Star Citizen Alpha 3.24 is a BEAST!

[@studentninja9038]

It was a fun build, i didnt have many issues unlike most. The hangar terminal you showed, i found really easy to use even with my learning difficulties. I loved getting the furniture from the kelto shop at orison where i was, and then getting them from the storage and watching them come up on the elevators. The ship calling from the hangar was for the first time see it come up out of the floor, was way better than the ship just randomly popping in to the hanger. I didnt even notice the time it took as i just went from the habs, then straight to the lift then found my name in the lift floor screen and there i was. So i was just getting all my armor ready from the kiosk. Then setting up the hangar furniture and sitting back to watch the ship raise from the out the floor was really cool. Even going to other stations and buying cargo, then to see it and move the cargo from the freight elevator was quite impressive and speedy. I will be testing all the limits of these first hangars when we get another test. But for me it was fun, and visually it was so much better than i had seen in videos. It did have a few ctd for me and the server recovery. But they were very few, unlike older tests. Over all it was a great test, and fun to see the first test of our own hangars to call home, it was well worth the wait to test them out.

[@sinepilot]

Thank you for your service (to the issue council)

[@esteybarra]

Chairs being able to be locked onto cargo grid... every ship's a dropship! 🤩

[@theg0z0n]

I'm frustrated at myself about how hype I'm getting at all these features that aren't in yet, lol

[@Endymion.]

They are closer than a year ago! 100% me too 😅

[@phenixtalonsbane7232]

All this new updates to hangars & inventory, have me all the more looking forward to seeing how the "luxury" Revel & York hangars will turn out after they're updated. I loved the original versions & believe that the updates will be even more incredible.

[@cygnus6623]

I had a couple ships that had the Revel & York hangers, now all of them are Self Land...hmmm. I'm thinking the hanger will match the location. Microtech hangers will be different than Hurston hangers...Crusader different than ArcCorp...

[@phenixtalonsbane7232]

@@cygnus6623 , while that would be interesting if they're all different based on location, I still have an old stand alone, starting hangar Revel & York in my account inventory, but I see what you mean about them changing them in packages. They swapped the Revel & York Hangar in the Origin Complete Pack to a VFG Industrial Hangar, which I find very disappointing.

[@jkline398]

No I think this is the point, your personal hangar will be what it is no matter where you home base. So if you have the basic loreville work till death style hangar, you will probably be disappointed when you base out of Orison...

[@cygnus6623]

@@jkline398 I think my main issues is over the years I've used cheap LTI ships that were upgraded to the ship I wanted. So my current Mercury has self land because it was upgrade from a Spartan...for instance. So, I lost a hanger option for LTI.

[@wilhelmwick2038]

I’ll believe it when I see it.

[@drsev61]

The motto of any long time SC backer. 😂

[@ReviewFever]

I believe it because I see it

[@thewordywizard4389]

I've been "watching this space" for 10 years.... I feel you

[@festersmith8352]

Kinda of that mentality we try to teach our children, when they persist with the "when" questions. When is dinner gonna be ready? Dinner is ready, when its ready. Are we there yet? We get there, when we get there.

[@rayfighter]

I believe it when someone credible tells me. Like S.M.B. for example.

[@Shadowen925]

I'm glad that stations are getting instanced hangers, I was afraid that only the personal hanger would have an instanced version meaning you had no option to accumulate and or load cargo on a station. This will be MUCH better for my salvaging runs. Fill up the Vulture, unload at the lagrange station and then keep salvaging until I can load a full MSR or C1 and take it planetside.

[@thechroniclesofcriss942]

I can already imagine myself loading up my Carrack with a hovertrolley full of 2SCU crates, bringing them down the elevator in a bunker, using them as cover and loading them up with looted armors before bringing them up and taking them on the hovertrolley back to my Carrack. yes.

[@polla2256]

Shame you won't be able to fully use the carrack for some time.

[@MrThepierrot74]

but my worry is, how will it be to store loot in a box. I hope they find somthing better that equip it and store in the cargo box. I don't want to be naked while looting.

