I'm over the ctd-shock, well as you say, one must save every few minutes, then all is good. And, i must say, i'm still impressed by VC and think i keep playing it for a good while; perhaps until Bannerlord is out.
Now, i only need to find a mod which negates the red vision by the Beserker trait ... just got it, a small while after level 13; or somebody who eventually knows, in which file i can change that colour vision change to normal.
Did anybody bother with that thing?
EDIT
Hey, just watched again Taleworlds VC forum, and found out, that the VC team still works on their game: https://forums.taleworlds.com/index....,363475.0.html ... latest beta patch 2.032 via Steam. Surprise actually!
I'll re-start it with this beta patch and now go full along the story mode. A now read thread reply by Templar_Maluxul was helpful in my case to understand how the story mode goes over into sandbox at the end of the story, really good thing: https://forums.taleworlds.com/index....,362860.0.html ... and understood, that obviously the story is thought as tutorial game - which in my case, i wouldn't need anymore, but however, now i'm interested to play along the story without breaking out of it (at least not for too long).
EDIT
I feel the need to correct something of my above points: CTD issues were merely caused on my end. It seems the VC game engine has issues with the MSI Gaming App, which i had active. Since deinstallation, i rather have not a single crash with VC, pretty stable game.