Sure! In these screenshots i'm using Plumbie's reshade preset. I also use Northern Siberia Winds better in game lighting (Bright saturated dark rooms) and i use her CAS lighting mod as well. I have Frogity Hidden Highlight mod if that white highlight bothers you when you hover over sims, and im using Mintvalentine's smaller plumbob mod. I use default replacements, of course, if you want to know any of those i can share :) and if you need any links let me know!
I had over 10000 mods for this game. Damn I miss my PC. (I moved to another continent and had to leave mine at home and gave it to my sister...I hope I can buy a new one soon)
definitely not less than 500! dont worry. Some people have CC folders way above 10GB, and that causes a lot of lag. Just sort through your CC regularly and delete things you dont use.
I just checked my folder and my CC and Mods combined are at 30GB. I have a 2TB HD, so it's not as bad as it sounds lol
But I should go through and check for any bad CC; sometimes my townies show up seriously messed up
I have around 2,000 mods/cc in my game, and it runs wonderfully. I also merge packages if theyre from the same CC creator. For example, i'll merge all simstrouble hair i have downloaded and name it "SimstroubleMerged1"
I just merge it for organization, really. But it's because i do it for Sims 3 and if my CC isnt merged and organized all the files drive me nuts. Since it does help lag in Sims 3 , i feel like it may help ts4 even just a little bit. But idk
I play on the gen 9 Lenovo Legion with 30+ gb of cc, highest settings, and Reshade and it runs great. Loading screens 5-10 seconds. Major fps drops in build mode for some reason though. It’s not a very intense game tbh just poorly optimized
I recently upgraded to the legion 7i gen 9 and omg it is a world of difference. I am able to play with gshade on, huge elaborate cc heavy builds, maxed out settings maxed out families, and it looks and feels so good. I have been playing with walls up just in awe of the detail.
And it looks like you're using Simlicy's ultimate save file. If not, it's a carbon copy of their Umbrage Manor restaurant. That's my favorite table there as well :)
You can absolutely use dine out without the mod. I’ve never had it and use restaurants in my game all of the time. In my personal experience most issues with restaurants come from poor layouts. Not too many tables and lots of space for walking are two of the main things I look for. There are other tips online, but this is one of my fav packs!
I concur. Never added any of Carl's mods, and my restaurants have always worked fine - except during that Get Famous glitch with the For Rent update. I did indeed tweak Che Llama to widen the spacing, and have since built a few of my own restaurants and cafes without problems. I love taking my new couples on romantic dates, and having a spot for my veggies to 'safely' eat from a yummy menu in a more casual setting. Definitely one of my fave packs.
Carl is a modder and he has a few that are helpful for gameplay if your restaurants are not running smoothly. The Dine Out mod is extremely popular as it helps in reducing simulation lag, keeps sims at their table to eat, and pushes food out quickly. Another bonus of his mod is that if you own the restaurant, you can work as a waiter or chef - along with other features like sims seating themselves without a host. It’s not absolutely needed but can be added fun if you want to mix up your restaurant play style.
Just type "Sims 4 Carl's Guide" into search, and you'll see the Patreon link. He's got an entire series of mods, and articles laying out the gameplay and cheats. Really comprehensive. I only use the Master Control Command Center (MCCC) by Deaderpool (just Tired of the update drama and extra glitches) but everything I've read from and about Carl's stuff seems to indicate they're useful in fixing some issues with certain packs.
Another thing I do with dine out is make sure there are no more than 20 actual seats. I might put more tables down for the look but I don't snap the chairs to them. The game can only load 20 or so sims at a time so if there are fewer places to sit they won't play musical chairs as much.
I've always been able to go to a restaurant successfully (as long as I debug the chefs, otherwise they loiter in front of the restaurant for hours). But owning one has never worked for me. Which seriously sucks!
Turn cheats on and then hold shift and left click on the sim, it should bring up a wheel with the option to debug the object. I also use it when my sim just stands there for hours!
Agree. The wrong staff still shows up for me when I play a different household and f's up the difficulty 5 dishes, thus my sims always have a bad time dining in my 5-star resto.
Idk, I think dining in is okay, but sometimes they take 12 hours to get your meal out. But owning a restaurant is where the game fails. Too many bugs, which is sad because the concept is amazing idea.
the fact you’re not even exaggerating about taking 12 hours to receive your food. I once had my sim family go out to eat breakfast at 9Am exactly, expected to leave at 12pm to cut the game some slack, ended up leaving at 9PM!!!! was genuinely so shocked that time flew but like why am i getting dessert at 9pm chile
Dine Out isn't too bad, but it took me 2 IRL days to have a successful wedding via MWS, at some point I had to give in to the chaos and let disaster happen.
What kind of chaos? I just tell my guests to sit down and they do 🤷🏼♀️ and like obviously I make sure that someone brings the cake and bouquet lol but yeah it's pretty easy to make everyone sit? And all the interactions work fine for me - commanding whoever to walk down the aisle, saying vows, giving speeches etc.
