Please excuse me for reviving an old thread, but I felt compelled to sign up for an account here just to say this: NO TRUER WORDS HAVE EVER BEEN SPOKEN!!!
I admit I'm a freaking idiot for not saving often since I have autosave disabled, but I just got the "black screen of death" as I'm calling it and none of the suggestions in that Reddit thread have worked for me. I'm not even a freaking insider, so why this happened to me is so utterly-beyond common sense, I don't even know what to say.
But yeah, BropolloCreed79 was right on the freaking money with his comment about autosave being "triggered by tragedy more often than success".
Hey R* devs, maybe it'd be a good idea to save someone's progress when their health is CRITICALLY LOW, not JUST AFTER they have re-spawned!! Obviously it would have to be far-enough back that the player had time to take a health tonic as soon as they reload, but yeah...just a thought. Or at the very least, don't trigger an autosave immediately after death, and let the player reload their PREVIOUS autosave! Otherwise that feature is less useful than a submarine with screen doors.
