Sims 4 skintones and makeup weird changes after first time updating since 2019
Hello!
I was playing The Sims 4 in offline mode for several years, since the updates were getting really annoying, and also critically affected my sims or gameplay which was really hard to accept.
I however decided to update yesterday, because i wanted to pick up loads of DLCs.
Since this update, all of my previously created sims dont look too great. This just makes me really really sad :/ Their skintones and builds (muscle details) dont look like what they had, and all of their applied makeup looks really ugly, especially the blushes, intolerable.
I looked around and found out there was a skin tone update, but i didnt find information about the depth of this update. Was this just adding +100 new skins, or did it also change existing ones? im using mainly pale/tan ones. What about makeup?
Why is it important? I want to know if im just hallucinating, or if they really reworked these. If they did, then ill just give up on the DLCs and keep playing without updating, since i kept my old game installation too just in case the update went wrong (it usually goes wrong)
I dont use CC skins/makeups
Thanks in advance for reply
@ShioriHaru This method is safe insofar as it won't corrupt the sims themselves. However, I believe taking sims into CAS can mark them as played. This is fine for residents—just mark them as unplayed again if you want—but it may result in special NPC sims losing their assignments. You'd need a mod to get around this, I think by manually giving them back their assignments.
If you want to edit special NPCs and would like help finding or using a mod to make them retain their assignments, let me know, and I'll ask someone who's actually done this to post.