Here is a list of things I've noticed whilst watching play-throughs of the new game pack: Kitchen on the "Old Penelope" lot is unusable, due to the placement of a decorative fruit bowl. Some of the kitchens use island counters instead of normal benches The houses in the "Shady Acre" neighbourhood are very empty in furnishing; one of the houses has a large empty room. The "Carpophagous Corner" lot is a slightly edited version of the "Streamlet Single" starter house in Willow Creek. The lights in the "StrangerVille Information Center" library are different colours, some are yellow-y and some are white The entrance to the "The ****** Lab" is on the opposing side to the front of the lot. World's un-editable terrain paint does not match up with the front entrance of the "StrangerVille Overlook" house Traits of the "Eclectic Arts" household do not match the aspirations they come with. However, this could be apart of their own backstory. The house they live in, which in my opinion bears a striking resemblance to the real-life "Carson House", only has two bedrooms, despite none of the members of the household having romantic relationships with one another.However, I have noticed all the homes have toilets, which is an improvement over Del Sol Valley.What else weird/overlooked have you noticed?

Something that has been bothering me is the photo frame with the 3 sims from the trailer. Of course we don’t get it and then the devs/gurus are surprised we want it? I feel like they really don’t get what we want in the game. Something else I noticed is that you probably can’t play as Erwin (red haired boy that owns the curio shop) because he is kind of a part of the story, which I feel like takes aways from my gameplay and the sims is supposed to be our story. *Also I think the entrance to the labs is supposed to be the back door because someone crashed into the fence in the back so people could get in?

"DatLlama;d-956083" wrote:Here is a list of things I've noticed whilst watching play-throughs of the new game pack: Kitchen on the "Old Penelope" lot is unusable, due to the placement of a decorative fruit bowl. Some of the kitchens use island counters instead of normal benches The houses in the "Shady Acre" neighbourhood are very empty in furnishing; one of the houses has a large empty room. The "Carpophagous Corner" lot is a slightly edited version of the "Streamlet Single" starter house in Willow Creek. The lights in the "StrangerVille Information Center" library are different colours, some are yellow-y and some are white The entrance to the "The ****** Lab" is on the opposing side to the front of the lot. World's un-editable terrain paint does not match up with the front entrance of the "StrangerVille Overlook" house Traits of the "Eclectic Arts" household do not match the aspirations they come with. However, this could be apart of their own backstory. The house they live in, which in my opinion bears a striking resemblance to the real-life "Carson House", only has two bedrooms, despite none of the members of the household having romantic relationships with one another.However, I have noticed all the homes have toilets, which is an improvement over Del Sol Valley.What else weird/overlooked have you noticed?Whew! I thought this was going to be some serious problems. None of this is a huge deal to me as I generally either replace, redecorate, and/or remodel the Maxis lots anyway.

"Pamtastic72;c-16971772" wrote:"DatLlama;d-956083" wrote:Here is a list of things I've noticed whilst watching play-throughs of the new game pack: Kitchen on the "Old Penelope" lot is unusable, due to the placement of a decorative fruit bowl. Some of the kitchens use island counters instead of normal benches The houses in the "Shady Acre" neighbourhood are very empty in furnishing; one of the houses has a large empty room. The "Carpophagous Corner" lot is a slightly edited version of the "Streamlet Single" starter house in Willow Creek. The lights in the "StrangerVille Information Center" library are different colours, some are yellow-y and some are white The entrance to the "The ****** Lab" is on the opposing side to the front of the lot. World's un-editable terrain paint does not match up with the front entrance of the "StrangerVille Overlook" house Traits of the "Eclectic Arts" household do not match the aspirations they come with. However, this could be apart of their own backstory. The house they live in, which in my opinion bears a striking resemblance to the real-life "Carson House", only has two bedrooms, despite none of the members of the household having romantic relationships with one another.However, I have noticed all the homes have toilets, which is an improvement over Del Sol Valley.What else weird/overlooked have you noticed?Whew! I thought this was going to be some serious problems. None of this is a huge deal to me as I generally either replace, redecorate, and/or remodel the Maxis lots anyway. Me too!!

I think these are fair criticisms, nothing groundbreaking, but they're still careless mistakes. What worries me is that this seems to be happening more frequently. The mansions in Del Sol Valley were bare, and one of them had no toilets. I don't believe they ever fixed this either. I don't know if they're rushing or what exactly is going on :/

"DatLlama;d-956083" wrote:Here is a list of things I've noticed whilst watching play-throughs of the new game pack: Kitchen on the "Old Penelope" lot is unusable, due to the placement of a decorative fruit bowl. Some of the kitchens use island counters instead of normal benches The houses in the "Shady Acre" neighbourhood are very empty in furnishing; one of the houses has a large empty room. The "Carpophagous Corner" lot is a slightly edited version of the "Streamlet Single" starter house in Willow Creek. The lights in the "StrangerVille Information Center" library are different colours, some are yellow-y and some are white The entrance to the "The ****** Lab" is on the opposing side to the front of the lot. World's un-editable terrain paint does not match up with the front entrance of the "StrangerVille Overlook" house Traits of the "Eclectic Arts" household do not match the aspirations they come with. However, this could be apart of their own backstory. The house they live in, which in my opinion bears a striking resemblance to the real-life "Carson House", only has two bedrooms, despite none of the members of the household having romantic relationships with one another.However, I have noticed all the homes have toilets, which is an improvement over Del Sol Valley.What else weird/overlooked have you noticed?Honestly it just feels like they never fully test anything before releasing.

