i know im randomly asking but does any of you know a method to get back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly forgot my login password. I love any tricks you can offer me!
If Disney wanted to make an ad for their parks im pretty sure the reception for an actual pack about Disney theme parks would have been so much better than just Batuu
I think it'd still be like Bowling for me- a one and done thing, likely most attractions would be too huge (like the bowling alley) to put it in my household and the loading screens are discouraging me from traveling between lots often, BUT I would've used it at least once per household or generation, instead of NEVER, like with Batuu. :/
Ya, saw that force powers don't exist in the pack and was like nah. Seriously don't understand why EA wouldn't want to let you force choke/ lightning other Sims, I feel like more people would buy if that was a thing. Hell, they don't even have to die from said injuries, they can just get a moodlet or be electrocuted ect. Let me play as Darth Vader danmit!
@@jagothegamer5750 agreed. Star wars is a violent franchise. It literally has "war" in the title. They spend the whole movies shooting at each other with spaceships, guns, or duelling with light sabers. Light sabers cut off limbs of the main guy, kill a bunch of people including kids. Lightsabers have no place in a game without injury.. Theyre robbed of all their power and are just glowing sticks now. So everything cool about star wars doesn't make it into this pack : spaceship battles, lightsabers, the force... Why bother making this?
I mean if i buy the pack, ill make an Anakin/Vader sim and kill all resistance special chars, first order special chars and of course the *Y O U N G L I N G S*
This pack is bullshitting us. How can you create a story of Star Wars if you don’t even include the fucking power?! EA was sooo lazy! As if they couldn’t make that! Ugh
I haven’t been, but I think the Galaxy’s Edge toilets are somewhat hidden away. Apparently you have to ask cast members where the ‘refreshers’ are as there are no signs or anything.
I'm just going to put this here. Zero just came out with a mod that unlocks Spellcaster, Vampire and Mermaid powers on Battuu. I'm still not buying the gamepack, but hopefully this is helpful to people that did buy it.
You know how you spent over $200 on packs for the Sims? Do you wanna spend $20 more for a pack that doesn't let you use those packs? Buy Journey to Batuu!
@@PSICadetZen Yes, I was just thinking if you want the "whole experience" of the game. It's insane that a game, if you buy it full price, has racked up to over $700. Yet it's full of bugs and glitches, and is shallow.
That's what I thought when I watched this vid. This is just ridiculous. Many players were complaining that some pack was way too separated from others and original game, that they doesn't influence the gameplay outside the pack itself. And not we get a pack that practically far surpassed those packs
Difficult to balance does not justify disabling all the other packs features. When you take Jungle Adventure : Vampires, Casters, and high skill rewards do give significant advantages, as they should, but do not suck the fun out of the pack. My OP sims can do a temple every 24hrs and get a ton of treasures, meanwhile low skilled sims spend a lot of time tending to their needs and need lots more supplies. This new pack is ridiculous. It's like they took everything bad theyve ever done and cranked it up to 11.
I 100% agree, I am just noting it's entirely possible this pack was limited only by how many resources they could give to it vs my theory of it being because Disney. I don't know, but also know you were just making a statement. Just wanted to clarify my own statement. Thanks for stopping in.
@@CarlsSimGuides yeah I know. Sometimes it feels like there are 10 different teams making packs, some make interesting gameplay with the rest of the game in mind, while others just get tunnel vision around their concept and don't even bother to imagine how the players will try to use the content. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that the team who made the vampire pack and the jungle adventure pack did this...
@@OlgaGax I'm sure the devs had their hands tied, even if it wasn't a direct order from Disney. I'm not sure why EA would want those features disabled but it could've just been budget and time constraints without any consideration for how that would impact gameplay. Or maybe it was someone's misguided attempt at keeping immersion or... something. My point is, I'm not surprised at all but I doubt it's a direct result of the team trying to balance things. It's more likely there was a heavy focus on getting all of the assets to look great and someone's intentional decision to streamline and minimize the gameplay. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a long drawn out argument and back-and-forth decisions amongst the devs and upper management about whether Batuu was Lore-Wise a theme park or an actual planet until the deadline crept up and someone made a final decision that it was a real planet but they didn't have the time to make it make more sense. And they knew players would be angry if the aliens just popped up at random in the other worlds so they did everything they could to keep everything Batuu on Batuu. I suspect the road to this hell was paved with good intentions (as well as corporate mandates) and now here we are. :P :)
@@OlgaGax as far as I understood from tweeter, sim guru romeo was in charge of the pack. And he seemed very proud of it...🙄 Although he avoided any uncomfortable question...
This pack was the biggest disappointment for many, many players, but there is something good about it, at least we have your videos to watch! Love your work, Carl!
They meant create your own story after a mod has been created that allows you to do anything of depth or value with this pack.... like the rest of them, except this one takes the prize for weakest pack and game play.
For that ONE reasons alone (ignoring allllllllllllll the other reasons), I will not purchase this. Maybe also because I can't get behind the ignoring of basic Star Wars Canon in this pack. >
Introvert Sara I imagined it a bit like the vampire level system where you can select a limited amount of force abilities from Star Wars canon and have a scale showing your standing with the force ranging from sith, to grey Jedi, to light side Jedi.
@@Mfestt12 I get the very strong impression that Maxis did not want to do this at all, was pressured by EA to do it due to the latter's Disney partnership, and made it broken and hollow out of sheer spite, knowing that the Sims license was so strong they would be easily able to weather whatever corporate fallout or sales dips would result until they could make something actually worthwhile later.
So, Sims 2 when they stripped everything from the Sims 1 and made small improvements, or maybe Sims 3 where they did the same but made the game so buggy and a mess that playing it was tedious. The Sims series from the get-go has been a cash grab.
That thing about not being able to fly because your droid is broken will completely baffle Simmers who have never seen Star Wars (which is actually the majority of them). It’s not ‘critical thinking’ - it’s confusing! Sims players should not have to have Star Wars knowledge to play their game!
Oh for sure, the critical thinking was definitely me being sarcastic. I only barely realized it might be that. It's a truly silly problem but I assume a bug they will fix.
HerHollyness it's a crossover pack with a stand alone franchise , so they may need Star Wars/ galaxy's edge knowledge for the pack based on those things.
The least they could've done was forced you to put the droid into your inventory while you're flying! It's sensible because I have seen Star Wars but irritating that they included this restriction when it breaks but don't make that a restriction to actually function as a pilot. They could've given you an objective to get/have a droid in your inventory as part of every flight mission instead of going "but we know they want to fly; we can't make them wait!" And the thing is if they'd done that, then people who've never seen Star Wars would automatically understand because then the Sims game would use gameplay to explain that "you need a droid to fly this ship." You know, because that's how games tell a story.
certainly seems like Batu should have been a literal theme park where your teen/young adult sims can get a part time job as the characters with a mini career path where you start out controlling the droids and working your way up to playing Rey or Kylo
I think that was the original intention, which is why the 'aliens' are just sims in masks and costumes, and why they look like normal sims if you manage to get them to come home with you, and that is entirely doable without cheats. I also believe it was Kathleen Kennedy herself, CEO of Lucasfilm, who vetoed the idea because vetoing cool ideas is what she does. It must be in her job description.
