Anyone else joining the Star Citizen stress test this Sunday?

[rentaspoon]

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/284861/ptu-stress-test-at-2pm-cdt-7pm-gmt-on-13-sept-2015/p1

 

Hi everyone!

 

We’re inviting players to jump on PTU this Sunday, September 13, 2015, to help us test out the General Instance Manager (GIM) as well as some of our latest updates. GIM is responsible for creating lobbies and matches, assigning you to parties, handing you off to Game Servers, and keeping track of the type and the state of our servers.

 

In addition to checking out the new content as seen in our Patch Notes, we’ll be asking all players to:

 

- Be in PTU at the start time (see below).

- Play an Arena Commander match.

- After one match, head over to the Social Module for ten minutes.

- Head back to the Hangar.

- Play one more Arena Commander match.

 

And that’s it! We’re going to be monitoring the health of GIM throughout the process, as we’ve made several fixes to improve its stability. 

 

Concurrency Stress Test Times:

 

Sunday PM

- 12pm PDT (Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver)

- 1pm MDT (Albuquerque, Denver, Calgary)

- 2pm CDT (Mexico City, Austin, Dallas, Chicago)

- 3pm EDT (Miami, Washington, New York)

- 7pm GMT/UTC

- 8pm BST (Dublin, London, Edinburgh)

- 9pm SAST/CET (Johannesburg, Paris, Berlin)

- 10pm EEST/MST (Kiev, Moscow, Istanbul)

 

Monday AM

- 4am JST/KST (Seoul, Tokyo)

- 5am AST (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane)

- 6am NZST (Auckland, Wellington)

 

 

After it’s over, feel free to report with any errors that you see:

 

- Error Code: 

- Module (AC, SM, Hangar):

- What were you doing at that time of crash/kick: 

- Additional notes/feedback on the updates: 

 

Thanks everyone and see you on Sunday!

Will Leverett

Patch Notes

Star Citizen Alpha Patch 1.2.1

 

This hotfix patch has been focused on known issues and quality of life updates for ArcCorp. Our current patch notes are also hosted on the PTU website and can be found here. Access to the PTU patch notes on the website requires a PTU account (which uses the password that was sent by RSI via email after copying your account over).

Hangar Module:

Fixes:

 

Ships

Fixed an issue where characters would not be properly aligned in the Retaliator when attempting to sit in the Retaliator pilot chair.

Fixed an issue where characters would appear outside of the Gladiator when attempting to sit down in the Gladiator pilot chair.

Fixed an issue where the pilot of a Vanduul Scythe would experience unusual camera shaking when looking around in-game.

 

Environment

Fixed several texture conflict issues in the Selfland Hangar.

 

User Interface

Fixed an issue where client FPS would drop when the cursor hovered over scrolling text.

Fixed an issue where rapidly switching between different sections in the game menu would sometimes lock out access to device cycling.

Arena Commander Module:

Fixes:

 

Ships

Fixed an issue with the Vanduul Glaive, where the boost would not work as it had no fuel. to device cycling.

 

User Interface

Fixed an issue where players would be unable to trigger respawn if they died while interacting with the HUD.

The right-CTRL key is now the default toggle for Weapon Gimbal Lock as Left-ALT is now used for another function.

Social Module:

Additions:

 

Environment

Characters will now be teleported back to a safe spawn point if they fall out of Area 18’s geometry.

 

User Interface

There is a new loading screen when taking the elevator from the Hangar to ArcCorp’s Area 18.

Chat channels and display names now have a color to distinguish them from chat text.

Channel [Local] is now in yellow.

Player display names are now in blue.

When using Augmented Reality, shop items will now have a blue highlight when targeted.

The left-ALT key now enables use of the Mouse and locks the character in place, allowing use of buttons, tabs and other in-game functionality.

Balance/Tweaks:

 

User Interface

Character names in Augmented Reality will now transition in and out of view based on range at a smother, more gradual rate.

Fixes:

 

 

 

Environment

Fixed a collision issue where characters could clip out of the map in the Medical Unit back alley.

Fixed a collision issue where characters could clip out of the map in Dumper’s Depot.

Fixed a number of texture of conflicts and lighting bugs in ArcCorp.

 

User Interface

Updated the advanced keybinding options and keyboard keymap image in the game menu to now show the Social Module features.

 

 

So I'll be joining if the PTU downloads properly and will be in the teamspeak, I think this is their step to getting ready for the FPS boost in players.

 

(Don't join expecting it not to fail btw)

Edited September 12, 2015 by rentaspoon

[Swndlr]

My body and PC are so ready for this.

 

[Napper198]

So I'll be joining if the PTU downloads properly and will be in the teamspeak, I think this is their step to getting ready for the FPS boost in players.

 

(Don't join expecting it not to fail btw)

 

My body and PC are so ready for this.

 

I'm in. Don't forget to add your contacts on https://ptu.cloudimperiumgames.com

 

Use the password you got via email to log in.

 

 

Handle Napper198

[CyPeX]

Can´t cuz i have a 30 gb update waiting for me D:

[SirBobson]

I might be on...

[drewjn]

Won't be able to make it.

[rentaspoon]

Won't be able to make it.

Hopefully I should be on as long as wifey doesn't grump