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

• 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

Locations

• Further Exterior Proxy Polish Pass to Space Stations and Landing Zone Locations

Ships and Vehicles

• Reworked the angle constraints of the Polaris Front Turret to not clip

Core Tech

• Further Global and Storm Breaker Server Performance Optimizations
• Area18 traffic CPU to GPU Conversion Update
• Further 3d comms call Visual Polish Pass

Bug Fixes

• Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - Locations / Mission Content - Valakkar egg already in rotten state when in the egg chamber
• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton / Pyro - Medical Beacon / UI / Notification - Medical Beacon notification does not show up for the Victim and Medic Player
• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Locations - Rest Stops - ASOP Kiosk / UI / ATC - ASOP terminals are stuck on the loading animation with trace error "NO LINK TO ATC - Verify and export OC" / "Stand by, accessing list of available vehicles" (STARC-171390)
• Potential Fix: PU - Dynamic Rain - Audio Code - Cutlass Black side doors produce inconsistent rain audio when they are in different open states to each other
• Potential Fix: PU - Locations - Executive Hangar - Actor / Damage - Comp Boards - The Executive Hangar's death zone remains active after all comp boards are inserted (STARC-166156)
• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - MultiLocation - Some Elevator Panels / Gateways are not linked to the transit manager (STARC-165142)
• Potential Fix: All Remote Turrets - UI - VJoy and several PIPs missing (STARC-168157)
• Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - Locations / Collision - Valakkar Egg at Storm Breaker event clips / falls through ground if you fall over (STARC-171204)
• 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 - Stanton - Performance - Mining / Game Code - Server and Client Performance drops when Shattering Large FPS Deposits
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker - Props - Egg has no visible degradation when its health is at 0%
• Potential Fix: RSI Constellation Aquila - PU - Vehicles / Vehicle Components - SCM / NAV - The Constellation Aquila has lower SCM and NAV speeds than all other Constellation series spaceships
• Potential Fix: Multivehicle - PU - Audio / Vehicles - Leaving and boarding a vehicle that is in NAV mode will cause the SCM -> NAV mode switch SFX to trigger with an infinite spooling sound (STARC-107508)
• Potential Fix: PU - Shopping/Kiosk - Refinery - Refinery Orders once completed cannot be loaded onto a cargo ship (STARC-161528)
• Potential Fix: PU - Weapon / Multi-tool / Attachment - After switching the attachment, the Multi-Tool doesn't work and doesn't Display Which Attachment is attached
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker - Pyro 1 - Locations / AI - All AI at Lazarus Complex are not hostile to players when they are entering the Research facility
• Potential Fix: GATAC Syulen - PU - Vehicles / Vehicle Components - Physical Damage Modifier - The GATAC Syulen is missing the ARMR Physical Damage Modifier
• Potential Fix: PU - Multivehicle - Vehicles / Ship Components / Tractor Beam - Once internal Ship Components are detached from a vehicle via Tractor Beam, they can't be placed back in their Component Bays (STARC-146054)
• Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - Locations / Inventory / Design - You are unable to store the IKTI Rad via the vehicle / freight elevator
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Stormageddon - Radiation / Actor - Radiation from the egg is able to penetrate walls / objects

Technical

• Fixed 2 Client Crashes
• Fixed 1 Server Crash