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@TURBODRIVER this morning.
So, after you’ve played today and before you close up your game don’t forget to:
- Remove your mods folder to your desktop or an external drive for safe keeping.
- Back up your saves.
- Delete the localthumbcache file.
Tomorrow’s patch is going to be big and affect several aspects of the game. So best to be prepared and also, be patient with modders. They generally work pretty hard to get their mods back up and running for use a.s.a.p. 🙂
Edited to add - Be prepared for some cc breakage as well, especially hairs!
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Not the kinda-pocolypse I wanted
I know, I just did all of this because I can’t play for awhile still. So I cleared out all my mods and put all my cc on my external hard drive along with my saves, tray, and screenshots folders and closed my computer down for the time being. I will download the patch and then follow along here to see what broke. I expect cc hair will because of the swatch update and maybe cc couches? I don’t know though since sectionals are pack exclusive and cc couches are based on all the other regular ones that aren’t sectional.
As much as I would like to try out the likes/dislikes system tomorrow, I think I will wait until all mods are updated. Which could take a while, this update will probably change a lot... I hope that all cc hairs doesn't have to be updated in order to be used.
Thanks for posting, let us all be prepared for the mod-apocalypse tomorrow, better to be safe than sorry...
I did try EA Desktop and . It’s not ready for prime time in my opinion. Not only can you not play offline but a bunch of games are missing, and at least when I had it, if I had TS3 installed it would uninstall TS4, then if I tried to download TS4 it would glitch out and say it couldn’t do it. Then the next time I would open the app TS3 would be uninstalled and TS4 would be installed. I could never figure out how to just have all my games installed at once. So I got mad, and rage uninstalled the app and went back to Origin.
That’s it. I can wait on the rest. So I’ll update my game and wait for those 2 to be updated before I actually play AND save. Usually doesn’t take them longer than a day or 2. Honestly, each patch usually makes me have fewer and fewer mods so I actually look forward to them.
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I know, right? I'm a little shocked myself by this new revelation of mod-less-ness!
20 years of playing the Sims with hundreds upon hundreds of cc stuff (not to mention many many mods)..... and now I'm kinda liking this whole weird new unfamiliar world of vanilla gameplay? Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined this happening to me.
Say it ain't so!
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain
I have basically done the same thing. It's been months since I actually used any mod. I always take my CC folder out when a new update comes out and play totally "vanilla" for a time. Once I've read Luthienrising's bug page and find out if the CC I use (mostly clothing, occasional furniture) is going to work, then I stop playing the "new game, CC/mod free" save and go back to my Legacy one. But I play that without mods at this point. (Many of the things I used to use mods for, however, have been fixed in "updates" which is good.)
CC hairs will hopefully still work... the new colors will most likely not work with them but hopefully the existing colors and the cc hair will still be usable. I guess we have to wait and see. Keep an eye out for Luthienrising's broken mods thread.
I don’t typically use Build/Buy CC ( except for some boarded windows because DARNIT we need those! 😡) so it’s really a no brainer for me.
I’m like those ridiculous Sims who are always happy no matter what. 🤡
(In theory putting Origin offline should be enough, but I'm a bit paranoid in this regard).
Hoping things gets patched soon, but gonna be rough for a bit.
I'm in here through Steam, so I put that in offline mode as well.
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