From setting fires everyday whilst level 6 cooking and over $3000 cooker (could have bought a new house but had to replace the damages) to being randomly mean to others. It's really not fun to play anymore

Agreed. The patches for the last couple of years have broken more than they have fixed. Good thing my main TS 4 stops with DU and doesn't have Seasons. And is offline.

I recently got so fed up with the bugs and glitches, I'm giving up on the Sims 4 for the time being. I agree with you, it is just too frustrating to play. After playing for 30 hours over the past 2 weeks, I have a long list of bugs. -sims' food getting stuck in the oven because my sim gets distracted while cooking, and then they can't remove it. -sims with no evil or mean trait being unkind to each other-sims napping on couches rather than sleeping on beds-sims not using the sink in the bathroom they are using-sims cannot cut wedding cake.-Garden plants devolving to dirt piles, still in 2022 :(-High school Grading System is broken -Horrible random frame-rate drops and lagging-Loyal trait is broken-Toddler interactions not working-Occasional freezing and crashingI have a decent gaming computer, and I'm pretty diligent about updating my mods, so it shouldn't be this terrible. I feel like I'm constantly searching for bug fixes for this game on google. This December update better fix a lot of bugs. The game is in an abysmal state, and I'm struggling to enjoy the game whilst also dealing with all of the bugs.

I started playing the game much less after the wants and fears update... my sims kept constantly getting fears, I couldn't even focus on playing one sim because then the other sims in that household felt ignored. And I haven't updated my game since September either because I heard about sims being constantly mean to each other after the October update (loyal trait patch), which will hopefully be fixed in December so I can at least update my game and go online on the gallery.And I don't really feel like building either because build mode is lagging so much (which can probably be improved by starting a new save but I don't want to do that). Other than that, the game runs fine but High School Years felt so incredibly lackluster that I have started playing other games instead...I still boot up the game, but I feel less motivated to play it. Especially if I have to hope that modders fixes bugs that never seem to be fixed, I recently found a mod which fixes the distorted foxes from Cottage Living, that bug still hasn't been fixed since Cottage Living was released.

I don't want to stop playing but unfortunately gameplay (mainly live mode) is becoming a frustration for the following reasons:- It takes ages to get my Sims to do what I want them to do because an action to check their phone or talk to the nearest random townie takes over first.- The constant obsessive phone checking whilst walking along. What's the point of having amusing walk styles if they are forever going to be interrupted by phone use?- I can't take my Sims to a community lot without being bombarded by floods of NPC townies (am sure the numbers have increased recently). They always interrupt my sims' conversations, butt in when two of my Sims are trying to spend some quality time together (no it's not okay for you to sit here. My Sims are having a PRIVATE chat!) stand in the way when I'm trying to do a photoshoot and hog all the equipment on a lot so that it takes several attempts for my Sims to actually be able to use a community item.I wouldn't want no townies at all, but would like to choose when my Sims interact with them and not have every conversation be a free for all.- Mermaid eyes and scales no longer link to human/land form in my game's CAS, despite having link 'All' checked. I like to make colourful, fantastical looking land walkers but can't currently create any new mermaids the way I used to because of this bug.- There are options to make outgoing, confident and sports clique (Bro) Sims in CAS but still no Shy trait.* 'Loner,' to me, feels more like introversion than shyness and I am disappointed that after all this time there is still no differentiation between the two in the game. - The random meanness bug is still not fixed in my game, and it is causing my Sims to gain hurt sentiments nearly every time. - My Sims relationships with other Sims I have created deteriorates rapidly over a couple of days. Sometimes they forget each other completely. Yet when my sims meet a townie or premade once, they seem to remember them forever and have developed the inexplicable ability to become permanent friends despite never having socialised with said NPC or premade since. Sometimes this has happened with Sims they have never even met. Those are not the relationships I'm interested in developing! This is especially annoying when playing my loner sims as it jars with the personality and stories I'm trying to imagine for them.- Despite having neighbourhood stories turned off, I am still getting phonecalls from my Sims about relationship advice (and again, my own Sims phone up about people they've never even met or only met once). I am NOT INTERESTED in the relationship drama of the whole neighbourhood! I just want to do my own thing with my own Sims.- It's not that I don't want any contact with premade or townie Sims but I would like to be able to choose when, where and how much my sims interact with them. The social side of gameplay does seem to have gone a bit overboard. My Sims gain and lose sentiments faster than I can keep up with.With all of the above, I do feel a little llike I'm having a 'real life' extrovert dating relationship story forced on my gameplay against my will. But that is not how I want to play. - And finally... the Mischief interaction has been a wasted opportunity. Instead of creative visual pranks, most of the options seem to be an extension of the Mean interaction, some have the same animation as many other speaking interactions and some really should be in Mean because they border on bullying (manipulating people's confidence is not a fun prank to do and shouldn't be classified as such). The Sabotage interaction was especially disappointing. I wanted my Sim to be a master prank puller, not a gaslighter.* I don't own all the packs so if there is a shyness trait available in one then ignore that particular comment.

