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Star Citizen Alpha 4.9 - MASSIVE SIEGE OF ORISON CHANGES!
⏱ 11 min video · 3 min read25 Jun 2026
TL;DR
Star Citizen Alpha 4.9 Evocati patch introduces a fully reworked Siege of Orison as the game's first instanced co-op FPS mission, removing ship combat and capping parties at four players across three progressively harder islands. The video covers patch details, known bugs, and a new mission giver Reco Betaglia at Nyx/Levski, with wider PTU access expected the following week.
Key points
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Siege of Orison is now a fully instanced co-op FPS mission — the first mission instancing in Star Citizen — capped at four players, removing ship combat entirely in favour of a focused three-island FPS experience ending in a boss fight against Meno Ren.
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Each island has the same core objective: clear Nine Tails resistance, reset security control towers, defeat the island lieutenant, and flip the IFF (Identity Friend or Foe) inverter — with key cards required to deactivate anti-air systems.
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Only the first island is being tested in this Evocati build due to NPC reactivity issues, server-side instability, and bugs like platforms despawning; CIG expects to need several days before a first-wave PTU, likely the following week.
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New mission giver Reco Betaglia is available at Nyx/Levski offering story missions across three chapters (mining, investigation, and combat), with reputation gates lowered for this build, and may be a gateway to the upcoming Municipal Works dungeon at Levski.
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Known issues include players losing items from their primary residence, UI becoming uninteractable when adding friends from the main menu, escort missions not functioning, and bounty neutralized target missions not progressing.
Key updates
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Enter Siege of Orison via the elevator to the Crusader showroom rooftop in Orison, then board the shuttle to the instance transit platform — no manual mission pickup required once inside.
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If the server error causes platforms to despawn mid-mission, leave the instance and create a new one with a new party leader — there is no other current workaround.
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If your items are missing from your primary residence after logging in, use the recopy account workaround to restore them.
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Solo play is supported — you can enter the instance alone without a party, though CIG has not yet confirmed how difficulty scales for solo players.
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Reco Betaglia chapters 2 and 3 are gated behind reputation earned from repeatable contracts; reputation requirements have been lowered in this build to speed up access during testing.
Notable quotes
“We do not want this stuff to be broken broken on release and have another 3.18/4.8 problem where the patch is not playable by people.”
“Just because there are no ships flying around does not mean they have not used ships for set pieces around the Siege of Orison.”
“I have not actually tried to do the whole of the Siege of Orison solo before — interested to know what players experiences of that are going to be.”
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