Star Citizen Week in Review - 3.24.1 in Testing with a Surprise and MORE 4.0 Struggles? 

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Here's a crazy idea. Ships with built in tractor beams should work the same way as the Atls tractor beam.

PRO TIP: When reading CIG progress reports it helps to replace the word "feature" with "delay". So, this months delays have been pushed back to next month. And last months delays will be consolidated with this quarter's delays in to one mega-delay which will be showcased at Citizencon along with some teasers for big delays they have planned for 2025.

Re-installed the game today. Here is what happened. Created new character Couldn't get out of the bed : 2 times Stuck in the spawn room, door wouldn't open : 3 times Inventory not loading : 1 time Ship not spawning in the hangar : 1 time Retrieval ok, moved to the hangar, started the ship, took off after take off request, exploded : 1 time Retrieval ok, moved to the hangar, started the ship, took off after take off request, hangar doors not opening : 2 times Crashes : 3 uninstall : 1 So after around 2h, I wasn't able to take off once ... 10/10 would recommend

I am surprised to see the positive experiences with 3.24, it made the entire game unplayable for me. Cant do insurance claims, can’t leave hangar, cant use freight elevators, ATC falls apart, etc. Ive been home sick and had 10 days trying - every single day its been broken, actually the least playable for me in a long time. I was not around for 3.18 but I’ve never experienced a week+ of every single thing you need to play being broken

Went to a hopping and popping JT event. Sent an arrow scout and found a group of 8 ships. Took a Valkyrie loaded with a med ursa, pulse bikes and tons of gear sets to land like 6k out from JT. Once the Valk landed, our A1 dropped a bomb which blew up 2 grounded ships and we had a redeemer and 2 f8's clean up the rest of the sky above. While the air battle took place, the ground crew of 5 set up a sniper on top of a mountain over looking the event and the other 4 cleared the rest of JT. No further action until we left with our cargo. Took contact at grim hex with a corsair and lost our fighter support. Lost power to our main ship which was carrying the cargo while the corsair went to go rep but thankfully two of our members logged in and happened to be at grim with a f8 and a SRV. The F8 fought the corsair while the SRV dragged our cargo ship back into the hanger and we made a decent haul getting over 6 mil in drugs. Top tier gameplay and exactly the moments which bring many of us to continue playing SC even when there might be certain hurdles depending on the patch! And no we didn't get use out of the little "FOB" we set up unfortunately . Also a new respect of a fully crewed corsair has been made and we learned to respect that ship from this point forward.

My group had some fun game play at jumptown this weekend. First time I got to hide in the bushes and help protect our hauling ship. Corsair was shooting us from above, they landed and ended up jumping out of their ship without realizing they couldn't get back in. They got totally distracted by that while we snuck up on them and got our hauler out of there.

The PTU is completely unplayable for me at this time. Corsair won't spawn "your claim currently cannot be processed". Can't sell any cargo, from any ship, from any warehouse. Mission markers are pretty much all missing - except bounties and am able to do ground site missions if they have a location mentioned. Permanent message in the middle of my screen with something to the tune of "you left your cargo, you may lose it". Yesterday, the whole moon of Wala was an armistice zone. This patch has just been a really frustrating experience.

"less physical entities" 21:16! This seems key to me, does CIG really need to track empty bottles and gown boxes? Do they need to persist..easy answer NO! persist wrecks and armour guns etc not consumables or gowns...sometimes i log into a city and there is llitter everywhere and server frame rates are brutal.

little tip on Benoit, you can say hes last name like Bo-say-joor = beausejour ;) (im french canadian)

We held JT but selling the boxes was a pita. Moving 100+ small boxes sucked. Next time gonna try and put them in a larger box if possible.

It's really classic cig too make jungle space cows when no place in game has a jungle.

It's interesting seeing the other comments here regarding large drop-offs in participation from other orgs because of Master Modes. Similarly, from the org I'm in, numbers seem to be well down. I briefly jumped in when 3.23.3 aka "3.24" went live - there were a fair few in from the org initially, but then the servers pooed their pants and there only seemed to be a handful on when I subsequently logged on. Correspondingly, activity on the org's discord is pretty low still - Not a healthy sign for CIG, because this is a large org.

That sneakpeak was the back of the ATLS.

that sneak peak is just the back of the ATLS

So we don't have a working inventory, star map, cargo, freight elevators, unique items recovery, mission markers, flight system: But we have bloody Space Cows...

