Star Citizen Alpha 8467657 Update Patch Notes

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Update 8467657 has launched for Star Citizen; here are the detailed patch notes pointing out what’s new for players. The title has been in development for many years and gets constant updates to be tested in the Public Test Universe, including this latest update. The latest version includes new features like New Player Experience and more. Check out the Star Citizen 8467657 update patch notes below.

Patch Notes for the Star Citizen Alpha 8467657 Update

Star Citizen Alpha 8467657 Update Patch Notes — Image Source: Olli43

Testing Focus

General Stability
Lorville Skyline 2.0
Salvage Contract Missions
Tractor Beam – T0.5 – Item Attaching and Detaching
Ghost Hollow Reclaimer PVP Mission
Mission Density Management
Mining Balancing v01
New Player Experience

Known Issues

AC – PTU/LIVE – WaitForPlayerSpawn Connection Timeout
Performance – Client – High dedicated video memory usage leads to severe framerate drops at Lorville
Aegis Reclaimer – Ships / Vehicles – Ship Features – Reclaimer has no rear Elevator interaction from the ship exterior
Aegis Reclaimer – All Variants – Reclaimer main on-elevator control panels do not respond to input
ARGO MOLE – Vehicles / UI – The interaction prompts for ALL mining turrets are easy to miss/in unintuitive locations for players
CNOU HoverQuad – Vehicles / Locations – The vehicle spawns slightly stuck in the ground
Multivehicle – UI / Vehicles / Mining – Mining UI is appearing in Low Resolution
Racing – Locations – Specific rock formations on the Yadar Valley race track are visible to some players and not others
Crusader – Security Post Kareah – Core Tech – Physics – Actor / Player – Transitioning from EVA onto Kareah’s landing pads has a high chance of instantly killing the player
Transit – Area18 – Orison – Shuttles/Trains/Trams – Players are falling through, sometimes disappearing trams and shuttles to their deaths
RSI Constellation Multivariant – Vehicles / Ships / Docking – The snub fighter lacks interaction prompts to enter it, making it unusable
Locations – ArcCorp / Crusader – Area18 / Orison – Core Tech / Transit Systems – The Trams are out of sync with the station timers, causing trams to overlap or not appear on time
Multilocation/Multivehicle – Shopping – Store kiosks won’t populate locations if certain ships are stored
Multitool – FPS Hull Scraping – The Salvage attachment has the VFX of the tractor beam and does not function
Security Post Kareah – Mission Content / Art – VisArea – Contraband screens have a vis area issue
Yela – Grim Hex – Mission Giver – AI / Missions – Wallace Klim becomes stuck under the floor near the hangars after being streamed out and streamed back in

Feature Updates

Locations

Further Lorville Restricted Area Lowering and Optimizing
Lorville LOD Performance Pass

Gameplay

Mining Pass

Mining Location, Sales Premiums, and Availability Balance Pass. Increased probabilities for multiple Minable resources, Including Quantainium. Change to Gold Availablity for Trade Routes. Gold Mine Outposts for Bulk Trade are now locked to Crusader, Far away from their best prices at Arc and Microtech.

Ghost Hollow Reclaimer PVP Mission Balance Pass

Changed the max payout from 100k to 125k per terminal. Lowered the maximum mission reset cooldown. Added reward reduction of 10% off per additional player in the fight, up to a maximum of 8 players.

Core Tech

Optimized Radar Performance while scanning large amounts of cargo
ASOP UI Performance Optimizations

Bug Fixes

Fixed – EXPLOIT – Stanton – Shopping / Services – Salvaged weapons can be sold infinitely.
Fixed – Ships spawning in populated hangars
Fixed – Stanton – Ships / Navigation – Entry / Dismount point of the ladders clips the player through the ship’s geometry. (Temporarily Disables Ladder Slide)
Fixed – Missions / Salvage Contracts – Unlawful – Objectives may not update upon accepting the mission
Fixed – UI / Vehicles – Quantum Travel – Quantum travel UI is not present
Fixed – Interactions / Locations – Area18 / Casaba Outlet – The “Use” prompt is offset from the shopping kiosk preventing interactions in certain positions
Fixed – Missions – Delivery – Some Delivery missions require players to travel between moons or planets with quantum-sensitive cargo
Fixed – Aegis Reclaimer – Asset / Components / Tractor Beam – The 2 salvaging Heads cannot be reattached with the multitool
Fixed – ArcCorp – Area18 – NPE – The “Land at Bajini Point” objective marker is visible for all players doing the New Player Tutorial and changes to a new hangar each time a player calls ATC
Fixed – ArcCorp – Area18 – NPE – Interaction – There’s no inner thought option to drop or place the water bottle in the New Player Experience tutorial after drinking from it
Fixed – Ghost Hollow – Art / Graphics – ReplaceMe / Replace Me balls can be located around Ghost Hollow / Reclaimer PvP site
Fixed – Multivehicle – Vehicles / Components / Tractor Beam – Physicalized Components cannot be removed from ships while the ship is fully destroyed