Comments on: The Sims 4: First Look at the Water/Pond Tools https://simsvip.com/2021/07/08/the-sims-4-first-look-at-the-water-pond-tools/ Sims 4 News and Game Guides Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 By: Joep https://simsvip.com/2021/07/08/the-sims-4-first-look-at-the-water-pond-tools/#comment-772073 Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:43:00 +0000 http://simsvip.com/?p=132255#comment-772073 Ah Okay, thanks for clearing that up

]]> By: A Certain Runaway Gecko https://simsvip.com/2021/07/08/the-sims-4-first-look-at-the-water-pond-tools/#comment-772064 Thu, 15 Jul 2021 21:25:00 +0000 http://simsvip.com/?p=132255#comment-772064 Think it’s been common practise for a while now (at least for EPs?) that the patch drops on the Tuesday of the week the pack comes, so likely on the 20th.

]]> By: Joep https://simsvip.com/2021/07/08/the-sims-4-first-look-at-the-water-pond-tools/#comment-772062 Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:29:00 +0000 http://simsvip.com/?p=132255#comment-772062 Just a quick question, when will the update hit where the pond is part of? I first thought Tuesday July 13th, but I also thought maybe Thursday July 15th (today).

]]> By: Rizky Muzakir https://simsvip.com/2021/07/08/the-sims-4-first-look-at-the-water-pond-tools/#comment-771997 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 15:48:00 +0000 http://simsvip.com/?p=132255#comment-771997 sims 3 is nice, but the game is unplayable for me (keeps crashing). plus the sim design is effing ugly with that plasticy face and chinless head

]]> By: Rizky Muzakir https://simsvip.com/2021/07/08/the-sims-4-first-look-at-the-water-pond-tools/#comment-771996 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 15:47:00 +0000 http://simsvip.com/?p=132255#comment-771996 this reminds me of Sims 2’s terrain tool, where you could cloud effect, flying pig balloon effect, etc

]]> By: Ⓜarty https://simsvip.com/2021/07/08/the-sims-4-first-look-at-the-water-pond-tools/#comment-771989 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 11:09:00 +0000 http://simsvip.com/?p=132255#comment-771989 I was just referencing worlds specifically as that’s closest to the topic of this article. The entire game, well most aspects of it, are indeed beaming with unmet potential.

It’s like you said in another comment, and which I’ve been saying too – limited budget/resources, cramped deadlines, top-heavy, devs making questionable decisions, money poorly spent, profits going elsewhere, etc.

Like, on the one hand, I want to believe they have taken feedback and criticism to heart, and TS5 will be much better, a proper Sims game. On the other hand, I fear it might be more of the same.

]]> By: A Certain Runaway Gecko https://simsvip.com/2021/07/08/the-sims-4-first-look-at-the-water-pond-tools/#comment-771988 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:47:00 +0000 http://simsvip.com/?p=132255#comment-771988 “So much unmet potential” is up there as one of the most fitting lines to describe the whole iteration. Every time I see a half-baked feature or a deco object that should’ve been functional, I have to thank the CC and modding community for still keeping me sane. Like, we can brew tea already since the game’s release, why can’t any of the tea-sets be usable (even if, ugh, just like the drink trays)? Especially in the god damn British pack??? We still need to manually increase/decrease with arrows how much stuff we want to get when buying through pop-up menus instead of typing it in like in 3. Even a summer intern could change that in their lunch break why was this never changed?

I am just so frustrated about how great this game could be despite its set limitations from ye olde social multiplayer days. It makes tonnes of money. It could make heck tonnes more with some extra, much needed TLC. Why does it have to be the community that does what EAin’t funding…?

]]> By: Ⓜarty https://simsvip.com/2021/07/08/the-sims-4-first-look-at-the-water-pond-tools/#comment-771987 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:30:00 +0000 http://simsvip.com/?p=132255#comment-771987 Couldn’t have said it better myself!

]]> By: Ⓜarty https://simsvip.com/2021/07/08/the-sims-4-first-look-at-the-water-pond-tools/#comment-771986 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:27:00 +0000 http://simsvip.com/?p=132255#comment-771986 Because the pre-made, in-world swimmable bodies of water are specifically made and tailored for Sims to swim in or otherwise navigate, and the Sims’ animations tailored to fit.

Player-created ponds, on the other hand, will be of varying depths, sloping, angles, heights, sizes, etc. If they allowed Sims to swim in them, it would be a major clipping fest, or routing nightmare.

]]> By: Ⓜarty https://simsvip.com/2021/07/08/the-sims-4-first-look-at-the-water-pond-tools/#comment-771985 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:11:00 +0000 http://simsvip.com/?p=132255#comment-771985 Well, maybe not everything, but still most things are.

I get so frustrated with the worlds in this game. So much unmet potential. Honestly, the worlds are beautiful, and also pretty ‘big’, but so little of it is actually routable/playable/buildable space, the majority just being fake or unroutable.

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