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Hey there hijackers, looters, freebooters, and bandits. Jester has infested spectrum yet again to celebrate the profane and honor the infamous. That’s right, you’ve been blessed with another installment of B0otyCall.

First off, a bit of bad news for all you anti-Jester jackholes. Despite all the rumors, I’m still very much alive and thriving, not rotting under an abandoned homestead after being ghosted by some low-level goon I swindled. Shame on any of you who thought I’d do anything as unprofessional as doublecross an association and leave ‘em alive long enough to exact revenge. You don’t fly as long as I have without knowing when and where to drop the dead weight. Just to address all the theories that had been circulating, I also didn’t retire to take up sub-surfing on Tangaroa, or Calliope myself a new identity so I could enter the next Murray Cup. Actually appreciate the thought put into those last two. The rest of the rumors spread about me while away are too mind-numbingly dumb or ridiculous to repeat here.

All these asinine rumors only exist because I know how to lay low and enjoy a little sabbatical. Why the hell do you think I work so hard? I’m not some work-obsessed psycho living solely for the rush. I work so I can play. Though I admit, the jobs are pretty damn fun too most of the time. It’s why I can only take so much sun before I get the itch for action again. Now it’s only a matter of figuring out where to focus my attention. So, if you’re like me, and looking for a good spot for your next score, here’s what I’ve been hearing.

Horus has become a hotbed of activity after Imperator Addison said she’d like to see Horus II terraformed. Right now the project is like most of Addison’s ideas, a pipe dream that’ll probably never come true, but just the idea of making that sandy wasteland habitable has miners flocking there to rip out resources before terraforming lasers have a go. That means there’s plenty of ships entering the system with cargo holds full of supplies and leaving loaded with resources. And from what I’m hearing, many of those eager little land looters aren’t even bothering with security transports, making their ships ripe for raiding.

Could also cruise over to Castra for a bit of mischief. Word is the navy recently reduced its footprint in-system by sending a fleet stationed there to reinforce the frontline against the Vanduul. I usually don’t work the system because of the entrenched military presence but I’ve heard from multiple ultimo goons that the current action is easier than ever. They actually asked me to spread the word so more would come join the fun. If the system’s current security detail can’t adequately police the action, then imagine how easy it’ll be if more lawbreakers are around to chase.

Speaking of systems with failed security, how about Stanton? I mean, I knew the getting was good there, but I’m beginning to think it’s become a pirate paradise. With four mega-corps all botching it up in their own special way, it all but guarantees that credits and cargo will be freely flowing through the system. And those greedy corporate overlords would always rather pump more money into their bottom line than into security. Why pay for professionals when you can outsource the gig? It’s cheaper for them and better for us – I’d rather run into some ambitious kid looking to earn a little rep over a seasoned security team any day. But the true beauty of Stanton’s security situation is that it’s a weak link system. Only one of these mega-corps needs to stop caring about crime or not have the resources to deal with it for us to have a comfortable home in-system, like Grim HEX. In hot water with Crusader? Mosey over to ArcCorp for a bit. Feeling is that unless it happens in their backyard, these corps couldn’t give an alprat’s ass about trying to chase you down.

Sure, some of you get all twisted and worried that if there’s too much action in Stanton the UEE will plan some big crackdown. Kinda funny you think the UEE has any control over the situation. Pretty clear there’s not enough Advos to go around, and with the navy focused on the Vanduul, it all falls to the corporations. And a few years ago the Senate literally dragged Crusader’s CEO before an open committee, shamed her for their security, and got her to commit more resources towards it. And what’s happened since then? Sure, Jumptown got shut down, but that’s about it. If anything it’s gotten better for us miscreants; so much so that a Pyro gang had the gall to invade the system. The XenoThreat attack exposed the soft underbelly of Stanton’s security and the rest of us would be foolish not to take advantage of the situation.

Look, I’m not buying into whatever nonsense XenoThreat’s been slinging, but I gotta respect their audacity. They literally showed up and dared someone to stop them. Hell, they might still be running amok if all those corpo kissasses and wanna-be Advos didn’t help the authorities fight ‘em off. You know your system’s security is in trouble when you have to rely on some unvetted rando scarfing down a Torpedo Burrito to speed to your defense. That’s what we’re up against in Stanton, a system owned by mega-corps that couldn’t care less about you. I say raid and rob to your heart’s content. Not sure if there’s another system out there that deserves our attention more than Stanton.

[ Muffled computer voice ]

Gonna have to cut it there to make this jump. Where am I going for a little action? Hell if I’m telling you, but let’s just say there’s something big coming my way. These truly are boon times for those of us on the fun side of the law, and I say let chaos reign.

Jester out!

Happy Monday, everyone!

Alpha 3.14 testing continued on the PTU last week, with groups of testers further focusing on our upcoming Dynamic Events, Ninetails Lockdown and the improved Xenothreat. We also hope you enjoyed your first look at Orison in-game if you have access and on Twitch or Youtube via your favorite creators if you don’t. As usual, we want to thank everyone who has played so far and helped us test, as all your hard work has been invaluable in our effort to clean it up for a smooth live release. We’re looking forward to opening the PTU to a larger audience soon!

To ease your wait a little in the meantime, we took the opportunity to highlight some additional content coming in Alpha 3.14 in our latest Patch Watch post.

Last week also introduced many new items to the Roadmap, as the downstream teams’ schedules have been set for Q3. You can check out all the latest deliverables in the full Roadmap Roundup, including increased visibility on the tasks needed for Server Meshing and Persistence.

Now, let’s see what’s going on this week:

This Tuesday, the Narrative Team will publish a new BOotyCall post, this time focusing on pirate hot spots and the current security situation in Stanton.

Wednesday, we’ll post the combined Postmortem for Alpha 3.13 and Invictus Launch Week, giving you exclusive insight into our feature teams’ thought processes. Don’t miss the post and see what went well, what didn’t, and what we learned for next time.

To allow the team to fully focus on the imminent release of Star Citizen Alpha 3.14, we’re going to take one more week before ISC returns and won’t have an episode this Thursday. We know many of you are eagerly waiting for the show, so expect our return episode next week.

Finishing off the week on Friday, you’ll see an update to the Subscriber Vault, and the RSI Newsletter will wait for you in your inbox. Finally, we have a new episode of Star Citizen Live, which will broadcast on our Star Citizen Twitch channel. We’ll update this post with the topic and our guests later in the week.

Have a great week!

Ulf Kuerschner
Lead Community Manager

Screenshot by Caliber1000

The Weekly Community Content Schedule

MONDAY, JULY 19, 2021
This Week in Star Citizen

TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2021
Lore Post – BOotyCall

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2021
Alpha 3.13 & ILW Post Mortem

THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2021
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FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2021
Star Citizen Live (twitch.tv/starcitizen)
Subscriber Vault Update
Weekly Newsletter

Community MVP: July 19, 2021

We're constantly amazed at the contributions made by the Star Citizen community. Whether it's fan art, a cinematic, YouTube guide, or even a 3D print of your favorite ship, we love it all! Every week, we select one piece of content submitted to the Community Hub and highlight it here. The highlighted content creator will be awarded an MVP badge on Spectrum and be immortalized in our MVP section of the Hub.
Don't forget to submit your content to our Community Hub for the chance to see it here!

Credit to SerenkovAndrey on Twitter for the image!

Exiles!

We’re celebrating the arrival of many new faces to the Exiles Lands and the Isle of Siptah with an exciting building contest. Whether you’re new or a veteran, we want to see the architect side of you come out to play. We’re working together with Razer for some fantastic prizes, so this is one you won’t want to miss.

To see what you’re in for, feel free to check out the winners of our past 4 contests: Tiny Homes[forums.funcom.com], Building Recreation[forums.funcom.com], Holiday contest[forums.funcom.com], and Tower of the Elephant[forums.funcom.com].

The challenge this time around is to make a temple with an in-game religion of your choice. Having a God/Goddess to worship (or curse) in the harsh world can bring peace and some pretty nice benefits. What better way to show your devotion than to create a magnificent temple?

You can choose one of the following religions:
Mitra
Derketo
Jhebbal Sag
Set
Crom (oh the irony)
Yog
Ymir
Zath

This temple can be as big or small as you want, so long as you make it devoted to the one religion of your choice. As opposed to the previous contests, all platforms (Xbox/PS4/PC) will be judged separately. Judgement will be done by members of Funcom and based on creativity and how well it conveys your chosen religion.

Additionally, due to platforms being judged separately, we are allowing mods for PC entries. The mods available in the Steam workshop and the minds behind them are nothing short of incredible so be sure to peruse them.

All entries must be submitted by 11:59 EDT on August 4, 2021 . We will not accept any entries after this date. Winners will be announced on August 13, 2021 at 1pm EDT/8pm CEST. Entries must be submitted through this email address: contest@funcom.com. More info on how to submit below.

Razer is kindly supplying some very exciting prizes for this contest. We will select a first place winner for each platform, as well as three runner ups for each platform.

Please note for first place winners, Funcom will require your address for shipping purposes.

