4t2 Kamiiri Olivia for TU, AU and EU
DOWNLOAD: SimFileShare / Dropbox
All credit goes to @kamiiri for their original mesh.
More details under the cut.
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So I've been playing Sims 4 right? And I think I got it.
It has no SOUL.
They keep adding in new content all the time because they hear that people want better gameplay, but they don't mean "more things to do."
They mean that the repetition is showing.
The Sims franchise has always been about repetition. Get a job, go to work, come home, attend to needs, try to make friends or learn skills. Live suburban life. Sims 2 have us goals, which made our experience richer as we try to manage these little people with their own agendas.
(I can't speak to Sims 3; I hated the open-world forcing single-household gameplay, and the aesthetic was terrible imo.)
Sims 4 does this too, but... Why is EVERYONE embarrassed by mischief interactions? Why is EVERYONE scared of thunderstorms? I have an entire neighborhood full of people who are either aspiring to Joke Star or are Foodies, and going between them is basically like playing the same week over. (Johnny Zest, Steve Fogel, June Kay, and Amber Stein, if you wanted to know.)
And I've been sowing discord! Bob and Eliza are both looking elsewhere for romantic fulfillment and trying to keep it secret. Amber Stein and Armand DiAggro are engaged but Armand caught Bob flirting with her at Bob's house because she's there EVERYDAY. Charlie is a menace to society, even to his roommates! I mixed up who a child wanted to be enemies with and made him go full asshole on his dad! Alexander Goth is bald and I don't know why!
But the reactions are always the same: bland. Someone gets mad but does nothing about it, except suddenly hate an activity that they need to do for their job. People become sad and are just slower at eating. Nobody gets into a fight unless I direct them, and even when I do they go back to their corners; no additional slapping or insults.
There are no extremes. Nothing bad, but nothing good either. Nobody gets fired for a chance card. Nobody really fails at anything. And nothing great happens. Getting married coats money and requires more hassle than it used to. Having a baby when you haven't the room or the money is inconsequential. Burglars are back but they just leave sims sad; they even tell you exactly what they stole so you can just re-buy it.
And I have no reason to care about any of these people. The household bio is all the story you get. Travis has so little personality he's made of gray paste. Olivia grew up into... Not really as lively as she was as a kid. Did I mention that Alexander Goth is bald?
Even the blandest families in 2 had some drama going on. The Aspirs and the Bells basically did a partner swap in their youth. The Baldwins have Uncle Carlos and all his bitches to deal with. What about Jason Cleveland's predilection for men? You wanted to hang with these families, see where they go. Because they COULD go in any direction.
Everybody but June in the Funny Foodies corner is a C-Lister. No fluctuation. They are all doing the same things. The most exciting things to happen in the Sims 4 world was Vivian and Dennis got married and adopted a couple of kids before they died. And Bella Goth had a baby without my knowledge or permission. (Don"t even get me started about how mad that made me.)
Nothing happens unless you make it happen, and when it does, no one cares, especially not your sims.
Is this why all sims 4 gameplays seem the same? Builds. Legacies. Rags to riches. 100 babies. Are people trying to FIND the fun in the game? I don't blame them.
2 may require a level of frustration, but at least it has heart. Sims 4 is a life simulation by committee. The edges are all shaved off and the experience is beige, bland, and pointless.
Paralives cannot come out soon enough.
#reblog#i agree with this sentiment as well#and don't even get me STARTED on the stupid notification spam#every action you do or you sim does prompts one#your sim has so and so trait? tutorial notification#your infant has smiled (even though they really didn't)? infant behavior notification#you are playing in Y world? world-related notification#festivals on every. single. day.? every single one gets a notification#also why must i play with ALL worlds at ALL times?#ts2 had a “connect a 'hood of your choice” system that wasn't even made to allow for stuff like uberhoods#yet despite that the system was so flexible from the get go that creators where able to use it in that way#anyway#can't wait for the business & hobbies 4t2 conversions 🤌
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TRADUCTION FRANÇAISE MODS ET CC
Sul sul !
S'il y a bien quelque chose que nous savons, c'est que Les Sims comportent beaucoup de mods intéressants qui modifient grandement l'expérience de jeu. Cependant, un manque existe dans la communauté française des Sims 2 : la traduction des mods et contenus personnalisés en français.
Je déposerai désormais sur ce post des mods et contenus personnalisés entièrement traduits en français, afin que plusieurs puissent en profiter.
For my fellow french players out there, here's a repository of well-known mods translated to french (or in the process of being translated anyway). 👌 Amusez-vous bien !
Awesome project @lemondedessims2!
Latmos Edits Stuff #1
Don't know if this will end up being a thing, but I guess it doesn't hurt to give it a proper name so I can tag it accordingly. When you see this title, it means stuff isn't mine, I'm just sharing whatever edits I did.
I recently downloaded these, and noticed they could be repo'd, so I did that, and then noticed another thing… you get the gist.
These are 4t2 conversions of the hedge fences (by AdonisPluto) and gate (by @hugelunatic).
DOWNLOAD: SimFileShare / Dropbox
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Re: Legacy Collection
So… I bought the Legacy Collection on Steam and so far, so good. No bugs, no performance issues. Didn't notice any improvements either though, I guess I'll test it out with my old Downloads folder.
Anyway, so I went to my Documents folder to look at the new path for the local files and…
… what the heck is "Sims Club"? 😂
There's a XML file in there named "uContent" with just this:
🤨
I make an effort to report the Pink Soup™ on the EA official forums, because yes I would like to play this game a few more years thank you very much, and someone comes to basically put all the blame on people who play with mods bc apparently that puts too much pressure on the game?
Damn, I didn't know someone knew the exact cause of the issue, should've told us sooner so we can all enjoy.
Smh.
#ts2#sims 2 legacy collection#a bit annoyed honestly#like why even bother#the one time ea should be taking responsibility for this game#but nooo it's 🌈 normal 🌈 for the game to do that with mods#even though ts3 runs on very similar software and apparently doesn't do that?#shitpost#might delete later
To my fellow 4t2 CAS converters and conversion enjoyers…
I updated the 4t2 CAS Archive (by @mdpthatsme) to include the newest Creator Kits (Sweet Slumber Party and Business Chic).
I added them to the already existing "Fashion Kits" sheet (the clothes I mean) since I figured they belong to the same type of content, however they seem to have their own new prefix (eg. "SP56 CK001" is the one for Sweet Slumber Party, and yes it is that long), so I wonder if they should go into their own sheet altogether?
Lmk if that makes sense! If you ever find this post lol
Unrelated side note: the fact the "CK" prefix bit starts with a three digit format leads me to believe they are going to pump out a crap tone of these types of DLCs in the future 😂 Either that, or EA realized that a two digit format was a bad decision on their part whenever they started counting, since they're already on their 62th SP/Kit.