[ GRAPHICS ] Fixed a case where water would appear black in screenshots and video capture For AMD GPU users, shader compilation hitches can now be fixed with a driver update: [ ANIMATION ] Fixed a case where the grenade throw animation would be canceled by holding the inspect key Adjusted M4A4 and M4A1-S draw animation to start from out-of-frame Minor animation system performance optimizations [ MAPS ] Various bug fixes and tweaks to Nuke, Vertigo, Anubis, and Overpass [ MISC ] All surrender...
Why? Wayland not ready?
No. Source 2 still uses some X11 specific stuff and has to be ported over to Wayland before it can work Wayland-native
The game would crash on wayland unless you forced it to use X11.
Most likely - honestly Wayland has been in production for so long that it feels like it will never be ready :(
Star Citizen will release 1.0 before Wayland is ready.