Game repair?

Mods and Custom Content, CC, are a major source of most bugs.

I think my game might be afflicted with the under-age romance bug… And if it is, it’s definitely a problem with the game because I can’t use mods or CC on the PlayStation 4.

I’ve only seen one instance of the potential bug, and it happened too fast for me to get a screenshot. All I can say is that I had 3 teen mermen turn down a romantic advance at the same time, right before they disappeared from the lot. I didn’t see the interaction or who the other one involved was.

But, as far as I can tell, most of the merfolk sims on the lot had their sexual orientation updated in CAS. The only unknowns are the townies.

I have only 3 mermen in my game that will engage in gay romance. 2 mermen married to each other, and 1 bisexual merman married to a mermaid.

But, game lag and the saving issue I experienced have been resolved. Still too early to know if there’s a romance bug.

I prefer to let my sims discover their own identity, but I’m on the 3rd/4th generation of a couple legacies.

Cousins in these legacies have the option to romance each other despite not being more than cousins once removed.

"Gagea;c-18167565" wrote:
The desktop shortcut is working fine. Deleting the origin cache files didn't help.

Worked for me too.

It's not working for me. Rebooted computer (which took forever to start).
EA, why are you doing this to us, and why are you doing it without even a tiny warning?

I'm not patching my game, meaning I will not be allowed to play? It worked fine last night, today nothing?
I don't want the App either, why would I need it when I prefer to play offline in order to avoid buggy patches? Why should I trust the App on day 1?

PS: Just realized it might be a good idea to backup my game before doing anything. Origin insists on repairing my game the next time I go online.

Thank you, @Crazyfrog! You have a great day too! :)

"Simmerville;c-18167770" wrote:
It's not working for me. Rebooted computer (which took forever to start).
EA, why are you doing this to us, and why are you doing it without even a tiny warning?

I'm not patching my game, meaning I will not be allowed to play? It worked fine last night, today nothing?
I don't want the App either, why would I need it when I prefer to play offline in order to avoid buggy patches? Why should I trust the App on day 1?

PS: Just realized it might be a good idea to backup my game before doing anything. Origin insists on repairing my game the next time I go online.

I sympathize with you @Simmerville as I want to play so bad was having so much fun for a change, but the work arounds other have mentioned like putting the ts4.exec short cut on desktop isn't working, and I could use the app but I don't want to as it will make me update and I don't want to be able to play the game only to find I have all the issues others have experienced like phone obsession which would be the worst, lag, and other issues. I hope this isn't going to replace origin as if it is, we won't have any options to opt out of patches unless it is added in.

Origin did do an automatic repair on my game, but it didn't download patch thankfully.

"Colorist40;c-18167778" wrote:

"Simmerville;c-18167770" wrote:
It's not working for me. Rebooted computer (which took forever to start).
EA, why are you doing this to us, and why are you doing it without even a tiny warning?

I'm not patching my game, meaning I will not be allowed to play? It worked fine last night, today nothing?
I don't want the App either, why would I need it when I prefer to play offline in order to avoid buggy patches? Why should I trust the App on day 1?

PS: Just realized it might be a good idea to backup my game before doing anything. Origin insists on repairing my game the next time I go online.

I sympathize with you @Simmerville as I want to play so bad was having so much fun for a change, but the work arounds other have mentioned like putting the ts4.exec short cut on desktop isn't working, and I could use the app but I don't want to as it will make me update and I don't want to be able to play the game only to find I have all the issues others have experienced like phone obsession which would be the worst, lag, and other issues. I hope this isn't going to replace origin as if it is, we won't have any options to opt out of patches unless it is added in.

Origin did do an automatic repair on my game, but it didn't download patch thankfully.

Thanks. Oh - it did not patch? Perhaps I will need to try the repair then. With some luck offline will work without patching.

