The Sims 4 Has Big Changes Coming Later This Month

150 bug fixes and caller features are connected the mode to The Sims 4 aboriginal this month.

With "an unthinkable scope of contented and experiences" released since The Sims 4 launched mode backmost successful 2014, the squad said it is present committed to "making that contented adjacent amended by delivering improvements to the gameplay that matters astir to Simmers."

To assistance execute this, the squad has outlined a "Laundry List" of conscionable immoderate of the changes coming successful a immense basal crippled update connected May 12, including a fig of fan-requested improvements specified arsenic optimizations for Infants, Toddlers, Sleep, and "general Sim autonomy." The assemblage has besides helped signifier the precedence bid by voting for their apical issues.

One of the biggest changes volition beryllium an summation successful the frequence of automatically generated backup saves, and a caller layering diagnostic successful Create a Sim, "continuing to grow connected the method info we supply to Modders and [content creators] to enactment their work." Oh, and you'll beryllium capable to adhd a ace cute caller Infant Playmat, too.

The squad promises that the "fun doesn't halt there," and this enactment volition proceed to rotation retired successful the months ahead, on with much escaped content, collabs, and partnerships. More volition beryllium revealed successful a "special" Dev Q&A successful The Sims Discord connected May 5 astatine 2pm PT, on with a Twitch Livestream connected May 6 astatine 10am PT.

The Sims 4 May 12 update:

Fixes for Most Voted Issues:

• “Black Photos”: Implemented 6 fixes addressing antithetic causes of texture loss, on with further QV investigating connected paintings and photos to drawback antecedently unreported cases.
  • At the clip of writing, each known “black photo” bugs person been resolved. We’ll proceed to show and code immoderate caller reports.
• [EA Forums] Sims volition nary longer support putting down Infants earlier picking them backmost up.
• [EA Forums] Sims volition nary longer person the "Secret Witness” Sentiment erstwhile a joined oregon engaged Sim is witnessed WooHooing with their spouse by different Sim.
• [EA Forums] “Can’t spot item”: Fixed successful some caller and aged saves.
• [EA Forums] Sims could get stuck with Scandal; this is present fixed for caller cases, and existing affected saves volition person the lingering VFX cleared.

New! Base Layer Feature

We’re adding a caller class to Create a Sim called Base Layers, which volition fto Simmers explicit themselves by broadening their manner choices, providing covered options, and improving sex look with the layerable binder. There volition beryllium 8 Base Layer options for Adults, 4 Base Layer options for Children, and 2 Base Layer options for Toddlers, each successful a assortment of colors!

With 380+ caller Base Layer variants (including each swatches) that tin beryllium layered, this gives players exponential caller outfit combinations utilizing immoderate Top oregon Full Body CAS assets!

Infant and Toddler Improvements and Fixes

This update represents a important concern into improving Infants and Toddlers, based connected apical EA Forums issues and further feedback from Discord and Reddit. After extended playtesting, we’re excited to stock them with you!

New Infant Playmat: Sims similar placing infants connected playmats alternatively of the floor, making attraction consciousness much earthy that each players tin present enjoy

New toggle successful the Options Menu to "Disable Caregiver Autonomy for Infants." When enabled, each attraction is manual, though Sims volition inactive socialize and you tin usage “Check Infant.” Neglect tin pb to societal services intervention.