Wow :( the only thing I was even remotely looking forward to was a potential extension of night life, cool restaurants, bars, night clubs, etc. it’s super disappointing that you can’t change the lot types, that was the last redeeming quality I was hoping it would have, but nope! AND no birthdays or weddings?!? I didn’t even know I wanted that, but damn! Throwing your kids birthday here or having a wedding for two geeks would’ve actually been cool!
This pack would've been 100% better if they fully leaned into it. Make it a Disney/Amusement park pack, with roller coasters and the like. They could've made the map exactly the same as Galaxy's Edge without trying to stretch it to three travel zones, and almost NOTHING WOULD'VE HAD TO BE CHANGED FROM THE GAMEPLAY WE WERE GIVEN. Plus, it makes more sense in that context. Force-less lightsabers you can't do anything but display or practice with? They're toys. All you can take home with you are plushies, keepsakes, and knickknacks? They're gift shop souvenirs. Just call it like it is, because trying to pass it off as some authentic experience is absolutely SHAMEFUL.
Exactly. They could've done a proper theme park or they could've done a new planet but instead, we got this weird mix that doesn't work. I honestly think EA spent too long debating which it was and by the time they decided it was another planet, there wasn't enough time to flesh that idea out. Like, it still would've been lean gameplay because it's Sims 4 but if they'd worked on it more they could've given us a lot more too, in either direction. :(
Batuu is strictly considered so immersive that they literally can't make it a theme park pack. When people go to Galaxy's Edge in the actual park everyone there is a citizen. That's how strict they are.
@@Chiiminako Then why don't they have easy to find toilets or any benches whatsoever? (SMH at Galaxy's Edge BS... it's like calling customers in retail stores "guests.")
@@DoveJS @J. Stanley they do call customers guests at the Disney theme parks. Were you not able to find a toilet in Galaxy's Edge? (I'm not understanding this question or what it has to do with anything)
I completely agree with Qwerty A Disney theme park pack would have been awesome, the pack ended up too shallow and superficial because they were so focused on Disneyfiying a pack that was not closely related to Disney until recently.
I actually don’t think this is smart assy at all, Carl! You laid out a good argument that the majority of quirks and exceptions can be explained by restrictions from the Disney partnership. That’s a lot more helpful insight than just being like ~omg this trash just murdered my childhood 😱😱😱
sims 2 is a bit better cuz is more stable and performance, the crashes are a big turn off on ts3 (try search some tutorial for better performance). try the sims medieval too, is a good quest based sims game. Overall they all are fun games, even ts1 worth a try, but for playing only ts2 and ts3, ts4 only if its heavy moded, but ts3 have good mods too
I'm a big starwars fan and sims fan. I was one of the few willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, thinking that there would still be a lot of fun to be had by mixing in things from all of the other packs. But not only did they make it so that none of the things from other packs work in batuu. They also made it so that the few good things from batuu dont work if you take them back home. This is defenetly the worst pack they have ever made.
I'm really sorry to hear it, it sucks to be disappointed in a not one but two franchises that you love. I don't blame you for having a bit more faith in them than this. Not a good SW pack, not a good Sims pack... the most limiting of all packs.
There is a mod by Neilsimming that also turns the masks into skins (all over the body too, not just as gloves and hats), so you can use aliens as your playable sims. Definitely an essential mod if you can download them
You can't?! Well... where were you going to wear them?! Ugh. That just makes no sense. Of all the things to do... I'm going to assume they just legit didn't think about it or had such deadline restrictions that it got forgotten. :(
Do you have MCCC? I got around this by creating the outfit as an every day outfit in my home world then dressing in the outfit on Batuu and copying the details in the dresser menu. Then when it changed me back to the Batuu outfit I pasted the outfit details onto it. Solved :)
The fact that they didnt make this a standalone game, when they have clearly done everything in their power to make it a standalone experience, is honestly criminal. The best sims features are the ones that integrate well with other packs/the base game and so them deliberately removing these aspects removes all long-term playability of the pack. Its disappointing, and they really should have known better.
Going to the toilet is a rabbit hole in this pack?! That says it all, really. My objection from the start has been that I didn't think the Star Wars world integrate very well (or at all) with the Sims one, but I have to admit I never thought they'd take the lack of integration so far that they'd disable entire packs (eg Realm of Magic) to make it happen.
@@CarlsSimGuides I honestly think there was a long and drawn-out debate, amongst the devs and the higher-ups or just amongst the higher-ups themselves (possibly even with Disney lol), about whether this was a theme park or an actual planet and they took so long to decide or kept changing their minds, that by the time they decided for sure that it was going to be another planet there was a big scramble to support immersion and not enough time for the devs to flesh anything out. Like, we always knew it'd be lean on gameplay but this lack of decisiveness is probably what made things even worse. That's my guess. And during this time, they could easily spend most of their effort on just the assets so... ya know. :p
@@DoveJS they could actually just make a planet to each outpost. It feels like that right now cause you can't even see an outpost from another! It would have been great if your sim actually traveled there with the ship as he lands in and just Teleport ( there still would be a loading screen tho.)
The fact that Batuu is limiting you so much, no pets, no spellcasting, no vampire powers, no so much features from other dlcs is just screams about bad gameplay design.
A sci-fi pack we didn't ask for... Sounds like Into the future... Wait, that actually added some gameplay, brought the Plumbots and wasn't SUCH and obvious cash grab...
Into the future felt insanely rich at the time. New mechanics, new vehicles, new skills, new instruments and a new world to explore. I wouldn't call it a cash grab by any stretch. This one has like three things to do and they seem to be talking to people, flying around in the new rockets and going back home.
The worst thing Into the Future did was show a "secret" advertisement for The Sims 4. Imagine uncovering that ad for the first time, getting super excited for what The Sims 4 could possibly become, just for it all to result in what may be the worst six years of the entire series. Talk about feeling heartbroken and ripped off.
@@TheStonemeister and you could live in "The Future". I remember people complaining back then about that expansion pack. If we only knew what was coming 😕
This pack just seems like disappointment after disappointment. It's like that actively tried to make so this pack doesn't integrate with anything else.
i remember having great fun with the sims medieval. Why they didn't make a seperate the sims starwars goes beyond me, could have have fake lightsabers and boombox droids in the normal game as promotional material
The sims medieval was freaking epic…I think I was hoping for that kind of gameplay but the Star Wars one is disappointing…I played it once and couldn’t get very far up the ranks bc it was so glitchy
Ea: create your star wars story 🤗✨❤️ Also Ea: you cannot live or build on batuu, you cant be a jedi, you cant have pets, you cant have awesome space parties or weddings, etc. You can only play through our disney approved storyline how dare you try to actually be creative and have fun.