First Place For PC:
(1) Wireless PC Gaming Headset - Razer Nari Ultimate[www.razer.com] valued at $199.99
(1) Razer Sneki Snek Plushie[www.razer.com] valued at $29.99
(1) Reusable Face Mask - Razer Cloth Mask[www.razer.com] valued at $29.99
(1) Packet of RESPAWN Gum[www.razer.com] valued at $17.99
First Place for Xbox:
(1) Wireless Headset for Xbox Series XIS and Mobile Gaming - Razer Kaira Pro[www.razer.com] valued at $149.99 OR Xbox One Wireless Headset - Razer Thrasher[www.razer.com] valued at $149.99
(1) Razer Sneki Snek Plushie[www.razer.com] valued at $29.99
(1) Reusable Face Mask - Razer Cloth Mask[www.razer.com] valued at $29.99
(1) Packet of RESPAWN Gum[www.razer.com] valued at $17.99
First Place for PlayStation:
(1) PS4 Wireless Headset- Razer Thresher 7.1[www.razer.com] valued at $149.99
(1) Razer Sneki Snek Plushie[www.razer.com] valued at $29.99
(1) Reusable Face Mask - Razer Cloth Mask[www.razer.com] valued at $29.99
(1) Packet of RESPAWN Gum[www.razer.com] valued at $17.99
Runner Ups:Three runner ups from each platform will also be chosen. These 9 winners will receive a DLC key of any currently available DLC (excluding Isle of Siptah) of their choosing. (Valued at $9.99)

Your entry must include the temple of any one of the in-game religions.
When you submit your temple entry, you affirm that it is your own work. You may have help building it, but it can only be submitted once. Please do not submit an entry that you did not build.
You may use the admin tool if you’re creating your submission on singleplayer/co-op or a private server.
If on PC, you can use Ansel.
You may use DLC.
One entry per email per person.
Please refrain from sending pictures taken from mobile phone.
Low effort entries will not be counted.
You can send in as many screenshots or videos as you wish. You can use Imgur [imgur.com]or another (safe) site to upload images or videos if that’s easier. Just be sure we can access it!
All entries must adhere to the Conan Exiles Code of Conduct.
How to Enter

Please send us your entry of the temple to this email address: contest@funcom.com to enter. If you do not email us here, it will not be counted.
Make sure your subject line is “Conan Exiles Building Contest”.
We will accept entries until 11:59 EDT August 4, 2021 . Entries submitted after this date will not be counted.
In the body of your email, please include the following:
- Which platform you’ve built the temple on (PS4/Xbox/PC).
- Server it was built on (singleplayer/co-op/private/official). Feel free to mention the server name as well.
- Which mods used, if any.
- The religion you chose.
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Terms and Conditions
Odds of winning will be determined by number of entries.

No purchase necessary

Privacy: Funcom’s Privacy Policy is at: Privacy Policy - Funcom[www.funcom.com]

Restrictions: Void where prohibited by law. Participants must be of legal age in their country of residence to participate. Directors, officers and employees of Sponsor, its parent, and any of their respective affiliate companies, subsidiaries, agents, professional advisors, advertising and promotional agencies, and immediate families of each are not eligible to win any prizes. All applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.

Use of Entries. In consideration of the chance to enter the Contest, The Sponsor(s) shall have the perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide license and right to use, modify, reproduce, publish, perform, display, distribute, make derivative works of and otherwise commercially and non-commercially exploit Entrant’s name, character, likeness, and entry materials in perpetuity and throughout the universe, in any manner or medium now existing or hereafter developed, without separate compensation to Entrant or any other person or entity.

General Release. By entering the Contest, Entrant releases participating sponsors and any of their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agencies (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any liability whatsoever, and waive any and all causes of action, related to any claims, costs, injuries, losses, or damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the Contest or delivery, misdelivery, acceptance, possession, use of or inability to use any prize (including, without limitation, claims, costs, injuries, taxes, fees, losses and damages related to personal injuries, death, damage to or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy.

Affidavit,Release and Data Collection- As a condition of being awarded any prize, winners will be required to execute and deliver to Sponsor’s a signed Affidavit of Eligibility, which includes an acceptance of these Official Rules, a release of liability and delivery information for prizes. Entrant is informed that the data collector is Funcom Oslo AS., and the data collected will be transferred to the United States of America. Upon request, Entrant will be provided with access to Entrant’s personal data. Entrant may withdraw their personal data upon request, however in such an event, Entrant will be disqualified as an entrant in the Contest prior to the fulfillment of prizes.

Winners List: After August 13, 2021 winners will be posted on the Funcom official forums. Prizes provided by Razer[www.razer.com].

Sponsors:
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Roadmap Roundup

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

Every two weeks, we accompany the Roadmap update with a brief explanatory note to give you insight into the decision-making that led to any changes. This is part of an effort to make our communications more transparent, more specific, and more insightful for all of you who help to make Star Citizen and Squadron 42 possible.

This week we have a wealth of new deliverables as the downstream teams’ schedules have been set for Q3. As a reminder, since these teams are largely reactive to upstream, their schedules on the roadmap only show one quarter into the future, as opposed to upstream’s four quarters. Additionally, some increased visibility on the tasks needed for Server Meshing and Persistence have been added to the Network and Persistent Tech teams. Check out all the new deliverables below, but definitely take a peek at these teams on the Progress Tracker to see what else they’re working on in Q3!

With that said, let’s go ahead and dive into this week’s Roadmap Roundup!

-CIG Community Team

Notable Changes for July 14th, 2021

Progress Tracker

These deliverables have been added to the Progress Tracker:

Laser Trip Mine
Implementing laser trip mines into the game, which are explosives that use light beams as triggers. When someone or something comes into contact with the beam, the mine goes boom.

Frontier Clothing
Generating concepts for frontier-style clothing for players and NPCs.

Female Player Head
Completing a modeling and texture polish for the female player’s head. After this pass on this asset, it will be sent to Tech Animation for a rigging update.

DGS Mesh Node
DGS Mesh Node implements multiple Dedicated Game Servers (DGS) and clients connected to the same instance of the Hybrid service, and allows DGS to exchange entities and authority over them.

Shard Manager
Add functionality to the Hybrid for what will become the Shard Manager component service. The Shard Manager functionality is responsible for creating a shard in the EntityGraph database, ensuring it is “seeded” with an initial population of entities, communicating with matchmaking so that players can join a shard, and talking to provisioning services so that a Hybrid and Dedicated Game Servers (DGS) can be assigned to a shard.

Inventory Unstow
“Unstow” refers to fetching an item from an inventory and placing it into a Shard. For example, a ship loaded with cargo being unstowed, removes the ship and it’s associated cargo from the inventory and places them into the game. This work implements moving an item’s persistent data from an inventory into a Shard managed by the EntityGraph, and adding the item to the Replication Layer.

Entity Stow/Destroy
“Stow” refers to moving an item into an inventory. For example, a ship loaded with cargo being stowed, stores the ship and it’s associated cargo. This work implements removing items from the Replication Layer, moving its persistent data into an inventory managed by the EntityGraph.

Itemport Mod API
This API allows tools like the Vehicle Modification App (VMA) to modify ship loadouts inside inventories.

Shard Data Query API
This API allows gamecode access to common queries against entity graph data.

Free Form Variable API
Blackboard service for gamecode systems to write generic persistent variables.

AI – Navigation Links – Ladders/Ledge Grab
Implementing special adapters to allow the navigation system to be informed of potential navmesh connections offered by ladders or ledge grab markup. The navigation links already allowed the creation of adapters that contain gamecode specific functionality to function as sort of translators between system-specific domain into the navigation system.

AI – Trolley Push & Pull
This will be the first pass on implementing the ability for NPCs to use trolleys and trolley-like entities. They will be able to move in the environment pushing and pulling those entities to place them from/to specific locations. This requires the creation of a special pathfollower that can take into consideration external forces that needs to be balanced to achieve the desired speed.

AI – Ground Vehicles
This is the first pass on supporting NPCs controlling and driving ground vehicles. This requires the implementation of a new pathfollower that can take care of the vehicle’s physical abilities to transform the NPCs movement request into actual movement.

AI – Unmanned Missile Turrets
Adding AI controlled missile turrets to improve defense of green zones.

AI – Medical
Implementing a variety of medical AI behaviors. A patient will arrive at the hospital and check themselves in at a terminal then wait to be seen called to a room for a diagnosis. The patient can then see doctors and nurses tending to sick and injured people. Other patients will wait to be called. Doctors and nurses can be seen washing their hands, checking medical stock and dispensing medicine. Some patients will be asleep in medical beds.

AI – Leisure
The leisure behavior is a segment of our new civilian behavior system, controlling how the AI behaves when they have free time during their schedule. AI will create a lifelike environment by relaxing and having fun, using the things that are available to them, such as exercise equipment, jogging routes, TV monitors, seats/benches, and their mobiGlas.

AI – Dancing
Dancing is a segment of our new civilian AI leisure behavior. After work, some civilians will have the urge to spend time at a nightclub and dance the night away. This will bring new life and movement to our bars.

Fire Hazard
The Fire Hazard system will track fire & temperature on static and dynamic objects. For the initial release of fire, the feature will be setup on a select few vehicles.

Destructible Workflow
Building out a workflow to allow artists and designers to work with destructible objects.

Maya Live Link
Maya Live Link establishes a link between Maya and the Lumberyard/StarEngine Sandbox Editor. It is primarily meant to give animators the best possible, “what you see is what you get” style preview quality by seamlessly integrating the Editor-rendered images in the Maya viewport.

Rescue/Transport Mission
Taking advantage of AI follow behaviors to create missions where players transport customers from one location to another, along with prototype missions where player must rescue imperiled clients from dangerous situations and escort them to safety.

