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Hawksdaughter's avatar
Hawksdaughter
Seasoned Hotshot
4 years ago

Hope the Update/Patch helps others, didn't help me.

8/2 Update and Patch:

Just ducky, none of the issues I was having with Duplicate sims in Henford on Bagley, or so many asking to be best friends, have been touched. Apparently, from the patch & update notes, most work was done for High School and Scenarios. Don't know why I expected better...

And yes, I started a new game with NO mods. I haven't even bothered to look for the other more minor annoyances in my game, because from the notes, what good would it do. Going to put my mods back and hope none are broken, they're the only thing making the game playable for me. I'm not big on playing ages under young adult, so the fixes in HSY don't make any real difference to me. I hope those fixes help people that do play it.

Good Luck Everyone!

6 Replies

  • daikoyu's avatar
    daikoyu
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    This patch... really…

    Negative aspect:

    • Wants & Fears toggle still doesn’t work and is on after managing world/restart/load another household
    • Sims don’t run anymore and walk still
    • Sims get still fame although you toggle it off
    • Henford and ECO NPC get still replaced
    • Change Phone case color still zooms + this action run always after travel

    Positive aspect:

    • Sims don’t fiddle always on phone
    • Fixed the T-pose doctor bug

    The game is still not playable for me in vanilla because of Wants & Fears + Henford. If I don’t would have mods as from Simvasion (Villager NPC Roles Fix) and TearsofTyr(Sims Get No Fears) this would be the point I would stop playing this game complete after this *bugfix* patch. I don’t mind bugs if I have a work-a-round, but the toggle for wants & fears is to blame that almost all of my elder are now screaming toddler!

  • Yeah unfortunately this didn't fix my issues either, except I'm glad about the T posing in surgery as that one was a nasty one.

    Respectfully, I see fixes for newer content while other packs like DHD, MWS and CoL for example need attention. Even GTW still needs more fixes as careers are very buggy. A few bits of DHD have been fixed lately but the pack remains fundamentally flawed but with great promise. If the furniture is still bugged and causing slotting issues for my other pack content then it needs to be fixed as it's been like that since CoL came out. MWS caused a lot of problems in my game to the point where I have had to take a break. That was June and it's nearly Autumn. The last patch caused excessive crashing and the patch to address the HSY patch caused pointer glitches.

    I hadn't noticed half of these problems with scenarios. I think stability and purchased pack content needs to be at the forefront of fixes as we've already bought them and some have (accidentally) been game breakers.

    I am glad to see the HSY fixes for players who had bought it and because I'd like to add it in a few months but I need more fixes to be able to play my game.

    So I really built up my hopes for this one but I'm a bit meh about it. I'm sure it's complicated with all the different combinations of packs and platforms but I just need more.

    My wait continues it seems...sigh.

  • simmemoirs's avatar
    simmemoirs
    Seasoned Hotshot
    4 years ago

    Great that they toned down the phone use and focused on HSY issues. I held off from purchasing HSY after reading about all the issues other players had with it.

    But what's with all the focus on the scenarios? I feel like there are much much MUCH bigger issues that need to be addressed compared to the issues with scenarios. 🤨

  • Hawksdaughter's avatar
    Hawksdaughter
    Seasoned Hotshot
    4 years ago

    simmemoirs, I agree. Scenarios, really? When there is so much else they could have fixed? Feels like they just 'padded' the list of fixes with all that, to make it seem that they did SO much.

  • texxasrose's avatar
    texxasrose
    Rising Traveler
    4 years ago

    Starlight Accolades have disappeared again in my game.

  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    4 years ago
    @texxasrose There are quite a few threads about the various reasons for this happening, so if you go to the top of the screen here and pick The Sims 4 (just to cover a wider search area), then search "starlight" it brings up quite a few threads with assistance and solutions for players that have had this happen. You should find some helpful info there where players have had help to locate and fix the problem. There were too many to list here!
    I hope this helps. It feels like every patch lately arrives with unwanted side effects! Good luck.