[@thechroniclesofcriss942]

@@MrThepierrot74 hopefully draag'n'drop will work from ground to container. or maybe the crates will be openable at some point and you can just place the armor items physically inside.

[@alphawolfgang173]

all to randomly phase through the floor and die at any point lmao

[@thechroniclesofcriss942]

@@alphawolfgang173 aaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy

[@edtcrandall]

With these changes to cargo and inventory it would be very nice if our home location can be set to various stations in addition to one of the four planet/cities. Just a thought for CIG.

[@roadsweeper1]

Initial 3.24 build was a dumpster fire, multiple server crashes per hour, but as Evo, we expect that. Thats entirely normal lol. The first few builds are always focusing on server stability, the more crash data they get, the more server hiccups they can fix and the quicker we get a smoother server so we can test stuff. Likely be closer to the end of the week before we really get to play/break the hangars properly. Looking forward to it!!

[@gameosapien13]

Sweet looking forward to my Carrack sized hanger..

[@polla2256]

Same, just a shame the carrack will be useless with this patch

[@cygnus6623]

Mid-sized for me...Mercury. I did think about trading up, but I think I'll be fine not having to run across a huge hanger. Though, it would be pretty cool I do admit!

[@adamburr5716]

I wonder how we will physically load our Carrack cargo

[@gameosapien13]

@@adamburr5716 good question, I think the ship needs a rework so those cargo pod side doors open.

[@fleetreadygaming]

I hope they give me my kraken sized hangar. I want to decorate the ever living out of it

[@Bleiser3]

Following since kickstarter and I must say that at least there is still enough stuff to talk about in SC. Better than info once a year or two

[@D.Enniss]

If anything there's too much info

[@kevindixonmusic]

Fellow kickstart backer here too. Can't wait to try out 3.24 when its live. looking forward to seeing my player hangar. will probably collect turtles and stuff lol

[@Bleiser3]

@@kevindixonmusic tbh I will try it out once server meshing is live whether it be this year or in a few years

[@christianjimenez6747]

Fun build, felt fluid and dynamic. Hope this releases for everyone soon!

[@BaronVonReich]

Can you test something if you get a chance. Order a small ship in a big hanger. Move it off the ship lift and order another ship. Curious if ships ordered and stored away from lift persists.. Great vid as usual

[@GhostRecon2015]

If it's small enough then it should be spawn able in the side elevator

[@QuotidianStupidity]

According to the videos they have shown it seems to be the intention that you can store ships and vehicles around the loading ramp

[@leesakowski790]

I'm looking forward to being able to just drop salvage off at the closest "station" quickly and easily and then coming back later with a cargo ship to recover it all in one shot. Waste a lot of time having to fly back to an area to sell just to make room for more salvage. What I am really looking forward too, not that I am not looking forward to persistent/instanced hangars, is having our own apartments/homes. It would be nice to have a persistent apartment in our home location and instanced "hotel rooms" for other stations so you can take your time getting ready and, for the apartment, decorate it how you like. "Waking up" in (logging into) a room that is a mess that you didn't make does get kind of old after a while.

[@Nosdeblack]

I just can't wait to see all the furniture we'll be able to buy and use. I was planning to seek all to the looteable ones I could find around Stanton. Now I know I won't need so much effort for that.

[@vulcans_labyrinth7142]

Although i am a little intimidated by the inventory changes, I am really looking forward to this patch!

[@SuperSenka4508YT]

Stage 2: Dress up dummies, portable armoury racks, missile and torpedo stands, and ship weapon racks. Cant wait, gonna be awesome.

[@a.k.1902]

Personally, I think it's great that they're taking it to the level of having physical cargo and I'm really looking forward to the patch coming out. I hope one day instanced hangars can move to physical hangars as well. I would love it if the stations were big enough to hold a lot of ships where you could perhaps a fly into a large station, and then land, more akin to Eve perhaps, rather all appear from behind the same small handful of doors. Large structures should be able to accommodate large amounts of traffic ideally.

