Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2
2025-02-28
Released
2025-03-27 - 4 days ago
Star Citizen Release 1.0
Unknown
The patch has been released onto Live environment on the 27th of march 2025[1].
Launcher should now show: VERSION 4.1.0-LIVE.9650658
4.1.0 Release Goals
Features and Gameplay
Ai
- New Fauna: Juvenile Valakkar
- New Dynamic Conversations and NPC Population Updates
Locations
- New Hathor Alignment Facilities and Orbital Platforms
- Further Moons around the PU have been updated with the latest Cloud tech
Gameplay
- New Persistent Sandbox Activity: Align & Mine
- Wikelo, Collector Missions, and Asteroid Base
- Full Ground Vehicle and FPS Mining Updates
- Item Recovery T0
- Enabled Place from inventory for Fuses, Keycards and Compboards
- Many Missions have been updated for Server Meshing including: Medical Beacons, Courier, Prison o2 repair, and 890j Boarding Action
Ships & Vehicles
- New Vehicles: Drake Golem, Argo ATLS GEO
- Collision Physics Update
- Added Additional Ships to PU Ship Shops
- Heavy Fighter General Archetype Balance Pass
- Modified several ships to behave as if the turrets are slaved by default
- Increased Audio Standard for Corsair, Cutlass, Arrow, and Lightning series ships
Weapons & Items
Core Tech
- We have made numerous updates to help reduce BWin spikes which caused many delays around the PU
- Further Streaming Radius Improvements and Optimizations
Arena Commander
- New Map: Crossroads of Crime
- New Map: Astors Clearing
Bug Fixes
- PU - Stanton - ASOP / Locations - Personal Hangar - Retrieving a ship results in "We are unable to deal with your request at this time" but does not timeout fail (STARC-140959)
- Multivehicle - PU/AC - Vehicles / MFD Interactions - Interaction in cockpit around MFD can cause large client performance stutters (STARC-113415)
- PU - Graphics - DX11/ Upscaling / FSR - The option to use FSR Upscaler is no longer available while using DX11 API, option still available under Vulkan (STARC-154319)
- PU - Stanton - Planet Tech - Desync / Game Code / Network - The Client and Server are not Fully Synced with Surface Assets causing Collisions on Server not visible on Client
- Multi-System - PU - Game Code / Locations - There's a chance for players to drop out of QT when they are switching over to another server
- PU - vehicles - mining - gems - ROC gems fall through surface upon fracture (STARC-160956)
- PU - ASOP / Ship / Cargo - Upon the Ship auto storing through leaving game or leaving hangar; on initial retrieval the Cargo disappears and Cargo Grid is locked from being used (BUG-236834)
- PU - Personal Hangars - Spawning in Personal hangar is missing several Audio (STARC-151741)
- PU - Locations / Law & Criminality - Players are teleported to nearby Safe Zone when entering unauthorized vehicles at Outposts and near R&R Stations (STARC-159331)
- MISC Starlancer - PU - Vehicles / Graphics - When using F4 view, internal ladder can be seen poking outside of ship from specific angle. (STARC-157743)
- Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / UI - Upscaling causes radar to become blurred and low resolution (STARC-148176)
- PU - EVA / Network / Actor - Players who are in EVA when streamed in are desynced (STARC-151124)
- Mirai Pulse - Vehicles / Vehicle Components - The vehicles weapon does not fire (STARC-159008)
- Origin 400i - PU - Actor / Vehicles - Standing up from the 400i seat in the 400i pushes player out of ship (STARC-97616)
- PU - Multiple Locations - Transit - The carriage instantly teleports to the destination gateway on the server causing all doors to open before the carriage completes the spline on clients (STARC-158653)
- Multi-System - PU - Stanton / Pyro - Transit / Locations - Interacting with an elevator panel to call an elevator will not update the interface to state “Elevator Called”, and will remain on “Call Elevator” elevator does not come
- PU - Mission Refactor - Missions / mobiGlas / UI - Medical Beacons - Medical Service Beacons are not being cleared from the Contracts Manager after the incapacitated Player respawns (STARC-148164)
