Let’s check out the stability of the latest Game Pack.
The Sims 4 My Wedding Stories has been out for a couple of hours now. Although I’ve had a chance to play with the Early Access version of the Game Pack since Thursday last week, I wanted to give this Pack a chance after the public release and see if anything’s been changed. We’ve been told that the software of the pack that we played in Early Access was not final software, so let’s see how today’s public release stands.
This article will mostly touch on the subject of features within planning and attending the main Wedding Ceremony in the game. Which is also one of the main aspects of this Game Pack. To make sure this article is fair, I’ve made sure that all my Mods and CC are disabled. I’ve also Repaired my game through Origin after the latest update just to make sure everything’s correct from my end.
Let’s begin!
I started with a just-engaged Household that I created in a new Save Game and went around Tartosa to meet up with the locals that I could assign and invite for my wedding. The Lounge was already bustling with plenty of Sims that I could have at my wedding so I went to work!
This time around, compared to the Early Access Software version of the game that I was playing, I was able to properly assign roles for each Sim when planning the event.
The activities? I’ve selected each one just to make sure I can cover most of them and see how they work during the Wedding Ceremony. Little did I know that I’d simply not have enough time to cover each activity due to Sims misbehaving during the event…
The Guest Attire? I’ve selected the BoHo Dress Code with the color yellow for guests to wear. I didn’t go too much into specifics for assigning my couple a special Wedding dress as I already customized their Formalwear in CAS beforehand.
The place? A Beach Wedding Venue!
Interestingly enough, Wedding Venues appear listed in the “Select a Location” prompt list only if you have The Sims 4 My Wedding Stories Game Pack. Unfortunately those who want to throw a Wedding Ceremony with the Base Game only won’t be able to do so even after the latest Game Update.
The only thing that was left for me to plan out was the Wedding Cake, which I purchased down at the stall in Tartosa.
That’s pretty much all the essentials needed to plan a perfect wedding in this Game Pack. Only if it worked properly.
Let the wedding chaos commence
The Wedding Day has arrived and all of my Sims were sent down to the Beach to commemorate this beautiful day. Unfortunately, right of the bat I noticed the first glitch – none of the Sims that I invited to the wedding followed the Dress Code rules. Not only did they not follow the Color and Attire Style rules I assigned – they came to the wedding wearing Everyday outfits. My soon-to-be-brides included.
Instead of walking down the aisle together I had my Sims walk down the aisle individually. No idea why I did that – let’s just call it an Editor’s mistake from my end.
@SimMatically had reported on Twitter about their Sims walking down the exact same aisle. They took a very glitchy route, but at least arrived to their destination in the end.
at least they made it to the arch 😂 pic.twitter.com/7qz0oxA2aG
— SimMattically (@SimMattically) February 23, 2022
I ordered my Sims to begin exchanging vows with the Officiant. Before I explain what went down during vow exchange, let’s just take a quick look at how the wedding looked like so far.
- I ordered my Sims to Please Take their Seats. They listened for a brief few seconds and started getting involved in their own conversations.
- Everyone came to their Everyday Outfits. I at least had control over my Brides to change into Formalwear.
- In the end, Sims started switching seats and even started standing up autonomously.
Okay, I guess it’s not that bad. At least 80% of my guests were at least seated properly.
As the wedding continued, Sims started moving their conversations next to the Wedding Arch. I guess the hot gossip between Brent and Dominique was so important that it had to interrupt the entire wedding.
The interactions to send down my assigned Flower Pal and Ring Bearer didn’t work, as those Sims were already so busy having conversations and not paying attention.
The officiant? He never arrived at the Wedding Arch. Instead I had Brent and Dominique’s hot gossip to officiate my couple’s wedding.
Hooray – my Sims are finally married!
I was at least able to do the most important part of the Wedding successfully. How about we celebrate by cutting the cake?
Unfortunately that’s not possible. No matter how many times I would reset my Sims they weren’t able to perform the interaction.
And the guests? They were still heavily involved discussing important things back there. Even after ordering them all to participate in a Toast.
My Sims were at least able to exchange pieces of Cake together.
The Wedding Cake being cut into triggered all of my guests to Grab a Slice and eat. This autonomous decision to eat cake worked, but specifically ordering them to gather by the wedding cake to Have Speeches didn’t.
It was already dark, somewhere around 9PM in-game. My Sims were able to successfully slow dance to misbehaving guests in the background.
