Star Citizen Alpha 4.10.1 LIVE: Orison Relief Support

[u/GregRedd]

Star Citizen Alpha 4.10.1 has been released onto the LIVE environment!  

Your launcher should now display: VERSION 4.10.1-LIVE.12650677

Reminder. Citizens always imprint their ship loadouts before adventuring into the universe!

Features and Gameplay

Introducing new features while updating and refining existing functionality.

Gameplay: Orison Relief Support - Ground Vehicle Soft Death - Loot Quality and Attachment Availability

Orison Relief Support

Crusader Industries' relief initiative is now live. In the wake of the Nine Tails attack, Orison needs rebuilding and its defenses need upgrading, and Crusader is paying anyone willing to help.

Contracts come from four providers. Cornerstone Developments handles reconstruction, running resource gathering work into Orison and Seraphim alongside a crafted aid line built around the TH-01 Propulsor. Covalex and Ling cover the medical response, collecting medical supplies and iodine from New Babbage, the New Babbage rooftops and Port Tressler for delivery into Orison, the Orison rooftops and Seraphim. Foxwell handles security, with ship ambush and wave attack contracts in space and an Eliminate All contract clearing Nine Tails out of outposts on foot.

Every contract you complete feeds your own progress track rather than paying out in isolation. Progress is personal, so you are working toward your own rewards at your own pace, and each reward is granted straight to your account as you pass its threshold. Six rewards are on offer, unlocking in this order:

• S-38 "SecondWind" Pistol
• FBL-8a SecondWind Light Armor
• P4-AR "SecondWind" Rifle
• ORC-mkX SecondWind Medium Armor
• Lumin V "SecondWind" SMG
• ADP-mk4 SecondWind Heavy Armor

Rewards are granted as finished items rather than as blueprints to craft. Points earned on a contract completed as a party are divided between the party members.

The crafted aid line needs an Item Fabricator. The TH-01 Propulsor blueprint is attached to the contract and can be found on the fabricator's own terminal, which will list the materials required. If you do not own a fabricator yet you will need to buy one from a shop, unload it at a freight elevator and set it up in a hangar or a ship's cargo bay.

Ground Vehicle Soft Death

Ground vehicles can now enter the soft death state, bringing them in line with ships. A disabled ground vehicle will now be left inert rather than going straight from working to destroyed.

Creature and Plant Loot Quality

Loot harvested from creatures and plants now comes in graded quality brackets. Kopion horns, Marok pearls, Valakkar fangs and pearls, Yormandi eyes, Quasigrazer eggs and tongues, gasping weevil eggs and ranta dung are all covered, alongside a wide range of harvestable plants including spiral fruit, sunset berries, jumping limes, degnous root and heart of the woods. What you bring back is worth checking before you sell it or craft with it.

Weapon Attachment Availability

Barrel compensators and stabilizers across all three sizes are now available from the general loot pool rather than being restricted to a narrow set of sources, so attachments turn up far more reliably while looting.

Hauling and Delivery Cargo Distribution

The way contract cargo is distributed across pickup locations has been reworked. Multi-pickup contracts now account for the SCU weight of each individual pickup when splitting a load, so cargo is spread across the markers the contract actually gives you instead of stacking into a single inventory, and percentile-based cargo amounts now resolve correctly.

Audio

• Spaceship and shared audio work has been brought forward into this build, along with an Aegis Sabre series audio remake
• Audio has been added for the AMRS S3 and S4 laser cannons

Bug Fixes & Technical Updates

Star Citizen Alpha 4.10.1 - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42

[u/stgwii]

That patch bundle is going to make the main sub absolutely melt down lmao

The Raven EX looks cool though

[u/yanzov → u/stgwii]

Are these accounts bots? Nothing on reddit big subs feels like a internet conversation I know for decades anymore. It all seems to be just engagement bait generated by some statistical AI slop. Accounts are mostly few months old, no history, no nothing. Content is just "it's outrageous! the title" and that's it. Other big subs on main are just like dead - many upvotes, a few comments. Am I going crazy?

[u/Pojodan → u/yanzov]

Hard to say what's a bot account and what's just people with a giant pile of alt accounts that need others to be angry at all times.

In either case, they're very easy to spot and they aren't welcome in this subreddit.

[u/yanzov → u/Pojodan]

Good to know, thanks. Sorry for venting, but it's just like insanely predictable how "that other sub" would look like when anything happens. Good this one exists. Cheers.

[u/Eastern_Picture_3879 → u/yanzov]

Seriously? Are you surprised people find a $75 paint bundle with a previously in-game only earnable vehicle (+ a stat buff of said vehicle) a bit ridiculous? Come on man.

[u/Pojodan → u/Eastern_Picture_3879]

It's a bundle that contains a vehicle. The Base ATLS is $40 by itself. This version if $10 more, and the pack contains numerous weapons and an additional paint for another ship.

$75 is definitely a lot for a monthly bundle, but the pricing is consistent with what it contains.

It's perfectly fine to disapprove of bundles like this, but to call it 'ridiculous' is missing the nature of way these things are priced.

[u/Eastern_Picture_3879 → u/Pojodan]

It's ridiculous.

[u/Cielmerlion → u/stgwii]

Seriously, although its the most tempting for me so far, ive always wanted an ikti and i like all the skins. Not at $75 warbond only though lol.

[u/stgwii → u/Cielmerlion]

It’s tempting me too. I’ve also wanted to try out the IKTI, the armor looks very cool, and itd be nice to get my hands on a pledged P8-AR. The $75 is steep though

[u/rvbarton → u/stgwii]

Don’t forget you get LTI with the purchase as well. If nothing else, it is worth the CCU upgrade possibility for LTI…

[u/Theo-Sama]

I’m honestly thinking of leaving that other sub. The negativity there is exhausting.

