DigThat32 with a 6min video covering various fixes and workarounds for issues in 4.9. Some fixes may have worked for others (but aren't necessarily guaranteed to fix it for you):

Retrieve Arrow for ship greyed out:
Check another kiosk, or get in the elevator with some rando heading to their hangar. When you get teleported out your hangar should be streamed out with no marker, check the kiosk again.

Error 19000 or infinite loading:
Try verifying files. Try a DNS Flush.

Items replaced with tons of fire extinguishers:
Report to issue council. No known workaround

Can't see stats for crafted items:
Equip the item to see it's stats.

Landing Services unavailable:
Wait a few seconds, close, try again -> Try landing closer to center -> try landing on the center -> store and bring it back up -> hop servers (or use a different pad).

For all of these: Alt+F4 and rejoin.

• Missing cargo at a location
• Missing Starmap
• Severe Framerate Drops
• Stuck in repositioning
• Unable to see marker for ship (lost at glaciem ring

Ship is not getting stored:
Get back in ship, request takeoff and attempt to fly away. You'll get repositioned and the ship will be stored.

Vehicle Loudout Manager (VMA) Unable to equip or make changes to loadout (doesn't stick):
Resynchronize your system clock

Note - Syncing your clock can fix a number of other issues such as:

• Error 19005
• Errors retrieving a recently destroyed ship
• Hostile Base/Landing Pad Turrets
• Unable to save changes on character creation
• Inventory glitches
• rubber handed items
• uncluckable buttons

cross-posted from: https://mastodon.social/users/massivelyop/statuses/116970494598277611

Star Citizen readies its annual Ship Showdown voting event as two CIG execs vanish from the company roster 🔗 massivelyop

Star Citizen readies its annual Ship Showdown voting event as two CIG execs vanish from the company roster🔗 massivelyop.com/2026/07/23/sta#StarCitizen #MMORPG

Edit - adding this important piece of context:

It’s unclear whether these two have fully left the company, as Noizy points out both Buffett and Jones’ LinkedIn and social media haven’t stated as much, but that hasn’t stopped followers of the project for speculating.

Link1603 posted on spectrum asking about Arena Commander and the rentals that used to be free.

TheDJBuntin-CIG responded that an update is coming with specifics for which ships/vehicles/weapons will be free to rent as well as ships that were previously not available for rent.

Dates: July 29th - Aug 12
Rewards:

• Watch for 4 hours: ATLS Foundation Fest Livery
• Subscribe to participating channel: Banu Lockbox Replica

Values on the Ship Matrix page now synchronize their values with what's currently available in-game and should no longer get out of date.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/ship-matrix

Looks like Spectrum got an overhaul. CIG is looking for feedback.

Some images from the post showing before/after:

On my first install of Fedora the LUG tool made the game install and run perfectly. However, I had to wipe my computer and reinstall Fedora again. After that, the game crashes during download of the game. The pre flight checks are all good, the launcher installs and runs perfectly, but it downloads the game for a few seconds before closing down. The progress stays, so with enough patientsI will be able to download it all, but I am unsure how stable the game will run by then. There are no troubleshooting tips and tricks on this kind of crash on the LUG wiki either. Anyone have any idea on what I could try to fix it and make the game playable again?

Danverus with a 14min video on which ships can fit the Basher.

Perseus - fits, but awkward.
C2 - Easily fits
Ironclad - can fit at least 4
Polaris - can fit 4 in the upper bay and at least 2 in the lower bay (easier with crane removed).
Idris - plenty of space to fit a lot (no specific number) can also fit 1 in the lower MPUV bay with the help of a second player to close the doors.

According to video comments it fits easily in the Carrack as well.

An extensive Q&A with the Musical Composer of Star Citizen Pedro Macedo Camacho, by YT channel 'Beyond the Verse'!

Definitely a worthwhile listen, with some golden nuggets, lol.

My favourite snippet is at 21:18, where Pedro explains the suuuuper open & vague "guidance" that CIG provides for some of his composisition, specifically the musical composition with 'Bloom' |

"Sometimes there's a bit of help, but so far... I usually ask for a bit of music guidelines, and they don't really give me much... I think it's on purpose to make me "creative". It's honestly harder on me because I think... I really have a blank page in front of me, and I really don't use any references in front of me, apart from the visuals that I have at the time" ... "I remember, for 'Bloom' planet in Pyro {SIC} they just say "Make it Inspiring and Beautiful.!

That really goes to show how much of the musical awesomeness is truly attributable to Pedro and his team.

The interview is from ~10 days ago, but is tragically underviewed.

Wakapedia-CIG

7.6.2026: 4.9 Hotfixing - Goal for HOTFIX channel to open later today for client side testing

We are currently building a new 4.9 HOTFIX to address the top 5 client crashes, multiple issues with loading screens displaying, hitmarker feedback, VR fixes, Wave Scane faction of the player showing “Unavailable”, drag and drop for ammo magazines and consumables/throwables not working, as well as multiple exploit fixes.

We did some work on the 19003 issue that some players were getting to resolve this issue on LIVE

The full list is way too long to include here. If you're curious about anything specific, MrKraken seems to have a very comprehensive list.

I'll drop a quick highlight of his "Annoying Fixes" since those will probably stand out to most.