• New Infant thought bubble for large noises: Infants present respond to large noises with a buff and thought bubble, positive a one-time tutorial explaining wherefore they wake, helping players code the origin alternatively of repeated pickups.
• Additional hovertip improvements, specified arsenic "Prefers Bottle Feeding" interactions to clarify that choosing a penchant restricts autonomous feeding to that method lone and Stand Up Milestone, wherever Infants needed circumstantial adjacent objects to propulsion themselves up [EA Forums].
• Infant tuning based connected subordinate feedback, specified as;
  • Sims volition present cleanable up diapers near connected the level aft changing an Infant oregon Newborn, arsenic agelong arsenic a trash tin is nearby. (Base Game)
  • Changing an Infant's diaper astatine the Changing Table takes astir a 3rd little clip than it utilized to. (Base Game)
  • The Infant Hunger Need volition present alteration somewhat much slowly. We received airy feedback connected this and we're hoping this flimsy tweak volition beryllium the close equilibrium for subordinate realism and fun. (Basegame)
  • Feeding an Infant volition present instrumentality astir 15 minutes (Sim Time), which is fractional the clip it antecedently took. (Base Game)
  • Infant attraction interactions (Give Bottle, Change Diaper, etc.) should present look connected the archetypal Pie Menu erstwhile an Infant's Needs are debased for your easiness of access.
  • Infant Milestones tied to Tummy Time present unlock doubly arsenic fast, addressing feedback that progression felt excessively dilatory - particularly connected shorter lifespans. With tenable attention, astir Milestones tin present beryllium achieved by astir time 3. (Growing Together)
• 25+ bug fixes for apical voted Infant and Toddler issues, including:
  • [EA Forums] [EA Forums] [EA Forums] Frequent Infant pickups and enactment downs, caregiver conflicts, and Sims freezing during attraction were large frustrations. This update includes aggregate interconnected fixes to code these issues, each disposable successful the Base Game.
  • [EA Forums] Infant and Toddler Needs volition nary longer alteration erstwhile the Active Sim (and the player) is connected different lot, distant from them. We anticipation that this alteration volition marque caregiving for Infants and Toddlers much enjoyable. (Basegame)
  • [EA Forums] Toddler Sims volition nary longer beryllium bare but would stay idle, contempt having food. (Basegame)
  • We received feedback that “reading to Toddlers” wasn’t moving well, and we’ve addressed a fewer bugs related to this;
    • [EA Forums] Toddlers are present capable to successfully tally the "Ask to Read Book" enactment connected a teen oregon older Sim.
    • The "Be Read to By" enactment connected Toddler Books should present relation erstwhile selected by an Infant.
    • We fixed a codification objection that could origin Sims to reset erstwhile an Adult Sim would click connected a publication and take to "Read to Children." (Basegame)
  • [EA Forums] Infants Milestones are nary longer disappearing oregon being reset erstwhile that Infant's Household is visited portion playing different Household. This is fixed successful aged saves arsenic good arsenic caller ones. (Growing Together)
  • [EA Forums] Infants are present capable to enactment connected their unlocked Milestone developmental advancement erstwhile they are not astatine their Residential lot. This hole is retroactive successful aged saves wherever the bug had antecedently been occurring. (Growing Together)

Base Game: Autonomy & Sleeping Fixes

We didn’t halt with the Infants and Toddlers! Improving wide autonomy is simply a cardinal subordinate concern. Sims present creation acold little (about erstwhile per day) and besides nary longer portion h2o autonomously, making behaviour much predictable and little disruptive. Plus, further bug fixes!

• [EA Forums] We fixed an contented that was causing NPCs to participate a location to portion water. Unfortunately, this hole was incapable to beryllium retroactive for saves successful which this gameplay was already occurring.
• [EA Forums] Fixed an contented wherever Children could beryllium taken distant contempt not being neglected. New checks guarantee a Child indispensable beryllium actively failing (F) earlier this occurs. The hole is retroactive, but antecedently removed Children cannot beryllium restored.
• [EA Forums] Sims with the Jealous trait volition nary longer get upset erstwhile their spouse interacts with their ain children Sims.

Sleeping autonomy has been improved pursuing assemblage feedback, addressing a premix of bugs and prime of beingness issues to marque slumber behaviour much reliable.

Base Game

• [EA Forums] Sims woken by a adjacent TV oregon vigor volition present crook the instrumentality disconnected and instrumentality to sleep. This keeps the intended wakeup behaviour portion making the origin clearer and reducing repeated interruptions.
• [EA Forums] We've added a hovertip to the Nap enactment to clarify that this enactment is meant to beryllium shorter with a boost to Energy (rather than an enactment that fills the Need fully). Sims should not enactment successful the nap enactment until their Energy is full, but we wanted to assistance clarify this expected behavior.
• [EA Forums] Fixed an contented wherever exhausted Sims could get into furniture but inactive illness from fatigue. Sims who autumn dormant successful furniture volition present stay determination alternatively of getting up and passing out.
• [EA Forums] There were callouts successful the sleeping EA Forums thread wherever Sims weren't sharing a furniture with different Sim. We judge our different fixes person addressed this issue, though arsenic a note, Sims volition lone slumber successful the aforesaid furniture erstwhile their narration is precocious enough.

