Update:Star Citizen Alpha 4.1.0

The patch has been released onto Live environment on the 27th March 2025.

Launcher should now show: VERSION 4.1.0-LIVE.9650658

Features and Gameplay

Ai

• New Fauna: Juvenile Valakkar
• New Dynamic Conversations and NPC Population Updates

Locations

• New Hathor Alignment Facilities and Orbital Platforms
• Further Moons around the PU have been updated with the latest Cloud tech

Gameplay

• New Persistent Sandbox Activity: Align & Mine
• Wikelo, Collector Missions, and Asteroid Base
• Full Ground Vehicle and FPS Mining Updates
• Item Recovery T0
• Enabled Place from inventory for Fuses, Keycards and Compboards
• Many Missions have been updated for Server Meshing including: Medical Beacons, Courier, Prison o2 repair, and 890j Boarding Action

Ships & Vehicles

• New Vehicles: Drake Golem, Argo ATLS GEO
• Collision Physics Update
• Added Additional Ships to PU Ship Shops
• Heavy Fighter General Archetype Balance Pass
• Modified several ships to behave as if the turrets are slaved by default
• Increased Audio Standard for Corsair, Cutlass, Arrow, and Lightning series ships

Weapons & Items

• New weapon: VOLT rifle - Parallax
• Grenade Launcher and other Weapon Balance

Core Tech

• We have made numerous updates to help reduce BWin spikes which caused many delays around the PU
• Further Streaming Radius Improvements and Optimizations

