederom een fantastisch jaar voor Star Citizen en onze geweldige community en ik ben opgewonden om het jaar te eindigen met nog één explosief Dynamic Event in Alpha 3.16: Return to Jumptown,'' vertelt Creative Director Christ Roberts. ''Oude spelers zullen zich de PvP Jumptown-gevechten van de begindagen van het Persistent Universe herinneren. We hebben de intense actie van het oude evenement genomen als inspiratie voor Jumptown 2.0, welk belooft om meer opwindende grootschalige slagvelden te leveren, waarvan we meer willen zien in Star Citizen. Daar bovenop voegen we vandaag in 3.16 ook grote verbeteringen aan de besturing van hover voertuigen toe, een nieuwe Cutlass Steel dropship en nog een paar verrassingen voor onze spelers. En later in januari in 3.16.1 voegen we Derelict Ship Graveyards en verborgen schatten beschermd door dodelijke vallen toe.''

Alpha Patch 3.16.0 has been released and is now available! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.16.0-LIVE.7912978.

It is strongly recommended that players delete their USER folder 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 Files\Roberts Space Industries\StarCitizen\LIVE.

Database Reset: YES
Long Term Persistence: Enabled
Starting aUEC: 20,000

Known Issues

It is possible that some servers may stop updating their mission offerings. If the issue persists, try leaving the server, waiting a few minutes and rejoining the PU, or change region.
Spawn closets do not recognize unconscious AI and close the door on them possibly leaving mission critical AI unreachable
Laser Repeaters can directly damage ships through shields
Ships sometimes wont appear in the VMA app unless the player spawns the ship first then spawns a different ship after, only then the ship will appear in VMA
Logging out from the Reliant ship’s bed and back in will cause the Reliant to be in flight mode and the player is stuck inside the ship sleeping area
Cannot Repair, Refuel, Restock at LEOs
Pressing and holding F to “Freelook” does not work when piloting the Nox and prevents start up of vehicle using interaction (keybind will need to be used)
Character’s head, mobiGlas, and other equipment may go missing after being released from Klescher
Bed logging on a moon or planet – ship falls through surface
Ship may despawn after player death instead of staying at it’s last location
Hammerhead doors to turrets may not open for players if they leave the seat during QT, trapping them inside
Weapon will not holster

New Features

Locations

    Area 18 – Hospital Interior Location

Implementation of a working hospital located in Area 18, where players can be healed and revived, as well as purchase medical supplies.
Gameplay

    Jumptown 2.0

Implementation of Jumptown 2.0, a new dynamic event that will run periodically in the persistent universe. Inspired by the historic events of Jumptown, this new event features both lawful and unlawful mission paths.
Ships and Vehicles

    Added New Ship: Drake Cutlass Steel

Feature Updates

Gameplay

    Gravlev Rework

Gravlev for hovering vehicles (Nox, Dragonfly, ect.) has been heavily revamped and upgraded to improve the feel of driving along with greatly improved general stability and less glitchiness, and and should greatly improve the general experience of driving all around on hover bikes. This includes major updates to the physics model of the bikes, general stability improvements (i.e. not losing control), added turning, banking, and tilting around, and much faster speeds on bikes. Players can now height adjust how far above the surface they are by holding space to go up or CTRL to go down. Doing this will make hovering vehicles that are closer to the ground go faster with more risk of collision and vehicles higher above the ground slower but with less risk of colliding with ground objects. We’ve added better powered on and off behavior for gravlev vehicles along with improved dismounting behaviors. Falling from great heights no longer should destroy your bike.

    Atmospheric Bounties

The addition of flying bounties in atmosphere to all Stanton (1,2,3,4), allowing the player to now fight AI bounty targets above planetary locations. These can be in areas above Caves, Derelicts, Junksites, Outposts, and UGFs.

    UGF Mission Polish

Changed UGF security from police to guards so Assaulting an Officer is not triggered. Greatly increased leniency on damage taken friendly-fire threshold of AI.

    Law system Improvements

We’ve added many additional changes to the law system to help improve it’s function in different scenarios.

Defence of another: All actors and AI will now see someone going over friendly fire thresholds as hostiles for the length of time they have any hostility toward other actors. This is to address the issue of wanting to defend your innocent friend from an unprovoked attack, but not being able due to you receiving a crime stat as the attacker wasn’t hostile to you. It also means we can remove the crime of Aggravated Vehicular Assault which was only added due to the need to mitigate this issue.

Reduce the acquisition of low level CrimeStats: We’ve removed Aggravated Vehicular Assault as this would still be a crime around green zone covered by Armistice Violations as well as the addition of Defense of another mechanics mentioned above.

Displaying a victim’s name in infraction notification: This applies to players and any AI with a names. This was to help clear up confusion for players receiving infractions for things like GBH when their victim bled out several seconds after the fact.

