Maxis announces a new The Sims 4 Patch drop for this week!
The Sims Team has announced through their official Discord channels that there is going to be a new Sims 4 Hotfix Update. Set to release for this Thursday – February 19th, 2026! Here’s what you can expect from the latest hotfix patch:
The Sims 4 Hotfix Update Announcement
The Sims Community Manager EA_Cade shared a new message, revealing a new Sims 4 Hotfix Update for this Thursday. In this update you should expect fixes for issues with Sims freezing during marriage, as well as “additional Family Tree fixes”.
Sul Sul, Simmers, We’ll have a small Base Game update available this Thursday, February 19th containing fixes for issues with Sims freezing when getting married as well as additional Family Tree fixes.
What’s up with Family Trees?
A lot, in fact! Players who have never used CC / Mods have started reporting several issues with The Sims 4 Family Trees ever since the recent Sims 4 Updates hit the game this February. With reports on wrong connections, a family tree layout that’s way too stretched out and overlapping relations and interface that just makes no sense.
EA Forums member ToutouXL reported five different examples of how Family Trees have broken down in their game:
The new family tree is not working at all! Now I can’t understand nor use this family tree function! PS I didn’t use any mod nor cc!
The biggest problems lie in the overlap of the family members, I can’t see clear connection of any family. Besides, some of sims are married with kids in the family tree which are obvious image expression error! Not to mention that I am not able to tell who are the kids or siblings of one family. I show some pictures below, can you tell me HOW CAN I UNDERSTAND?
Example 1, the sim marries with a kid in family tree( actually not)! Plus a mess and serious overlap.
Example 2, unable to recognize one family.
Example 3, what does this white stripe mean? I can’t even tell the latest generation relationships.
Example 4, I pressed the little kid in the end of family tree, next thing I see is without this kid and all the people irrelevant to neither mother nor kid.
If the bugs is too time-consuming to fix, can you just return to the old logic and design which functions super well?! Thanks.
The upcoming Sims 4 Hotfix Update is expected to fix only two game issues, so you shouldn’t expect your recently-updated Sims 4 Mods and CC to break again with the upcoming Update release. We’ll keep you posted if that’s not the case though!
You can keep track of all the current Sims 4 Patch release notes right here.
Are you ready for the 3rd Game Patch for The Sims 4 for this month? Let us know in the comments down below and stay tuned on Sims Community for the latest news on the upcoming Sims 4 Updates!
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Yikes that is a lot of lines and it does make it look confusing. I do wonder if the player has neighbourhood stories switched on and that is why there is so many Sims they don’t recognise as the game is having Sims get married and have babies in the background.
Claire Froomanson
52 minutes ago
will this fix the legacy family trees that are now broken. the other day i was excited to check out my legacy family with the new update, but instead it only showed part of the family.
Cassandra Cole
47 minutes ago
Can you fix the issues I’m having after the last 2 updates? My game keep feeling at a specific time of the game and I can’t do nothing after that. Sims 4
Kicu
5 minutes ago
Hopefully they fix new pack not appearing in game because it acts like royalty and legacy never existed.
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Yikes that is a lot of lines and it does make it look confusing. I do wonder if the player has neighbourhood stories switched on and that is why there is so many Sims they don’t recognise as the game is having Sims get married and have babies in the background.
will this fix the legacy family trees that are now broken. the other day i was excited to check out my legacy family with the new update, but instead it only showed part of the family.
Can you fix the issues I’m having after the last 2 updates? My game keep feeling at a specific time of the game and I can’t do nothing after that. Sims 4
Hopefully they fix new pack not appearing in game because it acts like royalty and legacy never existed.