Infiltrate/Defend Mission
Underground Facilities are the first place to benefit from the addition of spawn closets which allow us the expansion of the suite of missions that take place there. Missions range from all-out assaults to situations where you may be able to complete objectives without the need to engage in combat at all, and include both lawful and unlawful versions.

Comm Array Mission Improvements
Several mission improvements and totally new missions set across and around the Comm Arrays, with a specific focus on PvP content.

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Physical QT Movement
This deliverable had been previously removed from the roadmap. It has returned to the Progress Tracker as it has been scheduled to be worked on in Q3 by the Physics team.

MISC Hull B
The Hull B was originally scheduled to be worked on simultaneously with the Hull A. However additional resources needed to be allocated to the Hull A, therefore we’re temporarily removing the Hull B from the Progress Tracker until it has been rescheduled.

Release View

These deliverables have been added to Release View in the Alpha 3.17 column:

Persistent Hangars
Players will have the ability to have their own Persistent Hangars. This will bring changes to the Cargo gameplay loop by allowing players to buy cargo and send it to their hangars, then maximize their cargo storage space by allowing them to pack the goods themselves. Gone will be the days of getting booted from your hangars because you were there for too long.

Outpost Homestead – Independent & Outlaw
A small home for AI to live and shelter. They consist of a central hub and a few optional internal and external modules. They provide the basic necessities to support a small group of people for an indefinite amount of time.

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That’s all for this week! Join the discussion on Spectrum

Kellar’s Run. The Walzer Massacre. These horrific events earned Nexus the nickname the Crossroads of Crime. In this book excerpt, Yvette Baze explores how the UEE has struggled to bring law and order to the system.

This article originally appeared in Jump Point 8.7.

Chapter 7: Calming the Crossroads of Crime

The events surrounding Kellar’s Run shocked the Empire and embarrassed the Advocacy. The inability of the UEE’s top law enforcement agency to stop one criminal from wreaking havoc across five systems transformed them into a punchline overnight. Vids of the dramatic chase flooded spectrum. Each portrayed the Advocacy as disorganized and unable to contain the chaos caused by a single, skilled pilot fleeing from enraged outlaws, opportunistic bounty hunters, angry civilians, and local law enforcement. The following day, Advocacy director Renzo Berlanga met with Imperator Mikkel Sheriden and offered his resignation. Imperator Sheriden wasted no time in asking, “Do you want to be remembered as the director who let this happen, or the one who fixed it?”

Bolstered by the Imperator’s call to action, Director Berlanga instituted sweeping reforms that would affect the agency and the empire. He restructured existing operation teams by isolating and removing agents that weren’t effective in the field, raised the Advocacy’s enrollment standards, increased annual training requirements for all agents, established inter-system exercises, and more. Berlanga also had an extensive discussion with the Imperator about Nexus, the figurative and literal center of Kellar’s Run. Following this discussion and others within the government, the UEE officially reclaimed Nexus in 2931 in an attempt to break up the cluster of unclaimed systems. Experts would ultimately credit these initiatives with positively reforming the Advocacy, but many of the practical effects would take time to manifest. Meanwhile, crime rates continued to rise through 2932 and 2933, with Nexus seeing one of the most significant spikes in illegal activity.

By 2934, Director Berlanga realized that systemic reforms could only go so far and a more focused approach would be needed to address specific issues in each system. First on his list was Nexus. Without any fanfare, he visited the system, met with Section Chief Alesia Mowry, and requested a tour. SC Mowry quickly assembled a small team for protection and took Director Berlanga on a ‘safe’ tour of the system.

“Ten minutes into it he told me to cut the shit and show him what’s really going on,” recalled SC Mowry, “so I took him to Nexus III. Once he saw how entrenched gangs were in old mining sites and underground facilities, he understood that more agents and better equipment weren’t going to fix this.”

Thus began an open and honest conversation between Director Berlanga and SC Mowry about how to bring law and order to the system. While the rise in crime rate statistics could be attributed in part to additional Advocacy field agents logging more arrests and incident reports, SC Mowry believed that these low-level arrests were actually serving to increase syndicate activity. With the majority of arrests being unaffiliated or low-level operators, small and medium-sized outlaw packs either consolidated or integrated themselves into bigger syndicates that could promise protection in numbers. One Advocacy source even claimed the Supreme, one of Nexus III’s most notorious gangs, had almost doubled in size since 2932.

“I told the Director that we should enforce UEE laws, but do so strategically by targeting and focusing attention on prominent syndicates one-by-one. I figured that concentrating resources would be more effective and hopefully spread the word that the Advocacy meant business once it set its sights on you,” recalled SC Mowry.

Director Berlanga agreed with the approach and extended his stay in Nexus to strategize. He considered several plans before deciding the Supreme’s expanding influence made their headquarters on Nexus III a prime target for such a statement strike. Resources and agents from other systems made their way to Nexus and, in the early hours of July 24, 2934, launched with a search warrant listing a litany of crimes allegedly carried out by members of the syndicate. No one expected the Supreme to surrender quietly.

With Director Berlanga back at Advocacy headquarters, SC Mowry oversaw the operation from a command ship in orbit above Nexus III. Advocacy Tactical Team Leader Terrance Kemp snuck an advance team into the Supreme base to disable the facility’s anti-aircraft turrets. After achieving their objective, they were discovered and engaged in a fierce firefight. Their success allowed Advocacy dropships to deploy more agents, as the Supreme rallied forces and mounted a vigorous defense. Meanwhile, Advocacy ships quickly abandoned their plan to attack the radar tower after the rapid arrival of Supreme ships and the deployment of an unexpected and extremely deadly weapon — an old orbital mining laser modified to defend the base.

Inside the facility, Advocacy agents slowly made their way through the darkened halls, running into resistance around every corner. The still active radar tower allowed Supreme forces to skillfully coordinate their response and control the weaponized mining laser. Tactical Team Leader Kemp believed the Supreme were orchestrating their operations from a command center inside the facility, and finding it became his primary objective.

“There was no time to strategize. We were under constant harassment from a force defending their home turf,” recalled Kemp. “Eventually, we reached an open, common area with several hallways branching off it. I was about to send agents down each one when I spotted something, a strange marking on the wall that looked like the Banu word for ‘war’.”

Next to this glyph was an arrow pointing down one of the hallways. Similar strange symbols were near each hallway entrance, but none reused that same shape language. Only after the attack did the Advocacy learn that the Supreme had created a unique set of symbols so those that couldn’t read or speak standard could still navigate around the facility.

Kemp’s familiarity with Banu paid off, as the hallway led to the war room where Supreme commanders were coordinating operations. Breaching the room proved to be a harrowing and costly endeavor for Advocacy forces, but following a fierce fight, they gained control of it, tipping the battle in their favor. Once the radar tower was destroyed and the mining laser taken offline, the surviving Supreme fighters fled. Kemp’s team slowly and carefully cleared the facility, eliminating any remaining pockets of resistance. With their headquarters in Advocacy hands, the Supreme were effectively crushed. Surviving syndicate members would try to reconstitute the group over the years, but they were never again major players in the Nexus underworld.

Although Director Berlanga was happy with the outcome, he was concerned about the high number of casualties. Still, he instructed SC Mowry to capitalize on this momentum and continue to clear out outlaws entrenched on Nexus III. Under SC Mowry’s guidance, the Advocacy spent the next few years slowly reclaiming the planet. To ensure outlaws wouldn’t flee only to return later, the Advocacy worked with the UEE military to bring in troops to hold the facility and establish their own base. Yet, not everything went smoothly. In 2935, outlaws displaced by the UEE’s retaking of Nexus III perpetrated the horrific Walzer Massacre at OP Station Demien. The event shocked the Empire and hardened the Advocacy’s resolve to bring law and order to the system.

SC Mowry stewardship of the initiative earned her a promotion to Deputy Assistant Director and paved the way for her replacement, Section Chief Consuelo Ivery, to reclaim Nexus IV. Then politics intervened when scrutiny from a Senate subcommittee revealed how many credits were spent and Advocacy officers lost in reclaiming Nexus III. Senators questioned what was gained besides aging bases on an abandoned and resourceless planet and threatened to cut the Advocacy’s budget if a similar brute force approach was taken on Nexus IV. Already under fire for the Skycap scandal where twenty of the agency’s Avenger Titan Renegades disappeared only to end up in outlaw hands, Director Berlanga acquiesced to political pressure and stopped the plan to retake Nexus IV.

The failure to be able to fully secure Nexus IV has resulted in the system’s strange security situation. Nexus III is accessible to military personnel only, while Nexus IV still has a strong outlaw presence and remains one of the more dangerous planets in the UEE. For some, the UEE’s attempt to calm the crossroads of crime exemplifies its struggle to bring law and order to the Empire. Once one hotspot is stamped out, another immediately flares up.

EXCERPT FROM LAW & DISORDER REPRINTED BY PERMISSION.

COPYRIGHT MERITUS PRESS

Happy Monday, everyone!

Alpha 3.14 is now open to Wave 1 testers on the PTU! Testers are currently hammering away getting the patch ready for release in the very near future. If you’re not in the Wave 1 group of testers, fret not! The PTU will be opened to a wider group very soon.

In case you missed it, the Lore team dove into the Ask The Devs section of Spectrum and gathered the community’s questions. Check out the collection of answers on everything from assassination attempts to the food of the ‘verse in this edition of Loremakers: Community Questions.

