Star Citizen Alpha 8472527 Update Patch Notes Enhances Combat

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Cloud Imperium Games has kicked out the Alpha 8472527 update for Star Citizen, and here are the patch notes giving folks ideas about what has arrived. The game’s latest patch is pretty extensive, just like the previous one, and brings a ton of changes. The latest update includes AI FPS combat improvements and much more. Besides, note that these patches are released for testing on the Public Test Universe. Check out the Star Citizen Alpha 8472527 update patch notes below.

Patch Notes for the Star Citizen Alpha 8472527 Update

Here are the official Star Citizen Alpha 8472527 update patch notes via Cloud Imperium Games:

Testing Focus

General Stability and Performance
AI FPS Combat Improvements
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

Player corpses will not despawn at Grimhex
Substenance items lack the “Store” option when carrying the item in Inner Thoughts
Players cannot see partied player ships when Quantum Linking together
Multilocation – Locations / Shopping / Interactions – Pharmacy kiosk terminals “Use” interface and Interactions are misaligned
Weapon Feature / Game Code – Tractor Beam – If you activate the tractor beam in the hangar, you can bring the activated tractor beam back and use it in the armistice zone
Aegis Reclaimer – Ships / Vehicles – Ship Features – Reclaimer has no rear Elevator interaction from the ship exterior
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 – A 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

Lorville LOD and Performance Polish Pass

Gameplay

Mining Polish Pass

Hand Mining Difficulty Polish Pass. Allowed Mouse Wheel to control throttle – Alt + mouse wheel to control laser intensity.

Bug Fixes

Fixed – Area18 – NPE – Design / UI – The Contract Manager shows that the tutorial missions are from ‘<-=UNINITIALIZED=→’
Fixed – Area18 – NPE – UI / mobiGlas – After abandoning the mission, the player is still unable to access mobiGlas tabs
Fixed – ANVIL Centurion – Ships / Vehicles / Collision – The Anvil Centurion is impossible to get into through natural means
Fixed – UI / Mining / Locations – Vehicles / Vehicle HUD – Charge information is missing on mining UI for smaller asteroids and fragments.
Fixed – Missions / Locations / Design – Failed Negotiations – Player instantly dies when in no gravity section
Fixed – Grim Hex – Mission Giver – AI / Missions – Wallace Klim becomes stuck under the floor near the hangars after being streamed out and streamed back in
Fixed – Salvage Contractor Missions – UI / Mission Content / mobiGlas – Timer for unlawful salvage mission does not show in the contract manager.
Fixed – ArcCorp – Area18 – NPE – Mission 01: Your First Steps – Initial spawn kicks you out of bed and blocks interactions preventing the mission from continuing