Thread by @dsmart

BREAKING! Wake up boys & girls, Star Citizen 3.0 "Baby Jesus Patch" is being deployed. New patcher inbound. Can't wait to play this bad boy!

That's only to Evocati though. So don't get your hopes up.

Shockingly, the new patcher has "issues". Yeah, they still don't have a good patcher.

LOL!!! Yeah. It's an "early" version. Hence the "Baby Jesus" part.

Sources tell me that in order to release it, they swept over two dozen known issues under the rug. So this version is still a crash fest

Oh, and it's like 2.7 with some fancy bits. It's not even 15% of the 3.0 promised. I'm not making ANY of this up.

Will report more as this develops. It's my day off.

Feature highlights inbound...standby..

1) Breathing, Stamina, Heart rate
2) New show location command
3) New ship startup procedure

4) Landing now handled through new ATC command
5) 3 moons + 1 asteroid to land on. no word yet if all are actually IN this first build

6) Some QT revisions
7) Yup, transition is whack. e.g. To land at a station around a moon around a planet, you do planet->moon->station

8) 4 new ships added, plus the Ursa ground vehicle
9) New hint system which looks like it replaces the tutorial
10) New party launch option

11) Levkski base (built into Delamar asteroid) is accessible
12) 5 mission types: delivery, bounty, missing person, derelict, escort

13) Scripted NPCs at Grimhex, Olisar, Levski
14) First item 2.0 pass
15) Cargo boxes in various places & from destroying cargo ships

16) small boxes can be picked up, large boxes cannot
17) Items are stored inside boxes in "grids"
18) Ammo, ship damage, spawn persistence

19) Planets with rotational motion and day/night cycles
20) New app to manager your outfit
21) Lots of bug fixes and other small items

Here's the kicker. The notes read like the 3.0 roadmap. So until the build is actually released, no way to know WHAT actually works atm

The most hilarious part? Windows detects this 3.0 build as malware. So there's that. Apparently Microsoft is aware of the issue.

You can find the full patch notes here: pastebin.com/ns8vTSp4

I am calling it now. Even though is the beta of a pre-Alpha (<---LOL!!), 3.0 is definitely looking like the MVP an early access. It's over

Performance is still abysmal and is worse than 2.6.3. You have to spawn on the other side of the planet with less people in order to get in

"Erin, Performance is in the toilet on the latest build." - CIG Dev, AtV Oct 5, 2017

- Derek Smart, July 6, 2015 dereksmart.com/2015/07/inters…

FYI, RAM/VRAM usage on this Evocati build ---> 21GB / 11GB. I'm not making that up.

Performance, stability are abysmal. Over 75% of the patch notes are NOT in this build. Evocati are in an uproar. Developing news.

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Flight dynamics, they some how manage to completely break for some ships. And you can't even get into some of them. Yeah, it's bad.

These geniuses created atmospheric flight dynamics that's the SAME as flying in space. And NO altimeter. LOL!!

This, by all accounts, is Freelancer 2.0, but with $160 million.

Face and posture of a man, badly broken, defeated & resigned to his fate. He is going back into the history books. I'm hoping for jail time

Reading Evocati chat, it's like a war zone of disappointment and misplaced expectations. Not even the devout can spin this one.

Love this one: "Run out of ships? - recopy your PTU account to get them back"

They now say to only use #etf-testing-chat to discuss the build when in the game. They never heard of screen grabs. It's all leaking. LOL!!

So far, not a SINGLE positive comment about the build. And the planetary access? Completely underwhelming. They're mostly barren & dull

Oh, and just like we saw in the GC2017 show, you have to quit and restart every 10-15 mins due to serious issues. possibly mem leak

About that think with losing ships. Guess what? Insurance timer doesn't work. That's why you have to recopy your account. LOL!!

The most expressed comment is: yeah, it's refund time I think. Hey GUYS!! there's help reddit.com/r/starcitizen_…