That game was a mess I still love parts of it, but they never should have allowed functions that allow people to mess up their game without even cheating!
It’s cos it wasn’t finished. It’s wildly known that the last few months of The Sims 2 were super rushed and they basically had to rush the game to get it out the door. Depending what country you live in, small thinks like wearing Underwear in the shower/bath were used because they didn’t have time to add the pixelation effect.
ikr that was too funny xD and i agree the ghost children are creepy as hell, their facial expressions are kinda frozen and they don't have proper animations, which makes them super creepy
I’ve heard that. That is impossible because when you select another sim. The social bunny disappears. The social bunny is only selectable on the lonely sim. If there are 2 lonely sims, the second social bunny appears alone.
I really wish I had known about the CAS freezing thing before I made the video about creepy TS2 stuff... Also Knut Futa that you showed in another video. Those are the spook hits!
Some signs of hood corruption are broken textures, crashing when loading a lot/neighborhood, Sims missing their memories, peds with weird names, wants that don't make sense (for example a human Sim has wants that only a pet would have) etc.
Also would be interested in a video, because I always hear about the importance of preventing corruption in the game but never know what that actually means.
Well, I can say the following since my experience. When I was a pre-teen (I'm 24, I've played every single sims :D), there was one time I added Agnes Crumplebottom to my family, and she made that save file unplayable. As she is a special npc (she walks differently and has a unique code), she was chasing my sims at any time. Usually, when my sims wanted to do something, she cut the action and it was a chaos. More than that, you couldn't undo this action, so she was there forever D: I had to reinstall the game hahaha. It scared me so much.
I'm just so mad and disappointed. They put so much love and in this game. The detail is incredible, the stories are amazing, and in the time this was made, it was just incredible. The sims have so much personality and they are so funny and unique, but then we look at The Sims 4 and it is just sad. They didn't even play with the timeline of the stories like they did in the past. They were just lazy and made some old characters for the nostalgia but that's it. They did not do a good job. They didn't even make Don Lothario a house! They just shove him to the Caliente's household. It's so frustrating. It's just a pretty game. Nothing more, and they can't even put effort on the looks because every now and then they just re-use objects for expansion packs, and plain textures like the kid's ball pool. They are also separating packs that should be in one and making them WAY TOO EXPENSIVE. I'm upset because it's like nobody cares and they will keep robbing people because it's a monopoly and they can do whatever they want. People should stop being so forgiving with EA, because this game deserves more love. It's so stupid because it's a game and I'm genuinely mad, but it was my childhood and now they are just turning it into pure shit. If someone reads this, please excuse my English. It's bad.
Agreed, while I don't think Sims 4 is a bad game per say, it definitely lacks the charm and uniqueness that made the older games stand out. I hope they can fix/update the game as much as they can (some of the features will unfortunately stay missing because they'd have to basically rewrite the entire core of the game to make them work) and then put more effort into Sims 5
@@crazymarq4390 I understand, but you can see a lack of effort. They have a big team, and yet modders can make the game more fun to the point I cannot enjoy it without them. It's lacking little things like sims not having personality, or interactions. I do think that knowing what the team is capable of doing, and in comparison to the last games, the game is bad. It doesn't reach the expectations. It's okay if it is not open world or things like that, but the gameplay is boring. The game by itself is boring, while The Sims 2 its not. The detail makes it enjoyable. The stories are incredible, and now it's kind of like they worry about giving us the least amount of content for the most they can charge us for that. Before you could see they wanted it to be a good game. They wanted to enjoy it too and wanted us to like it and see the love they put on the game for years.
I understand you. First time I played the sims 4 I was excited but then minutes playing I realized how ... meh it was sure it's good and all but it's like you said just pretty. It's like dating a super hot person and they lack personality and charm... I didn't really play the sims 2 but I had the sims 3 and even tho people say things went downhill since the sims 3 I loved the game
I really disagree with calling the team 'lazy'. It's pretty evident both because of the way EA is in general, and because of things hinted at in the community blogs (I imagine NDAs are a fun thing to have to deal with) that the dev team is very underfunded compared to previous games. And that lies with the business side of the company, not the people being paid to make the game. The games industry in general is just... incredibly exploitative, practices of getting work out of people for, basically, no pay, are baked into the way it works nowadays. And a lot of that takes advantage of the fact that in general, people who enter the industry are really passionate about games development. If the devs seemingly aren't 'putting in as much effort' as in previous games, it's far more likely that that's because they're not being /paid/ to put in the same amount of effort. Someone not doing more work than they receive fair compensation for isn't a bad or shameful thing.
