The Sims 4 Feedback Thread - come share yours

Color wheel, yes.

Bigger neighborhoods, yes (having a "jog" down three houses and turning around is pathetic looking.... lol, and if/when cars get added, there will be all of two seconds of drive time before loading screen. Maybe when CAW comes out, we'll have the option to get larger hoods? That would give it at least a bit more of the open world *feel* if not the real thing.)

Family trees for legacy players, yes. Although seeing all of the dead ends from the children who get moved out to die in the unplayed houses without getting married and having kids of their own would be sad, so if you can figure out a way to write in *some* kind of story progression, that would be great too.

Other than that, I'm pretty happy. There are a lot of things I like. I have to get used to how much more *busy* these Sims are.....

Review Of the Sims 4- From A Lot Creator's POV

I will start off by saying if EA meant for this game to be easier for the average player to build lots, they have succeeded and failed. There are some nice features that make building lots easier, such as the different shaped room and having the ability to resize rooms once they are in place. The rounded porches/balconies are a nice touch. My favorite feature is the roof tool and the ability to resize and choose different colors for different parts of the roof(this has long been a complaint of mine about the other sims games). **BUT** they do not have a octagon shaped roof to go over the octagon rooms. I am truly befuddled by this and as I create mostly Victorians and Castles I am quite annoyed.

There are other nice things, such as being able to place windows and curtains at different heights, but let’s talk about terrain paint and the over-all cartoonish look of the exterior of the homes. The terrain paint just looks wonky to me, it doesn’t look good at all.(I have a high end gaming PC, so i am sure it’s not my graphic card) Not to mention that the horrid controls for moving around the lot (camera controls), make doing anything a chore if you can get to the angle you need.

Controls, the UI, what a lovely mystery mess if you do not know where things are located. And don’t try to edge scroll where the UI is as it won’t let you. I found this out the hard way and I have noticed many people complaining about edge scrolling not working! Oh, it works, you just can’t do it if the UI is in the way. Maxis/EA should fix this asap.

The lack of lots that are empty and not knowing how to bulldoze the ones that are pre-made. It took me two hours of building and accidentally clicking on something whilst in build mode in order to figure we can bulldoze the lot. There is a little house icon towards the top you can click on that has an option to bulldoze lot, but you have to be on the lot to bulldoze. Wouldn’t this be so much simpler to do from the world screen much like every Sims games? Who really plays the horrible Maxis pre-built houses anyway?

I hated the tutorial part when you first open the game. You had to go into Create A Sim and well, create a sim. Plenty annoying as I don’t actually play the game and could care less about the tutorial phase. **But** there is a light at the end of the tunnel, go to Simsvip and she explains how to shut this off in origin. Otherwise you will have to complete the whole thing before it shuts off.

In buy mode there are some items, I seem to remember some lamps that you have to be at a certain level in a job to unlock. WTF? I guess I will never use those lamps as I don’t play the game and don’t see myself doing it in the future.

Last but not least, I see no way to share the lots with the exception of the gallery in game. Just what I wanted, my creations floating around on the Sims 4 exchange and no possible way to save them to my computer. This is by far the biggest annoyance to me, the whole reason I buy the Sims games is to create houses. I am beyond annoyed.

Over-all there are certain things I like about the game and there are other things that I cannot stand and I hope EA will fix these items.

I've played for about five hours total and here are my initial thoughts:

1. What I like:
-CAS is great, my only complaints are that the white clothing option looks incredibly grey. I may be blind, but are there watches for women? I could only find bracelets
-Multitasking is such a neat feature!
-The social interactions are engaging and make sims much more "alive"
-New build mode tools are fun to use; I love the rooms you can buy!

2. What I don't like:
-The camera is incredibly finicky; I enabled edge-scrolling, but it can be quite unresponsive and hard to maneuver. I still have not figured out how to edge-scroll down while in build mode, and it is incredibly frustrating
-Taking a shower takes a long time...an hour at times
-My curtains disappeared in one of my rooms and I don't know why...
-My largest complaint: complete lack of story progression. I made two different households and made everyone get a job (funds were only about $400 in one house). I went to my first household for a few days and then came back to my second house, expecting more money to have been made, skills to have been worked on, etc, but NOTHING had changed. We still had about $400 and that was it. The lack of any kind of story progression is crippling and makes it much more difficult to balance households
-Need more residential lots

3. Suggestions:
-Please, enable some kind of story progression! It doesn't have to be some big aspect like in TS3, but something!
-Enable the ability to turn off the noises when emotions change

4. Overall thoughts:
-This game is fun to play and very engaging, but some aspects need improvement
-Thank you for your hard work, but please take into consideration what others and I have said about making it even better!

1. We need more lots, and QUICK. I do not want to play with multiple save files, and I'm sure that I'm not the only one who feels that way. I do not mind the neighborhood system, I just want MORE LOTS.

2. I still cannot tell the difference between teens and adults. Please implement a preteen stage along with toddlers. The jump from kid-to-teen is too drastic.

3. Touchpad users do not have a way to vertically tilt the camera. Please fix this. I don't understand why the camera controls can't be like SimCity's.

