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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? 1.63.133.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Get the tripod from the moschino stuff pack, put a camera on it, click on the tripod to take picture (of/with doesn't matter) and use WASDQE to control the camera.
What happens when the bug occurs? W / S zooms in / out A / D moves the camera to the left / right Q / E moves the camera up / down
What do you expect to see? The camera keys (especially Q and E) to work like they did when the stuff pack came out, as seen in this part of the Guru livestream https://clips.twitch.tv/StylishSpinelessHedgehogPunchTrees , so that we can take more dimensional pictures again.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Updated to the June 3rd patch (2020)
The new patch promised the following: We fixed an issue in which some hotkeys in Photo Mode (particularly E and Q) were not working.
The "fix" is basically just a reassignment of controls but doesn't add what Q and E were intended to do.
I am a bit frustrated because it was my favorite feature and added so much depth to photography and now I'm back to how it was before the moschino pack came out with all my pictures just being frontal shots looking like a non-skilled sim could have taken them xD
- 6 years ago
The patch doesn't fix this? For those of you who don't know what we are talking about: Q used to elevate the camera, E lowered it, TAB allowed free camera control while taking pictures with the tripod. Please fix this Sims team! You had it working before it was broken by a patch. Please prioritize it!
- crinrict6 years agoHero+@jred250 They fixed it .. but not in the correct way. The keys now do something again but not what they are supposed to.
- xjfo411x6 years agoRising Adventurer
This wasn't fixed at all. Not even remotely close. The Q & E keys are just panning the camera up and down, a feature that we could do even when it was broke before with just the mouse. The other bug report shouldn't have been archived as the main feature, the WASD keys allowing free camera, was still never fixed! This is insane. Why is it so difficult for them to address and fix this? It was working for a few months after the pack was released, and then broke completely when they tried to fix the issue with not being able to take pictures in basements.
For me, it makes the entire Moschino Stuff pack obsolete. I am a photographer IRL and really only bought that pack so I could make creative pictures in the game. 👎
- SGEplaysgames6 years agoNew Traveler
I have video evidence that proves they didn't fix it in the June 3rd patch. https://twitter.com/silveriowiki/status/1268594608184782848
- 6 years ago
This is still not fixed, and it is just lazy to consider it to be so. EA has completely removed the most SIGNIFICANT gameplay feature introduced in the (PAID) Moschino Stuff pack, and is trying to pretend like it never happened by sweeping it under the rug. All they did was bind Q and E to something you could already do, completely ignoring the vertical height feature, which is the entire draw of the Tripod.
I don't want to wait another 6 months for another lazy fix to be released. If this isn't going to be fixed then I want my money back. I paid money for this pack, and the product I received was NOT what was advertised.
- ftrodrigues16 years agoNew Adventurer
Marking as "mee too". At this point I wonder if they even know how the feature worked at first place. I read about the "fix" on the patch notes finally thinking I would be able to use it as advertised, but no. They did something else with it. With the huge amount of problems created by the latest patch, I wonder if this is going to ever be adressed. It's the key gameplay feature of a pack for Christ sake.
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