Things noticed in StrangeVille (sort of a rant)

Zenionith
6 years ago
"Beardedgeek;c-16974809" wrote:
Also the use of island counters instead of normal ones is present in a lot of older houses too.

Which one(s) in particular?
ayyitsmell
New Spectator
6 years ago
Update: So I know no one has answered my question yet but I continued looking for the missing families and I couldn’t find them in manage households tab. I don’t have aging on either for unplayed households. I’m going to restart the game and see if it works
YorksRob
New Adventurer
6 years ago
Just a note but we have had the option to take selfies ,or selfies with others, for quite a while now in Sims 4 , with either the sims mobile phones or the cameras available in game . Then you put them on the wall click on them and get the option to frame them . Has anyone looked in BB to see if the selfie pic is there as a picture to place .
Zenionith
6 years ago
"Naus;c-16975719" wrote:
"fruitsbasket101;c-16975677" wrote:
Do they play test anything before they release it anymore?

They just don't care because people keep buying regardless of quality. Even MFPS sold pretty well (I think it was trending during the Winter sale). Most EA games aren't playtested anymore. They treat costumers as beta testers and release unpolished products.

I wouldn't mind if they would eventually fix these houses that are missing toilets or the disfunctional kitchen in the bunker airplane.

Every time you start a new save you have to add toilets or rearrange furniture just to play properly. That's annoying
Cinebar
6 years ago
"fullspiral;c-16974427" wrote:
"Dannydanbo;c-16973225" wrote:
I'm a builder and I get that there are a lot of players that can't/don't build, but adding a few pieces of furniture to a sparsely decorated house (or the odd toilet) shouldn't be sending players into some kind of tailspin. The best part of this game is that you can fix what you don't like or want to change.

Exactly. I was wondering the same thing while reading this! Like, REALLY? People get upset because there's no toilet in the bathroom, or there's a big unfurnished room in a house in the game? Wow.

They might if they have never played these games before and wouldn't understand why a world comes with empty houses, misplaced things in a kitchen which can't be used until moved, and reused base game houses. Resold to them.
ayyitsmell
New Spectator
6 years ago
"Simpatsyann;c-16975828" wrote:
"ayyitsmell;c-16975803" wrote:
"julienrob2004;c-16975797" wrote:
Just a note but we have had the option to take selfies ,or selfies with others, for quite a while now in Sims 4 , with either the sims mobile phones or the cameras available in game . Then you put them on the wall click on them and get the option to frame them . Has anyone looked in BB to see if the selfie pic is there as a picture to place .

To frame them on the wall, yes. But I don’t think we have the option to have the photo in a frame on the table in sims 4

I think it was Grant who said that they mocked up the table photo for the trailer, but they got such a big reaction to it that they're going to look into actually creating a usable object for it.

oooooh thats awesome! I hope so! :smiley:
NawiTheCore
6 years ago
"Pamtastic72;c-16976550" wrote:
I wish I knew how to do machinimas because with the addition of GF and this pack there's really no end to the movies you could create.

Except you can't move Sims with the hand tool + moveobjects in 4. I never did machinimas but there was a time a decade ago I used to write stories with still images. I can't even conceive how difficult it must be to frame Sims exactly how you want them without being able to manually move them. The go here interaction is very imprecise (and it's almost impossible to make them look towards the direction you want). I imagine trying to use TS4 for machinima must feel like torture.
Rudiarose
6 years ago
"gemjas;c-16972092" wrote:
In my game, every single lot from every single world has been bulldozed and replaced with something else. And I mean literally every single lot, even the hospital, police station, and science lab + both vacation worlds.

I've never liked the original builds and most of the time I just bulldoze lots without even checking them out. I kind of expected to have to do the same with Strangerville and already have lots lined up to replace the original ones with, lol.

Ok, just make sure you do not use CC toilets and bath tubs and showers. It can make it so you do not see or understand why your sims are having problems.
Rudiarose
6 years ago
If you are in the military branch and you get to the end of the story. You get daily things to do that you can no long do. I have a mod so was able to finish it by just cheat it to be done. Not everyone has this ability. I am also going to to do some play thru with some of the other families and see give the jobs that their back story says they have. I think that only allow three sims at the end is silly and should have had a max of 8 since we can have 8 in a house. The Plane guy I took him to cas and made him a young adult so he would live longer so he would not just die. Anyway, other then that it was a fun play thru. The spawning to military and science people really made my game fill up fast with sims. They had to live in other towns just have places to live. There should have been more plants added to gardening or at least special abilities that people who are Gardens have when dealing with plants. Not all sims who do fight get credit for doing things. Have to do things one at time and then the end does not count for everyone. Like there needs to be whole family aspirations that count across everyone who is there help main sim.
belpita
6 years ago
"fullspiral;c-16974427" wrote:
"Dannydanbo;c-16973225" wrote:
I'm a builder and I get that there are a lot of players that can't/don't build, but adding a few pieces of furniture to a sparsely decorated house (or the odd toilet) shouldn't be sending players into some kind of tailspin. The best part of this game is that you can fix what you don't like or want to change.

Exactly. I was wondering the same thing while reading this! Like, REALLY? People get upset because there's no toilet in the bathroom, or there's a big unfurnished room in a house in the game? Wow.

I think it has more to do with the sloppy feeling it gives the player.
I love building houses too and almost always replace everything, anyway. But if I were not interested in that, I would prefer to have both functional and nice-looking ones to move my Sims into from the get-go. I honestly never understood why all the starter/cheaper houses looked so drab and grey.

Having seen more reviews of this game pack, I would also feel upset to learn that the trailer park is just decorative items once I started playing.