Star Citizen Alpha Patch 4.2
Alpha Patch 4.2 has been released to All Backers! Patch should now show: VERSION 4.2.0-PTU.9848416.
- 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
- 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
- Re-enabled Combat FPS Missions in Stanton
Storm Breaker and ASD Location Polish
ASD Location Performance, Lighting, and LOD Polish. Reduced Viable Egg Time to 15 minutes.
ASD Location Performance, Lighting, and LOD Polish. Reduced Viable Egg Time to 15 minutes.
Weapons and Items
- Added weight and dampening to Valakkar Pearls to reduce rolling
Core Tech
- Spawn Closet Performance Optimizations
Bug Fixes
- Potential Fix: PU - The Collector / Missions / Mounts - The Collector ATLS rewards are not owned by the player (STARC-171492)
- Potential Fix: All Remote Turrets - UI - VJoy and several PIPs missing (STARC-168157)
- Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - Locations / Interactions - The Irradiated Valakkar Egg cannot be picked back up when the actor holding it is knocked down by an Adult Valakkar
- Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - Actor - Inventory / Interactables -Dropping the Apex Valakkar chiton or skin will yield a Valakkar Pearl
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker / Freight Elevator / Valakkar - Killing a Valakkar near a freight elevator platform can block the freight elevator from being used
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker - Lazarus Transport HUB - hostiles are stuck inside Physical Spawn closets modules
- Potential Fix: PU - Scanning Mode / Vehicle HUD - When scanning a rock there will be no scan result until after toggling the scan mode (STARC-109368)
- Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles/ UI - Unable to Locate Ships or QT Back to Them After Bed Logging (STARC-167944)
- Potential Fix: MultiVehicle - Vehicle/IFCS- There is drag in space in certain locations (STARC-171362)
- Potential Fix: PU - VFX - Dynamic Weather - Rain splash VFX appears above the ground
- Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - Locations / Physics / Harvestables - Apex Valakkar Fang launches itself into the distance upon being detached from Apex Valakkar mouth
Technical
- Fixed 1 Client Crash
- Fixed 2 Server Crashes