After losing yet another good hour+ long chunk of gameplay (XBox One) due to another game crash, I think I've officially decided that Fallout 4 is too broken of a game to properly enjoy on a mode like Survival, where saving literally only happens when you sleep.
I had already lost over an hour yesterday, when I made the mistake last session of sleeping at Hotel Rexford, after clawing my way to Goodneighbor from Hangman's Alley. Every single time I left Goodneighbor, I couldn't even walk four feet without the game crashing. So I loaded a save from before I ever went to Goodneighbor, and lost every minute of progress between Hangman's and there, and everything I did while in Goodneighbor.
It crashed halfway through clearing out HalluciGen, twice. It crashes while you're doing settlement building, losing every single thing you just spent your time creating. It crashes going through random load cells.
I just cannot justify dumping hours into a mode that makes you earn everything you get, just for it to wipe the slate whenever it feels like it. It's too punishing and too time-consuming to continue. I've never been more frustrated with a game where my own lack of skill wasn't the underlying issue.
Survival lovers, PLEASE - help me love this mode. I've been dying for something akin to Fallout: New Vegas' hardcore mode, and this really felt like something adjacent. But, Jesus Christ, Fallout 4 makes NV look seamless and polished by comparison. It's insane. I never remember losing progress like this on NV, and Hardcore is the only way I played that game...