My Wedding Stories isn't working...yet. There are 3-4 major bug fixes coming up in a patch later this month. Not sure if you saw the July 9, 2024 Laundry List but it's going to fix the town hall, call off the wedding interaction, sims not sitting on the floor during a wedding ceremony, and hungry sims not eating the wedding cake before the bride & groom can cut it. That's going to fix some of the bigger grips of the pack.
As for packs after Cottage Living, High School Years does work for the most part now. The upcoming patch will fix one of the new teen aspirations that came with that pack so that'll be nice. The perk is being able to see your teen live in school and control them during the school day. You get prom, social bunny app, and some really cute build/buy & CAS items.
The pack I'd recommend the most though is Growing Together. It's the Sims 4 version of Generations (kind of, you still need Parenthood for the rest), but it gives family dynamics and social compatibility. It adds the challenge and makes legacy/generation gameplay a bit more challenging. Sims have to work to make their families close or jokesters. Your sim can experience burnout, midlife crises, and workplace rivalries. Traits can be acquired through gameplay, giving sims an option to have 6 traits (3 acquired through gameplay and 3 set in CAS). I think it's a more subtle EP because the gameplay isn't so easy to see from a trailer or just quickly playing through the EP. But like Seasons, Growing Together changes your Sims' day to day lives and interactions.
I'm not a big animal player in the Sims 4, but there were a lot of folks that liked Horse Ranch.
Oh wow thank you, I loved Generations the most so Growing Together sounds perfect (I do already have Parenthood). Sounds like there’s been a lot of problems but I’m glad the fixes are coming in new patches soon!
