Is it safe to update our game today? ( 7/24-24 )
I've seen a lot of posts about the patch breaking gameplay, and I tried to figure out if it now was fixed, but I'm still struggling a little with finding my way around this new forum.
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No, it's not. Yesterday's patch broke UI in the simology panel, also prevented the game from being saved or entering build/buy mode. Wait until they release a hot fix.
As far as I can see, these are the known issues with a patched but unmodded game (with links to AHQ):
- Ceiling lighting
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Outdoor-lighting-for-inside-rooms-on-ceilings/m-p/13894405 - Character values UI
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Under-Investigation-Game-crashing-visual-issues-on-character/m-p/13897916 - Neighbourhood stories is causing siblings to romance
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Neighbourhood-stories-not-taking-family-into-account/td-p/11406460/page/4 (older thread, look at the last pages for the newest posts) - Most glasses are deformed in CAS
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Issues/Glasses-are-broken/td-p/13894807 - Sims are all being very mean to each other
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Autonomous-Insulting-1-94-147-1-68/m-p/13894430
Looks like EA is working on a hotfix for at least some of those issues
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- Ceiling lighting
I am envious of everyone who did not update and can still play.
Do NOT update. How was this not caught in testing? My mind is blown with the scope of this right now.
In all these years I've learned to have patience. I always wait up to a week until I patch my game. But there is hope: this is the latest news from Sims 4 Discord (links are the same than those in my previous posts in this thread):
I also never update until I'm reasonably sure that the "glaring" base game bugs are sorted out. Offline mode allows me to continue to play.
I also track the status of my mods and generally do not update until at least 80% of them are updated/cleared. Still have a ways to go...
Sadly it makes me wonder if they actually play tested this patch at all , The bugs appear so fast and easily .With my save they happened within ten minutes of me starting the save up apart from one time when i didn't click anything but took my teen to High School but then it all fell apart as soon as i tried to get him home
I couldn't play without updating. (I don't understand how people get around that-you wizards.) Started a new save and everything was fine for about 30 minutes. Then I discovered the problems in the Simology panel. Tried to go to Manage Worlds and the screen went black. The sim was still there-I could hear her-but none of the UI worked. Had to manually shut down my PC because I couldn't even exit out. Game is totally unplayable. I suppose the only consolation is that they'll have to come up with a hot fix or no one will be able to play My First Dating Stuff. Anyone want to lay bets on when EA is going to learn about product testing? And for the record, yes, I have mods, CC only. I went in this morning and disabled them. Came into a a bare house with a trash can and a bald, naked sim. But the UI still didn't work and I had to manually shut down my PC again.
When you want to play without updating you must go offline. The 3 stripes in the left corner give you that option. I hope this will help you next time 😉
I've played a fair bit today and yesterday - I haven't run into any problems yet. It is a new slate, so not an old save (learned that lesson the hard way). It runs very smooth, but that might be the newness of the save and not necessarily an optimisation - it is hard to say.
I would say it is safe to play, but I'd be careful with old saves - especially if they were modded before the patch.
As one of the people burned by the Simology panel bug... if you have parenthood, wait to update. It appears (from what I've read) that something with the character values is causing the problem.
In theory, if you don't have any teens/children/toddlers in your household, you should be fine. (or if you don't have Parenthood)
It works fine for me and I have parenthood installed. I am currently playing the Munch family and I have no issues with the character values. This is an entirely new save though.
I was actually able to play for a few sim days before everything went all wonky. My sim kid's character value panel all of a sudden went weird, and then I couldn't open any of the simology panels or even save/close the game.
It's not a new save (well, it's a new "save as" from my Base Save File), but I am playing vanilla, so I know it's not mods.
I just mentioned parenthood as the character value panel going crazy when people tried to look at a child/teen's simology tab seems to be the common trigger, and it appears to be where the bug team is looking.
I have seen reports which sounds like the "sims being mean for no reason" bug is back. If that's the case then I really don't want to update until it's solved. That bug made me not want to play the game when we had it last time.
It's most likely because the game is looking for something from the new pack and if the pack is not installed then the bug happens.
I have noticed sims being mean out of nowhere, shouting forbidden words.
I would say NO, I can't even launch my game since the update was installed!!
If I could turn back time I would not have updated. I was happily enjoying my game before this update, now I feel like EA have taken something I own away from me without my permission as I cannot play at all, it is that badly bugged. If I were you I would definitely not risk it.