If you have Nightlife or any further pack, you can actually create a community lot and send all the gravestones there. I did that all the time (and then bought it as my OFB shop to sell flowers)
I played the sims 2 back in 2007, and reintalled it few month ago (because I dont like the sims 4, and my computer is too weak for the sims 3). And somehow I had never heard about game corruption. So yeah now I'll be carefull, but now I know that deleting a family causes corruption (which is crazy !!!) so thank you :)
Scenario that happened in the early 2010’s: my wackass killed all the children AT ONCE, deleted all their graves stones, CHEATED THE BAD NPC, MAKE MY SIM GET PREGNANT BY THEM, AND BLA BLA- to make this fucking story short couldn’t not save the game nor could I leave it OOOOPPS
@@XCraft62 you can use cheats to get your sim impregnated with grim reaper. My sim gave birth to grim's child but the child glitched and was nowhere to be found in the house, just his icon was visible
This is a good list! Some extras I’ve encountered are; Building your own Apartment. I always wondered why EA wouldn’t allow you to build your own Apartment without debug cheats, and it’s because there’s just a random chance it will corrupt your Neighborhood or just cause a crash open opening in Live Mode. I think the game struggles to generate additional families on player made Apartments for some unknown reason, or if the Apartment is incomplete it can cause random crashes. It’s really an unstable game even to the very end tbh.
Well in the case of the Sims 2, most of these are easily avoidable. Even doing game breaking stuff took ages for my first save many years ago to break. With the Sims 3, it's rather the game itself breaks down the longer you play.
@@blanchettorianna6639 that may be for you. But as of update 1.69, I am able to play a game with close to no issues. I've played a save since the November of 2019, and I've only had to load up a backup save once.
dead sims are moved to the default bin on the game files, the special ncps are also there, since the only adults on the default bin are the special ncps, the game makes them appear to "pick the kid up" but they cant and they just hang around on your lot
To be fair most of this corruptions are caused due to the use of cheats, which is like playing with fire. But some of them aren't, so it shows how much of a mess the script must be, which makes sense considering how big (and great hehe) the sims 2 is. But i wonder what corruptions appear when having this script breaks at the game.
Dang, watched this not expecting to learn anything new but number 7 fucks me up! Thats crazy and hilarious that your sims can freeze and die in CAS! Ive only ever heard of being able to edit the CAS room but yah, super wild
I heard that even playing that fam messes up you game. Same for the two stray dogs in the family bin. Idk why maxis even put them in there if they corrupt the game when played lol.
@@angelicgalaxy4534 Oh yah maybe THAT's what it was I heard about them that was what would cause game corruption. I wonder if using the Sim Blender to "terminate" the pregnancy would make them playable without damaging your game. (not that I even want to put the Ottomas family in my game. The father is ugly - he looks like Freddy Mercury). strayspregnant. Maybe letting her have her puppies is what corrupts the game.
Oh my goodness, I remember what I did to my game when I was a clueless child who just discovered boolProp. At that time I knew nothing about corruption so I was very shocked that my game was broken and I thought mods were to be blamed.
Not to be rude but if someone had said this but it’s been confirmed by AprilBlack and every expert sims 2 player that it’s perfectly safe and fine to delete gravestones and urns. Yes it’ll unlink the deceased sims character data but, it won’t cause corruption. It’s all in Aprils sims 2 corruption video. Also deleting sims from family bin is safe too.
congrats on hitting the algorithm, your vids keep getting recommended to me! also, theres something so captivating about the creepy corruption moments/animations taking place, i can't stop watching lol
I reminded on something: I had move_objects on. Then I placed a helicopter landing place but some some of it wasn't in my hood anymore . Later after placing a helicopter and sending a sim to get in a lick he stocked in there + other sims couldn't get to work + my pets were taken (nah even the woman couldn't take them because there was no space . I had to move my sims out.
I knew about all except deleting NPC cars. I've done this so many times, mostly when they get stuck, lol. Suppose I'll just leave the stuck cars next time. LOL.
I recently deleted some cars because they got stuck for no reason and wouldn't let me get food by telephone :| I have just started making that godamn neighborhood, so it better doesn't break down by itself before I even finish!
This is explains a lot. I remember my sister and I were trying to make a house with lots of graves some of them were children and I remember some weird npcs showing up. Also adding Bella goth to your family with the l&d tombstone will cause an error the second you spawn her.
Regarding the first 2 points, you should download 'nounlink ondelete' by pescado and clean templates of neighborhoods. Downloading 'clean' neighborhoods fixes memories and a lot of technical problems and you can safely ressurect premade Sims.(I use meetme2theRiver's neighborhood templates). Link for pleasant view meetmetotheriver.tumblr.com/post/179020464788/clean-pleasantview-templates-rerelease-fixed Read everything written. Downloading 'nounlink on delete' by pescado is NECESSARY. It links a dead Sims data so there isn't any risk with their tomb. Link- www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=2083.0 These aren't simple 'mods'. These fixes ARE NEEDED FOR YOUR GAME TO WORK NORMALLY (and not get corrupted). Tips* 1. You should not mess with NPC's other than the way the game allows you to. If you absolutely have to, Google and see if it's dangerous and then proceed. 2. Corruption usually builds up so don't think that your game is okay after you did something you weren't supposed to do. 3. You can read about corruption and how to play safely from wikihow or search up essential fixes.
At 0:00 I've been playing Sims 2 since I was a kid and have deleted Sims' tombs without ever encountering any problems. I'm puzzled why others are experiencing issues in their game when I never had any trouble doing the same thing.
