Ranking Every Sims 4 Pack On How Glitchy They Are 

I agree I’m always so annoyed when celebrities show up in random lots I feel like I see the celebrities more then any other npc

What also really annoys me about butlers is that when you leave the lot or go to work, often there's a different butler when you come back. And if you make them a Butler's apartment (I always make a bed-/living room and bathroom combo for them, door locked for anyone but Butler), they should be using the stuff in there. I don't think you'd find a real life butler worth their salt just plopping down in front of the living room TV or soaking in their boss's bathtub.

dine out & my wedding stories: *it’s my time to shine*

My big complaint with Cats and Dogs is if you live in that world, it is just FILLED with sick animals and the cats just never stop meowing. Literally every stray is sick all the time. And if you make your lot a cat/dog hangout, your yard will be filled with sick animals that won't stop meowing and you can't interact with them. They won't eat or use litter trays you put out, and if you try to interact with them, your sim will just stand there doing nothing until the command just disappears from your queue. Beautiful world, very nice stuff, but just not worth the hassle. Cottage Living has the minor glitch of my cow continuously coming in 3rd in a contest with only 2 cows. So that's annoying....

my biggest peeve w dream home decorator is previous clients asking for renos on the same rooms. how many times must i redo the study i gave the watson family. also it would’ve been great if previous packs or at least the base game pre made sims were given appropriate style likes. it’s aesthetically killing me to give sims in oasis springs a farmhouse bedroom

Snowy Escape has an annoying bug where disabling Yama-chan's visits doesn't work, there's a mod to fix that though for PC players. Also the bug of uninvited sims breaking into apartments happens in other worlds too, if I got a cent for every time I deleted a sim that swam to my Sulani island to break into my kitchen for a cup of water I'd be able to buy multiple chocolate bars by now

The gameplay in Sulani where they bring you food because they heard you were hungry annoys me as they do it all the time and leave the food outside the house. I had a date and their table was in a corner. Dirk turned up posing for paparazzi making the corner so crowded I could barely click on my Sims to complete the date. It was so frustrating and immersion killing. When you click on your sim to go to work and they don't go. Then you get a pop up asking if they should miss work but neither reply is correct. The Landgrabs turn off the power on your lot for 48 hours and it never comes back on again. Eco lifestyle voting is off but still get constant notifications about what was voted up for that week even though nothing has. Neighbourhood stories are too frequent. Got a notification that a friend had a baby and if I wanted to come over to see the new edition. Turned up and there was a notification that the baby was being neglected and would be taken away. Also Bella Goth asked me 5 times in a row if she should have a baby. A lot of the Sims gameplay is full of sloppy programming like pranksters pranking their own toilet. Sims asking you to go to a club/bar/lot and they instantly disappear then 2 secs later call you to invite you somewhere. Sims congratulating you for becoming friends with your own child/parent/partner.

It's such a shame that they completely dropped the "gameplay kits" after Bust The Dust. As controversial as they are, kits could have been a great way of providing gameplay to players who don't want to pay the price for an expansion pack or game pack, or those who want more gameplay without having other features of packs that are not used interrupting gameplay.

Unfortunately laundry day is unplayable to me because inevitably and usually quite quickly the washing machine is unusable and theres no option to wash with the machine. It happens so frequently to me every since i bought it 2 years ago

I don’t know if anyone else mentioned this, but i wouldn’t put Snowy Escape because there’s an inherent power drain on every ol’ lot in Mt. Komorebi. Even if you have a completely empty lot with no appliances and the off the grid lot challenge, your bills will still have insane power costs. There is a mod for this, but its still extremely frustrating

I feel like dream home decorator is pretty broken and I am sad about it. Its glichy on reno types where you add tiles or change walls which eliminates a lot of the renos you are able to do. The reveals glich out I would say about half the time, where it skips the reveal entirely or doesnt let you get reactions so you cant complete the job. Also with neighborhood stories on, it is more like playing dream home social services, but thats not really a glitch, it just effects the realism of your gameplay when you show up to a house with the mom dead and a teen there with an empty house and a baby for a bathroom renovation. I had to make a specific save to play it.

