Update: Star Citizen Alpha 4.6.0

Star Citizen Alpha 4.6.0 - "Lifeline for Levski" is a major update for Star Citizen, bringing with it the low-light vision measure of LAMP.

Gameplay

Clearing The Air: Alliance Aid Missions

Kel-To Ship Supply Kiosks

Re-enabled place from inventory

Additional new salvage debris

Star Map planetary harvestable information

Ships & Vehicles

LAMP: Light Amplification System

Engineering and Ship Armor Gameplay Updates

Aurora Series Update

Ground Vehicle Missile Changes

Core Tech & Audio

Virtual Reality Updates (Experimental)

Vehicle and Item Density manager updates

Texture Streaming Performance Polish

Star Citizen Alpha 4.6 contains over 160 bug and crash fixes since 4.5, 56 of which originated from the Issue Council.

Client Crash Fixes: 23 fixes

Server Crash Fixes: 2 fixes

HDR OpenXR-Vulkan Crash Fix

Nvidia Smooth Motion Black Screen Fix

Roadmap deliverables

• Characters
• Medical Light Armor "Chiron": Implementing the new Medical Light Armor "Chiron".
• Gameplay
• Cockpit Light Amplification (LAMP): Implementing light amplification on the canopies of a limited set of vehicles, allowing players to more easily navigate the 'verse in low-light conditions, with more ships to be supported in the future.

• Kel-To Ship Supply Kiosks: Implementing small, Kel-To owned ship supply kiosks at major cities in Stanton, giving crews quick access to engineering tools and essential provisions.
• Missions and Events
• Clearing The Air: Implementing a system wide crisis on Levski built around the Molina Mold outbreak, sending players across Nyx and Stanton on Hauling, Courier, Resource Gathering, Kill Ship, Recover Cargo, Station Escort, and Defend Ship missions.
• New Resource Gathering Missions: Implementing an expanded list of missions to our Resource Gathering archetype. Find, gather and deliver raw or refined mineable ores or salvageable ship pieces for a variety of corporations. Scheduled to come in a 4.6.x patch.
• Ships and Vehicles
• RSI Aurora Series - Gold Standard: Updating the Aurora series to Gold Standard, and implementing improvements including updated art, gameplay updates, physicalized components, a refreshed HUD, and more.
• RSI Hermes: Implementing RSI's new medium freighter: large capacity, fast pace, high endurance.
• Argo MOTH: Implementing Argo’s new medium salvager: The MOTH has the tools to earn its keep, the storage for a long job, and the weaponry to work unencumbered.
• Weapons and Items
• FPS Weapons Art Refactor: Updating visual material and texture for the following weapons and equipments: Behring P4-AR, FS-9, and P6-LR; Greycat MaxLift Tractor Beam and Cambio SRT; CureLife ParaMed Medical Device; and Ripper SMG.
• Ground Vehicles Missiles: Implementing ground-vehicle-only missile variants available to the Cyclone AA/MT, Nova, Storm AA, and Ballista, with improved tuning to make atmospheric anti-air threats more dangerous.

Content Update 11218823

The first "Content Update" introducing content during and not with a LIVE patch was deployed on the 11th of February in 2026 into Star Citizen Alpha 4.6.

• Industrial Resource Gathering missions
• Bugfix: Fixed ParaMed "AA Support" Medical Device healing much more efficiently than intended
• Bugfix: Fixed excessive wear effect on Greys Market Shiv interior cockpit glass
• Fixed multiple Client and Server crashes
• Argo Astronautics MOTH

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