I use the Steam version of the game, although I use the EA app to log in. I don't mean to say I have the Lovestruck DLC installed, just that my game was updated to the patch including Lovestruck.
@Dislimited Try playing with your computer offline. You can sign into Steam and the EA App first, put the App in offline mode, then disable wifi and/or disconnect the ethernet cable. If this helps, try playing with the App in offline mode, and with it online but with Online Social Features (Options > Game Options > Other) disabled. If it doesn't help, try playing offline with a clean boot.
If you still see the same issues, please create a new admin Windows account and repeat the test there. Make it local, as in, don't link it to your Microsoft account. You'll be able to sign into your Steam and EA accounts and launch Sims 4 without reinstalling anything.
Sorry for the delay, but it seems there's been a development. After deleting all of my DLC folders, the base game seems to function normally. So obviously Loverush must have clashed with one or two DLC packs. Now I just need to restore half at a time to find out which folder(s) might be responsible.
Edit: The exact same bug is being caused by several stuff packs, so it'll take a while to test and figure out which ones are the culprits.
@Dislimited That's not normal at all. Steam should give you only fully-updated versions of each of your packs, and if any packs were inherently incompatible with each other, we'd see a lot more reports. Did you install any of your packs through the EA App rather than Steam, and/or did you at some point need to copy pack folders around to get everything recognized?
Negative to both. Are past DLC packs constantly updated like that? Because so far from testing I found that SP05-SP18 all cause the exact same glitch with commands.
@Dislimited The pack folders are not updated at all. The pack-related patch data goes into ...The Sims 4\Delta\packname instead.
Huh. Well, I'm not sure what it is, then. I have a complete list of all DLC packs that don't work: SP05-25, with the exception of SP24. I have no clue what those packs have in common, but now that the base game is running, I'll try adding back my old save file and then mods.
Yes, my game has been running perfectly fine for 2 days now! Assuming you have the same problems as me, this may be able to help you as well. I was already able to help one other person who said they tried everything and were about to quit for good until they followed what I did.
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