[@jful]

Looking forward to getting my hands on this! Hopefully it's able to move quickly through the testing cycles but I'm bracing myself for another few weeks of evo/ptu.

[@IXxJordan]

We need a hover trolley that will work in space for looting ships etc, these ones seem to rely on walking / gravity

[@supersasquatch]

the impact of losing local inventory is devastating on loot boxes on mining outposts

[@Sjoerdmans1986]

Finally, been waiting for a while to get this!! Thanks for the Evo update.

[@snaggletoof1927]

Personal hangars sound grest. But what I'd really like to have is a personal base or outpost. Thanks for the update, Mac!

[@JLMarchJones]

Pledged to this game last week… loved it at the start. Was everything I wanted Starfield to be. Fast forward a week. I’m playing Starfield again. I can’t get over the contracts not working. Randomly blowing up and generally not being able to actually earn money!

[@FernandoMartinOrtiz]

the amount of inventory to be lost moving it to boxes, then moving the boxes tu ships, the boxes disapearing.... it is gonna be legendary

[@dasbooterror]

literal millions of SCU of cargo falling through elevators in the future.

[@FelBRax]

I hope they find a good balance between realism and good gameplay, because they are removing the QOL we have now from accessing inventory from everywhere. I agree that accessing it magically was not the best option, but I also hope the new system doesn't increase the prep time too much.

[@Balanced--]

324 looks awesome. can't wait till its out!

[@mr.rightone6588]

This is good. If as you say we will spend some time in hanger, and said hangers don't crash or kick you out. That would make the overall experience less buggy and experimental feeling. I'm sure we will have bugs at first, however in the long run things will get interesting.

[@JSmith73]

My biggest is a Reclaimer; looking forward to the mini marathon every time I spawn my Pisces Rescue 😅

[@stevenszmek7007]

With all the cargo we all lost so far i wonder why i should risk transporting my items like this. Now we have the option not just to loose our freight due to a disconnect or crash but even more important stuff... Before there is a system in place that works to prevent us from loosing everything due to a technical issue - no way i will use this transport feature. The personal hangars are great - now we just need a working rule set for players in a Party / Org. and the ability to expand those rules to ships so friends can take full control of others ships for selling/buying goods, refine mined ores etc. ... would be great - likely will never come since this would plummet ship sales.

[@thePrisoner1000]

Very exciting news, thx for the update!

[@xpatrstarx]

I hope i get to see this before the end of august. If not ill have to wait until next summer when i get back from school

[@Rofus_EU]

The build is looking fun, can't wait for the hangars

[@VoidingNixx]

Cargo Elevators and Personal Hangars.... "CIG has experienced an issue which we are working to resolve. They 'should' be ready in 3.25."

[@DecanFrost]

can't wait for these hangers, no more stress about being impounded 🤣

[@tripperdan]

personal hangers in 3.24 are going to be a game changer for sure! But PTU is a brutal build so far

[@ElijahNMitchell]

I’m mainly worried on how FPS looting will be. A lot of people are going to complain about the new inventory system just like when we gained the local only and lost Stanton wide

[@williamsnyder8399]

I've been waiting to be able to turn my pisces into a drop ship by adding extra seats in the bay

[@CailenWolfe]

Im honestly really looking forward to the inventory change, it'll suck manually loading the big ships like the C2 or Caterpillar 😂 but in a odd way it'll be fun especially with friends, also adds a extra layer of concern with being cautious with your cargo. Dont want to spend an hour loading just to lose it because you left cruise control on and smacked into the hangar wall somewhere 😂 Plus the change to move away from the current "Magical Personal Inventory" will be nice, no more pressing I to become fully kitted anywhere in the city or store stuff. Adds a small but refreshing layer of realism. Im most of all looking forward to being able to load ground vehicles into my ships off the cargo elevator now! Ive avoided that for so long just because i dont like having to call a ship to fly elsewhere JUST to load my Ursa or Cyclone 😂 Cant wait to decorate my hangar, or join friends parties in-game and leave a couple hundred penguins all around their hangar 👀

