You can enable it anywhere
One of my favoriteFalloutexperiences ever (and I’m including the wonderful Interplay era) is playingNew Vegason a modded survival mode. A minimal HUD, and requirements like finding water on a constant basis made the game pretty damn thrilling, not to mention the fact that you could actuallyplay a role, unlike the one forced onto you inFallout 4, and to a lesser extent,Fallout 3.
Clever folks over at reddit have recently mined the game and found new details for Bethesda’supcoming survival mode updateforFallout 4, which the publisher hasnow confirmed. Essentially, you may enable it anywhere with a simple menu swipe, and it instantly allows you to do more (as well as take more) damage. Manual and quicksave options are disabled, and you’ll need to sleep at least an hour to save. Fast Travel is completely gone.
Beyond that, enemies won’t show up on your compass, and fatigue actually…matters now. you may read a whole bunch of other minute details here in the full log. It all sounds fun, but it just makes me want to playNew Vegasagain.
Fallout 4 Survival Mode Full Overview (extracted from in-game files)[reddit]
