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Star Citizen Patch v2.6.1a
Welcome to Star Citizen Alpha Patch 2.6.1a, PTU Testers! For the complete 2.6.1 PTU patch notes, you can find them here
During this initial testing phase, PTU access will be restricted to a small group of players that we will expand on over time as required. Your launcher should show “2.6.1-503234” as the client version. It is strongly recommended that players delete their USER folder for the Test 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\Cloud Imperium Games\StarCitizen\Test.

Please review our current list of Patch 2.6.1 known issues, and take full advantage of our Issue Council area of the Community site to report any bugs you encounter, as well as contribute to other players submissions.

Important Issues: For users encountering GPU Related crashes on NVIDIA cards, please ensure that you have performed a clean driver installation of driver version 378.49! There is a crash when exiting to the main menu from ArcCorp or MMHC with the elevator UI open. Please make sure you’re not in the Elevator UI when you use the game menu! The “Contacts List” button on the Universe page doesn’t work. Hangar flair item are not persisting through client restarts. Players may experience excessive desync when interacting with the Greycat Buggy. If you encounter any infinite loading bugs, restart your client and select a specific Region, not “All”.

Contents:
Updates and Fixes
Star Systems
Ships
First Person
Updates and Fixes

Star Systems:

• Fixed some audio clipping problems in Revel & York Hangar.
  
• Fixed an issue where part of the Khartu-Al flair model was sticking out of the display case.
  
• Fixed a number of lighting issues on the three Race maps.
  
• Fixed a number of lighting issues in the VFG Industrial and Aeroview Hangar.
  
  

Ships:

• Made some tweaks to the audio for shield activation and deactivation.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Cutlass Black thrusters were missing VFX.
  
• Fixed an issue where characters in crouch will still clip out of the Mustang Alpha, Beta and Delta when entering the ship.
  
• Fixed an issue where the missile cinematic camera would cause the normal player camera to become locked in place.
  
• Fixed some unintentionally mirrored textures on the Super Hornet.
  
  

First Person:

• Made some tweaks to the blood splatter visual effects when shot.
  
• Changing loadouts mid-game will now give the correct prompt of “Equip Loadout”.
  
• Fixed some audio issues with the MediPen.
  
  

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

his nibs posted:

"ChristianPost.com is the nation's most comprehensive Christian news website and was launched in March 2004, incorporated with the vision of delivering up-to-date news, information, and commentaries relevant to Christians across denominational lines."

I wonder if they realise how many of the Ten Commandments Crobbers has already broken?





http://www.christianpost.com/news/star-citizen-2-6-1-ptu-patch-notes-news-mega-map-now-in-effect-174586/

peter gabriel posted:

You need to link these so I can drive by downvote the fuckers

Sarsapariller posted:

Here, journalists, I have researched a list of convenient questions for you to ask Chris Roberts in your next totally-not-a-paid-placement interview! No need to thank me- just be sure to read them verbatim.


At Gamescom in April of 2016 you demo'd the "Alpha" of Star Citizen's 3.0 patch, which was slated to introduce NPC's and a larger game world. At the time you indicated that this was set to release before the end of the year.
At the moment, it is 2 months into 2017, and several statements by employees have given the impression that you have not even begun working on 3.0. Is that the case, and if so, what was it that you showed off last year at Gamescom? What prompted you to give late-2016 as a release date?

In an interview with Forbes in 2013, you said: "[Then] an alpha of the single-player game, and then finally a beta of the persistent universe by the end of the year (2014)." Now obviously that was wildly off the mark.
What was behind your estimates at that time, and what has changed to push the release date back by 3+ years with no end in sight? Are you addicted to that little tingle that comes from making declarative statements?

