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{{PatchData

|Prev = Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2

|Next=Star Citizen Alpha 4.1.1

|publishdate= 2025-03-27

|version=4.1.0

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The patch has been released onto '''[[LIVE|Live]]''' environment on the 27th March 2025<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/comm-link/Patch-Notes/20522-Star-Citizen-Alpha-41|text=Star Citizen Alpha 4.1.0 LIVE|accessdate=2025-03-27}}</ref>.

Launcher should now show: VERSION 4.1.0-LIVE.9650658

=== '''4.1.0 Release Goals''' ===

=== Features and Gameplay ===

==== Ai ====

* New Fauna: '''[[Juvenile Valakkar|Juvenile Valakkar]]'''

* New Dynamic Conversations and NPC Population Updates

==== '''Locations''' ====

* New [[Hathor Group|Hathor]] Alignment Facilities and Orbital Platforms

* Further [[Moon|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 vehicles|Ground Vehicle]] and FPS Mining Updates

* Item Recovery T0

* Enabled Place from inventory for Fuses, Keycards and Compboards

* Many [[Mission|Missions]] have been updated for [[Server meshing|Server Meshing]] including: Medical Beacons, Courier, Prison o2 repair, and 890j Boarding Action

==== '''Ships & Vehicles''' ====

* New Vehicles: [[Golem|Drake Golem]], [[ATLS GEO|Argo ATLS GEO]]

* Collision Physics Update

* Added Additional [[Ships]] to PU [[:Category:Ship dealership|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]], [[:Category:Cutlass series|Cutlass]], [[Arrow]], and [[:Category:F8 Lightning series|Lightning series]] ships

==== '''Weapons & Items''' ====

* New weapon: [[Verified Offworld Laser Technologies|VOLT]] rifle - [[Parallax 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 - [[Automated Ship Organization Program|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 (disambiguation)|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)

* [[Pulse|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 point|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 - [[:Category:Locations|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)

* [[Polaris|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 [[:Category:Vanguard series|Vanguard]] - ( Some variants ) - PU - Vehicles - Storage wall has a Visarea in [[Vanguard Warden|Warden]] and [[Vanguard Harbinger|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 Facilities|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)

* [[Guardian|Mirai Guardian]] ALL Variants - PU - Vehicles / Interactions - External Weapon storage has no point of interaction. (STARC-158028)

* [[315p|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 Hornet Mk II|F7A MKII]] (STARC-157274)

* PU - Stanton - [[Rest Stop|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|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

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+{{PatchData
+|Prev = Star Citizen Alpha 4.0.2
+|Next=Star Citizen Alpha 4.1.1
+|publishdate= 2025-03-27
+|version=4.1.0
+}}
+The patch has been released onto '''[[LIVE|Live]]''' environment on the 27th March 2025<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/comm-link/Patch-Notes/20522-Star-Citizen-Alpha-41|text=Star Citizen Alpha 4.1.0 LIVE|accessdate=2025-03-27}}</ref>.
+Launcher should now show: VERSION 4.1.0-LIVE.9650658
+=== '''4.1.0 Release Goals''' ===
+=== Features and Gameplay ===
+==== Ai ====
+* New Fauna: '''[[Juvenile Valakkar|Juvenile Valakkar]]'''
+* New Dynamic Conversations and NPC Population Updates
+==== '''Locations''' ====
+* New [[Hathor Group|Hathor]] Alignment Facilities and Orbital Platforms
+* Further [[Moon|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 vehicles|Ground Vehicle]] and FPS Mining Updates
+* Item Recovery T0
+* Enabled Place from inventory for Fuses, Keycards and Compboards
+* Many [[Mission|Missions]] have been updated for [[Server meshing|Server Meshing]] including: Medical Beacons, Courier, Prison o2 repair, and 890j Boarding Action
+==== '''Ships & Vehicles''' ====
+* New Vehicles: [[Golem|Drake Golem]], [[ATLS GEO|Argo ATLS GEO]]
+* Collision Physics Update
+* Added Additional [[Ships]] to PU [[:Category:Ship dealership|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]], [[:Category:Cutlass series|Cutlass]], [[Arrow]], and [[:Category:F8 Lightning series|Lightning series]] ships
+==== '''Weapons & Items''' ====
+* New weapon: [[Verified Offworld Laser Technologies|VOLT]] rifle - [[Parallax 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 - [[Automated Ship Organization Program|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 (disambiguation)|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)
+* [[Pulse|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 point|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 - [[:Category:Locations|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)
+* [[Polaris|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 [[:Category:Vanguard series|Vanguard]] - ( Some variants ) - PU - Vehicles - Storage wall has a Visarea in [[Vanguard Warden|Warden]] and [[Vanguard Harbinger|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 Facilities|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)
+* [[Guardian|Mirai Guardian]] ALL Variants - PU - Vehicles / Interactions - External Weapon storage has no point of interaction. (STARC-158028)
+* [[315p|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 Hornet Mk II|F7A MKII]] (STARC-157274)
+* PU - Stanton - [[Rest Stop|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|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