Or what you should never do is “incest”, I once tried to get my sim pregnant (with the life & death tombstone) and I accidentally clicked on the toddler name. Yeah - .... anyway That DIDNT stop me and i pretend that nothing has happened- WHICH WAS A MISTAKE MY GAME WAS SOOOO CORRUPTED (well I did the other Nonos as well but ig the accident was the finals straw-)
Omg same thing happened to me, but also the sims you never met I can't forget that time i accidently clicked with the wrong sims when it comes to *get pregnant with* 😂😂😂
If you have Mootilda's hood checker you can delete families without causing corruption (As long as the bin family isn't related to any other families).
I remember, my first time playing sims 2 ultimate collection, I spawned Mrs Crumplebottom, deleted the goth house along with the gravestones, and replaced them with a family full of dangerous NPCs.
Selling it in the catalogue (buy mode) doesn’t corrupt the game. If this happens all sims memories are wiped off by the game. CrazyMarq is saying “Don’t sell it in an OFB shop”. You can move gravestones safely to a community lot after nightlife I think.
one time when I was a kid, I added by cheats a cat in my family nothing wrong expect I never had pets installed... this broke my game and the game never loaded that neighborhood anymore so I had to delete it but at least I was happy because I saw a kitty in the game🤧
I have a weird glitch where one of my Sims lost his entire family tree when he went to college. Even his parents and half-sister don't remember his milestones or birth, and his memories of them have disappeared. I've tried everything under the sun except going into the game files, which I'm not qualified to do. I keep waiting for the neighborhood to go haywire, but so far, so good.
Lost memories are one of the major signs of corruption but yeah, sometimes it takes a while for corruption to become noticeable. I have a populated lot in my custom neighborhood that I can't enter without my game crashing so I'm pretty sure that the hood is broken but I haven't experienced any other major glitches yet.
I played the Sims 2. Had 2 characters living under a home: 1) Freddie Mercury (Father) (Works in military) 2) Ritz Mercury (Daughter - Teenager) (Goes to school) Everything was going as planned and I got aspiration items from satisfying Freddie Mercury's wants. Then Ritz Mercury's aspiration reached the highest level which is silver (or white). Then due to some reason (probably bcoz I made Ritz wear Noodlesoother), I couldn't satisfy the needs properly and Ritz Mercury died. Then a grim reaper appeared and I was shocked, Freddie got a therapist, there was Ritz's urn and strange things happened. Thank god I had saved long before Ritz's death. I'm never touching the noodlesoother again.
So do all ghosts children actually corrupt the game? I am building a neighbourhood and I was planning on having at least one of these for the plot of one of the families. Is there a way I can do so without corrupting the game?
Dangerous NPCs (Witch Doc, Therapist, Grim) spawn when ghost children are haunting the lot. I got a visit from the Witch Doc and he's not supposed to appear on a residential lot, plus he's scripted to only do very specific things so he glitched out and never left the lot. Death of a child doesn't cause corruption in itself but if the ghost shows up your game will go crazy so you'll need to make your Sims mourn at the grave to keep the ghost away (i think mourning keeps them away for a bit but not 100% sure tbh)
@@crazymarq4390 that's so bad, I wanted to have the ghosts in the lot. If I put their thumb in a public cemetery as the guy told above would it work better? Or the non-allowed NPC's would show up there?
I had a child sim die on my lot, and I forgot to send his grave to another lot and he ended up coming back as a ghost and Ms. Crumplebottom came to my Lot and I couldn't get her to leave. I deleted her (which was probably a bad idea) but I've restarted the game after that.
Sometimes when my sims sge their face get blue. How to fix u ask? Just go to the mirror and change their painting on their face . After that u can change it back
LMAO I love that sound effect with the "huh?" @2:41🤣🤣 *BOI* and the other one @2:50💀 sucks sims doesn't use silly sound effects like that anymore. Hoping sims 5 will bring back some of the cartoony parts!
I've decided to mess up my game. I added Mrs. Crumplebottom to the family and made her in love with my sim. The first kiss scene was hilarious, he hugged her while she was in her typical idle animation looking up
If you ever do that, you need to package them on a lot and use Clean Installer. That's how I play all 6 neighborhoods in one combined one and nothing is corrupt.
When I was a kid, and I discovered that TestingCheatsEnabled cheat, I'm pretty sure I did everything listed in the video. Playing the game in that neighbourhood was a nightmare after that. Random sims would end up missing, or they would just dissappear when trying to play on their lot (because they "died on a different lot and will return as a ghost"). Completely random NPC's would spawn on my residental lots, certain objects would just vanish, especially the RC vehicles (as they are controlled by the invisible NPC). Then my sims just wouldn't talk with each other anymore. You could order them to do so, but after walking up to the other sim, the interaction icon would just dissappear (I assume their personality and interests got heavily corrupted). Eventually the city was hit with a nuke- the game would crash when trying to load the hood, making it unplayable by any means.
There are certain not allowed to add NPCs that you can cheat children with on the Tombstone of L&D without corrupting, so that's fun. The Therapist's genes are DOMINANT AF
Here is a mistake I did once, I had my sims own a pet store and work there, but heres the problem, they won’t ever ever leave! Because the pets in cases still counted as a sim, and the employee needs to shoo teh sims away out of the place, he basically got stuck there until I killed him with testingcheats.
