Star Citizen Alpha 4.1 LIVE 9650658 Release Notes
Star Citizen Alpha Patch 4.1 LIVE
Alpha Patch 4.1 has now been released onto the LIVE Environment! Launcher should now show: VERSION 4.1-LIVE.9650658.
Build Info
Characters in this new environment have been built from Long Term Persistence(LTP) data.
Currently with LTP, certain player states such as personal hangar layout, custom characters, in-progress refinery jobs, and in-game purchased consumables are not saved between releases which will cause some items to be lost in the update.
Currently with LTP, certain player states such as personal hangar layout, custom characters, in-progress refinery jobs, and in-game purchased consumables are not saved between releases which will cause some items to be lost in the update.
- Long Term Persistence: Enabled
- Server Meshing: 7:3:600 Player Shards
- Starting aUEC: 20,000
This Spectrum post is an abridged version of the notes. For the full in-depth details, please visit the main notes at the link below!
Full 4.0.2 Release Notes: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/comm-link/Patch-Notes/20522-Star-Citizen-Alpha-41
Features and Gameplay
- Ai
- New Fauna: Juvenile Valakkar
- New Dynamic Conversations and NPC Population Updates
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- NEW WEAPON: VOLT RIFLE - Paralax
- Grenade Launcher and other Weapon Balance
- Grenade Launcher and other Weapon Balance
- 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
- Further Streaming Radius Improvements and Optimizations
- Arena Commander
- New Map: Crossroads of Crime
- New Map: Astors Clearing
- New Map: Astors Clearing
Bug Fixes and 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
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