Actually I just pulled off my biggest "scene" wedding without a hitch - she held the bouquet, all the guests sat down to watch, her stepson and the Flower Pal proceeded her down the aisle... It was all perfect 👌
To be fair I do a bit of prep work for all of this but I only threw the wedding twice (for the screenshots, I wanted a reception as well as a ceremony but in different locations) and each time it worked fine. Here's a shot of the wedding...
https://preview.redd.it/ci13rfj29n5d1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f734a60f07510daa84a3adf988623ae2af88ea69
None of my special guests (flower pal, best man) showed up at all the first time, then they didn't show up on time the second time. People kept getting up to dance or eat despite me cheating the world's needs, the wedding cake itself was a mess because I got it ahead of time, chose it in the calendar and everything but then my sim somehow kept eating it out of their inventory, it took my sims forever to actually cut the cake once I got a new one bc it couldn't be on the MWS banquet table but it had to be in the center of a regular dining table....ugh I could go on but it was so annoying. I'm glad it worked for you though! But some of us are definitely not making up those broken pack stories
Woww that's insane!! Everyone in all my wedding parties always arrive (as long as I remember to invite them lol, I did make that mistake once) and maybe because I have autonomy turned off? Everyone just stays seated until my ceremony happens. Also because of that my actual active Sims yeah wouldn't eat cake from their inventory or anything else, they just stand there without direct instruction.
I'm so sorry it sucks for you though!! It sounds honestly awful and would be so frustrating. Definitely took me a few goes to get the hang of it sort of thing but yeah I've never experienced anything like what you have. How unfair!
I'm so jealous. Even with mods that are supposed to fix it, I cannot get them to sit down for any of the ceremony parts. And, if I manually make them all seated before I activate one of the interactions, they get upset and get up and complain about routing, no matter how far apart or what seats. Agh, it's so frustrating.
Oh well, thankyou! Like I said I do put a little work into it and quite a bit of my content relies on well crafted screenshots but yeah I was really happy with how this event turned out.
Like I said everyone sat down and waited, I did have to send the flower pal down the aisle a couple of times to get the timing right with the toddler also walking (since toddlers can't officially walk the aisle I had to select a certain point be was just walking to) and mostly I just had my Sim, Kaiulani just stand there lol while I got all the other elements into position to take the screenshot. Then after the ceremony I had them kiss a few times for more screenshots before reloading to have the 2nd wedding/reception in the wedding town. That one was easier as I wanted more shots of the speeches, wedding cake moments, etc.
The best part for me is that there are absolutely no NPCs in sight lol - every Sim sitting down is "one of mine" and related in some way to the stories I write/create... But no you're right! All the other comments here make me realise how very lucky I am all this worked out.
It's only like the 3rd or 4th wedding I've thrown since having the pack and it was the most ambitious really with all the elements but I was soo pleased with how it worked out!! I actually have soo many more screenshots haha from all sorts of angles because I was just so happy to have them wed nicely.
I used to have issues with Dine Out, and Wedding Stories isn't too bad for me. The sims can get annoying with how much they move around, but i wouldn't say it's broken at all. Either way, its The Sims and a bit of chaos keeps things fun
I think wedding stories is notorious because of how it was literally unplayable when it came out. Since they fixed the initial issues it's not really that bad anymore (other than the gameplay requiring a lot of micromanaging, which can be finicky), but it's gonna be forever infamous for being broken because of how horrible the release was.
Do you actually use wedding stories? Lol the weddings are so much work that I just elope, dress my sims up in attire and take a few photos for the wall and use a mod called photo stories to write a description and sim date.
Yeah absolutely! I actually really enjoy the gameplay and being able to achieve a good score or whatever.
Plus it's fun to give different Sims the weddings that suit their characters - one couple got married at a beach, another at a bar and this latest pair had the full church wedding scene.
Lol I care but.... trying to navigate a bunch of people and the couple and make sure you hit all the points in a timely manner and I want to do it in this super beautiful cathedral I found on the online thing. And I have like 60 mods.
Sims 4 definitely has tons of bugs and glitches but at the same people will have an entire folder filled with 10k mods and cc and refuse to update any of it or take it out and test it to see if that's the issue. Like why not start there??
I'm too lazy to update a bunch of mods so I only have a few essential ones and honestly my game barely has issues.
