The Sims 4 Excessive College Years is launching in the present day, however its launch seems to be set to be overshadowed by a few main bugs launched by its supporting replace, Patch 132. The patch got here out on Tuesday and, if you happen to’ve performed The Sims 4 since then, you will have robotically downloaded it until you have been taking part in offline. Whereas the patch’s launch coincides with the Excessive College Years enlargement and helps a lot of its options, it additionally added a number of new components to the ever-evolving base recreation. These embrace long-time fan requests like sexual orientation customisation, physique hair choices, and the return of a needs and fears system within the type of The Sims 2.
Sadly, as is usually the case, some bugs reared their ugly heads not lengthy after the patch was launched; and on this event, the issues they trigger are exhausting to disregard. For one factor, it appears The Sims 4’s notorious “incest glitch” is again as soon as once more, virtually as rapidly because it was final patched out, with the brand new needs mechanic inflicting youngsters to develop a need up to now their favorite siblings. It is not look, though mercifully to date it looks like toddlers and kids are at the least being neglected of the unpleasantness on this event.
One factor youthful Sims aren’t resistant to, nevertheless, is the fast ageing bug which appears to have affected all save information utilizing “brief” or “lengthy” lifespans, which can be found as a part of The Sims 4’s gameplay modification choices. As a substitute of their age counter ticking up as soon as per in-game day, Sims in these saves are ageing a lot sooner, and the unnerving result’s a cradle-to-grave cycle that may final just some real-world minutes.
Fortunately, there is a work-around for the ageing bug, though it isn’t an particularly sensible one. Gamers whose video games are affected are really useful to carry off taking part in something apart from a default (“regular”) lifespan save till the problem — which is already actively underneath investigation by the dev staff — is resolved. This apparently means beginning a model new save if you do not have one useful, because it appears adjusting the affected saves’ lifespan settings and even turning ageing off altogether is not essentially halting the issue as soon as it begins.
Hey Simmers! We’re at present investigating situations involving Sims auto-aging up in saves utilizing the Brief or Lengthy lifespan. We advocate briefly taking part in in or creating new saves with the default/“regular” lifespan, as we work in the direction of an answer.
— The Sims (@TheSims) July 27, 2022
This is not the primary little bit of Sims DLC launched in latest months to be affected by glitches early on. Nonetheless, an awesome urge to mack in your sister is certainly extra problematic than, *ahem*, rubbing your ear in your new partner’s face throughout the marriage ceremony reception.
The Sims 4 Excessive College Years will launch later in the present day (July twenty eighth) for £35/$40/€40. It brings with it a franchise-first within the type of on-screen highschool actions; together with different new and returning options together with amusement parks, trend preferences and thrifting, and an overhaul of in-game social media to higher mirror the tastes of Technology Z. If you happen to purchase the pack earlier than September eighth you will additionally get entry to the unique three-item Vibing Streamer Gear digital add-on… though, given what is going on on, you would possibly need to maintain off taking part in altogether till the subsequent patch comes by way of.