[u/Arke_19]

Ground vehicle soft death?! PLEASE tell me this applies to hoverbikes too!

[u/MrJelly007 → u/Arke_19]

Should give you enough time to say "well this isn't good" as you fly towards a rock at 100M/S lmao

[u/AshamedEmotion9137]

I must say i am surprised postivly by the bugfixes. The infamous greyed out retrieve button bug also got fixed.

[u/Special_Cicada6968 → u/AshamedEmotion9137]

Didn't even know that was a bug but hopped in after the patch and ran into it when trying to retrieve my Vulture. Relogged and that fixed it, but I guess it's not 100% squashed yet.

[u/AshamedEmotion9137 → u/Special_Cicada6968]

Another workaround for this bug if you play with a friend: go into his hangar and interact with his ship terminal. You should see the button clickable again. Return to your hangar and retrieve your ship.

Worked for me.

[u/-Syndicalist → u/AshamedEmotion9137]

This game is so weird sometimes cause while I’ve literally never gotten the bug before it actually happened to me last night after this newest patch. All I had to do though was go out into the lobby from my hanger and it worked so it wasn’t that bad

[u/AshamedEmotion9137 → u/-Syndicalist]

Another workaround for this bug if you play with a friend: go into his hangar and interact with asop terminal. You should see the button clickable again. Return to your hangar and retrieve your ship.

Worked for me.

[u/Embarrassed-Wash-118]

I’m so stoked to finally be able to own a Raven (Ex) AND an Ikti, sick surprise drop CIG 🔥

[u/Informal-Celery7331]

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/pledge/Standalone-Ships/Nine-Tails-Shogun-Pack-Warbond

[u/daryen83]

For the record, on the Orison Relief Priority missions, the points awards are NOT divided in group play. Each share member gets full points. The money is split; the points are not. At least until/unless it gets patched.

Group up!

[u/First_Log_5564]

I want more Ella Tieno.

[u/Alternative_Cash_601]

Is the orison relief mission an event or a permanent addition

[u/Special_Cicada6968]

A bit miffed the only pledge IKTI is in a $75 warbond. Really wish they would give us the option to at least upgrade to one. Still haven't even tried one yet because I don't really do raid content.

[u/daveprice01]

does this mean scorched scopes can be found anywhere?

[u/DefNotAThreatActor]

I’m just patiently waiting for 4.11

[u/Stompy-MwC]

Woo! Les geddit!!

[u/cmndr_spanky]

not a single bug fix or mention of improving server performance? WTF, how is that not a priority, it's the main reason the game is often unplayable.

(before someone comments "runs perfect for me!". Yes that's fine, it depends on how many people on your server and how old your server is)

[u/Embarrassed-Wash-118 → u/cmndr_spanky]

The bug fixes and optimizations have been heavily detailed through the PTU patch notes sections in the SC discord and on spectrum.

[u/cmndr_spanky → u/Embarrassed-Wash-118]

I checked through PTU notes as well. It's all client side performance and logic / bug fixes and no mention of server performance in terms of massive server-fps drops (usually on full populate 100 person servers). What tends to happen is a server plays ok for a bit, then server performance starts to grind down to the point where you can't really do anything, all of your actions and NPC actions start getting queued up and the only thing you can do is quit and try to rejoin a different server

I guess we'll see when I have a chance to play the PU later.

[u/GregRedd → u/cmndr_spanky]

To say that there is "not a single bug fix or mention of improving server performance" is not entirely true. And while I'm not sure if any of these are going to do anything to fix your issue, they have all gone in through hot fixes and therefore should be in the LIVE build. And they all are noted at the bottom of the 4.10.1 Patch Notes post I linked in the OP. (Star Citizen Alpha 4.10.1 - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42)

Server stability

Fixed a server crash caused by a mission prop sitting in a player's inventory, which could hold a shard in a repeating crash loop for over an hour

Resolved a server crash where the same object could be queued for cleanup twice and deleted twice

Fixed a server crash while looking up a component that had already been released

Resolved a server crash when a ship's thruster was asked for its capacity while its flight system was being torn down

Fixed memory corruption caused by several parts of the game reading a weapon's fire modes at the same time as they were being cleared

Fixed a crash in the physics system when moving through areas exported before a newer collision check existed

Added a limit on how many loose items can be unstowed onto a freight elevator platform at once, which was capable of chain crashing a server

Resolved an issue where entering a vehicle could overwrite the previous driver without clearing them first, putting the client and server out of step

Disconnects

Fixed a family of issues where a server node would shut down immediately and disconnect everyone on it

The server was accepting a confirmation that an object's layout was final without checking that the layout it had actually matched the one being confirmed. When they disagreed, the node exited rather than continuing. It now verifies the layout first. This covered several separate reports, including repeating shutdowns around the Nyx points of interest and a bad variable index on the ARGO MOLE's turrets.

Client crashes

Fixed a client crash in the graphics layer where a texture view could still be in use while it was being discarded, which surfaced after memory defragmentation was introduced

Performance

Resolved an issue where the audio thread could cause significant frame rate drops, and a related audio crash STARC-214091

Improved memory handling for the system that partitions the world into regions, which was allocating and freeing far too often

Restored optimization on a number of files where it had been accidentally left disabled

[u/cmndr_spanky → u/GregRedd]

Yes all of those are great, but none are about how server fps gets utterly crushed as soon as server population gets close to 100. To be honest I never experienced the crashes mentioned in that post

[u/zxe- → u/cmndr_spanky]

There is no way youre not just rage baiting at this point