If it isn’t riddled with a bunch of off-putting glitches, did writer EA even launch a brand new The Sims 4 growth pack? The most recent pack, Horse Ranch, which got here out on July 20, seems to be crawling with quite a lot of weird bugs gamers have been drawing consideration to because the add-on was in previews.
On July 19, for instance, YouTuber onlyabidoang observed that growing older up a just-born foal appears to fuse it to its human rider, prompting it to start out strolling on two legs whereas going through the wrong way, like some form of glued-together, equine cryptid. To the mutated horse’s credit score, it appeared relaxed, regardless of its head being on backwards.
“She’s simply attempting her greatest to mix in,” the YouTuber stated.
Regardless of onlyabidoang’s bringing consideration to it, the haunting glitch apparently made it by way of to the growth pack’s precise launch, and gamers on TikTok had been dissatisfied to seek out that their Horse Ranch pets weren’t as cute as they’d anticipated them to be. That’s as a result of their lovely horse heads had been nonetheless, regrettably, on backwards, and, in some circumstances, one other set of hooves appeared to protrude from the legs laying limp at their sides.
“The truth that this bug was mentioned throughout preview, they usually STILL left it in,” one incredulous commenter stated on TikTok. “Unbelievable.”
“I really feel like Sims crew lets [issues] slide for some time only for the hilarious movies it will get, after which it fixes [them] in updates,” stated one other well-liked remark.
The Sims 4 launched in 2014, however almost a decade of modifications and official add-ons from developer Maxis nonetheless haven’t assured its perfection. Earlier than horses began strolling backwards, blocking and teleporting gamers who tried to mount them, and sometimes forcing gamers to T-pose in Horse Ranch, different Sims glitches this yr turned infants into Slenderman and made sizzling folks ugly.
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EA has not but publicly commented on nearly all of Horse Ranch bugs, although it did not too long ago repair a difficulty inflicting missing text strings within the growth. Kotaku reached out for extra data.