The Sims 4 Responds to Damaged Function Complaints After December 2025 Replace

The early December 2025 replace for The Sims 4 has damaged the Flip-Ons and Flip-Offs icons within the Create-A-Sim (CAS) menu, eradicating the visuals that shipped with the Lovestruck enlargement. Whereas the menu nonetheless seems to file participant decisions, the added inconvenience has already sparked dozens of participant studies, prompting an official response from the Sims 4 developer Maxis.

Flip-Ons and Flip-Offs are a core element of the attraction system that Maxis introduced in The Sims 4: Lovestruck expansion, initially launched on July 25, 2024. Just like the title suggests, the function permits gamers to set their characters’ turn-ons and turn-offs, influencing their romantic satisfaction and chemistry with others. These decisions are displayed immediately within the CAS menu, which seems to have undergone some unintended modifications following the sport’s newest patch.

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A December 2 update for The Sims 4 is believed to have damaged the CAS icons for Flip-Ons and Flip-Offs. That is in keeping with dozens of consumer studies posted to each social media and Digital Arts’ official boards within the days that adopted, complaining concerning the inconvenient bug. “We’re conscious of a problem in CAS exhibiting the right icons for Flip On/Turns Offs,” a Maxis consultant nicknamed Mindy wrote on the official Sims Discord server. “We’re at the moment investigating a repair and can replace this thread when now we have extra data.”

The December 2 replace seems to have inadvertently eliminated a number of of the Create-A-Sim menu’s Lovestruck-specific elements, specifically the likes and dislikes icons. Or extra particularly, it stopped them from rendering accurately, thus obscuring which classes are marked. The bug appears to be purely beauty, as clicking the preferences within the Flip-Ons/Offs menu nonetheless yields the anticipated outcome by including or eradicating a variety, participant studies recommend.

We’re conscious of a problem in CAS exhibiting the right icons for Flip On/Turns Offs. We’re at the moment investigating a repair and can replace this thread when now we have extra data.

The CAS bug is known to have an effect on each console and PC gamers. The latter group studies encountering it no matter any mods or different kinds of customized content material. The problem reportedly persists even after cache clears, set up repairs, and full reinstallations. Whereas it would not forestall gamers from setting Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs in The Sims 4, it does inhibit the method. Dropping this type of visible suggestions in CAS on the very least complicates problem runs that depend on min-maxing and clearly marked romantic preferences.

December 2025 Sims 4 Replace Seemingly Fastened Extra Issues Than It Created

Given the present state of affairs and taking the timing of those consumer studies into consideration, the bug seems all however sure to be linked with the sport’s newest replace—model 1.120 on desktops and a pair of.25 on consoles. CAS UI points apart, the most recent patch is believed to have resolved extra issues than it added. Amongst its fixes: Sims not show clothes behind privateness mosaics, sleep classes are not interrupted by background radio, and teenagers now retain their non-teen-specific aspirations after getting old up.

The 1.120 replace additionally corrects a number of visible glitches with textures and animations. Amongst them is a replica shade swatch (resembling bush inexperienced) for the “Arrrmed Dwelling Chair” furnishings. As eradicating the dupe would doubtlessly break current builds, Maxis opted for a extra oblique answer: changing one of many swatches with a brand new variant. Issues snowballed from there, leading to two extra swatches being added, and for the reason that Arrrmed Dwelling Chair was a part of a nine-object set, the remaining eight objects additionally acquired the brand new shade choices. The patch moreover eliminates a number of save-corruption bugs, together with the one answerable for the notorious “Error Code 109” message, amongst different novelties.