Patch February 27 (Emergency Patch Has Released)

There's a reason I have automatic updates turned off and keep the app in offline mode. Unfortunate for those who can't play in offline mode.

Friendly reminder that EA is not at all responsible for the mods that you put into your game. Expect monthly patches to break them and take measures to avoid patches if you want to wait for mod creators to update. I'm only mentioning this since I saw one angry person on this forum blaming EA for their mods.

I definitely do not want a pulsating shopping cart during gameplay. I did play briefly at some point after the update and I noticed that I had the shopping cart that didn't pulse. I clicked on the cart and it had a message about how this feature isn't available right now. I am pretty certain that I was online. I think that is one version of what they are testing, some of us have the cart without the pulsing or the light.

For my feedback? I definitely do not want a pulsating icon encouraging me to buy packs during gameplay, that is annoying. I don't want in-game shopping for the packs. I would rather not have the shopping cart in-game at all. I'm fine with having info about packs on the homepage that I can click on if I want to. I don't love the pop-up ads that require being clicked through to get to the gameplay button.

I do not want shopping for packs to intrude on gameplay, I would be annoyed by that.

"SimplyJen;c-18356692" wrote:
There's a reason I have automatic updates turned off and keep the app in offline mode. Unfortunate for those who can't play in offline mode.

Friendly reminder that EA is not at all responsible for the mods that you put into your game. Expect monthly patches to break them and take measures to avoid patches if you want to wait for mod creators to update. I'm only mentioning this since I saw one angry person on this forum blaming EA for their mods.

Given that apparently they've made a change so fundamental that it's broken tons of mods if one doesn't own all the packs, I don't know if that's totally out of line this time. Yeah, EA disavows responsibility for mods... which would be reasonable if EA also didn't rely so heavily on the modding community to fix the bugs they evidently can't be bothered to address.

It seems that this patch may be the breaking point for many of us for many reasons.

"lanlyn;c-18356403" wrote:

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@lanlyn @columbia93 For some people this glitch is caused by an outdated mod that affects the UI, like Better Build Buy or UI Cheats.
I saw crinrict mentioned a post from someone on console (can't have mods) who had this glitch but I can't find the post atm
Please check the thread here
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/GUI-in-upper-right-corner-messed-up/m-p/13522053

On the AHQ thread, there's a solution that suggests changing the singing skill brings back the social menus for affected sims. Could the singing skill broken?

"Simmingal;c-18356668" wrote:
Meet Cart Buttons!?

Spoiler

https://i.imgur.com/SVl417q.png

I think they should have evil and hates children trait too though
but materialistic self absorbed dance machine felt about right

https://i.imgur.com/qLB3W76.png

lmao this is the best post I've ever seen. Please upload her to the gallery.


This patch seems to have bugged more than it's fixed. Yay. We have holidays now. Unfortunately we can't celebrate any of them! XD And for rent isn't completely fixed either, I've heard. I'm pretty sure whatever bug was corrupting saves is still around, but if anyone knows otherwise please lmk.

And about the cart-ugh. I don't think the pulsating will effect my eye problems, but I know it'll effect others. Implementing this was a horrible idea all around.

"Brd709;c-18356721" wrote:
On the AHQ thread, there's a solution that suggests changing the singing skill brings back the social menus for affected sims. Could the singing skill broken?

I don't think the singing skill is broken, just the pie menu. It works fine upto a certain level. Maybe they intended to add some new options after that level and somehow broke it.

I really really hope they bring out a hotfix for the problem with the pie menus and being unable to click on any NPC/NPC objects. I am trying to play with my Supersim but it is making it completely unplayable. I will put up with the pulsating shopping cart for a while if they could just fix this!

"luciusstorm;c-18356713" wrote:

"SimplyJen;c-18356692" wrote:
There's a reason I have automatic updates turned off and keep the app in offline mode. Unfortunate for those who can't play in offline mode.

Friendly reminder that EA is not at all responsible for the mods that you put into your game. Expect monthly patches to break them and take measures to avoid patches if you want to wait for mod creators to update. I'm only mentioning this since I saw one angry person on this forum blaming EA for their mods.

Given that apparently they've made a change so fundamental that it's broken tons of mods if one doesn't own all the packs, I don't know if that's totally out of line this time. Yeah, EA disavows responsibility for mods... which would be reasonable if EA also didn't rely so heavily on the modding community to fix the bugs they evidently can't be bothered to address.

It seems that this patch may be the breaking point for many of us for many reasons.

Yes, patches almost always break more than they fix and a lot of us rely on mods to fix these bugs when possible. As someone who uses mods, I still don't feel they need to tip toe to avoid breaking mods.

agree to disagree

"greydonn;c-18356725" wrote:

"Simmingal;c-18356668" wrote:
Meet Cart Buttons!?

Spoiler

https://i.imgur.com/SVl417q.png

I think they should have evil and hates children trait too though
but materialistic self absorbed dance machine felt about right

https://i.imgur.com/qLB3W76.png

lmao this is the best post I've ever seen. Please upload her to the gallery.

Will do first thing tomorrow :)
kind of tempted to create some pals but will see