I was able to play last night for 2 to 3hr intervals before the crashing occurred. I reinstalled the game not sure if that made any difference.. Plus I only stuck to the main missions. As soon as I went to side missions or a fight club it lasted for a little while then crashed. So I'm thinking that main story is the only thing that is working and even then its only for 2 or 3 hours. I don't know but I'm happy I can at least play it instead of it crashing every 5 mins no matter what I do in the game. I'm on Xbox One S just like everyone else having major problems. Either or I still feel a major patch is still necessary just thought I'd let people know my experience.
Im replying to one of your messages hoping this updates you, UbiDork. I played for an hour tonight and logged out voluntarily, it didn't crash. Though the servers were down so I wasn't online. Since I was one of the people crashing whether I was online or off very frequently I wanted to note the improvement. I did avoid the mission that kept crashing before, though.
I uninstalled, reinstalled, set my system to offline, and did a hard reset. Once in the game, I grabbed a cargo drone and decided to go searching for paste ups and scanned potential recruits from higher up. I was able to play a good solid 3 hrs. doing this. Once I got bored searching, I went back to street level and......CRASH!! I then reloaded, grabbed another cargo drone and flew up again for another hour. I decided to press my luck, and go for the Southwark defiance mission. As soon as I gained control of the drone, another crash. Rinsed and repeated 4 more times, always crashing as soon as I gained control of the drone or as I was making my way through the vents. So, gave up trying the mission. I fast travel to another location, to start recruiting, and more crashes. I'm starting to believe that with so many things going on in the city, the game is pushing the limits of my ONE S, and it decides "nope nope nope, I can't do this." and crashes. This, for me, is especially true when I'm in and around Southwark. I hope that helps. I forgot to mention that I reconnected to the servers after all these attempts, and the crashes are more frequent now.
I updated the game, hard reset, unplugged my system (all the troubleshooting methods) and still crashed within minutes of starting the game back up. I then set my system to offline, did all the troubleshooting methods AGAIN... And was able to play for a solid 8 hours. I even managed to finally finish the Southwark INFORMATION OVERLOAD mission, the 404 mission, and even a kidnapping side mission in that time. The only time I had to reload the game in that same time frame was after it had soft-locked when I accidentally ran over and blew up my prestige op (lol whoops). As soon as I went back online to get my achievements, it would crash every time. It even crashed while it was LOADING. I now manage to play anywhere from 5 minutes to roughly 20 before crashes. I'm going to start the process all over (going offline, hard reset, unplugging my Xbox One S) to see how long I can play before it goes "bbzzzztt", and crashes (insomnia is great btw) .