Is My Wedding Stories playable after the patch?

This last patch barely touched the MWS pack, so it's not really in much different of a place as it was before the patch.
For me, personally, with several mods the pack is great. Things work fine.
But, If you have been waiting to purchase until after Maxis actually fix things, keep waiting.

Things changed for me not perfect but more is happening making it playable I am in the same save that was messed up so unless the bugs are something like couple specific or something else horrible cause you can't pinpoint it seems like it. I guess it would be up to people to check and see if they want to bother testing it.

@Stormkeep What mods did you end up using to help fix MWS? I've tried a couple of things but am still seeing issues.

@lanlyn I'm using most of bienchen's mods pertaining to MWS and all but one of Zero's as well as ChippedSim's mod that lets pets be Flower Pals.

With those mods my weddings are better than the base game weddings ever were, because guests actually sit down and react to the ceremony, plus there's a lot more things I can include as part of the ceremony. That said, unplayed sims can be unpredictable...in all things and all places of the game. That's not unique to MWS. If you want 'the perfect' wedding....you're playing the wrong game.

The only other outstanding "issue" that I still experience is that the officiant, if you choose one, is pretty specific to what wedding traditions he will participate in and which ones he won't ... despite expecting that he would. Once you get the hang of what works when where and how, it's easier to pull off a very smooth wedding.

Again, pretty much the same as the rest of the game...you need to learn 'how' things work before you can control things in a way that make stuff go according to your plan.
Another good example of that is cutting the cake. This works for me if I remove the wedding topper, but not if I don't. Which in my mind makes some sense anyway.

So I've played through two weddings and only after the patch so I haven't personally experienced what it was like before.

For me it is still very glitchy. Walking down the aisle is kinda awkward because it's hard to get the sims to stand at the arch and the first time the sims exchanged their vows in the middle of the aisle. The 2nd time was better but I had to have the bride and groom walk down the aisle multiple times because the groom would not stand still. Then when they were exchanging vows, the officiant wasn't standing at the right spot.

When the guests gathered for the first dance they gathered at the stereo and didn't gather around the couple who were on the dance floor. Then the slow dance glitched out. I also tried out the bouquet toss and the guests gathered but the bride kept repeating the animation that was her calling the guests to gather but never threw the bouquet. Didn't get an option to throw it to a specific sim either.

And then I decided to give up but everyone was glitched out and I couldn't get them to gather for anything else. I think I ended the wedding after that. And I took videos and screenshots so I will make some bug reports too.

But there has actually been some changes since the last update. You can now choose which arch your guests will sit at if your venue has two of them. And I didn't see any other sims at the wedding venue other than the guests. There was only one sim but they might have been a wedding crasher. Also I was able to buy a wedding cake at the new stall. I think ppl have said they couldn't before.

Nope. I have no mods to fix it or make it better. After patch, just as buggy. I don't believe this was the patch intended on fixing the laundry list they mentioned. They said two were coming and one would be prior to MWS issues they're working on.

After this patch I invited no guests to the wedding. Didn't plan a wedding. I just had my family travel to the wedding venue in Tartosa with a home made cake. I thought just having their daughter there and saying quick vows would be easy. No. Random sims arrived and got in the way of everything. They ate the cake to a wedding I didn't invite them to and made dancing near impossible as well as standing in the aisle during vows. So... no.

@Stormkeep Thanks for the tips! I was using Carl's mod, and it helped but didn't clear up all the problems. And now, players are saying we shouldn't use mods that bring back the base game process as a choice because the patch has fixed that. So I removed Carl's mod since it included a base game wedding fix too.

I'll take another look at Bienchen's and Zero's solutions. I use several of both for other things, and they've always worked well for me. I'd used Carl's for MWS because it was a one-package_script solution. Nope, the fix just couldn't be that simple! ?

I used Carl's for a bit myself, to test it out, @lanlyn. Ultimately I was happier with Zero's + Bienchen's. Still not 'perfect' like I said, but pretty much work the same as everything else in the game where you are trying to herd cats. The sims being cats, so to speak.

@Stormkeep I've also learned to be content with lower expectations for sims--same as I have for humans! Flawed, sims and humans both, but still worth playing the game. ?

"wahini2024;c-18080469" wrote:
Nope. I have no mods to fix it or make it better. After patch, just as buggy. I don't believe this was the patch intended on fixing the laundry list they mentioned. They said two were coming and one would be prior to MWS issues they're working on.

After this patch I invited no guests to the wedding. Didn't plan a wedding. I just had my family travel to the wedding venue in Tartosa with a home made cake. I thought just having their daughter there and saying quick vows would be easy. No. Random sims arrived and got in the way of everything. They ate the cake to a wedding I didn't invite them to and made dancing near impossible as well as standing in the aisle during vows. So... no.

Can you no longer click unwanted NPC sims and choose "just leave!"?