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The_Darkrder's avatar
The_Darkrder
New Novice
29 days ago

Will the age gaps in Sims 4 ever be rebalanced?

When you try to make a 12-15 year old character in Sims 4 it’s so strange. The child model is too small, the teen body is too mature, the same size and development level as the adult. A 13 year old is not an adult, but teenagers play this game. They’d like some representation! Will the dev team ever correct this? We need a preteen body type between child and teen. The teen body type should also be adjusted to be visually smaller than young adults as well. It makes the families look weird when preteens, teens, young adults, and adults are all the same body type. 

Really hoped we’d see these changes when the high school expansion rolled out, please consider fixing this. These are supposed to be fam8lies not the cast of FRIENDS. 😄

25 Replies

  • dbmcgrew's avatar
    dbmcgrew
    Seasoned Ace
    24 days ago

    Prov31Simmer, I certainly wasn't trying to cherrypick. After all, the entire conversation is visible right here in this discussion thread. I was merely trimming the quoted material to make it clear what I was actually replying to, including only the part relevant to my reply. This has been considered good netiquette in online discussions for decades. Quoting an entire message only to reply to part of it is actually considered poor netiquette.

  • Briana2526's avatar
    Briana2526
    Seasoned Ace
    24 days ago

    I mean you both can say what ya want but there's opinions and then there's facts and the matter of fact is there can be different body frames added to the game because toddlers a different frame and infants another different body frame was added to the game, talking about there's money when they literally added two different body frames in the game like...

    Also your argument but their glitchy, it's glitchy when we get a new pack it's glitchy when they add occults to the game werewolves, mermaids, and last year Fairies were all glitchy but it's okay because their occults. 

  • Prov31Simmer's avatar
    Prov31Simmer
    Seasoned Ace
    24 days ago

    Briana2526, I haven't bought any dlc in almost 3 years. It is because of the broken and glitchy packs and lackluster gameplay features. I don't play with occults, but if I did, I would still not buy the broken packs. I also stopped playing the game for over a year due to the rain/snow inside bug and the save corruption that happened to my long-time legacy save that was started in 2016. I am realistic when I say that EA isn't giving proper funding to the game to achieve a pre-teen lifestage. They are not even getting proper funding to make significant gameplay features in the last few packs. I alternate between Sims 4, Sims 2(not the re-release done on the EA app since I own the game), and Story of Seasons. I am waiting for a new single-player games from both my favorite franchises. 

  • Briana2526's avatar
    Briana2526
    Seasoned Ace
    24 days ago

    Again that's your opinion I think after the last pack AA and this latest pack R&L I think the funding is fine since AA was hugely popular and R&L is reaching a very good amount of audience. I mean it's just the beginning of the year well might even get surprised. 

  • Prov31Simmer's avatar
    Prov31Simmer
    Seasoned Ace
    23 days ago

    Briana2526​, Adventure Awaits is still broken and certain things do not work properly. It also relies on other packs too much as seen in the trailers when they used other dlc to flesh it out. The only really new thing was the playground pieces and the imaginary friend, but those are not worth the current price and are hardly even worth $20.

    According to the little I have seen of the newest pack via early access videos, it has ZERO new traits, has one single aspiration, which I suspect is just a tutorial type and not really engaging. It has sword fighting that visually glitches and probably will not be fixed before it launches. The "system" looks like a reskin of the club system menu that orginally was for get together. Oh, and there is plenty of set dressing that can not be interacted with. There is also another rabbit hole and I suspect it offers those flash card check boxes with choices that do not really impact gameplay. The last few things I mentioned appear like recycled gameplay, not even worth half price as well.

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