INCLUDING DRAKE DEFENSECON, TACTICAL STRIKE GROUPS

XENOTHREAT EVENT DUE IN 4.8.3 (likely delayed)
ALPHA 4.9 EXPECTED JULY

How do we know?

CIG rarely ever tell us exactly when a patch will release, except for on the day they beginning "warming the environment".

All we have are clues such as, Wakapedia posting English days in the MOTD (Message of the Day), when otherwise in Norse.

PTU patches in Open/All Waves include the letters 'RC' for Release Candidate.

An exception for this if Jared mentions it on an episode of Star Citizen Live, or Inside Star Citizen.
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WHEN A PATCH DROP IS ANNOUNCED
AVOID BUYING SHIPS AND ITEMS, BEGIN PREPARATIONS FOR UPDATE
Ensure all ships are properly stored.

CONFIRMED LTP WIPE

[PATCH NOTES]

If you do not have access to PTU (after the one-time copy of your account to PTU) you may not be eligible for access for the current wave, until 'All Waves'.

MONDAY, MAY 11, 2026
This Week in Star Citizen
DefenseCon 2956 Spectrum FAQ
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TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2026
DefenseCon 2956 Manufacturer Schedule Comm-Link
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2026
Alpha 4.8 Goes Live!
Alpha 4.8 Features Q&A Comm-Link
Tactical Strike Groups Spectrum FAQ
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THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2026
DefenseCon 2956 Day 1: Drake Interplanetary & Grey's Market
DefenseCon 2956 Ships Q&A Comm-Link: Drake Ironclad & Ironclad Assault, Drake Pitbull
DefenseCon 2956 Referral Bonus Comm-Link
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FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2026
Star Citizen Live: DefenseCon Showcase (twitch.tv/starcitizen)
RSI Weekly Newsletter
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SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2026
DefenseCon 2956 Day 3: Origin Jumpworks, RSI, Kruger Intergalactic
DefenseCon 2956 Ships Q&A Comm-Link: Origin M80
Bar Citizen World Tour 2026: Basel, Switzerland

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Recurring issue with mining nodes on planets and caves, typically gem deposits of Aphorite, Dolivine or Hadanite.

Appearing on ship scan, but trying to scan with ATLS GEO or Multitool has no result, and mining beam passes through them.

Some nodes within clusters may work, but most not and seems completely random.

Potentially fixed in 4.8

Citizen GraeWulf has a tool for tracking projects for anyone working towards more involved Wikelo rewards.

‍WIKELO PROJECTS

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Regularly fails to load contents.

Seems to falsely report available backspace capacity.

Delays in updating equipped items, and moving items around.

Inventory Kiosk may fail to show items that are stored, but only visible via Cargo Terminal, or reappear with subsequent access to it.

Randomly reloads after some interactions.

Not fixed as of 4.7

Captains of Industry Free Fly from April 9 to 20

If you were able to play before and are not now, you are required to own a Game Package to access the game.

You may still have ships provided during the Free-Fly event, these will be removed the next time ASOP is updated, presumably around the subscriber ship rollout early next month.

Ships included in this freefly are:

Drake Golem OX
Drake Cutter
Argo ATLS
Argo RAFT
MISC Hull A
Crusader C1 Spirit

It is necessary to 'enlist' via the website https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/star-citizen?utm_source=organic&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026

Existing players can also claim the freefly ships.

FEs required for entry level missions such as Shubin SCD-1 can be very slow to respond or broken.

Inconsistent reports that Freight Elevators and local inventory for ASD Onyx and QV stations in Nyx are not functioning, making it difficult to leave with large reward items such as ship components.

It is possible to take some items out via the lifts.

OPEN TO ALL WAVES
Testing for new Transit System including lifts and trams/shuttles.
Expected release 4.8

Note that copying PTU account may take significantly longer than typical. Please wait for the confirmation email.

It is not necessary to recopy account if one is already active.

Rewards for subscribers, such as ships and flair are released in two waves.

The first is typically the first Tuesday of the month, the second roughly a week later. This which would be the deadline to subscribe to qualify for that month.

The cut-off point for the current subscription month is until 20:00 UTC on the 14th.