Lovestruck

• [EA Forums] [EA Forums] There was an contented wherever Sims successful a romanticist narration were getting retired of furniture erstwhile told to slumber simultaneously. We added an enactment called "Sleep and Cuddle" which volition present let this gameplay to relation properly.
• [EA Forums] Canceling Cuddle connected a sleeping Sim volition nary longer aftermath some Sims oregon interrupt their sleep. If the enactment is canceled aft 1 Sim has joined different already successful bed, some volition stay successful bed. Canceling Cuddle earlier either Sim is successful furniture volition inactive effect successful some Sims getting up, arsenic intended.

Royalty & Legacy Fixes

Among different fixes, Royalty and Legacy is getting a polishing walk too! Alongside the 2 apical Community Reported Issues addressed successful the database supra you tin besides expect fixes for issues relating to the “Poor Leadership” sentiment being added to the Dynasty Head, Offspring of pre-made Dynasties not being added to a Dynasty, and pre-patch babies being calved arsenic a secret. We besides made assorted updates to the Grand Ball lawsuit not functioning properly. You tin expect to work much astir these and different fixes connected May 12th successful the afloat database of Patch Notes.

• [EA Forums] Sims volition present get wearing the selected formal codification to a Grand Ball lawsuit (in enactment with the functionality for Funerals). As a note: immoderate remaining oddities are owed to tagging and would request reported and fixed individually. We did a walk and felt that outfits looked bully with each packs, portion selecting much communal combinations.
• [EA Forums] The Mask enactment is nary longer disabled aft entering Create a Sim to alteration the Host's outfit for a Grand Ball event.
• We fixed the disguise icon successful the UI for hosting a Grand Ball event.

Base Game: General Fixes

Alongside large improvements to Infants, autonomy, and sleep, this update volition code a wide scope of highly voted assemblage issues crossed the Base Game and packs. Key fixes see resolving inventory bugs with photos, improving Family Tree accuracy, advancement against preventing incorrect narration changes successful Create A Sim, and reverting the default Gallery sorting backmost to “Newest”.

Across packs and systems, we’ve fixed gameplay blockers, UI issues, and inconsistencies. Highlights see Gallery improvements similar less upload timeouts and amended sorting, fixes for disappearing animals and aging bugs, and improved event, trait, and enactment behavior. We’ve besides made wide tagging, sorting, and ocular updates successful Create a Sim and Build Mode to amended enactment and consistency.

The spot notes connected May 12th volition database these retired individually, positive we’ll update the idiosyncratic EA Forum threads too!

Updates connected Top Community Issues

While shipping fixes for apical issues, we besides proceed to analyse different apical assemblage reported issues:

• [EA Forums] We’re investigating a aboriginal hole for Windows and Doors glitching into walls with definite Graphics Settings.
• We’re actively investigating a fewer challenging, (likely) performance-related issues that are highly voted wrong the community;
  • Console crashing aft update 2.13,
  • Lag aft 1 Hour of Gameplay,
  • Time Freezes portion Environment inactive Moves.
• We’re continuing to analyse and vessel fixes to trim prevention record corruption. Following our March 10 update, Scratch files were moved from Documents to AppData for PC players to forestall conflicts with unreality backup services. Since rollout, we’ve seen improvements and are moving to bring akin changes to Mac.
  • Some prevention corruption issues, specified arsenic failed batch placement, infinite loading, oregon achromatic screens, whitethorn beryllium linked to dense usage of placement cheats oregon precise ample saves exceeding strategy memory. We judge we’ve identified a hole for astatine slightest 1 lawsuit and are exploring solutions for others.
  • In the meantime, Memory Boost tin assistance successful definite situations, and we’re moving connected clearer ways to aboveground what’s happening and however players tin respond.
• [EA Forums] We proceed to analyse the origin of “partnered Sims forming an unintended household narration upon entering CAS” issue. If investigating goes well, a hole should beryllium included successful a aboriginal update.
• [EA Forums] Began investigating Autonomous Insulting/Mean Interactions happening successful subordinate games aft Patch 1.108.349. In caller subordinate submitted saves, this behaviour looks to beryllium As Designed, caused by the Vicious Dynasty Ideal, but we’ll proceed to investigate.

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