I really wish that the weapon system would return to the initial idea where energy weapons were used to damage shields but would have no effect on armor or the hull of a ship and ballistic weapons would be completely blocked by shields but still do damage to armor once the shields were gone, to add onto that i would like it if once the armor of a section of hull is gone the ballistic round would go through the ship until it hits something, maybe venting some atmosphere in open areas, damages or destroying a component that gets hit, maybe even inguring or killing somone inside if they are hit by the projectile. currently people equip the meta guns, ballistic or energy, to their ship and don't really mix and match, if we had to use specific guns to do specific things i think it would allow for wiggle room in loadout choices.

They' ll never get this game working right, im convinced. And even the flying part isn't fun anymore. Sad face Used to love doing bounties now i cant stand it. I pulled up to MIC L5 today and the hangar door wouldn't even open rofl. Oh lawd. One good thing i give them credit for tho is server stability as far as crashing goes is really good now and that was always the worst problem. So at least something is moving in a positive direction game wise, development wise they have added a lot so im happy there.

Thanks, SaltEMike, I couldn't get the Argo Lifter as others could because they where subscribers and or Wave 1. I stand corrected as with the newest update the Argo Lifter is available to me.

I had a box fall on me and I clipped inside the box. I was stuck. Logged out and logged back in and my hanger would not show up in the elevator lmao. It was weird. Anyway hopefully I can try again. Had to claim my ship too.

Right now, I'm playing Pax Dai ... Its the middle earth version of Star Citizen 😂

I dont think the handhelds should have the same cargo movement as the ATLS, but defo vice versa for ATLS and ship turret tractor, they should have both tractor options

@18:50 Yes, it should have been said when they learned it. Back in like June. This is one of the problems with CIG in that they pretend they are doing 'open development' when really they are fully controlled by marketing needing to make sure they can present problems as happy stories when they are solved. This is why iCache was dead for a year before we heard anything official about it, this is why we've failed through three database formats and cacheing layers without news until AFTER they had started working with the replacement and so forth. It's not open development, it's carefully controlled marketing messaging, and still is in this case (they're telling us the reason for the several months of delays after they've worked around it, not as it happens).

that flight suit from the goodies pack is the SQ42 flight suit recoloured and retextured... its pretty clear.

Also, CIG is discontinuing the legacy launcher. Which really suck as the new launcher has NO built in browser so when you want to look at Spectrum, Patch notes, or just check the forums, or even the Issue Council you click the link and it forces you to open your windows browser. I would rather have the low cost built in browser back.

ahh ... you got a portrate of your cat. That is so cool :)

3.24 is straight up trash. Every single gameplay loop I have tried failed catastrophically.

For some reason the Quasi Grazer animations look soooo much better than the kopion ones. The kopions movement looks artificial in a way that I cant put my finger on.

I hate how they ruined the ships that I bought and ran them into the ground! My inferno is just a cool looking ship. My ion is the worst ship I own now due to the change! I'm tired of Yogi being on his high horse, stating how good master modes is. All my friends left and some are trying to sell their accounts because of master mode. I'm wondering if I'm making a mistake holding on to mine with how Yogi is leading the game.

Not to worry my friends, couches if thrown at a ship by an ATLAS can blow it up thanks to our superior physics engine but you have space cows at least

The Oso system has jungle biomes (Origin place of Osoian Hides)

last few times I took control of jumptown nobody ever came to take it back... I got bored and logged.

Thanks for all the updates as always Mike!

I agree if we can only get the regular tractor beams to also have the functionality the ATLS has. (And ATLS having the fine tune movement regular beams do. And a way to adjust carry height for boxes). I don't want them to get rid of the old stuff since it's still very useful to move things around slowly.

I feel like the movie Groundhog Day. CIG talks about the same stuff, work on shit we don’t need at the moment, server meshing, 4.0, blah blah blah, and a year later we’re still where we were 2 years ago

the atlas complety changed my mind about cargo loading, i 100% hated loading cargo with the current sluggish tractor beams, the atlas makes loading and unloading cargo so much more enjoyable experiance i cant see my self ever playing the game without one going foward

The Dev comment "It's a tool. not cash grab" hopefully suggests it's just put into cargo centre stores and that's it, done! (we can hope)

Greetings from Germany ! I quite like this “Week in Review” format.

uhhh mike ackchually the karna is a plasma weapon not a laser weapon which implies it still has physical ammunition which can jam :)

Calling it Scam Citizen has been proven true this week

You're already 'cool', Mike! Good luck with the AC

Thanks, Mike!

