Star Citizen Patch 3.9.0 Alpha Patch 3.9.0 has been released and is now available! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.9.0-LIVE.5125346.
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.
UPDATE: 5125346 – Back-end services quick fix and new database wipe (LTP still on)
Database Persistence Wipe: YES Long Term Persistence: Enabled
Known Issues
The Cutlass “Best in Show” version has an opaque canopy. Note: We will be providing a Cutlass Black loaner soon.
Duplicate, static trains may appear at Lorville or New Babbage.
Ground vehicles can not be spawned at outpost ASOP terminals (still spawnable at Levski, Lorville, and New Babbage)
Players can become stuck when jumping over some railings
Ships can hitch or teleport at times when observing their motion
For ECN alerts, the rescued Starfarer will sometimes circle endlessly after all waves are cleared
The player can spawn with their prison suit still on after ending their sentence
Being in a large party can cause party markers to fail to appear when inside a ship
If a player crashes while transitioning into prison they will be unable to use their multitool
Players can not see through the scope of the Arrowhead or P6-LR when crouched
FOIP animations are not transmitting to others nearby
Cargo boxes left behind after a ship explodes appear to blink in and out while the player is moving
Player inner-thought and interaction system is off-set in wide screen resolutions
Autopilot sometimes does not disengage after triggered by no-fly zone
Heavy environmental suit armors block portions of the mobiGlas
New Features
Characters
Added microTech clothing collection.
Locations
Added New Babbage Landing Zone – Interiors
To serve as their corporate headquarters, microTech built New Babbage, a luxurious domed city with open spaces designed to inspire the creativity and productiveness of the people who work here. Drawn by the innovation and world-class amenities, other cutting edge companies and tech firms have opened up offices inside the city as well. From here, wealthy tech moguls work, relax, and party before heading out to weekend at some of the planet’s beautiful winter destinations.
Added Klescher automated prison
Players who are directly killed by or die within a short distance of security forces or bounty hunters will now go to prison. In prison, all player inventory is inaccessible, and instead players are given a stock prison suit and a multi-tool with a mining attachment. Spare multi-tools can be found at the “commissary kiosk” should theirs be lost. Players can serve their time normally or contribute to society by working in the designated mining areas. Collected materials can be exchanged for “merits” to reduce your sentence using kiosks located near the mines. Once your sentence is complete, look for the “processing” section of the prison and interact with the kiosk. After being released, you will wake up at your last port.
Added microTech Moons: Calliope, Clio, and Euterpe
Added caves and cave missions to microTech and its moons.
Added food to shops and stands throughout the verse.
Gameplay
Gameplay
New Criminal Mission: Hijacked Caterpillar Prisoner Transport
Added mining laser sub-items
Mining sub-items are consumable components which can be attached to advanced mining laser heads to provide temporary increased effectiveness. Sub-items can be activated within the cockpit using the interaction system while actively mining to briefly decrease the instability, lower resistance, increase the optimal window, and so on. While most have a duration to their effect, some are triggered instantly so they can be used in case of emergencies or as an immediate boost.
Introduced a volatile mineable ore
Quantainium is a widely available and highly unstable ore used in the production of quantum fuel. Once it is mined, care must be used in the speed and manner in which it is transported. Not only does it degrade over time, but any impact will cause it to deteriorate further. The more degraded the quantainium, the more unstable it is and the higher the risk of it exploding. When a dangerous threshold is crossed, the player will receive a visual/audio warning and will have the option to eject all cargo. Failing to eject risks the ship taking damage or being destroyed. Given the risk, successful delivery of quantainium will be a lucrative endeavor.
Added two new surface harvestables
Added in-hand weapon attachment swapping
Players can now customize weapon attachments by interacting with the weapons themselves when held. Hold down F and click on “customize” on a held weapon that can use custom attachments. This will allow you to change weapon components such as sights, barrel attachments, and under barrel attachments.