I used to do half the things on this list all the time, no wonder I had so many corrupted neighbourhoods that couldn't even be deleted because they'd crash when you selected them.
I always deleted gravestones because ghosts creepeed me out. I feel like I also used to delete families out of the bin a lot too, but I can't remember that ever causing issues. Maybe because I'd delete my files and start over constantly.
Same here. Based on what I've read recently about The Sims 2 being unstable, I was shocked I've never corrupted my game in all my 10+ years of playing it. Apparently my attention span saved me from a whole world of problems 😭
Number 6 is so annoying I always delete ottomans travelers and other families that come by expansion packs. Hoe much trouble will that make for my game now :( Is there a way to clean their data so my neighbourhoods don't have possible issues?
@@heavenstomegh4505 nothing happened so far. Yes the nanny still stayed in the house for several days, and surprisingly she left on her own will! While said "look at the time! I better go"
You can click the grave, select "Move This Grave" and pick the community lot you want to move the grave to. The grave will appear next to the phone booth the next time you visit the lot and your Sim's house should be safe from ghosts
I have used the postal box to summund the ninja, and later the Grand Witch. And that NEVER created ANY problems. (Then again the lot only had one resident and it was in the beginning of the game and it was in pleasantveiw neighborhood). But I had ALL the expansion and stuff packages. So completely right you are not.
It's proven that doing things on this list has a high chance of corrupting the game, just because you haven't experienced any glitches doesn't mean doing these things is safe, you're probably just lucky, also it usually takes a long time for the game to break after it had been corrupted
@@crazymarq4390 If it was one or two times I MIGHT be lucky, but I have often start ALL over, not because of glitches, but because I made error in that story line I made in my mind. (Or I simply got bored and when I wanted to begging again, long time after. I decided to start all over again. (But then again when I do that I also erase the neighborhood from my Document folder and replace it a fresh from the harddisk drive.
Also... is it weird that I literally did NONE OF THESE THINGS except for #10 because I know what to do there???? Not even when I first started playing this game at like 10-11?
I mean, for #2, you resurrected one of the safe Sims LOL - Danielle and Jessica are okay to do, but everyone else isn't unless you get clean templates first.
I have to admit, I did all of those things when the game came out. I was in early teens and internet wasnt popular, also I didnt clean up my sims 3 files and downloaded a lot user made stuff from sims3 page. Nothing happened to my sims 2 neighbourhoods. I finally broke the line with sims 3 and got those cursed shoes, my whole game world was super glitchy and crashed a lot till I finally managed to fix it. How my sims 2 didnt explode? I dont know, I played almost daily for atleast hour till release of sims 3. And did "forbidden" stuff atleast once a week.
The only thing I did in this entire list is resurrecting the last husband of Olive Specter as a zombie, he's now living home alone with a cat since Olive died and Ophelia moved out, is my game fucked ? Or maybe I can fix it with the Neighborhood Corruption Checker thingy ?
So I may or may not have added the food judge NPC to my household and he may or may not be just a object like thing just being there and just out of curiosity, since he may be a part of my household and he may no be the slave I intended him to be... How could I get rid of him if he were part of my family.
Now I'm worried because I resurrected the Strangetown maid in Olive's graveyard Jessica Ebadi and added her to the Beaker household so that the Beakers could "use her as a test subject." This was before I realized how badly the game could break if you resurrect a dead sim. If I kill her off, will that possibly fix any chance of my Strangetown possibly being corrupted? I haven't gotten any symptoms of corruption in Strangetown as of yet(though I did get a weird squiggly line as a thought bubble in Desiderata Valley due to a bad mod, but that's unrelated and most likely wasn't corruption).
Unfortunately i don't know that much about ways to reverse corruption, but i think once you perform an action that causes corruption, your game is already "broken" because the data gets borked. It's only a question of whether the symptoms show up or not and how badly the game will respond. Tbf even tho a lot of things can cause corruption in this game, it's not that volatile so you'll likely be fine as long as you don't do more things that lead to corruption
@@crazymarq4390 When I was a kid, I did most of the things that are shown in this video (except killing kids)😄 At that time I was completely unaware that it causes corruption in the game, though I did get the warning signs - error messages, empty wants - but I ignored all that😆 I even managed to temporarily fix the empty wants by realizing the fears or even causing sim to have a breakdown (all slots rolled and wants appeared again). Thankfully, I never managed to break the game completely so it won't load😆 I guess I was just super lucky
You basically need to move the CAS lot from the main game directory to the "Lot Catalogue folder" in EA games folder (the one under "My Documents") so that it appears in the lot catalogue. Follow the steps in the 2nd post: modthesims.info/t/47150
@@klenno5428If you delete them wrong, you end up with unlinked character data, which is basically incomplete. Sims could spread the gossip (as mentioned) and then it just corrupts the whole thing. That's why people have clean templates or methods to turn off stealth hood families from spawning
When you realize you have almost done all of them in your current world that you play in
Oof
I recommend Moohilda’s Hood Checker on Mod The Sims, it probably won’t fix your hood but it might extend its life!
me too i already add social bunny to my family and doesnt happen nothing he just stay there forever and doesnt break my game i add genie etc
@@felipemendess2001 It will break over time, corruption isn't always instantaneous.
