Sims 4 Update broke my game

Similar weird things, unplayable. Also could not access the game menu to quit. Had to force quit. Was there any testing? 

So EA practically forced me to get the update, since NONE of the 'play offline' features work 100% of the time. Just for the update to totally break my game. Why in the world did I pay my good money for something that I actively can not play anymore? 

WHY WOULD YOU FORCE ME TO GET AN UPDATE THAT WOULD BREAK MY GAME? LET US PLAY OFFLINE!!!!!

Same problem. Icons from calendar, skills and rest of it switched places, game crashed, in building mode I only see a house but not building menu, and can't go back to live mode. Any controls respond 

Game is unplayable now

Same thing happening to me. Was playing last night and the game was fine. Saw the update this morning then launched my game. Works for maybe 1 minute then crashes.  Issues listed below: 

• Simology panel for kid, glitching (character values going up and down) 
• Cannot exit build mode to go back into live mode
• Cannot open the menu to save or quit
• hard shut down and relaunching the game > issues still persist

This is ridiculous and I hope no one gives Project money grab- I mean "Rene" a dime. They need to focus on fixing this game FIRST. Side note: Those of us who paid full price for base game deserve a refund. The game is hardly playable over the past 10 years its been out, and then there are ps2 games that still run as if they came out yesterday. 

Fix this ASAP. 

I've had the exact same thing. Removed all the mods, cleared the cache and repaired the game. No success. Why was this not play tested before release. Very annoying. I've paid for sims for years and tbh as a consumer I won't be getting any more packs it's not worth the price anymore for me. Each pack and update comes with problems. 

Fishing signs don't work. Adult sim pathing randomly breaks and tries to go straight to something rather then a clear route. Child cannot change aspirations. Everyone is fighting swear this game is now fight club. The baby is needing to be changed and fed every sim hour. Needless to say I cannot play this the way it is. Occasionally sims become unclickable like they are NPC. I've tried vanilla emptying out my mods and with mods - with mods it's at least playable till you want to do something in particular.  

This has happened to me aswell. All of my icons have been switched and mean different things. There is this weird screen when i open up a relationship. Also i had a 3 hour game that had randomly closed and did not save. I am so dissapointed.

I have the same problem. I can change worlds or access my inventory bar in my game and it says that my game is always loading. 

I am having the same issue also.  I couldn't click on anything other than Simology.  Couldnt get the menu to show up.  I had to force quit the game.  I was able to take my cat to the vet and come back to the house but i'm not able to exit and go to another household.  I cannot save.  I cant even tab out the game.  I wont be able to play until this is fixed. 

The same has happened to me on PS4. My curser, panels and menus have gone missing so unable to play.