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Enchanted by Nature: Pre-Made Fairies
I got the Enchanted by Nature pack yesterday, and I was under the impression that certain households, like the Summerdream family, or specific characters like Nadya Kishka were supposed to be pre-made fairies. I got into CAS to check out the new items but was disappointed to see that the Sims I assumed were already fairies, were not fairies at all. The fairy occult type was not set for any of the sims that were pre-made for the Enchanted by Nature pack. I have not gotten the chance to jump into gameplay with Enchanted by Nature, so I have not played with characters like the ones I mentioned, but looking at them in CAS I was disappointed to see that they weren't already set to the new occult. Is my game messed up, or do I misunderstand how certain sims were supposed to be made?
Broken Events. Broken Patches. Broken Game.
I have been avoiding updating my game because of the numerous game breaking bugs that EA introduced during the last update. (Some of which remain unfixed, even after the most recent update that came with EBN). And today I decided to log-in and do this limited time Nature's Calling event, only to discover that it's impossible without updating because that was rolled out with a broken interaction too! (The "View sand art" problem) So now I'm stuck in this catch 22, where I can either never complete this event or not play my saves until they actually fix the game. (Which, with their current track record, MIGHT NEVER HAPPEN.) I'm so frustrated with lack of brand stewardship with this game.
First Person Mode
I know we have first person mode but it definitely could be hardcore tweaked. When I go into first person, I have the hardest time controlling the camera with my mouse, it just way too sensitive to even cooperate with the game. Another thing I would like to add is an idea, I feel like once you go into first person mode, it would be really awesome and a lot easier to have direct control of your sims. I mean, just imagine being able to see the inside of homes you or someone on gallery has spent hours or even days creating, all the breath-taking landscapes and to actually navigate through Mansions, lots and secret worlds walking through Henford-on-Bagley , stalking sims as a vampire/werewolf, swimming in pools/oceans, Talking face to face with Ghosts, and doing that keg stand! It would be absolutely amazing to experience your sims life instead of just playing God. It would add to a new exposure of the Sims 4, since sims has never done First Person with Direct Controls. I would love to see this happen in game and I know I am definitely not the only one . We haven't experienced direct controls since sims 2 on console. So, Sim Gods, if you could give it some serious thought, that would be great!
Please Make Mystical and Macabre Compatible
Ever since I heard about the new Mystical Trait, I was so excited to use with my favourite trait Macabre. I just think for a dark fairy or dark spellcaster it be an great complimentary combo. But you "conflicting traits" blocked them... To me the affinity of and to the occults, and the affinity of death is ideal for the darker occults and sims.New voice acting?
Am I the only one that is almost shocked by the new voice acting for the female "melodic" (actually rather scratchy & cheeky) voice? I noticed some new phrases in the business & hobbies pack, but with PS5 patch 2.14 (I think), it's also used for "standard free will chatting" i.e. without particular social interactions. The voice sounds really different and to hear it mixed with the one you got used to is really irritating. Someone got details? Is it even the same voice actor? Do they plan to progress to replace it completely?Well done!
I just want to say hats off to whoever was in charge of design for the Enchanted by Nature pack, it is stunning!! The detailing, the build mode items, the world building and CAS items are absolutely beautiful. Little bit disappointed that the items in build mode are pretty expensive, but that’s just me because I don’t use cheats. But other than that it’s a job well done, this is by far the best pack you guys have ever brought out and I love the fact that other occults can come to your sim for help. Now with that being said could we do an refresh of the other occult packs pleaseeee 😅
How is this game only going further downhill?
Anyone else not able to access this freaking game??? It was bad enough dealing with the MULTITUDE of issue over the last few weeks since the pre-patch released, but I was finally excited to get new gameplay upon the pack release, however, I CANNOT EVEN PLAY THE GAME. I get to the loading screen where it's all grayed out and doesn't let you click on anything, so I have to use task manager to force quit the game over and over now for 2 days. I have tried every fix on the internet and even have been asking AI to help with last exception errors and it appears its all due to an issue with an in-game pop up....like SERIOUSLY? On top of it, when I try to repair the game, it stops at the fairies pack and prompts a message saying my ownership was deleted or disabled and that I don't own it.....despite pre-ordering over a month ago. And of course, when i go to the store or my pack list, it confirms I have purchased it.... These last few years have been absolutely killing me. I don't feel like there 's an excuse for it at this point. This game has been around long enough, and yet instead of fixing issues they just keep dropping packs and creating MORE issues. I'm so tired of it. Can someone please figure out how the hell to fix my game?? I don't spend all of this money to keep getting screwed out of gameplay.Negative social?
