Inside Star Citizen | Alpha 4.2.1: Resource Drive

4.2.1 is set to release later today (see MotD).

With 4.2.1 we'll see the new resource drive event.

• There are permanent rewards that will be tied to your account for anyone completing these.
• You can complete them for all 4 factions.
• Journal has been updated to show a progress bar (both overall among all players and personal bars per faction).
• event commodities will not be purchasable for the duration of this event.
• commodities/progress can be earned through:
  • FPS missions (recover cargo)
  • Distress missions (protect hauler ships)
  • Hauling missions
  • Recover cargo (Fly to a "dead" ship and either transport cargo to your ship, or "borrow" the cargo ship and transport it directly).

Rewards for the overall winning mega corporation:

• Stanton-Pyro jumppoint will be owned by this corporation
• City Landing zone, station, and jump point will get a 5% discount across all goods.
• Elite (black matte) version of the faction's Tier 2 armor reward.