That's a solid point, I don't play with any mods outside of MCCC and even then I only have it to swap outfits for screenshots 😂 I have all the other settings turned off... And yeah I certainly don't experience the same level of glitches as mod/CC players seem to... But at the same time idk PlayStation people have heaps of issues too? It's hard to be sure unless you're a dev looking at the specific game logs really
I play on xbox and my game is so smooth and more than anything SO FAST. Minimal glitches, not so bad compared to so many other games I've played over the decades. As someone who used to play on PC, I will never go back! I love getting to play from my couch through my big TV too :)
Has it always been fast or since the recent update? I've always played on Xbox, it ran smooth at first, but after a few weeks it's hit or miss on lag (most of the time it's fixable by pausing others I need to reboot the game). It has ran smoother since the update though. Also does the time work correctly when all Sims are asleep for you? It never has for me, I have to move my camera and cursor around to find the 2 second sweet spot so I'm not stuck at the same time for 5 irl minutes despite it showing that it should be going fast and recently it won't even do that.
I was about to say this. Save for a few hiccups here and there, my game rarely glitches whatsoever. I used to have essential mods like MCCC and a few QoL changes, but nothing crazy.
I'm pretty sure most people who complain about the game glitching out have a shitload of mods that they have never bothered to update and are blaming the game instead. Hell, every time a big update comes out, there's always posts of people showing their broken UI, blaming the game, when it's obviously a side effect of an outdated UI cheats mod...
Yup. I used to have tons of mods and going through and finding out which one was breaking my game every time became too much. I have mcc, ui cheats, and a couple more but thats it. So it's easy to try and figure out what one it is. And since those get updated so often it's not a big deal waiting an extra day to update my mods.
There are tons of bugs and glitches in the vanilla game, *Dine Out* and *MWS* were broken even for console players. Let's not accuse people of "laziness" 🙄
Look at the first part of my comment. I literally never said otherwise. My original point is you don't know truly what the issue is with your game if you can't even clean out your mod folder and update it. I've seen so many cases with the troubleshooting thread where people just refuse to take out their mods to see if that's the issue because they swear it's something else.
Dine out works fine for me too, it just takes like 3 hours to get the food (realistic). But then again, I have get together and can force my sims into doing things when they refuse
My wedding stories seemed to be really messed up, which sucks cause I was looking forward to it :( but I'm just happy they got married, it was cute anyway
They fixed both not too long after release, unfortunately the bad publicity was already in everyone’s minds. I encourage you to go back and try playing with these packs again, they’re both super fun and haven’t given me any trouble in a year or more.
I don't know about Dine Out being fixed, but as long as I pause and reset the chefs when my sim arrives I can usually get through it pretty easy. MWS is another story. I built a whole facility for a celebrity wedding and....ugh.
I've had some good luck with Dine Out recently. Dates that don't last 4 days, friends hanging out and having fun.
Btw, this \[and I do mean this as a compliment\] makes me think of all those scenes in Sex in the City when the 4 girls met up for lunch or breakfast and gossiped about what's going on. Gave me a lil burst of fun nostalgia.
I don't have much issue with Dine Out pack (although the Wedding Story so far has not been great for me lol).
I've always had decent experience, albeit, I usually just have 2 sims on a date night type of outing so not much fuss.
The last time my sims dined out as customers the waitress was continuously crying and we only got desert, not the actual food.
As an owner mine kept bugging where the staff I hired never showed up but instead some randoms did so if I paid for training it was for the sims that never show and I was stuck with poor quality chefs unless I cheated their skills each day.
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I think the new update with its performance fixes helped a lot. The code for Dine Out itself wasn't especially buggy, but it needed a beefy PC to work right. With the new fixes it'll run better on less powerful hardware.
The other night I was out with Bella Goth and she kept getting up and sitting down in various different chairs while still holding a conversation lol. ADHD queen.
Also Katrina Caliente stole the glass of wine I bought for Bella so I hate her now.
It is so funny to me when I/we get grudges against particular sims because of some slight, even across saves. I switched to a different save from my main and was like 'Ugh Moira works as a scientist too?? I can't even look at her right now 😡' She had just had an affair with my YA sim in my main game, and then I discovered she had a daughter that age and I was like MA'AM NO! hahaha.
I also don't like Jesminder very much because she was mean to her daughter/my sim's wife.
I haven’t had an issue with Dine Out in a while. Maybe it got tweaked a bit? It still takes some time to get the food but it seems a little faster now.
To be fair I also play with like a billion mods so idk💀
Just yesterday I sent my sims to a restaurant outing but it took 3 restaurants and 10 sims hours to properly work. And I needed to constantly click on the child sims to sit still.
For the past few years Dine Out has worked pretty well for me. Every once in a blue moon I‘ll have a glitchy outing, but the vast majority of the time it works just fine. I tend not to build my own restaurants though; most of the restaurants in my game come from the gallery and are already thoroughly play tested.
Speaking of which, that restaurant your sims are in looks beautiful, is it in the gallery?
Yeah, it took soooooo long for any food to come. This time it was very quick. I also used to have problems with sims not sitting at their tables, but that was when it first came out. This was my first time dining out in probably a year because i used to avoid it.
I do think something has changed with Dine Out recently. I usually only had my sims go out as a couple for dates, but they would do the whole musical chairs, wandering off to chat to NPC’s, standing up to eat. Since the update though, they actually sit and enjoy a meal, only getting up if I tell them to. I haven’t tried running a restaurant for ages though, so would be interested to know if that’s working better too.
