What’s in the latest update for The Sims 4? The creators decided to amuse us a bit… or rather scare us.
A brand new and complete game update has just been introduced to The Sims 4, fixing some important issues and introducing a completely new main menu that has been heavily refreshed. Now it looks more modern but still kept in a minimalist tone.
In addition, the developers also decided to have a bit of fun with a well-known meme. It’s about a Sim that the entire Simomaniac community hates.
Update 26/04
The most recent full update of The Sims 4 appeared on April 26, 2022, and it focuses mainly on bug fixes and a complete change of the main menu. The Simmers, however, noticed something else. It is a meme that players see when they try to enter the game. The main menu of The Sims 4 looks like this:
The red-haired lady among the Simmers community was named the Ring Ring Girl a long time ago. Rather, it is not difficult to guess where the name comes from. Ring Ring Girl is a scary character who holds a phone in her hand and her expression seems truly frightening as if the woman is completely possessed.
The red-haired lady among the Simmers community was named the Ring Ring Girl a long time ago. Rather, it is not difficult to guess where the name comes from. Ring Ring Girl is a scary character who holds a phone in her hand and her expression seems truly frightening, as if the woman is completely possessed.
The creators of TS4 decided to make a little joke with their players and load the entire main screen with her. As it turns out, they really liked this meme, which is why Ring Ring Girl has taken over all of The Sims 4’s social media as well.
Game fixes
Ring Ring Girl and a completely new home screen are of course not all that came with the latest update. In addition, there were also bug fixes. What has changed this time?
The Sims 4
- Starting a Scenario and attempting to move your household in with an existing household will no longer silently end your Scenario. Now, you will need to complete or cancel your active Scenario before merging households.
- Fingernails should no longer clip into the fingers and look distorted while creating a Young Adult Female Sim in CAS. We are continuing to review distorted nails in other situations so keep an eye out for additional fixes in this area in future updates.
- For Simmers on PlayStation and Xbox running into an issue with dropping walls and moving between floors with the D-Pad, we have good news! We have implemented a fix which should restore your D-Pad functionality. If you continue to run into issues please reach out to us on Answers HQ.
- Simmers that chose to cancel the process of saving a built up lot to My Library while the Lot thumbnails were being generated could find themselves temporarily locked out of navigating the Lot or would experience graphical flickering. This performance impact should now be resolved and the thumbnails will no longer generate behind the scenes after canceling the Save Lot process.
- We have tidied up the Game Options menu a little by removing the Fill In Empty Lots option. This particular option has been superseded with Neighborhood Stories and the “Move In” functionality.
- Pulling a prank and breaking the toilet is all fun and games, until you can’t repair it which is exactly what happened to the Sweet Escapes Country Toilet. The toilet is now repairable by your skilled Sims or by calling in a repair service.
- While planning an event, jumping between Invite Sims and Select a Place tabs will be accurately reflected in the tab icons.
- The Origin In-Game overlay on PC should resize to the correct resolution if it was open during game client resolution changes.
- Selecting the button on a video window before the video finished playing was leaving some players with a gray screen. This should no longer happen.
Discover University
- University can be tough but re-enrolling after being suspended shouldn’t be one of those difficulties. Now when you get your acceptance letter in the mail your Sim will be able to head back and complete their higher education journey.
Outdoor retreat
- NPC’s were getting so stressed that they would make the De-stressing Decoction on the grill and then finish it on the stove. Now, they will no longer split their creation of this concoction between grills and stoves.
Decor to the Max
- The Circle of Infinity wall sculpture comes with plenty of warnings, but after getting lost staring into the circle of infinity, we went and sorted out that infinity frame, which didn’t accurately represent the lighting from the environment around it.