Now, let’s see what’s going on this week:

This Tuesday, the Lore team has a new post entitled “Law and Disorder: The Constant Fight for a Peaceful Empire”. This in-lore book excerpt focuses on crime in the Nexus system.

It’s a roadmap week! Wednesday we’ll have an update to the Star Citizen Public Roadmap, along with an accompanying Roadmap Roundup. The downstream teams have extended their planning into Q3, so this week’s publish is definitely not one to miss. In addition, we will be reposting last week’s Squadron 42 Monthly Report as a commlink.

Thursday will bring another installment of Patch Watch. In last week’s edition we dove into the balance changes coming to ship weapons and shields, and this week we’ll be rounding out the changes with updates to ship behavior and thrusters.

On Friday, you’ll see an update to the Subscriber Vault and the RSI Newsletter will wait for you in your inbox. Star Citizen Live also returns this week at 8am Pacific / 3pm UTC. Members of the Lighting Team will join us in a Gamedev show that promises to… illuminate a small piece of their daily process.

Have a great week!

Jake Bradley
Associate Community Manager

Screenshot by MrEquilibrium

The Weekly Community Content Schedule

MONDAY, JULY 12, 2021
This Week in Star Citizen

TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2021
Law and Disorder: The Constant Fight for a Peaceful Empire

WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 2021
Roadmap Update
Roadmap Roundup
Squadron 42 Monthly Report Comm-Link Repost

THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2021
Patch Watch

FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2021
Star Citizen Live (twitch.tv/starcitizen)
Subscriber Vault Update
Weekly Newsletter

Community MVP: July 12, 2021

We're constantly amazed at the contributions made by the Star Citizen community. Whether it's fan art, a cinematic, YouTube guide, or even a 3D print of your favorite ship, we love it all! Every week, we select one piece of content submitted to the Community Hub and highlight it here. The highlighted content creator will be awarded an MVP badge on Spectrum and be immortalized in our MVP section of the Hub.
Don't forget to submit your content to our Community Hub for the chance to see it here!

The Voice Props DLC pack is available today for $12.99! Blast out some music with the Boom Box, intimidate your neighbours with the Megaphone and Microphone Stand, phone a friend (or enemy, or stranger) with the Mobile Phone, and more. But because Rust is a hardcore PvP survival shooter, we also knew we needed to finally remedy its most obvious omission - a disco.

This DLC pack includes a range of new items that allow you to record, stream, project and playback audio, as well as accessorize your base with some disco themed props. It also includes three new dance gestures and 7 achievements to unlock.

Cassettes and RecordingsCassettes can store snippets of audio and can be used in a variety of ways. To record audio onto a Cassette, simply insert it into a Cassette Recorder and hit RMB to record. Cassettes come in 10, 20 and 30 second varieties. Once audio is recorded onto a Cassette you can press LMB to play it. You can also throw the Recorder with the Reload key, handy for sticking it on to vehicles or structures.

If you'd like to not hear recorded audio (for streaming purposes) you can disable it in the Options menu.

Boom BoxesIf you want to play your audio on something with a bit more oomph you can use a Boom Box. Coming in both static and deployed versions, you can use a Boom Box to play both recorded audio on Cassettes and stream internet radio.

To stream audio from the internet you’ll need to open the settings and select a channel. A few notes on this system:

We recommend content creators turn off this feature (set Internet Audio Streams to Off in the Options menu) in order to not trigger any copyright/DCMA strikes
Server Admins can add additional stations that might interest their players. Use the BoomBox.ServerValidStations convar to add stations (eg. BoomBox.ServerValidStations “Test Station,www.teststation.com”)Deployed Boom Boxes can also be connected to other audio entities via the Audio Out IO port.

Megaphone and Microphone StandYou can project your voice to friends and foes with the Megaphone and Microphone Stand.

The Megaphone is a held entity that you can use while out and about. Hold LMB to activate it and broadcast your voice. While holding LMB you won’t need to press your push to talk key if push to talk is enabled.

The Microphone Stand is a deployable version of the Megaphone that requires power. It has two different voice modes to modify your voice (squeaky and deep) and has an Audio Out IO port like the Boom Box to connect to other props in the DLC pack.

Disco PropsGive your base some late night disco vibes! Use the Disco Floor, Laser Light, Connected Speaker and Sound Light to set up a dancefloor that will make your neighbours jealous.

All of these props have an Audio In IO port so you can connect them to an audio source (like a Boom Box or Microphone Stand) to make them react to any playing audio.

The Connected Speaker will rebroadcast any audio from an audio source that it’s connected to, so you can play music throughout your entire base or hook them up to a Microphone Stand to make a base wide PA system.

New DancesA dancefloor is pointless without dancing, so this DLC pack includes three new dance gestures. Unlike the existing gestures these dances will loop endlessly and you won’t be able to move while dancing. To cancel a dance you can just press a move input, jump, crouch or hit LMB.

Mobile PhoneTake calls on the go - and stylishly - with the latest in telecommunications technology on the island: the Mobile Phone! Giving you access to the telephone system from anywhere on the island. You can open the dialler with LMB and still move around while chatting.

We’ve also added the voicemail functionality to legacy deployed Telephones, simply insert a cassette with your voicemail message into the phone and anyone who calls in while you’re away will be able to leave a message for you. You can access any voicemail messages from the dialling screen. The number of voicemail messages that can be recorded depends on the length of the cassette, so a 10/20/30 second cassette can store 1/2/3 messages. If a new message is left when your voicemail is full the oldest voicemail will be deleted.

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Alpha 3.14 is fast approaching the PU, so naturally it received development time throughout June. However, most Star Citizen teams also progressed with content coming in the future. From unannounced ships to the jump points that will lead players to Pyro, read on for all the exciting updates from last month’s work.

Star Citizen Monthly Report: June 2021

AI (Content)

Early in the month, the AI Content Team was heavily involved in preparing for a four-day motion capture session. Each related team attended and was able to provide information directly to the actor, which was a new experience for many and gave the team a greater appreciation of the process and learnings that will help with future sessions. Some of the recorded assets have already been delivered and are currently being made functional for game use.
June also saw the team extend the patron activity to handle the new shops they’re working on and analyze the usables that will be required to populate the PU outposts. The security guard and vendor activities and their related usable setups were also finished.
The security guard became the primary use-case for dynamic conversations, with the devs setting up two conversations that can randomly be selected by a civilian approaching the guard – reporting a crime and asking for directions. They also completed a pass of the security guard’s wildlines and began using the reputation system to influence the behavior logic flow.
The vendor behavior was expanded to support NPCs collecting combinations of food and drink items from different usables and delivering them to the player as a single order. AI Content also worked with the Dialogue Team to identify the assets needed to reinforce the flow.
“To make serving food more tactile and realistic, we have identified “food grip types” for the new items and we are working with the Props Team to package the food when served. No more hotdogs placed directly on dirty counters!” -The AI Content Team

AI (Features)

For spaceship combat, the AI Feature Team worked on the technology to allow AI to identify and target sub-components of other ships (engines, weapons, etc.). This will allow a greater range of tactics to be selected. For example, taking out the engines of a ship so it can’t pursue and then firing at it from afar. The AI will retrieve the same type of information from the sub-components as it does from the whole spaceship, including the amount of damage dealt, which will allow the team to prioritize attacking the weapons causing the most damage. This new ability means some existing combat behaviors need to be modified (such as the orbital strafe maneuver) to consider the side of the spaceship that the targeted sub-component is on.
The team also implemented the ‘chatty’ and ‘quiet’ traits used in the spaceship dogfight behaviors that control how often AI communicate in combat. This involved identifying non-critical combat wildlines (eg. collisions, repeated dealt damage, and receiving damage) and undertaking a ‘trait check’ to see if they should be triggered.
For Human AI, they worked on the technology and animations to control how an NPC reacts to stimuli (such as a gunshot, seeing an enemy, or hearing an enemy) when interacting with a usable. This technology is needed to bridge the gap between the AI’s usable and reaction behaviors while exiting the usable and getting the AI back to the nav-mesh. For example, if it spots an enemy player it may need to reach for a weapon to begin fighting, convey its level of reaction to the player, and get into a combat behavior position. With a range of different usables that can put them in different positions and postures, the team needed to identify the commonalities between usables to prevent having to create bespoke animations for each one. However, there are still lots of different variables (direction, reaction level, armed, unarmed, etc.) that need careful management to prevent a vast increase in the number of animation assets.
They also produced a prototype for the utility behavior that will allow AI agents to transfer cargo crates between areas. NPCs will identify loose crates, pick them up, then take them to an area and stack them. The next AI can take the stacked crates and transfer them to another area as desired. This behavior builds upon lots of different usable work: finding the crate usable, exiting the usable as part of the pickup action rather than as a separate exit animation, finding a place that can accept the crate for stacking, disabling agents from taking crates that have other crates stacked on top of them, and identifying when a stack is full. They also have an eye on how this will integrate with vehicular cargo storage.
The first version of the unmanned missile turret behavior was implemented. This has proven that all the work done for spaceships is easily portable to multiple entities and will correctly handle any vehicle that wants to shoot missiles to target.
They also continued to work on data and animation clean-up from the motion-capture session completed last month. All developers on the team supported optimizations, tweaks, and bug fixes for Alpha 3.14 too.

