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Is My Wedding Stories playable after the patch?
thenightcourt
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I’ve been waiting to purchase, are weddings playable with the pack after the last update?
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For me, personally, with several mods the pack is great. Things work fine.
But, If you have been waiting to purchase until after Maxis actually fix things, keep waiting.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
All the sims err'day
With those mods my weddings are better than the base game weddings ever were, because guests actually sit down and react to the ceremony, plus there's a lot more things I can include as part of the ceremony. That said, unplayed sims can be unpredictable...in all things and all places of the game. That's not unique to MWS. If you want 'the perfect' wedding....you're playing the wrong game.
The only other outstanding "issue" that I still experience is that the officiant, if you choose one, is pretty specific to what wedding traditions he will participate in and which ones he won't ... despite expecting that he would. Once you get the hang of what works when where and how, it's easier to pull off a very smooth wedding.
Again, pretty much the same as the rest of the game...you need to learn 'how' things work before you can control things in a way that make stuff go according to your plan.
Another good example of that is cutting the cake. This works for me if I remove the wedding topper, but not if I don't. Which in my mind makes some sense anyway.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
For me it is still very glitchy. Walking down the aisle is kinda awkward because it's hard to get the sims to stand at the arch and the first time the sims exchanged their vows in the middle of the aisle. The 2nd time was better but I had to have the bride and groom walk down the aisle multiple times because the groom would not stand still. Then when they were exchanging vows, the officiant wasn't standing at the right spot.
When the guests gathered for the first dance they gathered at the stereo and didn't gather around the couple who were on the dance floor. Then the slow dance glitched out. I also tried out the bouquet toss and the guests gathered but the bride kept repeating the animation that was her calling the guests to gather but never threw the bouquet. Didn't get an option to throw it to a specific sim either.
And then I decided to give up but everyone was glitched out and I couldn't get them to gather for anything else. I think I ended the wedding after that. And I took videos and screenshots so I will make some bug reports too.
But there has actually been some changes since the last update. You can now choose which arch your guests will sit at if your venue has two of them. And I didn't see any other sims at the wedding venue other than the guests. There was only one sim but they might have been a wedding crasher. Also I was able to buy a wedding cake at the new stall. I think ppl have said they couldn't before.
After this patch I invited no guests to the wedding. Didn't plan a wedding. I just had my family travel to the wedding venue in Tartosa with a home made cake. I thought just having their daughter there and saying quick vows would be easy. No. Random sims arrived and got in the way of everything. They ate the cake to a wedding I didn't invite them to and made dancing near impossible as well as standing in the aisle during vows. So... no.
I'll take another look at Bienchen's and Zero's solutions. I use several of both for other things, and they've always worked well for me. I'd used Carl's for MWS because it was a one-package_script solution. Nope, the fix just couldn't be that simple! 😕
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
Can you no longer click unwanted NPC sims and choose "just leave!"?
I didn't try with setting a dress code but they showed up in formal outfits for me.
Awesome.
Bienchen Mods
--sit at weddings
--walk aisle goal fix
--wedding GPS social tweak
--wedding party outfit fix removed until mod is updated for new patch
--less spousal kiss failure
--paired dancing tweak
--less bored wedding reaction
Zero Mods
--broadcasters tweaks
--guests gathering and autonomy
--throw bouquet fix
And I've been using Weebesu's Party Anywhere mod for quite a while and it works with MWS events.
I also installed RVSN's Cake A Break Buyable Cakes which protects cakes and keeps them fresh.
Beyond that, the rest are good to go. They are the same ones that I use.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
I enjoy the town but an issue I have with the town itself is I couldn’t get my sims to the strip without going onto an empty beach house lot…
I’m waiting for the sims team to remake the pack like they did for spa day.
Wondering what I might expect and if those who have it would recommend WeddingStories for my current Sims to get hitched…
Check answers.ea.com for current bug reports
I am also tracking MWS bugs in one place on this thread here https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/998021/bug-tracking-my-wedding-stories
I would not recommend it if you are not willing (or able) to use mods and you care about having things go very smoothly and always according to plan. (But arguably, I would not recommend The Sims 4 in the first place in that case...)
I expect some level of "herding cats" when I try to do things that involve unplayed Sims in the game, and I use mods, so I'm perfectly happy with the pack at this point. But I can see how someone else could be very, very frustrated with it.
The Save Code Error 0 bug is effecting people who haven't bought the pack, so I disagree with @mightysprite on having that be any factor in your decision.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
And also, whats up with this building
there is two choices here (for my engaged sim) get married or use bathroom... is there something i dont get here
Obviously im not gonna test this out just yet, i went thru alot of trouble to plan the week long celebrations and parties and family gatherings, i thought Bach party was beach party the first time i read it so, i did 3 wedding already, none of them went as planned but i managed to put on a good show with lots toasts and speeches and the vows were completed so this next wedding im planning on the calendar spanning 3 weeks, with the reception after wedding and all that ! I love that you can customize events. I dont go for tea, but i successfully have had all the guests blow bubbles, and toasting and the couple feeding each other the cake its pretty awesome ! My advice if you plan on celebrating a wedding for sims you dont want to screw up make a save right before in case it goes south !
It's a rabbit hole. If you pick the option to get married (during business hours) they will go inside, spend a little while inside, and then pop out, do a little celebration animation and be married. It also apparently has a public restroom that your sims can use. Which I thought was a cute touch.
It also has some bugs right now for some people where it simply doesn't work for eloping at all. I've read that the people who have the problem are particularly those who set their sims as "engaged" in CAS rather than proposing through gameplay.
For me, the only problem with it is sometimes the option to "get married" is selectable even after it is closed for the day, but selecting it doesn't actually do anything. It works fine for me during the actual hours it is open though. I modded it to extend it's business hours in my game so that the bug I do have isn't an issue anymore.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods