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The Sims 4 Open World Preview Mod by Arnie - The Sims Plus
SimmerGeorge
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This guy is awesome and this mod is awesome and it needs more attention so here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV5lD4DwnM4&pp=wgIECgIIAQ%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV5lD4DwnM4&pp=wgIECgIIAQ%3D%3D Where's my Sims 5 squad at?
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I think it's still in development but early access will be coming soon
Creating worlds is about the only thing I absolutely LOVE doing in the sims!
No, nothing is done yet. He's just updating about his progress. His mods are becoming available to the public.
Too Good at Goodbyes forum thread
Too Good at Goodbyes blog
My prediction is that this mod will work like a larger version of the open areas in San Myshuno. But it will have one PROPER lot loaded at any given time, with all the limitations that come from this. For example, only a maximum of 20 will be spawned. Imagine only 20 Sims for such large areas? It'll be a ghost town.
The game simply cannot have more than one lot loaded at any given time. This is a limitation of the engine, and mods can only do so much. I hope people aren't expecting an open world like the one in The Sims 3 because it's not happening. It's impossible without reworking the engine from the ground up.
Arnie has reiterated that it won't work like in TS3. He's very adamant about it, so if people expect more, that's on them, really.
Too Good at Goodbyes forum thread
Too Good at Goodbyes blog
Sadly yes. I subscribed to him back in April because I loved his better maps project but then he seemed to abandon the project half way through, it's been months and they're still locked on his Patreon and now all he does is brag about how he's done this and that but he never releases anything at all.
There's maps for around half the worlds but since then the series has just been ditched. They've been locked on his Patreon for 4 months now, I've tried to contact him to let him know it's against the rules but he's just blanked me on it multiple times even though he answers every other comment. Especially frustrating for me is that a few days after my subscription ended the EL patch came in with the map upgrades which broke the maps I had downloaded from him.
The maps are the only things downloadable on his Patreon. The rest is just months and months of bragging that he can do this and that yet absolutely nothing is getting put out
I really liked his maps and was excited to download them. Just a shame about who the creator is, I wouldn't subscribe to him again since he's breaking the rules and just spends his entire time bragging. He makes over 700 dollars a month from Patreon yet he can't be bothered to finish projects or make stuff publically available. If anyone knows if his stuff is on any downwithpatreon type sites please lmk!
@Onverser Oh the tea!
Thankyou for the information. What a shame that such a person is getting reviews and praise both here and from gamechanger reviews.
Too Good at Goodbyes forum thread
Too Good at Goodbyes blog
We'll see. If he doesn't release anything by then maybe he should just stick to writing songs.
Not to talk bad about him. He's obviously good at what he does but he's all hype. I see people praising him left and right saying EA COULD NEVER! YOU SAVED THE GAME. And such things
But he literally makes mods showcases them, they are super glitchy then he moves on. And starts showing the next best thing.
I'm still wondering what happen to his swimming in all worlds mod.... I feel like simmers are blinded by desperation.
Even his open world mod is another Batu and you can't live there and it's full of rabbit holes. EA gets trashed for it but he gets praised for it 😐 and Batu will not mess up your entire save with glitches
This is so true.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
Yeah, I watched his overview and from what I can tell, it's basically one large lot that you can visit. You can't live there, but you can sort of simulate having an apartment by locking doors.
The ghost town concern also sounds like a real possibility with the way TS4 works. IIRC, TS3 sort of tracked where your sims were and sent other sims there to make it look busier. Here, the game is going to see everything as the same lot, so you're going to have sims spread out all over the place.
Unfortunately, I just don't see an open world being an easy thing to fake with TS4. I think we just have to take it for what it is, and if players want an open world, they can try TS3.
When I saw that open world, I find it very skeptical as the mod may sound like a good idea at first but when you see it, I feel like it is not what you would get like the Sims 3. The reason why the idea failed from the start for me is that it MODIFIES a world, changing a game file can be very risky, and not only that, once its changed your other saves will be affected as well. I know that you can use the Origin repair tool, but frankly I'm against it.
Next, talking about Pro Build, I have looked at its mod files and its about overriding and adding some features. I find that the only useful feature of the entire mod is the extra detail of putting items on the wall. The rest may seem like a good idea at first, but it feels it doesn't fit in to the game like the Sims 3.
And lastly, hiding content behind a paywall and saying that its free soon without change is not right, and sometimes when you back for that person, you sometimes want to get back thing that is of advertised. As a modder, I make my mods free because I feel that people deserve to use my mods that does something and not be behind a paywall, even for testing I wouldn't want to put things behind a paywall, as people deserve better.
If you really want the concept of Open World, as what the person above said, get the Sims 3, it will have everything that will give you the Open World concept, especially CARS.