Added bindings for single axis first person zoom and first person zoom in/out toggle button
Players can now exit ezHAB beds using basic (WASD) movement keys
Added quick buy option with price to food items in shops
New actor status system
With the variety of extreme environments throughout the verse, players will have to factor in extreme hot and cold temperatures when planning their adventures. If you want to stay safe in these conditions, equip yourself with the new Caldera Pembroke and Novikov suits. If you’re not equipped for the temperatures, you’ll begin to suffer the negative effects of hyperthermia and hypothermia, eventually resulting in death. As with preparing your equipment for different temperatures, you have to prepare your body as well. We have also added “hunger” and thirst”, which will be increasing constantly, so you’ll need to stay topped up if you don’t want to suffer the effects of dehydration or starvation. In addition, keeping yourself hydrated and well fed may have positive benefits to motor functions. You can use the commodities inventory to stow away store-able foods and drinks for the journey ahead. Hunger and thirst are persistent effects that carry over from session to session. A more detailed UI has been added to the player visor to track these various states and is visible when activating the personal inner-thought wheel (F+right click).
Ships and Vehicles
Added Esperia Prowler
Named after the UPE military designation, the Prowler is a modernized version of the infamous Tevarin armored personnel carrier. Esperia’s astroengineers were given unmitigated access to study original versions of the ship recently discovered in the Kabal system to help meticulously reconstruct the vehicle. Now, the Prowler is the perfect fusion of two cultures: the elegance and effectiveness of the Tevarin war machine combined with the reliability of modern Human technology.
Weapons and Items
Added new ship weapon: Esperia Lightstrike Cannons
An Esperia recreation of Tevarin historic technology, these energy cannons come in sizes 1 to 3 and are designed for medium to long ranges.
Added new s hip weapon series: Esperia Deadbolt Cannons
An Esperia recreation of Tevarin historic technology, the Deadbolt series are ballistic cannons ranging from size 4 to sized 6 and are designed for short range engagements during drops.
Core Tech
Added new contact list and party system flow via unification with Spectrum friend’s list
The in-game friend’s list now uses your Spectrum friends and has been entirely reworked. The main menu now has a “Friends” tab and a “Notifications” tab. Friends can be added directly by using the “+Add” key and all friends/contact notifications will appear in the notifications tab until dismissed (note: crash recovery will also appear here). When creating a party, a new tab will appear showing party members and leader. The pre-3.9 in-game contacts list will be merged into your existing. Spectrum friend’s list once 3.9 goes live, but for now PTU spectrum is where the PTU friend’s list can be tested.
Feature Updates
Locations
Updated geological aspects of various planetary bodies with new visuals and assets
Default spawn location choices have been updated to only include major city locations (New Babbage, Area18, Lorville)
Added size 1 gimbals to all shops that carry gimbals
Sprint speed while your fists are raised has been increased to match unarmed sprint speed
Adjusted atmosphere density for ArcCorp and Hurston
Updated arrival radius distance for lagrange points – from 120km to 70km
Placed comm arrays around planets and moons and reduced their monitoring radius to cover just those sectors
Updated kiosk screens at Port Olisar, Lorville, Levski, Area18, and Grim HEX
Increased the brightness of the exterior lights around Levski
AI
Updated ship AI behavior to include greater speed ranges and improved avoidance
Gameplay
Updated first person radial menu for personal inner-thought interaction system
The updated Radial menu gives quick access to certain actions which are context specific, such as on foot or in a pilot seat. These actions include emotes, weapon customizations, helmet removal, and many more. Each action is also shown with its relevant keybind where applicable. The menu will save your most used actions as favorites on the main wheel and can be accessed by opening the Personal Thought menu by holding F and right clicking (interact + mouse2).
