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- inmyeye5 years agoNew HotshotThis game is a mess. If you go to the EA Answers HQ, there are literally thousands of bug reports. Unbelievable. I never had the crash problem, but I have plenty of bugs going on right now. The audio in my game works but the volume randomly drops way low for a few minutes and then suddenly comes back up for a few minutes...repeat...repeat. I read the ECO "bored" idle bug was fixed but I don't think so. Maybe "kind of" fixed? I'm getting sims with that bored look on their face again and the sim heaves a sigh and then BING! they're back to happy again. I'm also seeing the "sad" bug again. My sim invites another sim over and the invited sim is "sad" for no reason. I also have a new game and one female sim has 4 traits. Not sure how that happened. I changed her trait in CAS and when I went back to the game she still shows the trait I changed. Doesn't show up anywhere else, just in her profile. I can't remove it either. A fine EA mess is Sims 4. I'm thinking about taking a break from Sims 4, maybe permanently. I'm really tired of having to spend hours "fixing" my game every month after EA breaks it with another half-***** update.
"Garaya13;c-17734833" wrote:
I've gotten stuck on an inifinite loading screen twice since the most recent patch.
I've also noticed a lot of sims that are in relationships constantly flirting with each other. Not sure if that is a bug or if it has to do with the new sentiment system, but it's kinds annoying because they keep making all conversations awkward.
Yep same thing here. Every conversation my sim couples have with other sims is "awkward." - ck2135 years agoLegendStill good for me so far.
I did cancel Xmas after hearing about the Father Winter spawns.
I am playing on a fresh install of the game without Eco Lifestyle, but I am still using my old saves. - I always wait to update now after the whole Eco Lifestyle patch mess. So I waited about a week after the Nov 17 patch to see how everyone's game was going. A lot of the problems I noticed seemed to be related to: not removing caches/mods before updating, not repairing after updating (which seemed to effect a lot of mac users), issues with antivirus protection, outdated mods, and the father winter bug. Since I really wanted sentiments before the skin tone update comes out and probably causes a lot of problems, I bit the bullet and updated.
I've played it for probably a total of like 10-20 hours since updating and my game is running just fine. Ever since Eco my game took like 4 hours to repair after an update but this time it took like 30 mins to download both updates and repair I was shocked. I have noticed the bugs people are talking about like kids going to school in their PJs (which can be solved by just making them change their clothes before school manually), the stairs issue (which can be solved by removing the invisible fence at the top and just hammering the extra floor space that pops up over a balcony), sims cooking multiple meals and not eating anything (which is annoying but can be mitigated by just manually telling them to cook and eat), the birthday cake bug (that can be solved by using a chairless counter instead of a table). I also immediately removed the father winter tradition because that seems to be the biggest problem right now and can really mess up your saves.
I still have my pre-update saves backed up in case there are any problems I'm just not aware of yet. Aside from my game freezing up for a few moments once it's been running smoothly! I'm running the sims on my average dell laptop (windows 10) and using origin. I hope this helps anyone who's still feeling nervous about updating! - Simburian5 years agoSeasoned AceI've just encountered the bug telling me that I don't own several build objects when I want to make changes to an old house I put in Newcrest some time ago, (my own build). I own all the packs though. I'm trying a repair on the game to see if it fixes the problem.
I have never used any mods, moo or cc at all in my game and only play with my or Maxis originals so I'm wondering what the matter is.
Update.
Did a complete check of games installed on Origin and complete repair, started the game again and got the same message that 8 build items were missing on the lot I had gone to before.
I went back to the main menu and clicked on the build items of each pack and all loaded, went back to the house lot and didn't get the message again so I suppose doing the last thing reminded the game that I did indeed have the pack.
Otherwise I'm flummoxed! ? "Simburian;c-17742796" wrote:
I've just encountered the bug telling me that I don't own several build objects when I want to make changes to an old house I put in Newcrest some time ago, (my own build). I own all the packs though. I'm trying a repair on the game to see if it fixes the problem.
I have never used any mods, moo or cc at all in my game and only play with my or Maxis originals so I'm wondering what the matter is.
Update.
Did a complete check of games installed on Origin and complete repair, started the game again and got the same message that 8 build items were missing on the lot I had gone to before.
I went back to the main menu and clicked on the build items of each pack and all loaded, went back to the house lot and didn't get the message again so I suppose doing the last thing reminded the game that I did indeed have the pack.
Otherwise I'm flummoxed! ?
I did experience this in one household. I got the "removed items" pop up and looked around and noticed that a few pieces of furniture got taken out. I found the missing furniture in the family's household inventory. See if you can find your missing furniture there. I haven't had it happen to me again across multiple households but maybe I'm just lucky...- For me, no crashes or freezes, just the usual laggy and buggy behaviour of all my sims. What ive noticed, now more than ever is that my sims keep going all the way to the bed to sit down, everytime i told them to do anything. Its very frustrating. Imagine having your bedroom completely on the opposite side of the kitchen. My sim is eating, i told him to wash the dishes, and instead, he goes to the bed, sits, and then he comes back to wash the dishes (when he actually does that, because most of the times, he goes to the bathroom to do that.. sigh).
The game feels so buggy. The last thing i need are crashes and freezes lol. - Jayel-15 years agoSeasoned Ace
"Tantalus;c-17743488" wrote:
For me, no crashes or freezes, just the usual laggy and buggy behaviour of all my sims. What ive noticed, now more than ever is that my sims keep going all the way to the bed to sit down, everytime i told them to do anything. Its very frustrating. Imagine having your bedroom completely on the opposite side of the kitchen. My sim is eating, i told him to wash the dishes, and instead, he goes to the bed, sits, and then he comes back to wash the dishes (when he actually does that, because most of the times, he goes to the bathroom to do that.. sigh).
The game feels so buggy. The last thing i need are crashes and freezes lol.
Have you updated to the December patch yet?
I still haven't updated to the last one. I'm just hanging out until I read something more positive. - SheriSim5 years agoSeasoned Ace
"Flikka_Flikka;c-17731396" wrote:
Still can't get open stairs to function.
What are open stairs? - I'm having an issue with custom mods. They get disabled upon startup, when you enable them, you have to restart, but when you restart it disables custom mods
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