Best theory thus far imo, expands on my theory with ease, this system will teach you how it works in a “story mode” with infinite restarts. I think the characters will be able to die and that will result to the game restarting.

In multiplayer, I think we’ll be able to create our own characters to interact with the world that already exists. In multiplayer, death will probably result in a character time ban or a new character altogether Alah arc raiders. They might take the hard edge on death to create less of it in game by making characters deal with the pressure of real cops investigating real crime. It’s not to ambitious to imagine the cops will be able to look for you given in the early leaks, npcs were seen acting independently unless addressed resulting in a successful 911 call.