Sadly, I've bought the pack. There isnt even a 'storyline'. I maxed out my rep with first order and no 'ending mission' or anything, just radiant repeatable missions. At least in strangerville we had mother plant, but here there is literally nothing
"Finally, like you've always wanted, we're going to let you tell your own The Sims 4™ Star Wars™ story!" "Huh... Okay. I didn't want that, but if that's the case- in my story, I'm going to bring my spellcaster and-" "NOT LIKE THAT" "... oookayy, my vampire sim is going to-" "NOPE" "... can I at least tell my toddler a joke-" "NO"
The more I hear about this pack, the more it feels like a bad joke... Or like they made it bad on purpose, so we will think the next pack will be better, because we have seen how bad it can actually be.
"locked out of easy magic so you can't get a sense of pride and accomplishment" oh carl, sneaky carl, with the snarky references! the singing alien will also haunt us all in our sleep
Welp, I was most looking forward to taking Vlad there and having him become a Jedi because that's hilarious to me, but I guess that's not even in the cards, huh?
Oh man, that would be amazing! You could still take him there to do stuff but yeah... no actual Jedi. Just give him a lame lightsaber so he can battle Rey or Kylo Ren. :(
6 years of Sims 4, and the only thing they put out that it's not broken is this useless addition... adding a color picker skin tone = EA/Maxis answer "it's too hard" (which is just 1 variable to store the color. some 20 lines of code for the color picker and like 3 extra lines for the shader...) filtering out ALL the features not of this pack, making sure there are no bugs because "dogs in outer space are unacceptable!" and that it's actually a lot harder and took a lot more effort. yeah they don't care about their players at all
It's not their priority by any means as it's not gonna make profit. Working on a pack sponsored by Disney on the other hand will sure make profit so there goes the priority. There's a new mod review on pixelade channel which made me very upset because that's what people wanted since a long time and this mod is done by 1 person while EA feeds us with "we can't add ice-cream to the fridge, it's impossible".
Why can't you be an alien in Batuu? I made a crew of Twi'lek, Bith and Zabrak and when you go to Batuu the game changes your appearance to a human. Wasn't supposed to have my Star Wars adventure?
As a Star Wars fan, this pack makes me really sad. If it had been a spin off game, and fully developed out like Sims Medieval, it could’ve been fantastic! They missed an opportunity there. Won’t be purchasing this one. Thanks for the honest reviews Carl!
Just going to throw out there that despite their attempts to make everything “fair” and “balanced” by disabling supernaturals’ powers, vampires can still be pretty broken on Batuu: - “Freshen Up” fills their thirst, quicker than they could even do it by hunting sims - They don’t need to eat from the very unsatisfying food stands - They keep their PASSIVE powers only - so you can take Odorless, Beyond the Herd and Immortal pleasures to mean you only need to focus on thirst. Vampire energy doesn’t seem to drain at all on Batuu, because it’s considered cloudy all the time so they don’t burn, and they aren’t using powers - Child of the Moon also seems to work to cut motive decay and increase skill gain at night - Unsure if Vampiric Strength works, my sim still lost plenty of fights If anyone can think of any other passive benefits that might help on Batuu, let me know. Not tried the emotion deadening perk, but I can’t see that being a huge boon. Funnily enough, their weaknesses will still work... Though I guess Guilty Drinker, Sloppy Drinker, Thin Skinned, Sleep of the Undead, and Fitful Sleep are all negated. Just don’t take one with Day Phobia, Eternal Sadness and Insatiable Thirst if you want them to have a pleasant “vacation” on Batuu.
Hey, I don't remember the weakness name, but I bet they can constantly hiss and make every other Sim hate them still. And it won't matter because no one has to like you when you're on Batuu! :D
I remember Sims 3 allowing you to combine multiple expansion features for your own leisure... Such as making Ghost Potions at the Chemistry table to go through walls in the Ambitions Firefighter profession, while it's a blizzard outside due to the Seasons expansion.
Have fun and be sure to let us all know. Probably either you hit a dead end, and cannot kill further, or they endlessly spawn new Rey and Kylo actors so you can keep it up.
@@CarlsSimGuides PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE TEST THIS!!! I really want to see if the game totally freaks out once the star attractions go missing.. LMAO! PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEE
Thanks Carl! I need to come back here any time I start thinking "Oh but the just world looks so cool, I bet I could make my own fun living there." Nope. No you can't. Wow. It's so stripped back that it's neither a Star Wars nor a Sims game. It's just an interactive advert 😞
I’m annoyed that they give us this but they don’t give us a force user lifestate where your decisions and training could either veer towards the light, dark, or grey
no gonk droid no buy. simples. but seriously how was it possible to be let down by a pack when i didnt have any expectations of it succeeding to begin with? :(
I wholeheartedly agree. I’m so disappointed in this pack. I’m a huge fan of Star Wars and that’s why I got it. I really should’ve waited and watched some gameplays becaue had I known that it was so lackluster I would’ve saved my $20 and that’s coming from someone that has found something worthwhile in EVERY pack I have (most of which I got on sale). I can’t believe they didn’t even make it as good as Realm of Magic. It blows my mind how completely pointless this game is. When I completed the first order missions I didn’t even know i had “won” because there was no alert, nothing!!! There’s so much wrong with this I keep feeling like it was unfinished. Like they were only half way done with it and they ran out of time and they just released it for some odd reason. If this kind of thing is the future of the SIMS 4 then I def won’t be buying any more packs.
Gooood, I can feel your anger. EA is defenseless, strike The Sims 4 down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the darkside will be complete.
Funny thing.... because I have a weird sense of humor and like to test things not too unlike you, I made an alien character for playing in Batuu and, for the hell of it, I used cheats to take Kylo Ren back to "Sims World." But.... Kylo Ren was made a mute. Except when he was speaking Star Wars dialog. So it was like my Sim and Kylo spoke using sign language. Needless to say, they even had a kiddo together.... Their child was mute.... no crying, no talking, etc. And because of how animated Sims are when talking, it was actually surprisingly touching to imagine they were all speaking with sign language to one another. Unfortunately, that Save File ended up glitching for some reason and I had to delete it. It was fun while it lasted though!
As a Star Wars fan I was beyond excited about this pack.... That is, until I saw how bad it is. I mean, you can romance Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, but Rey and Kylo Ren? No, that would ruin the magic
One of the points the Sims Team used to defend this pack was that it would integrate into other parts of the game... But a lot of Batuu features are locked out in other worlds, and a lot of features from other worlds are locked out in Batuu. That's a step beyond the evasive responses to their lackluster releases... THEY FLAT OUT LIED.
I think one of the biggest punch in the nuts is how they advertised that you're going to meet new species and all, but every single citizen are just normal sims with alien costumes, meaning that they're basically decorative and have no new abilities whatsoever.
The remote controlled Droid car though. 🤣 As for spellcaster sims, Zero has already made a mod to let us inferniate and zigzag away on Batuu if we want too! Its a shame we needed a mod to do that. Edit: I think the mod is for all supernaturals.