@@felipemendess2001 that doesn’t mean you should still add those NPCs since corruption happens over time
That game was a mess
I still love parts of it, but they never should have allowed functions that allow people to mess up their game without even cheating!
Exactly!
It's like when you clean your room but hide everything under your bed
That’s EAxis for you 😂
It’s cos it wasn’t finished. It’s wildly known that the last few months of The Sims 2 were super rushed and they basically had to rush the game to get it out the door.
Depending what country you live in, small thinks like wearing Underwear in the shower/bath were used because they didn’t have time to add the pixelation effect.
Welp thats what happens when you lose most of your game data in a fire and have to rush to finish it.... and your ea
Mrs. Crumplebottom chastising Bigfoot is the highlight of this video 😭 and I'm extremely creeped out by child ghosts... Just saying....
Ghost children be like: "My demise accomplishes nothing! The master will have you! You will drown in your own blood! The world shall burn! Aaaghh!"
ikr that was too funny xD and i agree the ghost children are creepy as hell, their facial expressions are kinda frozen and they don't have proper animations, which makes them super creepy
Legend says that the police officer is still trying to find his car
If there's more than 2 or more social bunnies on a lot they will fall love with each other or beat each other up if they're the same color.
Thanks for sharing, I included this detail in my latest video :) th-cam.com/video/X9x3-0cptO0/w-d-xo.html
I’ve heard that. That is impossible because when you select another sim. The social bunny disappears. The social bunny is only selectable on the lonely sim. If there are 2 lonely sims, the second social bunny appears alone.
Omg i never knew that cas room is actually a lot omg ive been playing this game for years im gobsmacked 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
IKR? Imagine if the Sims 4 let us make our custom room for CAS
@@davidkonevky7372 you can... there is even a mod folder to do so...
Just Google "change cas background in the Sims 4" and you should be fine
@@finnhtzr yeah but I mean putting actual objects on the screen, not just a flat image
@@davidkonevky7372 aah ok
I really wish I had known about the CAS freezing thing before I made the video about creepy TS2 stuff... Also Knut Futa that you showed in another video. Those are the spook hits!
Can you show corrupted neighborhoods/explain what that means kinda? Like attributes of corrupted neighborhoods or something?
Some signs of hood corruption are broken textures, crashing when loading a lot/neighborhood, Sims missing their memories, peds with weird names, wants that don't make sense (for example a human Sim has wants that only a pet would have) etc.
I would love to see a video about this too!
Also would be interested in a video, because I always hear about the importance of preventing corruption in the game but never know what that actually means.
Well, I can say the following since my experience. When I was a pre-teen (I'm 24, I've played every single sims :D), there was one time I added Agnes Crumplebottom to my family, and she made that save file unplayable. As she is a special npc (she walks differently and has a unique code), she was chasing my sims at any time. Usually, when my sims wanted to do something, she cut the action and it was a chaos. More than that, you couldn't undo this action, so she was there forever D: I had to reinstall the game hahaha. It scared me so much.
@@KagamineRinVocaloid *satisfied sigh* I love remembering the things that scared us about The Sims.
*This might just be the most useful video I've ever uploaded. :P*
I'm just so mad and disappointed. They put so much love and in this game. The detail is incredible, the stories are amazing, and in the time this was made, it was just incredible. The sims have so much personality and they are so funny and unique, but then we look at The Sims 4 and it is just sad. They didn't even play with the timeline of the stories like they did in the past. They were just lazy and made some old characters for the nostalgia but that's it. They did not do a good job. They didn't even make Don Lothario a house! They just shove him to the Caliente's household. It's so frustrating. It's just a pretty game. Nothing more, and they can't even put effort on the looks because every now and then they just re-use objects for expansion packs, and plain textures like the kid's ball pool. They are also separating packs that should be in one and making them WAY TOO EXPENSIVE. I'm upset because it's like nobody cares and they will keep robbing people because it's a monopoly and they can do whatever they want. People should stop being so forgiving with EA, because this game deserves more love. It's so stupid because it's a game and I'm genuinely mad, but it was my childhood and now they are just turning it into pure shit.
If someone reads this, please excuse my English. It's bad.
Agreed, while I don't think Sims 4 is a bad game per say, it definitely lacks the charm and uniqueness that made the older games stand out. I hope they can fix/update the game as much as they can (some of the features will unfortunately stay missing because they'd have to basically rewrite the entire core of the game to make them work) and then put more effort into Sims 5
@@crazymarq4390 I understand, but you can see a lack of effort. They have a big team, and yet modders can make the game more fun to the point I cannot enjoy it without them. It's lacking little things like sims not having personality, or interactions. I do think that knowing what the team is capable of doing, and in comparison to the last games, the game is bad. It doesn't reach the expectations. It's okay if it is not open world or things like that, but the gameplay is boring. The game by itself is boring, while The Sims 2 its not. The detail makes it enjoyable. The stories are incredible, and now it's kind of like they worry about giving us the least amount of content for the most they can charge us for that. Before you could see they wanted it to be a good game. They wanted to enjoy it too and wanted us to like it and see the love they put on the game for years.
