The “Fresh Look” Update
The Sims Team has released a brand new update for The Sims 4 on PC, Mac, Xbox One and PS4!
To download the latest version of The Sims 4, simply open your Origin program and if the game doesn’t update automatically, right click on The Sims 4 and select ”Update”.
In case you have Mods or Custom Content, the game will automatically disable them for you after first launching The Sims 4 after the update. To re-enable all your Mods and Custom Content, select the Settings option in the Menu and select Settings. Under the ”Other” section you’ll find the ”Enable Custom Content and Mods” option. Check it and restart your game in order for it to take effect!
Patch Notes
PC: 1.87.40.1030 / Mac: 1.87.40.1230
Console: Version 1.58
Hello Simmers!
Can you believe that we are already approaching the end of the first quarter of 2022? Where does the time go? We hope you have been enjoying Neighborhood Stories and are looking forward to everything that is coming through the rest of the year.
To round out the first four months of the year, this update brings with it a number of bug fixes including some which have been high on your lists, and a new Main Menu which is more focused on you and your Sims.
Let’s take a look and see what’s been updated with this release.
– The Sims Team
New look Main Menu
We have a new look Main Menu and it isn’t just aesthetics.
First thing you will probably notice is the new launch panel on the right, not only does it look different, it has new modular features built in to personalize your experience.
If you are a new Simmer, you’ll notice that the New Game button includes some motivational messages underneath it to help you with your first game experience.
If you have been with The Sims 4 for long enough to create a Saved Game then you’ll notice the Resume button is no longer a giant play icon and instead displays a profile picture of your last active Sim from your last saved session. Your Sim will have a little something to share or say!
Surveys
These little surveys will appear periodically on the Main Menu and can be completed without leaving the game. Some of these surveys will be fun while others could help shape the future of The Sims 4 based on your feedback.
If you prefer to control when you see or don’t see surveys in-game, you can toggle your setting in Game Options > Other under the “Enable in-game surveys”
New Packs Filters
On occasion, when checking out the latest Packs, you might notice a new entry in the Pack filters at the top of the screen. Be sure to check these out when you see them, there could be something new to discover that you might have otherwise missed.
Dynamic Main Menu Panels
Some of the information panels on the Main Menu come with expanding information panels. Simply hover over a panel and the details will present themselves, move off the panel and the information box will collapse down again.
BUG FIXES
The Sims 4
- Starting a Scenario and attempting to move your household in with an existing household will no longer silently end your Scenario. Now, you will need to complete or cancel your active Scenario before merging households.
- Fingernails should no longer clip into the fingers and look distorted while creating a Young Adult Female Sim in CAS. We are continuing to review distorted nails in other situations so keep an eye out for additional fixes in this area in future updates.
- For Simmers on PlayStation and Xbox running into an issue with dropping walls and moving between floors with the D-Pad, we have good news! We have implemented a fix which should restore your D-Pad functionality. If you continue to run into issues please reach out to us on Answers HQ.
- Simmers that chose to cancel the process of saving a built up lot to My Library while the Lot thumbnails were being generated could find themselves temporarily locked out of navigating the Lot or would experience graphical flickering. This performance impact should now be resolved and the thumbnails will no longer generate behind the scenes after canceling the Save Lot process.
- We have tidied up the Game Options menu a little by removing the Fill In Empty Lots option. This particular option has been superseded with Neighborhood Stories and the “Move In” functionality.
- Pulling a prank and breaking the toilet is all fun and games, until you can’t repair it which is exactly what happened to the Sweet Escapes Country Toilet. The toilet is now repairable by your skilled Sims or by calling in a repair service.
- While planning an event, jumping between Invite Sims and Select a Place tabs will be accurately reflected in the tab icons.
- The Origin In-Game overlay on PC should resize to the correct resolution if it was open during game client resolution changes.
- Selecting the button on a video window before the video finished playing was leaving some players with a gray screen. This should no longer happen.
Discover University
- University can be tough but re-enrolling after being suspended shouldn’t be one of those difficulties. Now when you get your acceptance letter in the mail your Sim will be able to head back and complete their higher education journey.
Outdoor Retreat
- NPC’s were getting so stressed that they would make the De-stressing Decoction on the grill and then finish it on the stove. Now, they will no longer split their creation of this concoction between grills and stoves.
Décor to the Max
- The Circle of Infinity wall sculpture comes with plenty of warnings, but after getting lost staring into the circle of infinity, we went and sorted out that infinity frame, which didn’t accurately represent the lighting from the environment around it.
Here’s a Preview of what the Main Menu looks like now!
Looks like a big one, it’s taking a while to download it…
Why do they keep changing the menu UI lol.
Oh god, not another menu overhaul. It was fine as it was
18 gigs for few fixes and new menu look lol
Yes, it’s a big one. Takes forever to download over wifi.
Which console? On pc it was 300mb
I wish they would fix the “Venue Info” glitch in build buy with that flashing icon in the upper left corner. Its just really annoying. I know there are other bugs that need fixing, but this feels like Columns 2.0 to me.
“The Sims Team has released a brand new update for The Sims 4 on PC, Mac, Xbox One and PS4!”
yall shud start saying ps5 too we get the same updates
I just downloaded so many mods ugh lol
Heyy guys, I need help with the new menu. First, there was that “play”button but now it’s gone. With that button you could build houses without making a sim at first. But now the button is gone and I have no idea where I can go to the house I was building or how to build a new house without making a sim at first. Can anyone help me??
resume is the old play button since you’re resuming the current save
Resume does indeed resume the old game, but I don’t play with sims. I first have to create a sim and then I can no longer find the house I was working on, because it was not yet connected to a sim or a game.
I think it is the load game button. You are asking about? You can change sim or build whit that. But by time you might have fund it out.
How about a graphical overhaul instead of the fricken menu? Some high resolution textures without resorting to mods would be nice. Mods break, need to be maintained and take up volunteers free time to make the game more enjoyable.
has anyone had troubles with it already? i turned my mods back on and restared my game like normal, now the game options menu is blank and when i try to resume the game it crashes. currently repairing the game to see if this helps and i updated my mods.
i did the same, and repaired my game as well, only my screen is not blank its just stuck on weird phone girl menu which won’t close for over an hour now, i dont think its the mods tho as they were updated b4
so can you even play? cause mine wont even get to the map screen before crashing
Another update for the menu? Why don’t they start fixing dine out and work on better packs instead of redoing stuff that was better before?
My game is broken I updated it and then once I got to the screen I checked the mods on them saved and exited and then when I went back on the mods uncheck so I did it again and it didn’t work and now my settings thing is just blank when I try to change any settings and the game crashes when I try to load onto my household.
Have you tried loading without mods? Have you deleted the localcache? Even if your mods are all up to date you have to delete the file to make sure nothing old is kept in.
they keep updating the last thing we want update on it.
this update utterly wrecked my game. i cant get past the pop up because it freezes my game indefinitely when i click the X. is anyone else having this problem here?
How to continue game on map after this update?
I have deleted every ,mod, every file I could (tray, saves, caches, etc), uninstalled, reinstalled, repaired my game and everything… and this update has made the game totally unplayable.
Boo. 🙁