While Star Citizen reached a major milestone with the release of the preview version of Alpha 4.0, not all players have been able to enjoy it.
A bug has been affecting a number of players who have been faced with an Error 60030 message every time they tried to log into the game, with the result of being completely prevented from playing.
Today Community Director Tyler Witkin posted on the official Spectrum community forums mentioning that a corrective script has been deployed today to repair many of the accounts affected by the infamous “Shard Locked” issue.
These accounts have been restored and their players should finally be able to enjoy the game. The action, together with fixes that have already been deployed, should also help prevent more players from encountering the issue.
We also hear that the development team is still working on fixing other variants of this issue that are still affecting players and other gameplay-related issues related to the Alpha 4.0 Preview environment.
If you’re unfamiliar with Star Citizen, it’s a crowdfunded project directed by Chris Roberts, whom you may know for the classic Wing Commander series. It’s a multiplayer sandbox space simulator that has been in development for over a decade and in alpha for several years. It will be released exclusively for PC at some point in the future.
The crowdfunding total has just passed $775 million and it’s currently at 775,203,552. The game also has 5,495,821 registered users, albeit not all of them are paid customers. Many simply create an account to enjoy the occasional free-to-play periods.
2024 was the second-best year ever for Star Citizen’s crowdfunding campaign, missing the record only by roughly one million.
A few weeks ago, Cloud Imperium Games showcased plenty of features and tech coming to the game, on top of the overall vision for version 1.0, which will be the full release of the game, albeit it doesn’t yet have a date.
A single-player campaign titled Squadron 42 is also in development, starring an exceptional cast of famous actors including Mark Hamill, Henry Cavill, Gary Oldman, Liam Cunningham, Gillian Anderson, and more. Recently we saw plenty of gameplay and learned that it’ll release in 2026.
Since the project has been in development for over a decade, you can also see how Squadron 42 evolved since its first reveals.
Full disclosure: the author of this article has backed Star Citizen’s crowdfunding campaign.