AI (Tech)

The Tech Team started the month working on planetary navigation, improving the navigation mesh tiles to allow for a spherical surface representation of the mesh. They also added functionality to allow NPCs to correctly move along paths defined by the designers, giving a much more robust solution to allow characters to loop over open or closed paths of different shapes, restarting from the beginning where necessary.
Work on 3D NPC navigation in EVA continued, with the team improving the collision avoidance system to support agents of different sizes. The rules were amended to allow smaller ships to try to avoid larger ones and to allow large ships to not care as much about avoiding smaller ones.
The first pass was finished on the code to allow NPCs to control and move trolleys in a similar way to the player. They’re currently extending the movement system to enable the selection of multiple path followers, which is important for trolleys that have a force-based controller, as it allows NPCs to decide how much force to apply to maintain the desired momentum.
For the Subsumption editor, the team continued to embed the tool into the game engine, with a focus on allowing the main graph to include all the subgraphs in one view. This is particularly useful for the mission logic as it will allow designers to have a better global view of the logic of each mission and should reduce the mental effort needed to follow the logic between different graphs. The team was also busy with bug fixes and optimization for Alpha 3.14.

Animation

Animation created a rough space whale loop for AI to test with and to help Design determine what else they might need in terms of gameplay. They also worked on vendor sets to improve the various shops and vendors around the PU, which involved creating cowering assets to enable civilians to run and hide behind cover, janitor and arcade machine blockouts, and medical revival gameplay.
The Facial Animation Team developed animations for emotes, eating and drinking, and various other systemic AI features. They completed a breakdown of the AI in the main world locations and created a large list of assets that require placing by the AI Content Team, with the goal to better implement the content they already have. Animations were also created for the salvage weapon.

Art (Characters)

Last month, the character artists continued developing three armor sets, which will also receive variants for various events and programs. The tech designers completed their pass on the characters for Orison’s initial release and are currently adjusting loadouts in line with feedback and addressing graphical issues.
The rest of the Tech Team supported Alpha 3.15 alongside the Actor Feature and Design teams, which involved setting up a system for players to equip and unequip backpacks. They’ll also be adding new backpacks to the PU in support of the feature. They also worked on holographic props of all their assets for the physical inventory UI.
The concept artists spent time working on event-themed items, created additional concepts for the Pyro system, and explored possible gameplay interactions with the space whale creature.

Art (Environment)

The Montreal-based Art Team worked to finish the remaining hospital locations, with the space clinics, Grim HEX’s clinic, and Area18’s hospital now whitebox complete. They then moved onto the greybox phase, where they’ll define the various modules in more detail and begin adding details to properly show the art intentions.
On the design side, the team began using derelict pieces of spaceships to create puzzles, which will be populated with loot to encourage exploration and create pockets of new gameplay around Stanton. Their initial goal is to produce 24 derelict puzzles; half planetside and half in space.
Finally, they looked into defining building-interior gameplay, creating a prototype layout and looking into adding proper missions to it. They’re also defining how this layout will fit into the procedural location creation tool currently in development by the Tools Team.
The Landing Zone and Modular teams took the colonialism outposts through the final art phase before moving onto the second content set, which introduces more variation and additional themes.
They’re also close to completing the gas clouds that will surround jump points, including a second look for greater variety. Orison is currently being closed out, with most focus on improving performance and fixing bugs.

Art (Ships)

In the US, the Ships Team focused on closing out the Constellation Taurus, squashing bugs and undertaking a general polish pass. The Taurus will be flyable in the upcoming Alpha 3.14. There were also additional bug fixes across the wider Star Citizen fleet.
The team continued moving the two Crusader Ares variants, the Ion and Inferno, through the pipeline. They’re aiming to move into the final art stage in the coming weeks for delivery in Q4. Whitebox for the Drake Vulture began alongside a new variant of a popular ship to be announced later in the year.
June saw the UK team complete the final art and lighting pass for an as-yet-unannounced ship. They then moved onto the LOD (level of detail) process and exterior damage setup.
With the Aegis Redeemer’s exterior completed for Invictus Launch Week, the team moved onto the interior, completing the greybox phase ready for review in early July.
Gold-standard work also continued on the Sabre and Retaliator; the exterior lighting pass was done for the Sabre, while the Retaliator received reworked light and door controls throughout.
Finally, Ships revisited the Crusader Hercules to get the A2 variant ready for release, which involved adding a kitchen area for the crew and two large bomb bays in the cargo hold.

Art (Weapons)

Last month, the Weapons Team continued with the mining gadget, taking the asset through to LOD-zero complete and updating the rigging before passing it to Animation. Three Subscriber weapon paints were finished and readied for release alongside a new knife for a future PU release.
The animation passes for both the standalone Greycat tractor beam and standalone salvage tool began, with iteration on their rigs being completed too. Other focus in July was on two new Size 7 Behring ship weapons, one ballistic and one energy. Both are for an upcoming ship release and are currently in the greybox phase.

Audio

Alongside trailers for Alien Week and Invictus, the Audio Team worked towards their Alpha 3.14 goals. This involved significant work on Orison:
“Orison is one of the largest locations we’ve had to tackle for a while. It was a great opportunity for us all to work on something together to make the ambiances, music, and dialogue for the transport system, hospital, and gas giant. It was a challenge to keep the interiors sounding clean and balanced with the windy upper atmosphere of the Crusader planet. We are really excited by what we’ve achieved!” -The Audio Team
They also worked on the hospital locations and medical gameplay in general, adding effects to the CureLife medical tool and dialogue that makes the player sound injured and relieved when healed.
Finally, Audio supported UI Features on Missile Operator Mode and capacitor gameplay to make dogfighting gameplay smoother.

Community

The Community Team kicked off June with their Pride Month Celebration. To honor the diversity of our players, they launched the Show Us Your Colors Celebration 2021 and rewarded the ten most colorful entries with a Drake Cutlass Red. They also introduced the new multi-user private lobbies on Spectrum and talked about the user-friendly updates to the Issue Council.
June saw Star Citizen’s annual Alien Week event, which introduced the Gatac Railen and new alien ship paints. Following its unveiling, the devs answered community questions on the new Xi’an ship in the Gatac Railen Q&A. Community also held two contests, the Alien Trading Card Contest and the second Intragalactic Cook-Off.

Finally for Community, the team launched the 2021 (Virtual) Cosplay Contest, whose winners will be announced at the digital CitizenCon event on October 9. Entries are open till August 31, so don’t miss out!

Engine

In June, the Physics Team moved the generation of surfel data used for radar cross-section queries to an offline precomputation step in the resource compiler which, in general, optimizes various types of assets (textures, meshes, sounds, metadata, etc.) for final consumption in-game. A great deal of time was also spent on various optimizations.
All tiers of physics geometry instancing were completed. As a result, the cloning and sharing of brush physics was enabled, leading to physics now using only 50% of the memory it previously had on the client and server. This was made possible by sharing all common geometry-related data (such as geometry transforms, sub-mtls, and surface types) across all clones of the same static instance. For example, a set of static objects using the same geometry. With the pending release of Orison in the PU, the tracking of terrain is skipped for gas giants. AVX instructions are now utilized to block set entries in spatial grids and ray-box intersections in spatial grids have been optimized.
Networking-related data was moved between internal structures for more efficient access and synchronization, while the structure size of physical entities and alignment was optimized to ensure hot members are always on the same cache line. Page sizes for event factories were tuned, resulting in a net gain of 100 MB in system memory. Additionally, the physics queue for the biome builder was reduced, several areas of thread contention were reduced, and a race condition in the optimized priority queue was fixed. Lastly, the precision of quantized bounding volume hierarchy trees was improved.
For the renderer, the team continued working on the transition to Gen12. A Gen12-exclusive mode for forward-rendered deferred pipelines was added, numerous rendering issues were fixed, and editor support was improved. Support for instance constant buffers with reflection data was added and vertex input caching was extended. In terms of visual features, support for detail cavity and gloss blending was added too.
With regards to volumetric clouds, the rendering of secondary views (runtime cubemaps, RTTs, etc.) including clouds was addressed. For empty space skipping, which is still in the very early experimental stages, computation of the narrow band SDF for cloud coverage has been revised along with the generation of associated MIP maps in a signed format. An initial set of quality options was exposed to the game menu (combined as a single quality option). These quality settings will see further refinement and extensions as the system matures in releases post Alpha 3.14. A driver issue on the 10xx GTX line of video cards affecting the computation of scattering queries was investigated and a workaround implemented. The team are still in the process of clarifying whether this issue is a driver bug and, if that’s the case, hope that it can be fixed properly.
The Core Engine Team finalized the switch to Clang 11, which is used to compile the game server. Clang-related code vectorization and math optimizations were enabled and a code generation bug was identified, worked around, and reported. The memory tracker was improved to detect deallocation of memory that’s not allocated (double free, without the use of page heap). Also, it can now filter allocation stacks by specified engine modules and the engine’s memory statistics update has been optimized. Preliminary support for a new profiler frontend was added alongside various improvements and optimizations on relevant engine components to utilize the profiler to its full capabilities. The component update scheduler received support for multiple passes and event handlers were separated from component updates. Vis areas now use more fine-grained locking for updates to reduce contention and the queuing of animation vis area updates is now lockless, as is event queuing.