After the most recent update and the installation of Enchanted By Nature, every time my sims try to socialize with other sims, it only has a negative effect. There are no conflicting traits, I'm only using friendly interactions, and everyone hates all of my sims. It's not just my vampire sim, it's other sims that i have in the household. I cant build relationships because everyone hates everyone. Please fix this soon.
Sims 4 Ocean Exploration expansion pack [Aquariums, scuba diving and houseboats]
Underwater Diving areas There are underwater diving areas that Sims can explore and that are interactive and actually visible to the player. Players can find treasure chests, explore underwater caves or sunken shipwrecks, harvest seaweed and catch fish swimming around. The fish that have been caught can be brought to the surface and exhibited in an aquarium. There is a scuba diving skill. The higher the skill level, the longer a Sim can stay underwater and the less depressurizing time a Sim has. Aquarium There is an aquarium in town that you can stock with fish and other marine life like colorful sea slugs. These can be caught while scuba diving. There are giant aquarium tanks that you can stock with fish. There is an aquarium tunnel object that Sims can walk through, and it can be stocked with fish as well. Aquariums are a new type of community venue. There are saltwater tanks (with corals and rocks) and freshwater tanks (with kelp and wood branches) Houseboat Houseboats are a new type of home that Sims can live in. Houseboats are editable in Build Mode like a regular lot, except you can't add a basement. Whale watching There are whales jumping out of the ocean that you can go watch with your houseboat. You can offer paid whale watching tours or diving tours with your houseboat by clicking on the tourist information center. Driftwood furniture Collect driftwood at the beach and craft new driftwood furniture using the woodworking table from base game and Handiness skill. Expanded mermaids Mermaids should get their own skill tree like all other occults and more scary looking like Sirens. Sirens could also be a new type of occult. To expand Mermaids they should get… Aquatic ears New mermaid tails Seaweed hair Fish scale skin tone that makes the whole body have fish scales Barnacles on body Scaly arms and legs while on land Fin on head (instead of hair) Sims can become a Siren by getting bitten by a Siren. (Like vampires) Mermaids/ Sirens can drink blood like vampires, but don‘t need to More fish-like appearance Fish-like eyes Freezing abilities Stronger manipulation powers The Siren/ Mermaid skill tree Australian world The town is inspired by Australian beach towns like Airlie Beach in Australia. It consists of two marinas where houseboats are located. New collections Sea slugs: Verco's nudibranch Black-margined sea slug Leaf sea slug Clown nudibranch Orange side-gilled slug Chromodoris nudibranch New fishes Harvest edible seaweed Seaweed grows underwater and you can harvest it and eat it. Shipwreck Exploration There are underwater shipwrecks that you can explore, unlock doors by finding keys in storage chests, by being gifted keys from a local Sim etc. Metal debris blocks paths. Sims must use a sledgehammer to break through metal debris. Requires Fitness skill. Sharks live inside these shipwrecks and your Sim needs to hide from them.
Free Build Mode - Blocking Household Inventory
Over multiple occasions I have been having this issue when playing, I have previously brushed it off, however with the new pack having been released I am currently exploring the gameplay. This issue is hindering my experience while playing as I can't get any of the items that my sim has unlocked while using the Natural Living skill, as while as once she leveled up in the apothecary skill, and was given a free apothecary, which I could not access due to the bug blocking the use of the household inventory while in "Free Build Mode", which I have not used since starting the game today. I have gone through the usual steps, cleared the cache, repaired the game, and restarted. All of which resulted in no change to the problem. I truly wish to play the sims while having fun, much to my dismay, this bug is causing me to stray further away from playing Live Mode. I am also going to provide pictures below to show that I have even tried to disable the command, which had in turn, notified that it was activated again. I wish you luck in replicating it, as well as figuring out how to fix the problem. I hope that the false "Free Build Mode" activation can be fixed soon, to allow me to continue to invest my time in the game.