So tired of these simulated events like Jumptown. They are sever intensive run like shat and are un-fun. Let me tell you about the original Jumtown. It was just a location that had no markers and no simulation. You had to find it, you had no idea if anyone would be their. It was some of the best game play I've ever experienced, it was organic game play.

after a depressing 3.24 we finally get a couple of good news in the last 3 days

I see also Oso close to Pyro which has jungle biomes probably but i don't see why they would do that system yet before many others probably more important.

Thanks as always for your week in review, I always look forward to your comments and opinions.

They messed up the keybindings YET AGAIN and my throttle is reversed still. Nowhere is the invert setting now since they deleted it. They continue to bork things up. 2 steps forward, 5 back.

Você e o Tomato são os melhores. Estilos completamente diferentes. Mas são os melhores. Obrigado por seu empenho. (Brasil)

Great episode Mikey

CIG like to say they have things "ready to go" and lead you to believe the things they are "working on" are always just around the corner, i am not lets say, a car mechanic for instance but if i kept saying i was to everyone i knew or met for 12 years using minimal and common basic knowledge of the subject as my cover i too am sure i could convince people i am indeed a car mechanic.

CIG drove away so many players that a Jumptown event is a ghost town.

For tractor beams, hand held should be used In a pinch and need to stay cumbersome

FYI, the sneak peak is the ATLS loaders' backside.

The main bug that needs immediate attention is the lack of ability to claim destroyed vehicles. It makes the game unplayable for newer players like me who don't have a lot of vehicles to use.

Terra and Magnus are both connected to Stanton.. Also the arctic cow looks like a Bison to me

I haven't checked this but if ship health is going then pilots being shot out will become the meta not powerplants.

Last years delays pushed into this year arent this years delays

4.0 and Pyro are just 2 years away!

14:33 FINALLY

I’m hopeful that the new long term debug tools (metrics tools) can guide them to lock into the issues of the game. Right now it seems like anything that could help them squash bugs would only help..

Can't wait to cook me some OX Tongue 😂

the sneak peake is the new cargo mech back side

When Arccorp gets reworked its suppo9ed to have jungles, mountains, and oceans tiling into that hong kong feel harder.

That sneak peak is definitely the back of the ATLS

Hull-A! Probably one of the best solo haulers

I'd just like to be able to get my cutlass black sent to my hangar.

22:35 Isn't that the back side of the ALTS?

I am hopium overdosed that they can keep up with ships being 1year from concept to flyable. (Stated during citcon) If they can do it, we might see the Arrastra in a few months. I expect it to not be done by then but mannnnnnnn i hope they can stick to that 1-year goal.

I been playing Eve too. Let me know if you ever want a wing buddy.

If the cows have green milk I will call Luke. Cows are deadly, we talt Bison, but you take out a Bison with one bullet.

Walking around on microtech, at max settings, 50+fps, and at 4k resolution on an OLED panel, is absolutely stunning. The detail is insane. From the dirt and sticks on the ground, to the bark on the trees.

Wait...am I missing something? Are ALL of the sub rewards this month cosmetic furniture??? NOT IN-GAME WEAPONS AND ARMOR? Big, if true. Still, CIG, prioritize a skin system in the game, and convert all the old weapons/armor from the store/subs to skins. And if anyone complains, say suck it, we're doing what's best for the game. I'm sure your lawyers can figure that one out. ---Oh, just saw the end. Nvm, still selling weapons and armor. Classic, CIG.

I'm going against the stream here and do not think the ATLS automated tractor beam mode should be implemented for the hand held tractor beams, but rather be dedicated as a thing for the ATLS and other vehicles. The reasoning why is that there needs to be a downside to use a flimsy hand held thing vs a more sturdy platform to work from. Another unpopular opinion I've got is that the multitool tractorbeam could be nerfed in the future, but not until they've sorted out the other options for it properly. Basically the small multitool variant should barely be able to drag a 1 SCU box across the ground IMHO. Welcome to try to Change My Mind on this. 😏

OOooooh Jumptown... again. yaaaaaaay.