Features (Characters & Weapons)

June saw the Feature Team continuing work on actor status, this time adding different ways the recently completed statuses affect the player. For example, if a player character’s blood drug level (BDL) becomes too high, they’ll utilize a specific intoxicated locomotion set and experience various on-screen effects. This will also affect the player’s control while on foot and piloting a vehicle by adding degrees of randomness. These effects scale with the BDL, and there are several ways to increase it. For example, a player can visit a bar and over-indulge in alcohol or they can over-use injury medication in a short period of time.
Another recent addition is the downed state. Unless a player receives significant damage when hit by what is currently a killing shot, they will fall over similar to getting knocked out. In this state, they’re essentially unconscious and slowly dying, though teammates can resuscitate them if they arrive in time.
Meanwhile, work continues on different optimization initiatives, including better data encapsulation of the lower-level animation update logic. A while ago, the team began exploring component update frequency as an option to reduce the cost of characters the further away they are. A number of core actor components have now implemented this and testing is in the final stages. The team is hoping to use the PTU to get a more live-like test of a cut-down version of the performance improvements, with the hopes of shipping them in a future release.

Features (Gameplay)

The US Gameplay Features Team spent June gearing up for the upcoming release of Alpha 3.14 and looking ahead to future initiatives.
Throughout the month, they continued work on the player asset manager. With the baseline functionality implemented in May, the team began adding further features to the app, such as sorting and filtering. They also worked with the Narrative Team to name the app, with the final decision being “NikNax.” Once decided, the UI designers created a logo and general branding schem. They’re currently wrapping up leftover tasks and preparing NikNax for its release in Q3 2021.
The team also further developed the Ninetails Lockdown, working with QA to test and balance the Dynamic Event before its release in Alpha 3.14.
The cargo refactor has been expanded to include resource container work, while the designs for persistent hangars and a selling refactor began, with larger discussions set to happen in July. The planning and documentation initiatives from May continued throughout June too.
In the UK, the team focused on features for Alpha 3.15 and 3.16, including loot generation. The team is now ensuring all setups are in place so that the boxes with loot are distributed with randomized valuable items.
They also began developing atmospheric depth damage for gas giants like Crusader. Once complete, the pressure within gas giants will damage players’ ships if they attempt to reach the core.
Ship-to-ship refueling began its production phase, which is a significant collaboration between the Gameplay Feature, UI, and Vehicle teams. When live, players will be able to provide fuel to other players in exchange for credits.

Features (Vehicles)

Last month, Vehicle Features’ work was a mix of supporting Alpha 3.14, ramping up the development of jump points, and supporting Vehicle Experience on their upcoming patch content. They also supported VFX in developing the new thruster dust effects mentioned in May’s report, which is planned to debut in a coming patch. They also made improvements to the docking feature that didn’t manage to make it into Alpha 3.13, such as allowing players to refuel, repair, and restock vehicles docked at a station.
A key feature of Alpha 3.14 is the new HUD technology, which is a brand-new way of creating HUDs that allows for much more depth and complexity than was possible before. Recent work involved ironing out issues and filling gaps to ensure the HUD covers the many cases that exist across different ships.
As that work is nearing completion, a large portion of the team moved to build out jump points. Though this feature hasn’t had significant development time recently, progress is increasing rapidly as focus switches and more devs begin working on it.
The Vehicle Experience Team predominantly progressed with Alpha 3.14 tasks, including Missile Operator Mode, the new power triangle, and the rebalance of various aspects of ship combat. As the features are tested by the Evocati, the team will continue to balance, tweak, and improve all aspects of the changes before they launch in Alpha 3.14.

Graphics & VFX Programming

June saw the Graphics Team complete work on the window and PingCIG shaders. The window shader allows them to simulate the windows of static rooms without actually modeling the interior, enabling large buildings filled with ‘fake’ interiors for minimal cost. This approach has been used in several other games and, while the visuals are naturally constrained compared to bespoke rooms (which would be impractical for performance), the results are vastly better than black or empty spaces. The PingCIG shader is a new version of the ping effect that will be used for the upcoming improvements to the radar and scanning feature; it creates waves that trigger various visual effects when they intersect solid geometry, such as an edge highlight.
For Orison, improvements were made to the performance of real-time environment probes and bugs were squashed ahead of release. Improvements to the LOD Merger to support tint-palettes and wear were also completed to allow huge draw-call savings for distant renderings of the city.
The team also made improvements to the UI compositing and post-effect pipeline to achieve the specific look the team want, such as drop shadows, glow, brightness adaptation, and color correction while minimizing performance impact.
The VFX Programming Team added support for querying cloud density from planets and used this to trigger a variety of effects. Several particle-streaming issues were addressed and the final bugs with the new lighting system were resolved. The fire feature progressed well too.
Both the Graphics and VFX Programming teams also made great progress on the Gen12 renderer and Vulkan backends, with the vast majority of post effects now running Gen12 by default. This doesn’t result in major CPU performance savings as the post effects were already cheap on the CPU side, though major benefits will be seen in scene rendering.

Lighting

In June, the Lighting Team closed out their work on Crusader’s new landing zone.
“The sheer size of explorable and landable areas around Orison and the line of sight across the platforms necessitates an enormous quantity of lights. The challenge here is to provide as much lighting as possible throughout the landing zone, with a focus on the primary playable spaces and within our current tech limitations.” -The Lighting Team
In the final stages of their work, the team focused on the background elements in Orison, including ring platforms, habitation platforms, and flying barges.

Narrative

The Narrative Team dedicated resources towards the upcoming patch release. All patches require bug fixes, string reviews, and quality-of-life improvements but special focus was placed on the final polish pass for Orison.
The team also provided narrative support for upcoming events, including IAE 2951 and several dynamic missions. The development of Pyro continued, with Narrative providing write-ups to the Art and Design teams to help further flesh out the system. Time was also spent on developing additional AI behavior flows and scripts to create more realistic interactions in the future. Narrative direction was also provided to further enhance the lore of the upcoming medical and hacking gameplay, and preparation was done in advance of an upcoming motion-capture shoot.
In celebration of Alien Week, Narrative participated in a special Inside Star Citizen about the various alien cultures in Star Citizen and released a Xi’an letter for the community to translate. Lastly, the final part of A Gift For Baba was published and the entire story is now available to read on Spectum.

Player Relations

The Player Relations Team expanded their services alongside the Player Experience Team and Live QA. This collective will focus on assessing the health of the game on the live service and working directly with stakeholders to identify, triage, and help fix key issues affecting the community.
They also further expanded the UK and US teams to broaden the level of support that players will receive and have been working extensively to support the launch of Alpha 3.14.

Props

Last month, the team focused on closing out their tasks for Orison, including the dressing props around the city and high-tech hospital props. They continued to work on the upcoming colonialism outposts too.
“This was a welcome break from the clean, high-tech assets we’ve been doing recently, and the team has been pushing our materials and really trying to hit the mark set out in the new colonialism art style guide.” -The Props Team
Elsewhere, the team tackled tech debt and made great progress closing out bugs.

QA

QA’s primary publishing focus was stabilizing Alpha 3.14 to test in the staging environment and preparing it for the Evocati, which was done later in the month. For development, QA worked through test requests for upcoming gameplay features and dynamic events.
Time was also dedicated to scheduling, ensuring the team have proper coverage for upcoming content and events. They also planned out what’s needed for staging streams as far as headcount and ownership.

Systemic Services & Tools

In June, Systemic Services & Tools geared up for the next iteration of the Economy and AI Simulation, which has improved fidelity and interaction with the game itself and is easier to manage via new integrated tools.
The team also finished upgrades to Ubuntu 20.04 and continued the foundational work for various services, such as the AI Info service and ATC service. They’re currently working towards applying tech created for direct connections to other services to help alleviate bottlenecks on the backend.

Tech Animation

Looking back over the quarter, Tech Animation made great progress with their pipeline and tasks, balancing the fine line between user support and productivity to deliver many of the features and content they wanted to.
R&D into streamlining the ‘facial-scan’ and ‘scan-creation’ pipelines was completed, with the outcome saving the art teams significant man-hours over the coming years. This also formed the cornerstone in Tech Animation’s own facial rig building process and will ultimately expedite the entire facial pipeline.
One main aim of the quarter was to upgrade the head asset and facial animation system codebase, which is currently well underway. The team also managed to overhaul the weapons pipeline with a facelift and new toolsets to assist with technical elements.
Tech Animation were supported by Tech Art in upgrading their export processes. Once complete, they moved onto the skeletal optimization process that will improve character hitboxes when completed.

Turbulent

Last month, role-based access control in Hex received a new iteration, which allows for different levels of access to the tool based on more granular roles. The team also worked on a launcher update featuring quality of life fixes, an epilepsy warning before launch, and new channels for internal testing.
The Game Services Team continued to focus on the Server Meshing project alongside working on service improvements and documentation.
As they closed out 2021’s second quarter, Turbulent’s Web Team made great additions to the RSI website. Following on from improvements to the roadmap progress tracker earlier in the year, the team created more efficient automation tools for roadmap publishing to make it easier to review and publish content.
June also saw the completion of the new multi-user private lobbies in Spectrum. This is the first step in connecting Spectrum groups to in-game chat lobbies. The bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements were substantial and set the feature up well for connection to the game. The Spectrum Team also added more features into the app, with ‘moderator tools’ currently in development. Text anchoring was also worked on, which will be available to all users.
On the backend, the team focused on performance improvements, ensuring that the number of requests can exponentially grow with the size of the Star Citizen community. The team participated in two major tasks to support this. Firstly, they were able to split the database and store orders, helping to better distribute the load on the database structure during major events. Secondly, they split how they write log files for user activity in the database, making it execute into a queue, ensuring log activity never slows down writes that need to happen immediately. For example, when a player logs in. These efforts have shown significant performance gains on the platform and allowed Turbulent to downscale some of their servers in June.
The Web Team supported the release of the Gatac Railen and other promotions throughout the month.