I really love the way you review the packs, always showing the good and the bad sides, keep going love the reviews

University has one major bug where sims get permanently suspended if you play in another household when their countdown reaches 0. Any progress you've then made in their ridiculously long and ridiculously difficult education is then lost, and it drives me up the wall

Honestly, I think Dream Home Decorator is a lot worse than what you described. I recently tried playing it and /any/ gig that involves adding or expanding the size of a room is literally impossible to execute. The game won't let you add walls to a house even when the job explicitly says you're supposed to. I'd still put it as 'broken but tolerable' because you don't have to take jobs that are room additions/expansions, but that makes the game /incredibly/ broken.

I gave up in interior designer career as my Sim was often sent to lots and couldn't go into house because nobody lives there. Also the Pancakes were twofaced divvies as they loved Pennies' movie themed room then sent hate mail to her 😀

Satch calling the butler an 'it" 😂mate your Windsor is showing (joking obviously, but that did stick out to me)

i dont get that people get upset over your videos you're obviously not always being 100% serious and just having fun with it which only makes it more entertaining to watch!!! Pls keep making these kinds of videos satch

I agree with most of what you classified here, but I can add on more bugs to some of them! The laundry pack is so broken that as soon as you start to upgrade your washer or dryer, they become unplayable as if there is no washer or dryer. You have to buy a whole new one after upgrading, which is a waste of effort. I absolutely hate it and sometimes just settle for my sim hand washing and hanging the clothes out to dry OR having no hampers at all so the clothing piles won't even initiate. I really hate that part. I def hate the celebs coming to random lots! That's not supposed to happen. lol

I actually had issues with Snowy Escape. I couldn't climb the mountain because the game crashed everytime. Also, my sims sometimes glitched while walking on the outside stairs and couldn't move when they went hiking in this neigborhood called Senbamachi (this one on the left)

Honey I need your rants on like EVERYTHING! I could listen to you rank toilet paper I'd still have a good time.

Judith one time had the story thing on and decided to get a job as a manual labourer thingy 😭😭

I’ve had the people walking into my house randomly thing happen everywhere in the game… it’s so annoying when I see one person come into my house (with a locked door!), then I realize more will also and usually around 3 sims will just start doing crap in my house. The worst part is that you can’t tell them to leave, when you can’t have the game go uber fast when everyone is sleeping because someone is there, and when they literally have no name or shouldn’t exist! Ugh!

What a fun metric to rank packs in,👍btw, Outdoor Retreat was very broken by the Eco Lifestyle patch, iirc.. or at least the herbalism skill was. I love the "vacation packs" and they usually work decently well, probably because they aren't as integrated so changing game mechanics wouldn't impact them as much.

What bugs me about dream home decorator was that somehow I couldn't get into apartments in San Myshuno, it's something new and broken I've discovered

“Broken and Tolerable- that sounds like me!” Earned an immediate sub from me, along with solidarity laughter 😂

I noticed in a recent sale that all game packs were 35% off but my wedding stories was 25% off and it made what was left of my soul withered to dust, like you’re going to sell the most broken pack for more money than all the other game packs that aren’t broken?!

I would put Moschino in the bad hair day category because sometimes there are some bugs when sending photos. HSY is unplayable in my opinion

Hi satch!! I love your videos so much💕 (for me the glitchest pack is probably island living)

I have the pack "Bust the Dust" I regret it a bit but I found it tolerable when I use the robot vacuum cleaners that comes with cats and dogs ! You just have to think about using them everyday ! lol

Agree with most of these except get to work. I don't own a lot of the packs but get to work is so broken since most of the careers don't let you complete the tasks. I would rank the pack in either unplayable or just about playable. The rest were good though. Glad you ranked vampires perfect as that is the only pack that in my opinion is better than the sims 3 equivalent :)

Very creative idea for a tier list!!

