Star Citizen Alpha Patch 4.2

• Audience: All backers
• Server Info: PTU Channel - US Only
• Long Term Persistence: Enabled
• Mesh Configuration: 5:5 - 600 Players
• Starting aUEC: 15,000,000

Testing/Feedback Focus

• Stability & Bugfixes
• Storm Breaker All Phases
• Lazarus Facility Freight Elevators
• Apex Valakkar
• Dynamic Rain
• Radiation
• VOLT Laser "Prism" Shotgun
• ARGO ATLS IKTI, IKTI GEO, IKTI Rad (Version Found at Storm Breaker)
• New Wikelo Ship Additions
• New Hairstyles
• Sterling Exploration Suit

Known Issues

• Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles/ UI - Unable to Locate Ships or QT Back to Them After Bed Logging
• PU - Orison - Locations / Transit - Some parts of the shuttle ramp has no collision
• PU - Weapons / Reload - Audio / SFX - Permanent Ammo Repool Audio loop after spawning
• PU - FPS - Heart monitor beeping never stops after being revived
• PU - Storm Breaker - locations - Valakkar - Adult valakkar are spawning in the air the ground is sloped behind the tower
• 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 - 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

Features & Gameplay

Gameplay

Ships and Vehicles

• Adjusted Excessive Polaris Ground Turbulence
• Added Missing C8 Pisces Armor Damage Reduction Modifier

Core Tech

• New Spawn Closet Subsumption logic to pause and reset auto spawn tasks. This will help limit locations to the amount of FPS AI we set for the area.
• Further Server Performance Optimizations

Bug Fixes

• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro I - Storm Breaker - Locations / UI / Missions - Egg Pylon timer out of sync with location cooldown
• Potential Fix: PU - NPE / Tutorial - Mission / Location - There's a chance that the "Take an elevator to the tutorial ship's hangar" wouldn't update even after taking the elevator to tutorial ship's hangar
• Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / SFX - Dynamic Weather - The rain SFX inside ships are the same as being outside in the rain
• Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - Pyro - Creatures / Collision - The Apex Valakkar has no collision once killed
• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Performance - Mining / Game Code - Server and Client Performance drops when Shattering Large FPS Deposits
• Potential Fix: RSI Ursa Rover ALL Variants - PU - Vehicles / SFX / Audio - Missing audio on opening and closing ramps and doors (STARC-171363)
• Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - locations - Valakkar - Adult valakkar are spawning in the air the ground is sloped behind the tower
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker - Locations - New safe codes do not open safes after streaming out / in if the safe has previously been opened

Technical

• Fixed 5 Client Crash
• Fixed 1 Server Crash