I know it's like 6 months after the fact but... what the hell was beth thinking when they didn't allow players to select which elements of survival mode they wanted? And why on earth did they overwrite the old survival mode instead of making a new one?
The discussion on the official forums was obviously pointless, because seemingly 80% of the posters were just trolls, but even after all this time I'm just baffled...
So many people wanted to be able to have the new food/water/sleep requirements, and the added damage to/from enemies. But some people didn't want to lose fast travel and saving. Why on earth didn't they just make it optional? Has Beth ever commented on why, or do they just let their fanboy trolls scream at people asking those questions until they go away?
I mean, I know there are mods, but it's awfully silly to require mods for something that simple checkbox would have handled. It's not as if any testing needed to be done, as the mods clearly show, fast travel and saving obviously work quite fine with survival mode, and why wouldn't they?
I just checked out what was going on with FO4 after following that 'debate' six months ago, and I'm really disappointed to see they never implemented any options to toggle this crap...