Sims 4 devs assemble team to focus on fixing bugs and upping performance
Submitted 11 months ago by Goronmon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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CharlesReed@kbin.social 11 months ago
OnfireNFS@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All I want is someone to make an open world Sims 3 like game with 64-bit support and better multicore support. Can’t wait to see if Paralives and Life by You will deliver
CharlesReed@kbin.social 11 months ago
Sims 3, with all its faults, is the golden age. Long live the mods.
Glamborghini@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sims 3 was best, no? I feel like it was the full package and mostly complete right out of the box. Didn’t have the same feeling in 4 at all. Been some years since I tried 4, though but when it launched I remember going back to 3 almost immediately after a couple weeks.
CharlesReed@kbin.social 11 months ago
I did the same thing. It may have been because there weren't as many dlcs and expansions, but it just felt really dull. Plus it didn't have the completely open world like 3 did. Sitting through all those loading screens every time you wanted to go somewhere was a pain.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
2 was by far the most polished, but 3 had more features so I guess ideal lies somewhere in the middle
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I tried playing Sims 3 again recently and holy hell is the performance bad. Like the FPS is running at whatever I cap it at but there are constant freezes and stuttering with no FPS drops even with all the recommended performance mods. I then remembered I stopped playing for that very reason ages ago and now my desktop is like 100x more powerful.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 11 months ago
…Aren’t they a bit late?
I mean, better late than never.
Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They didn’t need to announce this. They could just fix the bugs and players would start noticing that a bunch of bugs were getting fixed.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
They could have done nothing and been okay because Paradox apparently put their competitor Sims game on indefinite hold.
Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I had not heard about Life By You being on hold. That’s frustrating. Paradox games go nuts with DLC too, but some competition is better than none.
dumbass@leminal.space 11 months ago
But how can they publicly pat themselves on the back for it!?
aciDC14@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A bit too late honestly…
umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
about a decade too late
LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
For a game that’s been out for nearly ten years, I’m not expecting over much in the way of actual work from this team. It would be nice as I do miss playing the Sims 4. I suppose this is only happening to reach a larger audience since the move of making The Sims 4 free to play and the packs their cash cow. Which most users have been happily buying despite these packs being glitchy and broken on launch, and for most of their existence.
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sims 4 released in 2014. They had plenty of time to address bugs in-between the millions of stupid updates, but they didn’t bother. Who honestly expects any real work from these guys at this point?
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
It’s funny how as soon as two competing projects (Life By You and Paralives) start to get closer to release they suddenly care about improving stuff they’ve ignored for 10 years lol
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
Especially since Paradox already destroyed SimCity and is publishing Life by You.
Peffse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If I’m given a choice between some fixes and no fixes, I’ll take some. You know they’ll dump the code like a hot potato once Sims 5 starts rolling out micro expansions.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I think the real news is that they are no longer making new content cause the new mainline game is now all hands on deck with whoever’s leftover just working on minor updates for 4 now
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I don’t even know how I feel about this. On the one hand, it’s great we’re moving away from 4 which was always a shitshow to begin with, on the other hand I have no faith whatsoever 5 is going to be even on par with 4.
Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Where did you see that they are no longer making new content for Sims 4? The article doesn’t seem to say so and the last I heard they planned to release content for Sims 4 alongside Sims 5. FYI, I would prefer they stop with Sims 4 content.