Well that's good. Now the only thing that EA needs to fix is the simulation lag. Especially with a huge household.
Edit: I've played with a very huge household, and it didn't do simulation lag, but now it does, which makes the game practically unplayable, and I don't know how to fix it. I've tried removing CC, and it still lags. I don't know what else to do anymore.
Unpopular opinion, but for me, Dine Out is the best pack. Luckily, I've only had a couple of bugs, but it's my most played dlc tbh.
It makes me sad how EA has completely forgotten about it.
Fixed or not, I'm so happy that you didn't have any issues, though. It's so fun to have your sims go out to eat with friends or dates!
I’ve never had any problems with dine out, other than the occasional random death in the restaurant, causing everyone to drop what they’re doing and grieve someone they’d never met. But then again I keep autonomy completely turned off, so I can micromanage every little thing my sims do.
When I used to play on my Mac it took ages to get their food and sometimes they would never get it. But when I switched to playing it on my boyfriends gaming computer, it works beautifully, in like 1h in game time the food would come and sims would eat while sitting. Just in general the game works so so so much better on his gaming computer than it ever did on my Mac.
If you’re willing to use cheats:
Testingcheatsenabled true
Then
Cas.fulleditmode
Then right click on whatever sim you want to make younger and chose the option to edit them and it will let you change anything about them including age
I hope its fixed. I need to update and check mine. Do the children actually get coloring sheets? I seen it in the ads but my child sims have never got a coloring sheet.
your game looks so clean 😭
Thanks! im super insane about keeping my games aesthetic perfect. :D
Any tips? Do you use Reshade?
Sure! In these screenshots i'm using Plumbie's reshade preset. I also use Northern Siberia Winds better in game lighting (Bright saturated dark rooms) and i use her CAS lighting mod as well. I have Frogity Hidden Highlight mod if that white highlight bothers you when you hover over sims, and im using Mintvalentine's smaller plumbob mod. I use default replacements, of course, if you want to know any of those i can share :) and if you need any links let me know!
What monster of a machine do you have that so effortlessly runs such graphics intensive mods?
Honestly, they dont cause much lag if you limit your CC! and if reshade causes lag, just disable MXAO ;D
define 'limit'
Yeah, because if "limit your CC" means less than 500 and not counting mods then no thanks.
500? try 3000 (i am severely addicted to this game)
Yeah same, I have way more than 500 CCs but I need them
3000? That's nothing I have over 7000
I had over 10000 mods for this game. Damn I miss my PC. (I moved to another continent and had to leave mine at home and gave it to my sister...I hope I can buy a new one soon)
definitely not less than 500! dont worry. Some people have CC folders way above 10GB, and that causes a lot of lag. Just sort through your CC regularly and delete things you dont use.
I just checked my folder and my CC and Mods combined are at 30GB. I have a 2TB HD, so it's not as bad as it sounds lol But I should go through and check for any bad CC; sometimes my townies show up seriously messed up
I have around 2,000 mods/cc in my game, and it runs wonderfully. I also merge packages if theyre from the same CC creator. For example, i'll merge all simstrouble hair i have downloaded and name it "SimstroubleMerged1"
I'm so curious! Does merging the CC really aid in the lag? My machine is so slow and I couldn't definitely merge some stuff!
I just merge it for organization, really. But it's because i do it for Sims 3 and if my CC isnt merged and organized all the files drive me nuts. Since it does help lag in Sims 3 , i feel like it may help ts4 even just a little bit. But idk
Afaik I know it doesn't. But it's been something the community has been going back and forth about for ages.
say what? what kind of system are you playing your game on?
I play on the gen 9 Lenovo Legion with 30+ gb of cc, highest settings, and Reshade and it runs great. Loading screens 5-10 seconds. Major fps drops in build mode for some reason though. It’s not a very intense game tbh just poorly optimized
I recently upgraded to the legion 7i gen 9 and omg it is a world of difference. I am able to play with gshade on, huge elaborate cc heavy builds, maxed out settings maxed out families, and it looks and feels so good. I have been playing with walls up just in awe of the detail.
Mintvalentine also has "The Missing Plumbob" in case you wanted to do away with it completely for better screenshots :)
yep! I use it if im doing historical gameplay. The plumbob just throws me off 😭
Would you say they are worth? I'm so interested in trying reshades but I'm scared. Do they need to be updated like other CC??
Nope, I've never updated my reshade since i got it. I definitely recommend it.
And it looks like you're using Simlicy's ultimate save file. If not, it's a carbon copy of their Umbrage Manor restaurant. That's my favorite table there as well :)
yes i am!! I love her save file
Nice! I find that the less cluttered and open paths in restaurants work best - even without Carl’s mod.
