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HollownessDevour
Seasoned Ace
2 months ago

Thoughts on For Rent and Business & Hobbies and their Issues

So I never bought For Rent because I was warned about the myriad of issues, and I was on a break from the game when Business & Hobbies came out, and though it interested me—I heard it too had some issues too, and thought I just wait for a decent discount.

But I was reading there is a bit of focus on save corruption with specific mentions of FR:

  • We’re also tracking any potential links to specific expansion packs or objects, though corruption reports predate packs like The Sims 4 For Rent.
  • Instances of corruption existed before the release of For Rent, and our investigations into individual packs remain a top priority.

So if this gets resolved within this time they claim to be catching up on issues during this "break", is that the biggest issue with this pack, or is it still not safe to buy?

And with B&H I was thinking of waiting till 50% off, which may or may not be around Black Friday/Cyber Monday or even end of the year sale, are the issues of that alright enough to deal with at discount, or should I wait longer and/or for specific fixes?

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  • Simgirl gives some good information. (Some bugs everyone may experience or  not at all to a few due to whatever stipulation that may cause it)

    Personally I haven't had any problems with corruption saves, but as always I make backup saves  in the event of anything happening but that's a rule of thumb with all games.

    I have B&H and enjoy it with how customizable businesses are and the lectures/classes that can be done. Tattooting definitely my favorite thing in the pack along with the pottery and candy making.

    Sales are always tempting and worth it, but never hurts to wait if you're very concerned about any of the problems. Though I'd always make sure to have a extra save folder put aside .

  • HollownessDevour's avatar
    HollownessDevour
    Seasoned Ace
    2 months ago

    Yeah, I am usually pretty good with backups for my games too (big updates I back up).

    And I do not play with as nearly as many mods as most, and minimal script mods (I think it is literally 2). Mostly tuning files to save sanity.

    I have only really been playing Sims 4 since L&D (but mostly since Jan, with a break about March/April), and I am nearly caught up with EPs (missing 5) and GPs (missing 4), and starting to consider buying up 5/9 of them but these two are the buggiest that I have heard.

    I also try to catch a sale when I can.

  • You can throw Adventure Awaits in this category.  I dont know when they began to think adding scripting your own game would be a fun thing to do as a player-  but it does not cut it for me. It's make shift something- that doesnt really end up feeling like the something you originally wanted-  End product shipped as a game dlc just doesn't work. I want it to work.  I want it to fill the massive desire I have to fill in everything that is missing for this game-  but it doesnt. I have faced additional issues crashes things I never seen before with this latest pack. I have barely played because of the issues. Camping is good- aspect was best developed. Reality tv-  where's the camera?  It doesnt really feel like it.  I like the get away but the point does not play out.

    Also the endless hours of set up and no play.  For rent-  when it was not infinite loading screens, crashes save corrupts-- the weeks it took to roll back the save,  starter three new saves,... all the work I did for the multi family lots-  its like 5 houses in one-  all gone-- all of the many-  because its on corrupt saves- or I can not use residential rentals or it will burn my newest created save.

    Business and Hobbies really doesn't pan out well for more than tattoo parlor for whatever reason.  It just doesn't.  I made a few other things which kind of worked,  many which I was doing anyway with get together club system,  but I just don't think it's as great as it should run.  I wish they could take the time off from putting out packs to make it run more like an entertaining game.  Asking the player to program everything in the game and see if it works kind of bl*ws from my experience.  I spent this weekend trying to fix my game.  Nothing really works. I can build on a vanilla save(goodness willing- even that is temperamental) and hours in cas,  replacing all the missing shoes and hair from the  trivial issue updates- not designed to fix and important issues-  but seems like intended to break any mods related to upcoming of new content. For rent has been broken for 2 years.  My wedding stories was never fixed. I'm drowning in new empty worlds I cant even play because it's one issue or another.

  • HollownessDevour's avatar
    HollownessDevour
    Seasoned Ace
    2 months ago

    Actually, AA is one reason I made this post, so many activities are not working, I feel I have been beta testing, and finding issues. I just thought if FR and B&H were on top of it the game would really be buggy.

    I am also avoiding Wedding Stories because I heard it never worked.

  • I was wanting to know does B&H have potential to make the corruption happen in saves even without FR?

    I’m literally terrified as many are about any save corruption

  • leucosiax's avatar
    leucosiax
    Seasoned Ace
    2 months ago

    The world that comes from MWS Tartosa is beautiful and one of my favorite but if you ever enjoyed making and having weddings,  dont get this pack,  because it actively ruins them for good and you can't get base game weddings back.  My work around was only to have vacation weddings where all of them were trapped on a lot (can't leave the bride or groom) and all guest -  just elope at some point on the vacation.  Sad.  I realized you could make with the new pack a destination weddings,  but that should have been a feature with my wedding stories and I dont feel like acting like a computer programmer making a customer venue and event. I dont like the direction these packs are going.  it takes the joy out of playing.  Feels like we are doing the job of the game creator,  instead slapped with the bigger dlc price.  Tattor parlor,  and camps should have been game pack dlc. all these setting up should be applied to broken dlc of the past and multi-fuctional lots should be a free base game update. I gather part of the problem they are having is trying to lock some universal features behind a paywall.

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