Star Citizen Alpha 4.2.1

Build & Server Information
Characters in this new environment have been built from Long Term Persistence (LTP) data.

Currently with LTP, certain player states such as personal hangar layout, unstowed ships, custom characters, in-progress refinery jobs, and in-game purchased consumables are not saved between releases which will cause some items to be lost in the update.




Build Info

This release is highly focused on the new Resource Drive event, Ship Escort missions, Flight Tuning, and Wikelo Recipe Updates.

Long Term Persistence: Enabled

Server Meshing: 5:5:600 Player Shards

Starting aUEC: 20,000

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July 17, 2025
Star Citizen Alpha 4.2.1 LIVE
Race for Stanton
Features and Gameplay
Introducing new features while updating and refining existing functionality.

Bug Fixes and Technical Updates
Known Issues & Information
Star Citizen Alpha 4.2.1 has been released onto the LIVE environment!
Your launcher should now display: VERSION 4.2.1-LIVE.9958723

Here are a few of the latest known issues. For a more comprehensive list of Known issues and Workarounds, please check out our Knowledge Base here!

https://support.robertsspaceindustries.com/hc/en-us/sections/360002667153-Known-Issues




PU - Advocacy Badge ( Replica ) - Actor Feature / Interactables - Advocacy Badge does not successfully Carry, Inspect or Store

Workaround

The Advocacy badge can still be submitted to the collector if the item is moved from :

Lootbox > Personal Inventory ( Backpack or Armor ) > Item Bank ( at any Wikelo Station ) > Freight Elevator




PU - Stanton - Resource Gathering - Recover Cargo - Mission Content / Game Code - Mission doesn't progress after reaching the mission location

PU - Missions / mobiGlas - Multiple Missions - A majority of the missions are missing in the PU

PU - Stanton - Resource Gathering - Support Attack Ship - Mission Content / Game Code - Mission did not progress after reaching the mission location

PU - Missions - A Call To Arms / Mercenary - Total Criminal Neutralized counter do not add after killing actor with a Crime Stat

Mission Content / Locations - Derelict Outposts - Derelict outposts are spawning emergent AI as well as mission AI

PU - Freight Elevators - Accessing the Freight Manager during item transfer can cause items to not register in the location inventory and can prevent mission completion

PU - Ship Battles V1 - Mission Content - Players can fail the mission upon arriving out of QT at the mission location

PU - Mission content - UI - Ships that have a % bar for health uses hull integrity but can fail before it reaches 0%

PU - Mission Content / Cargo - Escort ship can spawn with no cargo on-board

PU - Patrol - Missions / AI - Ace Pilot will de-spawn upon next objective update

Multivehicle - AC - Vehicles/RN - AC Capacitors do no share same values as PU

PU - Stanton - Resource Gathering / Freight Elevator - Mission Content / UI - Ore pods are not consistently recognized as being stored in the warehouse or is delayed

PU - Freight Elevators - UI / Locations - Cannot fill freight elevator to full capacity with commodity crates

PU - Mining / Harvestables - Some mining nodes on planet surfaces cannot be scanned or mined and are lacking collision

PU - Mercenary - Mission Content / AI / Locations - AI can remain in the Elevator Spawn closet even though the door is open

ARGO ATLS - PU - Mounts / Cargo / Tractorbeam - The ATLS is unable to pull cargo off a ship's cargo grid after it is moved from place of origin to new location

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