It's time for another patch Speculation Thread. March could bring something food related to the base game based on the road map. It may also add an updated story progression as the gurus aren't thru with that yet.I hope the patch fixes a lot of the My Wedding Stories bugs. Also were getting another kit and more sdx drops.

Perhaps a wedding kit with veils, shoes, headpieces, heart shaped beds? :D

March is getting a kit with the theme "extra to the max". We might also see an inside maxis stream too. For updates we could get more scenarios, more cultural food, or another collab. It's also possible we might get a new feature like an attraction system, memories or something else. We could also get an update to neighborhood stories. We can also expect another road map for April to June at the end of the month.

Since we just got a wedding pack, I'm really hoping that this patch will include new bed interactions for couples! We really need more romantic interactions to be in the game, and since we have the option for Sims to relax in bed now, it would make sense to add in bed interactions.

I would love the March patch fix most routing errors. ?Sims frequently walk through furniture, some walls and even stand within other Sims! It’s like they don’t recognise what’s around them. Last night I walled in a Sim in a pool as I wanted to get rid of him, I didn’t notice another Sim was heading to the pool as well. That Sim went through the wall and into the pool. It was like there wasn’t a wall. So two went instead. Then a third Sim was heading to the pool! He reacted to the wall though and signalled he couldn’t get in. Plus the patch fix weddings and add more romance options! It depends what the next kit is if that needs anything adding in.

Bug fixes. A lot of bug fixes, not just bugs on that wedding pack. It's what we all need.

March Patch Speculation 2022 (Patch 2 Out Now)

CrazyMotherCool
3 years ago
I'm not really exited by this new tattoos. Still waiting the patch release and hoping the game will be playable
catloverplayer
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Blog
https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/neighborhood-stories-system
alanmichael1
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago
Sadly the bug fixes are deeply disappointing again. Rockets? Chefs? Decorator and paranormal careers? Herbalism? GTW career animations?
JeanVW
Seasoned Newcomer
3 years ago
Its cool, this new stuff and all, but what if they'd fix actual major bugs? I don't mind waiting a little longer and then getting it fixed. For example, clipping issues, teleporting Sims, fps drops randomly (even on high end systems), T posing Doctors.
DaWaterRat
New Vanguard
3 years ago
"ncisGibbs02;c-18078506" wrote:
"catloverplayer;c-18078366" wrote:
Blog
https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/neighborhood-stories-system

This looks very fiddly. I’ve got 80 Sim limit spread across 11 households in My Households.

Looks like I have to select the options for each one if I enable Neighbourhood Stories. I want Billy and Sally to have kids but not move out. The Pancakes can have people move in but not out etc. I don’t know if I want to actually go through every house.

The Unplayed Households is worse, they grow every play. More Sims get generated and I’m constantly having to go through the list to manage them. The micro management for setting each criteria in these neighbourhood stories feels exhausting! ?.
I like the concept but I’m definitely disabling this for Unplayed Households.

Admittedly, I just started a new save so the list wasn't huge, but it didn't take that long to hop into Unplayed households and just tweak the ones I didn't want to move out/change jobs. Hit the Stories management button, click options on or off, save and move on to the next one. I only changed the general conditions for the households where I cared what happened, so the Goths, the Laandgrabs, the Pancakes, the Callientes, the Charms, the Vampires and the Magic sages. Everyone else I left to the whims of the computer. It was kinda fun to see Geeta Rasoya finally get her Grandbaby via Raj adopting a toddler, or Bella and Mortimer having kid #3. And lots of houses have new pets too.

But then, I like that sort of randomness in the unplayed households, because I don't want to micromanage them.
JaggidEdje
3 years ago
"ncisGibbs02;c-18078506" wrote:

This looks very fiddly. I’ve got 80 Sim limit spread across 11 households in My Households.

Looks like I have to select the options for each one if I enable Neighbourhood Stories. I want Billy and Sally to have kids but not move out. The Pancakes can have people move in but not out etc. I don’t know if I want to actually go through every house.

The Unplayed Households is worse, they grow every play. More Sims get generated and I’m constantly having to go through the list to manage them. The micro management for setting each criteria in these neighbourhood stories feels exhausting! ?.
I like the concept but I’m definitely disabling this for Unplayed Households.

If you set it globally for all households in the category then you only need to 'fiddle' with those households where you want them to be different than what you set as global options.
JaggidEdje
3 years ago
@ncisGibbs02, what I've done is use a combination of both. First I set it globally for each of the two categories, with the settings I want for "most" of those households. And then I went in and individually adjusted just a couple of households were I wanted it different. ... Like turning it off completely for all of my "played' households.

It took me all of like.. 4 minutes...to set it up for all of the households in my game. And I have a lot of households, every single house (and apartment) in every world is occupied.
EmmaVane
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
Just remember to check Household Manager every so often (maybe when starting your gameplay session) and adjust settings for any new households that have been generated.
catloverplayer
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
The Patch came withh a fix for the Wedding Venues in the base game not working. No one has commented on if it actually fixed it. It was in the patch notes. I asked on Twitter and no one answered. Twitter isn't a good place to ask questions about TS4. We also got 3 other fixes for MWS.
catloverplayer
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I think Next Week the Tattoos SDX will Drop and we'll get a Maxis Livestream Announcement. The Maxis Monthly LS could drop Friday. The following week we'll probably get the 2nd Patch aka The My Wedding Stories Patch. Also Next Week The New Kit is dropping on Tuesday.