The one thing they could have done is disable vampires dying in sunlight for batuu so you know they don’t wreck everything I wanted to have a cool vampire resistance member but was attracted to the dark side via their possession of roofed buildings
Why do i feel like EA is pointing a gun in Carl's head and force him to make this video to make this pack sounds some what positive? CARL DO YOU NEED HELP? HEART MY COMMENT IF YOU DO.
No, I think the reason he was more subtle about it is because some fans have been getting upset at the massive pushback from the disgruntled Sims fans and since this pack doesn't have a leg to stand on, it's even harder to repair the rift when you make a video about Batuu. It's like, some people were just mad because they were already mad but the people who actually looked forward to this feel like they're being attacked and in general any RUclipsr who is trying to be modestly positive doesn't want constant complaints getting them down; they can see how bad it is, they don't need a reminder. We all know this is lackluster but negativity has been building up over the past several years in general. There are many genuine complaints about Batuu, that was never the issue, but things are coming to a head around the community, I think. And there are people who do enjoy the game, who are probably self-medicating with it during these trying times, so even the honest frustration from others is getting to them now. It's just rough all around and anyone making RUclips videos has to toe the line a little. Plus, you know, they're all Sims fans. They never wanted the game to be bad. They all want to enjoy it! :(
I love that this was a buyer beware rant in disguise as a guide.
Chance Earl DUH
I think u should be able to u,the force an force lighting
RUclips picks the most random comments to notify me about lol.
That bad huh?
i know im randomly asking but does any of you know a method to get back into an Instagram account..?
I stupidly forgot my login password. I love any tricks you can offer me!
If Disney wanted to make an ad for their parks im pretty sure the reception for an actual pack about Disney theme parks would have been so much better than just Batuu
Exactly. We would have loved a theme park!
If they made magic kingdom with a rollercoaster and a parade to watch, it would be great for a family day out. But meh lol
Whoa a theme park in sims would be really awesome.
Ik right? Why didn’t do that? It would have been awesome
I think it'd still be like Bowling for me- a one and done thing, likely most attractions would be too huge (like the bowling alley) to put it in my household and the loading screens are discouraging me from traveling between lots often, BUT I would've used it at least once per household or generation, instead of NEVER, like with Batuu. :/
“there are things you can’t do or that don’t work at all” sims 4 in a nutshell
Thank god there's mods
I found a few new glitches, floating tree fruit by moving a tree with fruit on it and my sims SOMEHOW made a floating plate, possible.
@@KittyBGaming the floating plate issue has been plaguing me for a bit now.... poltergeist bug in the game
I'm not buying this pack but I'll watch the videos just to justify why I'm not buying it lol.
Ya, saw that force powers don't exist in the pack and was like nah. Seriously don't understand why EA wouldn't want to let you force choke/ lightning other Sims, I feel like more people would buy if that was a thing. Hell, they don't even have to die from said injuries, they can just get a moodlet or be electrocuted ect. Let me play as Darth Vader danmit!
@@jagothegamer5750 agreed. Star wars is a violent franchise. It literally has "war" in the title. They spend the whole movies shooting at each other with spaceships, guns, or duelling with light sabers. Light sabers cut off limbs of the main guy, kill a bunch of people including kids.
Lightsabers have no place in a game without injury.. Theyre robbed of all their power and are just glowing sticks now.
So everything cool about star wars doesn't make it into this pack : spaceship battles, lightsabers, the force... Why bother making this?
Same lmaoo
@@OlgaGax but but but there are text bubbles that tell you there was a spaceship battle! Isn't that enough?! (end sarcasm)
Amishka Davids haha, exactly!
Of course kids can't duel, if they did Anakin might not have beat that room of padawans
Oof. The Younglings.
Yup
the sand people children 👁👄👁
Yea he "beat" them
I mean if i buy the pack, ill make an Anakin/Vader sim and kill all resistance special chars, first order special chars and of course the *Y O U N G L I N G S*
Honestly how could they make a Star Wars pack, and not include The Force?!
Exactly
I've been asking this since day one and still upset that its not in there.
This pack is bullshitting us. How can you create a story of Star Wars if you don’t even include the fucking power?! EA was sooo lazy! As if they couldn’t make that! Ugh
MAybe a mod can fix it
May the Force be... not included in the pack? looool
I'm convinced the DJ was too big for there to be a toilet. The impression this gives me is that Galaxy's Edge does not have restrooms.
I haven’t been, but I think the Galaxy’s Edge toilets are somewhat hidden away. Apparently you have to ask cast members where the ‘refreshers’ are as there are no signs or anything.
@@HerHollyness Super fascinating given the 'cure all' ability at the habitat is 'freshen up'
Can't miss an opportunity for sims to teleport some more. :P Awesome video!
All I did was essentially turn maxmotives on for my sim because he was going to piss himself.
I'm just going to put this here. Zero just came out with a mod that unlocks Spellcaster, Vampire and Mermaid powers on Battuu. I'm still not buying the gamepack, but hopefully this is helpful to people that did buy it.
You know how you spent over $200 on packs for the Sims? Do you wanna spend $20 more for a pack that doesn't let you use those packs? Buy Journey to Batuu!
$200? The game in total, if you buy it on sale, adds up to over $700 bucks with all the packs...
Well if you buy them on sale and don’t buy all of them you could...
@@PSICadetZen Yes, I was just thinking if you want the "whole experience" of the game. It's insane that a game, if you buy it full price, has racked up to over $700. Yet it's full of bugs and glitches, and is shallow.
That's what I thought when I watched this vid. This is just ridiculous. Many players were complaining that some pack was way too separated from others and original game, that they doesn't influence the gameplay outside the pack itself. And not we get a pack that practically far surpassed those packs
Master Mind ъыь yeah. People should by Sims Medieval instead, it's a fun game to play!
Difficult to balance does not justify disabling all the other packs features.
When you take Jungle Adventure : Vampires, Casters, and high skill rewards do give significant advantages, as they should, but do not suck the fun out of the pack.
My OP sims can do a temple every 24hrs and get a ton of treasures, meanwhile low skilled sims spend a lot of time tending to their needs and need lots more supplies.
This new pack is ridiculous. It's like they took everything bad theyve ever done and cranked it up to 11.
I 100% agree, I am just noting it's entirely possible this pack was limited only by how many resources they could give to it vs my theory of it being because Disney. I don't know, but also know you were just making a statement. Just wanted to clarify my own statement. Thanks for stopping in.
@@CarlsSimGuides yeah I know. Sometimes it feels like there are 10 different teams making packs, some make interesting gameplay with the rest of the game in mind, while others just get tunnel vision around their concept and don't even bother to imagine how the players will try to use the content.
I cannot wrap my head around the fact that the team who made the vampire pack and the jungle adventure pack did this...