[@partydemon2849]

Hopefully they fix salvage missions as currently they are only spawning arrows on the lower side. But for hangers hopefully we can put tv’s and watch the videos SC has released over time

[@oceanaa967]

Do space plates it’s better and you don’t have to pay but dose take some getting use to finding them

[@spartamerican6758]

Our guy goes full 'my cousin Vinny' when he says 'cargo' lol😂😊

[@edenyan7237]

the auto-loading is crazy, to auto load a freelancer MAX, it takes 1hour, to load a C2 however, it needs 5 hours. 5 mins is understandable, 10 mins is already too long, 5 hours?! seriously? so cargo transporter = prison time?! plus, un-invited player can get into your hunger and will be kicked out in a 2 mins, but the thing is, un-invited player can use your computer panel within your hunger to open THEIR inventory, so in 2 mins he/she can steal so many of your things and save into their inventory. 7 seconds, un-invited should be kick out in less than 7 seconds. what are CIG thinking, 2 mins?!

[@loruth]

How does personal hangers work, there are only so many exits from a landing zone, what if everyones taking up one of a certain size?

[@CallousCyclone]

Wait wait wait wait. They said you'd be allocated a hangar based on your largest ship. Considering most of us have a lot of large ships or loanables until concepts are completed How will that gonna fare when we leave stations like New Babbage etc where there are few Large hangars but tonnes of small ones How are they gonna manage this for the masses in the PU?

[@ericwollaston5654]

All are instanced, and multiple hangars exist underneath each hangar door.

[@LeonLeybs666]

@@ericwollaston5654 So if 2, 3, or 5 Reclaimers try to leave at the same time, they will... ? Not collide with each other? There's only like 4 or 5 exit points for large ships.

[@ericwollaston5654]

@LeonLeybs666 No, I'm not in so cannot confirm, but likely your call to take off will be "Stand By for approval" until things are clear for take off.

[@CallousCyclone]

@@ericwollaston5654 this is my concern. With more populated areas and with how long some folk take to land or take off. It could take an age just to leave hangars in some locations.

[@ericwollaston5654]

@CallousCyclone Shouldn't be too much of a concern. People can sit as long as they want and won't tie up the ability for others to access their own hangars. A timed gate of taking off or landing until the door closes and resets will solve any extenuating problems for the most part

[@mega-doom]

I walk around for 30 mins and launch my ship and land it on a planet and it flips 180 for no reason and blows up and I am expected to keep playing after all of that? When does the pain end?

[@borano8104]

Still hoping that personal hangars will be upgradable in size! Not much use for a Titan size hangar

[@samagee1]

I am hoping they remove the idle time out from being logged in as well.

[@ph11p3540]

I hope this game introduces storage trailers for missiles, torpedo bombs, and other spare ship weapons. Can't stand dealing with jumbled stacks of ordnance

[@LeeFall]

My hanger = Stacks and stacks of drugs

[@SpaceHog78]

Security will be camping at your hangar, dying to scan you anytime you enter the pilot seat.

[@coreyh2296]

I'm calling the UEE😂

[@LeeFall]

@@coreyh2296 You will need a warrant, better make sure I dont have any stowaways they might rob my warehouse

[@KaryudoDS]

Hangar size being based on account bought ships feels like a disappointment. Although maybe it's to make sure they get a bigger variety of hangar sizes tested for now.

[@_aurora_2086]

I want to know if they fixed the bug that causes things to just disappear while you are moving them with a tractor beam.

[@lukeyyuko7841]

I can see some shanagans coming with the trollies

[@ashisawsome100]

3.24 is going to be amazing.Let's hope they iron it out soon.

[@microsf121]

When you say "largest ship on the player's acoount" in reference to hanger sizes, does that mean largest pledged ship, or largest in game ship?

[@holydaysgarden6092]

With each new patch, what will happen to the customizations made in the individual hangars? Will they be reset?

