Star Citizen 4.0 Is Here! All New Features Explained

[@DTOXTV]

This will be my biggest video in the "Feature's Explained" series to date. Countless hours playing, testing, gathering footage and editing this one to hopefully bring you right up to speed on everything 4.0! This will be my last video this side of the year, so a HUGE thank you from me for all your support for the channel this year. It's been my best year on KZbin to date. So, Merry Chris-mas my fellow meatbags, and happy holidays to you all! P.S: Let's hope the Mission Refactor is 100% working next year HEH. Also, seems CIG unexpectedly went with 600 player servers now, which is crazy.

[@thepotatoman-1]

How did you post a comment from 20 minutes ago? on a vid that came out like 3 minutes ago?

[@DTOXTV]

@thepotatoman-1 A Chris Robertsmas miracle!

[@solatis6385]

Thanks for the cool video! 🙂

[@solatis6385]

@@DTOXTV 😂

[@YourChannelJAB]

Having unique footage to explain and showcase the game's features always makes these videos the best.

[@justaguycommenting]

My favourite features are quantum Jumping to the centre of the sun, getting stuck in Klescher because the elevators don't work, missions not loading for ages, amazing!

[@llawlied6902]

Yh had the sun bug too set your spawn at the Pyro Gate Station asap and never fly any close to the sun

[@Arcwolfman]

Sun QT bug is gone for me, there's workarounds. There's also an easy workaround for klescher. Mission refractor is functioning today, and there's loads of other things to do than just missions. It has been amazing.

[@silexa3222]

@@Arcwolfman Being told to do something else than I want to cause the game doesnt work is amazing

[@Arcwolfman]

@silexa3222 the games in development mate. Funny how people seem to forget that fact.

[@JagHiroshi]

Until the Sun QT issue, I was having an amazing time just in one little corner of the map. I think it will come good - and we'll all be laughing as the citizens of Stanton are fed, one by one, into the belly of a giant sand worm.

[@Arcwolfman]

Sun QT is not happening to me anymore. It happened once, last night. And I was able to work it out. Was able to play the rest of tonight and today no problem.

[@The_Real_bubbazaneti]

Master lasher/Whipper @DTOXTV always a grand pleasure watching your brilliant vids! Have a Merry Christmas, happy holidays to you and your Family! Cheers Mate!

[@El1qt]

Thanks for the vid, was not able to play much during PTU since the client side performance was very bad for me. I’m glad that it got a lot better in live

[@angelg888]

Very interesting... Thanks for the Alpha 4.0/Pyro update tour... What about those who don't want to pick up a fight; just tour around like to Bloom and then back... Is there a way withoug getting issues?

[@toecutter9372]

Look at yer subs! Channel is growing like a weed…..speaking’ of weed….✌️ awesome video, man! The skills are super polished and I can’t wait for the next one!

[@mrmodify1604]

can't wait to start hitting asteroid bases and CZ's as a group, gonna be some great gameplay

[@llawlied6902]

I would add that some of those Asteroid base turrets can blow up even a cutlass in 4s before you can even move Better to stay afar when you get hostile territory warning and eva over through the docking port entry

[@sgtbilko2950]

Keep up the good work bro ❤

[@AI-xe5jr]

I was part of the EPTU and PTU and i can tell you, it’s buggy but fun.

[@kevindixonmusic]

Merry Christmas

[@griffonbourg]

Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas to you too.

[@DismayingHades6]

real quick disclaimer about reputation and Gangs, if you are Affiliated with the opposite factions your team members that are aligned with whatever gang you choose will be shot at regardless if seen being hostile or not. i dont think the stations care about who your with but i have seen outpost shoot some players on sight even whenever they have not entered a combat situation anywhere. but wont shoot other players when they had positive rep with the gang we were doing them for.

[@Cptrehab]

I just started playing and i dont know why people complain so much but this alpha game beats any other game alike. Im so blown away even with the glitches and bugs, still a beautiful game. Then 4.0 came with the higher fps and its even better🎉

[@SuperAndyyyy]

true, but the glitches and bugs slowly ware you down over time

[@bigbuna]

What happens if a 20 persons ship crosses in a new full server mesh ? I don’t really understand how this Server meshing working that good

[@stevensims3342]

It has taken a long time to work it all out. Server meshing will be a dynamic thing in the future.

