Star Citizen Alpha Patch 4.2

• Audience: Evocati Only (Release under NDA) Will be up for about 2 hours to determine Wave 1 viability tonight
• Server Info: PTU Channel - US Only
• Long Term Persistence: Enabled 
• Mesh Configuration: 10 DGS - 600 Players
• Starting aUEC: 15,000,000

Testing/Feedback Focus

• Stability & Bugfixes
• Storm Breaker: New Persistent Sandbox Activity
• Dynamic Rain
• Radiation
• VOLT Laster "Prism" Shotgun
• ARGO ATLS IKTI & GEO IKTI
• New Hairstyles
• Sterling Exploration Suit

• Improved Kiosk Interactions
• New Wikelo Ship Additions

Known Issues

• PU - Stanton - Orison - Locations / Transit - Tram doors are not opening upon arrival at the station
• PU - Stanton - Locations - Klescher Rehabilitation Facility - Mining / Inventory - Players are unable to store mined Ore into their inventory properly and Ore will be dropped to the ground after attempting to be stored
• Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Quantum Travel - Ships streaming in or streaming out locations on a quantum travel jump has performance drops and frame freezing
• Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Target lock - target lock is unlocked at random radar for targets is dropped
• Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Target lock - target attacker stops working when a target lock is lost due to locking range or radar dropped
• PU - mobiGlas - Asset Manager / NikNax - mobiGlas / Inventory / UI - The Assets Manager / NikNax app gets stuck at infinite loading and never loads assets
• PU - Multivehicle - Vehicle Components / Bed Logout - Bedlogging in ships can break Quantum Markers
• PU - Mining / Saddlebag / Cargo Grid - Argo and MISC Saddlebags do not snap to the Argo RAFT's Cargo Grid
• PU - New Babbage / Brentworth Care Center - UI / Medical Screens - Check-in medical kiosk is stuck on “Checking availability” loading screen
• PU - Locations / UI / Shopping Kiosk - Delivery location when purchasing any item is missing if the Player doesn't change the location in the drop down
• PU - Ship Battles - Ace Pilot/Assault - Proximity Tracker - Action Area - Logic fails to continue when over 20km away from the tracked object or Action Area Origin
• Graphics - UI - Shadows not casting in 3d Comms Call RTT window

Features & Gameplay

Gampelay

Locations

• ArcCorp: Added Dynamic Rain

• ASD Data Centers

• ASD Shuttle Stations

• ASD Research Facilities

AI

• Added Pre-Filled Fuel Pods to AI Starfarers

Ships and Vehicles

• New Vehicles: ARGO ATLS IKTI and GEO IKTI
• Added IKTI Drop Impact Sound Effects
• ATLS Geo added to PU shops
• Enabled Countermeasure Actions in Scan Mode

Weapons and Items

• Volt "Prism" Shotgun

Core Tech

• Routed Item Recovery item spawns through the player's home inventory if the target medbed doesn't have a valid landing zone (Will also fix STARC-169576)

Bug Fixes

• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Area18 / Lorville - Transit / Locations / Graphics - There are VisArea issues inside and outside the tram carriages (STARC-168861)
• Potential Fix: Pu - Pyro - ASD - Locations / Core Tech / Exploit - There is a section outside the data center with no collision allowing players to access locked rooms (STARC-169540)
• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton / Pyro - ASOP / Fleet Manager / UI - After retrieving a ship, the ASOP is sometimes blank, not displaying your hangar name to tell you where your ship is waiting (STARC-123318)
• Potential Fix: PU - ASD Facilities - Locations / AI - Hostile AI teleport and walk in place and jitter around (STARC-160309)
• Potential Fix: RSI Polaris - Vehicles - PU - The Point Defense Cannon / PDC’s will shoot down the ships own Torpedoes (STARC-155562)
• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Multivehicle - MFD / UI / mobiGlas - MFDs can be interacted with while in mobiGlas (STARC-131804)
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - ASD Facilities - Locations / Interactables - Maintenance room door retains previously used keycard after location cooldown, preventing access for subsequent visits
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - ASD Facility - Radiation / Actor - Players will not receive REM when in close proximity to the valakaar egg
• Potential Fix: Radiation - Medical Beds don't auto remove all player radiation when lying down in them
• Potential Fix: PU - ASD - Pyro - Locations / Weapons - Turrets on the roof of the Lazarus Complex are unable to be used
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - ASD - Location / Core Tech - Getting direct access to the laptop in the Executive Office requires the player to stand behind the couch its sitting on
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - ASD - Locations / Collision - The code text on the Pyro 1 storm study room PC screen is hard to read
• Potential Fix: Multilocation - PU - Pyro / Pyro I - ASD Facility - Locations / Transit - Trams do not have doors present
• Potential Fix: PU - ASD - Pyro - Locations / Transit - Players must jump from the shuttle to the Research Facility as the shuttle does not correctly align with the research facility platform
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - ASD - AI / Hostility / Audio / Locations - Some AI will not be hostile or change their behaviour when shots are fired in the data facility
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - ASD - Locations / Interactables - Maintenance room keycard does not respawn after 2 hour cooldown
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - The Collector - Missions / Game Code / Locations - Some Collector missions are not available when players are in the Pyro system
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - ASD - Locations - New safe codes do not open safes after streaming out / in if the safe has previously been opened

Technical

• Fixed 3 Client Crashes
• Fixed 4 Server Crashes