[@Jathnor]

I'd love to know if this includes chained ships because original item is a cutter but upgraded to a bigger ships i wonder if we get a bigger personal hanger?

[@mlwg9317]

I have a Hornet Ghost which should be an Aero view hanger, but its an upgrade from a LTI Pulse so still shows the hangar as self land. Will they be giving proper hangars for upgraded ships? Or do you have to buy it outright to get the hangar?

[@merc9nine]

When do we think this goes live?

[@LucidFX.]

i have a feeling - considering i don;t have a lot of time - the press "i" being replaced by item terminals will just add another time thief... i can't see me spending more time in this game.

[@rooster1012]

Dude the terminals are everywhere there is literally no difference in time.

[@LucidFX.]

@@rooster1012 their is still a time component when you can't simply press i. AHHH but, considering it's "Alpha" it will never work hahaha

[@keyycee5547]

Can people steal from my Hangar?

[@keyycee5547]

When does Alpha 4.0 release?

[@NightKey98]

How does this affect ship components? If i want to buy a new QTDrive, will I be able to put my previous one in a ship physically, or move it in a container?

[@ULTRAKRONOS]

I had very low expectations for this patch. But seeing the positive comments from some Evocati players makes me feel hopeful again. Of course, you have to be careful with expectations when it comes to Star Citizen. Still, the described mechanics and the changes in the gameplay cycle are exciting. I can't wait for it to go live on the PU.

[@ChrisR395]

Hope it goes live early July

[@Chooie6]

dont think i would take a cargo trolley to a bunker or dc. one thing that has worked well for me however is taking a cyclone or maybe a mule with a 1scu box on it

[@jkline398]

All I could see during this video was ALL THEM WEEVIL EGGS!! I WANT I WANT

[@c450showtime7]

is this available in Public test server or live i wanna see some of this first hand

[@YouCountSheep]

The burning question is, how much worse FPS looting is going to get. The personal storage boxes we have right now are extremely buggy and cumbersome to use. Looting armor will become a gigantic pain in the ass to the point where most people don't even want to do it. Hovertrolleys only look like they work for bigger ships. There is no way a hovertrolley will fit into a Freelancer or Cutlass, not to mention fit through the Freelancers doors to get to the small cargo room. This patch is ok for cargo, and crap for FPS looting. Will forever remain this way. It is the patch that will throw out and eradicate many promises they made in terms of FPS gameplay. And it will suck. Am I supposed to transport all bodies from npcs now to an item bank terminal so I can equip all their armor and then swap it over? Because the way I see it there is no way to drop a body onto a personal container and it takes all the items. You have to move every single item by hand, from a body onto you and then into a container? Whose brilliant idea was that? Absolutely ridiculous. I hope you evocati folks tell CIG how bad it is. Remember, first they said you can loot and take items directly off of bodies without opening the inventory. Now we press F on a body and that is the only way to access it. Completely the opposite from what we have been told is simulation in SC.

[@Citizen00798]

This sounds awesome but I can already here people in chat say, " wow someone stole all my gear from my hanger or oh no my entire hanger is gone, and all my items are gone as well..." I really hope they can get this right but I have a feeling this is going to be a trolls dream.

[@Astro-M0]

I understand that the game is in alpha, hence the horrible performance optimization / fps. However I feel like if they fix that, the game will explode in popularity even in it's alpha state.

[@BC-vv3ot]

Anyone heard how long it takes to load/unload automatically?

[@Maverick-ey6lm]

Again, Thanks for this very good news :-) SMB

[@Jomanda76]

I wonder, after the novelty wears off, how much of the new mechanics will become tedious time sinks…

[@dnash2131]

Hangar size not increasing with in game ship purchase is lame, if that doesn’t change its a dirty move

[@TheWartimeCEO]

Hope the time for automated loading is not to high

[@frosty2975]

I thought 4.0 was up next from 3.23 ?

