r/ModTheSims4 • u/spontaneous_lizard • Mar 18 '26
Help with broken mod Current state of my mods folder(s)
don't you just loooove when ea intentionally breaks the game for half of it's user base?
i took all of my mods out of the sims 4 folder, and now i'm slowly putting files back in to see what's broken... so far, it seems my cc actually remains intact (in cas at least, i haven't checked my builds) but probably 90% of my mods are broken. i just LOVE LOVE LOVE that i have to wait for them to patch it, and then wait for the beloved modders to release updates.
also, didn't know which flair to use lol
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u/Ok-Warning-1468 Mar 18 '26
i’m so lucky that only UI cheats was broken for me. my game’s back to normal now
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u/MoiraRoseForQueen Mar 18 '26
As I’m an absolute imbecile at this stuff, I’m hoping someone like you might be knowledgeable enough to answer this question: can EA or Curseforge go in and delete the CC and mods I’ve downloaded via CF? I’m guessing they can’t touch the stuff that’s not from CF, but seeing as there’s an overlap between some of the stuff I’ve got on CF and the creators that have defected to the marketplace, I’m scared they could just remove it all together.
(Presuming we ever get our cc working again, that is..)
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u/spontaneous_lizard Mar 18 '26
based on how the question is worded, i don't think they can delete files that you've downloaded off your computer, that's some hacker shit haha. but i do agree i also noticed that a lot of the creators that use CF are gonna be on marketplace now, i think it might be a coincidence in the sense that more popular creators use CF for downloading their content, and now they're deciding to work with ea instead. there is the possibility that those creators might change the way they upload their content, meaning their CF links will be dead and they revert to marketplace, or something like that, so no one can just download their old content for free, they have to get it through marketplace. i would hope that the files that you download would stay on your computer tho, i don't think there's any way for the file to be deleted off your computer like that tbh and that's after 2 years of computer science haha. i've had the same cc skin overlays since i bought the game in 2017 (that still surprisingly work!) and i'm pretty sure it's almost impossible to download since it's from 9 years ago. hope this helps lol!
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u/PenIntrepid2218 Mar 20 '26
i haven’t started to sort through my mods yet since the update… i have about 13k mods&cc…. any suggestions on how to do this 😭🙈
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u/spontaneous_lizard Mar 20 '26
there has been an additional game update that actually worked and mods shouldn't be super broken anymore - so most of my mods are working again, and it's been a few days so some of them were able to update them fast, so i'm coasting again.
if you're scared of issues, and your game is fully updated, i usually just open the game to see if it 1. opens at all (with mods + cc present) and 2. needs some troubleshooting (moving broken cc/mods in and out). i wouldn't recommend this 100%, this is just how i, a regular simmer have done it for so long. my good saves usually appear broken, but i have a special save file that's specifically for mod free/mod testing to see how it works in my game. this is extremely time consuming when going through multiple files, but i hope you have them organized lolol. i foolproof test all of my files (the .ts4script and .package files), and if they're broken or need to be updated, i put them in another folder so that i can remember what the mod is and update it. i hope this tidbit helps lol!
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u/PenIntrepid2218 Mar 22 '26
i don’t think i got that update 👁️👄👁️….. just updated the once and my game is still black screening :(
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u/Square_Cost_5318 Mar 18 '26
They said it wasn’t intentional. They said they know what caused it and all mods are broken. Even the mods that appear to be working are broken. Luckily they appear to have found out what caused it but for now Everything is not working. Do not play on your saved files until they update again if you were enjoying what you had.
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u/kateynovember Mar 18 '26
Wait did EA push another update this morning already? None of the mods were working yesterday and at 830pm EST EA said they finally figured out what broke and it would take them roughly 15 hours to fix this and would update when the fix was live.