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Star Citizen Incoming - Alien Ships, Needed Fixes & New Tech Preview!
⏱ 12 min video · 2 min read15 Jun 2026
TL;DR
BoredGamer covers the upcoming Alien Week event starting June 17, the buggy state of Alpha 4.8.1 and CIG's ongoing hotfixes, an imminent Evocati instancing tech preview for Alpha 4.9, and a Star Citizen Live Q&A with CTO Benoit Beausejour on June 18. He also shares firsthand observations from the Bar Citizen International weekend event.
Key points
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Alien Week starts June 17 with alien ships (including the Gatac Railen) and gear on sale, plus a fan food recipe contest expected to run alongside it.
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Alpha 4.8.1 is plagued with issues; CIG is actively testing hotfixes for quantum travel mode-switching bugs, ship-to-ship services, docking collars, invisible character limbs, hangar doors, and inaccessible inventories.
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A 4+ hour Evocati instancing tech preview (potentially including Siege of Orison from Alpha 4.9) was targeted to begin around 10pm-midnight UTC on June 15, with a wider rollout possible in 1-2 weeks; Alpha 4.9 with instancing is expected in the July patch.
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Star Citizen Live Q&A airs June 18 at 2pm UTC on Twitch, featuring CTO Benoit Beausejour and gameplay engineering director Jens Lind, focused on Alpha 4.8 issues including social tools, freight elevators, and a potential 4.8 postmortem.
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At Bar Citizen International, BoredGamer learned there are four ship teams (UK/EU and North America), that the Ironclad had unexpected live issues that annoyed its developers, and that play-to-earn economy work and Star Sim are still ongoing.
Key updates
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If you want to buy the Gatac Railen or Banu Merchantman, Alien Week starting June 17 is the time to do it.
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Watch the Star Citizen Live stream on June 18 at 2pm UTC on Twitch and upvote questions now on the official thread to influence what gets addressed on air.
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Alpha 4.8.1 is still significantly broken — avoid critical in-game operations like docking, freight elevators, and ship-to-ship services until CIG confirms hotfixes are live.
Notable quotes
“CIG were the most tight lipped they have ever been at an event. Couldn't talk about Squadron 42. Couldn't talk about a load of the stuff that they're working on.”
“I don't feel like a content creator very much. I feel like I just regurgitate news. I'm a news coverer.”
“So you're not Mr. Kraken. You are Mr. Kraken. You are not Mr. Kraken. I'm not sure if you're joking now.”
Worth watching?
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Worth watching the full video?
Skip the video — all the substantive updates on Alien Week, the 4.8.1 hotfixes, the instancing tech preview, and the Bar Citizen Intel are captured here, and the runtime is largely casual podcast-style chat with no exclusive footage.
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