This Week in Star Citizen: Infrastructure Updates and Community Content

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The Star Citizen development team has been hard at work addressing issues and improving infrastructure following the release of Alpha 3.18. Significant progress has been made on multiple fronts, with a focus on enhancing stability and performance for players across the galaxy.

Infrastructure Improvements

One of the key areas of focus has been load testing and validating game changes implemented in the upcoming 3.18.1 patch. The ASOP delivery feature, which reduces the size of players' default inventories, aims to alleviate entitlement issues by substantially decreasing the size of global databases.

The team has also deployed an updated set of tools specifically designed for 3.18 load testing. These virtual service clients allow for large-scale traffic tests to be performed automatically, simulating the full login flow, entitlement processing, and ship delivery requests. This advancement enables the publishing teams to validate system functionality under various conditions without relying on QA groups or PTU deployments.

Furthermore, these new automation tools facilitate chaos and destructive testing, where random services are intentionally disrupted to ensure proper alerting and recovery functions. This process helps identify and address issues that typically only occur under high concurrency, which have been challenging to reproduce in the past.

Cloud Optimization

Extensive analysis of the game's cloud footprint has led to optimizations in the sizing and layout of clusters and regions hosting game services. This adjustment is necessary due to the increased infrastructure demands of Alpha 3.18 compared to previous versions.

Patch 3.18.1 Progress

The development team has made significant strides towards the launch of patch 3.18.1, which is expected to be released to players in the near future. This update aims to address various issues and improve overall gameplay experience.

Community Content Schedule

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

  • Lore Post: Portfolio - WiDoW The Lore Team will release a portfolio on WiDoW, a highly addictive and profitable opioid that has become a major public health concern in the 30th century UEE.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

  • March 2023 Squadron 42 Monthly Report A repost of last week's Squadron 42 Monthly Report will be available as a Comm-Link.

Friday, April 14, 2023

  • Weekly Newsletter Players can expect to receive the regular weekly newsletter in their inboxes.

While there won't be a new episode of Star Citizen Live this Friday, the team assures fans that the show will return soon.

As the Star Citizen universe continues to evolve and expand, these infrastructure improvements and community updates demonstrate the ongoing commitment to delivering an immersive and stable gaming experience for players across the galaxy.

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