Star Citizen Alpha 4.0 - Status Update - CRITICAL FIXES NEEDED!

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Star Citizen Alpha 4.0 - Status Update - CRITICAL FIXES NEEDED! Get NORDVPN + BIG Discount | nordvpn.com/boredgamer Tobii Eye Tracker 5 | tobii.gg/boredgamer STAR CITIZEN 4.0 PREVIEW | robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/1/thread/4-0-preview-status-update/ Become a Channel Member | kzbin.infojoin Get a Star Citizen Account & Bonus | boredgamer.co.uk/enlist Try Incogni 60% Off - Take Control Of Your Privacy | www.boredgamer.co.uk/incogni Support On Patreon | www.patreon.com/BoredGamer Get GameGlass | www.boredgamer.co.uk/gameglass Donate To The Channel | www.boredgamer.co.uk/donate Direct Paypal Donations | paypal.me/boredgamer Discord | discord.gg/boredgamer Twitch | www.twitch.tv/boredgameruk Twitter / X | twitter.com/BoredGamerUK Reddit | www.reddit.com/r/BoredGamer/ Podcast | soundcloud.com/boredgameruk Checkout Hasgaha's Screenshots | www.hasgaha.com/gaming-screenshots/ LATEST STAR CITIZEN PATCH ALPHA 4.0 PREVIEW

[@SuperAndyyyy]

merry Christmas boredgamer, have a box of spiders! 🕷🕷🕷

[@Eneov]

My biggest problem was always server performance. I am amazingly forgiving with bugs.

[@mikevachon8752]

Yeah bugs happen but a server fps of 12 was no good.

[@helopilotr]

But I feel like 4.0 preview feels more mooth than before. Not everywhere and there are 100% some bugs related to serverside issues but generally in game I feel like it runs smoother than before.

[@realdeal485]

They run like shit because of throttling... anything to save that precious bandwidth.. all of this change stuff is based osn saving bandiwdth and they are destroying their game by making it run like shit to save money by throttling.. they pay aws by the gbused.. greedy chris roberts my fav liar

[@nawinch2]

waiting a decade for a door to open will always be more annoying than any bug to me

[@Osean_Kitty]

Certified Bethesda gamer moment lol

[@111Tommyg]

I've been permanently put in the prison, got a crime stat for a mission bugging out and spectacularly failing yesterday, I proceeded to do the mining for merits system but earning extensions cause trolls were constantly attacking me and I had to defend myself, earning me more time inside, I completed it once and was hit with a bug where the inmate processing elevator wouldn't work, it'd open to a void and if you try walking through it, you earn yourself even more of a crime stat cause it counts as "escaping". Before discovering that, I tried repairing my character which reset me to my home on orision, but unfortunately wouldn't remove the crimestat, tried paying off the fines which were increased to 90k+ which didn't remove the criminal rating but just ate my in game funds, my game now consists of being in prison for the rest of my life for a crime that I didn't commit, 4.0 for me is just prison simulator, great 😅

[@jacobstephens8447]

Just gotta region hop servers and find a working elevator once your sentence is over. Ez fix.

[@MrExoticViper]

Thats rough

[@ArkolisO]

I found in eptu that if the prison elevator opens to the void, stay in and go up and down until the server picks it up and sends you back to Everest harbor.

[@uliseto]

Happened to me too, I'm staying away until 4.1 probably

[@defan5732]

Life in prison simulator is crazy, people were asking for realism I guess

[@jbirdmax]

The first iteration of server meshing is going smoother than I ever expected by several orders of magnitude.

[@advil000]

I would pretty much agree with that.

[@Archmage9885]

Same here. This is the best SC has ever run for me.

[@edamnation]

Fully agree with that

[@robertcaie8157]

Hauling and bunker missions have been working pretty well for me; but bounties are a no go. It’ll be great as the bugs get squashed

[@realdeal485]

Recopy and character reset are identical and works fine in the ptu... character reset MUST be returned so players do not get shard locked for months and ignored by cig is exactly what cig does..

[@bperras]

It's Live now, so no recopy. This is now permanent consequences.

[@GrimGatsby]

Cleaning for "trash" items like discarded mags/empty consumables needs to be WAY more agressive until they add janitorial AI.

[@Ryecrash617]

Why not have janitor missions? “Collect 10 pieces of trash at Port Tressler for $1000?” Sure, some players might abuse it by buying a bunch of cheap stuff, throwing it on the ground and getting paid to pick it up, but I cannot imagine someone doing it for 15 minutes without loosing their mind.

[@RosscoAW]

​@@Ryecrash617because, as you just said, that would cause more compute and bandwidth overhead............. not less.

