After amassing suggestions from The Sims 4 gamers, we have now made some massive adjustments to the Xbox model of the sport.
By well-liked demand, we’ve reversed some earlier adjustments 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 recreation modes. Right here’s what’s new:
Bumper Button Performance
It was once that the bumper buttons would have completely different features relying on what mode you had 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 swap between Sims in each CAS and Stay Mode. Sport velocity in Stay mode might be adjusted with the triggers.
Construct Catalog Adjustments
The Construct Catalog will now decrease when you choose an object to put. It will allow you to see extra of your present construct whilst you resolve the place to put the brand new object.
Once you return to the Construct Catalog you’ll now routinely return to the objects you had been most just 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 a different way than different objects in Construct Mode. They used Y as a substitute of the suitable and left bumper buttons. We’ve modified this to deliver them extra in keeping with the way in which different objects are dealt with. Now you’ll be capable of rotate these utilizing the suitable and left bumper buttons, the identical means you’d rotate anything.
As an alternative of rotating your doorways and home windows, the Y button will now will let you place a number of. With tiles, the Y button shall 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 loads of new shortcuts. For instance in CAS you’ll be able to press up on the d-pad to leap to the identification 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 the moment 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.
Whilst you’re getting used to those adjustments, it’s a good suggestion to go to the Different part beneath Sport Choices and allow Present Controls Legend. For those who don’t like on-screen prompts, you can even deliver 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 loads of bugs on this replace that had 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 article, then press proper or left on the d-pad to regulate the article’s measurement. 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 the event 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 adjustments 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 here.
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