I understand you. First time I played the sims 4 I was excited but then minutes playing I realized how ... meh it was sure it's good and all but it's like you said just pretty. It's like dating a super hot person and they lack personality and charm...
I didn't really play the sims 2 but I had the sims 3 and even tho people say things went downhill since the sims 3 I loved the game
I really disagree with calling the team 'lazy'. It's pretty evident both because of the way EA is in general, and because of things hinted at in the community blogs (I imagine NDAs are a fun thing to have to deal with) that the dev team is very underfunded compared to previous games. And that lies with the business side of the company, not the people being paid to make the game. The games industry in general is just... incredibly exploitative, practices of getting work out of people for, basically, no pay, are baked into the way it works nowadays. And a lot of that takes advantage of the fact that in general, people who enter the industry are really passionate about games development. If the devs seemingly aren't 'putting in as much effort' as in previous games, it's far more likely that that's because they're not being /paid/ to put in the same amount of effort. Someone not doing more work than they receive fair compensation for isn't a bad or shameful thing.
I used to delete tombstones all the time because the ghosts kept scaring my household members to death... literally!
If you have Nightlife or any further pack, you can actually create a community lot and send all the gravestones there. I did that all the time (and then bought it as my OFB shop to sell flowers)
Its basically every Juno Birch's video in a nutshell :D
I played the sims 2 back in 2007, and reintalled it few month ago (because I dont like the sims 4, and my computer is too weak for the sims 3). And somehow I had never heard about game corruption. So yeah now I'll be carefull, but now I know that deleting a family causes corruption (which is crazy !!!) so thank you :)
Scenario that happened in the early 2010’s: my wackass killed all the children AT ONCE, deleted all their graves stones, CHEATED THE BAD NPC, MAKE MY SIM GET PREGNANT BY THEM, AND BLA BLA- to make this fucking story short couldn’t not save the game nor could I leave it OOOOPPS
As a kid I completely destroyed my Sims 2 game by adding the Therapist to a family. My game was unplayable after that.
Ig you really wanted therapy for your sims lol
I once added the grim as a playable sim. Say he always disappeared. But.. I could always see him on this family picture
Same, My sim got pregnant by him
@@user-il2uf8iz3h no way he disappears
@@XCraft62 you can use cheats to get your sim impregnated with grim reaper. My sim gave birth to grim's child but the child glitched and was nowhere to be found in the house, just his icon was visible
Can we appreciate how this person risked his game
I’m sure my computer 🖲 kicked the bucket from this.
This is a good list! Some extras I’ve encountered are;
Building your own Apartment. I always wondered why EA wouldn’t allow you to build your own Apartment without debug cheats, and it’s because there’s just a random chance it will corrupt your Neighborhood or just cause a crash open opening in Live Mode.
I think the game struggles to generate additional families on player made Apartments for some unknown reason, or if the Apartment is incomplete it can cause random crashes.
It’s really an unstable game even to the very end tbh.
I think that the console versions of Sims 2 and its spin-offs were a bit more stable than the PC versions 😂 Even with their glitches lol
What do you mean "building your own apartment"?
And people say that The Sims™3 is glitch. This game can get corrupted when I do something as simple as deleting a household from the bin!
*glitchy
Well in the case of the Sims 2, most of these are easily avoidable. Even doing game breaking stuff took ages for my first save many years ago to break. With the Sims 3, it's rather the game itself breaks down the longer you play.
@@blanchettorianna6639 that may be for you. But as of update 1.69, I am able to play a game with close to no issues. I've played a save since the November of 2019, and I've only had to load up a backup save once.
I think we can agree that both games can be broken 🙂
@@aspirationfailure6100 yes, but The Sims™ 3 just isn't as easy to break
dead sims are moved to the default bin on the game files, the special ncps are also there, since the only adults on the default bin are the special ncps, the game makes them appear to "pick the kid up" but they cant and they just hang around on your lot
"You should NEVER make them selectable"
Crazymarq: makes them selectable
Lol jk
To be fair most of this corruptions are caused due to the use of cheats, which is like playing with fire. But some of them aren't, so it shows how much of a mess the script must be, which makes sense considering how big (and great hehe) the sims 2 is.
But i wonder what corruptions appear when having this script breaks at the game.
Can you show what happens to the game over time if you do those things? Or do a list of the craziest bugs in TS2?
Dang, watched this not expecting to learn anything new but number 7 fucks me up! Thats crazy and hilarious that your sims can freeze and die in CAS! Ive only ever heard of being able to edit the CAS room but yah, super wild
They did what shouldn’t be done so that others will learn from it. A moment of silence for this person’s game. 😂😭🙏🏻
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Me after deleting the Ottomas family yesterday: SHIT
I heard that even playing that fam messes up you game. Same for the two stray dogs in the family bin.
Idk why maxis even put them in there if they corrupt the game when played lol.
