New Social Menu Feedback
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? 1.96.365.1030 What e...
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Is there a way (option/mod) to revert the social menu to how it was?
I know some people love it but I have been playing sims for way too long and trying to figure out is part of Small talk or interests or whatever is not fun.
I thank the whole team for reorganizing the conversation menu, it was really needed.
I would like to add a few suggestions. In the first picture the interaction "Kick the ball with" (sorry I'm translating from Italian), should be in the Activities menu, as well as the one about Football, and also others like Build a sand castle with etc.
In the second image, the interaction " Enthuse for fabrication" would fit better in the Hobbies menu.I found other conversation topics that would fit better in other submenus. Confer sacred knitting knowledge should be in the Hobbies menu, and Train to fight with lightsabers would fit better in the Activities menu (since it is an action performed together with another Sim); or, even better, it would be useful to create a Batuu submenu, where all conversation topics related to this GP would be placed.
@GiardiniDiMarzo while I have not run into these particular examples yet, I do agree with you that all the examples you mentioned would make far more sense under those categories that you suggested! 💡🙂
That said, I also love the new pie menu changes! 😃 I had suggested something similar a couple years ago, and was so surprised that they changed it! 🙌
YES PLEASE!
The new menu is outrageous and it's entirely too stressful to attempt to decipher what someone without the ability to organize might have been thinking. Add to that the incredibly distracting new icons that don't make any sense, I would much rather just not have to deal with it. So instead of click on ANY social interactions, my only option is to just wait for something to happen. That's not fun either. What's the point, they've completely ruined this game.
I can't wait for someone to create a mod that actually fixes this mess.
This has made my game nearly unplayable. Please make the option to revert back to old alphabetical menu.
I can't stand the new social menu! I need to be able to change it back! I've just spent 10 mins trying to find where to go to tell another sim I just want to be friends!!! (I still haven't found it) It's not in romance, it's not a friendly thing, apparently, it's not a deep conversation, it's not mean. For goodness sake please let there be a way to opt out of this chaos. I knew where everything was when it was alphabetical!
Since they updated the conversation buttons with the infant update does anyone know what category to find the "Ask to Be Best Friend" option?
Didn’t they say that would be outside the subcategories so that no matter what conversation topics your sim liked or disliked it would still work?
- @dragonpickle29 Also can no longer find the Ask to Be Best Friend option. Which makes it impossible to complete a child's social aspiration. And hampers storytelling.
Yes, I'm trying to complete that aspiration, too! And they are good friends so it should be available.
I honestly love it but yes, you have to get used to it. But i think its a matter if time and you will know where to find every interaction
After the new update for infants (which side note is stupid but not the point), the social interaction wheel changed to the abomination it is at the moment. I can't find ANYTHING and it seems like some interactions just don't show up under any heading at all or if they do, they're so hard to find they may as well not show up. If there a way to change it back to the way it was before the infants update so you can actually find what you're looking for?
Can I just say, you people who like the wheel as it is, don't respond about how good it is now because you are wrong. I'm no looking for people's opinions on the new wheel, just an answer of can it be turned back and if it can, how do I do it and if it can't, can anyone recommend a mod that does so? Like seriously, I hate mods but I hate this wheel so much I'm genuinely willing to use a mod to turn it back.
@DarkWitch1800 I agree, I'm struggling (I'm on console). There is an option in Game Options to turn off grouping social interactions by context, but that's now largely redundant.
It's also caused a bug for some:
Completing social/ work tasks is now much more difficult because interactions have gone or been replaced. It seems that you have to have Growing Together to have back some social interactions we have always had. I've had fails on some of my goals because the interaction was gone.
It's added so much repetitive clicking when I have filed accessibility reports saying this aggravates my disability and causes intense pain. We never had as much repetitive clicking as we do now on console as our controls were recently changed.
It's a missed opportunity to update the social menu in a more practical way by adding more relevant interactions on the first page. There's usually only one or maybe two useful interactions. The rest are things like "Start preposterous rumour" or "Discuss local fishing spots" or various mean/ mischief interactions plus flirty interactions when it's someone your Sim should not or would not flirt with. My Sim just autonomously started a relationship with a happily married woman somehow without me doing anything, in a group chat with new people. It took me ages to find "Ask Just to be friends" to end it. The conversation in my game is now about 75% autonomous since the patch and we've been asking for fixes for these things for years. As I'm searching for the interaction I want, my Sim carries on the conversation automatically on their own and says or does inappropriate things. She got level 2 mischief somehow but I didn't tell her to do anything mischievous.
So unfortunately it's just exacerbated the problems with social interactions and added another problem of clicking through menus trying to find what you want.
I think it's actually fine to split out hobbies/interests and affection, that could have just been added as sections like flirty/mean, etc. But it should IMO have more general friendly interactions on the first 2 pages and not 19 sections. That's 19 sections to search through. I mean, some sections only have 1 thing in them so I don't see any point in that.
Okay, a moderator has merged all the conversations regarding the new pie menu, so now it has become a discussion where both those who like it and those who don't can compare notes.
I personally like it very much, it just needs to be fixed up a bit. Before it was really tiring to have to constantly click on friendly interactions to find the one you want. Having said that, I continue to post pictures of suggestions to fix some entries that were not oppurtunately included in any menu.Give emotional support (a special conversation topic for married Sims who fullfill the Soulmate aspiration) would be better in Friendly>Affection
