Console Controller Feedback

I agree! Build mode is unusable! It's a disaster.

Console PS5.

I am so disappointed in the update.

I agree! I can't size up or down anymore or move objects up or down. If they don't fix this or switch back to the old way, I doubt I will continue building or playing it. Such a pity. 

Yes please!! I cant resize items or place objects higher or lower.  This is so annoying and I primarily play the sims for the building aspect of it.

Since the update for console users, building sucks!! You can resize or make items rise or lower. You can't use the VERY NECESSARY  LT AND LB buttons without opening the search box. Why would I want to do that?! It is like you made a lot of buttons ww have used forever unusable now. Please return it to the old way!!!

100% Everything you said!

Silently collecting feedback isn't working, we aren't mind readers and we don't know what is happening behind the scenes. Please be professional and communicate. How long are you collecting feedback before you do anything? Your priority should be making the game enjoyable for ALL players, and not making it easier for developers (which is the real reason for this update). 

I'm going to play without updating for as long as the game allows me to, which unfortunately also means no new packs. When I am forced to update I will have to stop playing. I also suspect the controls for Sims 5 will be the same as they are now, sobit means my Sims journey will end there. 

I don't mean to be dramatic but I don't think the condition in my hands will allow me to comfortably play if what others have reported it true (constantly having to hold down the A button to scroll etc.) and I don't want to risk it. The original controlls allow me to navigate with very little effort and any psychical strain on my hands. 

Two weeks ago patch 1.69 broke the Sims 4 on console. Live mode crashed every few minutes and b/b got a PC interface. Since patch 1.70 the crash problem seems to be solved so i tried to play a bit more over the weekend. So far i found the new interface irritating and building was a lot slower. Over the weekend i started to hate the b/b interface more and more. There new interface had NO advantages over the old one.The experience overall is a lot worse. Building is not fun anymore.

Was patch 1.69 ever (play)tested? Every change made the interface worse. As asked before in this thead: Who asked for this? Having to move the pointer with a controller as if it were a mouse is frustrating (try using the scrollbar to find the item you want, i want to use the cursor keys as before). Losing a lot of screenspace because of the menu that is always open makes building a lot harder. Having to drag and drop items from your home inventory to a "Sell" field to sell them is ridiculous (i had to sell a stack of 10 items so i had to drag and drop 10 times. In the past selling was just pressing a button). The new interface should be removed completely and the old interface should be put back, not only b/b but also the R2 instead of X since it is inconsistently used. Sometimes its R2 sometimes you have to navigate to the checkmark button.

I want to go back to the time before patch 1.69 where the game was playable and fun (although buggy). The lack of response to the long list of complaints in this thread does not give me confidence anything will happen. The Sims is a very expensive game to play with all the DLC. It's a shame that this not translate in better development; the game is still very buggy and the console version is made worse than before. Console players especially seem to be treated like second rate customers (although they have to pay the full price). For now I will find something else to play. If the old interface is restored i may give it another try but i don't trust EA anymore to not pull another stunt like this and break the console version of TS4 again.

Yessss agree!! 100% I feel exactly the same way!

Hi, me again. More problems with the new console build mode controls:

1. You can't sell roof pieces because there is no Y/Sell option when you click on the roof piece you need to get rid of. The only way I've been able to get that Y/Sell option back is by clicking around, opening other parts of the build menu, and then going back to Build/Roofs until the Y/Sell option reappears. I can't figure out why or how I'm finally getting the Y/Sell, so that makes the roofing process pretty frustrating.

2. The cursor sometimes gets stuck between the left and right sides of the Build/Buy menu, so that you can't move over to the catalogue options. Again, I just have to click around/open things until the cursor will move over there again.

3. What's the deal with the "softness" setting in terrain paint always defaulting back to "So Light it Sucks" mode even after I manually pull it to "Do Something I Can Actually See" mode (and for the life of me I can't remember ever having to set that up or change it before the patch, seemed like it always looked pretty good???,) and why can't we drag the paintbrush to paint anymore instead of having to click, click, click, and keep on clicking, feeling angrier and angrier with every successive click? Terrain paint now looks really artificial now since it's hard to morph the shapes into something more organic since we can only lay down circles or squares.

4. I don't understand the point of "Toggle Cursor." It NEVER helps me do what I am trying to do when I click it in a last-resort desperation to try to do something you now can't for the life of you figure out how to do.

5. I don't understand the point of RT to confirm something instead of A.

6. Why doesn't RT consistently pull up the Filters pane for catalogue items anymore? It randomly works sometimes, but usually I have to drag a cursor to that little tiny field to pull up filters.

7. I have mostly given up trying to delicately hover over the color swatches (when they even appear) in order to select a color for an item; it's faster now to just take the first thing the item gives you and then change it with X, which, thank God, is still available.

8. Basically the only way to get a house built now is click around in frustration trying everything until something changes or an option reappears or you randomly get the thing you were trying to do. It's almost like we're being pranked by this patch.

Seriously, the upset console players on this thread aren't just being dramatic; I truly am trying to learn the new build mode controls [more like barriers] to figure out if I'm just missing something or haven't tried hard enough, and I just can't crack this nut. Did I miss a tutorial? Was there an explanation as to how these new controls are better than what we had? I'm really stumped.

By the way, JPGamingUK has posted an excellent video on YouTube demonstrating a lot of our issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNtkkmva3d0&t=732s

Thank you, EA, for at least offering us this thread and we look forward to a solution soon, because for many of us Sims 4 is our favorite hobby and happy place. We look forward to it after a long day of work or school. You really are offering an important service. Please help. 🙂