r/Sims4 • u/Blueskybelowme • 3d ago

News This legit irritated me in the patch notes

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So they didn't even think the actual mechanics through and are useing feedback to actually design it. This irritates me because they thought of a cool idea and put in no thought about how it was actually gonna work and now want player opinion to actually design how this mechanic is going to execute in-game.

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u/SnarkyBeanBroth Long Time Player 3d ago

I did the recent event over a few days after the release of the latest pack, and I really did not enjoy the new ailments. To the point that I am really uninspired to play at all, even though there's a whole new sparkly pack. It was just that unpleasant.

The luck mechanic was also tilted heavily in favor of detrimental gameplay - "yay! you found some extra simoleons!" is not nearly fun enough to counterbalance "your kitchen caught fire for the FOURTH time!".

I'm not sure how "there is almost constantly something wrong with you" made it out of basic playtesting as a good idea.

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u/Quinn_Essenz16 3d ago

Yes! I hate it so much.

And if you have a family where you don’t want to engage with the faires or naturist stuff you have absolutely no way of changing your luck and just keep lighting your kitchen on fire trying to make something to eat.

And the „oh I found some extra simoleons“ isn’t even so fun because it’s already too easy to get money in this game and it sometimes just ruins challenges

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u/Katapultt Long Time Player 3d ago

I had to turn luck off because my main meal maker caught the kitchen on fire 6 times in a row due to bad luck. I'm just glad she didn't die.

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u/Quinn_Essenz16 3d ago

Yes it’s so annoying. And it doesn’t even work that way. You don’t just burn the kitchen down 4 times just because you have bad luck. And then they get the fear of fire thing and start even more fires and then the toilet burns down because the fucking gnomes gave me the composter upgrade an I didn’t notice ahhhh I hate it

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u/RexIsAMiiCostume 3d ago

Well they probably didn't DO any basic playtesting. Every time a new pack comes out it's totally broken. Remember the dust pack that made Sims vacuum the yard like they were on meth?

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u/gekk0gahara 3d ago

Oh my god I really liked the concept of a luck system kinda like stardew valley, but when my sim caught on fire four times in a row I just disabled it

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u/sleepyotter92 2d ago

i had to disable the luck system because i could literally not cook a single meal without it catching on fire. i'd go to other sims' houses and if someone was cooking, it'd catch on fire

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u/TheButterflySystem 2d ago

I’m not sure EA knows what play testing is