Judith Ward and Nancy have the same ernergy in the sense that they are everywhere. While Nancy jogs through all of my neighborhoods in every save of mine, while Judith just appears on every lot that isn't my home lot.

Haven't watched the video yet, but I low-key adore your disclaimer at the beginning

A much needed analysis; well done.

Nifty knitting is still buggy in apartments even though they have "fixed it". Sims just will not ship items on plopsy a good 75% of the time. Once the bug happens you have to move to fix it.

Thank you for making this video. Any kind of in depth evaluation on how glitchy the different packs and kits are is very helpful to me. I have been thinking of getting some of the packs but I don't want to spend my money on something that is too broken to be enjoyable. This video and the comments below about people's experiences playing the different packs is helping me narrow down which pack(s) I am willing to spend money on. Too many of the rankings and recommendations of which pack to get that I've looked at either ignore how glitchy the pack is or mention it as if it is less important than what you get added to the game because of the pack. With how expensive these DLC are, I would like to know which packs are too glitchy to be worth my money.

Does anybodyelse find it annoying with Dream Home Decorator, where they give you a budget but you end up with an even bigger one when you get rid of the stuff already in the room? Sorry, I have noone/where else to ask this and it's been bugging me 😅

I dunno, it works for me having Judith Ward show up everywhere cause my sims always have an enemy near by to take their irritation out on! I mean, you can't beat up on Eliza Pancakes all the time.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that has that glitch with city living! I was playing my main household who lives in a apartment and literally one random night one of my sims neighbors came walking in with a gun in their hand (I have the extreme violence mod) i almost threw my laptop it scared me so bad 😂

omg this was brilliant!

In my game, actualy the sims 4 Wedding Syories, actually works perfectly for me, I suggest you trying it again because, at least I know various cases in which it works perfectly

Hahaha I love all your ranking content!

For me Werewolves is unplayable, I have been having this glitch where if I enter CAS with a werewolf there wolf form gets implanted over there human for creating a flesh covered werewolf. They have the wolf ears, cheek fur, and everything they have in wolf form, just with a coat of skin over everything and the eyes jump up to be on top of the wolf ears. I had to delete the pack, recover a previous version of my save, reinstall the pack, and kill all current werewolves in order to prevent this from happening. So the only way I can use the pack is to have no werewolves in the save file.

the only real problem i had with the Batuu DLC is that, one, when i made a Twi'lek character, the Batuu area changed the outfit, and thus removed the Tei'lek head piece i had equipped on a sim, and i couldn't put it back on while there. and two, I once found a black lightsaber crystal, but when i put it into a saber hilt, it just had the basic red blade when activated.

Idk if it's just me but the bowling stuff pack is incredibly glitchy for me. Have never been able to have my Sims go bowling and actually do what i tell them to do. Everybody just leaves the lot within like 30 minutes lol. Also, I find hiking in Snowy Escape glitchy af, my Sims will never stick together and it takes forever for them to start walking :') Never had issues with bust the dust tho! Idk guys what kind of glitches do you experience with this pack?

I’m on like 1 minute in, but thank you for putting positive categories in green and negatives in the red ❤

I actually agree with this list. I guess there are more universal experiences with the packs than I originally thought.

Your videos usually put me in a high emotional state, but thankfully actual humans can’t die from laughing (or so I think 😳)

This is so weird and unpopular to say but I like my wedding stories, even before the fixing I managed it, I even had an officiant, my weddings are pretty nice and since I'm a legacy player I always want my weddings to be nice and this pack helps with that

Paranormal is hit or miss for me (bug wise - I love the pack). Ghosts/ objects don't always appear and the gigs won't end.

The only kits/packs I had major issues with were Bust the Dust and MWS. I disabled Bust the Dust maybe a month after I downloaded it. Dine Out glitches from time to time but not to the point where I wouldn’t use restaurants in my game.

