This Week in Star Citizen – December 22, 2025

The final stretch of 2955 arrives with Luminalia lights glowing across every landing zone, and you’re closing out the year with a packed week in the ‘verse. Alpha 4.5 has now landed, bringing hands‑on Engineering gameplay, sharper visuals, livelier AI encounters, updated loot tables, and even fresh Wikelo recipes for the culinarians among you. If you’ve been looking for an excuse to sink back into the patch, this update brings plenty of reasons.

The Luminalia Calendar continues to hand out free daily gifts, so make sure you keep checking in. There’s also still time to enter CLX’s custom Star Citizen PC giveaway—a Nyx‑inspired panoramic build that closes for entries on December 30 at 04:59 UTC. And if you’ve got fifteen minutes to spare, the annual gameplay survey is open once again, offering a Café Musain light‑up hangar flair for your participation. Rewards arrive shortly after the survey closes on January 15.

Here’s to a bright jump into 2956. Enjoy the celebrations, the new patch, and the downtime—then meet the new year ready to fly.

Vision Quest Truth

Smuggling Origin 300

Known locally as Pinecone, this poisonous main‑sequence dwarf sits on the far edge of its system’s green band—easy to overlook unless you’ve spent enough time out there to recognize the subtle tells. According to the smuggling chatter, even the best predictive systems can’t match the instincts of a seasoned chief engineer working by feel.

The Hive, a high‑pressure coreless world, hides further secrets. Early explorers found traces of Kr’Thak war machines abandoned in its depths. When questions were asked and answers came up short, the locals swear the planet itself seemed to take offense—another reminder that some destinations out in the black demand respect.

Source: RSI Comm Link