Star Citizen 4.2.1 patch summary: what changed

Alpha 4.2.1 'Race for Stanton' is a content-focused update built around a live community event, a fresh mission archetype, flight rebalancing, and a significant batch of bug fixes — released to LIVE on 17 July 2025.

Global Resource Drive event

• A time-limited event pits all four Stanton corporations against each other in a race to contribute the most SCU of resources.
• Task variety includes resource gathering, cargo recovery, defending attacked ships, and hauling processed goods.
• A new unified mobiGlas tracking page lets players watch the cross-shard event totals in real time; requires no worse than CS2 to participate.

New missions & missions changes

• Ship Escort missions task players with protecting friendly ships into and out of hangars near asteroid mining bases until they can jump away.
• Six difficulty levels are available under the Foxwell group in both Stanton and Pyro, paying out Scrip on success.

Ships & balance

• The RSI Meteor (a Mantis variant) joins the game as a versatile medium ship.
• Mercury Star Runner gets a larger quantum fuel tank; the SF7B Gatling receives tighter bullet spread.
• Salvage rebalanced: Reclaimer hull-scraping efficiency is down while the Vulture and MISC Fortune see efficiency gains.
• Heavy and medium fighters received a broad flight-tuning pass covering angular speeds, accelerations, and SCM values.

Gameplay & locations

• Greenzone security around Stanton space stations is reactivated with escalating responses tied to crime rating.
• Trespassing players in ships they don't own at a space station are now automatically teleported out.
• PVP interdiction backend rebuilt so snares work across server boundaries again.
• Wikelo Collector recipes fully rebalanced with deterministic rewards and two new contract tabs added.

Tech & fixes

• Nearly 160 bug fixes shipped, covering freight elevators, inventory transfers, QT interdiction, ship visuals, and several client and server crashes.

This is a community summary — always cross-reference the official patch notes for the complete and authoritative list of changes.