@@salleymudd5488 I heard that if you let the Ottomas twins be born it will definitely mess up the game.
@@angelicgalaxy4534 Oh yah maybe THAT's what it was I heard about them that was what would cause game corruption.
I wonder if using the Sim Blender to "terminate" the pregnancy would make them playable without damaging your game.
(not that I even want to put the Ottomas family in my game. The father is ugly - he looks like Freddy Mercury).
strayspregnant. Maybe letting her have her puppies is what corrupts the game.
Oh my goodness, I remember what I did to my game when I was a clueless child who just discovered boolProp. At that time I knew nothing about corruption so I was very shocked that my game was broken and I thought mods were to be blamed.
Not to be rude but if someone had said this but it’s been confirmed by AprilBlack and every expert sims 2 player that it’s perfectly safe and fine to delete gravestones and urns. Yes it’ll unlink the deceased sims character data but, it won’t cause corruption. It’s all in Aprils sims 2 corruption video.
Also deleting sims from family bin is safe too.
congrats on hitting the algorithm, your vids keep getting recommended to me! also, theres something so captivating about the creepy corruption moments/animations taking place, i can't stop watching lol
I reminded on something:
I had move_objects on. Then I placed a helicopter landing place but some some of it wasn't in my hood anymore . Later after placing a helicopter and sending a sim to get in a lick he stocked in there + other sims couldn't get to work + my pets were taken (nah even the woman couldn't take them because there was no space . I had to move my sims out.
DONT EVER DO THIS AGAIN. I HAD A MENTAL BREAKDOWN SEEING YOU DOING ALL THESE THINGS.
My game hated it too xD
@@crazymarq4390 UR GAME IS PROBABLY SUING YOU
@@even___ what are you angry about. What did he do😦
@@princessbluelight270 I think they are joking lol
@@princessbluelight270 don't worry my friend, i often don't take jokes that well neither😂😂👍
I knew about all except deleting NPC cars. I've done this so many times, mostly when they get stuck, lol. Suppose I'll just leave the stuck cars next time. LOL.
I recently deleted some cars because they got stuck for no reason and wouldn't let me get food by telephone :|
I have just started making that godamn neighborhood, so it better doesn't break down by itself before I even finish!
Try forcing a reset on them
This is explains a lot. I remember my sister and I were trying to make a house with lots of graves some of them were children and I remember some weird npcs showing up. Also adding Bella goth to your family with the l&d tombstone will cause an error the second you spawn her.
Yeah, you have to delete her Dead Token first
Regarding the first 2 points, you should download 'nounlink ondelete' by pescado and clean templates of neighborhoods.
Downloading 'clean' neighborhoods fixes memories and a lot of technical problems and you can safely ressurect premade Sims.(I use meetme2theRiver's neighborhood templates). Link for pleasant view meetmetotheriver.tumblr.com/post/179020464788/clean-pleasantview-templates-rerelease-fixed Read everything written.
Downloading 'nounlink on delete' by pescado is NECESSARY. It links a dead Sims data so there isn't any risk with their tomb. Link- www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=2083.0
These aren't simple 'mods'. These fixes ARE NEEDED FOR YOUR GAME TO WORK NORMALLY (and not get corrupted).
Tips*
1. You should not mess with NPC's other than the way the game allows you to. If you absolutely have to, Google and see if it's dangerous and then proceed.
2. Corruption usually builds up so don't think that your game is okay after you did something you weren't supposed to do.
3. You can read about corruption and how to play safely from wikihow or search up essential fixes.
Amazing, will definitely check out those fixes! Thank you so much for this very insightful comment :)
I just realised, You can’t copy and paste comments. Including URL’s. 😡 I can click on them. I wanted to save them for later ☹️
The video we needed. I love creepy shit in the sims 2.
At 0:00 I've been playing Sims 2 since I was a kid and have deleted Sims' tombs without ever encountering any problems. I'm puzzled why others are experiencing issues in their game when I never had any trouble doing the same thing.
Or what you should never do is “incest”, I once tried to get my sim pregnant (with the life & death tombstone) and I accidentally clicked on the toddler name. Yeah - .... anyway That DIDNT stop me and i pretend that nothing has happened- WHICH WAS A MISTAKE MY GAME WAS SOOOO CORRUPTED (well I did the other Nonos as well but ig the accident was the finals straw-)
Omg same thing happened to me, but also the sims you never met
I can't forget that time i accidently clicked with the wrong sims when it comes to *get pregnant with* 😂😂😂
You are forever loved & appreciated ❤️
Death's favorite band: Styx. So it likes rock music?
Yes😎
I spawned the penguin a few times. Sadly it always went away
If you have Mootilda's hood checker you can delete families without causing corruption (As long as the bin family isn't related to any other families).
Lol I ALWAYS deleted gravestones because the ghosts scared tf out of me and I didn’t want them in my game
I fear for the state of your game after this video lol
Well, the skunk in my game looks like a cat now and one of the household doesn't load haha
I lost it when crumplebotton started going off at Bigfoot about public indecency 💀😭
Can you make a video about things you should NEVER do with boolprop cheat???
