Inside Star Citizen | Alpha 4.8 Patch Report

It's a patch report for 4.8 so most of this stuff is already known. Here are the main highlights:

• Tactical Strike Group missions are regular content (like Onyx facilities or mining platforms) not an event.
• In-ship services (repair, refuel and rearm from inside another ship). Supported ships:
  • Polaris
  • Idris
  • Carrack
  • Starlancer TAC
  • 600i
  • 890 Jump
  • Ironclad Assault
• NPC refuelling missions.
• Working command module for Caterpillar and Ironclad (both versions).
• New ships:
  • AEGIS Tiburon (big combat ship)
  • Drake Ironclad (cargo)
  • Drake Ironclad Assault (combat transport)
  • Drake Pitbull (fighter)
  • MISC Starlite (refuelling)
  • Origin M80 (fighter)
  • Anvil Odin (battlecruiser, just a concept for now)
• New FPS items:
  • Plasma grenades
  • G-Force resistant flight suits
  • Novia Crossbow
• DefenseCon is back, completely replaces Invictus this year.
• Short-term plans:
  • Additional defence missions (patch 4.8.1).
  • "Alien festivities" (patch 4.8.2).
  • Xenothreat (patch 4.8.3).
• Long-term plans (this year):
  • Reworked Siege of Orison.
  • Planets for Nyx.
  • Starwear
  • Starchitect
  • Municipal Works Operations (instanced missions).
  • New ships and vehicles.
  • New gameplay features and quality of life improvements.
  • Apex Valakkar (the one that actually moves around on planet surface instead of static ones currently in the game).
  • Squadron 42

There will be no Citizen Con this year. Neither normal nor prerecorded one.