[@MysteicVoltronus]

Every patch the game takes another in game purchased ship from me. I have lost all ships that can make money fast and all the ships I like to fly the most. I have just lost the desire to care any more because all I see with a patch is I am going to lose 3 more ships I can't afford to buy again.

[@becksvideoproductions]

Can I hang my towel somewhere in these new hangars?

[@matthewoppp6881]

Sounds great but, nothing works in the game now. so rushing for new stuff just seems stupid to me.

[@washboard7793]

How many toilets can I fit in my hangar though?

[@chrism4390]

Can I finally recall account bound armor?

[@Hackslu]

I love it, but I also kinda hate that its going to take so much longer now to do anything... my only issue is, that its going to take even longer now to create (trade, mine, salvage,....) while its so easy and quick to destroy everything and theres no consequences for all those destructive murder-hobos :(

[@TheCheezyQuaver]

Oh wow i can now put a chair in my hanger and sit on it I'm so so happy. I'm just quivering with excitement is that the big news here WTF, the devs still aren't able to get the cargo missions online that's what's important some actual gameplay instead i get to move boxes on a trolley......

[@gaming_joey1547]

If you have a concept ship, does it give you a hangar on that ships size or only ships you have right now?

[@andyandreson3989]

Everyone wants that clarified. The word “flyable” is being thrown around.

[@SolarWindsRider]

What is the point of an instanced hangar? What is preserved there between sessions? Not personal, instanced.

[@djlord77]

Nothing will be preserved that is left outside the cargo elevator or ship. The point of instanced hangar is to spawn ships that you buy in game that are not pledged to your accounts and dont fit in your personal hangar there. It will have the same other functions though like the cargo elevator just the persistence won't be there.

[@SolarWindsRider]

@@djlord77 how is it different from existing hangars then, from player perspective?

[@doubledigital_]

dont forget to melt all ya ships to get the biggest hanger!! hopefully this will drop to live in 2 weeks :))) going to be sooo mad not pressing I anymore lols

[@johnwilliams4198]

CCU’d hangars are smaller than the ships that we have at the end of the chain and because of that my Carrack barely fits in the one they give me before 2.24 so I’m concerned.

[@karl1801]

No, CCU hangars grow with the chain, it's just that the Carrack is a tight fit currently (like what happened with the Spirits). A dev comment during 3.22 stated they were going to add a bit of wiggle room for those ships as part of the refactor

[@HallOfBass]

Just. WOW!

[@TheArkyCrew]

So is this officially out?

[@waktank4842]

Instance on your spawn selection is oke. Instances on other places not oke. No more risk of sneaky players that will sneak in my ship. Will not load and unload myself i work in rl not in a sim. X minutes waiting for loading must tuned down. Do not have lots of times to play and playing to relax not to wait. Hope you can bed log in there, you can decorate it so it almost a home.

[@sketto1283]

Here we go!!

[@buschmaster4600]

I hate that the hangar size won't upgrade with a larger ship... not really fair to newer players that can't afford larger ships

[@oceanaa967]

I agree it should not just be based on real money purchase I will hope it’s not always going to be that way same as ships are not in game at first

[@honoryhonra]

Hod did stations cargo go with the Hull C type of ships?

[@rickyvr9109]

We love you

[@Goyahkla100]

There goes the hype! Sounds great but.......will it work? And, I wonder if we will be kicked (afk), while in Personal Hangar. Been kicked while in UI!! How were the servers? Did they.......Server Error. Please Wait....

[@oceanaa967]

Ya I think the dc is to fast my friend got dc when I was flying us someplace I don’t think the timer needs to be so short may be like 60 min would be beter

[@SgtHack802]

Unemployed and retired people will love it. People with real jobs will hate the time sinks

[@Arystanbek98]

4.0 is my waiting point for now

[@cellowify]

But can you put a chocolate bar in your hand?

[@benlee8225]

cant wait for random ships crashed on ground poi fly in replace components and fly off with the new repaired ship. or so on

[@Ziptie5]

will this be a wipe patch?