Patch Notes and Spectrum Testing MOTD.
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(Mánadagr) We are currently internally testing multiple fixes for issues on LIVE since the release of 4.1 and have started to test some of these on some select shards. Once we can confirm things are going ok I’ll have more updates for you all on further plans for the client side and the HOTFIX channel
New FPS Updates from Zac
Hey guys, wanted to share some upcoming FPS changes!
We have some upcoming changes to FPS gameplay that I’m sure people will love!
- TTK & Armour adjustments
To ensure pure realism we’ve Adjusted armours to more accurately reflect their intended purpose
- Heavy armour
Players can no longer aim, sprint, move or aim when wearing heavy armour
Players cannot be ran over or knocked over by vehicles
Increased damage resistance to 99%
**- Light armour **
Removed movement speed cap
- Clothes
Adjusted all clothes to give +5 Charisma and +1 Rule of cool
- Time To Kill
TTK now scales depending on your current task
For example if you are mining you will have much higher health allowing you to react to combat engagements
Health is decreased permanently for each sniper glint post you’ve made on spectrum
Drunken status effect now also increases your HP but decreases your accuracy
- Player Movement
Implemented dolphin diving, cart wheeling and tactical prone rolling
Rifles
- Parallax Rifle
Removed this weapon until volt guy posts 500 more times
- P8-AR
Due to the art having a full auto switch on we’ve decided it would be best to allow this weapon to be fully automatic
Damage is the same (Lore accurate)
- S71
To keep in line with Gemini branding we’ve also decided to allow this weapon to be fully automatic but reduced the damage to keep it authentic and allow players to feel ‘cool’
- Gallant
Re-introduced fully automatic fire mode (sorry for removing it)
- Snipers
Removed sniper glint
Implemented a full screen pop up window that informs you when a sniper is aiming at you to ensure a fair playing field for snipers max distance
- SMGs
Removed the custodian ability to deal damage (Due to it’s large magazine size)
Lumin V damage decreased so it can go back to it’s intended purpose of being a sign to make fun of people who enjoy burst weapons
- Shotguns
Deadrigs aim down sight time increased to 4
Deadrig spread when aiming down sight decreased to 0
introduced a slot machine UI that shows on screen when firing the deadrig, 3 Xs mean you can 1 tap an enemy
- R97
Equips a clown hat when using this weapon
- LMGs
FS9 magazine size reduced to 15
- Pistols
CODA now does extra damage if wearing a cowboy hat
Yubarev tweaked to be less of a meme
- Creatures
Added Saddles to be able to mount any creature
These can be summoned and unsummoned with a whistle
We are hoping to deliver these changes Today! <:zacattac:1308058129694461994>
(Tuesday) We have tested multiple hotfixes on the LIVE servers with multiple updates to help with interaction delays, long load times, invalid location IDs, Hangars leaking, DGS/Hybrid Crashes, exploits, and more and are planning a Maintenance Window for 2025-04-02 @ 1300 UTC to accelerate the rollout of these beneficial changes.
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: 
At the top of the hour we will be opening up the HOTFIX channel that will point to LIVE for client-side hotfix testing. This update has fixes for multiple client crashes as well as an issue where FPS AI were attacking the player corpses instead of the alive players
Hotfix | 4.2.2025 | sc-alpha-4.1.0-9659838-LIVE
This first hotfix for 4.1 LIVE includes many fixes for issues encountered since the LIVE release.
Client
- Fixes for multiple client crashes
- Fix for an issue causing FPS AI to attack downed player corpses instead of the alive players
Server
- Fixes multiple DGS crashes
- Updates to resolve multiple Align and Mine Blocking Issues
- Updates to stop some Align and Mine Exploits
- Fixed an issue causing several medical rooms to be missing from Landing Zone Clinics
Hybrid
- Fixes to massively reduce high hybrid-service pings causing multiple interaction delay and other issues
- Fixes for multiple hybrid-service crashes
- Further updates to help reduce players getting stuck with long load times in the PU
- Updates to help stop players getting stuck with an “Invalid Location ID” black screen upon death
Spectrum MOTD:
(Wednesday) Maintenance complete and a new hotfix build is now available on the LIVE channel. For more information on the hotfix please check out the hotfix central post!
Spectrum MOTD:
(Thursday) We are currently continuing to investigate a handful of issues on LIVE that may be hotfixable (Including surface mineables).