On your forums in 2014, Ben Lesnick, then director of community engagement and content strategy, said: " [... We] plan to launch the Persistent Universe sometime in 2015 and expect to have all the features we’ve talked about to date implemented and functioning (with the help of the community which will be testing them) over the course of the ensuing year." In an interview with Geekdomo in April 2014, Erin Roberts said: "For the first chapter [of Squadron 42], we're aiming for it to be towards the beginning of next year (2015)."What was behind their estimates at that time? It appears that in each of these quotes, the strategy when discussing release dates was just to say something approximately 12 months ahead of the current moment. Would you say your company has some kind of issue with estimating more than 5-6 months out? Would you say that the "Con" in CitizenCon does not, in fact, stand for "Convention?"

In this video, you begin waving your hands while describing procedural generation for star citizen in 2014. In this video, you begin waving your hands while describing procedural generation for star citizen in 2016. These appear to be the same mechanics you've been waving your hands and describing for 2 years. What have you actually accomplished, you intolerable waste of skin?

In september of last year, you angrily denied rumors that the SQ42 was delayed. Less than a month later, you did a complete 180 on that statement and announced that the game was delayed, and promised an update in the near future. It's been 4 months since then and it is increasingly apparent that you weren't anywhere close to finishing the smallest part of this project. When you lie so blatantly, do your testicles kind of shrink up into your body or have you lost the ability to feel shame?

Virtually everything in this timeline is wrong. Are you a loofah-faced poo poo gibbon?

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

More like ships roberts

MeLKoR posted:

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

personality disorder

Goobs posted:

Is it still considered doxxing if it's a fake person that CIG has hired to supposedly post really hip and fresh articles about Star Citizen?

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Look man Chris Roberts 2012-[LAST YEAR] was obviously an untrustworthy, lying scammer. However; Chris Roberts [THIS YEAR] has reassured me of his commitment to finishing the game with renewed respect for the backers and an unprecedented transparency,

MeLKoR posted:

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Self-awareness, thy name is not Angry Pacifist.

Sarsapariller posted:

In [LAST YEAR] we told you that we were just a couple of weeks away from showing [VERSION NUMBER]. Then we sold you more ships. Well, obviously we [GOT TOO MUCH FUNDING/BROKE AN ARM/FIRED HALF OUR DEVELOPERS] so those dates are going to slip a little bit. Don't worry- you'll see everything you pledged for in [CURRENT DATE PLUS SIX MONTHS]!

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5t6vjs/261a_released_to_ptu/

o7

MeLKoR posted:

Sarsapariller posted:

Virtually everything in this timeline is wrong. Are you a loofah-faced poo poo gibbon?

peter gabriel posted:

Seriously I am a busy man and I need links so I can downvote and report these people, it's my only hobby

Ol Cactus Dick posted:

I like how they clarify it will just be the developers and not the actual games.

his nibs posted:

"ChristianPost.com is the nation's most comprehensive Christian news website and was launched in March 2004, incorporated with the vision of delivering up-to-date news, information, and commentaries relevant to Christians across denominational lines."

I wonder if they realise how many of the Ten Commandments Crobbers has already broken?

http://www.christianpost.com/news/star-citizen-2-6-1-ptu-patch-notes-news-mega-map-now-in-effect-174586/

MeLKoR posted:

Hav posted:

Traveller was an RPG written by Marc Miller back in the 1980s; basic science fiction fare that I hugely enjoyed. Kickstarted the fifth edition and ended up facebook friends with Marc, which is geeky as all hell.

Sometime in the late 90s, they decided to 'advance the timeline' a bit, and created a virus that managed to transfer itself from starship to starship, killing the crew and roaming the stars looking for other ships to infect. 'Vampire fleets' if you will. This effectively locks humanity down to the planets it came from, unable to trust a lot of the computers.

I thought this was _fascinating_ as an idea. Player characters were now operating in the twilight of empires, avoiding the old technology, or doing 'smash and grabs' to obtain things from degenerate human societies and the occasional rogue AI.

While the themes are all there in science fiction, this was one of the most original twists that I'd seen in a while.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I sometimes kind of half-envy that kind of immense, unfounded self-assurance.

I wish I wasn't smart enough to know how stupid I am