The command that orders guests to Throw Rice at my Sim surprisingly worked and each guest followed the command properly. I was surprised to see them listening to my orders for the first time in a while!
I tried to celebrate this euphoric moment with a Spousal Kiss. That too didn’t work unfortunately.
Ordering Sims to celebrate by dancing together was met with plenty of interaction loopholes. Instead, I was successfully able to group 8 Sims together and have them dance.
It’s almost 3AM in-game. The so-called Wedding Ceremony has turned into an episode of Survivor. If there was any justice during this Wedding Ceremony it’s that Dominique who couldn’t stop interrupting my wedding wet herself in the end in front of everyone.
This is the main aspect of The Sims 4 My Wedding Stories and unfortunately it’s severely mismanaged and broken.
Truth be told, this Game Pack shouldn’t have been released in this state where most of the main activities and gameplay features don’t work properly.
Originally I had planned to feature some of the responses from my tweet asking about which Bugs and Issues players have experienced. In the end, the number of hundreds of replies to this Tweet is a decent indicator about the experiences of other players. You can look through similar experiences that people went through in the replies below:
What issues / bugs are you experiencing in #TheSims4 My Wedding Stories Game Pack? Replies under this tweet might get featured in our upcoming article.
— Sims Community (@TheSimCommunity) February 23, 2022
If you play The Sims 4 on PC / Mac you’re already able to get a Mod that solves most of the chaos of guests not listening.
If you play on Console I’m really sorry.
I managed to get the couple cut the cake with the new animation, but the cake had to be placed on a regular dining table and I had to remove the topper first.
lol test the pack w/other packs installed? blasphemy!
It does work with highly skilled sims though, and if one uses the queue at the ceremony ( pause and build up a time-line). Had to build my own venue first and make sure MCCC (mod) worked for the change into formal outfits. It was complicated but not entirely impossible. Still, in order to have guests and grooms and whatnot, you have to know several sims closely enough. From a gaming-point of view I sort of like the difficulty.
That’s doing the most.
I only bought it for the world that comes with it! The Gameplay doesn’t interest me, I just wanted a Mediterreanean world!
After the Russia scandal was solved and a day-one-patch was announced I was sooo looking forward to this pack. And now they disappoint us a third time within two weeks. Seriously, what’s going on there? How come EA think they can do such things to loyal and paying customers?!
They were too busy blocking the game in a certain country that they didn’t have time to actually fix it lol
This pack is a horrible mess, I’ve seen outdated mods work better, smh.
And the fact that they focused only on weddings and nothing else is extremely disappointing. No honeymoons? No better proposals? No proper wild “bach” parties? No one-sided crushes/unrequited love (like in the trailer)? No dating or romance overhaul? This would have been the _perfect_ pack to finally implement an attraction system! Not to mention, no wedding drama?! Where’s the objections, for heaven’s sake, or getting left at the alter (autonomously)! A wedding planner career, black widow aspiration, a bridezilla trait, a hopeless romantic trait, a monster-in-law trait/sentiment, nectar, etc. would have been great to add to this as well. Even wedding traditions from other cultures would have been neat. Not even a heart-shaped bed or hot tub, smh.
Honestly, they really dropped the ball with this, and not just because of the bugginess. Even if they were to somehow miraculously fix all of the bugs, the gameplay itself is overall extremely lacking. In reality, this is just a spicy stuff pack.
While I was playing I was thinking about things like that too, there was so much potential with this topic. Seems like they are too busy thinking of new Kit themes to think of adding a wedding planner career to a wedding themed pack.
Totally agree with you. The fact that i paid for this…I can’t even make my Sims walk down the aisle…or getting married at all. They will just stand there and be stuck. They could have done so much more, but nothing works even with the little amount we were supposed to get. My Game has major issues since the download yesterday. It is like the new pack just destroyed my game. They will probably fix nothing and let Sims 4 die soon, so they can release Sims 5 before Paralives comes out and try to milk our wallets yet again.
Yep, I had similar issues. The guests cared more about talking to each other than the wedding. Rude. I also couldn’t have the ceremony with an officiant even though I assigned one. Also, the cake doesn’t work like the base game cakes that stop it from getting cut. While I was desperately trying to make things work someone got hungry and stole a slice so I couldn’t cut it with my newlyweds. The bouquet throw also didn’t work at all for me.