@@OlgaGax I'm sure the devs had their hands tied, even if it wasn't a direct order from Disney. I'm not sure why EA would want those features disabled but it could've just been budget and time constraints without any consideration for how that would impact gameplay. Or maybe it was someone's misguided attempt at keeping immersion or... something. My point is, I'm not surprised at all but I doubt it's a direct result of the team trying to balance things. It's more likely there was a heavy focus on getting all of the assets to look great and someone's intentional decision to streamline and minimize the gameplay. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a long drawn out argument and back-and-forth decisions amongst the devs and upper management about whether Batuu was Lore-Wise a theme park or an actual planet until the deadline crept up and someone made a final decision that it was a real planet but they didn't have the time to make it make more sense. And they knew players would be angry if the aliens just popped up at random in the other worlds so they did everything they could to keep everything Batuu on Batuu. I suspect the road to this hell was paved with good intentions (as well as corporate mandates) and now here we are. :P :)
@@OlgaGax as far as I understood from tweeter, sim guru romeo was in charge of the pack. And he seemed very proud of it...🙄
Although he avoided any uncomfortable question...
@@DoveJS it was something, alright... Something really strange. Is it EA sabotaging itself from within?
I''ve got $20 in my pocket and it's gonna stay there...
You should try a Taco Bell Mexican Pizza before they're gone forever, if you're looking for something to do with that.
30.00$ on console
@@LL-ht5yc Wow! No.
Same.
Keeping my $20 and also refusing to let my game update so the stupid patch for this pack can’t break all of my cc
This pack was the biggest disappointment for many, many players, but there is something good about it, at least we have your videos to watch!
Love your work, Carl!
Funny, that is how I felt about Rise of Skywalker. Watch movie for 3 hours, spend 12 watching I Hate Everything and others rip it apart.
@@CarlsSimGuides history repeats itself 👀
Honestly what do you expect? It's a Disney-EA collab, it's doomed from the start lol.
They had us first not gonna lie
I’m disappointed and my expectations were already really low
Sims 4 Star Wars: Journey to Batuu: Create your own star wars story
*Can't be a Jedi nor Sid*
Sid is a horrible name anyway... Why would anyone want to be called Sidney.
Lol sid
we toys see *everything*
One day the sims will let me be the sloth from Ice Age, I swear it to be true
They meant create your own story after a mod has been created that allows you to do anything of depth or value with this pack.... like the rest of them, except this one takes the prize for weakest pack and game play.
Super disappointed they didn’t make force sensitive sim an occult life state. It would allow for superhero sims with telekinetic powers
Or lightning! ⚡
@@zoramajora5893 Unlimited POWAAAAAAA
Or at least have force skill :(
For that ONE reasons alone (ignoring allllllllllllll the other reasons), I will not purchase this. Maybe also because I can't get behind the ignoring of basic Star Wars Canon in this pack. >
Introvert Sara I imagined it a bit like the vampire level system where you can select a limited amount of force abilities from Star Wars canon and have a scale showing your standing with the force ranging from sith, to grey Jedi, to light side Jedi.
It should have stood alone like medieval, urbz, or bustin out. They really could have done a lot with it.
This dlc is more bare bones that the base game.
Somehow or another you buy this + base game and come away knowing less about the base game and unable to use all its features. Fascinating.
For a game pack that’s suppose to interest new buyers it’s interesting that they would disable all these interactions 🤔
@@Mfestt12 I get the very strong impression that Maxis did not want to do this at all, was pressured by EA to do it due to the latter's Disney partnership, and made it broken and hollow out of sheer spite, knowing that the Sims license was so strong they would be easily able to weather whatever corporate fallout or sales dips would result until they could make something actually worthwhile later.
@@ChaosWolf1982 but all the packs are broken and unplayable?
Last time I was this early, EA games was still making cash grab DLC
oh wait
oh no
So, Sims 2 when they stripped everything from the Sims 1 and made small improvements, or maybe Sims 3 where they did the same but made the game so buggy and a mess that playing it was tedious. The Sims series from the get-go has been a cash grab.
@@AnimationPB ... guess u never played Sims 2
@@AnimationPB guess you didn't really play TS2 or 3 then huh 😂
@@12wer3wer9 llpl
That thing about not being able to fly because your droid is broken will completely baffle Simmers who have never seen Star Wars (which is actually the majority of them). It’s not ‘critical thinking’ - it’s confusing! Sims players should not have to have Star Wars knowledge to play their game!
Oh for sure, the critical thinking was definitely me being sarcastic. I only barely realized it might be that. It's a truly silly problem but I assume a bug they will fix.
HerHollyness it's a crossover pack with a stand alone franchise , so they may need Star Wars/ galaxy's edge knowledge for the pack based on those things.
The least they could've done was forced you to put the droid into your inventory while you're flying! It's sensible because I have seen Star Wars but irritating that they included this restriction when it breaks but don't make that a restriction to actually function as a pilot. They could've given you an objective to get/have a droid in your inventory as part of every flight mission instead of going "but we know they want to fly; we can't make them wait!" And the thing is if they'd done that, then people who've never seen Star Wars would automatically understand because then the Sims game would use gameplay to explain that "you need a droid to fly this ship." You know, because that's how games tell a story.
@@captainswagger2838 People shouldn't have to do homework to enjoy a game. It'll just alienate most players
ArtLove100 if it was a normal stand alone gamepack id agree, but that's not how crossovers work. It should do a better job at explaining things though
certainly seems like Batu should have been a literal theme park where your teen/young adult sims can get a part time job as the characters with a mini career path where you start out controlling the droids and working your way up to playing Rey or Kylo
That would've been interesting and not lore-breaking though, so 🤷♀️
For a theme park pack to work in this manner, it would have to not be Disney.
that would’ve been so much fun!
I think that was the original intention, which is why the 'aliens' are just sims in masks and costumes, and why they look like normal sims if you manage to get them to come home with you, and that is entirely doable without cheats. I also believe it was Kathleen Kennedy herself, CEO of Lucasfilm, who vetoed the idea because vetoing cool ideas is what she does. It must be in her job description.
Wow :( the only thing I was even remotely looking forward to was a potential extension of night life, cool restaurants, bars, night clubs, etc. it’s super disappointing that you can’t change the lot types, that was the last redeeming quality I was hoping it would have, but nope! AND no birthdays or weddings?!?
I didn’t even know I wanted that, but damn! Throwing your kids birthday here or having a wedding for two geeks would’ve actually been cool!
What, you want to USE the pack and create YOUR star wars story? Nonono *sounds of features being blocked *
This pack would've been 100% better if they fully leaned into it. Make it a Disney/Amusement park pack, with roller coasters and the like. They could've made the map exactly the same as Galaxy's Edge without trying to stretch it to three travel zones, and almost NOTHING WOULD'VE HAD TO BE CHANGED FROM THE GAMEPLAY WE WERE GIVEN. Plus, it makes more sense in that context. Force-less lightsabers you can't do anything but display or practice with? They're toys. All you can take home with you are plushies, keepsakes, and knickknacks? They're gift shop souvenirs. Just call it like it is, because trying to pass it off as some authentic experience is absolutely SHAMEFUL.
