Community ManagerI am mostly interested on the base game update. Specially the change on the whim-system. I will try it out but if I don’t like it, I hope I can still toggle it off. The Sexual orientation is a nice feature, maybe my gay/lesbian sims will now stop to flirt with the wrong gender in my vanilla game. Ah and I love the change on the phone, I love it we get more phone cases!
The DLC self; I am happy we can go with all played teens, and I am happy that we have only two classes, I was a little worry that my sims don’t get any free time. Ah, and the world seems beautiful as always, but I need to check it out for myself. It looks like a great DLC, so I hope the gameplay works great and we got only little bugs, which we can just ignore.
@daikoyu Yeah, I was thrilled that I won't have to pick which twin to go to high school with, for example! And I LOVE that they gain skills, THANK YOU Sims Team!
I think the game really needed this pack as there isn't really that much we can do with the teenage experience, it's just been too similar to childhood experience as in school, homework. Even the clothes are mainly just the adult wardrobe and with my bad memory I'd have a teen walking past an adult in the same outfit and be like sorry, sorry I'll immediately send you home and ditch that outfit pronto. So I'm happy about the pack content and I'll be adding it...in a few months time. I've learned my lesson with adding packs before the inevitable raft of bug fixes is needed!
I'm really glad that sexual orientation is being added it's about time and just like pronouns it adds to the ability to really customise Sims identities. I'll be going back through all my many households in CAS and editing them all where I need to.
What I really want to see with this update though, purely for my selfish reasons is a massive bug fix and I fear that I'll be left wanting again. My gameplay is so buggy, especially after adding wedding stories (my bad, the warnings in the media could not have been clearer) to the point where my Sims can't even walk a dog (spinning on the spot, dog vanishing, teleporting) or invite family and friends over (destressing dedoction being made by people without skills or ingredients, mean/mischief interactions). I get random messages about updating my graphics settings and I can't have Sims live in the city or travel there without excessive crashing and I can't light fireworks...and so on, and so on. I can't use all CAS makeup (random makeup being applied after using some products). These are just a few examples of the total 100 issues in my game. I even keep my own bug records. I'm on my second forced break of this year. All these bugs have been reported....by me and many others...many times. There's no excuse guys. With any other product we'd be talking refunds and UK consumer watchdog involvement.
So the pack looks great but it's no good if I can't play my game. These bugs keep getting reported, the threads date back months and no action. I hate to be negative as I'm generally a positive person and I love my Sims, for just over 20 years I've loved my Sims. But I'm honestly in dispair now at how buggy it is.
I buy new games, I play them and think wow, it works and it's not crashing and I know it's a much smaller game but it means I just leave my Sims alone for the hassle and I've spent so much money on it with over 50 add-ons.
I love the game, I love the direction it's taking and I love the new content but there are so many bugs I just want to take a massive fly swat to my console. It's starting to feel like a bad habit to me combined with a money pit.
@simsplayer818I cover up the pool sides with stones. See picture. It only creates the illusion as long as you dont look one level down.
With curved roof I mean the sides, not the roof area.
There is no toggle for sexual orientation. If you don’t choose one, your Sims are the same exploring pansexuals whose orientation changes in response to how they’re interacted with that they’ve always been.
I’m bi myself but am very excited that I can set my gay and lesbian Sims as not receptive to opposite sex flirts. She’s married to a woman, she doesn’t want to flirt with a man.
Your sims should not be receptive to flirts from strangers anyway. Only to certain friendship levels. Just saying.
