Scared to update...

It’s odd how bugs don’t affect every player. When loads of people had that toilet on fire bug a couple of years ago, I never did.
I haven’t actually played for a couple of months because my computer stopped working, so I sent it off to get fixed and it’s fine now and coming back soon. I’ll make a backup of my entire Sims 4 folder before doing anything else. And since I’m planning to get a couple of packs, I’m going to start a new save to check out the gameplay and keep aging off in that save.

The biggest bug of sims randomly aging has been resolved, but the fair rides (and the whole pier) is buggy mess. So if you have two sims in your household they can use rides and photo booth no problem. But if one sim is not part of the household it will occasionally (sometimes more often) prevent them from going in together. They will wave the hand as if obstacle is in the the way or game will just cancel the action. Woohoo options on the pier works fine but rides not. Ferris wheel is the only one bug free. That being said the whole pier is disappointing as it rarely even adds moodlets to sims. Even ice cream doesn’t give my sim moodlet. Not even tasty dish one.

Other things you mentioned must be related to mods I guess because I never saw them, but there is an issue with after school activity. When you go from school lot, game will automatically load your home lot after the time passed and you will not be able to ask sim to work hard to get promotion. The only way is to get back home before 3:30 pm and let them go from there. I think it’s a huge bummer because I like my sim to stay longer at school and talk to friends.

Don't do it. I was playing offline too, but made the mistake of updating. It's completely changed my game and not in a way I enjoy. The "Wants and Fears" are a pain. And not sure how you play, but I turned off the "spotlight" for celebrities (I even delete all the in game celebrities because I hate the disruption they cause). While I still have this turned off, I have two of my sims who have become celebrities because of their jobs. So now my own sims are causing the disruptions. I don't own HSY so I can't tell you anything about that part of things. I haven't gotten it yet because I'm still annoyed on how it has effected my game by just existing... so I'm throwing a tantrum of sorts. But let me tell you, I was a lot happier with my game before I updated.

Thanks for everybody's input! Going by your experiences, I'm at least going to wait for August's main patch to see if that fixes any issues (and hopefully doesn't cause any major new ones!). Then I'll see how I feel. Thanks all!

I still can't vote at the prom.

Fairly certain it's a Mod but have yet to isolate it as it requires setting up a save that is 'just about to go to the prom' - and that's a popup you get with no warning that you can just say "give me five minutes then I'll go".

(I need to look at what time it's set to on the calendar and save a new game with no mods in it just before that).

I also get mood errors constantly - but there was finally an update to the script mod that reports errors so it was stop saying "a whim broke" and start blaming something. Now it just says "a whim broke" and then every so often blames something - so I've found one updated but still bad mod since then, but I imagine there are more.

EA made some massive changes to the ways moods and traits and aspirations work - which is territory a LOT of modders mess with because of the common complaint that these things don't actually impact gameplay - so there are mods that make them actually impact gameplay - and all of those broke.

• Some of them are fixed.
  
• Some we're finding have been abandoned.
  
• Some were fixed in ways that broke other things because this modders fixes by going up and that one fixed by going down and now you have two mods that conflict that used to work well together but the mod authors don't have the other modder's mod so don't see the issue...
  

I suspect it will be months before things are fully 'normal' for people who use a decent set of mods. As long as my game can limp along after some error screens I've been just getting used to Sims now being a bit like Skyrim - constant errors but I can pretend to not see them and keep going if I only use 2/3rds of the mods I want.

For a lot of people it seems the bigger issue is the game is even more buggy if you DON'T use mods... Everyday I'm grabbing a new set of mods designed to fix bugs in the game.

So the age old advice of "just play without mods for a while" isn't better advice right now.

The ideal advice is "play with the mods that fix bugs but only the ones that don't conflict with other bug fix mods which is something nobody documents so figure it out." ;)

"@mightysprite;c-18172079" wrote:

SweetieWright_84 Here is the bug thread for the werewolf introduction appearing when non-werewolves introduce themselves to toddlers
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-W-Sniff-and-introduce-option-for-humans/m-p/11577525/highlight/true#M218209

Thank you! I clicked "Me too."

7pm on Saturdays @Jyotai :)

Thank you!

Thankyou! I've also been hearing about a bug called Groundhog Day that seems to have come either with HSY or the patch. Is anybody having this issue too?

Thanks very much for your input everyone! I still haven't been brave enough yet, so if anybody else has anything else to share, please do!