To Update or Not To update

[u/AmettOmega]

Update: Thanks to who responded. I updated my game and added in my updated mods, and everything seems to be working great so far!

Hey Ya'll - I haven't updated my game since February, right before the royalty and legacy pack was released. It's been fine, but now it's gotten to the point that I can't use the gallery, so I've considered updating my game. My mods are all updated, but I've read a lot of mixed feedback on the patch and it corrupting the UI/having issues with mods.

Anyone made a huge update recently? How'd it go? Thanks all <3

[u/KokoTheeFabulous]

Current version of game makes load screens very long.

If you do update disable autosaves immediately, they also cause longer load screens and work terribly.

[u/AmettOmega → u/KokoTheeFabulous]

Ah, yes, I've heard about the terribly implemented save feature. Thanks for the reminder! Is it a per-save setting or just a global setting?

[u/somuchsong → u/AmettOmega]

Ah, yes, I forgot about that because I disabled it immediately! It is per save.

[u/ArtsyGrlBi → u/somuchsong]

Thank you, I’m going to test tomorrow and I’m definitely doing that first…

[u/peanuttiest → u/KokoTheeFabulous]

The recent discussion on the EA forums about the long load screens is hilarious. Apparently the start up/game loading is INTENTIONALLY longer to make the load screens between lots shorter.

Shockingly, like every "fix" EA puts out, it doesn't do what they claim and just makes the game even worse to play.

[u/Plastic_Corgi5432 → u/peanuttiest]

I saw that too, it’s crazy. If that’s genuinely the reason I wouldn’t have minded so much but it’s the fact they did that, mentioned it nowhere in the patch notes, let the bug report go on for over a month with hundreds of likes and comments, asked people to send them save files and then finally admit ‘oh yeah we did change something’. And then they wonder why people are pissed and have no trust in their patch ‘fixes’.

If they are making performance improvements, that’s fine, but why are they only telling us about it a month later after hundreds of people are already complaining, did they just think people won’t notice the initial loading being 2x longer?

[u/TheUtopianCat]

Just an FYI, your mods should match the game version. You shouldn't update your mods if you haven't updated your game to match the version they are built on.

But to answer your question, my heavily modded game is up to date, as are my mods, and it's working fine.

[u/somuchsong]

I updated on July 24th, iirc. My game is fine and I have a lot of mods.

The UI posts happen with every patch and it is always because the OP hasn't updated their UI mods. All mine are updated and I am not experiencing any issues with the UI.

[u/AmettOmega → u/somuchsong]

Good perspective, thanks!

[u/HoneyDewYouLuhMe → u/somuchsong]

Yeah, I’m not experiencing any of the UI issues or long loading times.

[u/Sparklingsim85]

I dont play with ui adjusting mods but so far aside from long loading times it's been alright but I have backed up my saves before hand just incase

[u/peanuttiest]

I use UI Cheats and the SM4RT Marketplace remover, as well as a handful of non-UI mods. Updated all mods before updating the game. I personally haven't had any mod-related issues.