@flauschtrud I sympathize. I play a game on my Laptop called Stellaris. I can’t play that game without mods, and I’ve been there with an unplayable game when it gets updated. I know what it feels like to have broken mods in a game you love.
However,
I will say that there are mods for merfolk in the Sims 4 that I would absolutely use, but I also know that it’s not possible for me to use any mods in the sims.
I do not play the sims on the pc. I play it on the PlayStation 4.
In spite of all the chaos on the forums, my game never bugged after this update. It started bugging after they patched the update.
I think it’s great you create mods, and I understand the desire to create quality works. However, I don’t think it’s wrong for EA to make available to Console Players things that are exclusive to people who mod their game.
I think EA does care about quality, and I think this update did not have as many bugs as it appears in the forums.
Again, I play on the console and can’t use mods even if I want to. I did not have my sims experience the auto-aging bug. I haven’t had incest wants. I had a very good initial experience with the update.
The only inappropriate romances I’ve had came from my inability to change the relationships between existing sims after forgetting to set those relationships up when I started a new save. Not because of an update that came from EA…
But, romance between certain family members on a family tree has always been possible. The game doesn’t recognize cousins once removed and great-grand parents as family. Even if I can easily trace their lineage and confirm that they are closely related, I can have certain cousins perform romance interactions with each other.
This problem starts once you reach the 3rd generation. I’ll have to share a family tree later for clarity.
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The bugs I’ve encountered so far after the patch include extreme Lag and getting sent to the Main Menu when I save the game.
My current main save has lasted the longest so far. I’ve had it survive more updates than players that use mods.
Again, I play a different game that is heavily reliant on mods. It will probably take a little while for mods to get updated, but that’s just the harsh reality of using mods… You have to wait for mod updates too.