I was relieved when there was a patch before the pack came out but it honestly looks like nothing was fixed at all since all the game changers had problems like this too.
The world and the CAS/build items are lovely but the main selling point was the newly structured wedding event and that is what is most broken so this is very upsetting.
Have to admit it did make me chuckle when the lady wets herself in your story!
broken buggy pack. nothing worked for me. I was really looking forward to marrying my sims couple. could barely get my bride & groom to enter the venue building. Regret buying this pack now. I’m So disappointed and sad. wish there was refund option.
The only positive is how gorgeous the world is.
So disappointed and sad about how broken this pack is. It’s so painfully clear this pack wasn’t ready to be released yet and I wish ea would have just been honest about that and taken more time to fix it instead of letting people pay up just to be let down by this mess.
Amazing that if they dont like what you have to say, they delete your posts…
Maybe they should have released the pack in March instead?
As I am just plain speechless at the moment because I still want this pack but at the same time I don’t want the bugs.
Honestly, I think this really highlights one of the biggest problems of the game overall — the fact that conversing with other Sims is the highest priority of any NPC. Think about every date or other more private gathering interrupted by strangers INSISTING they say hello. Think about all the Starlight Awards ruined by Sims constantly playing musical chairs to start new conversations. And now Sims wanting to talk beyond ANYTHING ELSE is ruining weddings (along with all the other bugs). I like the flowers and the cakes and all that, but I’m not buying the pack to have an already-existing problem made even WORSE.
I laugh so much with the turning into a Survivor event. Mine was just the same. Now that I think about all the things that happened it became funny but truth be told, it is a disaster. I also find it very disrespectful to us players to actually sell something that doesn’t work at all. I’m really disappointed.
It’s just a mess. Much of my problems were already described upstairs. the only difference was nothing for me worked except throwing rice. Ask guests to seat? Nah they talk instead. Flower Pal and Sim of Honor? The options didn’t even appear to the selected sims I had chose. Cut the cake worked but none of the guests took a piece and AH even though I had bought the cake and save it for the wedding said cake didn’t arrive and my sim had to cook one last minute (with cheats because she had level 1 gourmet cooking previously)? First dance? Let me laugh while none of the guests were dancing per requested by me and my sims decide to dance yes in the lobby instead of the dance floor like I asked and selected. Speeches? Again not working the guests were already dying of tiredness I guess and leaving the place. Toast? …..Is there more I need to say after this chaos? Oh and work up or down the isle? Solo or Together? None of them would work because my sims would just stay there static and thinking on their life choices I guess. Meanwhile the guests talked more than my friend’s parrot. I mean talking is interesting and all but when they ruin your wedding because they don’t even seat and gather all in the altar and me trying to fix the mess. Let’s just say I wanted to destroy a few things in game. And btw the officiant of the wedding didn’t even go to the altar. It was a real bloody mess. I was really excited for this pack, I mean I even had sims in my legacy playthrough on waiting list to be married because I thought it would be nice and such. However after this fiasco I think I’ll just use the same old method of Eloping right on the Spot because this is unacceptable. They should test their packs before even announcing them, not the othr way around, announcing them and then do everything on the clock to release. This is what happens. A very nice concept witth a million problems and players super disappointed on both the pack, the Sim team and EA (even though this last one is not new). People pay for these packs, we’re not testers to see what is and isn’t working on a final product, we should already receive said product ready and workable. Sorry for the long answer I’m just very disappointed with this pack, I wish all the best and good luck playing with this pack tbh. Also I’m sorry if there are errors in this, English is not my first language. 🙂
anyone have trouble actually downloading/installing the game. I bought it and when i hit the download button, nothing happens! i get that i’ve got a bad game, but they could at least let me play the game!
as soon as it had finished downloading i went straight in to plan my wedding. i bought a cake but was not able to choose it for the wedding – so i had no cake 🙁
then just as you said ALL my sims came in everday clothing. I thought yeh whatever, its still gonna be a great wedding….. WRONG!!!
no one listened to the requests except for the bride. Every just stood up and chatted. so i gave up and married my sims without anyone really noticing. I think this really upset the bride as she refused to throw her flowers.
i ended up cancelling the “festivities” and just went home.
i did however later thought maybe i just messed it up so i tried a second time but nope – still the same
– ignorant guests
Hopefully its fixed
Once again modders are saving the game