[@Arcwolfman]

The shard contains all 10 servers combined. So if you are in a ship with 20 people you are in that shard that is limited to 600 people, so there's no issue with you crossing over, the next server over, say in Stanton MT will not be full, as the player limit is for the entire 10 servers.

[@DrChillg00d]

Is that a little Fela Kuti at the 5 minute mark you're bumping? Great music choice regardless afrobeat goes hard.

[@pierrecansse9947]

Your video has a amazing production value, wish you the best !

[@stormw777]

EVERYTIME I play in the last two days I can not even spawn my ship or when it does spawn the doors to the hanger won't open. My favorite part in 4.0 is i have no money and no way to make money in a bugged game that does not work for the last year.

[@Arcwolfman]

Games been working for me for the past year. There's a lot of money to be made aside from missions. And if you're getting the hangar bug, you can try to get to a different location from another player transport, I haven't had that hangar issue at all. What main city? If you want to hop on, I can transport you to a different station. I've been having a great time, game runs like butter. If you don't wanna workaround the bugs and whatnot, wait for the next update when they iron this out and it's off live preview. The new server meshing tech is amazing.

[@ref2491]

Fantastic video DTOX!

[@ion_force]

Is the performance any better yet?

[@stevensims3342]

It is really incredible they have pushed the game this far. I feel like if they were smart eventually they could leverage their meshing technology to bring in even more capital while revolutionizing online games. 🔥

[@BigBobBlazer]

These videos always make the game seem decent by only showing it's strengths: visuals and audio. The first day and a half was decent. At least on Pyro side. However, it has been a nightmare since. No missions, no comms, crash to desktop, players figuring out ways to kill other players in safe zones to steal their gear, ships not spawning, hangar doors not opening, invisible asteroids, inventory not loading, mfd's constantly resetting the power configs every time you switch between scm and nav, and so much more. Even for the more veteran SC backers, this patch is not really worth playing after the initial hype of seeing a system that was supposed to release 5 years ago.

[@0Metatron]

Great vid

[@timd7709]

you have really gotten the high quality thing down.... awesome video... :D

[@SauloMogi]

Where to mine and refine in Pyro

[@michaelnapper4565]

Thanks!

[@RicoZaid_]

Good video, terrible music 🎶😬

[@sgtbilko2950]

That ice doesn't look very icy 10:46 🧐

[@brycemcglothlin3288]

Wow great. Wish they would fix the bugs tho

[@DevilbyMoonlight]

Has anyone managed to get out of klescher yet? the elevators to the surface are borked.

[@anthonylitten9504]

What did you have to do to get the download to work for 4.0 lol

[@DannyDovahkiin]

There's this cool new teleportation feature that takes me back to the spaceport when I try to leave the hangar this game is truly a technical masterpiece

[@UwUz.]

Oh let me expand the servers ev tho they dont fucking work with more that 50 people l edit l server meshing better work

[@TravelingAnvil]

Thanks for the effort on this one! It is quite a patch and needed the substantial explainer. 10/10

[@johnwayne4911]

its not here. its in "preview"

[@llawlied6902]

Man how do you have such great fps i had 20 fps in the CZs xD

[@orbitalpotato9940]

Too bad 90% of the content currently doesn't work LMAO.

[@nathanielbeven9052]

CIG dropping the ball, as always. sigh..

[@caintindal1671]

It is a mess but it was expected.

[@agonydagamer]

The missions don’t work

[@theredwhirlwin]

Carful of orison

[@JaggedJack1]

You talk fast, I had to slow the video down to 1.75x.

[@skorne7682]

This would all be great if any of it worked properly. No offense to DTOX but this feels more like a CIG marketing video and is totally misleading. The real 4.0 experience is far different, full of jank and uncountable bugs. You are lucky if you can complete a single gameplay loop without anything completely breaking and wasting your time or in game money.

