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Cottage Living Looks Impressive...But I'm Worried.
Faraway_Son
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Up until and including University, I had bought every pack for Sims 4, the completionist in me was 'on a roll'. And then came 2020, a year to forget about, like a bad dream you waken from and instantly start erasing from your mind. I ended up with 'Snowy Escape' which is actually a pretty decent pack. Now the 'Cottage Living' promo looks like fun and full of content, it looks like the dev team have hunkered down and worked together on this pack. But as a simmer who plays with mods, I've managed to get my game virtually bug-free in the last year and as a result, I'm playing more than I have in years. But, as we all know, new packs break old packs, new bugs resurrect old bugs and mods get wiped out like a bomb on a battlefield.
So, I'm worried that my game equilibrium is going to be shattered buying a new expansion pack.
Please, please devs, make bug-fixing a priority BEFORE release...a happy community is always going to make you more money in the long run.
And so, like mist on a morning breeze, I will disperse back into non-existence.
But remember to fix the bugs...
So, I'm worried that my game equilibrium is going to be shattered buying a new expansion pack.
Please, please devs, make bug-fixing a priority BEFORE release...a happy community is always going to make you more money in the long run.
And so, like mist on a morning breeze, I will disperse back into non-existence.
But remember to fix the bugs...
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Also, how is the new farming festivals going to work when we already have the City Living & Snow Escape festivals overlapping already?
You haven't, because they are only playing with the base game and new pack (beta). The real challenge will be when it releases and unforseen bugs happen with other DLC pack that were not tested along with it as well.
If your game is stable and playable - enjoy that and be patient. You don't need to have the pack the day it come out.
All bugs in Sims 4 100% "ruin" my game. How is it I can play other video games and there are almost no bugs to ruin the game?
That’s why I said there is no way to really know but it’s a positive that they didn’t have many. Sometimes they notice pretty bad bugs in the early access beta that aren’t fixed by the time we get the pack. This time I’ve only heard some mild issues mentioned and some had zero issues.
I know the other DLC may break stuff and cause problems especially with the update which will be out I assume Tuesday. It’s really a wait and see game. I just hope it’s okay. It looks like a great pack and it be a shame if it didn’t work right.
but then again if we start avoiding bug you can't really add anything cool soooo yeah. id rather have bugs and fixing them than stale safesafe repeating content
the reason other games don't seem to suffer as many bugs?
probably mostly cause they are not so open ended
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100% depends on the other games and the development philosophies behind them. I don't know what you play, so I won't make assumptions about them, but just right off the top of my head I still cannot play Planet Zoo since the African pack came out. Underwater feeders currently crash the game and they don't seem like they will be fixed any time soon.
There are always bugs, even in old games, but some are worse than others. This Pet Vet game I played as a kid forgot to unlock the horse riding field which was a part of the main goals of the game, and they still made a sequel later. All sorts of games are launched broken, too. One need only browse the AAA catalog to point them out.
Then there are games that beta release updates before openly releasing them. Rimworld has an update in beta right now as people update mods and when they release it the Ideology expansion will launch, too.
So, yeah, the why you are not experiencing this anywhere else depends on what you are playing.
I'm expecting bugs.
However, I personally am excited about this "Cottage Living" pack.
And I will probably get boooed by some; the "Dream Home Decorator" pack (in my opinion) is the most boring so far of all the Expansion and Game packs. (Even compared to many of the Stuff packs.)
So for me personally, this "Cottage Living" pack is exciting.
Will the pack for sure, I am very excited about it. When that purchase takes place depends on what I see on the forum, the EA bug site and my favorite modders.
Oh cool, I play those, too. I still encounter bugs, though. The original Story of Seasons glitched out on me during a contest for the field with the longest rental period. I would save, check my status, and reload if I did not win. Problem was it stopped counting my score. I never really figured out why, but being honest it upset me so much at the thought of having to go that long to compete for the field again I stopped playing. Plus I was fairly busy at the time anyway and I ended up never going back.
Then again, I would still call it better than the latest entry. I like it, but PoOT required and still requires so many update adjustments to it. I like the ideas behind it and the general gameplay, but I do not really feel as much soul with it.
Though I somewhat digress, never play Harvest Moon DS (still with Natsume at the time). It's virtually unplayable due to bugs. DS Cute, the girl version, works a lot better, but not perfectly.
I'm not all that worried. I often hear others complain about bugs in their game, happily, I don't generally have the same experience. I do play on a gaming rig, however.
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I think I'm actually going to wait a little longer on Cottage Living I planned to get it this weekend but maybe I should wait till next month or next patch.
My Mood:
Let's just say the 'tone' of his assessment of Cottage Living did not impress me. I thought he went out of his way to make the pack look bad. I usually watch all his reviews and videos, and I often agree with him, but I don't agree with the way he basically used only the 'cheaty' assets while ignoring the rest of the fun game play that is in the pack. He didn't show but a smidgen of what is at the heart of Cottage Living, in my opinion.
I have been quite vocal about what I see wrong with Sims4, and I am not a huge fan of EA, so buying Cottage Living at full price was a massive leap of faith for me to take. Especially when I had been playing off line, without updating, since May 12th. I was fully prepared to suffer buyer's remorse, but I can honestly say this is the best pack I have purchased since Seasons. Yesterday I became so immersed in what I was doing, I didn't come up for air for ten hours and only after hubby threatened to feed my dinner to our kitties. No way was I sharing my grilled rib eye steak, so I caved. But as soon as dessert was consumed and the dishes were cleared, I went right back to my game and stayed there for another four hours. During my deep dive into Cottage Living I encountered a couple of little glitches and was disappointed the weekly fair is quite boring. Encountering so few glitches was amazing after playing Island Living, Eco Lifestyle and DU, then dealing with some very serious bugs that came in those EPs. In comparison, Cottage Living is almost bug free, but those are minor bugs that are barely noticeable. Not at all like the game breaking ones that came in past EPs.
If you enjoy interacting with animals, small challenges like running errands for the locals, foraging for harvestables, building relationships with the locals, and having larger lots, then I'd say this pack is one you'd enjoy. But don't rely on just one game changer's opinion of the pack to make that decision for you. Especially when he seemed to be biased against the pack before he even played it.