- Anvil C8R Pisces Rescue - PU - Vehicles / UI - Missing Airlock door control panel inside the Pisces C8R (STARC-153900)
- PU - Mission Refactor - Missions / mobiGlas / UI - Missions are not being shown as available system wide (STARC-157529)
- PU - Locations / Jump Points - Using ship bed logout at a Jump Point then joining a different shard will disable your ship from being able to activate and travel through the Jump Point (STARC-145828)
- PU - Pyro - All Locations - Turrets / Hit Boxes - Auto - The hitboxes on Automated Turrets stationed at the Asteroid Bases and Planetary Outposts are very small, making it difficult to deal damage and destroy them for missions
- PU - Actor - Armor / Inventory - Can attach some items categorized as "Other" to Chest Armor Throwable Item Ports (STARC-130069)
- PU - Network / Transit - Entity carriage gets stuck with No Authority, causing it to never arrive to and block its gateway (STARC-159422)
- RSI Polaris- PU/AC - Vehicles/Physics - Polaris unable to survive smaller vehicles ramming its hangar or cargo bay at high speeds ( at least 800 M/S ) (STARC-141251)
- ARGO MOLE ALL Variants PU - Vehicles / Core Tech / Vehicle Components - The front mining turret is missing collision
- AEGS Vanguard - ( Some variants ) - PU - Vehicles - Storage wall has a Visarea in Warden and Harbringer (STARC-140977)
- PU - Mission Refactor - Missions / UI / mobiGlas - Stanton Mercenary Missions are appearing blank (STARC-133798)
- PU - Mission Refactor - Missions / Reputation - Players can increase their reputation standing with opposing factions simultaneously (STARC-156827)
- PU - Armor - UI - The Xenothreat ADP Helmet has no Dynamic Crosshairs (STARC-158500)
- PU - Stanton - Missions - NPE / Tutorial - HUD objectives can be missing during Tutorial Missions, not flow blocking (STARC-161224)
- PU - Stanton - Missions - NPE / Tutorial - Retrieving Tutorial ship from Hangar rather than spaceport won't trigger further objectives
- PU - Stanton / Pyro - Hangars - Hangar despawns when player attempts to land in hangar
- PU - Stanton - Area18 - Missions / NPE / UI - There are no mission Objectives showing up during Your First Flight, blocking progression
- PU - Stanton - NPE / Tutorial - Missions / UI - Checkpoint markers can stop appearing while flying out of the LZ during Your First Flight
- Interactions - When equipping a third weapon, the wrong weapon shows up as equipped and third weapon doesn't get swapped with one currently equipped
- PU – Stanton – Klescher Rehabilitation Facility – Mission Content / Locations / mobiGlas – There are no available Prison Contracts available at Klescher Rehabilitation Facility
- PU - Mission Refactor - Missions - Courier - Package is not spawning for Cave Delivery missions (STARC-157576)
- Mirai Guardian ALL Variants - PU - Vehicles / Interactions - External Weapon storage has no point of interaction. (STARC-158028)
- Origin 315P - Ship / Ship Component / Tractor - 315p's Tractor Beam does not recognize or latch to Objects (STARC-133654)
- 325a missing Storage door (STARC-146781)
- Heartseeker paint doesn't apply to executive F7A MKII (STARC-157274)
- PU - Stanton - Rest Stops (R&R) - Locations / UI - Medical Clinics - Regeneration kiosks don't specify which "Kel-To RX Clinic" and the different Station clinics all have the same label on Regen terminals (STARC-153499)
- PU - Mining - Mining Laser and Extraction Beam deals substantive damage to Ship Hull (STARC-143121)
- PU - Pyro - Locations / Art - XS Bunker Outposts near settlements have cave entrances but are missing cave interiors, showing holes into the planet
- AC - Endless Vanduul Swarm - AI / Combat - Wave 2 AI does not spawn in Endless Vanduul Swarm (STARC-148132)
Technical Updates
Star Citizen Alpha 4.1 Contains nearly 130 Bug and Crash fixes that were occurring in 4.0.2-LIVE, 32 of which originated from the Issue Council.
- Fixed 9 Client Crashes
- Fixed 15 Server Crashes
- Fixed a Hybrid-Service Crash
- Fixed an issue causing Nvidia GPUs to crash or cause artifacting while using Vulkan
- ↑
Star Citizen Alpha 4.1.0 LIVE. Patch Notes - Comm-Link. Retrieved 2025-03-27