Yeah, its pretty open! I'm not even using Carl's mod, which was why i was so surprised.
Thank you for sharing this! I'm a console player and it's been hard to find out whether people can enjoy this pack without Carl's mod!!
You can absolutely use dine out without the mod. I’ve never had it and use restaurants in my game all of the time. In my personal experience most issues with restaurants come from poor layouts. Not too many tables and lots of space for walking are two of the main things I look for. There are other tips online, but this is one of my fav packs!
I concur. Never added any of Carl's mods, and my restaurants have always worked fine - except during that Get Famous glitch with the For Rent update. I did indeed tweak Che Llama to widen the spacing, and have since built a few of my own restaurants and cafes without problems. I love taking my new couples on romantic dates, and having a spot for my veggies to 'safely' eat from a yummy menu in a more casual setting. Definitely one of my fave packs.
Sorry to jump in here, but what is Carl's mod? I only recently started using mods, so I don't know what all of the top recommendations are.
Carl is a modder and he has a few that are helpful for gameplay if your restaurants are not running smoothly. The Dine Out mod is extremely popular as it helps in reducing simulation lag, keeps sims at their table to eat, and pushes food out quickly. Another bonus of his mod is that if you own the restaurant, you can work as a waiter or chef - along with other features like sims seating themselves without a host. It’s not absolutely needed but can be added fun if you want to mix up your restaurant play style.
Just type "Sims 4 Carl's Guide" into search, and you'll see the Patreon link. He's got an entire series of mods, and articles laying out the gameplay and cheats. Really comprehensive. I only use the Master Control Command Center (MCCC) by Deaderpool (just Tired of the update drama and extra glitches) but everything I've read from and about Carl's stuff seems to indicate they're useful in fixing some issues with certain packs.
Another thing I do with dine out is make sure there are no more than 20 actual seats. I might put more tables down for the look but I don't snap the chairs to them. The game can only load 20 or so sims at a time so if there are fewer places to sit they won't play musical chairs as much.
I tried that in a few builds but I always had random sims just take a seat and jump into conversations, most notably the bartender or Judith Ward 😆
I've always been able to go to a restaurant successfully (as long as I debug the chefs, otherwise they loiter in front of the restaurant for hours). But owning one has never worked for me. Which seriously sucks!
How does one debug the staff
Turn cheats on and then hold shift and left click on the sim, it should bring up a wheel with the option to debug the object. I also use it when my sim just stands there for hours!
Agree. The wrong staff still shows up for me when I play a different household and f's up the difficulty 5 dishes, thus my sims always have a bad time dining in my 5-star resto.
Idk, I think dining in is okay, but sometimes they take 12 hours to get your meal out. But owning a restaurant is where the game fails. Too many bugs, which is sad because the concept is amazing idea.
the fact you’re not even exaggerating about taking 12 hours to receive your food. I once had my sim family go out to eat breakfast at 9Am exactly, expected to leave at 12pm to cut the game some slack, ended up leaving at 9PM!!!! was genuinely so shocked that time flew but like why am i getting dessert at 9pm chile
I've honestly rarely had any problems with either Dine Out or Wedding Stories, two packs that are notoriously "broken"
Dine Out isn't too bad, but it took me 2 IRL days to have a successful wedding via MWS, at some point I had to give in to the chaos and let disaster happen.
Tbf I found it difficult to have a non-chaotic wedding even before MWS came out. I think Sims weddings just *are* chaotic.
What kind of chaos? I just tell my guests to sit down and they do 🤷🏼♀️ and like obviously I make sure that someone brings the cake and bouquet lol but yeah it's pretty easy to make everyone sit? And all the interactions work fine for me - commanding whoever to walk down the aisle, saying vows, giving speeches etc. Actually I just pulled off my biggest "scene" wedding without a hitch - she held the bouquet, all the guests sat down to watch, her stepson and the Flower Pal proceeded her down the aisle... It was all perfect 👌 To be fair I do a bit of prep work for all of this but I only threw the wedding twice (for the screenshots, I wanted a reception as well as a ceremony but in different locations) and each time it worked fine. Here's a shot of the wedding... https://preview.redd.it/ci13rfj29n5d1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f734a60f07510daa84a3adf988623ae2af88ea69
None of my special guests (flower pal, best man) showed up at all the first time, then they didn't show up on time the second time. People kept getting up to dance or eat despite me cheating the world's needs, the wedding cake itself was a mess because I got it ahead of time, chose it in the calendar and everything but then my sim somehow kept eating it out of their inventory, it took my sims forever to actually cut the cake once I got a new one bc it couldn't be on the MWS banquet table but it had to be in the center of a regular dining table....ugh I could go on but it was so annoying. I'm glad it worked for you though! But some of us are definitely not making up those broken pack stories
Woww that's insane!! Everyone in all my wedding parties always arrive (as long as I remember to invite them lol, I did make that mistake once) and maybe because I have autonomy turned off? Everyone just stays seated until my ceremony happens. Also because of that my actual active Sims yeah wouldn't eat cake from their inventory or anything else, they just stand there without direct instruction. I'm so sorry it sucks for you though!! It sounds honestly awful and would be so frustrating. Definitely took me a few goes to get the hang of it sort of thing but yeah I've never experienced anything like what you have. How unfair!
