Star Citizen is Beautifully Broken - Patch 3.17 PTU

Patch 3.17 is now available on the PTU server. The update introduces rivers, clouds on Hurston, Lorville Maria Pure of Heart, Ship to Ship Refueling and more.

Any support is massively appreciated!

Hurston clouds clip:

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Epidemic Sound

[RakasansLegacy]

As one of the Evocati testers, you can get a little bit of the taste of what we deal with. But as bad as this test build is, I've seen worse :). But imho this patch was not ready to go out to the wider audience. But that's just me.

[Draliseth]

Star Citizen is what makes me look forward to retirement in 30 years.

[rhetormentor]

Quick note: while feedback threads are not open just yet, the issue council is, plenty of bugs to report or help confirm. It's definitely among the least stable PTU builds I've come across, but I hope they get it to the same stability as 3.16 within the next two weeks.

[teemos]

Around 03:50, the rain drops looked like they were settling on your visor rather than the ship canopy. Or is it just me?

[MrJaspett]

Unstable you say? Elevators don't work you say? Can't login you say? Must be another Monday in Star Citizen.

[almostpilot]

I think many here don't know the difference between PU and PTU.

[captainwazo]

3.17 broken like all first wave PTU patch ! it's Star Citizen, It's life. Nice video.

[Michael-]

Just 10 more years of development and 50 more new ships sales and the game will finally be ready for beta testing!

[r.daneel.]

Patch 3.17:
Character Textures Update, Ship to Ship Refueling, Lorville Hospital, Selling Items/Loot/Terminal UI Reworks, More Variation to Space Clinics, New Shop Vendor AI, 1st iteration of Quantum (dynamic economy), Mining Gadgets, FPS Weapon Updates, Fixes to Ship Positional Desync, Ship Inventory/components update, and more small changes.

- OA:

[austinm]

I remember walking 1.8km to one of the gates around Lorville when my Freelancer blew up nearby 2 years ago. I can imagine walking to the river on microtech could take several days but damn it would be one hell of a journey.

Alternatively, headed there on one of the gravlev bikes might take only a couple hours and would be just as fun if not more fun now that every foot-tall rock on the surface doesn't instantly explode your bike any more.

[Ed_Patrick]

The feedback threads they are referring to are the feature and mechanic related threads, not the patch in general. Until the patch is more stable there is less value in that feedback as it is hard to test them.

[Ashmodai]

THE PTU IS NOT THE PU!
Your audience DOES NOT understand that difference !
The comments are so annoying...

[intothevoid]

Clouds? Rivers? Meh... - The one thing I see in your footage that I like the most is that they made the display panels in the Connie transparent again, improving visibility significantly after reducing it for a longer time ;)

[aikiwolfie]

CIG have previously stated all the servers are test servers. Including the PU. So test servers are all we have to evaluate right now.

[pccalcio]

Thanks for covering SC in a non-biased way. It’s not easy to still be enthusiastic about this game after 8 long years.

[TheAIKnowledgeHub]

Most people don't play PTU. It is a waste of time unless if you are learning something or bug finding. The money and stuff doesn't transfer to PU and goes away.

[blackdogadonis]

I feel like games are going to get so realistic, that eventually, the only way to get more realism, will be to go outside.

[morinc]

it's quite refreshing to have a dev studio actually communicate stuff and ya know, make their game evolve !

[AlastorDeM]

At this point I am just waiting for the game to actually release in 5 years - Moving on to better games that are available NOW.

[Insulinspike]

A main reason why they don't need player feedback is because the streaming issue is a backend tech that players won't be able to report about. They already know what the user side is experiencing since Evo's had been already reporting it before Wave1 was opened up. They just needed a larger volume of players to log in and try to go about things normally so they could gather more streaming data.