3. Edge scrolling is broken. This should be an easy fix.

4. I don't understand why there aren't any family trees in the game. How hard could it be to implement that?

5. The controls are clunky and the new UI is so simplified that I fear new players will be lost. Yeah, it looks better, but the FUNCTIONALITY has deteriorated. Build mode was confusing, honestly.

6. The default volume for the radio is so quiet that I can barely hear it.

7. The careers are really lacking right now. Since this is mostly a text-based feature, I do not understand why there are so little options to choose from. Also, half of the career choices are so childish that I would never consider them.

8. It should be easier to add NPC townies to the game. Right now, we have to move a family in and then evict them. The "manage households" feature should have a button to create a family right there. Also, the term "Not in World" is misleading, as they are technically in the world, just NPCs.

EDIT: Almost forgot this! Right now it seems like roofs are only made for square rooms. Why is this?

What you liked

I really liked the amped up interactions, especially when the sims went into different emotional states. That was very fun and a big step in the right direction.
Love how the building works
Love how the sims look and how goofy they are.
I'm excited to recreate these worlds since the ones made by the gurus are BORING! Can't wait to see what others create!
Love the gallery feature. I think this is a huge step up from Sims 3

What you didn't like
How come I can't simply walk over to my neighbor's house??? At least let Sims explore the neighborhood. I don't mind flitting from my neighborhood to the bar, but please let sims walk on over to the next door neighbors.

Both worlds are too small. I got bored after I went to each place. There's only four uninteresting buildings/places. I will have fun recreating everything, though. Looking forward to that.

Where is the coffee??? Maybe I just didn't see it, but I couldn't order coffee or an energy drink when my sim wanted to stay out late and party. I wanted to order that at the bar.

My sims do seem more real, so maybe I'm expecting too much from them, but sometimes when engaging in conversation, I had one sim jump up and go to the other side of the bed and converse while looking at a wall and the other sim was standing up on the other side of the bed. Weird. They do a lot of unnatural things, I think due to the multitasking option. I'm sure you'll figure out how to fix this.


Suggestions?
Let the Sims explore their world. I loved how my sim in sims 3 could look out in their world and see a vista, a mountain, a beautiful sunset (even in Midnight Gardens). I feel trapped in a closet--sort of like Sims 1.

Overall thoughts?
To me, this is just like what Final Fantasy did to its franchise. In FF12, we could explore the world, go anywhere in the beautiful areas, even if we weren't leveled up (and yeah, we'd die, but who cares? It was fun!) Then along came FF13 and they penned us into going from point A to point B. Sure the graphics were breathtaking, but I'd take crummier graphics if I can explore. That's what EA has done to the Sims. Penned us in. I hate that! I want my sim to be able to explore their world, even if it's in the next door neighbors backyard.

No cars, no pools, no basements! I can't belive I spent $70 and this game isint finished. I'm so sad. Basements and pools are necessary to my game play, and I love the cars. What to do now.

So I love a lot of thing so far. Building is easier ect... But what the* bleep* I can't add plots? There are only TWO empty ones available? No pools? Seriously guys?!

I'm about 2-3 hours in and I am really liking it. Sims 3 had become fairly unstable for me, and I think you have done really well to make a stable base game in Sims 4, really looking forward to future improvements and expansions on top of that. Great job guys.

There are several things I really like. It seems like I have more time at home after and before work, big bonus for not having to leave for work an hour early. I like the mini tasks in Jobs to fulfill and the wants system is really cool. I've only been able to make my guy multitask a little bit, to watch TV and eat and to talk to someone while using the can. I look forward to finding more of these opportunities for multitasking.

The only thing I am really having trouble with, and it's probably my fault with the learning curve, is using the build tools. For instance to build a deck on my existing house the only way I could figure out how to do it was to make a whole new room, put in floor tiles and then delete the walls around it. Anyone else build decks differently? Also the normal camera movement I with edge scrolling, I can't seem to move the camera down towards me. I'm resisting turning on Sims 3 camera compatibility because I want to do everything the new way.

Finally my only suggestion so far: Please put in a way to disable the tutorials in the game menu. I was going to work one day and I saw something pop up about emotions and clicked on it and it dropped the hygiene meter all the way to the bottom after I had just taken a shower, had to go to work like that.

I played for about two hours...I really had to get up early for work, So I couldn't do much...but...

What I liked:
The emotions- I enjoyed all the interactions
The Multitasking is pretty cool, that was a plus
I don't mind the neighborhoods, I love how many people kind of populate and are around to talk to and interact with
The graphics and detail I can appreciate

What I don't like so far:
The camera angles are weird
Edge scrolling can be quite difficult
From what I saw, some tasks can take a really long time (not enough time int he day)
The pop ups can be tricky, I clicked on and my hygiene went all the way down and their emotions changed

I'm sure there will be more pro's and cons, but for now this is all I have...


PS...Where can I get a list of cheat codes? I only know "motherlode" I'd appreciate it, greatly.

I would like it if you put a guide to all the build ad live mode controls inside the game itself somewhere, maybe in the help section? It would lessen the number of web browser I'd need up when I forget something to effectively nil.