Released
2021-12-21 - 2 years ago
Star Citizen Alpha 3.16.0, Return to Jumptown, launched a revised Jumptown experience, opened the hospital in Area18, added changes to gravlev vehicles, atmospheric bounties, and improved the law system.
Released feature updates
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| 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 and life insurance. |
| Updates - Dying Star Map | 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. |
| Gravlev Physics Rework | A significant rework of the flight and driving model for gravlev vehicles when hovering. The aim is to improve general feel and stability, resulting in a far better experience for players using hover bikes. |
| Jumptown 2.0 | Implementation of Jumptown 2.0, a new dynamic event in the persistent universe. Inspired by the historic events of Jumptown, this new event features both lawful and unlawful mission paths. |
| Drake Cutlass Steel | Implementation of the Drake Cutlass Steel, a dropship variant of the venerable Drake Cutlass. |
Trailer
Full patch notes
Latest Update - Star Citizen Patch 3.16.0
Alpha Patch 3.16.0 has been released to the LIVE environment! Patch should now show: VERSION 3.16.0-LIVE.7912978.
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 can 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.
- We've added many additional changes to the law system to help improve it's function in different scenarios.
- 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
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 become 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
Technical
- Fixed 7 Client Crashes
- Fixed 5 Server Crashes
- Backend Service Crash Fix