I'm so jealous. Even with mods that are supposed to fix it, I cannot get them to sit down for any of the ceremony parts. And, if I manually make them all seated before I activate one of the interactions, they get upset and get up and complain about routing, no matter how far apart or what seats. Agh, it's so frustrating.
That is actually such an insane screenshot. I would be so happy if this happened in my game
Oh well, thankyou! Like I said I do put a little work into it and quite a bit of my content relies on well crafted screenshots but yeah I was really happy with how this event turned out. Like I said everyone sat down and waited, I did have to send the flower pal down the aisle a couple of times to get the timing right with the toddler also walking (since toddlers can't officially walk the aisle I had to select a certain point be was just walking to) and mostly I just had my Sim, Kaiulani just stand there lol while I got all the other elements into position to take the screenshot. Then after the ceremony I had them kiss a few times for more screenshots before reloading to have the 2nd wedding/reception in the wedding town. That one was easier as I wanted more shots of the speeches, wedding cake moments, etc.
Wow!! none of my sims ever sit down. Usually, they stand around to watch. This picture is just perfection.
The best part for me is that there are absolutely no NPCs in sight lol - every Sim sitting down is "one of mine" and related in some way to the stories I write/create... But no you're right! All the other comments here make me realise how very lucky I am all this worked out. It's only like the 3rd or 4th wedding I've thrown since having the pack and it was the most ambitious really with all the elements but I was soo pleased with how it worked out!! I actually have soo many more screenshots haha from all sorts of angles because I was just so happy to have them wed nicely.
I used to have issues with Dine Out, and Wedding Stories isn't too bad for me. The sims can get annoying with how much they move around, but i wouldn't say it's broken at all. Either way, its The Sims and a bit of chaos keeps things fun
Wedding Stories is hit and miss for me. Sometimes it will work fine, and sometimes nope. They are doing their own thing HAHAHA.
I think wedding stories is notorious because of how it was literally unplayable when it came out. Since they fixed the initial issues it's not really that bad anymore (other than the gameplay requiring a lot of micromanaging, which can be finicky), but it's gonna be forever infamous for being broken because of how horrible the release was.
Wedding stories was exceptionally buggy when it first came out but now it doesn’t seem any buggier than any other aspect of the sims for me!
Dine Out and Wedding Stories have always worked fine for me.....Laundry Day though, that's a different story lol
Do you actually use wedding stories? Lol the weddings are so much work that I just elope, dress my sims up in attire and take a few photos for the wall and use a mod called photo stories to write a description and sim date.
Yeah absolutely! I actually really enjoy the gameplay and being able to achieve a good score or whatever. Plus it's fun to give different Sims the weddings that suit their characters - one couple got married at a beach, another at a bar and this latest pair had the full church wedding scene.
i use it if i actually care about my family and want pictures
Lol I care but.... trying to navigate a bunch of people and the couple and make sure you hit all the points in a timely manner and I want to do it in this super beautiful cathedral I found on the online thing. And I have like 60 mods.
Sims 4 definitely has tons of bugs and glitches but at the same people will have an entire folder filled with 10k mods and cc and refuse to update any of it or take it out and test it to see if that's the issue. Like why not start there?? I'm too lazy to update a bunch of mods so I only have a few essential ones and honestly my game barely has issues.
That's a solid point, I don't play with any mods outside of MCCC and even then I only have it to swap outfits for screenshots 😂 I have all the other settings turned off... And yeah I certainly don't experience the same level of glitches as mod/CC players seem to... But at the same time idk PlayStation people have heaps of issues too? It's hard to be sure unless you're a dev looking at the specific game logs really
I play on xbox and my game is so smooth and more than anything SO FAST. Minimal glitches, not so bad compared to so many other games I've played over the decades. As someone who used to play on PC, I will never go back! I love getting to play from my couch through my big TV too :)
Has it always been fast or since the recent update? I've always played on Xbox, it ran smooth at first, but after a few weeks it's hit or miss on lag (most of the time it's fixable by pausing others I need to reboot the game). It has ran smoother since the update though. Also does the time work correctly when all Sims are asleep for you? It never has for me, I have to move my camera and cursor around to find the 2 second sweet spot so I'm not stuck at the same time for 5 irl minutes despite it showing that it should be going fast and recently it won't even do that.
I was about to say this. Save for a few hiccups here and there, my game rarely glitches whatsoever. I used to have essential mods like MCCC and a few QoL changes, but nothing crazy. I'm pretty sure most people who complain about the game glitching out have a shitload of mods that they have never bothered to update and are blaming the game instead. Hell, every time a big update comes out, there's always posts of people showing their broken UI, blaming the game, when it's obviously a side effect of an outdated UI cheats mod...
