What was the point in adding mermaids or scuba diving if....

This pack is up there with City Living as one of the worst expansions they have ever put out. Both of them are basically featureless, and center around “living” amongst the aesthetic backdrop.

City Living is the worst because of apartments, but this one is just bad because it doesn’t add expansion level content at all. They should have kept this as a game pack and saved themselves the justified criticism they’re seeing against it.

"GoldenBuffy;c-17138465" wrote:
Yeah, I thought that we'd be able to swim underwater as well. Oh well. Maybe they will add the option later with an update or GP or something.

You never know. This is the last (possibly) of the 32bit compliant packs before the Legacy Edition so it might be possible when the game goes fully 64bit. They are still working on how they can manage to get swimming included on most of the rivers and beaches in the other worlds. It might be possible to deepen the water level then. That "engine" of theirs seems to have more possibilities as they experiment with it.

We were told by player "experts" that it wouldn't be possible to add water and swimming in the sea before Island Life so I still have hope. :)

Just realised too many possibles! Any synonyms? B)

This is their worst one yet lmao

"Simburian;c-17138543" wrote:

"GoldenBuffy;c-17138465" wrote:
Yeah, I thought that we'd be able to swim underwater as well. Oh well. Maybe they will add the option later with an update or GP or something.

You never know. This is the last (possibly) of the 32bit compliant packs before the Legacy Edition so it might be possible when the game goes fully 64bit. They are still working on how they can manage to get swimming included on most of the rivers and beaches in the other worlds. It might be possible to deepen the water level then. That "engine" of theirs seems to have more possibilities as they experiment with it.

We were told by player "experts" that it wouldn't be possible to add water and swimming in the sea before Island Life so I still have hope. :)

Just realised too many possibles! Any synonyms? B)

This pack was never intended on being playable by the 32bit crowd and look where that got everyone. Be realistic; dropping 32bit isn’t going to change anything about this game, at least not significantly. They are still going to be developing this game for low end systems, just not the reaaaallly old ones which run 32bit.

On the engine - this studio developed this engine in-house, themselves. If anyone should know what it is or is not capable of it is this studio. 5 years later, not knowing what your own creation can do is nothing less of incompetence. I’m sure they don’t like players throwing that excuse around for them, it makes them look bad.

Also no one said swimming water is impossible. They said it would need a new terrain and that it wouldn’t extend to existing worlds. Both of those statements still hold after the release of the expansion, so please stop gaslighting with lies.

"Simburian;c-17138543" wrote:

"GoldenBuffy;c-17138465" wrote:
Yeah, I thought that we'd be able to swim underwater as well. Oh well. Maybe they will add the option later with an update or GP or something.

You never know. This is the last (possibly) of the 32bit compliant packs before the Legacy Edition so it might be possible when the game goes fully 64bit. They are still working on how they can manage to get swimming included on most of the rivers and beaches in the other worlds. It might be possible to deepen the water level then. That "engine" of theirs seems to have more possibilities as they experiment with it.

We were told by player "experts" that it wouldn't be possible to add water and swimming in the sea before Island Life so I still have hope. :)

Just realised too many possibles! Any synonyms? B)

I agree with you! I keep saying I'm holding onto hope. :D

Would be greit if we would get some underwater furnitures and pool room like underwater rooms/houses.
Everything is just lacking. I was wating island themed pack for so long. Getting my hopes up when gurus have talked things they want to improve and add on sims 4. I believed them. And here i am, getting so dissapointed whit lack of features and half made content. This game does not feel anywhere near complete, even after 5 years of its release and i'm invested it over 620e, still empty. Yeye i know how sims works and want to just point out that i have beeing playing since the sims, buying every pack possible but even if i didnt like all the packs content , i never felt it was waiste of money. And bought simcitys, sims 2 for ps2, other sims 'sidegames' because i loved simulation games. but never felt this disapointed.
I mean yeah i could just not buy sims games and get over it and not rant it on this forum. But really after all these years and overall investment i wanted just say it.

"Gecko420;d-961951" wrote:
YOU CAN’T EVEN GO UNDERWATER? Sorry but I was really looking forward to island living, but this pack has been so gamepack esque they might as well change it to one.

I was hoping for at least little tiny lots underwater where we could interact with fish, dolphins, sharks, and even own them as homes if we are a mermaid. But nope, real let down.

Sorry for my rant but this was to express my disappointment and hope that EA will step their game up (literally) for the next expansions because some of the game packs are far better than most expansions aside from seasons. Jungle adventure is more expansion worthy than island living is, and I loved island paradise and mermaids in the sims 3.

Sorry, but I feel if nobody says something then we will be stuck with overpriced packs with less and less content...

Just for the record there is no scuba diving in IL - that is snorkeling not scuba diving. BIG difference - speaking from the prospective of a person who was a big scuba diver for many years. Snorkeling does not allow for deep diving. It's for shallow water basically for the user to look under water - period, which IL has shallow waters so snorkeling was a good choice here.

Deep diving and treasure hunting require scuba gear - which was good for IP as that is what it offered but not good for IL.

"Writin_Reg;c-17150093" wrote:

"Gecko420;d-961951" wrote:
YOU CAN’T EVEN GO UNDERWATER? Sorry but I was really looking forward to island living, but this pack has been so gamepack esque they might as well change it to one.

I was hoping for at least little tiny lots underwater where we could interact with fish, dolphins, sharks, and even own them as homes if we are a mermaid. But nope, real let down.

Sorry for my rant but this was to express my disappointment and hope that EA will step their game up (literally) for the next expansions because some of the game packs are far better than most expansions aside from seasons. Jungle adventure is more expansion worthy than island living is, and I loved island paradise and mermaids in the sims 3.

Sorry, but I feel if nobody says something then we will be stuck with overpriced packs with less and less content...

Just for the record there is no scuba diving in IL - that is snorkeling not scuba diving. BIG difference - speaking from the prospective of a person who was a big scuba diver for many years. Snorkeling does not allow for deep diving. It's for shallow water basically for the user to look under water - period, which IL has shallow waters so snorkeling was a good choice here.

Deep diving and treasure hunting require scuba gear - which was good for IP as that is what it offered but not good for IL.

You can deep dive, scuba dive and tresure hunt in IL whit a scuba gear when u go to deeper water in sims 4. But its rabbidhole and if u snorgler ( dont allow deep dive or scuba gear) in shallow water and u can see sim dive underwater and sim swimming there but cant look underwater. So there are same choises as whit IP and IL but only that sims 4 its rabbithole even tho scuba diving is same.

"drake_mccarty;c-17138332" wrote:
This pack is up there with City Living as one of the worst expansions they have ever put out. Both of them are basically featureless, and center around “living” amongst the aesthetic backdrop.

City Living is the worst because of apartments, but this one is just bad because it doesn’t add expansion level content at all. They should have kept this as a game pack and saved themselves the justified criticism they’re seeing against it.

I agree on this especially CL which I do not play at all and I was very disappointed that I could not build apts in any of the other neighborhoods and also not from scratch in the EP Neighborhood and like you said IL is an little, just a little better but the creativity in SIms 4 is just lessened to much for me to think about it fondly as some other people do, It is more of an bad taste for me.

I am playing now and it is prank day in my game.
So I saw the option for my sim to imitate a mermaid.

What does he do?
One of the base game joke socials and animation.
Really? Mermaids don't sound like chickens.

Why not just use that goofy mermaid squawk?
That would have been funny. Please patch that, EA.