Ahead of the Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack releasing tomorrow – extra on that as I play it myself – The Sims 4 acquired an enormous replace yesterday. This occurs semi-regularly, typically timed round DLC releases, so let me preface all this by saying that the game screwing up a bit after a patch shouldn’t shock anybody at this level. It’s a 6-year-old game that’s had a great deal of new stuff crammed into it, and this explicit replace is a biggun that modifications a load of stuff.
Nevertheless, the replace has precipitated a kerfuffle in the neighborhood. Most considerably, many individuals are reporting crashes on particular save information. Some households are failing to load, and their is anguish and gnashing of enamel as individuals have misplaced entry to huge mansion builds they’ve spent hours on, regardless of making an attempt to revive saves or reverting to older ones. Most hilariously, a number of individuals are reporting that their Sims are peeing fire.
Picture courtesy of Reddit consumer FelinNeko, certainly one of many individuals whose Sims now have a extreme UTI
Bugs and crashes can come up after updates for any game, as a result of there’s solely so many situations you’ll be able to check forward of time, however The Sims four appears notably weak owing to the years of modding and customized content material (cc). Players have been fidgeting with The Sims four from day one, which is why it’s strongly suggested that you simply take away mods and cc, and transfer your save information, earlier than putting in any updates. If you, like me, have a number of these items put in, “luthienrising” is working an ongoing thread of damaged and up to date mods and cc over on the official forums.
As I discussed, the potential for points is elevated as a result of patch is important (full June patch notes here). It modifications the stock system, provides new actions in your sims, modifications how home windows and doorways might be positioned, makes payments itemised, put firefighters within the game, and provides… ladders! Incredible scenes. But additionally a number of new code and animations and issues to go unsuitable.
The dev workforce are already conscious of the corrupted saves, and because it’s solely been about 12 hours everybody ought to in all probability simply permit the builders time to sort things and agree that Sims pissing hearth could be very humorous. Other humorous issues I’ve seen within the Facebook teams I frequent embrace lots of people intentionally beginning fires to get the firefighters to show up. In no less than one case “they decided just to watch.” (It seems that in case you name the firefighters and there isn’t a hearth, they’ll nice you §500, which isn’t a bug, it’s simply additionally fairly humorous.)
Then there’s the participant who acquired their first new itemised invoice by means of and it regarded like this:
Lot Taxes: -§300
Power: +§0
Water: +§0
Other Taxes: +§0
Total: §9,483
Someone please assist, my household is dying.
For what it’s value, my very own game seems to be working nice after the patch. I imply, ideally you’d wish to not need to take away saves and mods earlier than an replace on a game, however whaddaya going to do? Although it has uncovered how a lot I depend on cc in my builds. When I examined the game with out cc put in, that is what Sin’s hermitage regarded like:
