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Roadmap Roundup – November 19, 2025
Full breakdown of all changes in the November 19, 2025 Star Citizen Roadmap Roundup, including 4.4.0 releases and new 4.5.0 tentative features.
The latest Roadmap pass lands with a tidy set of clarifications, and this time it’s all about what’s officially wrapped for 4.4.0 and what’s tentatively lining up for 4.5.0. No fluff, no detours—just the straight accounting of what moved and why.
This update covers every change made in the November 19, 2025 Roadmap delivery, including finalization of all 4.4.0 cards and a suite of new 4.5.0 features now marked Tentative.
Release View Changes
| Patch | Card | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4.0 | MaxOx Neutron Cannon Art Refactors | Released | Updating the art style and geometry for MaxOx Neutron Cannons (Size 1 and 2). Size 3 has been postponed and will be introduced in a future update. |
| 4.5.0 | Engineering | Tentative | Introducing dedicated shipboard engineering roles for managing power distribution, repairs, and system efficiency in real time. |
| 4.5.0 | Fire Hazards | Tentative | Adding fire hazards to ships and environments, along with Fire Extinguisher mechanics that require players to manage and extinguish spreading blazes. |
| 4.5.0 | Physical Helmets | Tentative | Implementing fully physical helmets. You can pick them up, rotate them, inspect them, carry them, clip them to your hip, toss them, and equip the exact same helmet with a fully realized interior. |
| 4.5.0 | New Barrel Attachments | Tentative | Adding new barrel attachments featuring scorched/tweaker power levels, plus a tactical VOLT flashlight. |
| 4.5.0 | Vulkan Renderer Improvements | Tentative | Improving Vulkan renderer stability and speed with crash fixes, diagnostic improvements, multi‑threaded render submission, HDR support, and NVidia DLSS Transformer model support. Also includes an overhaul of the Graphics Options screen with new settings and a VRAM bar. |
| 4.5.0 | FPS AI Improvements | Tentative | Enhancing FPS combat AI with smarter decision‑making, refined perception, better cover use, improved grenade targeting, friend/foe checks, group awareness, and animation sync improvements. |
| 4.5.0 | New Hairstyles (4.5.0) | Tentative | Adding three additional hairstyles and one new facial hair option. |
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