Star Citizen Alpha Patch 4.2.1

• Audience: Wave 2
• 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
• Second Life Resource Drive

• Ship Battles V2
• VOLT Pistol
• Wikelo Location and Recipe Additions
• Additional Player Hairstyles

Known Issues

• PU - Stanton - Resource Gathering - Mission Content - Mission rewards are not being distributed despite badging being awarded for completion
• PU - Stanton / Pyro - Personal Inventory / Local Inventory / Inventory - While attempting to drop, transfer and/or equip items, there's a chance for it to return to the inventory where it’s from
• PU - Armor / UI / Personal Inventory - Items equipped and/or attached on the actor can't be dragged to be held by the actor's hands as its port will be missing
• Multivehicle - PU / AC - Vehicles / Weapons / UI / VMA - Vehicle Weapons are not Interactable or Useable (Affects a handful of ships: Mirai Fury Series, Pulse, P-52, Spartan, and Cyclone Series)
• PU - Vehicle - Naming ships, melting ships, or updating ship packages will delete any non-stock items that are fitted to the ship including paints
• Multiitem - PU - Vehicle / Turret / MFD - Idris gimbals are empty and weapons/missiles are unable to be equipped to them (if turret is reequipped in the VLM)
• PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker - Locations - Lazarus Research Complex - Freight Elevator - UI / Interactions - When placing items on the elevator floor then lowering it, the Freight Elevator will lose the items then raise itself (Moderate Chance)
• ARGO ATLS ALL Variants - PU - Mount / Cargo Grid - Argo ATLS can be placed anywhere on the cargo grid without following the SCU grid pattern
• PU - Pyro / Pyro I - Storm Breaker - Locations / Mission Feature / Physics - Bullets will not pass through the Shuttle Station's entrance curtain when firing outside
• AEGS Idris-P - PU - Vehicles - Idris shields do not stop any laser weapons except panthers
• PU - Freight Elevator / Contested Zones (CZ) - CZ Freight Elevator displays Internal Error when attempting to move items to the warehouse
• Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / Target lock - target lock is unlocked at random radar for targets is dropped
• PU - Pyro - Courier - Mission Feature / Interactables - There is a chance that delivery packages cannot be placed on delivery shelves

Features & Gameplay

Gameplay

• Resource Gathering Polish: Cargo Amount Polish to be more in-line with expectations of size. Payout and Economy Balance
• Moderate Increase to Carrying Capacity for All Backpacks

Ships and Vehicles

• Disabling ground flight turbulence for 4.2.1
• Cycle Friendlies now only cycles non-hostiles
• ATLS IKTI gun Muzzle projectile Visual Improvement
• Enabled Countermeasures in Esperia Prowler Variant copilot seats
• Reduced BEHR Ballistic Gatling S7 Bullet Spread
• Increased Talon self destruct to 30s so you have time to escape before explosion

Bug Fixes

• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Resource Gathering - Recover Cargo - Mission Content / UI / mobiGlas - Large Recover Cargo mission objective states the incorrect number of SCU required for mission completion
• Potential Fix   PU - Resource Gathering - Crusader Industries - Missions / mobiGlas / UI - "RESOURCE DRIVE: URGENT MATERIALS NEEDED" contract shows "surface of Waka" in the Details section (STARC-172281)
• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Resource Gathering - Missions - There is a chance for the mission to not progress after arriving at the go to location (STARC-172300)
• Potential Fix: PU - Creatures - Valakkar - Irradiated Apex - The limpets on the Apex Irradiated Valakkar cannot be mined using a mining multi-tool
• Potential Fix: PU - Locations / Cargo - Freight Kiosk / Freight Elevator - Freight Manager gets stuck on Loading Contents after exiting the kiosk UI while the platform is descending (STARC-162498)
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Rundown Stations - Shopping / Selling - Cargo Deck - Shopping display items are missing from the hangers and mannequin
• Potential Fix: PU - Locations - Shopping - Pembroke and Novikov suits are not available to buy in Refinery Shops (STARC-147008)
• Potential Fix: PU - Grim HEX - Locations / Shopping / Armor - Defiance Armor is not displayed on mannequin and not available in Shop Kiosk (STARC-152109)
• Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - AI - Apex Valakkar can lock into an animation and stop moving
• Potential Fix: Esperia Prowler ( All variants ) - PU - Vehicles - Prowler variants MFD HUD Buttons Are Duplicated in co-pilot seat. This behavior is not observed in pilot seat.
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Storm Breaker - Creatures / Server Recovery - The Apex Valakkar molehill will not despawn at the end of the fight if a server error occurs during
• Potential Fix: PU - Missions - Resource Gathering / Resource Drive - Recovered cargo from the mission doesn’t recognized as “Contract Orders” at the Freight Elevator (STARC-172660)
• Potential Fix: Resource Gathering - mobiGlas / UI - "The Fundamentals of Mining" journal entry does not exist (STARC-172494)

Technical

• Fixed 2 Client Crashes
• Fixed 3 Server Crash