I love your little laugh 😂

Thanks for making this because my game has become so laggy with each new expansion

Ooooh boy, I own most packs and the most broken one I have is Snowy Escape, to the point of me not using it at all. The game gets stuck on the loading screen or throws me to manage worlds when I try to travel to/from/within a neighborhood in which there's a festival currently happening, so every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I also couldn't do the mountain excursion event, so I couldn't even complete an aspiration. I know it's not a super common bug, but still a lot of people have it.

My wedding stories is definitely still broken lmao although I think it’s that Tartosa lot that is even more so. I had a wedding on a custom lot and whilst it didn’t work perfectly it was better than the monstrosity of the other wedding I tried with t posing frozen sims and a runaway officiant 😭 (also when I did the vows finally it didn’t even count them as married so it was all for nothing!!!)

I would put Eco Lifestyle on the 'Bad Hair Day' tier because there are some issues with the eco footprint system, specifically it messes up gardening (the 'reverting-to-dirtpile' glitch) when the eco footprint changes in the active neighborhood and it's also unballanced when it comes to maintaining the eco footprint (industrial being worse, but it also affects the green one) leading to it changing like three times a day between green/industrial and neutral footprint in an unmodded game. Snowy Escape should also be in that tier because of the lifestyle feature. There's a limit on how much points to lifestyles can a Sim get each day, but this limit is for all of the lifestyles combined leading to four (or six if you just started a new game) specific lifestyles to be ridiculously easy to obtain while they're also blocking the other lifestyles. Specifically it's the 'Indoorsy' (you get points to this one from being inside), 'Outdoorsy' (points obtained by staying outside), 'People Person' (just socialize with your Sims' family or simply maintain the Social need to get this one) and 'Workoholic' (just send your Sim to work every day, bonus points if you make them work hard but not required, and it's even easier to get if you follow your Sim to work with one of the active careers and do at least the bare minimum to not have your Sim's performance meter go down). The other two depends on the specific Sim and are easy to get just when you start a new game (or a new generation with the first mentioned), if you have a Sim without a romantic partner, you get points to 'Single and Loving It' lifestyle each day. If you have a Sim that doesn't know many people yet and you just managed to get at least that one good friend, the Close Knit lifestyle is being developed unless you're going around talking to any Sim you meet (and contributing to the 'People Person' lifestyle once again). The other lifestyles are being blocked by those mentioned and insanelly hard to even almost impossible to develop and maintain without cheats, even the Techie lifestyle which is really surprising to me as my computer geek Sim working in the Tech Guru career kept loosing this lifestyle constatly despite not doing anything else besides maintaining his needs.

Eco lifestyle has a glitch for me where if I go into the dock lot the big tunnel decoration in the lot, Does not look as it should. It just looks like a glitchy scribble. I have to save exit and then reload the game.

As for Snowy Escape, I find that my sims sometimes don't pick up their skis at the end of the slope so I have to buy new ones. The forgotten skis are then always visible right where they were left.

The weenie roast event from outdoor retreat compels sims to throw logs onto the campfire until everyone bursts into flames. And then as soon as the fire is extinguished and re-lit, they do it again. Known issue since launch.

The fact that I just got dream home decorator, get famous and high school years lol. I already have outdoor retreat and get to work haha I really want dogs and cats, city living and snowy scape and then I'll be almost completely satisfied with the packs I have but I'll wait until black friday sale to get it

Batuu has one glitch where if you try to play it with an occult sim, it's going to get stuck.

I've been lucky my mermaids have never broken CAS before, I first heard about thid glitch here haha Aside from that I agree with the list

I remember playing dream home decorator and one of the sims caught the house on fire while I was learning their likes/dislikes

Often in Wash Day the machines stop registering and I have to buy a new machine. They often just drop laundry on the floor when told to wash in the wash tub also (for some reason) and sometimes the line has had a similar situation 🤔

I do kinda have an issue with spa day. Sometimes guests in my sims' house use MY tub for a mud bath/other spa bath.

