The Sims 4 Addresses Xbox Fan Suggestions – Xbox Wire

After accumulating suggestions from The Sims 4 gamers, we now have made some huge adjustments to the Xbox model of the sport.

By fashionable 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 totally different sport modes. Right here’s what’s new:

Bumper Button Performance

It was once that the bumper buttons would have totally different features relying on what mode you had been in. In CAS (Create a Sim), the buttons switched between Sims, whereas in Reside Mode, they might modify how rapidly time handed.

Now, the bumper buttons will change between Sims in each CAS and Reside Mode. Recreation pace in Reside mode could be adjusted with the triggers.

Construct Catalog Adjustments

The Construct Catalog will now reduce when you choose an object to position. This can allow you to see extra of your present construct when you determine the place to position the brand new object.

While you return to the Construct Catalog you’ll now mechanically return to the objects you had been taking a look at most not too long ago. This can 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 carry them extra consistent with the best way different objects are dealt with. Now you’ll have the ability to rotate these utilizing the suitable and left bumper buttons, the identical manner you’d rotate the rest.

As a substitute of rotating your doorways and home windows, the Y button will now mean you can 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 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 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 > Recreation Choices > Different and deciding on Hyperlink EA Account.

Whilst you’re getting used to those adjustments, it’s a good suggestion to go to the Different part underneath Recreation Choices and allow Present Controls Legend. Should you don’t like on-screen prompts, you can even carry up the Controller Overlay by urgent L3. We’ve cleaned up the Controller overlay so that it’s going to now not show extra or inaccurate button callouts.

Apart from these enhancements, we’ve additionally mounted plenty 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 item, then press proper or left on the d-pad to regulate the item’s measurement. We’ve additionally mounted a bug that was inflicting the cursor to fade after utilizing the Relationships panel, one stopping tons from being rotated should 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 a complete lot extra.

General, we’re assured these adjustments 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.