Oso II has jungle and there is a Oso-Pyro jump point

Love your vids, can’t wait for Arrastra. What do you think about it guys ?

I believe if CIG can make server meshing work, it will be a gold mine for them. They could license the software to other game developers. Thats why CIG is working so hard on server meshing. $$$$

The new gameplay and fixes etc?? Oh no put a hold on that. New ships? Yes push those out make that money! XD just kidding but feels kinda bad

Ngl... i havent found a single person who likes the manual loading and unloading The only thing i like about this is that maze is now 225k per unit

Inserting animals into the world. Ok... thats a W, i will give them that. And for the love of god, fix those NPCs. I spend alot of time at stations gearing up (cos im a noob and i die alot), would be nice to see this bugged out NPCs doing relevant things, perhaphs being able to interact, ask some questions about the station, or even get missions from them. That would give alot of new immersion...

LoL I recommended they add as many metrics as possible in 2017.

Hey Mike, I’d love your perspective on Yogis recent comments and the community reaction dominating discourse currently.

sneak peek is the back of the atlas

So the whole point of the current cargo system is to sell a vehicle.

Jump points are starting to become more and more like EVE gates and less like EVE WHs.

Yeah about that front page change. I can’t actually access the website from the front page anymore, it freezes and then states the page ran out of memory. Everything else on my system works just fine as is and I can access the site from the RSI launcher by clicking links there that take me elsewhere onto the site but the front page is just not working. Advice?

Now we have space cows, we need UFO Flying Saucers abducting them with a giant tractor beam as a rare random event. Also they're showing Star Citizen as "Early Access" on the website main page...shouldn't it be "Alpha Testing" or something similar? Early Access just seems like the wrong term.

Why do I keep hearing Zeus for IAE? You keep saying (rightly) that ships don't get delayed because of patches. They were supposed to come with Pyro, which was scheduled for summer/Q3. The ship release schedule was likely figured out ages ago. If the Zeus doesn't come with 3.24.1, there will likely be a 3.24.2 patch for CitCon (or earlier). IAE already has a big ticket item in the Polaris, and likely a few other ships based on monthly reports of ships going into final review.

Minute 12 what was that Easter egg they showed int the background?

if the answers were honest they would say: squadron is not feature complete. we don't know when it will come out. Star citizen is not the priority. please give us 10 More years

11:58 lol wtf

Thanks for the vid Mike, i cant wait until server meshing is here as i want to finally know how many concurrent players we can actually have. Can it be an MMO ?

I have yet made it to the new web page.. the website keeps crashing saying out of memory.. and this is on a fresh boot with nothing running but that window. tried a few computers.

Wanted to point out that the Deadrig has been available in game for *SOME* people other than those with the Citizencon pack from last year, as a lot of the heavy Xenothreat NPCs from the first time Idris boarding event had them, and I have 4 of them still. While most people couldn't easily get one, it was and still is definitely possible to ask either in global chat or one of the player trading websites/discord, etc to buy one with auec. The Deadrig isn't really that useful a weapon except at closer range than most shotguns, so just as most people don't use shotguns now, even less would like the Deadrig other than "shiny new gun" value. Do I still think CIG should have made the Deadrig more widely available in game sooner, even though over 95% of people wouldn't use it past the first day or so as a novelty? Yes.

No one is going to call out wtf is going on in the background at 12:00? lol

I'm a big fan of the asop terminal UI fix. Can we get the same thing for selling items in stores? Or multi-select and sell all? I know, I'm asking too much now

Have you played Star Trucker? Feels like your kind of game.

Thanks, keep cool

As someone who's really looking forward to living off the land on some far off planet sometime in 2049, I'm personally pretty happy that we're getting animals this early

Re: Benoits statement - I think the 4.0 being held up by 3.24 notion all boils down to that phrase "cost of shipping". I don't think 3.24 stopped/hampered the development of 4.0. I think 4.0 has been cooking in the background while 3.24 has been in testing. However, it's that "cost" of shipping which is the problem, they've spent too much time/effort on getting 3.24 ready to leave the freight depot, while 4.0 has been waiting on the tracks ready to come in to said depot. Basically they've probably finished developing the 4.0 features but can't finalize the rollout of 4.0 to the public test and ready it for the live environment until 3.24 is well and truly launched. That's how I've interpreted Benoits statement.