Update Now Available, Tuesday 8/30

"shorty943p;c-18177524" wrote:
@Llandros2012 I know how you feel man.
I am still getting an LE file relating to RoommateNPC's from the Discover University pack.
Even with all the mods I use to make this game worth playing, that is the ONLY error my game gives.

A Bug that is around 3 bloody years old.

I've said it before and will say it again now. If I was a boss at EA\Maxis, there are a lot of coders I would give a DCM too.

DCM, you ask? Mmmmm, Don't Come Monday, You Are Fired!

Firing your coders is the last thing you'd want to do to fix a game. Also, bugs are normal thing to have in games. What's not normal is how long they've been left unfixed + how unsupported the Q&A of the game appears to be.

"GalacticGal;c-18176508" wrote:
What to do for the next twenty-eight minutes. I'm on Mountain Time, so I get the patch at 11 am. Not too many new threads on the forum. I've been through my emails. Guess, I could try to find another ancestor or two … I'm not good at waiting. LOL 67 years old and I still can't find my patience. By the way, has anyone seen it around here, by chance? ;)

I truly adore you GalaticGal!

"BlueR0se;c-18177566" wrote:

"shorty943p;c-18177524" wrote:
@Llandros2012 I know how you feel man.
I am still getting an LE file relating to RoommateNPC's from the Discover University pack.
Even with all the mods I use to make this game worth playing, that is the ONLY error my game gives.

A Bug that is around 3 bloody years old.

I've said it before and will say it again now. If I was a boss at EA\Maxis, there are a lot of coders I would give a DCM too.

DCM, you ask? Mmmmm, Don't Come Monday, You Are Fired!

Firing your coders is the last thing you'd want to do to fix a game. Also, bugs are normal thing to have in games. What's not normal is how long they've been left unfixed + how unsupported the Q&A of the game appears to be.

It feels more bad than usual. Their old bugs are catching up to them and combine that with these new untested game features and packs that are working so badly you can't tell if it's a bug or by design... it makes it frustrating to play the game right now.

So when they announce kits and focus on scenarios it gives us this impression of neglect, which is something that a company should avoid and prevent by providing proper support.

One thing I've noticed is that the odd fizzing station glitch seems to have gone for me.
Previously, when I’d add an ingredient to the fizzing machine, I’d immediately have this happen:

https://imgur.com/tBZXM8F.jpg

Mousing over other ingredients would have a similar effect on them. Now, it’s all fine. I’m not sure if that glitch disappeared after a previous patch, and it was never a game-breaking bug.

@Lucy_Henley That was fixed in the July 26 patch. That patch created so many issues but it did fix the juice fizzing machine. I was very grateful as I have two fizzing sims and this was a very annoying glitch

What, you don't want to see books among available ingredients for the Juice Fizzing station? Well, okay. Loading ingredients now shows only proper, edible ingredients.

Thanks for the info @mightysprite . I like juice fizzing too.

"logion;c-18177661" wrote:

"BlueR0se;c-18177566" wrote:

"shorty943p;c-18177524" wrote:
@Llandros2012 I know how you feel man.
I am still getting an LE file relating to RoommateNPC's from the Discover University pack.
Even with all the mods I use to make this game worth playing, that is the ONLY error my game gives.

A Bug that is around 3 bloody years old.

I've said it before and will say it again now. If I was a boss at EA\Maxis, there are a lot of coders I would give a DCM too.

DCM, you ask? Mmmmm, Don't Come Monday, You Are Fired!

Firing your coders is the last thing you'd want to do to fix a game. Also, bugs are normal thing to have in games. What's not normal is how long they've been left unfixed + how unsupported the Q&A of the game appears to be.

It feels more bad than usual. Their old bugs are catching up to them and combine that with these new untested game features and packs that are working so badly you can't tell if it's a bug or by design... it makes it frustrating to play the game right now.

So when they announce kits and focus on scenarios it gives us this impression of neglect, which is something that a company should avoid and prevent by providing proper support.

It is worse than normal, but tbh it's not something ultimately new in terms of behavior we've seem. The truth of the matter is this game/it's engine is too old or too big to be supported properly by its current support team. Devs are expected to push out new content every other month but we're still dealing with bugs that are years old (Im personally still waiting on one that is 3+ years old!!!) so we get new bugs on top of the old bugs. It's a mess.

And of course sometimes fixing the old bugs often makes new bugs. Especially if it's a rushed patch. It's all a mess.

It's a never ending uphill battle and I dont envy the devs at all. Simmers have the right to be upset their game is a barely playable mess but going as far as to say "if it were me I'd fire some of the coders" (paraphrase) isnt fair and imo a bit too far.

"mcrudd;c-18176796" wrote:
My sim just had a baby, she actually had twins LOL. But yeah the whole surgery machine thing is still broken. The Drs no longer stand in T pose and the sim does not shift off the table anymore, but the machine is none reactive its just there doing nothing. I do hope it gets fixed, I miss my sim's surgery animations ;)

Are you serious? I considered coming back to the game after reading they fixed that and they didn't fix it?

...Back to playing other games...

I haven't updated in quite some time after hearing about all of the bugs that has happened this year. I frankly stopped playing because they keep introducing new gardening bugs. And they never fixed the trash bug after they released Eco Lifestyle. Frankly, I am more excited about the new Cities Skylines pack Promenades and Plazas. It will cost about $15 for the DLC, really expand the game. And CS has had very few bugs when they release a pack. They tend to fix them quickly. So. I think with TS4, that I will wait a few years for when they release TS5 on a new game engine.

As with TS3, once they start releasing a ton of packs it breaks the game. I've decided not to purchase every EP, like I did with TS2 & TS3, and yet the game is broken.

Best of luck to y'all

I never played scenarios and never will, so it was a bit weird getting a huge patch mainly to fix broken scenarios. I'll not go online for this patch.