I've updated and so far... eh. The bugs I've noticed thus far are:
- Putting Toddlers to bed and reading them to sleep isn't working.
- Skin details will only save on the first everyday outfit. If you configure skin details on any other outfit, they will not save. Definitely a bug that needs to be fixed, but I personally don't think this one is a big deal. Just configure how you want your Sim to look first before doing outfits. If you ever edit skin details, make sure your Sim is on the first Everyday outfit and it'll work fine.
- Sims go into completely different rooms to wash their hands. Very annoying. There's a huge thread on EA Answers with over 600 "Me Toos" on this and it was opened in July.
- Probably not a bug, but Sims will use their phones way too much. I use a mod to deal with this.
- The interaction of picking up a Toddler to help them blow out candles auto-cancels every time you attempt it. Work-around is to just have cheats enabled, shift-click the Toddler, and age them up, but it did annoy me a little. I wanted to see my Sims celebrate the birthday and get the moodlet.
- Sims will move slightly after the game has been paused. This really only affects screenshotters and only if they don't use a pose.
- Dust effects from Bust the Dust do not appear.
- Random performance issues. Could be mod related and/or it's the fact that my computer is at least 7 years old. The issues are relatively uncommon and are easily addressed with a relaunch. Sometimes I have days where I leave the game open all day and I see no issues and others, I'm getting weird FPS dips, a (very rare) crash/freeze, etc.
So for me, the game isn't unplayable, but as always, needs more fixes. Frankly, it's to the point that I hope when TS5 eventually comes out and TS4 stops receiving content, a skeleton crew remains to fix all the remaining bugs. Or hopefully modders will do it.