Exactly. They could've done a proper theme park or they could've done a new planet but instead, we got this weird mix that doesn't work. I honestly think EA spent too long debating which it was and by the time they decided it was another planet, there wasn't enough time to flesh that idea out. Like, it still would've been lean gameplay because it's Sims 4 but if they'd worked on it more they could've given us a lot more too, in either direction. :(
Batuu is strictly considered so immersive that they literally can't make it a theme park pack. When people go to Galaxy's Edge in the actual park everyone there is a citizen. That's how strict they are.
@@Chiiminako Then why don't they have easy to find toilets or any benches whatsoever? (SMH at Galaxy's Edge BS... it's like calling customers in retail stores "guests.")
@@DoveJS @J. Stanley they do call customers guests at the Disney theme parks. Were you not able to find a toilet in Galaxy's Edge? (I'm not understanding this question or what it has to do with anything)
I completely agree with Qwerty
A Disney theme park pack would have been awesome, the pack ended up too shallow and superficial because they were so focused on Disneyfiying a pack that was not closely related to Disney until recently.
I actually don’t think this is smart assy at all, Carl! You laid out a good argument that the majority of quirks and exceptions can be explained by restrictions from the Disney partnership. That’s a lot more helpful insight than just being like ~omg this trash just murdered my childhood 😱😱😱
I've recently started to play Sims 3 and I had no idea HOW FUN IT IS !!!! Really, I'm making a generation :0
At least Katy Perry's Sweet Treats is up front about what you get.
sims 2 is a bit better cuz is more stable and performance, the crashes are a big turn off on ts3 (try search some tutorial for better performance). try the sims medieval too, is a good quest based sims game.
Overall they all are fun games, even ts1 worth a try, but for playing only ts2 and ts3, ts4 only if its heavy moded, but ts3 have good mods too
tfw you have a mac and sims 3 hates apple
Yea, Sims 4 is the worst by far
Filipe Golineli I can't get sims 2 anywhere. Or at least I can't find it...
I'm a big starwars fan and sims fan. I was one of the few willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, thinking that there would still be a lot of fun to be had by mixing in things from all of the other packs. But not only did they make it so that none of the things from other packs work in batuu. They also made it so that the few good things from batuu dont work if you take them back home. This is defenetly the worst pack they have ever made.
I'm really sorry to hear it, it sucks to be disappointed in a not one but two franchises that you love. I don't blame you for having a bit more faith in them than this. Not a good SW pack, not a good Sims pack... the most limiting of all packs.
As a Star Wars fan dipping my toe back into Sims who side eyed this pack from day one, this is a great reason not to buy it.
This video further proves that this pack should’ve been a spinoff and not a game pack.
Ya know thats actually a good idea, an entire spinoff game like TS2 Castaway or TS3 Medieval would like a star wars version of those
Honest I would kinda prefer that
Yeah but medieval had a lot more gameplay, misions etc
@@wiktorka2112 ... but? Like, negative? Or did you mean something else? I might just be reading this wrong lol
So this GAMEpack actually strips away gameplay? 🤔 Worse than we thought
The thing I hate that you can't do is wear the alien masks on Batuu. So you can't even RP as an alien there.
There is a mod by Neilsimming that also turns the masks into skins (all over the body too, not just as gloves and hats), so you can use aliens as your playable sims. Definitely an essential mod if you can download them
You can't?! Well... where were you going to wear them?! Ugh. That just makes no sense. Of all the things to do... I'm going to assume they just legit didn't think about it or had such deadline restrictions that it got forgotten. :(
@@alksandra Yes, like an amusement park.
Do you have MCCC? I got around this by creating the outfit as an every day outfit in my home world then dressing in the outfit on Batuu and copying the details in the dresser menu. Then when it changed me back to the Batuu outfit I pasted the outfit details onto it. Solved :)
The fact that they didnt make this a standalone game, when they have clearly done everything in their power to make it a standalone experience, is honestly criminal. The best sims features are the ones that integrate well with other packs/the base game and so them deliberately removing these aspects removes all long-term playability of the pack. Its disappointing, and they really should have known better.
Going to the toilet is a rabbit hole in this pack?! That says it all, really. My objection from the start has been that I didn't think the Star Wars world integrate very well (or at all) with the Sims one, but I have to admit I never thought they'd take the lack of integration so far that they'd disable entire packs (eg Realm of Magic) to make it happen.
We should be able to use the force..
Yep. That's a *horrible* decision.
I don't even see the point of this pack when you can't really do any real SW-related stuff in it?
@@CarlsSimGuides I honestly think there was a long and drawn-out debate, amongst the devs and the higher-ups or just amongst the higher-ups themselves (possibly even with Disney lol), about whether this was a theme park or an actual planet and they took so long to decide or kept changing their minds, that by the time they decided for sure that it was going to be another planet there was a big scramble to support immersion and not enough time for the devs to flesh anything out. Like, we always knew it'd be lean on gameplay but this lack of decisiveness is probably what made things even worse. That's my guess. And during this time, they could easily spend most of their effort on just the assets so... ya know. :p
@@DoveJS they could actually just make a planet to each outpost. It feels like that right now cause you can't even see an outpost from another! It would have been great if your sim actually traveled there with the ship as he lands in and just Teleport ( there still would be a loading screen tho.)
The fact that Batuu is limiting you so much, no pets, no spellcasting, no vampire powers, no so much features from other dlcs is just screams about bad gameplay design.
EA/Disney is the only entity I can think of that charges you for removing gameplay features.
Should've been a spin-off.
Lol even the pack knows it doesn't belong 🤣
A sci-fi pack we didn't ask for... Sounds like Into the future... Wait, that actually added some gameplay, brought the Plumbots and wasn't SUCH and obvious cash grab...
Into the future felt insanely rich at the time. New mechanics, new vehicles, new skills, new instruments and a new world to explore. I wouldn't call it a cash grab by any stretch. This one has like three things to do and they seem to be talking to people, flying around in the new rockets and going back home.
@@TheStonemeister really wish they brought that pack back. The futuristic objects were awesome and making distopian futures was quite funny.
The worst thing Into the Future did was show a "secret" advertisement for The Sims 4.
Imagine uncovering that ad for the first time, getting super excited for what The Sims 4 could possibly become, just for it all to result in what may be the worst six years of the entire series. Talk about feeling heartbroken and ripped off.
Into the future had sooo much depth. sims 3 expansion packs could be played alone for a long time.
@@TheStonemeister and you could live in "The Future". I remember people complaining back then about that expansion pack. If we only knew what was coming 😕
This pack just seems like disappointment after disappointment. It's like that actively tried to make so this pack doesn't integrate with anything else.
The Scoundrel aspiration reward seems to be a watered down version of the kleptomaniac trait
well... the whole NO FAIL thing, makes it better?
