With the new release of SC Alpha 4.2 LIVE, we are currently looking through hotfixable issues that can be addressed and will update here as soon as these fixes are ready for release
We are opening up the HOTFIX channel with the client side portion of the hotfix. We are also testing 9884616 on some shards on LIVE over the weekend to test viability before wider adoption.
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Alpha Patch 4.2 has now been released onto the LIVE Environment! Launcher should now show: VERSION 4.2-LIVE.9873572.
Build Info
Characters in this new environment have been built from Long Term Persistence(LTP) data.
Currently with LTP, certain player states such as personal hangar layout, custom characters, in-progress refinery jobs, and in-game purchased consumables are not saved between releases which will cause some items to be lost in the update.
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