I was thinking about getting the Sims 4 Growing Together for all the cool stuff it has and the world. I usually don't play families with childrenn (though I may in the future). So I want to know if this packs plays well with the other expansions. Will it adversely affect gameplay across all the packs. I am a little leery of "Family Dynamics"--is it a good thing or does it make gameplay more difficult.
I appreciate your feedback.
As someone who was looking forward to family dynamics feature, unfortunately I hardly even notice them. Nothing comes to my mind where Growing Together would be a distraction... Personally I was disappointed though that my sims got no milestone when I added a baby to their household through Life & Death reborn feature. It's their baby anyway. So there could be some instances where sims don't gain milestones even when you think they should.
As long as you stay away from the "permissive" or "strict" dynamic between parents and children, you don't need to worry. Those two do give weird moodlets at an extremely annoying level (strict leads to tense moodlets all around, permissive is worse, with the child being either very sad or very angry all the time). The difficult dynamic will mean more arguments and spontaneous meanness, so be careful with who you add it to.
Other than that, I generally love the pack and have very little bad to say about it. Just be wary of the dazed burn out. If your sim goes to work without getting rid of the moodlet first they will burn out, so I most often cheat it out since my sim without a fail get it after every workday and it last 21 hours so either your seem needs to taka a vacation every other day or you cheat.
I believe it plays just fine. I really enjoy this pack, too. You get a chance to set the family dynamics in CAS. The options are fine, nothing to be leery of.
I discovered a new milestone for infants just recently.
I tend to avoid using the family dynamics or just choose close or supportive. I don't notice that they do much anyway really so that aspect wasn't worth it for me. There's a lot of family gameplay in the pack though, so if you don't play with children you may miss out on a large part of the pack.
I really enjoy having recreation centres, which are a great place to have combined activities for all ages (music, gym, games etc) and being able to have guests stay over is cool.
