Star Citizen's much anticipated Arena Commander v0.9 is live right now. Possibly. There's a little bit of confusion as a technical error caused by the update has accidentally blocked some users from accessing the game.

Developer Cloud Imperium's Ben Lesnick posted on the Star Citizen forums this morning to clarify the situation: "Hey guys! The phrase 'oops, we broke Arena Commander' is thrown around all too often these days..."

"If you check back to our nightly Arena Commander V0.9 status update post," he explained, "you may be able to figure out what happened. We had staged Release Candidate 2 on the server and then started to upload Release Candidate 4. Unfortunately, that triggered a script that pushed Release Candidate 2 public."

"The server started pushing the less desirable RC2 backup patch to Launchers. There was a brief window before we looped back the script when users might have been able to log in to RC2... but in those cases only the local Hangars will work properly since the server-side aspects of V.9 hadn't been deployed. Anyone who patched in that brief amount of time will be prompted to patch back to V.8 if they leave the game."

Oops indeed. The error may have resulted in a bunch of unnecessary patch downloading from Star Citizen fans, but Lesnick promises that the team is working hard to fix the error. He advises players to "check back tomorrow morning (US Pacific time) for the REAL patch!"

In the meantime it seems like at least some people managed to install the patch correctly. We'll keep an eye out for any updates from RSI.

lol. that issue occured yesterday in the afternoon. that's been fixed as of 12am this morning and we're playing now
otherwise how could I have taken these images?
http://imgur.com/a/vOwLL

Also really good at promising a lot of stuff and painfully slow in game development