[@realdeal485]

Error 30009 locked out for 5 days on a corrupted shard..ticket submitted was not even read.. auto response with no reference to error 30009.. so will be locked out for weeks if not months because they removed the full character reset not allowing you to play.. cig refuses to reset your account as well.. just left and ignored.. good excuse to reduce bandwidth and keep masking it..

[@SnuffitLabs]

I cleared that server error by going into a map in AC and then back into the PU. Fixed the 30009 error for me and my nephew. It's been an intermittent problem for years. I found the fix back in August on "The Reddit" of all places.

[@jonac112]

So far, I haven’t been able to leave the hangar in 4.0 hopefully one day I will get to experience a different set of bugs 😀

[@mikevachon8752]

😂

[@ser1es835]

try resetting your character to change to a new spawn point

[@jonac112]

@@ser1es835 Thanks for the reply, I did manage to get out of the hangar. I have changed my regen point to the station and I have been able to play more of 4.0 now.

[@spydirhsd]

Stuck in Riker last night with lots of ppl in very nice armor running around wishing the elevator doors would open so we can get to our hangars.

[@proto_x216]

I just did a character repair and waited an hour. That's the only way

[@spydirhsd]

@@proto_x216 That's a solid tip. Thanks!

[@YooTuberian]

Empty bottles can be stacked. When one at 0% is removed from the stack to the character's hand, it will now be 100% full. Consequently, a player only ever needs two bottles for infinite sustenance.

[@Strange-Viking]

Finally a nice feature!

[@securepath5681]

I can’t even leave prison and the reason for me being there is stupid. There was a bounty in a trespass zone. I died trying to avoid the turrets, somehow got a level 1 crime stat, and ended up in prison. Now I can’t leave.

[@racc1337]

I think you have to reset your character

[@Lord_Azrizus]

The fact we went in aware it wasn’t ready (hence the “preview” and double builds) and knew it was going to be a buggy mess, can’t fault people for my own choices. Despite all the issues, still having a lot of fun in the preview, when it works.

[@ixxeon]

Hey board, thanks for keeping us updated this close to Christmas!

[@RobChrist]

Great video with some good information, I will miss Bored over the holidays as he is the first thing I watch every day. Keep up the good content.

[@Neshma0]

Our little boy is growing up, hes growing his first extra star system. Gunna take him a bit to grow into it but I'm proud of his progress!! ❤

[@Tainted-Soul]

It is about time the game should be come play able with a "Big" 4.0 working hangers , missions, should be the norm not a 1-100 chance

[@Evolutional]

My biggest issues have been the qt issue that seems fixed, black screens, and not seeing mission markers. The performance overall has given me a lot of hope for the next few major patches though

[@VGAstudent]

I recently had an EXCELLENT experience with 4.0; I accidentally tried to request the hangar open and switch to an exterior view, and got confused: instead of hitting [Alt] + [N], I hit [Alt]+[F4], because my fingers then hit the "N" key after I realized what I had just did. OOPS!! so I immediately logged back on to find myself still sitting in my hangar, and with the mission still intact with the place markers showing where to go. I have never disconnected and been able to pickup where I left off, well, not during the IAE for the past couple of years. Having two versions running and this one keep the mission after an accidental disconnect is SWEET! I love persistence.

[@Anzhelone]

Héroe

[@tje.o.a5477]

I have done that too

[@T3hBr0k3nM0nk3y]

Godspped, devs! Hold fast, citizens! Happy holidays, everybody! Thanks for the updates, Bored! 🎅👍

[@dameron0722]

Merry Christmas Bored! Here's to you and 4.0 in januari ;)

[@buda7326]

Would be cool to see little mouse droids or something similar running around the stations cleaning up the bottles and med gowns.

[@Goyahkla100]

Not really, they would be all sitting/standing on chairs

[@RosscoAW]

Right, because that would consume less compute and bandwidth overall....

[@buda7326]

@@RosscoAW who pissed in your cheerios? Ffs

[@xugans99]

My buddy and I were doing a bunch of bounties around Crusader. The weird things that happened to us were sometimes only one of us would get the target location jump point, and on one mission the server crashed and when it recovered we still had the mission but the NPCs were now white. We still killed them, did not get any crime stat, and had to wait a few minutes for the mission to count as completed, but it still worked out just fine

[@gbreadstudios]

Was stuck in prison for a while because the elevator wouldn't leave prison, now my ships won't show up in my hangar. Hopefully I can play again soon

[@ryanvanderest7435]

Since I've been playing the scalliwag journey in SC I kinda love how my empty bottles remain on my ship, flying around making it a bit dirty, it gives it character imo.

