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sicitur's avatar
7 years ago

Placing lots from the gallery resulting in missing walls/foundations since patch

I spent last night rebuilding Brindleton Bay with custom lots from the gallery. I was noticing when going into build mode that some of the lots that I placed would be missing outer walls and in some cases all of the foundation (with all the furniture just floating, very creepy!). All of these lots had items from expansions I don't own, but they're supposed to be replaced with items I do have. Which it is doing in most cases, but not for trees and some objects.

Anyway, I even tried placing lots from my gallery that I had placed without issue before the patch, and even some of those are having this same problem! One example is peacemaker's Willow Creek lounge, which now places without the entire left wall, or the diagonal wall where the front door sits.

I've repaired my game, cleared my cache, restarted, made sure cheats are disabled, I've removed my mods folder and the issue persists!

Just curious if this is happening to anyone else or if it's a known issue, as Google isn't coming up with anything for me.

Also, I don't know if it's related, but I can no longer get the show hidden objects or the new cheat to work either :-(

16 Replies

  • Lynn1928's avatar
    Lynn1928
    New Rookie
    5 years ago
    @sicitur Thanks for your answer! Yes, it's very annoying. :-(
    If I'll ever find a solution, I'll post it here.
  • sicitur's avatar
    sicitur
    4 years ago

    @chocolatemuscle hey! i'm not really sure if i found a solution, but more of a work around? rather than placing from the world overview, if i go into the lot and make sure bb.moveobjects is on then i don't seem to have the issue. best of luck!

  • I finally found out what caused the issue in my game. As far as I remember, it came up with the november 2020 (PC: 1.68.154.1020) Patch. After buying Outdoor Retreat this year (2022), the issue was solved for me. All lots from gallery causing this issue in my game used the foundation that came with Outdoor Retreat. Now I can download them without missing walls, missing foundations and floating furniture. But, I guess, buying a pack can't be the solution, so EA should have a look at this. I'll try to report them.

  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    3 years ago

    @Lynn1928 

    Sorry but there is nothing EA can do. It is up to you to check what packs are used in a build. If you only have the basegame you should look for things that do not require other packs. Since you now have Outdoor retreat you can include that.

  • Lynn1928's avatar
    Lynn1928
    New Rookie
    3 years ago

    I just wrote it for people (like @chocolatemuscle and @sicitur), who have the same issue, so at least they know where it comes from.

    I just don't understand why the OR Foundation isn't replaced by a basegame foundation, because that's what I expect to see. Just like a chair, window etc. would be replaced with basegame stuff.

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