Current goal is to start up PTU as early as next week with 4.1.1 builds.
Spectrum MOTD:
(Frjádagr) We are currently putting together multiple fixes for surface mineables, cargo grids getting locked, and client crash fixes for some limited testing over the weekend. (client crash fixes would utilize the HOTFIX channel to connect to LIVE) If the fixes hold up we are looking to expand these out early next week.
Current goal is to start up PTU as early as next week with 4.1.1 builds.
Spectrum MOTD Update:
**(Frjádagr) HOTFIX channel for clientside hotfix (CL 4.1.0_9672945) is now open for testing over the weekend. This will connect to the LIVE environment and has a couple updates.
- 3 Client Crash Fixes
- Potential Fix: PU - Cargo / Commodities - The player can autoload cargo with the vehicle unstowed, causing the cargo to be stuck to the vehicle grid**
(Mánadagr) We are currently working through the latest 4.1.1 branch to get it ready and are intending on having a PTU build ready for Evocati early this week
Spectrum MOTD:
(Tuesday) We are currently cooking a 4.1.1 build for a potential Evocati release later today.
- LIVE has been updated with the latest client HOTFIX
New MOTD
(Waka’s Day) We are currently working on a new 4.1.0 Client/DGS HOTFIX and are planning on opening up the HOTFIX channel for client testing with 4 crash fixes early today. The DGS hotfix has potential landing gear clutter fixes that we are testing on select shards.
We are also working through the blocking issues for 4.1.1 and may have a new build for Evocati today or tomorrow if all goes well. Goal is to accelerate 4.1.1 waves asap after a couple Evocati publishes.
[Evocati PTU] Star Citizen Alpha 4.1.1 PTU 9680153 Playtest
Audience: Evocati Only
Mesh Configuration: 7:3:600
Bug Fixes
SC Alpha 4.1.1 contains over 100 bugfixes for issues occurring in 4.1.0, 23 of which originated from the Issue Council
- Potential Fix: Players report being matched to shards that are no longer active, leading to a loading timeout; if they attempt character repair, it fails as it tries to force stow their character on the dead shard
- Potential Fix: Disconnection error 60012 - some accounts are unable to join a game server
- Potential Fix: PU - Exploit - Pyro / Stanton - Landing Zones / Contested Zones (CZ) - Actor / Animation / Emote / Doors - Flex emote can be used to clip into locked doors with a door panel on the other side to unlock the doors (Also disabled interaction while in an emotion animation)
- Potential Fix: PU - Deadhead Helmet Lucky Break - Subscription Gear / Armor / UI / Graphic - The entire screen is distorted while wearing the helmet
- Potential Fix: PU - Hathor - OLP - Removing the card before pressing the button will break the laser firing mechanic
- Potential Fix: Crusader Hercules Starlifter - ALL VARIANTS - PU - Vehicle / Ramp - When the Ramp is Opened, the Starlifter shift off balance
- Potential Fix: PU - Multi-System - Jump Points - Ships / Vehicle / Network / Game Code - A Players Ship Desyncs with the Server Mesh after Jumping Solar Systems causing Issues when Landing
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Instanced Hangars - Ships / Vehicles / Game Code / Locations - Instanced/Staging Hangars are not Force Storing/Closing correctly when the Player Leaves via Elevator
- Potential Fix: PU - Transit / Locations - Selecting a second destination while in transit to your instanced hangar will take you to the gateway for the unstreamed hangar
- Potential Fix: PU - Actor - Interactions - Loot / Quick Interact - The Quick Interact option for Loot is not displayed unless approached by the right angle
- Potential Fix: ARGO ATLS - PU - Law System / Mounts - Destroying an ARGO ATLS gives player a CS3 Homicide Charge
- Potential Fix: Place From Inventory - Spamming F breaks placing into itemport
- Potential Fix: PU - Personal Inventory / Respawn screen / Item Recovery - Users will load into Klescher Rehabilitation Facility after breaking out of prison and relaunching client
- Potential Fix: PU - Personal Inventory / Respawn screen / Item Recovery - User corpses will despawn upon death after breaking out from Klescher Rehabilitation Facility
- Potential Fix: PU - Missions - Locations / AI - EliminateAll - Enemy AI do not spawn in at OLPs when accepting a Lawful EliminateAll contract at these locations
- Potential Fix: PU - Cargo Hauling - Unable to retrieve mission Cargo from the terminal at Orbital Laser Platform
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Wikelo Mods - Locations / ATC - The player needs to hail twice to receive a hangar
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - The Collector - Missions / Cargo - Additional non-mission cargo submitted at the same time as mission cargo is not transferred to location inventory and will be lost
- Potential Fix: PU - Multilocation - Locations / Actor / Respawn - Upon death, player gets stuck on black screen with current location of “INVALID LOCATION ID”
- Potential Fix: PU - Missions / AI - Hijacked 890Jump - The counter reaches 0 but the mission doesnt complete
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Checkmate - Courier - Mission Refactor / UI / Mission Content - ‘Checkmate Stroll’ Courier mission does not have a designated drop off point
- Potential Fix: Anvil F8C Lightning - PU/AC - Vehicles / Audio - Engines can still be heard after shutting off.