[@CosmicTurtle13]

Having made my first jump from Stanton to Pyro the other day, it was perfection. Then as soon as I got to Pyro and purchased my armor, backpack, and gun and them bugging out so I couldn't interact with them I realized there were some pretty big issues that they need to fix yet.

[@Babs-md3tj]

That’s so weird. All of my issues are occurring in Stanton and Pyro has been flawless for me outside of some hangar issues

[@nonleft96]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

[@RGreeting]

Hope the spawning in hangars comes back soon. It was such a great QoL improvement

[@Ironoxruss]

I like the idea of cleaning up the landing zones for a small amount of credits. That way I have a way to purchase a flight suit after dying of thirst when I spawn in the hab with 5% hunger and thirst.

[@realdeal485]

No fixes for shard locks mentioned that are already in progress before the fix.. just left for the whole break with no way back in..

[@jbirdmax]

Yeah that one is probably gonna take some time to fix.

[@dabblliu9860]

Server performance atm is great but it was a really unfortunate release timing right before the holidays when noone's around to fix any new bugs

[@viktorkiss3495]

Thanks and Merry Christmas!

[@C_L_M]

Happy New Year to all!

[@vallah_sc]

Hopefully to see if things get fixed in a quicker manner considering the teams are out on holiday

[@yozzerhughes1623]

I was stuck in a lift and could not get to the lobby of Orison Habs. Nice episode of 'Elevator Citizen'

[@Storm-Cleaver]

Until last night (Monday night), there were bugs, but everything could be worked around. But then I started getting the black screens. Today, they're happening often enough and fast enough that I can't even get out of the station. Everything will be smooth and running well, except for missions, right up to the black screen.

[@speedfreakw]

The first version of server meshing works much better than I expected when it was first announced

[@MarkoRonkainen]

I played 4.0 for several days before I actually was able complete a single mission. And this was due to bugs, not my inability to do them. Then suddenly in a couple of hours I did almost 500k hauling, rookie rank contracts...

[@thisishaggard]

Spent 15 minutes cleaning up bottles at Everus yesterday. Not sure what I was hoping for, but felt like helping put a couple shopping carts away in a parking lot lol.

[@PantherSnak3]

Two biggest issues I've encountered have been QT jumping accuracy and my Cutlass Black not spawning correctly in the hangar.

[@vicsid9606]

I am looking forward to seeing what cIG cam do as far as improving playability and performance. From what I've heard from people who know things about stuff is that this kind of thing normally happens at the end of the development cycle. I hope that's not what is happening...

[@78Pants]

The thought of what the intention of this years work (making it stable, getting it to a good state before sq42 release) makes perfect sense. Had the same thing at the back of my mind too.

[@johnnyhill8589]

pyro, and the wipe and mission rebalance especially, have been really fun. 4.0 is shaping up well

[@RavingNut]

I have hit a few bugs. Salvaged (or insurance fraud of a ship) would despawn after a while (or claim). Entire MOBI (missions, friends request ect) being blank for a day. Bounties not spawning for the qualification missions. The list goes on, but hasn't stuck around permanently (except the ship weapons). But dam is the game running smooth. My rig (for the first time) hit over 100fps in space and during bounties I only had Dsync/hitching 1 time.

[@schwangerful]

Only missions I had were salvage (I don't have a vulture or reclaimer), bounty hunter (target shots don't register or there is no target), and hauling (cargo doesn't exist at pickup site and pickup marker is wrong). Without a Prospector or mole, there's not really anything to do even if I could leave the station. Guess I'll just keep waiting. I feel like my life is just living one giant loading screen for this game

[@marduksonofeeyah8953]

I have had some issue for sure, but I have been pretty impressed with how 4.0 is working so far. It's awesome to see the max server pop at 600 and so many players running around!

[@M3talhound]

I’m not in a hurry for a full 4.0 release as long as stability improves and missions get fixed.

[@eranz8884]

Indeed a very well done Server status, Did not play the game for couple of days due to major bugs. But I have to say it, been a backer for over 4 years! The servers are running amazing! If they keep up this rate of updates and not rounding corners this can possibly be a game by the end of 2025!

[@gowkie3940]

Merry Christmas bored and Zin!

[@elijahshumway3335]

The star lancer looks so awesome, I've been in one so far and its awesome. 4.0 feels pretty stable so far and I've enjoyed it

[@orsonsaviour]

Merry Christmas and a happy new Starlancer to all!

