This is the first pack I didn't buy on day one. For some reason I'm not that enthusiastic about the game play, still I'm a little on the fence- maybe there's some CAS items or furniture that make it worth it. What's your experience with the pack so far? Would you recommend it?
Do you recommend buying the Journey to Batuu Game Pack? 160 votes
Yes! I'm really enjoying it.
It's OK... Maybe you should wait for when it's on sale.
No! I do not recommend it.
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Check 'My Packs' or watch one video that showcases them, that's the only reliable method. Anyways, 90% of them are not really usable anywhere else.
WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?
I will be adding to my science lab, my underground bunker, some of my grimy city builds etc. There are a couple of styles of the sabaac table which could be added to bars. Some items would suit general space/alien themes. I don't think there is much you could not use outside of Batuu.
I can't wait to see some of the creative builds on the gallery.
But if you want it for the gameplay... I'd say don't bother. Unless you really really want the droids.
For me, it's "Yes, I am really enjoying it."
But I am playing it as a theme park on my sim's planet, not an actual world in a galaxy far, far away.
They are just there to immerse themselves in Star Wars, have a role-play adventure, bring home some swag and unlock content for their cosplay hobby.
The sims in alien costumes, non-livable world with no lots to build on, no forces powers, does not hinder how I am playing it.
I think "It's OK... Maybe you should wait for when it's on sale." Who like Star Wars, or don't mind it and could use a change of venue once in while and have an alternative to Selvadorada and Granite Falls, and can find use for the buy/build content, clothes, and hair.
"No! I do not recommend it."
For simmers who could care less about Star Wars and have no use for the content, nor Star Wars fans who want a world in the Star Wars universe their sims can call home, no rabbit holes, more sandboxy, Force powers game play equal to vampires and spell casters, and have aliens as new life states, not sims in costume.
Oh, and if you are a Reylo, yes, but wait for a sale, because it's a way you can give Rey and Kylo a happy ending.
You are going to have to do some work-arounds though.
Gameplay depth is...not great. Especially with the restrictions that seem to be apparent on Batuu, if they're not bugs.
This should have been a stuff pack.
You know thats not going to happen. Ha ha. If I do buy it then I'll come back and vote. Too bad we couldn't have a "verified" purchaser mode on here. Thanks in advance to those who have.
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First of all its filled with bugs. The black kyber crystal is still red
Light sabers are 100% pointless. It uses the fitness skill. All its usefull is sparring, which you can only do with people who have lightsabers. Who has lightsabers? Kylo but you cant fight him, and rey, so on which case if you are first order she will just mind trick you and make you leave the lot
The god 🐸🐸🐸🐸 loading screens. The missions requires you to go everywhere to every neighnborhood to do petty things and is a grind. I think I had more fun with the Sulani aspiration and that was complete garbage. "Grill 5 times"? Like really?
The droids are cute. Absolutely everything save the bar is a rabitt hole and you get no special interactions after reaching max rank. As you know the max rank of the first order I should basically be able to go up to just about anyone and have them executed because I said so.
What pissess me off the most is the fact that the aliens are just you know costumes. Never mind the fact that you can't romance anyone here, if you mange to do it and have a kid the baby will come out as a normal sim and not an alien.
Even after reaching max rank there is no special interactions with Kylo ren or Rey. It's the god 🐸🐸🐸🐸 sims, let me call Kylo for daddy 🐸🐸🐸🐸 it!
In a pack that takes like an hour to complete, the arbitary requirements of knowing slicing and rocket science to unlock special interactions on the choose your own adventure stuff is completely pointless. Grinding skills takes a long time.
The clothing is also pretty bad. I wanted to be a 🐸🐸🐸🐸 sith, instead I am stuck in an officer stormtrooper outfit with a lightsaber.
Only saving grace for me was the droid. Its actually really need. You can electroshock people and its basically a mobile music player. I usually use pets as sort of a social needs cheat but I think Ill replace them with the droids instead.
As a massive star wars fan this pack was a complete and utter dissapointment. I had hoped to prove the nay sayers wrong by you know "Wait for the gameplay" and well yeah. As far as I am aware you can't get rid of any of the factions so your so called "Contributions" don't even feel like they matter.
After mastering my "Fitness" skill (Lmao) to fight the best with my lightsaber I went to rey in hopes of defeating her in a battle. NOPE! She just mind tricks you off the lot every time. That was when I just straight up closed the game and went to play something else.