I personally love your videos dragging the sims.

discover university is a bit glitchy especially when before and after class multiple sims' figures overlap each other in front of the building and you have to wait for like 30 in-game minutes for them to seperate and go proceed. also the bikes, my sims float on them and they ride them indoors

For vampires, the vampire aspiration's final tier has you stay a vampire for some number of days, but the counter resets every time you load another lot! Also the bat form power is very glitchy, sims will literally never walk, always bat form, even to re-align themselves. Some actions they'll literally never do because they just keep turning into a bat. You can turn off 'always move as bat' while playing with a sim, but if you switch to another family it automatically turns on.

I’ve had Judith Ward show up at my sim’s birthday parties, a campground, and at the temple from Jungle Adventure. I just want to collect shiny things!

there is still one bug related to children's bodies stretching when getting out of a coffin, but that bug is unnoticed and not a big deal. I also had an extremely weird bug happen with my toddler, but idk if it's my mods ( I think it might be) I won't explain it tho cause the context, and bug itself is just weird and gross

Haven't really noticed glitches with Journey to Batuu, it's just boring is all. Most places are rabbit holes (including your accommodations!), many of the tasks go by different names but they're the same repetitive tasks you're doing over and over again, etc. I play Dining Out on regular speed and I have nothing but glitches; when running a restaurant customers won't stay seated so they can't be waited on and leave angry, waiters get distracted, chefs sometimes skip tickets. When dining out I get distracted waiters, stalled chefs, occasionally there is missing staff, customers coming to sit with me or taking food off my plate, I only get the food about half the time at all, and other times it takes 8 hrs to go out and have a meal. I would put it in a "barely playable" category, I still try occasionally and occasionally I am successful but most of the time I just give up on it.

Thank you for saving us money!

Idk me and my husband played Batuu and there’s a mission that tells you to meet a smuggler in the cantina. They never show up. I had my sim go sleep and go back and that worked for me, but when my husband tried, it didn’t. He tried traveling to another area, sleeping, everything but going home and it didn’t help. So that would def count as a bad hair day to me.

Im the noisy neighbour in city living, Victor Feng always goes to my door complain about the noise, even when my sim isnt making noise

I have the biggest problems with highschool years, and the pets pack. Anytime there is a pet in a house hole my PS4 runs so choppy and horrible! But I love having the pets so I just suffer 🤷‍♀️

For me I really enjoy the Eco living pack but I have a few issues with it I would claim it like bad hair day kind of bad it's when you're redoing a lot in the Eco world to make it more green and ends up with an industrial footprint sometimes or it's neutral what it should be green because there's literally no industrial footprint things and it's completely filled with green only items and it still shows up as neutral or industrial at least for like the like the maker lot and community space

1. I loved this. 2. Spa day is actually bad hair day with the renewal. The aspirations do not work.

I have had issues with the get famous actor career. Some times the auditions don't work at all. Cottage living, my cows/llamas sleep all day and my sim can't clean the barn at all. Also I have several small glitches that I thought to be features in the game lol. But I know my game is broken mess. I get at least one exception per game session.

I would probably say Get Famous is playable in speed one. The active career and the starlight accolades event just do not work in faster speeds but if you slow it down it works perfectly. Judtih showing up is annoying, I wish it was only celebrities from the world you are in that show up on community lots since they are "local" there. For me its more of a bad hair day thing, with the amount of gameplay feature it adds its a really well-made pack and sims show up from every world no matter where you are anyway (which is a good thing for me since it adds variety)

Surprised you put Eco Lifestyle into Perfect. The NAPS are known for causing a lot of problems in the Sims' logic (like combining allowing anyone into your house and being big on recycling and refabrication leads to all your furniture being trashed for scraps), and also becoming activated by randomization in hoods where you are not involved in NAPS even when they are disabled in the menu. And that can be very distracting when everyone is doing push ups and wearing paper bag heads. If things designed to give you freedom to get creative and wacky, end up in the randomizer, I consider that a bug even when it is touted as a feature.

