Uhg, if this game wasn't so awesome I'd be pissed right now. About 3 and a half hours in, I ended up going to Primm for the quest, and I had a faction suit on (being generic here to avoid spoilers) and completely forgot about it. Walked into a building of friendlies who didn't like the faction of the suit I was wearing and blammo, instant death (at level 3 with no damage resist, not hard). Thing about it is, I had only my autosave going. I usually only save when I'm ready to call it a night. Since this was the early part of the game, I had no other saves than the autosave so of course, when I walked in the door of the place it autosaved! >.< 

I've tried running out the door, taking off the faction suit, and walking back in but that doesn't work. Oh well. It was hella fun anyways, so I don't mind starting over. At least it wasn't 10 or more hours! Honestly, by then I would have been manually saving.

Let this be a lesson to others, save often and pay attention to what you are wearing. Faction suits add a whole new aspect in the challenge department.

Uhg, if this game wasn't so awesome I'd be pissed right now. About 3 and a half hours in, I ended up going to Primm for the quest, and I had a faction suit on (being generic here to avoid spoilers) and completely forgot about it. Walked into a building of friendlies who didn't like the faction of the suit I was wearing and blammo, instant death (at level 3 with no damage resist, not hard). Thing about it is, I had only my autosave going. I usually only save when I'm ready to call it a night. Since this was the early part of the game, I had no other saves than the autosave so of course, when I walked in the door of the place it autosaved! >.< 

I've tried running out the door, taking off the faction suit, and walking back in but that doesn't work. Oh well. It was hella fun anyways, so I don't mind starting over. At least it wasn't 10 or more hours! Honestly, by then I would have been manually saving.

Let this be a lesson to others, save often and pay attention to what you are wearing. Faction suits add a whole new aspect in the challenge department.

If you're playing it on the PC just try typing in tgm in the console.

Oh that sucks, I'm pretty bad about saving as well so I will keep that in mind.

It's amazing that this game has brought back the need for constant saving.  We got so spoiled with autosaves that you have to wonder how many people are going to do exactly what you've done.

I always have an alternate save in Fallout, learned a similar hard lesson in Fallout 3. But good info, thanks for the tip.

" If you're playing it on the PC just try typing in tgm in the console. "

" It's amazing that this game has brought back the need for constant saving.  We got so spoiled with autosaves that you have to wonder how many people are going to do exactly what you've done. "

Interesting, I can't try it myself because A. I deleted the save and started over already. B. I don't think I had a stealth boy. 
 
But I'm not actually bothered by the whole issue anyways. I also learned that it's better to build up your lockpicking before science. Ran into one machine to hack, while I already found a bunch of stuff I could lockpick. Better to re-roll now than later I guess. ;)

waiting for FO:V GOTY on steam sales around this time next year.

If there is one thing that Fallout 3 taught me it was to save very, very often.  Like before doing pretty much anything important.  3.5 hours is a LOOONG time to go without saving.  I probably save every 5-10mins.

Stuff like this was one of the reasons why I ended up with over 500 saves in Fallout 3 that I had to go back through and delete manually when I was finally finished everything. Helped a bit for some of the Bobbleheads that I would have otherwise missed completely and lost 20 hours+ progress for, I guess.
 
Seems to be a common thing for wRPGs though... had the same sort of issue in Mass Effect where I got stuck in an elevator and had to revert to a save from 3 hours ago.

I save a lot so this probably won't be an issue for me.  I play a lot of RPGs and Mass Effect 2 is the only RPG I've played where relying on the auto-save won't set you back hours, so I'm used to saving at any point in time where I'd be upset if I completely lost all progress.