Autonomous romantic relationship creation
I am not sure exactly what happened here, as there was a bunch of people around and a large group conversation was going on and I was having my sim admire the paintings for an aspiration he is working on. Next thing I know, that music sounds and the wall notification pops up that says romantic satisfaction has started and I'm like WHAAAAAAT???? Turns out it was with this woman on the bench that he was not even interacting with as far as I could see. He is standing in the rear in red pants. Nor would he want to with a bag like her as I know his likes and dislikes and she definitely does not mesh with any of them, fitness being a main one off the top of my head. Regardless of all this, I am God when it comes to everything, and I would REALLY appreciate it if a pop up notification asking me if I want to allow this romantic relationship to be created would happen. Because now I have to go hunt her down in manage families and delete her in order to get her removed from his relationship panel. And that sucks because maybe she is a fun person. She is a paparazzi and I've seen her around before and she seems smiley and good natured. Unfortunately, this flirtation means her doom. It would be hugely cool to be able to approve any romantic relationship creations please. Or. at the very least, make it so that when a sim asks another sim to just be friends that the romance bar totally goes away. I could totally go for that because it drives me wild with ex's that it still remains bc my sim will get into a new relationship and then run into the ex's at a club and this makes autonomous flirting happen when it normally would not. My sim is a loyal guy and he doesn't do that. But, it did happen because of that and I had to be careful when the ex's were around. It finally annoyed me so much that I deleted the ex's from the game a couple of days ago because that game mechanic just can wreck things when it should not. I mean if flirting was something he was prone to do, that is one thing. But he is not. It's because of that romance bar and if there is no romance going on and people are just friends, then there would not be any flirting or romance creation and therefore there should be no romance bar. Even if the bar is empty that does not matter. It still exists and makes the sims do romantic things more easily. So yeah, that would solve everything. Asking to just be friends removes the romance bar. ALL problems solved on that end and I don't have to be a murderer :)
[EBN] Balance system reacts way to extreme
My Sim got hysterical from using a mischief interaction and instantly(!) his balance dumped from the top to the very inbalanced state and he got an ailment (all in one second). I am very much in favor of more difficulty (and a little chaos) in the game, but this seems way too extreme. Above all the other way (getting from the bottom to a balanced state) seems to be a lot slower (which is absolutely fine, since it should reflect the long term mood). I feel like sudden jumps like this should not happen. It makes sense that extreme emotions like hysterical affect the balance more than others, but there should still be the possibility (and the time) to counteract. I consider this to be a bug, because it makes the balance system rather unplayable for me (which is a pity).It's time mermaids had a second chance!
Look, I know EA wouldn't be very thrilled by the idea of an update to mermaids so could we please get a dedicated game pack to them? With their own underwater world, caves (preferably interactive!) to relax and maybe even moonbathe in! They could have their own skilltree like vamps and werewolves and fairies. Seriously, please give us a skilltree for mermaids, there's so many simmers that want a full fleshed out mermaid! It's a lot of sims favourite occult and yet....we barely have much to do with mermaids right now. They just exist and can swim and can talk to dolphins and change weather but that's it and....it would be really awesome if they could do more than that, please. I know I'm not the only one wanting something like this and I know not everyone would be thrilled buying it but at this point I'd be willing to pay if it means I get to have a full experience with their gameplay! I could imagine a cool idea where there's a small kingdom of mermaids underwater and have them be fearful of Islanders (maybe they hunted them in the past so mermaids avoid them after they migrated to a new island/ocean). We could have the evil mermaid and good mermaid options too like with fairies! They could have scepters that could summon weather abilities like lightning at sims or tornadoes for example!
Bug after July 2025 update: Alien eye colors showing for human Sims in CAS
Hi! After the latest Sims 4 update in July 2025, I noticed that alien eye colors are showing up for regular human Sims in CAS. These are the bright, glowing eye colors that are usually to aliens – with black scleras, neon pupils. I do not use any mods or custom content. I tested the game with a clean Mods folder (completely empty), deleted the localthumbcache.package, and even repaired the game via EA App. The issue still occult.
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