Scheduled for
June 5, 2026 1200 UTC

During this maintenance window, all gameplay systems will be unavailable; you will not be able to access the game until maintenance is complete. CIG will provide updates on the RSI Status Page.

Purpose of maintenance is generally to perform mandatory infrastructure updates and deploy hotfixes across all shards simultaneously, not to simply restart them.

Maintenance is not typically expected to exceed 6 hours.

As a precaution please store your ships.

Expect high queues when the servers are back up.

ALPHA 4.8.3 RUMOURED SOON TO INCLUDE XENOTHREAT EVENT

ALPHA 4.9 EXPECTED JULY - Siege of Orison

ALPHA 4.10 EXPECTED SEPTEMBER -

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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.

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It was apparently confirmed by CIG recently that lootboxes in the QV station mission Vanduul Tech Smugglers lootrooms have been removed due to exploits.

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.

Double clicking to equip items can be unpredictable and in some cases lose items or attach them to incorrect parents.

Not fixed as of 4.8

It seems currently not possible to dock larger ships such as Polaris, Idris and Reclaimer to stations. Issues also persist between Ironclad, Caterpillar and Command Module

It does seem however that autodock is working reliably for NPC refuelling beacons.

COMMON PROBLEMS WITH FAILING SUCCESFUL JUMPS (arriving in the same system) OR SHIP CONFIGURATION REJECTING CONNECTION WITH JUMP POINT

Many players continue to experience issues trying to use the jump gate wormholes.

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APPROACH THE JUMP POINT IN NAV MODE
As you get closer you should see the green flashing alignment rings that look like ( ). Stop at the last ring. Avoid travelling too fast so that you don't bounce off the gate.
Your ship should start to 'tune' with the jump point. Once completed it should prompt you to activate the gate if it is not open. If it asks to be activated, tap LMB once to send a pulse to open it.
Then your ship should be checked to meet requirements such as if you have enough fuel.
Once open, or if open already, your ship will be taken inside automatically.
You are required to pilot your ship through the tunnel, avoiding the walls and pillars. Hitting these too many times could fail the jump and you will fall out into the same system.

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IF YOU DO NOT SEE THE ALIGNMENT RINGS
This is one of a few reasons that you cannot use the gate. This is either that your rader is powered off, you are missing a Jump Module, or not in NAV mode.
If you are not sure if there is a Jump Module (sometimes called Jump Drive - this is not your Quantum Drive) you can check your ship Diagnostics MFD. If it is missing you can land at the nearby Gateway station to buy and fit another for the size of your ship. The likely reason it is missing is that you previously changed your Quantum Drive and the Jump Module became 'detached'.

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ARRIVING IN THE SAME SYSTEM AFTER SUCCESSFUL JUMP
This continues to be a server authority bug that seems to refuse connections or being rejected by the server you are trying to move to, for the target system. This seems to be worse on high-pop shards, or during a free-fly. It may be possible to try the jump again, or use another jump point to go around the long way.

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A new issue related to immediately losing available fuel is being seen, it is still possible to complete a jump, and if the jump is good, still travel to the nearby station to refuel.

In the Freight Elevator kiosk at your Home Hangar there should be a Claim Mode option top right, that is said to allow recovery of lost items that were pledged.

This should present you with a list of all of the items that have been pledged, though currently only seems to show paints (livery) and ship modules and weapons.

Items recovered though this should be added to inventory, but the duplicate item should be 'bricked'.

It may be disabled at first, presumably while it loads entitlements.

This is only for items that have been pledged, not purchased in game.

Added to 4.8 is the ability to insure your ship loadout.

It is necessary to re-insure a ship after any changes are made.

Ships do not need to be stored before they are insured.

You can expect to see 'bricked' duplicates of ships from other locations that need to be scrapped to be removed, using the Local option.

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Known issues:

potentially losing ship paints after an insured claim.

inability to restock missiles if the ship was insured without any stocked. Ensure they are restocked before insuring.

After relogging, despite having full health stats such as food and water, can drop to critical levels.

It seems currently impossible to remove undersuits if the interaction icon is missing.

A possible fix is to be sent to Klescher, die while there, then be released.

FEs are reported to be regularly eating some requirements (including Wikelo)—commonly at least one item, not reacting to mission turn ins, or being blocked by invisible items.

Providing 1 more than necessary of an item seems to reliably stop the requested amount from losing 1 of them.

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.

A new Submit Fuel Request notification appears on screen and remains stuck. This prevents further notifications and party invites from appearing.

It is necessary to turn the hints on, then off again, to start clearing the queue.

This prompt can become stuck on screen again after each respawn.

Not fixed as of 4.8

CIG has stated that there will be no Citizencon (in person, or digital) this year. This is very likely related to the target release of Squadron 42, still for this year.

However Nyx planets, Siege of Orison, Municipal Works expected this year.

Recently reported:

70K EAC ERRORS and 19K. Issues across many aspects of the game including inability to log in, call ships or get missions.

Previously reported:

RECURRING 30K (Crash exception handler) and 60K ERRORS REPORTED
INCREASED SERVER ERROR RATES IN SOME REGIONS (in excess of 10 in a row, advise leaving area if possible, or switching shards)

[Hotfix Central]

System status for Star Citizen and Arena Commander.

Current status reported by CIG, as reflected by their own platform status page.

RSI STATUS PAGE

Previous completed maintenance from June 2 2026.
Please do not expect it to have fixed any specific issue you are having.