The Sims 4 replace including Excessive Faculty Years to the sport is right here! Though possibly it shouldn’t be, not but at the very least. The latest growth for EA and Maxis’ life recreation is inflicting a couple of issues, some reasonably extra severe than others. A few of the main points arrived with the desires and fears addition within the life recreation’s free replace and require extra work from the event workforce to repair. The raft of extra points that comes with the Excessive Faculty Years growth is a bit completely different.
The Sims 4 subreddit is stuffed with posts with folks exhibiting clean person interfaces, lacking dialogue, and furnishings and housing catalogues with *DEBUG* as an alternative of merchandise names or placeholder textual content. One person even made a collage of points, most of which consisted of lacking textual content.
These points are reportedly straightforward to resolve. Reddit person Feizeit stated the issue appears to stem from the sport lacking its string package deal, which, in regular phrases, means the code telling it to show textual content in sure areas isn’t there. Different customers stated the folders aren’t there and couldn’t observe their recommendation, however PLAY Journal employees author Dashiell Wood appears to have landed on an answer.
It appears the lacking textual content phenomenon is especially affecting Steam variations of the sport. Wooden says you’ll be able to open EA’s Origin app, and it ought to confirm the recordsdata, including the lacking string package deal within the course of.
That also leaves fairly a couple of, non-text-related bugs to kind out, although. The social bunny app lets folks drastically increase friendship ranges with different Sims simply by repeatedly sending pleasant messages, whereas a extra severe subject appears to be affecting the top of the college time period. One participant posted a screenshot the place the sport stated their Sim graduated and dropped out on the identical time. It’s a possible subject contemplating drop outs have far fewer profession alternatives open to them.
Different, far more vital, issues embrace the getting old bug the place Sims become old each time you transition screens, and the incest bug, which Kotaku reviews is the place the desires system randomly suggests your Sim desires to get intimate with members of the family.
Huge yikes doesn’t even cowl that one.
Neither does the standard growth cycle, sadly. One member of The Sims workforce posted at 11:15 p.m. regarding the incest bug, saying they have been working to repair it – together with the opposite issues. Even taking time zones into consideration, that’s effectively past the scope of the standard work day, so bear that in thoughts whereas coping with your frustrations.
In the intervening time, it could be price utilizing some Sims 4 mods to make the transition to highschool a bit smoother.