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After every pack I buy or download, there's always bugs
I am an Xbox One console player, I've been playing for awhile on console. And it seems like every time I buy a new pack, it bugs my game really bad. I have bought a handful of packs over the last couple of years, most recently, literally yesterday, purchased Horse Ranch expansion pack.I am just now beginning to play it today, and my game is bugging really bad to the point where I am trying to customize the house and go to arrange something or add something to a room.. as soon as I click to place anything, sofas, beds, wallpaper, it does not place and acts as if I can't place it. I tried to move furniture and then it disappeared! I play with bb moveobjects on so I can move furniture/objects where I want them, but that has NEVER caused me problems. In this particular problem, trying to place wallpaper, click and drag to place it will not place it, either. Just goes back to being the white wall. Also, I was going to try to save and go to the main menu and go back in, but it will NOT let me save it at all!! Just stays stuck loading, just as in the picture I am including... so I'm upset that now I'm going to have to start the build all over that I've been working on for hours, including making the 4 Sims I made for that particular build, hours before that.This bug has not happened to me before. But this will probably be the last pack I buy for a long time due to every time I ever buy a pack I want, there's some kind of bug in my gameplay afterwards.. ALWAYS. I hate to resort to this, as I love this game and very much looking forward to new packs, but I have spent SO MUCH MONEY for packs on this game, so until these bugs are under control, I can not justify to purchase another pack.
Library Corruption/Deletion
This is the second time this has happened to me. I try saving something to my library and it says my library is full. Cool, I'll just delete some things. So I do and I can't save anything else still. So at that point it's whatever I'll just continue playing the game and come back later. I eventually close the game and when I come back (since this is the second time), I have a pretty good idea of what to expect when I get a message along the lines of "something happened to this application after it was closed" and "Corrupted data." So I of course check my saves and they're fine, great. I check my library and it's nothing but Maxis. This becomes frustrating when one it's happened before, and two, this means any save file that I retired or replaced, I no longer have those sims, houses, anything. It's fine when I can go and reupload my sims and builds that already exist in game, but what about the sims I never got to add to my game? The builds I never got to finish? Sometimes I'll play with genetics for a couple and make their kids beforehand so they don't have outrageous looking children, or I'll make sims so my already existing sims can make friends, have relationships, etc., I'll make townies to add more to the game, and I'll save a build so that I can finish it some other time and overwrite the file for whatever extra story I wanna make. Then of course the typical houses, venues, and things that can be searched up. I can't search up what I hadn't published No where can I find my library storage limit. I don't know when it's full and going to corrupt until it happens. So I then have to take the time to hurry and save all my households across all my save files. Favoriting things hardly works either. I don't want to fill up my library, so my next solution would be to favorite things right? Only a fraction of what I favorite ends up in my favorites. When I was a new player I went on a favoriting spree, when I go to look through it and see what I wanna do with these sims and builds, I see not even half of what I thought I added. Not in my library either. So I learned early on to just save to my library, but now it seems I can't do that without an eventual repercussion. I really hope this is just an awful bug and not an intended mechanic. Not sure if it's because I deleted Maxis items. I don't use or want those sims or builds in comparison to the things I saved, actually wanting them to be there. I genuinely have no idea why this occurs besides me having a full library.
Just bought lovestruck on sale. Broke my legacy game.
Lovestruck not working with my legacy saves. I make lots of saves (I rotate between 4 saves as a trauma response from a corrupted Morrowind file in my 20s). I tried loading them all and all saves are broken. I've tried everything, clearing cache, deleting save data. Uninstalling and reinstalling Laundry day and HS years allowed me to open save without error but game is laggy and Sims bugging and glitching so bad it's unplayable. Currently just uninstalled everything and hard reset Xbox and unplugged for five minutes. Going to try a fresh install and report back. My heart is broken. I have only ever played one game and world. Product:The Sims 4 Platform:Microsoft XBOX One Which language are you playing the game in?English How often does the bug occur?Occasionally (10% - 49%) What is your current game version number?Xbox latest What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed?For Rent, Growing Together, High School Years, Cottage Living, Snowy Escape, Eco Lifestyle, Discover University, Island Living, Seasons, Cats and Dogs, City Living, Get Together, Get To Work, My Wedding Stories, Dream Home Decorator, Realm of Magic, Jungle Adventure, Parenthood, Vampires, Dine Out, Spa Day, Outdoor Retreat, Nifty Knitting, Tiny Living, My First Pet, Laundry Day, Toddler,Kids Room, Cool Kitchen Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves?I installed lovestruck. Started the game. Then got the Game Data incomplete error What happens when the bug occurs?When I go into incomplete save. Laundry Day appears to be gone and all items from there are gone. I turned off game. Uninstalled and reinstalled laundry day. Then hard reset and cleared Xbox cache. Save loaded fine with everything there. The next day I played again and got the same save data incomplete except now I can't load into the game at all. Also Copperdale is missing from worlds menu What do you expect to see?Continue playing my legacy game I have been playing for years with all the packs I have purchased. Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods?On console - never used. Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system?Yes Please describe the patch or change you made.Got lovestruck, cleared Xbox save file, tried to load back in
Sims resets and T poses
Since the last update, games been working like a dream for me, however the past week or so since the life and death update Ive noticed that I'm getting a lot of automatic SIM resets and T poses. Like I'll have a queue of fairly normal things for Sims to do and they'll cancel the first half way thru stand idle for a moment then T pose and all the things ice asked them to do get cancelled off. It used to happen on the odd very rare occasion but now it's like as soon as a SIM has more than 3 things queued everyone just resets Anyone else?
