Star Citizen Alpha Patch 4.2.1

• Audience: All Waves
• 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 (Currently set to lower overall reputation requirements)
• New Mission Type: Ship Escort
• Ladders V2
• Wikelo Recipe Updates
• Executive Ship Component Updates
• Stanton Space Station Security Forces
• VOLT Pistol

Known Issues

• 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
• 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
• 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

• Ship Battle Missions will now fail if a player leaves the mission area by more than 12 KM. A 5 second warning buffer will appear once outside the area to re-enter

• Look around while on ladder (180 degree whilst moving, 355 degree whilst stationary)
• Mid point enter/exits
• Being able to Jump off ladders while looking in a direction
• Leaning (used to dodge debris) function
• Collision (e.g. other Actor on ladder) prevents traversal up ladder
• FPS Camera required enter angle
• Ladder exit into crouch/small spaces
• Joining and Leaving a Ladder

Core Tech

• Further Network Updates to help reduce Long Network Thread Stalls

Bug Fixes

• Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - ASOP / Locations - Personal Hangar - Retrieving a ship results in "We are unable to deal with your request at this time" but does timeout fail (STARC-171566)
• Potential Fix: PU - Probability Volumes / Server Meshing / Subdivision - Player can be QT interdicted during QT towards a moon, resulting in them become stuck under the surface
• Potential Fix: PU - Mission Content - Recover Cargo / Recover Cargo FPS - Delivery location is not marked once the Recover phase has ended
• Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - Pyro - Creatures / Mission Content - Creatures aren't spawning once egg has been taken
• Potential Fix: PU - Contracts / mobiGlas - Missions are not repopulating in the Contracts page after Completing / abandoning / failing them
• Potential Fix: PU - Storm Breaker - Locations / AI - AI are not present upon arriving at some Data Center locations (STARC-172789)
• Potential Fix: PU - Pyro / Stanton - FPS Gameplay / Mounted Turrets - Resource Network - Mounted turrets located at various FPS locations do not fire

Technical

• Fixed 3 Server Crashes