I hope this was the case, but unfortunately it isn’t my fellow exile.
So far the only suggestion i can give you is this.
This game can literally absorb you so you can easily loose the sense of time. However our console seems not to handle saving after some continuous time of playing. So i suggest you every two hours to log out properly and restart console. Since i started playing this way on single player i have no “accidents”.
However your feedback in this part will be very important, so please try to play the next days this way and report back.
I am sorry for this bad experience i really things were different fellow exile.