[@Arcwolfman]

Eh, I've had hours long sessions without bugs. And sometimes you get a bad one, you work around it. Reload, relocate, relog, or if your a salty boy, log off and do somethin else. This is what playin a massive undertaking of an alpha game is like right now. There's nothing misleading about this video. I've had more smooth gameplay with the server meshing sfps increase to a stable 30, game feels like butter now, and that's huge for bug fixing in the future. When the sfps is stable, development can much more easily work out bugs when they aren't getting stalled by server instability. The tech in this game is next level, and as such, is a monstrous task to make into an online game. And rightly so, I'm so tired of the same old bs theme park MMO design. Let them shoot for the stars.

[@Trycoose]

I've only been able to sit down and play for a few hours twice but both times I was able to play without any game breaking bugs

[@llawlied6902]

Thanks I was wondering the same I just tried 4.0 for maybe 3h and it's the worst patch since a long time Fell though stuff Got damaged for no reason Mission bugged Qt didn't worked Qt would teleport me in the sun Barely any missions showing up Missions failing for no reason Heavy lag and low fps Desync Pyro looks cool and the jump gate works well but everything else feels worse then the last few patches I completed 2 missions in 3h it's crazy

[@DTOXTV]

I mean, totally misleading? You can see EVERYTHING is recorded in-game, i spent the time and hours playing, testing myself, researching and presenting the footage and gameplay. I could have gathered up all of CIG's official footage of 4.0 and its features from ISC's, SCL's, and presented that instead, like other creators might. I had good sessions and I had bad sessions. The playability of Star Citizen changes day to day, update to update. The video isn't titled "STAR CITIZEN 4.0 - EVERYTHING JUST WORKS", it's titled "Features Explained", and that's exactly what I did. Just because you're having a bad time, doesn't mean I did at every moment, or everyone else, as seen in the comments below, but I'm well aware of the updates degradation in the last couple of days since going "live" (preview). I'm just as frustrated and confused as you are. Still, you can shove the ol' "CIG marketing" bit up your ass! Go watch my last video. The jankiest, laggiest pile of crap 4.0 gameplay, but I made a good video out of the experience, presented it exactly how it was, and enjoyed it for what it is, as did my viewers. 4.0 got MUCH better for me since then. You either ride this frustrating rollercoaster, realize you'll take the rough with the smooth, or get off and follow/play something with a fraction of the scope. In a few weeks when they're back from break and the patch is hopefully ironed out, you'd have forgotten this comment and be enjoying the update for what it is. By which point this video should hopefully still be relevant, and your negative comment will still be here. Either way, I appreciate you watching and sharing your feedback. Maybe I'll do a first impression, where I'll share my more critical thoughts on the live patch in a couple weeks too. Good luck!

[@DeepStone-6]

The endless fight between SC Glazers and people that are honest about the experience will never not be funny 😂

[@ginks72]

This is quite arguably the worst update ever everything is broken. You can’t even retrieve vehicles right now once again, star citizen is a scam.!!!!

[@k1mfor]

Haven't played since they implemented master modes. Now I decided to try again finally, waited 20 minutes to join the server only for the game to crash to desktop after 30 sek. Fck this trash, year after year it's just same unplayable garbage.

[@XxXDOMINIONXxX]

yet another barely playable patch. exactly as expected form CIG. Trash

[@thepotatoman-1]

First

[@alexc9434]

I love it when delusional KZbinrs act like this game actually works and you can do all of these things… lmao the game is basically unplayable dude what are you smoking.

[@anzebb]

buggy mess no missions jump points bugged....ca shity game

[@OperationValhalla]

Way to kind, Star Citizen 4.0 is hot garbage that makes the usual buggy shit show CIG puts on look like a well polished perfect AAA title. This coming from a person who's drained close to five figures into pledges. Do yourself a favor and avoid this like the plague.

[@lassikinnunen]

Pledges would imply something like them getting the cash after they complete a task, its just macro transactions

[@resonance10]

FYI: Nothing works. Don't bother. It's now a walking simulator.

[@idofx8722]

Elaborate please?

[@cmdr_thrudd]

It really depends on the server. I've been lucky and had a pretty good time. Some friends though are just getting hit with all the bugs.

