[FIXED] [CL] Apartments: Cutaway view shows other Apartment
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.90.358.1030 What e...
@SchacherTV It's on the Laundry List for this month and the fix announcement links back to this bug report. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the next patch will fix this and we can close this bug report. 🥳
UPDATE: I have the patch installed and I am testing it now. Wow, it looks like it is fixed!!! Jasmine Suites look good. I'll check a few others.
Fixed by the 09/18/2024 game patch
PC: 1.109.185.1030 / Mac: 1.109.185.1230
Console: 1.99
BTW: It's a different bug (I'll look for it and add the link here) but it looks like they fixed the doors not dropping down too.
I saw the same thing while watching the youtube livestream on Dec 1st. The doors in For Rent apartments do not go down with the cutaway walls & the cutaway walls looking into other units are still showing the V bug at wall junctions. This has been a bug for 17 months now with no sign of a fix. To have a bug that breaks the majority of City Living, a portion of Eco Lifestyle & University (dorm lots have this issue too) is one thing. But to take a 17 month old bug & turn it into a $40 pack selling the bug as a feature is just unethical.
This is not just a minor complaint by some players. This is a real problem that will now effect 4 expansions that in total cost players $160 USD! I am absolutely stunned this issue has gone ignored for a year and a half with no word of it even being looked into. But to sell a whole pack around this existing broken code is upsetting in a way I can't express. I have seen on social media players express how excited they are to abandon San Myshuno because it is too broken to play saying they are just going to spend the $40 to build their own apartments instead. But this bug is now a feature in the new For Rent pack. So people are going to buy the pack, be somewhere between disappointed "oh a modder will fix it" or furious because no, if a modder could have fixed it they would have already.
And for me this is a very personal issue. I have Meniere's Disease, it is an inner ear issue that causes dizzyness. For most people it's not really a problem with video games but for some of us fast movements, sudden perspective changes & certain scaling changes can make us sick. So this is a fix that needs to happen on an accessibility level. I currently cannot play in apartments (San Myshuno or Evergreen Harbor) or penthouses (San Myshuno or Britechester dorms) because the constant swinging camera & cut away doors creating a sense of detachement from reality makes me physically ill. I loaded my game last night to test & just trying to move around in the Medina Studios apartments made me so disoriented I got a nose bleed after on a few minutes. I would never have bought these 3 packs at a $120 price tag if I had known they would make me too sick to play in the worlds. I think I probably would still have bought Eco Lifestyle because there are so few apartments but the whole point of City Living & University is to experience city apartment life & going to college & living in a dorm. There are so few lots in Britechester/Foxbury you are forced by the design of the pack to use the highrise penthouses which are too broken to currently use. (There is also a bug in University where editing dorm lots makes them not show up in the moving panel so if you edit a lot or download a lot off the gallery you can't actually live there with your student. That pack has more than a few issues with the dorm life right now).
I am really hoping that the community rally's together and demands a fix to this issue. I am really hoping people don't just shrug it off as a design choice & say "Well a modder will fix it". Console can't be fixed by mods. The game creators have to take responsibility for the code they create. The definition of a bug is anything that negatively effects user experience. I think 17 months of being told "This effects my experience" is enough data to say this is a problem & not to create a whole new $40 expansion to call that bug a feature.
Visible doors from the For Rent Livestream Dec 1st, 2023.
Visible V shapes in the cutaway walls at wall junctions in the same livestream with time stamp at bottom.
During the livestream they couldn't even show the mold in the hallway at a normal viewing angle because the doors were an obstruction. They simply swung the camera top down & I instantly felt like I was going to fall off my couch. It gave me a sudden rocket vomit sensation to watch more than half this livestream. They casually did not address the 17 month old bug, they just ignored it hoping no one would notice.
No mention of any fixes in today's patch notes (5 Dec 2023). I'm installing the patch now to see if anything looks different. In the case that it does look different, in that it now matches the rental units from the new For Rent EP, I respectfully request that this bug report not be closed as "fixed". Simply exchanging one set of broken walls for a different set of broken walls is not an acceptable solution in my view.
I'll update this as soon as the patch installs and I am able to test my apartments.
UPDATE: There doesn't seem to be any changes to the apartment walls in this patch. They are still spikey and broken. ☹️
The Culpepper House apartments in San Myshuno after installing today's patch (5 Dec 2023)
The apartment walls did not look like this until after the July 2022 patch that proceeded the High School Years EP. Either the walls in the new rental units for the For Rent EP will also look like this, or EA found a fix for that lot type but did not apply it to the Apartment lot type. Or at least not yet.
Can anyone from EA comment on whether or not this is recognized as a bug, or is this how San Myshuno will look from now on? Any response would be much appreciated.
Simguruninja posted this reply im hoping it relates to all Apartments too also i noticed in the update we can replace apartment windows but it wasn't in the patch notes if they fix the walls it would be perfect
@mumofharry Have they ever mentioned what happened to apartment walls after the round walls update in Twitter comments? I’m glad in that snapshot simguruninja is aware of it. I wonder why it’s tough to fix it when some code or whatever changed the way walls cut away
@skylar45 I dont know tbh you'd think seeing as they broke they'd be able to fix but i do know since the ep more people are complaining about it so fingers crossed they might prioritise it
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