Cloud Imperium founder Chris Roberts narrated along with fellow Star Citizen developers as they showed off live gameplay from microTech. The demo, which you can view below, begins with a flyover of the icy world of microTech, on a long approach to New Babbage, an upcoming landing zone on the planet. It’s a massive city with glittering corporate skyscrapers, and the planet itself shows off some of Star Citizen’s new systems, such as dynamic weather and procedurally-placed vegetation. The tall pine trees shudder in the winds of surface-level snowstorms, and characters react to the cold, exhaling visible vapor and shivering.
The mission itself tasked the player with stealing a proprietary algorithm from a corporate server vault. After retrieving a fake ID from a contact in New Babbage, we hop a shuttle ride to a small facility set up in the mountains. From the landing pad there, we’re taken indoors and take a shuttle down to the data storage area.