At long last the Star Citizen Alpha 4.0 update has gone live. Today I’ll be covering all the major changes included in the update. Later in January we will cover the actual stability and reception answering the question, should you jump back in?
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00:00 Star Citizen Alpha 4.0
01:52 New Locations
09:22 New Gameplay
14:16 New Ships
15:35 Economy Updates & Progress Wipe
18:53 New Factions
20:24 Server Meshing
22:34 Other Bits
23:55 A Success?
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Good video, thank you.
It's still a buggy mess, but the server meshing is awesome.
Still BROKEN!
When you can't make it to live, just call it a preview instead
It's the buggiest release ever. Nothing works. Have to wait until 4.0.1 to play. That won't happen until after the holidays. Merry Xmas, and happy new years to everyone. And for those who can still enjoy the game with all the bugs, good luck to you. I hope you don't lose millions of credits due to a bug.
They are currently working on a patch
Every server I've been on has been unbelievably borked. I'm currently sitting in front of GH and the server has given "server error please wait" literally 5 times in a row and now stuck on this 5th time, lol.
I am not surprised about all the cookie cutter assets in Pyro.
It would be a major shift in CIG's MO to suddenly stop doing it and I don't see that changing until bigger rocks like core game systems, gameplay mechanics and loops, content and stability issues/bugs are out of the way.
"It is our intention from this point forward to now wipe" -Chris "Poopstain" Roberts
I think we will see a wipe on every new system release till 1.0
I need a new pc, but I'm ready then for my original concept pledge the Starfarer! Maybe the Starfarer interior is new by that time? It is massive, the interior needs the full best work of an update that this company can give us. I will run liquids, fuels, and cargo with it, refining as well with the massive ship, as they promised. I'm setting up a base with the help of my Starfarer!
Hey man, great video and thanks for the shout out!
I visited pyro the first time last week. Have plaid about 6-7h maybe. It's cool but it's def. Not ready for live. Missions don't work and you can't even repair your ship… I just looked gged in today and had insta alt-f4 Rd when I wasn't able to repair my ship. Playtime 2 min. Patience after 12 yrs is so thin for me. Can't do this anymore
4.0 isnt a full release and from reports its broken unless you're a streamer
I definitely hope they do more with the stations like you said, but I actually really like the contested zones because it's a new challenge where they are giving us a specific structure of gameplay. Open worlds are awesome and my favorite type of game environment, but also having little pockets of specific challenges that force you to try new gameplay ideas and strategies is really nice!
Currently Pyro is pretty much a waste until the ganker groups get bored, jump points exits have been camped heavily on several servers, almost every POI has one or more combat ships just waiting around, and people have been targeted as soon as hangar door open. Look at Pyro as a giant deathmatch, if you want anything else out of it right now it will not happen.
I suspect if CIG can not get the NPC factions and rep going pretty fast Armistice zones will be put in place for the short term at basic mission sites.
It was a problem you could see already in the open EPTU, if Pyro had been in its original form it would not have mattered. But CIG put all the A &B class gear there and all these cool outposts you can not currently access outside a massive org. And jump point camping is going be be a huge problem.
If you're new don't buy star citizen, it's a griefers paradise.
Still no touring missions still no use for my ship. So still no gameplay for me.
Great summary video!
not really worth relating this patch in any way to the original vision of 4.0, this isn't even 4.0 lite
FYI: There will be a wipe for SC1.0
Great work breaking down 4.0
They put LIVE in the title wheb uts not "LIVE". EPTU is not LIVE. I hate the wordplay and everyone is falling for it.
Same game breaking bugs that were on eptu are still on "live" server, so basically un-playable. Spent 50 mins!!!!! in a login queue last night only to arrive in Area 18 to then not be able to use the elevator to get into my hangar (was also on eptu for at least the last 4 days when i was playing it). QT is STILL not correctly getting you to where you place your marker. While these bugs are perfectly OK to have on the eptu (that's what it's there for). To push this out for "live" service makes me question what the devs are smoking this christmas…..
We got pyro before the BMM 😢
Contested zones are a precursor to those levels underneath Area 18 buildings they talked about some time ago (I cannot remember when). Proof of concept. Makes sense to me.
Lol, we are defo not done for waiting for Pyro. . . Even CIG lables this as a "preview release", alongside a stable client. Plus all the content that was stripped is likely gunna take a good half year to get back in :/
exploration needs to be implemented, where you dont actually have jump points on the map in places where you havnt been yet, or havnt purchased from players who are selling their maps
Imagine letting 3.24.3 on because they know they half assed 4.0. What a fucking mess.
Great video as always, top quality.
Can't wait for 4.0 to stabilise. Server meshing was such a question mark for me for ages. Now it's working and they can focus on optimising, SCs future looks amazing.
hmmm . . . it's not live. It's an excuse of a release of another false promise from cig.
1.0 is far away, there'll have to be other wipes to reset the economy when things get balanced further. An exploit will surface between now and 1.0 that someone will use to get 'infinite' space bucks, several times no doubt.
There should be wipes until 1.0, it gets difficult to upgrade and improve some of the backend if you are constantly treading on eggshells whilst xXDickwadDaveXx is whining about when his exploited Polaris is getting wiped.
So again nothing its working as always its trash so … its never changed, and there is no excuses.
I don't believe they are ready to remove wipes UNTIL stability happens. I've lost so much more stuff to broken servers, etc than to a "legit" reason, its not remotely funny.
Dont care about pyro
14:51 what about the storage that exists in the wings?
They need to leave Stanton alone for a while.. At this point, we should expect a new system per year. Nyxx should be by the end of 2025. That would set us up for a late 2027/early 2028 1.0 launch.
Congratulations for the technical teams that made the technology possible, from the server meshing, to the music, to the guys that made the qt, etc etc etc…
On the other hand, absolute dissapointed with the total lack of content/things to do in Pyro. 3 Generic kind of missions, buggged many times. And the main stations look generic and extremely small. The elevators of Grim Hex look more epic than any other area of Pyro stations… No new npc mission givers to immerse a bit…
I'm overall dissapointed…
May I ask the specs of your pc?
@SpaceTomato Did you voice lines for NPCs in 4.0?
Not motivated to align with either the Head Hunters or the Citizens for Prosperity; wonder when the Fire Rats will be available to side with and join?
If anyone at CIG is reading: thank you for the Advanced HUD!
3.24 isn't that stable so I'll throw my lot in with trying 4.0
Queues.
video too long
Nice video! Always impressed by the quality of your videos! – and you seem to pump them out so fast that does add up to the quality!
It would be great to have a video breaking down the reality of choosing one faction over another.