Arena Commander

• New Map: Crossroads of Crime
• New Map: Astors Clearing

Bug Fixes

• PU - Stanton - ASOP / Locations - Personal Hangar - Retrieving a ship results in "We are unable to deal with your request at this time" but does not timeout fail (STARC-140959)
• Multivehicle - PU/AC - Vehicles / MFD Interactions - Interaction in cockpit around MFD can cause large client performance stutters (STARC-113415)
• PU - Graphics - DX11/ Upscaling / FSR - The option to use FSR Upscaler is no longer available while using DX11 API, option still available under Vulkan (STARC-154319)
• PU - Stanton - Planet Tech - Desync / Game Code / Network - The Client and Server are not Fully Synced with Surface Assets causing Collisions on Server not visible on Client
• Multi-System - PU - Game Code / Locations - There's a chance for players to drop out of QT when they are switching over to another server
• PU - vehicles - mining - gems - ROC gems fall through surface upon fracture (STARC-160956)
• PU - ASOP / Ship / Cargo - Upon the Ship auto storing through leaving game or leaving hangar; on initial retrieval the Cargo disappears and Cargo Grid is locked from being used (BUG-236834)
• PU - Personal Hangars - Spawning in Personal hangar is missing several Audio (STARC-151741)
• PU - Locations / Law & Criminality - Players are teleported to nearby Safe Zone when entering unauthorized vehicles at Outposts and near R&R Stations (STARC-159331)
• MISC Starlancer - PU - Vehicles / Graphics - When using F4 view, internal ladder can be seen poking outside of ship from specific angle. (STARC-157743)
• Multivehicle - PU - Vehicles / UI - Upscaling causes radar to become blurred and low resolution (STARC-148176)
• PU - EVA / Network / Actor - Players who are in EVA when streamed in are desynced (STARC-151124)
• Mirai Pulse - Vehicles / Vehicle Components - The vehicles weapon does not fire (STARC-159008)
• Origin 400i - PU - Actor / Vehicles - Standing up from the 400i seat in the 400i pushes player out of ship (STARC-97616)
• PU - Multiple Locations - Transit - The carriage instantly teleports to the destination gateway on the server causing all doors to open before the carriage completes the spline on clients (STARC-158653)
• Multi-System - PU - Stanton / Pyro - Transit / Locations - Interacting with an elevator panel to call an elevator will not update the interface to state “Elevator Called”, and will remain on “Call Elevator” elevator does not come
• PU - Mission Refactor - Missions / mobiGlas / UI - Medical Beacons - Medical Service Beacons are not being cleared from the Contracts Manager after the incapacitated Player respawns (STARC-148164)
• Anvil C8R Pisces Rescue - PU - Vehicles / UI - Missing Airlock door control panel inside the Pisces C8R (STARC-153900)
• PU - Mission Refactor - Missions / mobiGlas / UI - Missions are not being shown as available system wide (STARC-157529)
• PU - Locations / Jump Points - Using ship bed logout at a Jump Point then joining a different shard will disable your ship from being able to activate and travel through the Jump Point (STARC-145828)
• PU - Pyro - All Locations - Turrets / Hit Boxes - Auto - The hitboxes on Automated Turrets stationed at the Asteroid Bases and Planetary Outposts are very small, making it difficult to deal damage and destroy them for missions
• PU - Actor - Armor / Inventory - Can attach some items categorized as "Other" to Chest Armor Throwable Item Ports (STARC-130069)
• PU - Network / Transit - Entity carriage gets stuck with No Authority, causing it to never arrive to and block its gateway (STARC-159422)
• RSI Polaris- PU/AC - Vehicles/Physics - Polaris unable to survive smaller vehicles ramming its hangar or cargo bay at high speeds ( at least 800 M/S ) (STARC-141251)
• ARGO MOLE ALL Variants PU - Vehicles / Core Tech / Vehicle Components - The front mining turret is missing collision
• AEGS Vanguard - ( Some variants ) - PU - Vehicles - Storage wall has a Visarea in Warden and Harbringer (STARC-140977)
• PU - Mission Refactor - Missions / UI / mobiGlas - Stanton Mercenary Missions are appearing blank (STARC-133798)
• PU - Mission Refactor - Missions / Reputation - Players can increase their reputation standing with opposing factions simultaneously (STARC-156827)
• PU - Armor - UI - The Xenothreat ADP Helmet has no Dynamic Crosshairs (STARC-158500)
• PU - Stanton - Missions - NPE / Tutorial - HUD objectives can be missing during Tutorial Missions, not flow blocking (STARC-161224)
• PU - Stanton - Missions - NPE / Tutorial - Retrieving Tutorial ship from Hangar rather than spaceport won't trigger further objectives
• PU - Stanton / Pyro - Hangars - Hangar despawns when player attempts to land in hangar
• PU - Stanton - Area18 - Missions / NPE / UI - There are no mission Objectives showing up during Your First Flight, blocking progression
• PU - Stanton - NPE / Tutorial - Missions / UI - Checkpoint markers can stop appearing while flying out of the LZ during Your First Flight
• Interactions - When equipping a third weapon, the wrong weapon shows up as equipped and third weapon doesn't get swapped with one currently equipped
• PU – Stanton – Klescher Rehabilitation Facility – Mission Content / Locations / mobiGlas – There are no available Prison Contracts available at Klescher Rehabilitation Facility
• PU - Mission Refactor - Missions - Courier - Package is not spawning for Cave Delivery missions (STARC-157576)
• Mirai Guardian ALL Variants - PU - Vehicles / Interactions - External Weapon storage has no point of interaction. (STARC-158028)
• Origin 315P - Ship / Ship Component / Tractor - 315p's Tractor Beam does not recognize or latch to Objects (STARC-133654)
• 325a missing Storage door (STARC-146781)
• Heartseeker paint doesn't apply to executive F7A MKII (STARC-157274)
• PU - Stanton - Rest Stops (R&R) - Locations / UI - Medical Clinics - Regeneration kiosks don't specify which "Kel-To RX Clinic" and the different Station clinics all have the same label on Regen terminals (STARC-153499)
• PU - Mining - Mining Laser and Extraction Beam deals substantive damage to Ship Hull (STARC-143121)
• PU - Pyro - Locations / Art - XS Bunker Outposts near settlements have cave entrances but are missing cave interiors, showing holes into the planet
• AC - Endless Vanduul Swarm - AI / Combat - Wave 2 AI does not spawn in Endless Vanduul Swarm (STARC-148132)

Technical Updates

Star Citizen Alpha 4.1 Contains nearly 130 Bug and Crash fixes that were occurring in 4.0.2-LIVE, 32 of which originated from the Issue Council.

• Fixed 9 Client Crashes
• Fixed 15 Server Crashes
• Fixed a Hybrid-Service Crash
• Fixed an issue causing Nvidia GPUs to crash or cause artifacting while using Vulkan