Thoughts on new patch - Is it worth it? Update: I patched!

"luthienrising;c-16830875" wrote:

"alanmichael1;c-16830863" wrote:
The patch contains a severe bug: Sims age up some days in CAS:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/TO-ADD-Sim-ages-while-in-CAS/m-p/7168803#M75512

Details on the status of this one from over there, from @crinrict:

• When playing in CAS, the Sim continues to age. The longer you stay in CAS, the older the Sim gets
  
• Sims age even if you aging off
  
• It seems they can randomly age up or down.
  
• This bug is pretty game breaking as it ages them even through the different stages.
  
• It looks like this bug does not occur if you have Get Famous installed (got early access to that myself thanks to EA Game Changers which is why I couldn't replicate the issue). This doesn't mean you need to buy the pack to fix the bug. Just wanted to put that info out there.
  

Worth also noting, everyone reporting it there has all or almost all packs, so it could be not affecting people who don't own some specific pack.

Looks like that'll be a no for me then on updating; I practically live in CAS and will be spending most of my time updating my Sims with the new basegame content + GF in the future so that's a big no on patching then for me. Guess I might have to wait much longer before patching... *sigh*

I've decided to patch the hotfix today! I haven't gone into the actual game yet, but for those that already have and tested it, how is it working for you? :)

I’ve patched today
Doesn’t seamed to have worked I did backup before
I have aging off but when I checked to see if it was fixed it was still a green bar where it shouldn’t be I’m not sure on what I should do any suggestions please ?
Happy simming.

I made the same choice as you @paradiseplanet by waiting until today to patch. Just downloading it now, but definitely glad I made the right choice in waiting. I think I'll do it with future patches, too. I don't blame people who did patch immediately though - all that new content was really appealing.

My aging was fixed. No more aging unless I want my sims to age. So fixed for me.

If you did not have a back up of your save when it first happened - getting the fix is not going to move the game back to where your aging was before the issue - you had to make sure you had saved before that happen and went back to that save to return where you first had the issue. Is that your problem? I stopped playing when I sw my sims aging up immediately. So my save only had 5 days added and I play with aging off - so I can live with just 5 days added - but aging off is again working at least it worked when I went in and changed my sims clothing to Spring like wear - I go no more aging - so to me it is fixed. I don't use cheats in my game so I can't go back those 5 days without cheating - but I am okay with it as I control when my sims will age from here on out. My sim was just at the start of YA and now she is 5 days into YA so not a problem seeing no more days were added.