[@jbirdmax]

I love the Starlancer, but I usually play alone. Of course I love all Star Citizen ships. But since none of the ships past some medium sized fighters are made for someone like myself…

[@jbirdmax]

I do love your comment though.

[@MatthewNickerson]

I kinda hope progress doesn't carry over with reputation being important not being able to finish a mission carries a bigger penalty than death, not ideal

[@CrazyNights1015]

The only issue i had last night was massive lag. I was literally stuck on the NB rail trying to get to the space port but my screen was frozen so bad that it took two tries just to get off the train. And forget GT. It took me nearly 30 minutes just to get Port Tressler.

[@cadorl]

glad to see that there is still some attention being paid to the troubles that 4.0 is experiencing. glad its not as bad as 3.18. Hopefully they can get everything up to date and eliminate all the legacy and place holder systems soon. but even when they do those systems will also need optimizing and refining so I don't expect huge leaps and bounds in performance just yet. perhaps later in the year if things go smoothly for them and they can move at or ahead of schedule for once.

[@jeoffelectron2537]

im glad it's live no matter how many bugs it has. live is the only true progression in sc the only true markers and commitment.

[@Randaddy25]

Bro, I dropped a grand in new ships. If I can get a ship to spawn in my hangar, I can't leave. The hangar door opens to another closed hangar door. So fuckin ridiculous at this point.

[@MasticoreWinter]

High Server FPS and working server meshing ist a great milestone. The next steps are to complete the mission and transit refactor.

[@XJ076A]

Trying to power through 4.0 but getting random crime stats for fracturing a salvage mission ship or getting randomly displaced from my own hangar and getting my ship impounded is getting old fast lol. Not to mention the refuel and repair stuff doesn't work most of the time. Lots of work needed for this patch still lol

[@themarveluniverseonline]

Mission markers disappearing, QT miss targeting, and the latest RRR bug in hangers are the game breaking ones I see.

[@jookm]

My trash goes in one of three places: 1. At a landing zone I put it in a trash can. 2. In my hangar I throw it into the elevator that goes back to the lobby. 3. Out and about I throw it out the airlock.

[@joshuabyer5042]

Time of day plays a huge role in how stable/enjoyable your experience can be.

[@Mr2swole]

Just recently decided to get back into the game seems like it runs a lot better than it did. Looking forward to it getting even even smoother.

[@willievibez7821]

My biggest complaint is no elevator works, and you csn barely get out of the hangar and ghost ships spawn in hangar with actual collusion. But the bug report system is so tedious you don't wanna do it.

[@SolarizedWasTaken]

never happened to me, and if it did, just leave and go to a new server. It is no where as near as broken as what people say. Just have patience or play another game

[@ph11p3540]

Yesterday I had to reset my character because all my refining work was undone once I started shipping the refined ingots from Pyro to my home world. The game just kept freezing jumping. So I eventually lost all my money spent on refining. All on Issue Council.

[@reckxner]

Been kind of burned out on SC, but I am excited for my first jump into Pyro.

[@darkstar2480]

I ran all over the verse last night trying to complete bugged delivery missions. When the game is working, 4.0 is amazing. When it isn’t it, find something else until your luck turns.

[@jshreyer]

Really liking the current 4.0 build. I haven’t had any MAJOR issues yet but I’ve also barely played

[@mezzy7109]

Mission sharing/elevator stuck/refuel-repair bugs are currently the most annoying ones i think. Also have buddies stuck in prison and cant even play the game.

[@kombo074]

4.0 preview started decently for me and now it's extremely frustrating. Hope they make enough fixes before the holiday break...

[@fresetu]

Before the hotfix build was integrated into the 4.0 preview build, 4.0 ran quite well. That isn't to say there weren't issues, but none so bad as the ones I've gotten since this integration. Having said that, the server performance has generally been spectacular.

[@aimlis]

Performance varies greatly between servers. Some are nigh impossible to do anything yet others are functional, if not performing fantastic. There is obviously still a lot of work ongoing over the break. Gotta respect the hard work.

[@azerouth]

So far I have been having QT issues, I have been staying away from combat type stuff because of how many issues I hear about.

[@brianbaker4288]

The servers have actually gotten better for me. I couldn’t do missions the first few days, but now that they’ve come back it’s been great. The only real issue I have seen is hangars not giving me my ship and falling through my ship once. Also, I’ve been sitting in Stanton making money waiting to go to pyro.

[@wisewolf9353]

I'm honestly surprised with the consistent good performance I've been getting since 4.0. Things are running smoother and more responsive for me than ever before. I'm also running a 1070ti and 9600k with 32 gb ram which is fairly dated hardware. I'd honestly go as far as to say it's the smoothest I've seen the game run. Not one crash, disconnect, game breaking anomaly or random needs to reinstall, it's nice.