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Beam Weapons - Actors / Game Code / Weapons - Beam Weapons fire is obstructed by Worn Equipment
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Rundown Stations (R&R) - AI / Locations - Social AI - Bartender AI will walk around to where player stands and drink from their glass
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Courier - Mission Content - Boxes are not spawning during courier missions
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Multi Location - Courier - Mission Refactor / UI - Courier missions to Pyro Stations Refinery do not have delivery markers
- Potential Fix: MISC Hull C - PU - Vehicles / Lighting - The elevator appears pitch black when lowered
- Potential Fix: Origin 890 Jump - PU - Actor / Vehicles / Interactables - Interacting with a seat inside the 890 Jump bar will cause the actor to disappear and be unable to leave the seat
- Potential Fix: MISC Starlancer Max - PU - Vehicles - Room system - Atmosphere missing in starlancer engineering section
- Potential Fix: RSI Polaris - PU - Vehicles - Hangar doors after being destroyed only open 10% of the way not allowing for entry
- Potential Fix: PU - Missions - NPE - NPE at New Babbage occasionally not starting on initial sign-in
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Missions - NPE / Tutorial / UI - Nav Markers can not trigger during Tutorial Mission
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - Missions - NPE / Tutorial - Dying during Tutorial sometimes sends the player to Clinic and interferes with objectives
- Potential Fix: RSI Ursa Rover - PU - Vehicles / Art / Graphics - Ursa Rover is missing its rear door and ramp
- Potential Fix: PU - Armor - Male/Female - Duster Armor Helmet and variants break animations when player attempts to remove & re-equip helmet
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Unoccupied Derelict - Interactable / Props / Locations - Loot crates at Unoccupied Derelict can’t be interacted with
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Monox - Jackson’s Swap - Delivery Contracts - Mission Content / Locations - Delivery mission shelf has excess collision preventing interaction with mission box
- Potential Fix: PU - Actor - Armor - Interaction - Some Helmets cannot be attached to the hip
- Potential Fix: PU - Stanton - microTech - New Babbage - Locations / AI - Social AI - AI are stuck idle in their spawn location at Aspire Grand and NBIS
- Potential Fix: PU - Pyro - Multiple Locations - Multitool / Shopping / Buying - Locations / Design - Multiple locations shopping kiosks do not sell the Cambio-Lite SRT Multitool attachment or the Cambio SRT
Technical
- Fixed 8 Client Crashes
- Fixed 9 Server Crashes
- Fixed a Mainthread Deadlock
Very late but here for those interested.
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: 
4.1.0 HOTFIX channel will be opening up shortly for a client hotfix that fixes 4 client crashes. This will connect to the LIVE environment and will be up at least overnight for testing.
New MotD
(Thor’s Day) We have currently started cooking a new 4.1.1 PTU build for a 3-4 hour Evocati playtest this afternoon.
- We have further client/dgs fixes going into a hotfix now for a possible new build on the HOTFIX channel later today
sc-testing-chat | Wakapedia-CIG: We’re still investigating the surface mineables issue and have a very strong lead and a build internally for testing for a possible fix. Will know more by tomorrow if this happens to help
For today, we are compatibility checking a new 4.1.0 LIVE hotfix to replace the current one on the HOTFIX channel and hopefully have that up in the next couple hours. This has extra fixes for a couple issues:
- Has Further fixes for the MFD client crash when entering ships for some players
- PU - Actor - Inventory / Interactions - Cannot hold anything through “Carry” from Inventory into Hands unless item is dropped