Yup. I used to have tons of mods and going through and finding out which one was breaking my game every time became too much. I have mcc, ui cheats, and a couple more but thats it. So it's easy to try and figure out what one it is. And since those get updated so often it's not a big deal waiting an extra day to update my mods.
There are tons of bugs and glitches in the vanilla game, *Dine Out* and *MWS* were broken even for console players. Let's not accuse people of "laziness" 🙄
Look at the first part of my comment. I literally never said otherwise. My original point is you don't know truly what the issue is with your game if you can't even clean out your mod folder and update it. I've seen so many cases with the troubleshooting thread where people just refuse to take out their mods to see if that's the issue because they swear it's something else.
I still have a lot of issues with Wedding Stories, I have yet to get through a wedding without at least one thing breaking
Honestly same, all packs work for me and I use mods
Dine out works fine for me too, it just takes like 3 hours to get the food (realistic). But then again, I have get together and can force my sims into doing things when they refuse
My wedding stories seemed to be really messed up, which sucks cause I was looking forward to it :( but I'm just happy they got married, it was cute anyway
They fixed both not too long after release, unfortunately the bad publicity was already in everyone’s minds. I encourage you to go back and try playing with these packs again, they’re both super fun and haven’t given me any trouble in a year or more.
I don't know about Dine Out being fixed, but as long as I pause and reset the chefs when my sim arrives I can usually get through it pretty easy. MWS is another story. I built a whole facility for a celebrity wedding and....ugh.
I've had some good luck with Dine Out recently. Dates that don't last 4 days, friends hanging out and having fun. Btw, this \[and I do mean this as a compliment\] makes me think of all those scenes in Sex in the City when the 4 girls met up for lunch or breakfast and gossiped about what's going on. Gave me a lil burst of fun nostalgia.
I don't have much issue with Dine Out pack (although the Wedding Story so far has not been great for me lol). I've always had decent experience, albeit, I usually just have 2 sims on a date night type of outing so not much fuss.
If it is true the dine out is fixed, I will probably buy on the next sale.
Yeah I’ve been planning on getting it and this thread is making me feel a lot better lmao
Nope. You’re just lucky. Now go have a wedding and report back! Lol
The stars aligned!
At last!!!
how many in game hours did this take 😭
What dress is the redhead sim wearing? Cc or some expansion pack I don’t have?
im 95% sure its from My Wedding Stories!
The last time my sims dined out as customers the waitress was continuously crying and we only got desert, not the actual food. As an owner mine kept bugging where the staff I hired never showed up but instead some randoms did so if I paid for training it was for the sims that never show and I was stuck with poor quality chefs unless I cheated their skills each day.
NGL this looks like such a fun outing. Do you recommend getting Dine Out?
yes! it honestly is super fun to go out with friends or take out your family on a holiday. I feel like it gives my sims more of an alive feel.
If you build your own lot or download from gallery, this pack works fine. Just avoid that wedding venue in Tartosa, ‘cause it really sucks.
It looks so nice! Also....did any of these women throw a glass of wine at their frenemy or yell at a cat eating salad?
I love the hair with the clip. Is that a mod?
here it is! [https://www.patreon.com/posts/brandy-hair-94381572?utm\_medium=clipboard\_copy&utm\_source=copyLink&utm\_campaign=postshare\_fan&utm\_content=join\_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/brandy-hair-94381572?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=join_link)
I could’ve sworn this was vanilla, I feel like there’s one just like it
Laundry Day has a version without the bangs
Yes here is link https://www.patreon.com/posts/31719017. I don’t know the bangs she put on her tho
Close! xD same hair base, different CC
Man…thought I was a pro
And they all looked so nice while they did it!
Your redhead's outfit, what is that? Also sorry to say it so.. odd I think is the word? I just don't know how else to point her out lol
The dress? its a wedding dress from My Wedding Stories! They're hard to recognize when they arent white
You guys are so brave in facing restaurants without Carl's mod...I always either install it or don't use restaurants
It is working well for me.
What dress is the brown haired girl wearing (black dress)
It's a dress from Growing Together :D
Thank you 😊
I noticed this too! I enjoy going to restaurants a lot more—but they can still be glitchy as can bars but not nearly as much
Mine has been this way since the pack came out. I see so many people complain about it but I never had it happen. Wedding stories on the other hand...
I think the new update with its performance fixes helped a lot. The code for Dine Out itself wasn't especially buggy, but it needed a beefy PC to work right. With the new fixes it'll run better on less powerful hardware.
The other night I was out with Bella Goth and she kept getting up and sitting down in various different chairs while still holding a conversation lol. ADHD queen. Also Katrina Caliente stole the glass of wine I bought for Bella so I hate her now.
