Do you recommend buying the Journey to Batuu Game Pack?

BB and R2 units are cool as hell in Batuu - once they are in regular worlds they're animated furniture. They'll move around if people play with them and if someone makes one angry they'll roll out to attack, but they're otherwise stationary little chatterboxes in regular play. They have follow mode in Batuu

"troshalom;c-17654883" wrote:

"SimmerGeorge;c-17652622" wrote:
Yeah if you want your Sims walking around in Batuu costumes

https://twitter.com/LuddySimmer/status/1303278794883518467/photo/1

@SimmerGeorge SG_Romeo says this was intentionally applied and that it shouldn't happen in game
https://twitter.com/SimGuruRomeo/status/1303392627144814594?s=20

The person who tweeted that said they didn't intentionally do anything. It was a legit glitch. It wouldn't be first time that something that shouldn't happen happens. Remember the tragic clown hair that all of our Sims would get? I don't know why you find it so hard to believe this is a real glitch that happened.

https://twitter.com/LuddySimmer/status/1303279291610791937

It can be a fun pack, but I guess not for everyone’s taste. The game style is a bit different like in the other vacation packs. There are no rental lots where you can stay, sims will be wearing situational outfits there, there are no new alien occult’s and it doesn’t seem to have much integration with the rest of the game (is it just me, or I cannot invite my batuu friends to San Myshuno?). The game will consist of completing missions for any of the factions to rank experience. There are also just three lots that are editable: Oga’s cantina, the Resistance Outpost and the First Order Cargo.

So if you are tight on a budget and you haven’t bought any other game packs, I would recommend others first. My order would be:

Vampires/Realm of Magic (occult players) > Jungle Adventure (travel players) > Strangerville/Journey to Batuu

(Of course if you are a family player, Dine Out and Parenthood go earlier :D)

That said - if you buy Journey to Batuu, I would do the following yo enjoy it to the fullest:

- Edit the three lots to your taste to add beds for your sims to stay in, and extra objects for more activities if you have other packs! Like the sparring training figures from Strangerville or the Get to Work science objects. Some builders are creating beautiful rooms in the gallery! And the little flying robots from University are great on the cantine!
- Give a makeover to the batuunians. With the MCCC mod, you can even replace them with cool Star Wars characters from the gallery. Make sure though that they are from the same species (human with human, etc).
- If you have Realm of Magic, the CAS can combine beautifully with it!
- And lastly, the build objects, including the debug ones, look pretty amazing for the following styles: rundown, industrial, magical, apocalyptic. Depending on how you combine them, they can fit in a modern apartment too ;). They can combine amazingly well with Strangerville and the science lab/si can lot in Get to Work, or even Jungle Adventure, Ecolifestyle and Realm of Magic.


Must check though if occult characters retain their powers on batuu. And if anybody develops a mod to remove the situational outfits in Batuu, so Sixam visitors can look like proper aliens and so on, I would download it immediately! :)

Thanks for all the helpful feedback - I'm not at all a Star Wars fan (I loved the first three movies that came out when I was a kid, but have zero interest in the rest of the series), so for me, it was a question of whether there would be BB, CAS and new skills that would be useful. I'm not really into futuristic stuff, so I think I'm going to pass on this one. I'm really loving the knitting and eco packs, so I can wait on the next pack.

Now, if they'd done this with Lord of the Rings, I'd have been bouncing on my toes to get at it :)

I voted yes but with a qualification: Not everyone will like it, although I love it. I would say, if you are still undecided after checking everything out, wait for a sale. $10 isn't such a risk as $20, although you'd probably have to wait quite a while to get it that low.

If you don't like fantasy/SF play then don't get it, unless the CAS or build options appeal (which, if you don't like fantasy/SF they probably won't ;) ).

I think that some Family oriented players might enjoy it if they used it strictly as a vacation world "let's take the kids to Batuu". You don't have to play all the quests if you don't want to. Just bear in mind that you'd have to use cheat codes to add games etc for the kids.

It would be fun as a wedding venue for a geeky couple.

If you are on the fence, read the gameplay threads and watch some videos (with or without sound - I find it's good to "see" the gameplay without all the chatter sometimes). Check out the CAS and Build stuff. But really, it just depends on your preference. Even if I'd been iffy on the pack, I'd have bought it just so I could have a lightsaber B) - although in that case I would have waited for a sale.



edited to add a clarification at the beginning

I'm actually really enjoying the pack so far. After all the backlash and negative reviews I fully expected to hate it, but I'm having a lot of fun with it. But.. I know I won't play it again, probably ever. It just isn't the way I usually play the sims. And CAS and Build/Buy don't make any sense outside of Batuu.
So unless you're looking for a different experience in the sims that you probably won't use after you're done with all the gameplay, I'd wait for a big sale.

I am having the most fun I've had in a long time with this pack. I do recommend it. However, I only recommend it if you don't mind story based game play and you like the science fiction theme. I think the CAS and BB are fantastic, but there's plenty of videos on you tube now showcasing all of the features and game play so you can see for yourself if you would like that aesthetic or not. It really is all of the one theme though, so if you don't like that, you likely won't like any of it. If that's what your into, it's a really good pack and there's a lot jammed in there for $20.

It's also probably one of the least buggy game packs I've encountered yet, so far.

Absolutely if you like new things for your sims to do. I picked it up over the weekend and have really enjoyed it so far. Its a pleasant adventure/cosplay hybrid that I didn't expect to enjoy, but I'm having fun.

I liked it I use mods and I've seen no alien head sims