I spent half my most recent game play resetting family relationships after a love triangle developed between Grandmother, Mother, and Daughter (thank the simming gods for MCCC). I still have to use a mod to stop the incessant phone use (yeah a mermaid in the middle of swimming from one area to another is not gonna pull out their phone half way across the ocean), kids randomly getting stuck attending school, DHD isn't working for me at all, still can't turn of wants and needs, rampant ageism is rampant with every elder sim still being stuck in terrified mode due to fear of death, etc, etc, etc. If it wasn't for the availability of mods I seriously doubt I would be playing at all right now.

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Liebeslottchen
2 years ago
Often enough my Sims spend a whole day with trying to do something and failing one thing after another because of all the bugs. It's such a shame!
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
I have two questions for all of you.
1.) Do you use mods/cc? If you answer yes, remove that folder via your Documents path. Then check your game to see if the fires are still bursting out all over. If so, then you'll have to filter through the mods/cc until you find the culprit.
If not, then I advise you to do a Game REPAIR. Remove your Mods folder, if you have mods and cc, first. Then open Origin and right click on the Sims4 game cover, select repair game and let it do it's thing all the way. Once this is complete, take your game out for a spin, as it were, to see if it's still malfunctioning. If it's okay, great.

The third option is to start a new game save. Test it out, if the problem is gone, then you know your current save is corrupted. Best of luck. It might be a good idea to get into a habit of doing a game repair after each and every patch from now on.

Hope this helps you. I know when things aren't working right how frustrating it can be.
EmeraldEyles
Seasoned Traveler
2 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-18211255" wrote:
I have two questions for all of you.
1.) Do you use mods/cc? If you answer yes, remove that folder via your Documents path. Then check your game to see if the fires are still bursting out all over. If so, then you'll have to filter through the mods/cc until you find the culprit.
If not, then I advise you to do a Game REPAIR. Remove your Mods folder, if you have mods and cc, first. Then open Origin and right click on the Sims4 game cover, select repair game and let it do it's thing all the way. Once this is complete, take your game out for a spin, as it were, to see if it's still malfunctioning. If it's okay, great.

The third option is to start a new game save. Test it out, if the problem is gone, then you know your current save is corrupted. Best of luck. It might be a good idea to get into a habit of doing a game repair after each and every patch from now on.

Hope this helps you. I know when things aren't working right how frustrating it can be.

Have done all of the above. Mods or no mods, with a brand new test game started, there's no difference. Done numerous game repairs, and also several factory resets (then tested with and without mods), again zero difference. I've now accepted that there is no way I can play my game at the moment without using mods.
Karamazov123
Seasoned Hotshot
2 years ago
"WhatCobblers;c-18207719" wrote:

- And finally... the Mischief interaction has been a wasted opportunity. Instead of creative visual pranks, most of the options seem to be an extension of the Mean interaction, some have the same animation as many other speaking interactions and some really should be in Mean because they border on bullying (manipulating people's confidence is not a fun prank to do and shouldn't be classified as such). The Sabotage interaction was especially disappointing. I wanted my Sim to be a master prank puller, not a gaslighter.

* I don't own all the packs so if there is a shyness trait available in one then ignore that particular comment.

Gaslighting is a complex process in which one person manipulates another into questioning their own sanity and capabilities. I don't think that's nowhere near what sims can do to each other, especially when it comes to instilling false confidence. Especially since Instill False Confidence is so vague, it could be anything as simple as talking a sim up. And in terms of the "victim" sim, this interaction is only positive and has no negative repercussions. Most of the social interactions under Mischief skill are just creating minor nuisances, or stuff that sounds big, but has no real effect on gameplay or sims (school/work pranks.)

But I'd love to have more visual pranks, especially if they're available for children. That's the time where most people are interested in pulling pranks.
Kersiexx
2 years ago
Love crashing 4 times every play session ❤️
Kersiexx
2 years ago
Bit hard when crashing every 10 mins
GrumpyGlowfish
Seasoned Newcomer
2 years ago
OldeSimsFan
New Traveler
2 years ago
I hear you on that. No amount of new DLC can compensate for a broken game. It was a bugfest when it launched, the bugs have since multiplied uncontrollably, so now we have a total mess. Sad thing is that as long as EA is making money with this, nothing will improve.
pvrescue1
New Traveler
2 years ago
Not to mention that most of the major DLCs (packs) released within the past two years were remarkably broken. I think this might be due to divestment in quality assurance; older packs generally had more people working on quality assurance than a lot of the newer ones, from what I've seen. I might be wrong, but didn't the Desert Luxe Kit have a larger QA team than My Wedding Stories?
HYEZ_X_Sniper26
2 years ago
Don't know if I am in the right area but hopefully someone here can help me. This is my first time back to the game since EA took over SIMS from ORIGIN and I'm not liking the fact that it is showing me that I would have to purchase a game pack that I already bought when I played on ORIGIN. If that is the case, they can take it a shove it. Can someone explain this to me? Please & thank you.