Townies wearing random Batuu costumes?
*adds this to my growing list of reasons why I will never buy this pack*
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Let's be fair here, the person clearly used cas.fulleditmode to spark un-needed controversy. Townies don't use masks to begin with and that is judith wards base outfit. Have you ever seen a sim that changes their base outfit on their own?
The build/buy mode is very useful if you want to make Star Wars builds, and could work well for post-apocalypse, industrial, or--to a lesser extent--other sci-fi builds.
The CAS elements are fewer than I'd hoped there would be, but they're nice Star Wars-y outfits.
The gameplay is ... basically exactly what I thought it would be before the pack was even officially announced. They (Disney) wanted to make a pack that would let you play in the Star Wars universe, but that wouldn't violate the canon of the movies (which is a rant for another day). They also didn't want to let you do too much that you couldn't do in the theme park--so no killing, no building a house and living there, no hooking up with the characters. Aliens are costumes, not new lifestates. Rey and Kylo Ren are the only Force users at the time the park (and JTB) is set, so you don't get to learn to use the Force. You can build droids, but only the ones you can build at Galaxy's Edge.
The way The Sims is built, they can't stop people from doing that with cheats and mods and workarounds, but they weren't going to facilitate any of it. I expect whatever licensing agreements EA has with Disney already have a lengthy list of things that you can't put in a Star Wars game, and I'd bet the specific agreement for JTB included even more things, possibly starting with how they can't make this a simulator for acting out more adult fantasies.
My biggest disappointments are not the inability to have a quick snog with Daisy Ridley--that's a general disappointment with my life, but not this pack. I'd say the three biggest disappointments for me are:
1. Lots too small. I don't mind rabbit holes for food and sleeping and whatnot. But the lots we got are too small. If Oga's cantina only takes up a 30x30 space, great. Put it on a 64x64, and let us play with the rest of the space ourselves.
2. Aliens as hats. Not aliens as costumes. I'm fine with that. And they probably figured they'd make aliens hats so that you couldn't put a different hat on an alien and cause a conflict like you'd get with CC hair and hats. But I think they should have gone the extra mile and made aliens skin features and just made those specific skin features disable hats and hair. Yeah, it'd be a lot more work, but it would mean you wouldn't have to alter every single outfit on a sim to make them an alien, and then just make sure they never bathe, woohoo, or get a job with a hat or they'll temporarily become human.
3. Nothing for kids to do. Kids and toddler basically only existing as a speed bump on the way to become teenagers is a long-running issue with TS4. Here, in the attempt to make a middle ground between JTB being a theme park and an actual Star Wars experience, they didn't include any kid activities. Yeah, maybe its irresponsible for kids to go on missions for the Resistance or First Order, but as far as Galaxy's Edge goes ... look, *I'm* the weirdo for, as a single adult man, going to Disneyland solo and planning a trip to Galaxy's Edge as soon as it's safe for me to go where I'll make a droid, build a lightsaber, and join the Resistance. It's an experience meant for kids. And Star Wars is mostly about teens and older having adventures, but let's not pretend it doesn't have a history of child endangerment in the stories--Anakin Skywalker, all those kids at the Jedi Temple, Cindel Towani, young Boba Fett in the Clone Wars cartoons. I was waiting for the pack to come out to figure out whether I wanted to make a teen or child version of myself to go to Batuu, and obviously now it's the teen, because all the child could do is talk to people and dance at the cantina.
It really doesnt matter to me. Id rather not risk batuu costumes being the latest trend in townie fashion in my game unless officially stated that batuu costumes stay in batuu.
That's what I was thinking too .... that someone edited her appearance on purpose to rile people up. I don't seriously think EA would allow that kind of randomness to intrude on normal, everyday players games if they bought the pack.
The randomness of the fashion of TS4 festival visitors is way more shocking than every Star Wars mask.
From the reviews I've seen, it's exactly what I thought it would be. On this, I'm very disappointed, as I had hoped I was wrong.
The pictures look nice though. And I'm glad I don't have to pay to look at them.
No. Save that money for a pack with some real depth. One that isn't just recycled content with Star Wars paint slapped on it. The freakin laundry and knitting packs are worth more than this.
Or check some reviews out before you decide.
Knitting and Laundry have both annoying bugs 😭
Yes. Yes they do
I have watched all of LGR's reviews yet I dont know what to buy