Console Controller Feedback

Greetings, Console Simmers! The Sims 4 team is investigating improvements to our console experience as well as the overall experience of playing The Sims 4 with a controller and we want to hear fr...

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EA_Cade
2 years ago
Hey all,

Today's patch addressed many of the concerns reported in this thread, I'll be closing this thread now and creating a new thread to provide feedback here. Please do continue to provide feedback so that we can continue to make the improvements that you want to see.

Thank you all for taking the time to provide us with your passionate feedback, and for helping us make The Sims the best it can be on all platforms.

EA_Solaire

Community Manager

3 years ago

Hi all,

Thanks so much for continuing to provide your thoughts on these recent changes. The team is actively reviewing any concerns and feedback around this update as well as any in-game bugs you may be seeing.

Please continue to report your feedback here, as well as any issues you're seeing in-game.

Thank you!

2f190db031b0a64

3 years ago

If it’s at all possible to revert the controls in a hotfix, that’d be great. The new controls make buildbuy much more difficult to navigate.

simsplayer818
Hero
3 years ago
Every time I build I get a list of more problems! And I can only build because Gameplay is crashing so badly.
So this is what I found today. I can't extend the terrain tool size now. It stays small, on light setting and I also can't draw with it. I have to dot spots of terrain on the ground one at a time! I attach images. I mean, I've placed the square terrain tool next to a small fountain for scale. It's tiny, about the size of one tile and is so faint it barely makes a mark. Also because the menu doesn't close, if you catch the edge of it with the terrain tool it changes terrain options.
So, onto the next in a long list of problems. I take an item from the list via the colour bar and half the time as I go to place it I get the sound you get when you press Back, but I haven't pressed Back and the item is gone. It's highlighted on the menu as I've chosen it, but I have to keep trying to select it again to place it.
New problem number 3 for the day. Someone in their infinite wisdom decided we wanted categories to change every time we pick up an item, or choose an item from the All list. Did we ask for this? I use All Plants to landscape, like most people probably I use flowers, trees and shrubs. It's easier to use one long category with every outdoor plant. But no, now it changes from Shrubs to Flowers to Trees as I go and I have to keep going back to the All category to get the selection I want. Also it flickers each time. It makes it so much hard work and strains my eyes.
Is it too much to expect an explanation for all this before now? Because the radio silence isn't acceptable. Not for a debacle of this magnitude, because this mess is epic. Where is the statement? Where is the apology? Where is the fix? Improvements to console controls you said. Did anybody pick up a controller to test any of this? I don't believe that's possible because nothing, I mean nothing is working properly. This should never have been forced on people without consultation because you may own the brand but we own the hardware and it's broken now.
- AnnieGoesThedas
  3 years ago
  XBox player with controller here. I'm genuinely curious: has anyone in the EA team actually tested build mode with an xbox controller for more than a few minutes? It's unplayable now, and not even for "this is new so we don't want it" reasons. The new controls make it nearly impossible to scroll through the BB menu, to pick items, to pick colors, to place the items, to arrange them, to decorate with the big menu blocking half the screen.
  I'm mainly a builder, I play on Xbox since 2018, and it took me almost five minutes to color a wall and pick a door. It's just sad, and more important, it's not what I paid for. Every issue (RT button = confirm, crashes, everything that is wrong with the new build mode) has been mentioned often enough for you to reverse it. At least give us a toggle button to get the old menu back. That's your product, it should be your main concern not to break it. Please make it playable again!