I’ve been looking into local models lately, mostly out of vague paranoia that I should get one up and running before it becomes defacto illegal for normal people to own due to some kind of regulatory capture. Seems fairly doable at the moment though not particularly user friendly.

The whole section between the takemura junkyard cutscene and waking up in your appartment doesn’t allow saving, however iirc when the game came out it was the ENTIRE heist sequence once you got to yorinobus room.

Mechwarrior Living Legends is a mod for crisis that builds a compltely new game ontop of it and had a thriving multiplayer community for many years (not sure how activity is these days)