[@EvilAnomaly]

Nothing works...horrible exaggeration (guess folks can't state points without the need to make them extreme/exaggerated). There are things that don't work and there's things that are hit and miss dependent on what server you're on. Played the game just fine with minor issues, not "nothing works".

[@idofx8722]

@@resonance10 Make sure to do a fresh install of the game. Overwriting the old file locations doesn’t delete conflicting data and can introduce new bugs due to a merging of said data. Interaction bugs can typically be fixed by spamming weapons along with mobi-glass. The quantum issues are largely resolved. Currently the biggest bugs I have found are: -Inability to share contracts (haven’t found a resolution yet) -Missing most info from Reputation list (no resolution) -Some sort of issue with space combat causing shields to drop instantly (maybe a de-sync issue) -Certain interact-able items becoming de-synced causing them to no longer respond to player inputs. -Oh and global chat being unsuable

[@Bucketnate]

You say that like its not supposed to be fixed. It's probably working better since you left a comment 🙄

[@SJ-fj3jp]

This game is still a janky mess why don’t KZbinrs tell you this is so laggy from the second you get out of bed and takes so long to even get to your ship I have 4080 card at 1440p still total janky as hell you have to have some serious patience to get the footage these KZbinrs are getting

[@reese4077]

They tell you all the time. They don't need to mention it every video

[@lassikinnunen]

You need to play between 5;30 and 6:30 in the morning. (Actually something some creators do in order to record smoother gameplay)

[@g0tsp33d]

the lag is still insane...at ~40fps it feels like soup

[@michelians1148]

Scamslop.

[@chuckdgf9794]

It is Broke AF

[@jamminwolf2539]

you forgot qt to the sun, no jobs and keeping your crime charges even after you serve time in jail

[@DTOXTV]

@@jamminwolf2539 those aren't NEW features bro those are OLD ones. 😅

[@TheEVEInspiration]

Making it a first person shooter like Arma, Doom, Unreal, Rust...is horrible. It will triumph all other styles of play, including the original concept. If you cannot dominate in FPS, you are done for! It is no longer a space game IMO, just a space backdrop.

[@EvilAnomaly]

Talk about exaggeration...you can be some COD god all you want but that by itself will only be great in a CZ and/or if you want to severely limit your gameplay. You want to mine, salvage, run trade routes, do every type of mission available, etc. you're definitely going to need to be more than just a FPS hard grunt. You better have buddies, know how to fly, and know the ins/outs of the game. I can get CZs and Pyro's lawlessness is probably not your cup of tea and that's perfectly fine. Exaggerating what you're opposed to to solidify your bias is silly, game is hardly a space game with space as just a backdrop no more than jets in a Battlefield game makes it a piloting game.

[@TheEVEInspiration]

@@EvilAnomaly Talk about missing the point completely. COD players in space do not care about mining etc. They just want to shoot and dominate in that area. The problem is that they will and when that happens, there is no room for other gameplay, other ferrying them around to new victims.

[@EvilAnomaly]

@@TheEVEInspiration There was no point to miss! There was some serious exaggeration though!

[@TheEVEInspiration]

@@EvilAnomaly I still think you are missing the point. If one mines, you need to prepare for full FPS at all times. If you walk about in the middle of nowhere, the same. Everywhere where once CAN get attacked in an FSP way, one WILL get attacked and has to be prepared for it. This means it is an FPS shooter game first, everything else second. That is no exaggeration, but just what it is. I remember when out of the blue, many many years ago we got shown a "Star marine" video, you should have seen the forums. No-one expected FPS like that to be part of the game. Another example of FPS first, space game second: When the Starfarer was made and we got to see the inside. Same response, the lead artist designed it as a FPS level, not as a functional / logical ship layout. Same community response, utter disgust about the decision making. CIG must have thought at some point that shooter games having huge followings and space games generally small followings and decided the vision must be FPS now.

[@aidana4374]

4.0 IS NOT HERE ITS NOT LIVE! stop misleading everyone!

[@EvangelionAsuka02]

Trying to polish a giant turd this game is azz

[@huga-t3j]

i diot, really NOTHING works, it is a complete mess and by the way 0 missions!!! tell the people the truht mf and 4.0 will not playable before Q2 2025