Third Seasons Patch is out....

[Lorelei]

o.o
someone else go first

Not me, man. I'm on dial-up, and H&M and patch2 borkinated mah game. Not happy.

Don't need to wait around for hours only to have another mess to fix.

[Zazazu]

I'll go. I'm pissed off at my sims anyways (well, one specific one). If the patch bugs her, I might let her children live.

[Count Four]

Zazazu has braveness.

[Zazazu]

Neh, Zazazu backed up recently. So far so good. The toddlers seem normal. Ugly, but normal. The patch did reset motives, but didn't reset position. So my sims are wide awake at midnight. A couple of them work nights, anyways, and it's a weekend. No biggie.

[KatEnigma]

Yeah, nothing blew up in my game, either.  I'll put the hacks back and see if anything borks.

[Magicmoon]

I applied the patch, removed snsp1decay from my Downloads, and played for a couple hours. It seems they actually fixed the crying babies. Fun isn't bottoming out anymore.

I only had one odd thing happen, but I couldn't duplicate it. A mom (not pregnant) got up in the morning on the first day of Summer, and did mundane things around the house. She never went outside. When I got the announcement that the carpool was due, I checked on her. She was playing with the infant, which vomited on her and bottomed out her hygeine. She then went into the bathroom where BUY took over. When the carpool arrived, I checked her again to see if she had time to finish her shower before the carpool left. I was surprised to see her temperature guage in the red, although it wasn't maxed out (about 3/4 full). I didn't notice it a few moments before when I checked her, but I wasn't really paying any attention to her temp since there appeared to be no reason to do so.

I had her husband attempt to do all the actions that I remember her doing that morning, but I never did get his temp to rise. I got the baby to vomit on him, but it only lowered his hygeine about 1/3 rather than bottoming it out like happened on mom. Also, mom had been nursing the baby that morning, which dad could not do.

So basically, things look good with the new patch, although I need to keep an eye on things to find out where this weird temperature rise came from. I thought that they didn't get temp changes if they were in the house. She never did anything that morning like get in a hot tub or work out, so I don't have an explanation for it yet.

I have the standard MATY hacks, including warmth fixes.

[KatEnigma]

Maybe her husband was making out with her while you weren't looking- that raises temperature too.

[J. M. Pescado]

I only had one odd thing happen, but I couldn't duplicate it. A mom (not pregnant) got up in the morning on the first day of Summer, and did mundane things around the house. She never went outside. When I got the announcement that the carpool was due, I checked on her. She was playing with the infant, which vomited on her and bottomed out her hygeine. She then went into the bathroom where BUY took over. When the carpool arrived, I checked her again to see if she had time to finish her shower before the carpool left. I was surprised to see her temperature guage in the red, although it wasn't maxed out (about 3/4 full). I didn't notice it a few moments before when I checked her, but I wasn't really paying any attention to her temp since there appeared to be no reason to do so.

This is normal, showers normally raise temp. They can't overheat your sim to the point where you risk exploding, though.

[Zazazu]

I noticed with the pulled version of the patch that sims were almost always just barely in red temp after a long shower. Never happened before. I suspect it's part of their whole fixing the issues with sims taking endless showers before.

[Entgleichen]

I had already patched with version 2a of the patch. Normally I would think that I can just go ahead and install version 2b. But since it's from Maxis, I'm not sure if it's wise to do that. Anyone did that without problems? Otherwise I'd say I have to reinstall the seasons EP, which I guess I'm not doing just for toddler's motives. Argh.

[jrd]

Just patch the patch. It will overwrite the bugged files from the first second patch.

[Emma]

Yeah, my game is working fine now since the 2nd second patch. It didn't even reset the sims this time. No more screaming babies. The toddlers needs bars seem to be as it was before the 1st second patch.

[Jelenedra]

Anyword from the awesome about the status of the borkedness of the patched patch?

[dizzy]

I just applied patch ep5 #3, and it works fine. (Disclaimer: "works fine" = ordinary non-functioning EA crap as opposed to WTF-level EA stupidity.)

[SaraMK]

Well, I've downloaded the patch.

*eyes patch suspiciously*

One of these days I may actually click on it.

[witch]

It's currently 49% down, so I'll let you know if something really bad happens.  ooh, 58% now.

[jsalemi]

I played last night with the new(est) patch, and as Emma said, no reset this time.  Also no crying babies.  Otherwise, everything seems fine.

[vilia]

I tried to install but it said I had to uninstall Seasons first - couldn't really be bothered to go through all that so I'll wait.

[jsalemi]

I tried to install but it said I had to uninstall Seasons first - couldn't really be bothered to go through all that so I'll wait.

Though it says that, that's not necessarily true.  It'll give you that message if it hits a file that's changed (i.e., you changed your graphics.sgr file, or put one of the blank G001 templates into your game folders), and usually if your objects.package is read-only. Also, a 'no-cd' .exe file will cause it to not run right.  Run it again, see what file it borks on (it'll usually say 'can't replace blah blah' or something to that effect) and just fix/restore the original version of that file from a backup or the original disks, and it should go fine after that.

[Soylent Sim]

Having just tried my hand, I'm unhappy to say that the n'hood screen bugs are still alive and well.  At least things became a lot calmer as soon as I loaded a lot, but I haven't gone specifically looking for odd combinations either.

[Zazazu]

Hrm. I'm getting pet sinkage. However, it's possible I borked something when I unistalled Seasons last time. Will try reapplying the Pets patch to see if it fixes it.

[Jelenedra]

I was building houses last night, so I don't know about all the sims related stuff, but that at least worked well.

[Insanity Prelude]

I'm glad I'm on dialup. It gives me an excuse not to download the patch. XD (for now, at least? I dunno, I'll take you people's word for it that Seasons unpatched isn't actually that buggy.)

*shrug* what can I say, I'm wary after they borked Pets p1 and then Seasons p2.

[Sleepycat]

I patched yesterday and then played, had no problems.


empty templates (including G001) didn't affect my patching.

[Twain]

For those interested Sam Player, has responded in his blog about the problems with the Second Seasons Patch
While I don't agree with everything he has said, I did find it to be a somewhat interesting read overall.