For Rent Expansion - Review!
Sorry for this being so late but its finally here now! Since this pack is so big there is going to be a lot of text so I will sum it all up in my conclusion post. Firstly we will review CAS. CAS: T...
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Seriously a 10/10 for this pack, when a generous and honest rate is 4,5/10? So we have a tiny world, whit tiny lots and an insignificant amount of them, the night market is pratically the same of event in San Myshuno, but with less people (at least in my gameplay), but hey we have the temple with a lot of.... oh never mind is a rabbithole (as always), but yes, finally we can have something player can ever desire, loading in theyre own lot, because is to hard to start to the foundations made in university pack (have different sims not related live in the same lot) and work, to have different family live in the same lot without loading screens, i don't say we have to see other family in theyre home, but at least make the other apartament pre loaded when we play in the "building" our family live, and have it loaded just only knocking on the door (or just enter with force), without the embarassing loading screens is not ask for the moon, for the traits well about that is the 4,5 of the score,the only good thing of this garbage pack, but only because i don't already use it.
- @kaze_____90
It's worth remembering that what you may want in a game may not interest others. What you like in the game others will dislike. There's no need to insult someone just because you don't like the pack. Disagree in a constructive manner, absolutely, go for it.
I don't agree with all of the OP's views. But I love this pack and it suits my play style perfectly. For me, it's the best pack after Seasons.
If you don't own the pack and haven't played it I'm struggling to understand what you are basing your views on. The OP is basing their review on personal experience, as all reviews should be. @kaze_____90I understand the loading screens, and the frustration behind them. But I also understand it's a necessity with the games limitations. You have to remember, Sims 4 came out in 2014. The minimum system requirements are,
CPU: 3.3 GHz Intel Core i3-3220 (2 cores, 4 threads), AMD Ryzen 3 1200 3.1 GHz (4 cores) or better.
FX card: 128 MB of Video RAM and support for Pixel Shader 3.0. Supported Video Cards: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or better, ATI Radeon X1300 or better, Intel GMA X4500 or better
And 4 GIG ram.
The For Rent Minimums are the same. So you have to build software based on a PC built in 2014 and consoles like Playstation 4 that came out in 2013. Also, lets take into account not everyone had a brand new 2014 PC. So the software was more likely built to support PC's around the year 2012 and up when the Intel Core i3-3220 was released.
With the new Xpac, you can essentially have 48 sims living on the same lot. You can also have 6 large and very detailed lots. I've built a few now and can tell that even with a Ryzen 7 5800x, RTX 3060 with 12GB, 64 Gig ram (I do video editing) and 2 TB on board SSD drives, it starts to chug when im into my 5th or 6th rental suit build.
Important side note here. I have no claims to my computer being anything close to a super computer. But when it can run games like Starfield and Cyberpunk 2077 on max settings without issue, I'd like to think its a pretty decent computer anyways.
With that in mind, I can only imagine how bad peoples comps and consoles are chugging away who are still running minimum required spec.
This brings us to live mode. Without a loading screen, your comp and or PS4 has to load the entire property with 5 other detailed rental properties. Even if Sim software FOGS out the other properties, they still need to be loaded. It also needs to load in 48 sims plus i'm sure a lot of people run CC and mods, so that needs to be loaded in as well. Can you imagine the loading times on property plus surrounding world? Would be absolutely brutal, especially on a minimum spec comp.
So yes, the loading screen is annoying, but its ingenious as well. That's how you keep 2014 software still popular and relevant in 2023, soon to be 2024. Plus I have to say, with my PC build and no mods or cc to load, the loading screen is maybe 8 seconds. So really not a big deal.
Hopefully Sims 5 will do away with such things. But because it will need to support PS5 players and 2020 PS5 hardware, i'm not holding my breath. However, if they build 2 versions, one for console and one for PC's that isn't cross platform, there may be hope yet.