[@BritishEcho]

They just need to make bottles de-spawn, we don't have to throw wrappers and packaging for food items away so why not just do the same for the bottles. Can't imagine it will do a lot for the performance, but every little thing helps.

[@trekie82]

I know there are some big issues with the preview but I'd be surprised if it takes them until March to fix it. I'd bet late January at best for live.

[@ENTIAComics]

Cool! Nice that CIG are still cooking, even during the X-Mas holidays!

[@cygnus6623]

When it is up and running, it is great! When it is not, it is almost useless. Over the last few days, missions not working has been the biggest issue. Not working again today. It worked for a bit early yesterday. Another regular issue for me is crashing to a black screen. Game is off as my CPU and video card drops off instantly. There are more players than I've ever seen in the game...by FAR. They need to spin up more shards. THIS will cost a lot more for infrastructure!

[@78Pants]

The black screen seems to actually be a 30k, just not showing an error anymore. Complete shard/server shutdown. Its given away by the fact taht once you alt-f4 out and come back in, theres always a queue of hundreds to get back in, means your not the only one its happening to

[@Siamon34]

One of the biggest problem is that you can't go out of jails at all! The only way out is to reset account...

[@Azreal15]

I’m guessing it’s the people at the near Austin studio down the road. That are working on these fixes.🇺🇦🇭🇹🇵🇸

[@mrbensh-r2j]

Amazing video, can’t even get in to the main menue but looking forward to when I actually get to play 4.0

[@n458xx]

With initial server meshing done, hopefully, future releases will be smoother.

[@skylark159]

Thanks for the coverage. In 4.0 I currently cannot get to my personal hanger in my chosen home location. But other then that, I was having a good time.

[@Mksshey]

same freaking issue. Any resolution?

[@wrextheblind3787]

I really liked spawning in hanger but if it caused allot of issues on the backend then I don’t mind not having it

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

Hope you and Zin have a great Holiday.

[@seotenin]

Merry Christmas Mate!!

[@sagamer3594]

Merry Christmas to everyone, especially Bored and Zinya. The servers have been ok though there are a lot of bugs in 4.0. These vary but some are game-breaking. I think that CIG did the right thing in releasing this alongside the previous version rather than instead off. Playing in 3.24 seems a bit pointless but we have a choice and that's always a good thing.

[@Solar546]

My experience with the game is very positive. I did not expect this stability.

[@hofer914]

Hopefully, they will have a big hot fix shortly after they get back to work and we have found all the bugs.

[@plyssken1983]

I'm happy that the missions are working now!!

[@nicolasparkin1858]

My character is stuck in a broken server an would appreciate if someone knows a solution to this. Resetting my character has not solved this. whenever I try and play the game I get a 60030 error and this has lasted 2 days so far.

[@kaine8778]

Merry Christmas

[@angeltwistmc9587]

The only issue i am having is the Intrepid engine bug regardless of when the ship is disabled the engine sound is still there and it's very loud

[@Grifta]

4.0 by the end of the year must have been rampant speculation. I really can't believe that they actually thought that 4.0 might be able to go main stream by the end of the year.

[@marcl4332]

Game should be renamed to “Hope for the best, expect the worst”. Sums up my SC experience in the last year.

[@legion6712]

Bored, "Depreciating" is not the same word (nor pronounciation) as "depricating." Depreciating (de-pree-she-ate-ing) means to decrease in value. Deprecating (dep-ree-kate-ing) means to abandon.

[@markwatson4101]

I keep trying to finish the tutorial mission... no luck yet! But I'm gonna keep trying!

[@mossellop]

4.0 started so strong but bugs and weird glitches just keep getting more and more. But I’m positively surprised how responsive the servers have become

[@devonceleon]

I’ve played a lot lately. 4.0 as is it the best version of Star citizen I’ve played in my short 4 years backing. The future of this game is limitless and I’m glad I’m strapped in for the ride.

[@Popky13]

I still consider this an aplha, which it is. But it was quite interresting, I was trying to to some missions and going from here to there looking for targets and such with no luck - mission pointers missing, no objectives basically, sometimes accidentally teleported to the sun :D But I have been at it for couple hours and then it suddenly started to work - I didn't relog or change region. One mission done, then the next... and in about an hour I made with BH and Mercenaries cca 300k. So in the end it was really fun. :) I understand the frustration on player's side, but the rebuild a ton of code and functionalities (don't know how much exactly), but I see a bright future definitely! ;-)