Getting caught is part of the fun
@@coppermoth6069 Pit a klepto criminal career sim, against a good cop career sim... and see what happens.
@@gwouru You only no fail at the cheating at sabaac I think, which is... well not too useful beyond your lightsaber + droid.
@@CarlsSimGuides isn't it also no fail pick-pocketing?
i remember having great fun with the sims medieval. Why they didn't make a seperate the sims starwars goes beyond me, could have have fake lightsabers and boombox droids in the normal game as promotional material
The sims medieval was freaking epic…I think I was hoping for that kind of gameplay but the Star Wars one is disappointing…I played it once and couldn’t get very far up the ranks bc it was so glitchy
Ea: create your star wars story 🤗✨❤️
Also Ea: you cannot live or build on batuu, you cant be a jedi, you cant have pets, you cant have awesome space parties or weddings, etc. You can only play through our disney approved storyline how dare you try to actually be creative and have fun.
Sadly, I've bought the pack. There isnt even a 'storyline'. I maxed out my rep with first order and no 'ending mission' or anything, just radiant repeatable missions. At least in strangerville we had mother plant, but here there is literally nothing
Said a man that change the star wars legend :(
Here for the rebrand to Carl’s Sarcasm Guides
The type of video I need to get me through my night shift while I’m doing notes 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Carl , you’re the hero we need
The sarcasm is strong with this one ;)
My friend said that 2 mins in on her first watch and all I could do was smack my forehead.
Carl's Sim Guides xD
if you take pictures with someone on Batuu it will disappear from your inventory. cool
9:47 we’ll have to wait for the Journey to Epcot game pack
"Finally, like you've always wanted, we're going to let you tell your own The Sims 4™ Star Wars™ story!"
"Huh... Okay. I didn't want that, but if that's the case- in my story, I'm going to bring my spellcaster and-"
"NOT LIKE THAT"
"... oookayy, my vampire sim is going to-"
"NOPE"
"... can I at least tell my toddler a joke-"
"NO"
Ha! Loved your efforts getting pets into Batuu.
The more I hear about this pack, the more it feels like a bad joke... Or like they made it bad on purpose, so we will think the next pack will be better, because we have seen how bad it can actually be.
"..a sense of pride and accomplishment." I see what you did there. lol.
you make the best sims content on the internet.
Thanks. I thought your name was lil Carl for a second and thought I was your father.
Said in my best Darth Vader voice, "Lil' Cart, Carl is your father." Lol
"locked out of easy magic so you can't get a sense of pride and accomplishment" oh carl, sneaky carl, with the snarky references! the singing alien will also haunt us all in our sleep
Welp, I was most looking forward to taking Vlad there and having him become a Jedi because that's hilarious to me, but I guess that's not even in the cards, huh?
Oh man, that would be amazing! You could still take him there to do stuff but yeah... no actual Jedi. Just give him a lame lightsaber so he can battle Rey or Kylo Ren. :(
6 years of Sims 4, and the only thing they put out that it's not broken is this useless addition...
adding a color picker skin tone = EA/Maxis answer "it's too hard" (which is just 1 variable to store the color. some 20 lines of code for the color picker and like 3 extra lines for the shader...)
filtering out ALL the features not of this pack, making sure there are no bugs because "dogs in outer space are unacceptable!"
and that it's actually a lot harder and took a lot more effort.
yeah they don't care about their players at all
It's not their priority by any means as it's not gonna make profit. Working on a pack sponsored by Disney on the other hand will sure make profit so there goes the priority.
There's a new mod review on pixelade channel which made me very upset because that's what people wanted since a long time and this mod is done by 1 person while EA feeds us with "we can't add ice-cream to the fridge, it's impossible".
i feel sorry for the poor dev who had to implement it. If it were me, i would have been swearing the whole time.
“Instead, you’re locked out of using magic so you can get a sense of price and accomplishment” OOF that one too me back a few years
Why can't you be an alien in Batuu?
I made a crew of Twi'lek, Bith and Zabrak and when you go to Batuu the game changes your appearance to a human. Wasn't supposed to have my Star Wars adventure?
As a Star Wars fan, this pack makes me really sad. If it had been a spin off game, and fully developed out like Sims Medieval, it could’ve been fantastic! They missed an opportunity there. Won’t be purchasing this one. Thanks for the honest reviews Carl!
This sould of been a "Medievals" type of sims game
Just going to throw out there that despite their attempts to make everything “fair” and “balanced” by disabling supernaturals’ powers, vampires can still be pretty broken on Batuu:
- “Freshen Up” fills their thirst, quicker than they could even do it by hunting sims
- They don’t need to eat from the very unsatisfying food stands
- They keep their PASSIVE powers only - so you can take Odorless, Beyond the Herd and Immortal pleasures to mean you only need to focus on thirst. Vampire energy doesn’t seem to drain at all on Batuu, because it’s considered cloudy all the time so they don’t burn, and they aren’t using powers
- Child of the Moon also seems to work to cut motive decay and increase skill gain at night
- Unsure if Vampiric Strength works, my sim still lost plenty of fights
If anyone can think of any other passive benefits that might help on Batuu, let me know. Not tried the emotion deadening perk, but I can’t see that being a huge boon.
Funnily enough, their weaknesses will still work... Though I guess Guilty Drinker, Sloppy Drinker, Thin Skinned, Sleep of the Undead, and Fitful Sleep are all negated. Just don’t take one with Day Phobia, Eternal Sadness and Insatiable Thirst if you want them to have a pleasant “vacation” on Batuu.
Hey, I don't remember the weakness name, but I bet they can constantly hiss and make every other Sim hate them still. And it won't matter because no one has to like you when you're on Batuu! :D
Give me an occult Jedi with the force and I’m alllll yours, EA cash grab
Instead of giving us a hollow star wars theme park experience...
Give us an actual theme park too explore with sims.
Yeah! give me rickety wooden coasters, tunnels of love, walls of death, halls of mirrors, sideshows, carnies, corn dogs and candy floss!
I'm glad all the guide Sims from previous packs had their comeback, at least someone won something here.😁
I want to use my magic to cheat my way to the end of the Batu storyline 😈. Ty for the extra guide (and telling us we can’t have new alien sim baby’s)
Well you can, just not aat Galaxy's Edge and they'll be human (or Sixam aliens or vampires)
I pirate The Sims 4 and I'm not downloading this pack. It sucks so much I don't even want it for free lmao
Also.. Im going to turn Oasis Springs into Batuu. All the shells etc are in debug, so Im just gonna set it all up there. :)
That's honestly better than the whole "journey to batuu" pack. You're creative
I remember Sims 3 allowing you to combine multiple expansion features for your own leisure... Such as making Ghost Potions at the Chemistry table to go through walls in the Ambitions Firefighter profession, while it's a blizzard outside due to the Seasons expansion.
The “sense of pride and accomplishment” reference at 6:32
The thing I like most about the "Star Wars" game pack is it drove me back to Sims 3 and am having a blast. Thanks devs!
