New Pets Patch

[purplehaze]

I see there is a new patch out today. Anyone want to be the guinea pig? I am posting this in the Oops! You Broke It! forum as the prior patch did just that.

[Nec]

I don't know if I trust it. They made a number of errors just in their list of fixes. Wonder if they really fixed the fishtank...

[notveryawesome]

I just installed the new patch. A few days ago, I broke down and installed the first (borked) patch, after deciding that the new bugs were still preferable to the old ones, but I hadn't played yet. How fortuitous it is that I decided to check MATY 'one last time' today before firing up my game - otherwise I'd not have known about the new patch, and would've gone postal at the sight of a blonde Lucy Hanby. My sims thank you.

[ZiggyDoodle]

I have the patch that patched the patch, but will sit on it for a while since my game has been running just fine since I dumped the Pets patch that broke it.

I doubt it will fix poor Cassie's deranged cheekbones.

[torawashi]

Hm. Would installing this bork my game if I have Seasons?

[Tigerlilley]

Get it here

Someone else go first.  I'm not screwing my game again.
 

[Nec]

I backed up my game, installed it on top of Seasons, and am playing a lot right now. No resetting, and no problems so far. Will edit shortly to update. This will happen more than once.

Edit 1: The maid getting stuck on the fishtank still happens. The only difference is that they don't make a puddle and stop to mop it up. Not sure if that is post-Seasons stuff (henceforth known as PS)

Packaging lots DOES include recolors and cc objects now.

[J. M. Pescado]

A Pets patch would have little to no effect on Seasons game, as Seasons does not use Pets object code or executables.

[jrd]

Patch seems to work fine (no Seasons installed).
All the fixes are in this time, and no hair oddity or ugly toddlers.

The maid actually cleans the tank once!

[jsalemi]

A Pets patch would have little to no effect on Seasons game, as Seasons does not use Pets object code or executables.

In fact, a dialog to that effect pops up now.  I installed the patch on my test system just to see, and the dialog box said something to the effect that 'You have a newer expansion, and probably need a patch for that.  Install this one anyway?"

[syberspunk]

The date [3/12/2007] of the patched pets object package (try saying that 3x fast ) supercedes that [1/25/2007] of the seasons object package.  So... if patched object packages of previous EPs have no effect on your game, this won't help you if you have seasons.  However... you can patch, and extract and repackage the new/changed/patched BHAVs into separate (or one big) file and stick it in your Downloads.  This should effectively solve at least some of the problems.  Any changes made to the executable won't translate over.  So, we'll have to wait until an actual patch for seasons comes out.

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[abelle]

I don´t really understand the way patching works. If patching an older expansion pack has no effect, how can these bugs be fixed in my game?

When a seasons patch comes out, will these fixes be included? Some are really pets related, like the birds and womrats fixes. How can these be included in seasons patch? I mean people can have seasons and not have pets. I don´t really understand how the code for birds and womrats can be included in seasons?

[J. M. Pescado]

When a seasons patch comes out, will these fixes be included? Some are really pets related, like the birds and womrats fixes. How can these be included in seasons patch? I mean people can have seasons and not have pets. I don´t really understand how the code for birds and womrats can be included in seasons?

The code is there, but selectively disabled when the game detects you lack ZOMGPETZ!!!111oneoneone. As for whether the Pets patch fixes will be included? Who knows? My guess would be "No", because that would be the competent move.

[KatEnigma]

When the patch has been officially posted, there probably will be one for people with Seasons too. That's the way they handled the Uni patch when they finally got around to it.

[MaxisManiac]

Apparently the Seasons patch is coming out this weekend.

[virgali]

So if I would have to start a clean game with all EPs and boosterpacks installed, I'd need to wait for a Seasons patch and then install all the previous patches up to Seasons for them to have any effect on my game?

 

[Assmitten]

Wonder if they really fixed the fishtank...

Nec, don 't be ridiculous. That's just an EA running joke. "Oh, and we fixed the fishtank. Roffle!"

[KellyQ]

Wonder if they really fixed the fishtank...

Nec, don 't be ridiculous. That's just an EA running joke. "Oh, and we fixed the fishtank. Roffle!"

That gave me a giggle and I bet you're right.

[myskaal]

Sadly, it may soon become a MATY joke, too, as Macro...Clean with a fishtank in the house gets your sim stuck in the same constant loop.

[Kyna]

Sadly, it may soon become a MATY joke, too, as Macro...Clean with a fishtank in the house gets your sim stuck in the same constant loop.

Nah, we're ok.  We have TJ's fix for it.

[Nec]

The fishtank does work now if you uninstall Seasons (I uninstalled Pets, too) Then patch Pets, then install Seasons. I usually do this on another Windows account so my main game doesn't get touched, and none of that moving folders stuff happens. They did fix the NPC hair/thumbnails, too.

[pioupiou]

I only installed the new pet patch on top of my game (all eps and sps) (and took out twojeffs fix to see how it goes) and the maid seems to be fixed : she cleaned the tank 3 times but not in a row, and she didn't get stuck doing it. It's good for me.

[jrd]

Fish tank cleaning by maid, user-directed Sim, and macro-clean Sim now works in both Pets and Seasons in my game. Both installs are every EP, and all EPs are fully patched. Twojeffs' fix removed.

[kuronue]

When a seasons patch comes out, will these fixes be included? Some are really pets related, like the birds and womrats fixes. How can these be included in seasons patch? I mean people can have seasons and not have pets. I don´t really understand how the code for birds and womrats can be included in seasons?

The code is there, but selectively disabled when the game detects you lack ZOMGPETZ!!!111oneoneone. As for whether the Pets patch fixes will be included? Who knows? My guess would be "No", because that would be the competent move.

Wait, then, does that mean that if, when sims 3 comes out, you bought sims 2 base game (dirt cheap) and The Last Expansion (tm), and were Awesome, you could fool the game into unlocking ALL the EPs? What would you be missing, objects?

[prattle]

Wait, then, does that mean that if, when sims 3 comes out, you bought sims 2 base game (dirt cheap) and The Last Expansion (tm), and were Awesome, you could fool the game into unlocking ALL the EPs? What would you be missing, objects?

Probably, you'd be missing some of the Maxis graphics and animations, but not anything incredibly gamebreaking if you had custom content to compensate. When I was playing Sims 1 back in the day there were quite a few cloned custom objects that would work if you didn't have the right expansion pack, but would cause your sims to give you "missing animation!" thought bubbles while using them. Then again, a lot of cloned objects without the right expansion pack would disappear in live mode, show up but be completely non-functional, or just crash your game. :p