Go get it pilots :D
NEW FEATURES
NEW FEATURE: Moving targets added to Firing Range
NEW FEATURE: Freelancer cockpit updated
NEW FEATURE: Firing Range sound improvements
NEW FEATURE: Blue activate buttons added to Cutlass
NEW FEATURE: Additional Cutlass functionality added
NEW FEATURE: Ammo items now display in Holotable
KNOWN ISSUES
KNOWN ISSUE: You can get stuck in the Deluxe Hangar door
KNOWN ISSUE: Cutlass does not display in Holotable
KNOWN ISSUE: Behring M4A Laser can flicker while mounted on weapon mount
KNOWN ISSUE: Hands offset when grabbing controls in Avenger
KNOWN ISSUE: Character must jump to access Constellation elevator platform
KNOWN ISSUE: Incorrect gun geometry on starboard side of Freelancer
KNOWN ISSUE: Engine missing from Aurora LX
KNOWN ISSUE: Freelancer cockpit glass can flicker
BUG FIXES
BUG FIX: Various geometry collision improvements
BUG FIX: Fixed first person mouse look in some cockpits
BUG FIX: Ship third person mouse look movement now matches player third person mouse look movement
BUG FIX: Resolved issue where ship third person camera view would zoom all the way in or all the way out
BUG FIX: Resolved crash issue involving Cutlass
BUG FIX: Various ship animation improvements
BUG FIX: Item/ship graphic no longer remains after deactivating Holotable
BUG FIX: Bullet impact and particle graphic polish
BUG FIX: Buggy no longer moves on its own
BUG FIX: No longer able to exit buggy if there isn’t a clear spot for player
BUG FIX: Can no longer exit buggy while it’s moving
BUG FIX: Weapon mount targets health adjusted
BUG FIX: Ball Turret re-added to the Super Hornet
BUG FIX: Resolved various crash and crash on exit issues
BUG FIX: File structure cleanup
BUG FIX: Holotable bug fixes & graphic updates
BUG FIX: Prevent weapon mount collision from becoming offset when fired
BUG FIX: Player no longer moves forward when sidestepping
BUG FIX: Resolved collision issue with Hornet tracker Rotodome
BUG FIX: No longer able to clip through Foot locker
Nice, I'm off to look at the changes! :thumbsup:
Awesome:
Cutlass:
-docking collar now opens (and you can jump through)
-rear ramp activated by small blue switch on rear right strut/leg (get close to it to activate)
-flight deck entry also via wing ladder activated by small blue switch on front left strut/leg
-upper turret seat now active and takes you up to the gun turret position
-never jumped off the wing of a starship before, but I just did!
Constellation
-P52 is missing!
Freelancer:
-liking the cockpit, much better vision and better layout (new pillar layout in particular improve the view)
Holotable:
-now shows more sections and details some power plants too
Textures look real nice and it is running much smoother for me at my resolution.
Like some others, I'm a victim of the dark interior, flashing lights and broken textures on my Freelancer. Some Connie owners similarly affected it seems. Also, lots of people complaining that the lift is now bugged, dropping people between floors is a common complaint.
In all honesty I'm feeling a bit let down by all this. Rightly or wrongly I was expecting far better from the SC team.
Which graphics card are you using OB? My Freelancer was a little dark on the exterior (almost black), but the inside was lovely. I saw none of the afore mentioned screen glass flicker on the Freelancer.
Connie lift I know you have to jump onto the lift in this patch, but that was in the patch notes. Didn't have any other issues with it tbh.
I think the type of hangar you have makes a difference too, from what I read the Business hangar is the brightest, so I expect the lighting will change in time.
It was a wasted download for me, the business hanger looks brighter (too bright?) but can't say i noticed much of an improvement on anything. The Avenger looks the same and has the same issue as previous release (offset hands on grip). I was hoping I might have been able to play with the guns but still nothing I can use. Bring on the Dogfighting...
Quote from: TeaLeaf;381582Which graphics card are you using OB? My Freelancer was a little dark on the exterior (almost black), but the inside was lovely. I saw none of the afore mentioned screen glass flicker on the Freelancer.
Connie lift I know you have to jump onto the lift in this patch, but that was in the patch notes. Didn't have any other issues with it tbh.
I'm using an AMD HD7970. The broken lift is the hanger one I believe, not the Connie's.
I'll check the lift in my hangar to see, didn't use it this morning.
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Only difference for me was the gun now has sound :blink:
Couldn't honestly see any other difference so not sure what the rest of the 800mb+ update has done.
The hanger has always seemed rather dark for me and then extremely bright whilst walking around the exterior of my ship but I had originally put that down to me being too lazy to adjust my monitor settings, but that may not be the case judging by some comments on the RSI forum.
I believe that the 800mb is a redownload of the whole hanger module rather than a patch. Apart from the Xmas decorations going away it all looks much the same as before to me.
