First of all, why did they change the phones? My sim tries to call somebody, and it's like "WHAT?" Does changing the phone layout actually improve gameplay somehow, or did somebody just do this because they were bored of the old phones? I really don't like having to learn a new layout just because somebody wanted to get creative.
Then I noticed needs acting funny. One of the kids would just start getting hungry, and suddenly he'd be starving and I'd get a message that he might get taken away if he's not fed. Did they just skip through the yellow and orange phases real quickly? And why am I getting this message on a school age child? Those messages are supposed to be for babies and toddlers, not kids who can go in the fridge and get their own food!
More importantly, the new update is messing up my game! I logged in a city family, and played them for a couple hours--helping the younger boys get straight As and finish the mental aspiration so they could age up to teens. I'm almost ready to age them up, when one suddenly disappears! He didn't die, and I didn't get any messages about him being adopted into a new home. He just disappeared. (Although the blanket in his bed was still propped up, as if an invisible boy was sleeping in it.
Then I looked on his twin brother's friend list, and he was still on there as his best friend. (He was NOT on his sister's list though! She was just talking to him a little bit earlier, and now she doesn't even know him???) So I have his twin brother call him and invite him over, and get a message that he's coming. I see him in the apartment, but the brother who called him over isn't there. I suddenly realised that when I looked more closely, the boy that is not listed as a member of the household is the one that was in the apartment! (They look alike from a distance, because they have matching school uniforms and short hair, but they have differnt skin colors.) So the game got their names wrong? I tried getting the mom to click on him, so she could invite him into the household, but she couldn't click on him.
I figured it must be glitching, so I logged out to check CAS. I waited forever for CAS to load the photos of the households, because the one household I was playing would NOT load. So I clicked on it without waiting for the photo, and a stranger was in there by himself. I went out and tried again, and now a different stranger was there. I moved them to unplayed houses, and back into played houses, and nothing worked. I clicked on the apartment they were living on, and they were gone, but one of my other characters was living there by herself. When I went back later (after moving them to unplayed and back to played households) one of the other households in the same building was in there. They had 2 apartments!
Finally I decided to leave the entire game, because it had to be glitch. I waited a little while and loaded the game back on. I saw the family's photo (missing the one boy) when the game loaded, but the apartment was EMPTY! I looked at CAS, and they were NOT in played households. I looked in unplayed households, and they were NOT there EITHER ! The game culled the entire family!!!
Fortunately I have them in the gallery, but all that work they did to prepare to age up is wasted.
I think I'm gonna have to lay off the Sims for a few days until they fix the bugs in today's update. I'm worried that the game might cull any household I play.
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I did get a message that one mod will need to be updated, but I don't see any reason that particular mod would cause an entire family to get culled. The only way for me to know if any of the other mods needs to be updated is to play them.
I do have MCCC. I suppose that could delete a family. Although a few weeks ago I used MCCC to put "never cull" on most of my own households (after the game culled a couple of my favorites). But maybe the game deliberately culled the family because they were listed as never cull?
I didn't get any messages that MCCC needs updating, and did not use it for anything today, so I don't know if it needs to be updated or not.
Has anybody who played today with MCCC noticed problems with it?
The update broke most mods so I would double check whether the rest of your mods/CC need updating. There is a thread here in the mods section of te forum listing all of the mods which are broken and which have been updated since the patch.
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I too had the disappearing sim, age up bug. I had a game that was in the first day that I loaded, and I noticed that Nancy Landgraab (unplayed) had aged up to elder, and Geofrey Landgraab was gone, disappeared.
The phone update is disappointing. My sims are all now phone fanatics. I had two sims having a conversation, and before any conversation actions take place, i.e. "Ask about day" "express admiration", one stares at the phone for 10 seconds, then the other stares at the phone for 10 seconds, then the first one stares at the phone for 10 seconds, THEN the dialog options occur. This is far worse than the phone fanatic that a famous sim can get which is a "negative" quirk.
The phone interface is disappointing. Even for a teen the "cutesy" icons for phone options are childish. Couldn't we have an option to choose a phone interface?
I feel I'm going to have to not play for while, really sad as I don't want to my sims to be all old before there time.
Yup, I took out my Sims4 folder before the patch dropped and generated a brand new one so I was sure to have clean fresh vanilla files to patch, the only thing I put back was my tray and my saves and my game is a hot mess right now without a mod or bit of cc to be had. My main save that I have been plotting and planning to play with this new pack is unplayable due to having the aging bug, poor Dennis Kim bought the farm the second I opened it, fortunately it was a save as copy I made to test for bugs. But now I have pre-paid for a pack I can’t use until there’s a fix for these glitches. It’s not just aging, there are reports sims can’t travel together, you can’t invite sims anywhere if they’re living outside your neighborhood, that holidays and events are scrubbed from the calendar and that all sims are being marked as celebrities.
So far I only have the aging bug but I plan to test further to see if I have more and won’t be reinstalling any mods or any cc until I am sure these bugs are fixed.
Apparently, if you have been playing on long and switch to short lifespan sims will have days subtracted on loading into live mode. Maybe that's what is happening?
> Practically every mod is broken. No one should be playing on a modded game without first making sure ever mod is up to date. Then it makes it more confusing for the team to find out which bugs are mod related and which are basegame...
For me I play on xbox so I do not have any mods at all and I'm still broken badly, with my sims growning up much faster then they should be. One of my sims had just grown into an elder before the update now she is about to die. I have my age off only households on, I've had no time with her as an elder.
Yup I hate the phones its going to take me 10 minutes real time to navigate through that thing and still be confused.
Yes the aging bug is well known and it is currently being investigated according to gurus on Twitter. That is a basegame bug.. But I'm referring to people on various social medias reporting things as completely broken like disappearing sims, unable to load households, crashes, mixed up sim names and all kinds of other things I've seen people reporting who use mods and did not take their mods out.
Mods are pretty much totally destroyed right now but modders are updating.
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This right there, just nailed the coffin for me. I will definitely NOT be updating now, so I guess I won't be purchasing any more future packs.
I'm a whims-based player .... they took away the "whims" and replaced them with "wants" ... sounded awesome!
Except that they ONLY gave us "wants" for the Base Game (and the new High School Pack, which in order to buy the pack you have to update the game), so now we are getting even less than what we previously had.
Yeah .... no.
It's kind of a trend for them to release features half-baked and not consider the integration of earlier content. Seems like it's up to modders again to make this new "improvement" actually worthwhile. Modders already made whims actually good after EA abandoned them but now they decided to replace whims with this new rushed system which I'm certain is going to break those mods so... sorry, can't be bothered to download this update now. Everyone should realize this game is old. The whole "we added some base game things, ignored 8 years of other content, and will only include future stuff"... that's just... ugh, don't even know what to say.
This in addition to all the other issues people have been bringing up. Seems like it's going to take a while (probably a long while) for me to update. Which is a shame since I'd like to have the sexual orientation and body hair features. Oh well.
p.s.(edit added): Oh and i dont use my phone when i walk, so having my sims cell phone walking is kind of a turn off... ya know, turn off that freakin' phone lol! Basically id like to opt out of cell phone, ingame and IRL too