I really dislike the way they simply roll out a big change with no warning. I guess I'm not the only one being able to play one hour now and then, but like tonight that hour was stolen by backing up my files (which I did few days ago, so not really planned to do it again this early) and I have no idea whether my game will be playable again tomorrow or in 3 weeks. EA should have given us some info beforehand. Today I got the not that I could update Origin. If I knew it was not a regular update I would have delayed it a couple days because there is certain things I need to get done in game, like capturing some pictures for blog updates etc. The lack of communication worries me.

"CrazyFrog;c-18167723" wrote:


EDIT
Hitting Control+R if you have that screen with blank areas instead of games to click on may work. Alternatively the option is in the "Origin" menu, about halfway down the list. (Reload Page)

Control+R helped with the blank squares. For a short moment I thought everything would be all right. But unfortunately that didn't make the game playable. Going offline before booting up origin didn't work, going into offline mode after starting origin with Internet didn't work, a direct short cut to the game did not work either. :(

"Colorist40;c-18167778" wrote:

"Simmerville;c-18167770" wrote:
It's not working for me. Rebooted computer (which took forever to start).
EA, why are you doing this to us, and why are you doing it without even a tiny warning?

I'm not patching my game, meaning I will not be allowed to play? It worked fine last night, today nothing?
I don't want the App either, why would I need it when I prefer to play offline in order to avoid buggy patches? Why should I trust the App on day 1?

PS: Just realized it might be a good idea to backup my game before doing anything. Origin insists on repairing my game the next time I go online.

I sympathize with you @Simmerville as I want to play so bad was having so much fun for a change, but the work arounds other have mentioned like putting the ts4.exec short cut on desktop isn't working, and I could use the app but I don't want to as it will make me update and I don't want to be able to play the game only to find I have all the issues others have experienced like phone obsession which would be the worst, lag, and other issues. I hope this isn't going to replace origin as if it is, we won't have any options to opt out of patches unless it is added in.

Origin did do an automatic repair on my game, but it didn't download patch thankfully.

It seems you were more lucky than me. At the end of the forced repair I immediately got a pop up to accept the terms of conditions of the patch. Cancelling that pop up, cancelled the entire repair (after a 10GB download) and left me with no way to get the game running. I tried offline, I tried my desktop short cut. So it was either a game filled with bugs and unwanted features or no game at all. Which meant doing the repair again, downloading the same 10GB again.

Now I can 'enjoy' the aging bug, the imbalance between days in the child and teen life stage, the fears with a broken turn off option and the limitations of the gender preferences (for the first time ever since sims 1 I will be faced with sims refusing affection from others if they are the wrong gender, so this is a limitation for me)
I don't like how origin/EA forced me to update. :angry: :angry: :rage: :rage: :angry: All I wanted was to play the game version I had and have fun with werewolves. I had no intention of updating for the high school pack as I have zero interest in high school but now I am stuck with this packs horrible patch. If EA thinks I am more inclined to hand them 40€ for a pack I don't care for after forcing me to update in this manner, they are so wrong. I am really really angry. :angry:

I miss the sims 2 times without forced patches. Heck, I even miss the time when patches were something to look forward to and be excited about. Now patches are something to dread and avoid because all they do is add bugs and broken features we can't opt out of.

"Susim62;d-1002532" wrote:
Does the game automatically update after doing a game repair in Origin?

Yep, it just did it to me. I had purposely turned off updates and set Origin offline to avoid the broken crap update they pushed out with the last pack. My game was fine till this morning when it wouldn't even start up. I had to set Origin back online and it wanted to "repair" my game which was working just fine yesterday.

Of course once the "repair" was done I had the new update applied to the game. I am so pissed off right now as it pulled all the new bugs and broken crap into my game that Maxis couldn't be bothered to fix before pushing this monstrosity onto its players.

Maxis if you can't be F'ed to at least fix your bugs BEFORE you push out game updates at least don't FORCE us to update the game. I was perfectly happy playing the previous update, my game played just fine, now its a broken mess. Pretty much considering just uninstalling the game for good at this point. F this crap.

My game was auto patched, too. I first thought it didn't, but it turns out I have body hair as well as new cell phone layout, so here we go... At least my can't-play-without mods were updated.