Hahahaha, I like the fact that you put the two toilet bushes outside the Cantina!!!! That is telling EA off!!
If I can't marry Kylo Ren, then I don't want this pack.
You can but you got to add him
It's basically just like marrying another random sim...tbh
Just get WhickedWhims 😉
Its messed up that you have to use cheats to have a romance with him. So many unnecessary restrictions in this pack
Can Kylo Ren and Rey die? what happens if i kill them with a murder mod?
who cares? mods like that can't be balanced for. Kill them with the game presented and get back to us.
Have fun and be sure to let us all know. Probably either you hit a dead end, and cannot kill further, or they endlessly spawn new Rey and Kylo actors so you can keep it up.
@@CarlsSimGuides PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE TEST THIS!!! I really want to see if the game totally freaks out once the star attractions go missing.. LMAO! PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEE
Mary Sue VS Murphy Bed. Who will win?
@@CarlsSimGuides unfortunately i don't have the Star Wars pack, so i can't test it myself
10:53
Carl: Star Wars Pack is like a hollowed out version of The Sims 4.
Simmers: Is that even possible?
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Thanks Carl! I need to come back here any time I start thinking "Oh but the just world looks so cool, I bet I could make my own fun living there." Nope. No you can't.
Wow. It's so stripped back that it's neither a Star Wars nor a Sims game. It's just an interactive advert 😞
I’m annoyed that they give us this but they don’t give us a force user lifestate where your decisions and training could either veer towards the light, dark, or grey
"Use the force- oh, wait, nevermind, that's not included in the pack"
The one good thing about Journey to Batuu: Carl's videos.
no gonk droid no buy. simples.
but seriously how was it possible to be let down by a pack when i didnt have any expectations of it succeeding to begin with? :(
That awkward moment when the Talking Toilet has more personality than the Starwars Droids and aliens combined.
I for one was super delighted to see this pack, and still am!
It was nice to easily cross something off my Someday list.
My first pet's stuff isn't looking so bad now...
I wholeheartedly agree. I’m so disappointed in this pack. I’m a huge fan of Star Wars and that’s why I got it. I really should’ve waited and watched some gameplays becaue had I known that it was so lackluster I would’ve saved my $20 and that’s coming from someone that has found something worthwhile in EVERY pack I have (most of which I got on sale). I can’t believe they didn’t even make it as good as Realm of Magic. It blows my mind how completely pointless this game is. When I completed the first order missions I didn’t even know i had “won” because there was no alert, nothing!!! There’s so much wrong with this I keep feeling like it was unfinished. Like they were only half way done with it and they ran out of time and they just released it for some odd reason. If this kind of thing is the future of the SIMS 4 then I def won’t be buying any more packs.
This pack was just released and it already needs some serious updates...
Gooood, I can feel your anger. EA is defenseless, strike The Sims 4 down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the darkside will be complete.
Those transitions with the "aliens" singing were hilarious.
I think Disney was the reason for a lot of these decisions (limitations).
That building...It's just a giant public bathroom?
Your commentary reminds me of Andy Rooney - it's a very subtle blend of biting wit and unassuming observation. Keep up the good work!
Hopefully modders could enable the Occult races' powers and pets freely roam and run amok in Batuu.
Zero has enabled occult powers.
To be honest, though, it wouldn't make Batuu much better. :(
@@pihwht whose Zero?
This pack is so restrictive. Didn't they say make your own story?
Funny thing.... because I have a weird sense of humor and like to test things not too unlike you, I made an alien character for playing in Batuu and, for the hell of it, I used cheats to take Kylo Ren back to "Sims World."
But.... Kylo Ren was made a mute. Except when he was speaking Star Wars dialog. So it was like my Sim and Kylo spoke using sign language. Needless to say, they even had a kiddo together....
Their child was mute.... no crying, no talking, etc. And because of how animated Sims are when talking, it was actually surprisingly touching to imagine they were all speaking with sign language to one another.
Unfortunately, that Save File ended up glitching for some reason and I had to delete it. It was fun while it lasted though!
School me Carl I’m ready!
As a Star Wars fan I was beyond excited about this pack.... That is, until I saw how bad it is. I mean, you can romance Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, but Rey and Kylo Ren? No, that would ruin the magic
There's an Easter Bunny in the TS4?
Yup, and this is why I will not be wasting my money on buying this pile of garbage.
Man I lose it everytime the "aliens" start singing 😂😂
It's crazy how this is a gamepack..
Thanks for the vid 👍
Star Wars was an option for Stuff Packs when we were choosing which to make. And it came in last. Not regular last either. Crash and burn last.
One of the points the Sims Team used to defend this pack was that it would integrate into other parts of the game... But a lot of Batuu features are locked out in other worlds, and a lot of features from other worlds are locked out in Batuu. That's a step beyond the evasive responses to their lackluster releases... THEY FLAT OUT LIED.
I think one of the biggest punch in the nuts is how they advertised that you're going to meet new species and all, but every single citizen are just normal sims with alien costumes, meaning that they're basically decorative and have no new abilities whatsoever.
The remote controlled Droid car though. 🤣 As for spellcaster sims, Zero has already made a mod to let us inferniate and zigzag away on Batuu if we want too! Its a shame we needed a mod to do that.
Edit: I think the mod is for all supernaturals.
I had no idea you could just click the motive icon to get them to remedy it on their own.
The one thing they could have done is disable vampires dying in sunlight for batuu so you know they don’t wreck everything I wanted to have a cool vampire resistance member but was attracted to the dark side via their possession of roofed buildings
Remember when My First Pet Stuff was the worst pack LMAO suddenly it’s not the worst anymore
if this was free pack, it would still be expensive.
Ironically, it really seems like the Sims team have lost the plot with this pack.
Why do i feel like EA is pointing a gun in Carl's head and force him to make this video to make this pack sounds some what positive? CARL DO YOU NEED HELP? HEART MY COMMENT IF YOU DO.
The sarcasm was so clear in this video--EA can't even do hostage-taking right lolol
My thoughts about this video is that he actually dislike the pack very much because of it's huge (enormous) limitations
No, I think the reason he was more subtle about it is because some fans have been getting upset at the massive pushback from the disgruntled Sims fans and since this pack doesn't have a leg to stand on, it's even harder to repair the rift when you make a video about Batuu. It's like, some people were just mad because they were already mad but the people who actually looked forward to this feel like they're being attacked and in general any RUclipsr who is trying to be modestly positive doesn't want constant complaints getting them down; they can see how bad it is, they don't need a reminder. We all know this is lackluster but negativity has been building up over the past several years in general. There are many genuine complaints about Batuu, that was never the issue, but things are coming to a head around the community, I think. And there are people who do enjoy the game, who are probably self-medicating with it during these trying times, so even the honest frustration from others is getting to them now. It's just rough all around and anyone making RUclips videos has to toe the line a little. Plus, you know, they're all Sims fans. They never wanted the game to be bad. They all want to enjoy it! :(