🔄 Update 3/6/2025 - ☢️ IS THAT EIGHTEEN (18) DEFORMER MAPS I SEE? -- "Outfit Switching" still broken + CAS still broken + S4S updated + my personal report initiated.

UPDATE NOTES - https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/update-3-6-2025

We're wingin' it. That's a bat pun. 🦇 <SQUEAK SQUEAK>

This is the only game I can recall that has a habit of not releasing Update Notes with their updates. For a company that insists on shoehorning Always - PIRACY - Online "features" into all of their games - then lying and saying it's totes the dev's idea - they really suck at the internet.

⋆⋅ THIS IS WHAT THE WAIT WAS FOR:

[EA Forums] Child Sims who were experiencing body deformation have returned to normal proportions.

[EA Forums] Console players can scroll though Tattoos and open Filter Panels with controllers.

Unit Outlines no longer appear in Build Mode for players who do not own The Sims 4 Businesses and Hobbies Expansion Pack. Players who own the For Rent Expansion Pack will still be able to use its appropriate functionality on Residential Rental lots.

[EA Forums] Small Dog Breeds no longer appear distorted in Create a Sim.

⋆⋅ MY PERSONAL REPORT:

DEFORMER MAPS AND OUR BODIES - The same damn EIGHTEEN (18) Deformer Maps have finally been fixed. I will update the BUGFIX with the new resources - it's certainly new resources! It totes doesn't look like they just took the old resources and darkened the saturation! Nope! Not at all.

CREATE-A-SIM (CAS) - EAxis somehow managed to break CAS in Update 2/25/2025. The Accessories categories appear to be even worse now, but to be fair, I didn't look around that much in Update 2/25/2025, so it might just be as !@#$ed as it was then and not more !@#$ed than it was then. I will investigate this more now that we're "emergency" updated.

ANIMATION STATE MACHINES - No change between Update 2/25/2025 and 3/6/2025 means I can ignore AnimXGenWear a little longer.

SCALE FORM GFX - 233/234 SGFX resources have been modified. This is standard fare. All but one little insignificant SGFX resource that controls fonts are usually modified in every official update, which means I'll be updating all SGFX mods again. This is just how I roll.

TBC...

⋆⋅ REWIND SEVEN (7) MONTHS TO JULY 2024:

Update 7/23/2024 broke EIGHTEEN (18) Deformer Maps.

The result was our spines deforming horribly under specific circumstances.

SEVEN (7) DAYS LATER I produced a BUGFIX - my first BUGFIX. I shared it on Answers HQ and explained what needed to be fixed, and for the next SEVEN (7) !@#$ING MONTHS I bumped that thread every time we got updated but not fixed.

I even shared the raw resources from Update 6/6/2024 that are contained in my BUGFIX in a special Google Drive folder I made just for EAxis.

Y'know, just in case they "misplaced" their old resources.

FAST-FORWARD TO NINE (9) DAYS AGO, and EAxis finally fixes our broken spines with Update 2/25/2025, but the Deformer Maps are still broken, and suddenly children's bodies are now broken.

What was it I said? - https://www.patreon.com/posts/123092546

Our bodies have been fixed, but the EIGHTEEN (18) Deformer Maps are still broken. This means that instead of FIXING THE !@#$ING DEFORMER MAPS, THESE M- <INHALES SHARPLY> they instead chose to "unlink" the bodies from the Deformer Maps, which means there's a bit of code somewhere I don't know about. Imagine that. When I say the Deformer Maps are still broken, I mean that they have not been altered in any way since they were broken in Update 7/23/2024.

What was it I followed that up with? - https://www.patreon.com/posts/123118524

They should have fixed the !@#$ing Deformer Maps.

EIGHTEEN (18) - THE EIGHTEEN (18) DEFORMER MAPS H- <INHALES SHARPLY>

Shirley y'all can understand my seething anger right now and bear with me while I... recompose myself.

They should have fixed the !@#$ing Deformer Maps instead of !@#$ing around.

I was having a real good day. I'm on course to BAND-AID one of EAxis' other !@#$ ups, and I - was - having a lot of fun doing it 'cause I'm learning new ways to modify this code and I'm getting a slightly better understanding about what they may have broken in Update 10/22/2024 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/117653032

I APOLOGIZE IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'RE READING THROUGH ONE OF MY RANTS.

On the bright side, the Deformer Maps are finally fixed. 🎉

⋆⋅ CHECK THE STATUS OF YOUR FAVORITE MODS:

1️⃣ Visit Scarlet's Realm, maintained by Scarlet - https://scarletsrealm.com

2️⃣ On the top menu, hover over "The Mod List" and click on one of these options (or any of the others):

• SFW Only - https://../the-mod-list-sfw-only-edition

• SFW + NSFW - https://../the-mod-list-sfw-nsfw-edition

3️⃣ Scroll down to "The Mod List" section and follow the instructions to search for your favorite mods using the Search feature.

4️⃣ A kind word or a coin is always appreciated - https://../posts/123797803

5️⃣ My sim's name is pure coincidence.