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Quote from: OldBloke;381576Also, lots of people complaining that the lift is now bugged, dropping people between floors is a common complaint.
Tried mine this morning and didn't see a problem, but that's no guarantee that there isn't a bug in there somewhere!
They do seem to have done something to the hangar code though, it is definitely running better on my nVidia graphics system, the previous hangar was a little jerky imo whereas this iteration seems to run smoothly now at my settings (2560x1600 with quality set to High).
Overall I think we need to remember that the hangar was something to let us to see the ships during crowd-funding and as an interim for the DFM. We're still pre-alpha at the moment and they're still working on a huge amount of basic stuff. From what I have read, now that numbers of devs have increased since the start of the year, they have moved into their 'agile development' mode and have a number of teams working on different aspects and all moving them forward together. In the next 6 months I'm expecting a lot more of the known ships to be released, the DFM and by the end of the year the PU should have been tried and tested through alpha and possibly even into beta.
Anything we're getting at the moment I'm treating as a bonus, but I can well understand the frustration if you load up the hangar and see a problem - so far I've been lucky and escaped that side of it!
One of the dangers of this crowd-funded route is that the game becomes a victim of its own expectation. We have built up such hopes for this game and people are so committed to it that we're in danger of setting our expectations at an unattainable level. We just need to remember that during a normal development process we never get to see this stuff, so it really is a bonus to see anything at all. We then just need to trust that the $ raised so far is not used to fund a month-long all-expenses paid SIG Employee Convention on Necker Island!
So far I love my ship choice. Everything looks amazing.
My computer doesn't seem to be cutting it though. This pre-alpha is harsher than what we can expect, but I'm getting a lot of motion blur when looking around.
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Quote from: Vargen;381652So far I love my ship choice. Everything looks amazing.
My computer doesn't seem to be cutting it though. This pre-alpha is harsher than what we can expect, but I'm getting a lot of motion blur when looking around.
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What are you running Vargen?
I had the motion blur on a quad core, GTX 560, but not any more since I upgraded
Quote from: Sparko;381653What are you running Vargen?
I had the motion blur on a quad core, GTX 560, but not any more since I upgraded
i7 3610QM
Geforce GTX 670M 3GB
8GB memory
I had motion blur on the previous hangar patch with an i4770K and 2x GTX770 SLI @ 2560x1600, but with this hangar patch the motion blur is almost entirely gone. I still get a little when turning at *very* high speed, otherwise it's a huge improvement for me. I expect as everything continues to get fine-tuned it will continue to improve and by release all of our PCs should be a bit faster anyway!
Quote from: OldBloke;381576Like some others, I'm a victim of the dark interior, flashing lights and broken textures on my Freelancer.
Fix found by a Brusce over at Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1yf082/is_your_ship_dark_inside_possible_fix/).
QuoteHit (`~) key to get into console then put in this string
r_DeferredShadingAmbientSClear = 1
and hit return. Then hit (`~) key to get back into hangar normal.
All lights are on.
From the evidence posted about this bug it does seem to only affect AMD GFX cards.
You can also edit system/cfg in StarCitizen\CitizenClient.
Fixed my FoV, Blur and other annoying stuff that causes motion sickness.
r_ShadersAllowCompilation = 1
r_ShadersUserFolder = 1
sys_PakLogInvalidFileAccess = 0
sys_float_exceptions = 0
r_ShadersAsyncCompiling = 3
r_ShaderCompilerServer = 10.0.1.117
r_ShaderCompilerPort = 61453
r_ShadersRemoteCompiler = 0
cl_fov 80
pl_movement.power_sprint_targetfov 80
i_mouse_accel_max=100
r_motionblur 0
sys_spec = 4
r_vsync = 0
r_motionblurshutterspeed = 0
r_sharpening = 0
i_mouse_smooth = 0
i_mouse_accel = 0
r_HDRBrightLevel = 1.0
r_HDRBloomRatio = 0
^Those are my settings.
It runs a LOT smoother with those settings. Thanks :)
Hangar patch 11.1 released.
(with added Oculus Rift)
And this time it is just a patch. I think it said about 120mb.
30mb when logging in and around 90mb on launch.
Still need to apply the AMD render fix manually.
Quote from: Liberator;381953Still need to apply the AMD render fix manually.
I thought this only affected the Freelancer and the Constellation. Something you're not telling us :norty:
Quote from: OldBloke;381955I thought this only affected the Freelancer and the Constellation. Something you're not telling us :norty:
Can't believe they have spent time making the toilet usable in the Constellation.
But no, I've just been playing with that hangar utility to see how the other half live, flicking switches and playing with the other weapons. Driving around in the buggy and crashing through the crates in the deluxe hangar is the most action you can have yet.
I actually feel like the Aurora was a good choice as the best all rounder on a budget.
