That is a kind of articles the place, for as soon as, the headline says all of it. Although, for some context: I used to be one in every of many followers who flocked to buy The Sims twenty fifth Anniversary Bundle this weekend, earlier than rapidly sinking over 25 hours into the sport in simply two days, solely to discover a good portion of that point was spent dealing with all method of bugs and crashes that had been disrupting the moderately idyllic lifetime of my nuclear household of Sims. These didn’t hassle me an excessive amount of on the entire, till I bumped into one thing that might, finally, damage my household’s life (in-game).
One in all these bugs, and arguably essentially the most troublesome, concerned my beloved pets. At this level in my Sims’ lives, I used to be nicely on my means with assembly their Lifetime Aspirations; one Sim needed to achieve success within the leisure profession which is simple sufficient, whereas their husband — who didn’t fancy getting a job for himself — needed to have 5 pets in top-level careers bringing dwelling the bacon for him.
Now, if a Sim desires a promotion at work, they should work on the abilities related to that job: Logic, Charisma, Creativity and so forth. Is sensible. Equally, if a pet desires a promotion at work (sure, they’ll get jobs), they have to be taught new instructions that they’ll impress their feline and canine friends with. That is the place every part begins to go improper.
Each of my Sims — my slapstick comedian wifey having lastly bought a time without work work — get right down to enterprise educating all of our pets the mandatory instructions for profitable careers in pet showbiz. They don’t sleep. The primary pet to go to work, given that every one the others skipped work as a consequence of being too busy studying these new instructions (oops), is Maliketh. He’s a rottweiler who, so far as I’m conscious, just isn’t bearing the Rune of Loss of life that his Elden Ring namesake is famend for, however what occurred subsequent had me reconsidering.
Maliketh is promoted at work, and I rejoice. One pet down, simply 4 extra to go, besides Maliketh had different concepts. As his carpool rolls onto our highway and he hops out the passenger seat, my sport crashes. I hadn’t saved for hours. I boot issues again as much as see Maliketh and two of our cats — Malenia and Rennala — nonetheless current, nevertheless it seems I’ve misplaced two kittens (RIP Morgott and Godrick) and two infants (Boy 2 and Boy 3) within the course of.
“Oh nicely,” I feel. That is The Sims 2 in spite of everything. Crashes are inevitable in relation to a sport that’s twenty years outdated, proper? I proceed the place I left off. I instantly get my Sims right down to enterprise attempting to have youngsters to fill the void of the 2 which have since been misplaced by Maliketh, and as soon as that’s carried out, they’re again to educating our remaining pets new instructions. Ultimately, Maliketh goes to work once more; this time, I save my sport.
Certain sufficient, the pet is promoted and also you’d suppose he’d be glad about it. Alas, no. He returns dwelling as soon as extra and as quickly as his paws hit the pavement, my sport ceases to perform. Now, this crash was humorous the primary time with the head-canon I had occurring surrounding Maliketh, and even a second time, confirming that Maliketh was in-fact the difficulty, bought a very good giggle out of me. Although, the place was I to go from there? How was my pet-loving, employment-hating husband ever going to meet his lifetime needs if each time Maliketh went to work, bought promoted, and got here dwelling, it was like a literal death-bearing demigod was upon us?
Now, there’s a moderately finicky non permanent repair for this for gamers who allow cheats. As your pet returns dwelling from work, gamers can use the debug menu as their pet exits the carpool — this needs to be carried out as they go away the automobile however earlier than they enter the lot — after which reset the pet. For full particulars of the non permanent repair whereas we eagerly anticipate a patch, check out this submit in The Sims 2 assist subreddit.
When you’re as an alternative extra interested by precisely why this problem is affecting gamers, as I used to be, this thread on EA’s Boards provides an evidence. Merely put, each time a pet is promoted and returns from work, the sport is supposed to unlock a random unlockable for them — fur colors and collars — and these unlockables are usually not a part of The Sims 2 Legacy Assortment. In consequence, the sport seems to combust each time it tries to unlock a collar or fur color that doesn’t really exist within the video games’ information because of a pet’s promotion.
I’ll be trustworthy, I merely couldn’t be bothered doing the above steps each single time one in every of my pets bought dwelling from work. I prefer to play The Sims at double or triple velocity so much, simply to see what chaos ensues when my Sims are left to their very own gadgets; this simply wouldn’t be doable with employed pets. I’d must preserve a meticulous eye on issues, and nicely, half my enjoyable within the Sims comes from not retaining as shut an eye fixed on issues as I ought to. Although, that did additionally see a number of of my Sims die within the first few hours of taking part in. Such is life in Strangetown!
So, that is the place I restarted my sport altogether virtually twenty hours later after persevering with completely different, much less disruptive bugs and crashes prior, hoping my in-game husband would have needs that don’t contain pets rocketing to stardom.
Maliketh, who now stays in The Sims 2’s household bin, I hope we will someday — offered EA deploys a repair for this sooner or later in future — provide the showbiz profession you deserve.
