The whole thing is worth a read, but for those quickly skimming through, here's a summary:

Red Festival Free Fly cancelled while they're focusing on tackling critical issues to help honor what they promised in the recent Letter from the Chairman.

Top Priorities:

• Elevators & Transit Issues
• Character Stowing & Repair
• Ship Hangar/Spawning Issues
• Initial Load Time & Login Errors
• Mission/Contract Issues
• Quantum Travel and Starmap
• LTP and Keeping What We Earn
• Additional Fixes:
  • Mineables taking too long to fully load in
  • Invulnerable actors, which can include both AI and players
  • Freight Elevators at outposts becoming stuck and impeding missions
  • Collision issues where players may clip through a ship, the floor, etc.
  • Power allocation issues setting ship power to 0 or off randomly
  • Inability to equip some components discovered in Contested Zones
  • And more...

Source: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/190048/thread/star-citizen-alpha-4-0-1-live-hotfix-central

Source: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/1/thread/lunar-new-year-red-festival-2025

Source: https://elevenlabs.io/press

As far as the voices go, I have a good friend that uses Eleven Labs voices for some of his D&D campaigns and he's very satisfied with the results.

This could make it really easy to scale up a variety of voices across all of the different environments. For example, while the same thing may be said in one hospital vs another, you could have a different voice in every location or even based on day/night cycles.

You wouldn't even be limited to having them say the exact same things, you could script locations to say slightly different things and the model would automatically adjust the voice for that.

Considering the business model of Eleven Labs, I wouldn't expect anything to be made on the fly, this would still just generate a bunch of audio files that they would then incorporate into the game.

Pyro SMG rewarded to those who complete Chapter 2.
Ship paints rewarded to those who did Chapter 1 and then complete Chapter 2.

Complete Fight for Pyro before the launch of Alpha 4.0.2 to cinch an exclusive Pyro-themed Ripper SMG.

If you previously completed Save Stanton (Chapter 1) as well as Fight for Pyro (Chapter 2), you'll also
receive a set of faction-specific ship liveries for the:

• Anvil C8R Pisces
• Anvil Carrack
• Drake Cutter
• RSI Zeus Mk II

Waka's message:

Everyone ready for station turrets with 7x faster aiming?

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/lobby/38230/message/58494048

Link to the discussion: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/lobby/38230/message/58263271

Additionally, I've found that Lawful Security forces (like Crusader Security) will also happen to have these attachments in their chest/leg armor storage.

Just be careful about gaining crimestat right now because of the bug making it very difficult to get out of prison. Take down comm arrays first and check often that it's still down.

Edit: Sounds like it's only Crusader Security forces that carry scorched attachments.

Update at the end of the post:

2024-12-26 0530 UTC - We've begun rolling out a Hotfix to mitigate the leading Hybrid crash. This should greatly reduce the chances of encountering a black screen.