#eventually i gave up trying to accomplish anything and just reinstalled wicked whims

[thelambs]

I’m not dead! Just on a slight sim hiatus.

After Star Wars I found myself a little disillusioned with the current state of the game. We get a new pack every month but I’m finding half of each play session is spent contending with bugs that never get fixed. They’ve allocated exactly zero resources to fixing their fucking game and each pack makes the game progressively more broken.

I got an urge to play today and in those few hours:

My ‘unbreakable’ stereos break repeatedly, and whenever my sims attempt to fix them the repair process stalls and they sit in the repair animation endlessly.

Sims caught in rain or snowstorms ‘run inside’ using the wrong animation, using the ‘I have to pee’ walk instead of running.

My FPS drops to the single digits every time I enter or leave build/buy mode- until you open the game menu for some reason.

Townie sims still have hundreds of future cubes and lumps of clay in their inventories.

Simulation lag and stuck or dropped queued actions are worse than ever. Trying to get two sims to interact that are more than 2 feet apart is impossible. They freeze, run a mile away, run a mile back to their original positions, then usually the action just cancels.

Some lots are now failing to load whatsoever, returning an error message. (My save might be on its last legs.)

My famous sims still ‘react with disgust’ to anything that comes within 50 feet (even equally famous family members), which wipes their queues every time. 

The game still refuses to use any of the hardware or resources my PC has available. My GPU utilization will sit in the teens while the game struggles to render 20 fps. I just played through AC Valhalla and Cyberpunk on high settings and got at least twice the frames I can pull from this 6 year-old game. 

It’s funny: if you search EA’s bug report forum for these issues, each one has been around for ages! They literally don’t give a shit. The fun cutesy patch notes come across as tone-deaf and patronizing when you’ve been waiting months for major fixes that haven’t even been acknowledged. 

I’m fine buying packs if the product is functional and I’m having a good time, but like the rest of the community... I’m finding that it increasingly isn’t, and I’m not. Given how quiet simblr has been getting, things don’t look good.