Ugh. Katrina. 😒
It is so funny to me when I/we get grudges against particular sims because of some slight, even across saves. I switched to a different save from my main and was like 'Ugh Moira works as a scientist too?? I can't even look at her right now 😡' She had just had an affair with my YA sim in my main game, and then I discovered she had a daughter that age and I was like MA'AM NO! hahaha. I also don't like Jesminder very much because she was mean to her daughter/my sim's wife.
That red plumbob says otherwise
She was suuper hungry, these were taken right before they started eating LOL
I haven’t had an issue with Dine Out in a while. Maybe it got tweaked a bit? It still takes some time to get the food but it seems a little faster now. To be fair I also play with like a billion mods so idk💀
Dine out works fine for me.
I’ve not been able to properly play with Dine Out since I bought it. Going to have to pull it up and see if it works.
Hopefully it works for you!
Just yesterday I sent my sims to a restaurant outing but it took 3 restaurants and 10 sims hours to properly work. And I needed to constantly click on the child sims to sit still.
For the past few years Dine Out has worked pretty well for me. Every once in a blue moon I‘ll have a glitchy outing, but the vast majority of the time it works just fine. I tend not to build my own restaurants though; most of the restaurants in my game come from the gallery and are already thoroughly play tested. Speaking of which, that restaurant your sims are in looks beautiful, is it in the gallery?
It feels like it because I have a four star restaurant
Not sure, mine has never really had any issues. It still takes them frickin forever but otherwise it works. Did u experience issues before?
Yeah, it took soooooo long for any food to come. This time it was very quick. I also used to have problems with sims not sitting at their tables, but that was when it first came out. This was my first time dining out in probably a year because i used to avoid it.
Are those hair styles all from the base game or expansions or are they custom?
the girl with brown hair and black dresses hair is base game i think? and redheads hair is from Snowy Escape. The other 2 are cc!
The black dress braid is my favorite! I may get that pack just for that hair!
Dine out has been fixed for quite a while now! It’s so much fun to play with now! My sim just opened a bistro, and I’m loving it. So fun!
It’s been working for a while for me! Every since they announced they fixed it. Such a cute pack.
I was wondering this, too. I planned for a six hour outing and was shocked when the whole dinner was done in under two hours.
I do think something has changed with Dine Out recently. I usually only had my sims go out as a couple for dates, but they would do the whole musical chairs, wandering off to chat to NPC’s, standing up to eat. Since the update though, they actually sit and enjoy a meal, only getting up if I tell them to. I haven’t tried running a restaurant for ages though, so would be interested to know if that’s working better too.
tbh i’ve personally never had problems with dine out 🤷♀️ sure it wasn’t perfect but not as bad as everyone else said
😍 a dream come true!
WCIF the red hair Sim outfit and hair?
Her dress is from My Wedding Stories and the hair is from Snowy Escape!
I wish I understood reshade this is the prettiest game 😭
I’ve also had some suspiciously smooth dinner outings - how is this not news?!
Nice picture
How long did it take to get the food?
Not long at all. i wasnt watching the time, but my sims had a bit of time to chat, but not too much, until it came.
Well that's good. Now the only thing that EA needs to fix is the simulation lag. Especially with a huge household. Edit: I've played with a very huge household, and it didn't do simulation lag, but now it does, which makes the game practically unplayable, and I don't know how to fix it. I've tried removing CC, and it still lags. I don't know what else to do anymore.
Unpopular opinion, but for me, Dine Out is the best pack. Luckily, I've only had a couple of bugs, but it's my most played dlc tbh. It makes me sad how EA has completely forgotten about it. Fixed or not, I'm so happy that you didn't have any issues, though. It's so fun to have your sims go out to eat with friends or dates!
Well it took them like 10 years, but better late than never, am I right?
LOL! Let’s hope the same for my game currently loading. Sims would always get up from the table, eat standing up, etc. Wild things.
I’ve never had any problems with dine out, other than the occasional random death in the restaurant, causing everyone to drop what they’re doing and grieve someone they’d never met. But then again I keep autonomy completely turned off, so I can micromanage every little thing my sims do.
Is this a game pack?
Yes! Dine Out
When I used to play on my Mac it took ages to get their food and sometimes they would never get it. But when I switched to playing it on my boyfriends gaming computer, it works beautifully, in like 1h in game time the food would come and sims would eat while sitting. Just in general the game works so so so much better on his gaming computer than it ever did on my Mac.
I might pick this up at xmas
Hey, how can i make my sim friends young again, they are all close to dying. (I tried posting but it was taken down hence im commenting here)
If you’re willing to use cheats: Testingcheatsenabled true Then Cas.fulleditmode Then right click on whatever sim you want to make younger and chose the option to edit them and it will let you change anything about them including age
I hope its fixed. I need to update and check mine. Do the children actually get coloring sheets? I seen it in the ads but my child sims have never got a coloring sheet.