I remember Dine Out working really well for me tbh, then again I always play speed 1, plus I also had a mod installed that lengthens the hours = per real time hours in sims 4. Like say I adjusted mine to be like 1 hr and 30 minutes in real time for 1 in game day in the sims. I think the default is 24 minutes in real time. So I kinda don't notice if a waiter or server was late when my sims are on a date or something because I remember the mod having an option for their animations to not stick with the modded time itself I think? Or maybe not, I dunno, it has been a long time since I played the sims, not since Snowy Escape. Granted, I also didn't play much with the starting your own restaurant thing so I'm kinda just talking out of my ass lol. I like the dating stuff honestly but running a restaurant is not for me.

The detective career has not once worked for me 😂

Also base game is pretty glitchy on console. Build mode alone is pretty glitchy, but as far as gameplay, toddlers are really glitchy and I have to reset sims allll the time for various glitches like looping one action, getting stuck, things like that.

I haven't been able to go once to prom with HSY 😭😂😂

I have a lot of problems with the bowling pack like I just cannot get my sims to smoothly go bowling without it taking 10 years with many glitches, like the entire point of the pack just doesn’t work for me :/

In my own experience I would’ve put the Eco pack in Bad Hair Day mostly as the environment glitches a bit, otherwise it’s pretty simple.

I had to uninstall Bust the dust recently because anytime I hired a maid they'd use the vacuum cleaner for everything despite the dust system being turned off (never had it on tbh, just got the kit because of dlc addiction). Dust bunnies kept appearing and sims kept getting moodlets regarding the cleanliness of the house, and the only fix was to turn the dust system on and off again a few times like every 15 minutes. It wasn't like that in the beginning, but at some point the option to turn the dust system off was completely run over by the maids and butlers.

I almost got in a high emotional state because people got in a high emotional state because of watching your videos

I never had any issues with bust the dust. I must admit I don’t play often, I mostly built. But never did I have issues that people complain about like the sims need to vacuum constantly and such. Only the sniffing that sims do is a bit annoying

I have snowy escape and I highly recommend you get it (:

For me, the most annoying thing with Dine Out is that I made a really nice restaurant on the water in Sulani, but I can't dine there because the waitress always ditches her job to swim in the ocean! 🤬😆

I really enjoy the laundry I pack because I like to do laundry it's something I really bad at doing in real life but it's really frustrating when the washer and dryer just glitch out and break like the most frustrating glitch happens when I go through an upgrade the washer or dryer fully and then as soon as clothes gets put in the washer it comes out as immediately clean but when you go to take it out it's dirty again and then you can't clean the dirty laundry. There's an easy fix for it but it's still annoying. The easy fix for anyone who wants to know. Delete the washer or dryer cheat your Sims skill to 10 handiness and cheat through I think it's the Renaissance aspiration to do the instant upgrade and then after you're done just instantly upgraded I normally use my two sim households to do the washer and dryer

I always use a butler and they have never ever had a problem

I actually had issues with Cottage Living. Every time I move on a lot there, I can’t travel to other lots or worlds anymore without the game literally breaking down...

Snowy Escape is unplayable for me, whenever the festivals pop up and I click to go directly there, the game takes me to manage worlds, and if i click in to play with that family, the loading screen will take forever (literally), so to attend festivals I have to go to map and go to a lot where the festival is happening. Same thing happens when I prepare the social event of climbing Mount Komorebi. At least My Wedding Stories allows me to attend the wedding even though its broken.

Cats and dogs is what they should have done it my wedding stories:it was buggy as heck on first launch, but they *fixed it* to bad hair day level

My walls and floors disappear all of a sudden, and I can't build them back still the game thinks they're already there! It's like the problem's with the tiles, not the construction itself. What a nightmare!

The butler works perfectly for me

I play on xbox one and I do have majority of dlc. Now it crashes when switching/travelling between lot/worlds. Sometimes closing game down completely.

I agree with most. But that cottage living I’ve had nothing but issues with. The cows end up glitching so so badly that you have to trade it for meat. It’s broken but tolerable for me. High school years for me is glitchy as hell