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Last Patch broke a few things
Gdurma
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I've noticed a few things in my game are ridiculous now. Showering.... I can use a standalone shower, but if I shower while using a tub, my sims will never get clean. Kid to kid relationships are ridiculously slow. Way slower than normal. It's a SUBSTANTIAL decrease in relationship gains. My sim kid is a social butterfly and it's impossible to complete his aspiration. I mean, really ridiculously impossible. I can literally chat with another sim kid all day and only gain about 15-20% of the relationship meter. I've done this many times before, so I know it's not me. Also, building the fitness skill is EXTREMELY slow too! Oh my god, it took the entire WEEK for my sim to gain ONE level (from level 4-5) doing 2 jogs a day and trying to sneak in weightlifting too. I know it's not right and it's broken.
These are things that I've noticed in my game that I know for a fact are broken and wanted to report. Thanks.
These are things that I've noticed in my game that I know for a fact are broken and wanted to report. Thanks.
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This is a known bug, the developers are aware too. Tub/shower combos don't work currently.
I've noticed this as well. individually with a shower on it's own and your sims showering, it works. With a bathtub on it's own and your sim bathes, it work. But the hybrid shower/bathtub doesn't work at all when you use either shower or bath.
i looked on EA answers and there are a number of reports over multiple pages on the issue as well. modded or not, it was something in a more recent patch this month (December 2019) where it broke.
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That must be what's happening in my game. My Sims keep getting that stupid used clothes mood. I wasn't paying that close of attention because this is a tester family and I've been focused on Uni related things.
Something that I have noticed is that it's taking forever to get a promotion in the Drama Club even though they are maxed in charisma and complete their daily task each day. I had my first teen drop out of it and get a job. I'm about to do the same with second teen because it's so annoying.
Actually, you can take a bath in a shower/tub combo, just not shower. Only the shower interaction is broken in the combos.
i tried both and i know they don't work in the hybrid.
I have made my sim do all the mean interactions and it makes not a jot of difference..
HillyPlays
P.A.C.E- Positive Attitude Changes Everything
Baths still work in the hybrids.
I'm seconding this and confirming it's not just you. I sent my tester family to the gym and even with the bracing breezes lot trait and them being energized and one of them being mentored, it was ridiculous how long it was taking to level up.
No. Still works fine for me. Keep in mind that if you add or remove a Sim from the household, you will likely have to set all the locks again. The same as assigning beds.
With the Origin sales going on, I was hoping to add RoM and DU to my game library. Nope. Not gonna happen now. At last count I would need to add about ten mods to my mods folder if I were to buy those two packs. That 'Me Too' list of bugs is just too scary to look at and think I won't have many of those bugs infiltrate my game once either one of those packs is installed. At this point I doubt I would take either one even if Origin gifted those packs to me. There are features from the Moschino stuff pack that still need to be fixed, and haven't been, so why buy another pack with issues that will probably face the same fate of being swept under the rug? The teams added shower woohoo in the DU pack and didn't bother to test that feature on Maxis-created shower/tub combos to make sure it worked properly. This kind of oversight is why this game is a bit of a mess. And the main reason why I have not purchased RoM and DU.
Likewise, I'm tired of bugs and decided against playing this game over Xmas in favour of my chart/dice games.
When the bug fixing team can't fix a base game feature that is an integral feature of Sims4, I have serious doubts about that team's ability to fix anything. Once support for older systems was dropped in November, I had some hope the bugs and glitches might become less of an issue and easier to fix. I was wrong. The November patch made it possible for me to delete twenty-plus mods. But then I had older bugs resurface that needed mods, and I ended up adding ten new mods to fix those older bugs. The December patch was just as bad as far as adding new bugs and breaking older fixes. In the end, after those two patches with their long lists of bug fixes, I added even more mods to my mods folder for different glitches I did not have before those two patches were released! I have 32 mods sitting in a folder that need to be updated, and for six weeks it looked as if that wasn't going to happen because the creator of those mods was tired of updating his mods. And he has created hundreds of mods that take him weeks, sometimes months, to update. He was so disheartened after seeing that November patch, he turned away from Sims4, saying he just couldn't do it all again. Recently he let us know he is going to tackle the task of updating his mods once more. And he does this in his spare time, without expecting monetary rewards for his efforts. This is someone who loves the game. This is the kind of person that should be working at the EA studio.
I have the Sims4 Legacy Edition installed on an older 32bit PC. I have Sims4 installed on a high end gaming rig that is a year old as well as on a three year old gaming laptop. It does not matter which version I play when it comes to performance or how many bugs I encounter. But I am playing the Legacy Edition more because it has all the mods I need, without the grind of needing to wait for updates. This latest patch did more than break a lot of things in the game. It killed my desire to purchase new dlc and update/patch my game.