Cloud Imperium has released Star Citizen Alpha 4.1, and shared its key features. So, let’s take a closer look and see what this new version brings to the table.
Star Citizen Alpha 4.1 adds new burrowing worm fauna, called Juvenile Valakkar. Moreover, it updates NPCs around landing zones and outposts with dozens of new dynamic conversation lines. Players can also expect new DNA faces and animations for all NPCs. According to the devs, these will bring more variety and immersion to their presence.
Cloud Imperium has also made huge improvements to Collision Physics. Ship Collision damage handling is now done using full collision data passed down by physics. This means mass and speed are now calculated in the collision and will make collision damage between all ships, big and small, behave more realistically.
Star Citizen Alpha 4.1 also brings a new style of gameplay with Align and Mine. This new sandbox activity brings players to 2 moons in Stanton (Aberdeen and Daymar) with 3 ground-based Hathor Alignment Facilities and 1 Orbital Mining Station each. Players will need to navigate the facility buildings to grab keycards to unlock new areas leading to the final terminal to align the satellite to the orbital station above. Once all 3 ground locations have been aligned and the batteries from each location acquired, players need to navigate the station above and use the batteries to power the Orbital mining beam. Once active, players will then head back down to the ground bunker for the final beam activation that will shoot down from space, breaking open a new Cave with valuable hand and ground vehicle mineables.
Not only that, but the devs have made numerous updates to help reduce BWin spikes which caused many delays around the PU. They have also added new maps to Arena Commander, and made several balance tweaks to ships and weapons.
Finally, Star Citizen should be more stable now on your PC. The devs have fixed 7 client crashes and 6 Server Crashes. They have also fixed an issue causing crashes and artifacting with Nvidia GPUs while using Vulkan.
Star Citizen Alpha 4.0 came out in December 2024. This means that it took the devs around three months to release Alpha 4.1. And, in case you’re wondering, no. There is still no ETA for when Squadron 42 will come out. Realistically, you should not be expecting it in 2025. So, fingers crossed it will come out in 2026.
You can find the complete changelog for Star Citizen Alpha 4.1 here.
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Scam Citizen.
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wow so original. how is it a scam?
Scam Citizen was officially announced at GDC on October 10, 2012. A Kickstarter campaign for the game was announced on October 18, 2012. While I can't find an exact date, the Kickstarter campaign ended in November of 2012 and exceeded $2 million. The original promised release date of the full game was November 2014. It is now 11 years after that release date, the game is still in perpetual alpha testing, the mythical "Squadron 42" single-player experience still isn't here, and Chris Roberts and his company have made hundreds of millions of dollars selling overpriced ships and God only knows what else to people on the promise that some day they will eventually release the final game.
Compare that to Elite Dangerous. They ran a Kickstarter campaign in November of 2012, and by December of 2014 they had released the final game. In just over 2 years they had a finished and playable game, and were able to add additional features and content via DLC in the years that followed.
Scam Citizen is clearly nothing more than a scam. They have no vested interest in finishing the game when it's raking in money like there's no tomorrow as a perpetual alpha test. If the game was anything more than a scam, they would have released a final build years ago, and then all of this stuff that they keep working to add would have been added in as quality of life enhancements and content expansions just like with every other live service game.
At this point, Scam Citizen is worse than Duke Nukem forever, and that game sucked. But at least the devs weren't scamming people with overpriced in-game garbage.
again, how is it a scam – you keep using that word but I dont think you know what it means. Does a game exist that you can download and play? Yes. Just because they've decided to go the Early Access route for a long time, no one has been scammed. People got what they've paid for. I bet you've never even played it, have you.
The game doesn't exist. It's an alpha, not a finished game. They are purposely delaying releasing a final game in order to scam people out of money. And yes, I have played it during their "free fly" events, and it's mostly just empty worlds and cities without much to do.
Again, Elite Dangerous went from Kickstarter to completed game in just over two years. Scam Citizen has been in development for more than 12 years now without releasing a final game. They are more than a decade late for their projected release date that they promised during the Kickstarter. This is a clear and obvious scam.
“The game doesn’t exist”
You’ve lost any argument right there. Nice try though.
Shekel Yiddizen
The main giant red flag I see with this so-called "game" is that there could be NO end in sight and they're still making money… so do they even need a goal post?
Also, they're only accountable to themselves and maybe customers (the players), so all the mismanagement isn't really a problem for them.
On the other hand, I've heard of people that have played the game and think it's great… or maybe it has great potential (like every damn early access game!).
Chris Roberts spits out some BS about the finished game every once in a while to keep people investing in the game. The first one that I recall was for completion in 2016. 8 years ago. From his perspective there is no reason to ever get the game to Beta stage much less finished. Gamers just keep throwing money at the project anyway. Last year it was another 116 million dollars.
So the total revenue is 798 million dollars so far and no end in sight. In 2 years the game will most likely top 1 billion dollars in revenue and still be in Alpha and Roberts will still be talking BS about completion of the game and Squadron 42.
That dude has more charisma finessing a whole industry than actually finishing his own god damn product.
Scam citizen omg i almost forgot about this 'scamware'
Cant wait for 4.3 Alpha Roadmap teaser in 2096 woo hoo what a time to be alive!
It’s been over a decade, and the constant delays with vague updates can be frustrating. At this point, it feels like they’re stringing players along without a clear commitment to a real release window.
CIG seems to have no real urgency to finish it, especially since their business model—selling in-game ships for Star Citizen—keeps bringing in millions. As long as people keep buying into the dream, they don’t have much incentive to actually deliver.
Don't they also sell insurance for the ships?
Yes, they sell anything and everything imaginable. They even sell virtual plots of land where you can buy a virtual house and place it there. One time I looked around their real merchandise and they sold pairs of Star Citizen socks for $20. But then there is also the big Ship Package which contains every ship in the game for $42,000. That is the price of 600 70$ AAA games.
I hadn't heard about the socks… I could see maybe $5 for a pair of custom branded socks, but $20? Depending on how cheap you go, you can get one to two dozen socks for less than that on Amazon…
when u can't make a fully functional game, u just ukraine it. (the scam of the decade between black rock vanguard and ukraine russia war)
Are we gonna redo the 🤓 i is smart, hurr-durr, scam, beta/release in 2100 comments all over again every time?
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Yes. Scam Citizen deserves it.
oh grow up.
I'm not fond of SC or anything, but i'm also annoyed by the constant repitition of insults, are these people even human?
even in a sincere scenario the extended scope of this so called game makes it collapse under its own weight, in a more realistic pov this is just scamming stupid neckbeards.
So no more money laundering? They finally releasing it? lmao
I wonder what became of Joe Blobers? The guy that no matter what always defended Star Citizen and Chris Roberts here. I heard years ago that he posted on one game site that he was an employee of Roberts on the project. Maybe he lost his job or moved on to something better. If you are still out there Blobers post something. Maybe tell us some insider dirt on the project for laughs.
Comments for Star Citizen articles are always entertaining to read.