I like the car analogy. The first analogy I came up with was shoes; when you play soccer (or any other sport during which you run around a lot) with your friends, neighbours or acquaintances, there are no rules for which shoes you use. And the shoes are how you interact with the ball and the game, so they're like a GUI. If you want to, you can play in high heels and make it extra hard on yourself. Or you play normally, with general sports shoes. Or you are very competitive and you get yourself special soccer shoes. Only when you start playing your sport professionally, youll begin to encounter rules regarding your footwear. And autostart is like cheating in a race by starting 0.5s too early; in a professional setting, youll get punished for that, but when you're just running around with your friends nobody cares.

https://mod.io/g/0ad/m/select-all This was ported recently, if you want hotkeys, as an alternative to autociv (that is also available from mod downloader). 

@Itms It might not be related to this specific RC3, but I just experienced a crash after a 30-minute game with this RC3. There were lots of serialization errors before the first window crash. I was able to click "Continue" and the game kept running. However, it crashed again when I tried to save and clicked the save button. Uploading here. I can report on gitea if neccesary Crash_rc3_250714.zip

For rigged meshes prop points should be added to the armature unlike normal meshes.

Replay2025-07-13_0001.zip

New Release Candidates are available for Patch A27.1  You will find them at https://releases.wildfiregames.com/rc/ with the -rc3- infix. Those are the same as RC2 except the SpiderMonkey DLL for Windows 7 is the good one 

Thanks for testing! Can you send the replay? Petra was not touched for the patch release, so this would also be present in A27.