What rewards are made available are not known ahead of time.

Subscription does not provide access to the game.

"Quick update on our previous note: As you know, the first iteration of Crafting will be launching with Alpha 4.7 next week, but the Item Fabricator RediMake "Alliance Aid" will be coming in Alpha 4.8."

Noted that the Alliance Aid Item Fabricator seems to have been pushed back to 4.8. Why is not known.

With the introduction of Engineering gameplay in 4.5 there are some issues and inconsistencies that need to be addressed.

Powering down ships now is considered a 'Power Plant Failure' and can prevent doors from working/opening, in some cases difficult or impossible to enter.

Single seat ships such as fighters seem to be unaffected.

Not fixed as of 4.6.

New to 4.6 is LAMP, also known as night vision in ships.

It is activated in your ship MFD or with Right ALT + L

It is not in all ships, most small ships and some indutrials with more to come later.

According to a recent post from John Crewe, the priority was on ships that had less complications related to how they were originally made. More ships are coming but may be a while yet.

Requesting undocking in a large ship such as Polaris or Idris from a station sometimes fails, despite ATC responding in the affirmative.

This is likely because you have an active hangar for another ship and ATC believes you are requesting clearance for that, not the ship you are physically in, trying to undock.

It may be necessary to wait for the hangar request to time out, auto-store the ships and reposition you, to try again.

Not fixed as of 4.6

It is possible to be caught in a situation where Reposition Player fails to put you somewhere useful. This should be immediate but you can be locked in this state, unable to more or interact.

If this happens you can try Alt+H (which changes your helmet stow state) to fix it.

Most of the issues in Star Citizen are server or game logic related and as such cannot be fixed by reinstalling the game, or your entire operating system.

This assumes in good faith that there is nothing technically wrong with the system you are running the game on.

Please avoid turning your PC inside out to get around a bug.

Available ammo for first person weapons fail to correctly report until inventory is opened.

It has been found that this happens if pressing [esc] to exit interacting with lootboxes, rather than pressing [I].

Not fixed as of 4.0.2

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If a player starts at, or their last known location is their Home Residence, they will load into their Persistent Hangar. At other locations, the expectation is that the player will awake in a hab at that location, or in a medical bed if the player had died prior to disconnecting.

Some ships have a bed that offers the ability to "bed-log", which allows the player to load in on their ship, provided that they own that ship, it is in space or landed, both outside of an Landing Zone. The prompt for this is given when laying down in the bed, holding F.

It is possible however due to a bugs that this option is not available, incorrectly marked as being in a landing zone, in active combat, or if the F prompt is not accessible due to bad placement or in some cases depending on the character model or equiped armor are in the way.

CIG have announce their intention to allow bed-logging in any ship regardless of whether it has a bed or not, but would have consequences.

The current economy in the PU such that it is, is currently over saturated with aUEC. Many players appear to have billions as a result of extremely high value trades of rare or difficult to acquire items, and duplication methods.

Some players are randomly and frequently finding themselves being donated hundreds of millions of aUEC by others that have to reduce their wallets due to game breaking bugs caused by an integer math error, which prevents using station services such as repair, refuel, and running refinery jobs.

CIG apparently are aware of this, and have suggested that a wipe would be necessary, but presumably after the duplication exploit has been fixed.

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The intention of Character Repair is to help in situations when a player is stuck in the world and needs to be moved to their home location. This is all it does, and can be found to use on the RSI website.

Unfortunately Character Repair will not help you in 90% of cases of problems, ship and item losses.

It is unlikely to help with connection issues, other than being stuck connected to a shard in that it has the possibility of kicking connections.

Although it may mention Character Reset on the page, it is not possible to reset your character account.

With every new patch it is unfortunately very likely that some ships and items may become lost, beyond the expected consumables and refinery jobs that happens every patch.

You can try to file a ticket with CIG, but if it is not a pledged item, it is highly unlikely there will be any support or possibility to recover it.

Issues related to ship, component and other items are still under investigation and not resolved, in addition to no official word on why this keeps happening, and seemingly at random.

Items lost as a result of normal play or bugs that are either pledged or account bound will be returned in the next patch.

Not fixed as of 4.3