Doubled the payout of all criminal missions
Added infraction to immediately impound player ships that collide with ships with the right to be within a landing area
Shifted the threshold to obtain lvl 4 and 5 crime stats
Lowered the amount your character twitches while impacted by fire in combat
Made murder and inmate murder against party members be automatically forgiven
Crashing a ship with players aboard will no longer award the pilot with a homicide crime sta
Ships and Vehicles
Forward/backward on vehicles can now be assigned to axes
Added missile incoming alerts to building block based ship HUDs
The velocity limiter can be now adjusted while disabled, with a faded line indicating where the limiter will be once reactivated
Returned missiles to tap to lock, hold to launch and added a keybind (not bound by default) for unlocking
Increased the headlight range of the Vanguard series
Added a small screen for medbed interactions in the 890 Jump
Shifted the mass on the Anvil Ballista from front to body to prevent the rear lifting continuously
Argo Mole can now attach size 1 mining lasers
To temporarily offset some of the issues with shield holes, damage to some ship components (some weapons and turrets) no longer passes through to the ship hull
Added on damage delay to ASAS shields
Reduced gravity compensation in partial landing to make landing easier
Added rain canopy VFX to the Avenger, Eclipse, Arrow, Gladiator, Hawk, Hornet, Herald, Merlin, Starfarer, Freelancer, Prospector, Razor, 300i, 85x, and Sabre
All PU purchasable items should now be available to REC rent
Ships rented with REC should now be customizable
Increased available deadzone range for vjoy by 20%
Set default vjoy deadzone to 4.5%
Lowered assisted gimbal slew speed
Mouse relative mode is now an optional setting for mouse control but not bound by default
Players can low lock the rotation of their ship using the Rshift key
Increased wing health of all Reliants
Added missiles to all Reliants
Added second gimbal turret to Reliant Kore
Streamlined some aim and flying controls to reduce complexity in preparing for future updates.
Many of the custom settings for manual gimbal aiming and aim/look controls have been changed to streamline for future updates. You can find a detailed post on those changes here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/190049/thread/3-9-0-update-changes-to-some-aim-and-flight-contro
Weapons and Items
Tweaked combat damage of S2 mass drivers to bring them more in line with similar sized weapons
Reduced head camera shake, reduced spread, and increased climb/drift for the Karna rifle
The extreme weather heavy armor suits Pembroke (extreme heat) and Novikov (extreme cold) can be found at Lorville’s and Port Tressler’s armor shops respectively.
Major Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that was causing the player wallet to get set to 0 aUEC after character wipes and database resets
Pressing backspace on the main menu should no longer cause the menu to disappear
If a players uses both the pilot and bridge control seats, one should no longer get stuck
Players should now be able to logout in the beds of the 890 and the Reclaimer
Carrack headlights should now function
Fixed an issue that could cause the player to get stuck on the character customizer screen
CryAstro repair services should now work normally without the need to hover prior to landing
Ships should no longer get into an invulnerable state sometimes after repair
Ships should no longer rotate to align with an invisible plane before engaging non-spline quantum travel
Look behind camera should no longer occasionally clip into ship geometry
Area18 habitation floors should now have atmosphere
Logging out of the Caterpillar’s beds should no longer cause the player to log back in the pilot seat
Patrol missions should now correctly appear in the Crusader area
Fixed an issue where multiple ships could place a size 3 to 5 remote turret onto a gun hardpoint
Traveling to OM-1 should now send the player to the correct location and not to the center of Stanton
Carrack upper command ship controls should now have a HUD
There should no longer be a constant light reflection in the Sabre’s cockpit that obstructs the player’s view
Breathing should no longer be occasionally heard while in a loading screen
Avenger bed interaction should now work correctly
AI ships should no longer spin wildly when in combat
The character customizer should no longer become unresponsive
Player should now be able to look through sniper scopes correctly while crouching and prone
FPS AI should no longer aim in a random direction prior to aiming at the player
A ship should no longer be able to snag another ship in its physics grid, moving it out of sync and allowing access to cargo
Fixed a VOIP issue that was causing players to get into a state where Proximity and/or Primary channels can be heard globally after entering another primary channel
Refuel / restock / repair options should now work correctly at HUR-L4
Valkyrie Liberator variant should now be able to hold cargo
Players should no longer see the withdrawal of every mission element when the Call to Arms mission is withdrawn
Manned turrets should no longer appear out of sync and to not move to other players
Players should no longer encounter invisible players who are out of sync
Players should no longer be able to set direct QT routes or skip in-between jumps
Player should no longer be affected by strong wind while moving around on the two platforms at the Central Business District
Cargo boxes created from personal inventory should now be able to be sold at the commodities kiosk
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