UI

The programmers on the UI Feature Team worked through large ongoing tasks in June. First, they worked closely with the Actor Feature Team on healing gameplay, specifically creating the medical UI screens used for healing and other functionality in the hospitals. Next, they further developed the core tech for the new Starmap and connected it to the radar system. They’re currently focusing on the backend code that connects AR markers, the Starmap, interior map, and radar system. In-game functionality will come next, followed by UI in the future.
The UI Tech Team connected the Building Blocks UI system to the FlowGraph dev tool, which will give level designers more flexibility to connect UI to the game without relying on programmers for implementation. They also tackled UI-related bugs for the upcoming patch release.
The artists and designers worked on interactive screens for Orison and updated transit signs that will gradually make their way into the game. They’re also thinking about the next iteration of the mobiGlas, with the designers and artists concepting potential layouts and animations for the overall feel of the system. Future vehicle HUD concepts and a variety of logos for use in the environments and UI were developed too.

Vehicle Tech

The Vehicle Tech Team spent time putting the finishing touches on the radar, scanning, and ping refactor, getting it ready for Alpha 3.14. Along with getting the feature polished, they squashed numerous bugs, including several relating to damage, repair, landing gear, targeting, and game crashes.
Meanwhile, improvements were made to doors. This involved improving player interaction with door panels and airlocks and solving issues with the transition between the atmosphere and the vacuum of space.

VFX

Throughout June, the VFX team focused on Orison, finetuning the many effects required for this expansive location.
“We are excited for the Alpha 3.14 release because it will be our first with the new particle lighting model. As mentioned in previous reports, this will allow a much better quality of lighting for particles, but more importantly, will allow us to create our effects in a more consistent way without worrying that different environment lighting will cause the effects to not work as well. For example, the same effect in a darkly lit room versus a brightly moonlit area in space.”
-The VFX Team
The team also continued their process of fleshing out the destruction pipeline, focusing on a Theaters of War map containing a huge explosion sequence. Final improvements were made to the new vehicle radar ping effects following feedback and several miscellaneous tweaks were made in the run-up to Alpha 3.14’s release.

Conclusion

WE’LL SEE YOU NEXT MONTH…

Happy Monday, everyone!

While Inside Star Citizen is still on its three-week hiatus, last Thursday, Chris and Sandi joined us in what was meant to be a five-minute video update… Instead, you can visit our YouTube channel to watch Sandi’s nearly half-hour update with Chris.

If you want to know more about upcoming features like medical gameplay, hacking, and FPS radar, be sure to check out last week’s episode of Calling All Devs with Core Gameplay Director Richard Tyrer.

Last but not least, we wrapped up Pride Month 2021 (though we’re still proud no matter the month) by creating a gallery of all the awesome creative submissions from our Show Us Your Colors Celebration 2021. Check out this colorful splendor!

Now, let’s see what’s going on this week:

This Tuesday, the Narrative Team will publish their second Comm-link answering some of the community’s burning questions from the Ask A Dev section of Spectrum.

Wednesday, we’ll publish June’s Monthly Report for the PU and send out Squadron 42’s report via email.

On Friday, you’ll see an update to the Subscriber Vault and the RSI Newsletter will wait for you in your inbox. We’ll also welcome a new Star Citizen Live episode. Stay tuned for further updates on air time and guests.

Have a great week!

Christian ‘Wayne-CIG’ Schmitt
Community Manager

Screenshot by LeMage

The Weekly Community Content Schedule

MONDAY, JULY 5, 2021
This Week in Star Citizen

TUESDAY, JULY 6, 2021
Loremakers: Community Questions
Subscriber Comm-link
Subscriber Newsletter

WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2021
PU Monthly Report
Squadron 42 Monthly Report via Newsletter

FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2021
Star Citizen Live (twitch.tv/starcitizen)
Subscriber Vault Update
Weekly Newsletter

Community MVP: July 5, 2021

We're constantly amazed at the contributions made by the Star Citizen community. Whether it's fan art, a cinematic, YouTube guide, or even a 3D print of your favorite ship, we love it all! Every week, we select one piece of content submitted to the Community Hub and highlight it here. The highlighted content creator will be awarded an MVP badge on Spectrum and be immortalized in our MVP section of the Hub.
Don't forget to submit your content to our Community Hub for the chance to see it here!

June Was Pride Month, and we invited each of you to celebrate with us by showing us your colors! There were no limits to creativity for this and we challenged you to take a screenshot in-game, craft a card, bake a cake, make a video, as long it was as colorful as possible!

Enjoy the incredible submissions we received for the Show Us Your Colors celebration, which helped make Pride Month colorful in the ‘verse!

Updated Wounding System
Players now go to a crawling state when wounded in most cases, instead of being fully incapacitated. They can move around slowly and use doors. They also get a bit more health than they used to in the old incapacitated state. This might allow you to move to relative safety.

The older incapacitated wounded state still occurs in the following situations:

If you get looted while in crawling wounded state.
If you die from fall damage.
If you crawl too deep into water.In both states you still have some chance to recover after the wounded timer runs out.

By default right now the base value is a 20% chance while crawling and a 10% chance while incapacitated. But you now get up to a 25% bonus on top of that (so max 20 + 25 = 45% total) based on your food and water levels. Maximum food and water = full bonus.

If the above check fails, but you have a large medkit in your belt (not just your inventory), the medkit will be used up and you won't get any health from it, but you will recover from being wounded. i.e. A medkit in a belt slot gives a 100% chance at recovery when the recovery timer runs out (you can still get killed while wounded by taking damage though). And if you're lucky enough that you pass the recovey check anyway, the medkit isn't used.

There is one exception where the medkit revive doesn't happen: Fall damage. So you can't dive out of a helicopter with your trusty medkit for guaranteed survival.

New console variables woundedrecoverchance (default 0.2): Base chance of recovery after crawling wounded state.
incapacitatedrecoverchance (default 0.1): Base chance of recovery after incapacitated wounded state.
woundedmaxfoodandwaterbonus (default 0.25): Maximum percent chance added to base .wounded/incapacitated recovery chance, based on the player's food and water level.
crawlingminhealth (default 30): Minimum initial health given when a player dies and moves to crawling wounded state.
crawlingmaxhealth (default 50): Maximum initial health given when a player dies and moves to crawling wounded state.
Train Tunnel Entrance Improvements
We've added a number of improvements to the train tunnel entrances. The bottom of the stairwells now have a circular stairwell piece that is used to align the stairwell to the train tunnel grid. This has the advantage that we no longer have to snap the entrance building to a specific rotation and position, which allows us to integrate them a lot nicer inside monuments. We're planning to move more tunnel entrances to building basements or inside static monument tunnels or sewers in the near future.

While we implemented these circular stairwells we also addressed an issue that was forcing the stairwells and elevator shafts to be extremely long, which led to boring elevator rides down to the train tunnels. This is now addressed, and the stairwells and elevator shafts that go down to the train tunnels are significantly shorter.

Countryside Tunnel Entrances
Also added this month is a refresh of the train tunnel entrances spawning in the countryside, as in any entrance that lives outside of monuments.

We have redone the visuals to look like bunkers on the surface and improved the interior layout to offer more tactical options. You will also find a computer station in these countryside entrances that will allow you to connect to a CCTV camera outdoor and ensure all is clear outside before leaving.

Monument AI
This month we've added the first pass of AI scientists to the Trainyard and Airfield monuments, initially around the puzzle areas. This will be expanded to all major monuments in the near future.

There's also a bunch of general bug fixes, improvements, balance and tweaks to both the animal and human AI - including a fix for unresponsive AI at low server FPS.

Nvidia DLSS
Nvidia DLSS is now available, DLSS can be enabled via the options menu by navigating to Options > Graphics.

Today, Rust receives its latest round of content and feature enhancements, which continue to make the game better and better. And included with the update is the introduction of NVIDIA DLSS, which’ll boost your performance by up to 50%, while maintaining comparable image quality to native resolution rendering. In fact, in many instances, DLSS improves upon Rust’s previous anti-aliasing options, with reduced temporal anti-aliasing, superior detail in the distance, and improved anti-aliasing on the game’s massive amount of foliage.

-Nvidia

Take a look NVIDIA Rust comparision DLSS video:

If you’re unfamiliar with NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) then here is a quote from the Nvidia DLSS Rust article:

NVIDIA DLSS it’s a groundbreaking AI rendering technology that increases graphics performance using dedicated Tensor Core AI processors on GeForce RTX GPUs. To enable DLSS in Rust, download and install our latest Game Ready Driver, download the Rust update when released, then adjust settings in the Options > Graphics menu.

Instantly, your performance will be accelerated, for a superior experience. In our testing, frame rates increased by up to 50% at 4K. Faster performance gives you smoother, more fluid gameplay, or if you love eye candy, the headroom to crank up detail levels and rendering resolutions.

You can read the whole Nvidia article here:

In May we also implemented Nvidia Reflex, Learn more over at Nvidia[www.nvidia.com].