Annoying Fixes

Some of the biggest annoyances of recent patches have had some potential fixes, including using jump tunnels, they should now correctly deposit you at the destination and not back where you started. That bloody fuel notification is now fixed, sort of, it might still appear when you respawn, but there’s a check in place to clear it now.

Docking has proved far more reliable on PTU after several fix attempts and requesting ATC at a location that supports hangar landing should now correctly assign landing over docking

Double hangar doors at rest stop stations has been fixed, Stanton gateway which has constantly had a blocked large hangar was all clear to leave again on PTU.

Ship cleanup has been tweaked to be more aggressive in Nyx spawn stations & Grimhex, with there now being a 5 hour allowed idle time before getting deleted.

Several Onyx facility related fixes, including Jorret Dossier contract blockers.

Airlocks & loot are once again working in Pyro’s contested zones

Edit: grammar/typo

Bish, bash, bosh! The elusive Grey’s Market lights up its blow torches once again to weld into creation a new over-gunned, aesthetically challenging light fighter, held together by a rope and a prayer.

4.9 is now Live.

cross-posted from: https://mastodon.social/users/ToolsWiki/statuses/116924587318772876

StarCitizen escape pod concept art starcitizen

#StarCitizen escape pod concept art starcitizen.tools/Escape_pod

Silvan-CIG:

Hey everyone!
This time there aren't many VR changes for 4.9 as we are busy with other things so I'll post the few changes here instead of making a new thread:

• VR Keybinds like Theater Mode Toggle, Tracking Reset should work now everywhere unless they are explicitly blocked. For example you can use them now during loading and in the frontend which was not possible before.
• 3D Eva Direction Markers (in fact it was broken even in 2D, so now it should work again)
• Screen-fading directly on the backbuffer so it also works in VR
• Updated OpenXR from 1.0.50 to 1.1.60
  • Implemented XR_EXT_VIEW_CONFIGURATION_VIEWS_CHANGE_EXTENSION_NAME. This means if you use SteamVR and change the resolution in the SteamVR settings it updates now in realtime in the engine!
• Stereo Cursor Updates:
  • Fix invisible cursor in ships with a radar
  • Stereo cursor fully body aligned so it doesn't move anymore with external forces like water or trains, elevator
  • Restrict cursor to g_headtracking_hmd_cursorMaxViewAngleDeg (default: 40 Degrees) so it no longer can get lost so easily. If you don't like this behavior just set a very high number for this cvar to restore the old behavior.
• In EVA always force EHACM_DirectOffset as it was causing weird rotations otherwise (only relevant if GroundedLook is active)

Note: The VISOR Toggle is broken at the moment but will be restored with a hotfix soon. When this happens the Visor can also be toggled on desktop as many people requested.

Thanks for your time and fly safe o7
Silvan-CIG

Video originally posted by Draal Iskaldür and then reposted by Pedro Camacho.

https://xcancel.com/DIskaldur/status/2036716736641159369#m

cross-posted from: https://mastodon.social/users/ToolsWiki/statuses/116918924923345070

Happy Birthday to Mariko Muranaka, acoustic/electric cellist who worked with Pedro Camacho on the #StarCitizen music starcitizen.tools/Mariko_Muran

Additionally, something not in the patch notes that was pointed out on Spectrum by 'WhosButWhyTho':

I don't know why it was not included in the patch notes but hitmarker visuals have significantly changed as well, they are now much smaller and cleaner and the pinball machine audio is gone, there's still more of them than I'd prefer but overall a good change.

Tap for image comparison

New changes:

What it used to look like:

Message of the day
2 hours ago
☁️ (Waka's Day) We are not planning on a new 4.9 PTU build for today. We are currently testing a new 4.10 Instancing/SoO build for a potential timed Evocati only tech-preview this afternoon.
☁️ (Tysdagr) A new 4.9 PTU build is now available for all backers! VERSION 4.9.0-PTU.12180844 | Bugfix and Issue Discussion
🚀 Star Citizen Alpha 4.8.3 is now on the LIVE environment! 4.8.3 LIVE Release Notes . | 4.8 Hotfix Central

Thanks to njmill for taking this on, we now have native support for the Tobii Eyetracker 5 on Linux. It also includes some specific features for integrating with Star Citizen, although this should be able to work with other games as well.

There are manual install instructions in case your distro is not supported by the install script.

This public tree contains the current working runtime path:

• Native Linux USB/TTP reader for Tobii ET5 gaze and in-band IR frames.
• MediaPipe-based head pose in the live dashboard.
• Stock Star Citizen Tobii DLL compatibility services.
• Live head pose and gaze delivery into Star Citizen's native Tobii mode.

6-7min video by MrKraken reviewing the new combat armor clothing.

Cross posted from https://mastodon.social/users/ToolsWiki/statuses/116861830418426431

The #StarCitizen Pegasus-class Escort Carrier is the Empire's premier small carrier, capable of supporting the operations of up to 32 starfighters far from friendly supply.starcitizen.tools/Pegasus

Sneak peak in today's newsletter. https://mailchi.mp/cloudimperiumgames/weekly-friday-newsletter-732026

In a 12min video, Space Tomato reviews the advances made with VR in Star Citizen in the last 4 months, as well as some planned features that haven't made their way into the game just yet (foveated rendering, full body tracking, face and eye tracking). He also goes over some of the problems with VR (time to setup, cost, troubleshooting).