Bounty Hunters being led to trespass zone around prison: Replaced the trespass zones are around prison with the new style and removed the misdemeanor area completely. We have reduced the size of the trespass zones, replaced the misdemeanor area with the new trespass type with warns the player and gets them shot at. The felony trespass area is much smaller, but should keep bounty hunters from camping too close to the prison.

Criminals should receive a less forgiving friendly-fire allowance: If a player is already a criminal or has an active hostility timer, the friendly-fire allowance is tightened to ensure they don’t keep getting away with the first few shots.

Missiles and the law: We’ve made a few changes to missile damage behavior with the law. Firing a locked missile should now max out the friendly-fire hostility duration. Currently locking missile only counts as a “hit”, but it will now render the ship as hostile for as long as a missile is locked. Once the missile is unlocked (without it being fired) it should only add a single “hit”. Fixed an issue that could cause missiles fired at AI to sometimes choose a random friendly target that was close which would cause the player to get an immediate crimestat.

Dying Star Updates

Updating the Dying Star map to bring it inline with the recently updated Broken Moon map by increasing overall size, adding new playable areas, more cover options, and new space assets.
Updated rep for Infiltrate and defend missions to not punish on player abandon due to the spawn times
Temporarily made Scrap sellable at the following RestStop Admin Offices: HUR-L5, CRU-L5, ARC-L1, MIC-L1
Ships and Vehicles

Ares Ion Balance Pass

Tweaked the Ares Ion weapon to have a higher RPM with lower damage per hit and made aim adjustments.

Redeemer Balance Pass

Adjusted the turret velocities on the Redeemer.
Added radars to the Constellation series copilot seats

Weapons and Items

Mounted Guns Polish

Tweaked mounted guns to be more in line as an infantry suppression weapon. This will reduce projectile velocity and RPM, reduce projectile damage per hit, reduce projectile weight (this will reduce force reactions on players), as well as giving projectiles a higher spread. Greatly increased how long players can fire the weapon before it shuts down.

Increased cost of Size 10 bombs

Major Bug Fixes

Heavy armors should no longer block much of the mobiglas interface
Character Customization should now save changes in the PU when editing appearance
Fixed an issue causing elevators in ships to disapear and cause players to be come invisible
Depositing gems in the Klescher Rehabilitation Facility Mining Hopper should no longer give a “transaction error”
Players should no longer damage ships while exiting them
Fixed an issue causing UI HUD elements to randomly become distorted
Fixed an issue causing UGF missions to not spawn all the intended FPS AI
Fixed an issue causing Bounty hunter missions to stall indefinitely if leaving the area before it updates on a slow server
Fixed and issue causing bounty target markers to disappear
Players should now be able to use ‘Store’ to put Gem Shards or harvestables into their Personal Inventory
MFDs should no longer be difficult to interact with due to overriding Inner Thought prompts
Items should no longer get in a bad state and highlight as grey instead of green and be unable to update the character loadout and go missing upon logout/login with affected grey highlighted items
Minable Rocks should no longer have a small hit box which caused the mining UI to have a hard time tracking the progress of the mining process
Players should no longer have the potential to fall through the surface of whatever they’re lying on after being revived out of a downed state
Capacity UI on equipped armor should no longer appear to be over 100% despite there being not enough items to break capacity
Fixed an issue that was causing the main elevators in Grim HEX to duplicate and overlap
Fixed an issue causing group bounties to not complete
Logging out in a ship bed or crashing, logging in/crash recovery should no longer fail w/ Error 20018, or spawn the ship/player at Stanton star, or return to menu without an error
Game should no longer crash after looting an NPC crew member corpse in “Investigate Missing Crew”
A Ships Volatile Cargo should no longer suddenly become Critically Unstable
The Mining UI should no longer scan deposits every time the Mining Laser is Activated/Deactivated
The Mining Consumable Timer should no longer break if Toggling Mining Mode whilst it is active
Quantum Traveling towards a party member should no longer cause the player to fly into the planet
Moving on hills, stairs, fences, low walls or props should no longer sometimes trip the player, or fling them into the air
Player 1 and 2 should no longer lose all control after player 1 attempts to loot player 2’s and incapacitated body while player 2 opens inventory
Fixed an issue that only allowed players to split one item from a stack at a time
Elevator should no longer appear in the entrance to the tram station from the lobby in New Babbage
Players should no longer load back into ship beds inside invisible collision after logging out on planet surfaces
There should no longer be a high chance for commodity selling to fail at admin kiosks
Being knocked unconscious by another player in the escape route in prison should no longer trigger the attempted to escape crime
The Argo Raft deck elevator should no longer pop black LODs as it descends from the upper deck
Players should no longer encounter deadly wind force reaction when exiting Ship and/or Outpost while carrying a mission crate
Fixed an issue causing repair and refuel to not function at outposts
Fixed split arrows from not showing when splitting items in personal inventory