Initial loading screen stuck/extremely slow when online
Im on XB1, all packs, all updates. When I start the game while online, the initial loading screen (when loading the game itself, not a savegame) will always get stuck on about a quater of the way, sometimes it will move again after a loong time and sometimes it wont at all. If I start the game while offline this wont happen, no getting stuck and initial loading is waaay quicker. While its good that at least it always works offline, this of course means I cant use any online features while playing, since even if I reconnect after the initial load the game wont go back online completely (meaning the main menu will change to its online view but the gallery still wont show up and things like the reaper event wont work) and wants a restart which is obviously unhelpful. I also tried to "connect EA account" thinking that might get the game completely online again but everytime I click it the game crashes. So for now I pretty much can only play offline, which sucks.
Missing Build Mode Items
After the last update and downloading Life &Death pack I no longer show any tile from the For Rent pack. The game still recognizes I own For Rent but the Low Tiled Mosiac for walls in the tiles category is no longer available even though my home has this swatch in my build. Any one else experiencing this.
Crashing repeatedly
Ever since I bought the new life-and-death, Sims pack my game crashes to travel my game crashes to go into CAS my game crashes to go to owned restaurants my game crashes to go to other towns my game crashes in build mode, placing things, my game keeps continually crashing, and it also crashes when I go to work, my game crashes at least 5 to 6 times during the duration of my playtime, I forgot to mention it also crashes when making events or funerals. I am on console PlayStation 5 I do not use mods
Changing game language (PS5)
Hello! My boyfriend and I live in the Netherlands and he downloaded The Sims 4 in the Netherlands. The game is available in Dutch. I’d like to change the game language to Chinese because I’m learning the language. When I change the language of the PS5 to Chinese, the game starts up in English. I have tried this in Spanish too. I have tried both changing the language and restarting the game, and changing the language and then redownloading the game. Both of these result in the game booting up in English. I’ve seen online that only certain languages are available for copies downloaded in certain regions. I’m here to ask; is there a way around this? Can I download The Sims 4 in Chinese without losing my worlds in the Dutch version? What can I do? Thank you so much!
Performance issues after L&D update
Hi, I've done everything there is to do. Does EA have a grip on it yet. I've left my PS4 on all night and day. There aren't any responses from Ea. I'm going through the same as you. I'm surprised that not too many people are complaining. I pre-ordered this life and death DLC. I wonder if the problem is that major update a couple of days ago. My game has bugs on it. Lagging issues. I know it's a complicated game to fix but maybe they should not sell these packs without fixing the issues it already has. There are graphic errors , sims stuck in the same spot and not responding to the commands. It's all put a strain on the gameplay. I've been playing sims a long time. I played on a. Computer years ago sims 2 and 3 never had any issues and I even downloaded mods for it when they were still underground. However, the problems on my PS4 are terrible. I may not be able add more add-ons or DLC packs anymore. I hope there's a solution soon. Until my PS4 stays on. Sincerely, a sad Simmer
Game keeps closing randomly after 9/18/24 update
Platform: Xbox Series S version:2.1.6.2300 I have all expansion, game, and stuff packs problem: Ever since the 9/18/24 update leading up to the reaper’s rewards event, my game has been closing. It’s completely random and it doesn’t seem like anything in particular is causing it, but I haven’t had this issue since switching to an Xbox series S from an Xbox One. I want to uninstall the game and reinstall it, but I’m afraid my items from the last login rewards will no longer be there. Any suggestions?Lost Items After Weekly Event Due to Game Freeze on PS5
Hi everyone, Last week, after completing all the weekly event tasks on my PS5, my game froze. When I restarted it, I lost all the items I had earned, although the progress was saved. Unfortunately, the same thing happened again this week! All the items are missing, and I’m concerned that I won’t be able to complete last week’s challenge because of this issue. I’m really upset and would appreciate any help or advice on how to fix this problem. Thank you!
Xbox Series S: Unable to select/open items in the gallery
Was in the gallery looking for a new house and selected one. The house detail screen strangely opened behind the gallery and I could not get to it. I was able to save my game and restarted it. Went back into game and to the gallery and now it won’t allow me to select and open the detail pop up at all. Regardless of if it’s a household or lot. Doing a restart of the Xbox now and seeing if that will assist.
