After amassing suggestions from The Sims 4 gamers, now we have made some massive 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 features of buttons extra constant throughout completely different sport modes. Right here’s what’s new:
Bumper Button Performance
It was that the bumper buttons would have completely different features relying on what mode you have been in. In CAS (Create a Sim), the buttons switched between Sims, whereas in Stay Mode, they might modify how shortly time handed.
Now, the bumper buttons will change between Sims in each CAS and Stay Mode. Recreation velocity in Stay mode will be adjusted with the triggers.
Construct Catalog Adjustments
The Construct Catalog will now decrease when you choose an object to put. This may allow you to see extra of your present construct when you resolve the place to put the brand new object.
While you return to the Construct Catalog you’ll now routinely return to the objects you have been taking a look at most just lately. This may make it simpler to leap again into what you have been doing, making a sooner constructing and adorning course of.
Construct Mode Object Rotations
Home windows, doorways, and tiles used to rotate otherwise than different objects in Construct Mode. They used Y as a substitute of the suitable 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 be capable to rotate these utilizing the suitable and left bumper buttons, the identical method you’d rotate anything.
As a substitute of rotating your doorways and home windows, the Y button will now assist you to place a number of. With tiles, the Y button might be used to toggle between inserting a single tile or tiling the ground of a complete room.
Switching Cursor Modes
Now you can change cursor modes utilizing the View button.
New Shortcuts
We’ve added plenty of new shortcuts. For instance in CAS you may 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 presently down for some deliberate enhancements. When it comes again, Simmers taking part in 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 > Recreation Choices > Different and choosing Hyperlink EA Account.
Whilst you’re getting used to those modifications, it’s a good suggestion to go to the Different part below Recreation Choices and allow Present Controls Legend. When you don’t like on-screen prompts, it’s also possible to carry up the Controller Overlay by urgent L3. We’ve cleaned up the Controller overlay so that it’ll now not show extra or inaccurate button callouts.
Apart from these enhancements, we’ve additionally mounted plenty of bugs on this replace that have been affecting Xbox gamers. For instance, we’ve made it potential 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 heaps from being rotated in case you’ve used Transfer Lot, one other that was locking controls when viewing venue data for lots positioned from My Library or the Gallery, and an entire lot extra.
General, we’re assured these modifications will make gameplay much more intuitive for our Xbox Simmers. We’re grateful to our group members for his or her suggestions. Learn the complete patch notes right here.
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