Although my hangar could do with the bulbs changing and a lick of paint.
Quote from: Liberator;381980... I actually feel like the Aurora was a good choice as the best all rounder on a budget.
I agree about that but it appears from the comments in the RSI forum that the Mustang is the preferred starter ship. Personally, I think the Mustang is a mess. Forward visibility is severely hampered by the inclusion of two huge headlamps and the use of existing bodywork as landing struts doesn't sit comfortably with me (all likely to change I know but pfft).
Quote from: OldBloke;381983I agree about that but it appears from the comments in the RSI forum that the Mustang is the preferred starter ship. Personally, I think the Mustang is a mess. Forward visibility is severely hampered by the inclusion of two huge headlamps and the use of existing bodywork as landing struts doesn't sit comfortably with me (all likely to change I know but pfft).
Depends on weapon mounts I suppose, my LN has 4 gun mounts and a missile pod, still waiting for specs for the Mustang, looks like 4 guns from the concept art.
There is a poll for a sale this weekend (https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13598-Poll-Mustang-Sale).
Quote from: OldBloke;381983Personally, I think the Mustang is a mess. Forward visibility is severely hampered by the inclusion of two huge headlamps and the use of existing bodywork as landing struts doesn't sit comfortably with me (all likely to change I know but pfft).
I actually quite like the angles, it makes it stand out. But I think the key thing is, as you said, this is concept art and it will change. The freelancer had similar problems with cockpit visibility at the concept and early design stage and that ended up getting a redesign to sort out the problem.
I am still chomping at the bit to see the Banu MM in my hangar though :biggrin:
Re the poll for the sale - I'd rather see it not on sale for the moment, there's loads of other ships I'd rather see on sale.
Quote from: TeaLeaf;381987Re the poll for the sale - I'd rather see it not on sale for the moment, there's loads of other ships I'd rather see on sale.
The No's are winning at 56%.
Quote from: Gorion;381812You can also edit system.cfg in StarCitizen\CitizenClient.
Fixed my FoV, Blur and other annoying stuff that causes motion sickness.
cl_fov 80
pl_movement.power_sprint_targetfov 80
i_mouse_accel_max=100
r_motionblur 0
sys_spec = 4
r_vsync = 0
r_motionblurshutterspeed = 0
r_sharpening = 0
i_mouse_smooth = 0
i_mouse_accel = 0
r_HDRBrightLevel = 1.0
r_HDRBloomRatio = 0
^Those are my settings.
I tried putting the lighting fix in the system.cfg and it doesn't work. Did some searching and the way to do it is to create a user.cfg in the same folder and put your edited configs in there. Tried with the lighting fix and all is good.
They changed some stuff then, as that's a direct copy/paste from mine.
Haven't used/updated my SC for quite a while, so it's possible.
Another hangar patch released today.
QuoteThe Star Citizen UEE Observist towels rewarded to all who backed before reaching $42 million will now appear in your Hangars.
Now that we have our towels, here's the full patch notes:
QuoteNEW FEATURES
NEW FEATURE: Awarding new UEE Observist Towel for all who backed before reaching $42 million
NEW FEATURE: Awarding Subscriber Flair Item #1 (Interactive Calendar available May 9th)
OCULUS RIFT FIXES/UPDATES
BUG FIX: Fixed Warping to provide the correct perspective
UPDATE: Adding True Stereo Rendering
UPDATE: Adding keyboard command to toggle rift on/off (Numpad 1)
UPDATE: Adding Key board command to recenter view (Numpad 2)
UPDATE: Enabling orientation prediction
KNOWN ISSUES
KNOWN ISSUE: Character arms do not animate when Oculus Rift mode enabled
KNOWN ISSUE: A rare crash may occur during startup.
To resolve this navigate to StarCitizen\CitizenClient and delete the USER folder & Launch again
LAUNCHER UPDATES:
UPDATE: The Release Channel setting was renamed to Game Channel
NEW FEATURE: The Game Channel select box now includes a short description of each channel option
NEW FEATURE: Advanced Launcher Settings are now hidden if the ‘Enable Advanced Settings’ setting is not checked
UPDATE: When the ‘Enable Automatic Updates’ setting is checked the Launcher will now check for new updates every 15 minutes instead of every hour
According to a forum post late last night by Wingman, all hangars are getting a makeover. He advised that we should see the current hangars as pre-alpha hangars.
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I assume this is the start of the preparations for the module system.
Got my spinky new Freelancer MIS model in a display case (subscriber perk). Very nice.
Quote from: OldBloke;385323Got my spinky new Freelancer MIS model in a display case (subscriber perk). Very nice.
Or purchase for â,¬4.
(https://robertsspaceindustries.com/media/m7m90qjpl6sh1r/source/Screenshot_display_case_2.png)
This is actually the first time I am tempted my macro transaction ..... scary.