Improvements & Fixes Highlights
Fixed Player Name Plate Delay - Fixed invisible and delayed nametags
AI Responsiveness - AI will now be more responsive when servers are under heavy load
Easier Rowboat Flip - Flipping over a capsized rowboat is now eaiser
Tree Birds - Birds now have a chance to fly out of trees when hit
Primitive Lootbox Sound - Updated lootbox destroy sound, no longer louder than gunshots
Check out the changelog for more changes.

Voice Props DLC Pack

The Voice Props DLC pack is available today for $12.99! Blast out some music with the Boom Box, intimidate your neighbours with the Megaphone and Microphone Stand, phone a friend (or enemy, or stranger) with the Mobile Phone, and more. But because Rust is a hardcore PvP survival shooter, we also knew we needed to finally remedy its most obvious omission - a disco. The Voice Props DLC pack is available for purchase on Steam with a 10% launch discount!

This DLC pack includes a range of new items that allow you to record, stream, project and playback audio, as well as accessorize your base with some disco themed props. It also includes three new dance gestures and 7 achievements to unlock.

Cassettes and RecordingsCassettes can store snippets of audio and can be used in a variety of ways. To record audio onto a Cassette, simply insert it into a Cassette Recorder and hit RMB to record. Cassettes come in 10, 20 and 30 second varieties. Once audio is recorded onto a Cassette you can press LMB to play it. You can also throw the Recorder with the Reload key, handy for sticking it on to vehicles or structures.

If you'd like to not hear recorded audio (for streaming purposes) you can disable it in the Options menu.

Boom BoxesIf you want to play your audio on something with a bit more oomph you can use a Boom Box. Coming in both static and deployed versions, you can use a Boom Box to play both recorded audio on Cassettes and stream internet radio.

To stream audio from the internet you’ll need to open the settings and select a channel. A few notes on this system:

We recommend content creators turn off this feature (set Internet Audio Streams to Off in the Options menu) in order to not trigger any copyright/DCMA strikes
Server Admins can add additional stations that might interest their players. Use the BoomBox.ServerValidStations convar to add stations (eg. BoomBox.ServerValidStations “Test Station,www.teststation.com”)Deployed Boom Boxes can also be connected to other audio entities via the Audio Out IO port.

Megaphone and Microphone StandYou can project your voice to friends and foes with the Megaphone and Microphone Stand.

The Megaphone is a held entity that you can use while out and about. Hold LMB to activate it and broadcast your voice. While holding LMB you won’t need to press your push to talk key if push to talk is enabled.

The Microphone Stand is a deployable version of the Megaphone that requires power. It has two different voice modes to modify your voice (squeaky and deep) and has an Audio Out IO port like the Boom Box to connect to other props in the DLC pack.

Disco PropsGive your base some late night disco vibes! Use the Disco Floor, Laser Light, Connected Speaker and Sound Light to set up a dancefloor that will make your neighbours jealous.

All of these props have an Audio In IO port so you can connect them to an audio source (like a Boom Box or Microphone Stand) to make them react to any playing audio.

The Connected Speaker will rebroadcast any audio from an audio source that it’s connected to, so you can play music throughout your entire base or hook them up to a Microphone Stand to make a base wide PA system.

New DancesA dancefloor is pointless without dancing, so this DLC pack includes three new dance gestures. Unlike the existing gestures these dances will loop endlessly and you won’t be able to move while dancing. To cancel a dance you can just press a move input, jump, crouch or hit LMB.

Mobile PhoneTake calls on the go - and stylishly - with the latest in telecommunications technology on the island: the Mobile Phone! Giving you access to the telephone system from anywhere on the island. You can open the dialler with LMB and still move around while chatting.

We’ve also added the voicemail functionality to legacy deployed Telephones, simply insert a cassette with your voicemail message into the phone and anyone who calls in while you’re away will be able to leave a message for you. You can access any voicemail messages from the dialling screen. The number of voicemail messages that can be recorded depends on the length of the cassette, so a 10/20/30 second cassette can store 1/2/3 messages. If a new message is left when your voicemail is full the oldest voicemail will be deleted.

Steam Summer Sale - 50% Off Rust + DLC
To mark the start of the Steam Summer Sale we've given the Store page a sprucing up and also added an awesome new trailer which you can view below ...

We're also bringing you a massive 50% discount on Rust and all DLC's so now is the time to get your friends onto your team or grab yourself the Instruments Pack or the summer themed Sunburn Pack.

The sale ends July 8th.

Changelog Added Voice Props DLC Pack
Added circular train tunnel stairwell piece
Added crawling state when wounded
Added Countryside Tunnel Entrances
Added Tree Birds
Added Cassette Recorder (DLC)
Added 3 lengths of cassette (DLC)
Added Boom Box (DLC)
Added Portable Boom Box (DLC)
Added 3 dance gestures (DLC)
Added Megaphone (DLC)
Added Microphone Stand (DLC)
Added Music Light (DLC)
Added Music Lasers (DLC)
Added Disco Floor (Multiple variants)(DLC)
Added Connected speaker (DLC)
Added Mobile Phone (DLC)
Added 7 achievements (DLC)
Added DLSS
Added Render scale options
Added some requested cubes for map makers /modding/cubes
Fixed damage sometimes not applying to elevator passengers, stating "player_distance" in combat log
Fixed If players recover from being wounded, they can't get wounded again within one minute
Fixed invisible nametags at certain angles
Fixed Huge wooden sign no longer breaks after upgrading and rotating wall
Fixed fireworks not firing due to server side budget issues
Fixed compound missing catcher catcher
Fixed unable to click drink icon when overlapping with the box
Fixed Lost Soul AR 42106 / 2426264628 Chocolate Egg 42200 / 2439077520 skins
Fixed admins getting kicked when logging out under terrain
Fixed invalid shots while players were using lifts
Fixed Minicopter "push" appearing whilst mounted
Fixed bear LODs
Fixed tabbing F1 menu cycling
Fixed 'nowgao' in contacts UI
Fixed players mouths not moving when voice chatting
Fixed players sometimes glitching into the WorkCart cabin
Train tunnel stairwells and elevator shafts are much shorter
Train tunnel entrances no longer have to rotate after placement
Rowboats are now easier to flip back over by pushing
Updated Primitive Lootbox Sound
Airfield Monument AI
Train yard Monument AI
Binoculars only show nametag pips during the day
Reduced nametag pop-in delay
Enable kicks for inside terrain antihack
Stricter inside terrain antihack
Hitch & trough can now be placed down narrow triangle passages
Disable alt cursor outside of demos (spectate)
Improved AI Responsiveness when the server is under heavy load
Improved Rowboat flip
Shore flickering

Happy Monday!

Last week, we brought the quarterly season of Inside Star Citizen to a close. In the last episode before the ongoing three-week hiatus, we looked into the additions and changes coming to the ‘verse in Alpha 3.14 and toured the new landing zone, Orison. The upcoming patch is already in the hands of our Evocati testers, with the team squashing the remaining bugs and adding the final touches before we roll it out to a larger audience. We’re super eager to get this patch out the door and in your hands, and we’ll keep you updated as we go!

Also, last week, we took your questions to our designers to get more information on the recently unveiled Xi’an cargo ship, the Gatac Railen. The Q&A, answering questions about the Railen’s triangular cargo pods, shield cover, and more, can be found here.

Now, let’s see what’s going on this week:

On Tuesday, the Narrative Team is back with more Galactapedia content. If you haven’t taken a deep dive into the lore of the ‘verse yet, you can do so here.

Then, on Wednesday, you can look forward to an update to the Roadmap alongside a Roadmap Roundup!

Thursday won’t see an episode of Inside Star Citizen as we brought the quarterly season to a close but, fear not, the show will resume in just a few weeks!

You’ll see an update to the Subscriber Vault on Friday, and the RSI Newsletter will wait for you in your inbox. Calling All Devs returns this week, this time with an update on gameplay features like healing, personal inventory, hacking, and more with Richard Tyrer.

Have a great week and a happy #PrideMonth2951! 🏳️‍🌈

Ulf Kuerschner
Lead Community Manager

Screenshot by santorayo

The Weekly Community Content Schedule

MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2021
This Week in Star Citizen

TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2021
Galactapedia Update

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2021
Roadmap Update
Roadmap Roundup

FRIDAY, JULY 2, 2021
Calling All Devs (youtube.com/user/RobertsSpaceInd)
Subscriber Vault Update
Weekly Newsletter

Community MVP: JUNE 28, 2021

We're constantly amazed at the contributions made by the Star Citizen community. Whether it's fan art, a cinematic, YouTube guide, or even a 3D print of your favorite ship, we love it all! Every week, we select one piece of content submitted to the Community Hub and highlight it here. The highlighted content creator will be awarded an MVP badge on Spectrum and be immortalized in our MVP section of the Hub.
Don't forget to submit your content to our Community Hub for the chance to see it here!

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Spectrum | Star Citizen Alpha 3.14.0m PTU.7661160 Patch Notes

21 Jul 2021

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Comm-Link | Alpha 3.13 & Invictus Launch Week Postmortem

21 Jul 2021

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Comm-Link | BOotyCall: Let Chaos Reign

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Conan Exiles

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Spectrum | Star Citizen Alpha 3.14.0i PTU.7632552 Patch Notes

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Comm-Link | Law and Disorder: The Constant Fight for a Peaceful Empire - By: Yvette Baze

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Spectrum | Star Citizen Alpha 3.14.0 PTU.7618230 Patch Notes

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