Play 1 hour, Tell us what you loved/hated about this play session

I was playing with the Bjergsens for about an hour today
Good:
Lighting was so cool with the trees moving in the wind
Still discovering some new interactions while playing with toddlers
Butterflies!
Parenting choices
Bad:
My game wasn't crashing but I had glitches with the UI and with sims forgetting everyone they had known
Saw the kids go off to school w/o backpacks, sort of broke emotion
Multi tasking was just blatantly switching between tasks and taking twice as long
Windenburg has perfect beaches for swimming yet this was not possible

I just played with the Landgraab household that consists of Nancy and Malcolm. Nancy split from Geoffrey and moved to San Myshuno with Malcolm following her sometime later.

Things I liked:
-Playing in the renovated Landgraab apartment in San Myshuno. Everything is so lavish and the view is amazing.
-I use this mod that creates an attraction system between sims and I tried to get Nancy a date, but her standards are so high that no matter how her date flirted she wasn't having it and ended things by getting him to give her a foot massage before leaving. It was pretty funny.
-Malcolm met his step sisters at the art center. His sisters are children while he is a young adult. One of them in particular hates him and they got into an argument. Seeing this grown man screaming at a child and the child shoving him back was a little amusing.

Things I didn't like:
-Malcolm is extremely attracted to this bartender and took her on a date to the Romance Festival. Everything was going well until he needed to use the bathroom. When he came back out she was slow dancing with this random dude. Okay, it was kind of funny and it didn't bother me too much, but I was trying to get them together that evening and she went and threw a wrench in my plans. :lol:
-I don't know what to do with this particular household moving forward. There's no struggle with them because they are rich, having people make all their food, and clean their house. Aside from the mild drama in relationships things are getting a little dull.
-I'm seeing Batuu residences in my main world and I use MCCC to delete them, but they keep spawning. It sucks because the ones that spawn are the ones I've already given makeovers to and I have to delete them. Then there's Rey who was the bartender at the Romance Festival, ugh. I need to find the mod that is causing them to spawn and ruining my immersion.
-The DJs at the nightclub keep gaining fame. When they become B-Listers people start to gather around them and cheer instead of gathering on the dance floor to dance. I have to keep lowering the DJ's fame with cheats. There's an easy fix to this though which I'm going to implement when I play next. It'll be sad to stay goodbye to familiar DJs, but I hope I can make more appealing ones.

I have some screenshots of some of the things I liked/disliked because I am addicted to taking screenshots.

Malcolm fighting with one of his step sisters at the Art Center:


Malcolm on seeing his date slow dancing with another man.

Loved:
Such fun making CAS creations! I can get face shapes very close to what I want. It’s really fun to try to match my creation to a source material, in this case the Dreamer family from Sims 2.
It’s fun looking for just the right build in the gallery.
I love playing with lighting in builds.
I love all of the cc lipsticks I downloaded. I can give a Sim very natural looking lip color, or crazy green if I want. Plus I can decide if they are the sort of person to wear lip gloss, Chapstick, or to have dry, chapped lips.
I love the illuminated staircases.
I love that we can create a Sim’s parents, not only their children.
I love that I can play on laptop, in Mac OS.

Hated:
I wish we could sculpt hair in CAS the way that we can sculpt faces.
I was worried about crashes because I had a hard time playing last night.
I wish that plants’ leaves would bend instead of clipping through walls.
It’s so much fun that too much time goes by!

Lag and Crash.

I have a session of about an hour yesterday. Decided to took my engaged couple to a short vacation to Mt. Komorebi to test new gameplay.

Loved:
- Vacation time can now be seen on calendar
- Hiking somehow I like it though I didn't expect it
- Sound ambiance
- New collectibles, not only these new gachas but spirits also
- I like new continuous event mechanics, I hope modders will come out with some super exciting events using it

Hated:
- Bugs
- Right after wedding a bride rushed to play chess, and a groom started singing... erm guys probably you could interact one with another for at least a little bit? You've just developed a sentiment from a wedding by the way... How do I know... you have moodlets apparently this is enough no actions required
- I play rotationally and it was super annoying to me to see literally all their next-door neighbors around on hiking trails and slopes... I do not mind if these are NPCs but leave my playables alone
- Strangers invading conversations. The couple was skinny dipping and kissing in the river when I've noticed some random vendor crossing all the map to go to the river to chat with them...
- Aspirations are mostly a joke to complete, especially the location one - almost finished it through one vacation
- They are autonomously obsessed with vending machines now
- Contrary they do not want to stay autonomously in onsen at all (the reason I didn't complete location aspiration during one vacation - I struggled to keep my sim in the onsen for long enough)
- This is not my first play session after I've purchased EP but none of my sims developed any Lifestyles. I've checked the settings - they are turned on, but nothing happening.

Loved
- Getting to know the Ito family.
- Fixing the Ito family house more to my liking.
- Seeing the Ito family becoming closer and building their relationships.

Hated
- Naoki Ito being mean to his family. I don’t deal with mean sims well, they frustrate me. :D
- Sims cooking food endlessly but not eating it.
- Random sims walking into my sims family home uninvited.
- Yamachan not spawning at the festival of youth.
- Random school uniforms for kids and teens going to school. I want to choose which uniforms they wear.

Sims do not “follow the leader.”

I sent a single household dude with his 2 buddies from other households to Komorebi for a mancation.

They stayed at one of those chalets on the snowy part of the mountain. Everytime I clicked the nearby hiking board, or “go skiing” on the bunny hill, they’d spread out in a chain of three. One would be in the chalet bathroom still and one looking around like a dummy while one sprinted or biked to the activity. Pretty sure it happened in the livestream: the poor toddler was abandoned at the lodge while the others were way out on the mountainside.

It’d be great if the active Sim could wait at the doorstep for the rest, and they could travel together to the activity. The inefficiency nearly made me ill ?

Two more thoughts:

1) For Sims that vacation from different households: there needs to be a way to “send all to bed” otherwise the non-household Sims only aberrantly nap (which has no impact on energy) and never sleep normal hours.

2) Tweak AI so non-household Sims put on winter clothes in Komo. Otherwise they wander around in jammies or everyday shorts and it’s annoying ha

"spend4zen;c-17727413" wrote:
Are things taking longer ( shower, pee, eat, read)?? or is it just Me??
Visitors all day and night on the porch. My Sims are busy and do not have time for that many friends.

I second that! Things do take forever now. Each time my sim takes a shower, it's like a sim hour.. what?? It was already before the latest patch. Ironic that it seems to have happened around the eco pack.

The visitors need to take it a notch down, I agree. I gave my apartment key to 3 family members who show up every day, sometimes even twice a day. I think it's too much. Other family members or friends stand on my porch every single day as well. I can't keep up one sims a day, let alone 3-5.

"Rouensims;c-17727621" wrote:
I love that we can create a Sim’s parents, not only their children.

I also love that we have multiple genetic options in CAS. Like create parents, children, sibling and even twins!

"Harukotyan;c-17727792" wrote:
- I play rotationally and it was super annoying to me to see literally all their next-door neighbors around on hiking trails and slopes... I do not mind if these are NPCs but leave my playables alone

I agree 100% with this. Leave the active households alone when it comes to vacationing! I hate to see my own sims from other households roaming around in Selvadorada while I have no intention for them to visit that place. And Also while my current sim is there doing his job, I imagine him being very far away from his friends and family, so the last thing I want to see is one of them wandering around in the jungle in their regular outfits.

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> Kids wear backpacks now?

They don't, I just think that if they did it would add to my immersion.