After accumulating suggestions from The Sims 4 gamers, we have now made some large modifications to the Xbox model of the sport.
By fashionable demand, we’ve reversed some earlier modifications to Construct Mode and made different enhancements. Most of those enhancements are associated to controller buttons – to create a extra seamless play expertise, we’ve tried to make the capabilities of buttons extra constant throughout completely different sport modes. Right here’s what’s new:
Bumper Button Performance
It was once that the bumper buttons would have completely different capabilities relying on what mode you had been in. In CAS (Create a Sim), the buttons switched between Sims, whereas in Dwell Mode, they might regulate how shortly time handed.
Now, the bumper buttons will change between Sims in each CAS and Dwell Mode. Sport pace in Dwell mode could be adjusted with the triggers.
Construct Catalog Adjustments
The Construct Catalog will now reduce when you choose an object to put. It will allow you to see extra of your present construct whilst you determine the place to put the brand new object.
If you return to the Construct Catalog you’ll now mechanically return to the objects you had been most lately. It will make it simpler to leap again into what you had been doing, making a quicker constructing and adorning course of.
Construct Mode Object Rotations
Home windows, doorways, and tiles used to rotate in another way than different objects in Construct Mode. They used Y as an alternative of the fitting and left bumper buttons. We’ve modified this to carry them extra in keeping with the way in which different objects are dealt with. Now you’ll have the ability to rotate these utilizing the fitting and left bumper buttons, the identical approach you’d rotate anything.
As a substitute of rotating your doorways and home windows, the Y button will now permit you to place a number of. With tiles, the Y button shall be used to toggle between putting a single tile or tiling the ground of a whole room.
Switching Cursor Modes
Now you can change cursor modes utilizing the View button.
New Shortcuts
We’ve added a variety of new shortcuts. For instance in CAS you possibly can press up on the d-pad to leap to the id panel and down on the d-pad so as to add or take away Sims out of your family.
Gallery Connection
The Gallery is at present down for some deliberate enhancements. When it comes again, Simmers enjoying on Xbox might want to hyperlink their accounts to their EA accounts to entry it. You are able to do this simply by going to Choices > Sport Choices > Different and choosing Hyperlink EA Account.
When you’re getting used to those modifications, it’s a good suggestion to go to the Different part beneath Sport Choices and allow Present Controls Legend. In the event you don’t like on-screen prompts, you can even carry up the Controller Overlay by urgent L3. We’ve cleaned up the Controller overlay so that it’s going to not show extra or inaccurate button callouts.
Apart from these enhancements, we’ve additionally mounted a variety of bugs on this replace that had been affecting Xbox gamers. For instance, we’ve made it attainable to resize objects in Construct Mode once more. Press and maintain LT+RT whereas holding the thing, then press proper or left on the d-pad to regulate the thing’s dimension. We’ve additionally mounted a bug that was inflicting the cursor to fade after utilizing the Relationships panel, one stopping tons from being rotated when you’ve used Transfer Lot, one other that was locking controls when viewing venue info for lots positioned from My Library or the Gallery, and a complete lot extra.
General, we’re assured these modifications will make gameplay much more intuitive for our Xbox Simmers. We’re grateful to our neighborhood members for his or her suggestions. Learn the complete patch notes right here.
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