From what we've seen, infants will affect a lot. And I mean, a LOT.We always say to check your mods nowadays, but this time, it's really important. Infants aren't just a new kind of life like Werewolves; they're a whole new base-game lifestage, like Toddlers! Even some of your BB and CAS may break. The Devs are certainly not obliged to make sure your base game is compatible with Basemental.That's the first thing people will always ask you upon finding a bug. Have you checked your mods? The big ones will doubtless be up and running within a few days. It's fine, it's all fine.

Yeah I'm expecting not to be able to play for the first couple days. I've considered going vanilla till mods are fixed but I'll probably need UI cheats to care for my infants.

I plan to move my entire mods folder out before the update. I don't expect to play until the pack itself comes out because I don't want to miss any infant milestones. So that gives me two days to get mods updated or cleared. At that point I'll make a decision whether to continue my current rotation, removing any mods not updated or obsolete, or starting a vanilla save. Also, everyone, remember to make copies of your save files!

I'm not planning to update at all and just play the game offline until all the bugs and mods have been fixed and updated.

"Katiardguez;c-18238592" wrote:I'm not planning to update at all and just play the game offline until all the bugs and mods have been fixed and updated.Yep yep. Me too. I dread to think of the carnage it's going to cause! :#

Vanilla game save playing for me.I'll be completely removing my mods folder (the rest will be backed up beforehand) until all mods and cc I use is back to being fully updated... however long that takes.I don't mind playing my vanilla save file. It takes me away from making storylines with my current households, thereby freeing up time for creating some new builds or getting more familiar with townies' background stories.Sometimes playing vanilla is a breath of fresh air... no pressure to have to fulfill certain gameplay needs with long-established households. Just freely bopping around the worlds, doing whatever, with whomever, and maybe even learning new ways to die (because I'm not fearful of killing off new unfamiliar sims). :D

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greydonn
2 years ago
Yeah I'm expecting not to be able to play for the first couple days. I've considered going vanilla till mods are fixed but I'll probably need UI cheats to care for my infants.
telemwill
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
I plan to move my entire mods folder out before the update. I don't expect to play until the pack itself comes out because I don't want to miss any infant milestones. So that gives me two days to get mods updated or cleared.

At that point I'll make a decision whether to continue my current rotation, removing any mods not updated or obsolete, or starting a vanilla save.

Also, everyone, remember to make copies of your save files!
Katiardguez
New Spectator
2 years ago
I'm not planning to update at all and just play the game offline until all the bugs and mods have been fixed and updated.
manicobsessive1
Seasoned Newcomer
2 years ago
"Katiardguez;c-18238592" wrote:
I'm not planning to update at all and just play the game offline until all the bugs and mods have been fixed and updated.

Yep yep. Me too. I dread to think of the carnage it's going to cause! :#
AncientMuse2
Seasoned Rookie
2 years ago
Vanilla game save playing for me.

I'll be completely removing my mods folder (the rest will be backed up beforehand) until all mods and cc I use is back to being fully updated... however long that takes.

I don't mind playing my vanilla save file. It takes me away from making storylines with my current households, thereby freeing up time for creating some new builds or getting more familiar with townies' background stories.

Sometimes playing vanilla is a breath of fresh air... no pressure to have to fulfill certain gameplay needs with long-established households. Just freely bopping around the worlds, doing whatever, with whomever, and maybe even learning new ways to die (because I'm not fearful of killing off new unfamiliar sims). :D
MissyHissy
2 years ago
"AncientMuse;c-18238885" wrote:
Vanilla game save playing for me.

I'll be completely removing my mods folder (the rest will be backed up beforehand) until all mods and cc I use is back to being fully updated... however long that takes.

I don't mind playing my vanilla save file. It takes me away from making storylines with my current households, thereby freeing up time for creating some new builds or getting more familiar with townies' background stories.

Sometimes playing vanilla is a breath of fresh air... no pressure to have to fulfill certain gameplay needs with long-established households. Just freely bopping around the worlds, doing whatever, with whomever, and maybe even learning new ways to die (because I'm not fearful of killing off new unfamiliar sims). :D

I feel exactly the same! I get a newfound appreciation for some of the features that are already present in the game when I go vanilla after a patch!
PurrfectMediocre
Seasoned Rookie
2 years ago
"AncientMuse;c-18238885" wrote:
Vanilla game save playing for me.

I'll be completely removing my mods folder (the rest will be backed up beforehand) until all mods and cc I use is back to being fully updated... however long that takes.

I don't mind playing my vanilla save file. It takes me away from making storylines with my current households, thereby freeing up time for creating some new builds or getting more familiar with townies' background stories.

Sometimes playing vanilla is a breath of fresh air... no pressure to have to fulfill certain gameplay needs with long-established households. Just freely bopping around the worlds, doing whatever, with whomever, and maybe even learning new ways to die (because I'm not fearful of killing off new unfamiliar sims). :D

I'm the same way. I have a main save at currently 52 generations, so I guard that well when patches arrive. I back up my saves, move out the mods/ CC, update, and play a vanilla rags-to-riches to explore new features and old.
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
Well, I do have to say that I will be going vanilla with a copy of my current save. I do a Save As, with each gaming session. So I will take the latest one come Patch day to carry my story forward. I will likely test-play a couple of mods I do need for this save, after the patch, just to see if they work. If so, I will sally forth.
Loanet
Rising Scout
2 years ago
We have heard that even CC doors will break thanks to certain new door options. So there's no telling what else will break if your shiny new Infants can't interact with it in the way intended.

Maybe you should just do as Fake Gamer Girl has done, delete all your CC and CAS, and go shopping for more after the first couple of patches. Hey, your Sims just went to the stylist; there are lots of similar styles out there, and our Sims hairdressers are getting better all the time.

(Or don't, it's all fine.)
DaniRose2143
Hero
2 years ago
"Loanet;c-18239428" wrote:
We have heard that even CC doors will break thanks to certain new door options. So there's no telling what else will break if your shiny new Infants can't interact with it in the way intended.

Maybe you should just do as Fake Gamer Girl has done, delete all your CC and CAS, and go shopping for more after the first couple of patches. Hey, your Sims just went to the stylist; there are lots of similar styles out there, and our Sims hairdressers are getting better all the time.

(Or don't, it's all fine.)

I've been thinking about doing something very like this for a couple of weeks now. I'm trying to catalog as many pieces that I'm currently using in my SimLit stories as possible, so that I can try my best to maintain continuity. With something as big as this, and as old as some of these items are, breakage and major changes are unavoidable. I'm trying to look at like pressing a reset button. That's not necessarily a bad thing for people like me who are cc hoarders and who have put off cleaning things out. It may actually help my game run smoother. The two items I hope aren't about to break are hairstyles and skin overlays. The hairstyles really aren't that big, like you said, they just went to their stylist, but I have some sims that look noticeably different without those overlays. That's the big one that I hope survives this.

Mods are the same. I have so many doing so many things, enhancements and fixes, that maybe some of them can be deleted. The major ones I consider must haves are popular ones that are maintained and updated frequently. I have so many it's possible I have more than one doing the same thing. This will clean that up too.