A long look at impressive planet playgrounds in Star Citizen Alpha 3.0

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Star Citizen gameplay footage from Gamescom gives us our longest look yet at the long-awaited, and delayed, planetary landings update 3.0.
In the footage, pulled from the official Star Citizen stream, we see various spacecraft fly down from space into the atmosphere of a planet and then down onto the surface. Once there, players can zip around on a kind of hoverbike or pile into a multi-wheeled, off-road buggy transport, assuming your ship has the vehicles ready to roll out or you can get hold of one from a station nearby.
This being Star Citizen, the real promise of planetary landings - aside from looking visually very impressive - comes from encountering other people along the way, which we see in the footage.
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