Star Citizen weekend 4.10.3 PTU 13132336: ground vehicles on insurance claims, Skarnov magazine reward, All Waves

4.10.3 is still cooking on the PTU this weekend. While a lot of eyes are on Alpha 5.0 after Wave 1 wrapped, CIG dropped another Alpha 4.10.3 build overnight: VERSION 4.10.3-PTU.13132336. Wakapedia-CIG posted the official patch notes on Spectrum Friday evening (also on the Devtracker). Audience is All Waves, PTU channel is still US only, and long-term persistence is on. Focus stays stability, bugfixes, LTP between PTU releases, plus Vanduul Incursion, the LBCO Skarnov, and IAE on the accelerated schedule.

Full list: Spectrum patch notes for 13132336. Our last write-up was Wednesday’s salvage-buffer build 13107423.

Insurance for ground vehicles and powersuits

This is the one a lot of us have been waiting on. The notes say ground vehicles and powersuits can now be recovered through insurance claims. If you’ve eaten a Greycat or a powersuit on a planet and watched it sit in limbo, that change alone is worth a weekend of PTU runs. Ships already had the claim loop. Now the stuff you actually drive and walk around in gets the same treatment.

Skarnov magazine blueprint on Vanduul contracts

Vanduul Incursion picks up a few player-facing fixes. There’s a new one-shot entity spawner for one-time contract rewards, and the Vanduul cryopod no longer acts like it’s under gravity in space. More important for FPS hunters: a blueprint for the LBCO Skarnov Rifle magazine is now a contract reward. Vanduul call out during combat, AI at quantum stations engage without waiting to be shot first, and shared-contract reputation splits evenly across the party. Board Ship contracts no longer drop you and your Caterpillar into a spot where you can get jumped on arrival, and Neutralize Target no longer spawns an unmanned Polaris as the target.

Shops, pricing and a weapon handling pass

Basher is for sale at Pyro Rundown Reststops. The Gatac Tyilui is at Astro Armada in Area18. Both also landed in Arena Commander inventory. aUEC prices went up on the Drake Ironclad, Drake Ironclad Assault, and the Tyilui. There’s also a handling pass across the 4.10 weapon set so guns feel better to shoot.

Potential fixes worth watching (don’t treat them as locked): Fleet Manager / ASOP placeholder status that blocked deliver and retrieve, seeing other players’ vehicles in your hangar when the doors opened, Centaurus Mk V remote turret gimbal, and collision loss after leaving a seat. Read the full Spectrum list for the rest.

PPR take: I’m glad 4.10.3 didn’t get abandoned just because 5.0 opened. Parallel tracks matter when IAE is around the corner and people are still fighting Vanduul and scraping hulls on the current alpha. Ground vehicle and powersuit insurance is the kind of quiet QoL that changes how I play planetside, and I’ve lost enough Greycats to know why it matters. Same with a Skarnov magazine blueprint actually paying out on contracts instead of teasing the rifle and leaving the mags as a chase. If you’ve got PTU access this weekend, jump in, claim a rover, run an Incursion, and send CIG the bugs while LTP is still catching everything. Numbers can move before LIVE. Let them cook. o7