I remember, my first time playing sims 2 ultimate collection, I spawned Mrs Crumplebottom, deleted the goth house along with the gravestones, and replaced them with a family full of dangerous NPCs.
I'd like to watch similar videos, but for The Sims 1, 3 and 4
Unfortunately it seems that Sims 3 and 4 don't have as many interesting "quirks" afaik :(
me back then as a child deleting all the gravestones cuz I was scared of ghosts haunting my household--
Oh no. I used to sell tomb stones all the time as a quick cash crab. :x But my game ran successfully for 14 years, so I got lucky!
Selling it in the catalogue (buy mode) doesn’t corrupt the game. If this happens all sims memories are wiped off by the game. CrazyMarq is saying “Don’t sell it in an OFB shop”. You can move gravestones safely to a community lot after nightlife I think.
@@natwel1544 I really dodged a bullet, then. XD
one time when I was a kid, I added by cheats a cat in my family
nothing wrong expect I never had pets installed... this broke my game and the game never loaded that neighborhood anymore so I had to delete it
but at least I was happy because I saw a kitty in the game🤧
I have a weird glitch where one of my Sims lost his entire family tree when he went to college. Even his parents and half-sister don't remember his milestones or birth, and his memories of them have disappeared. I've tried everything under the sun except going into the game files, which I'm not qualified to do. I keep waiting for the neighborhood to go haywire, but so far, so good.
Lost memories are one of the major signs of corruption but yeah, sometimes it takes a while for corruption to become noticeable. I have a populated lot in my custom neighborhood that I can't enter without my game crashing so I'm pretty sure that the hood is broken but I haven't experienced any other major glitches yet.
I played the Sims 2. Had 2 characters living under a home:
1) Freddie Mercury (Father) (Works in military)
2) Ritz Mercury (Daughter - Teenager) (Goes to school)
Everything was going as planned and I got aspiration items from satisfying Freddie Mercury's wants. Then Ritz Mercury's aspiration reached the highest level which is silver (or white). Then due to some reason (probably bcoz I made Ritz wear Noodlesoother), I couldn't satisfy the needs properly and Ritz Mercury died. Then a grim reaper appeared and I was shocked, Freddie got a therapist, there was Ritz's urn and strange things happened. Thank god I had saved long before Ritz's death. I'm never touching the noodlesoother again.
Nounlinkondelete by JM Pescado can avoid the grave deletion issue.
So do all ghosts children actually corrupt the game? I am building a neighbourhood and I was planning on having at least one of these for the plot of one of the families. Is there a way I can do so without corrupting the game?
Dangerous NPCs (Witch Doc, Therapist, Grim) spawn when ghost children are haunting the lot. I got a visit from the Witch Doc and he's not supposed to appear on a residential lot, plus he's scripted to only do very specific things so he glitched out and never left the lot. Death of a child doesn't cause corruption in itself but if the ghost shows up your game will go crazy so you'll need to make your Sims mourn at the grave to keep the ghost away (i think mourning keeps them away for a bit but not 100% sure tbh)
I recomend moving the thombstone to a public graveyard, so you dont have to deal with the ghost
I have 3 children ghost at my lot and I never had a visit from any NPC like the witch doctor. Guess I'm lucky
@@crazymarq4390 that's so bad, I wanted to have the ghosts in the lot. If I put their thumb in a public cemetery as the guy told above would it work better? Or the non-allowed NPC's would show up there?
Just avoid going at night to the graveyard
I had a child sim die on my lot, and I forgot to send his grave to another lot and he ended up coming back as a ghost and Ms. Crumplebottom came to my Lot and I couldn't get her to leave. I deleted her (which was probably a bad idea) but I've restarted the game after that.
Sometimes when my sims sge their face get blue. How to fix u ask? Just go to the mirror and change their painting on their face . After that u can change it back
Transparent blue?
yes, that's how it fix it. Just go to the mirror, change their make up, leave the mirror, and that change it back to the original. should be fine
@@oochlik like I said
Thanks for making this video! i am planning to try to play the Sims 2 again And this video is Very helpful!
Thanks for watching! Glad you found it useful :)
I NEVER KNEW THAT THE SIMS 2 CAS WAS AN ACTUAL LOT WTH IM SHOOK
Why do i have a tendecy to always rewatch these series
LMAO I love that sound effect with the "huh?" @2:41🤣🤣 *BOI* and the other one @2:50💀 sucks sims doesn't use silly sound effects like that anymore.
Hoping sims 5 will bring back some of the cartoony parts!
I've decided to mess up my game. I added Mrs. Crumplebottom to the family and made her in love with my sim. The first kiss scene was hilarious, he hugged her while she was in her typical idle animation looking up
Sometimes I moved sims from their town to other town. For example Dina Caliente lived in Pleasantview. I always moved her to Strangetown.
That’s awful!
If you ever do that, you need to package them on a lot and use Clean Installer. That's how I play all 6 neighborhoods in one combined one and nothing is corrupt.
Package family and place them in the new neighbourhood as a new family.
When I was a kid, and I discovered that TestingCheatsEnabled cheat, I'm pretty sure I did everything listed in the video.
Playing the game in that neighbourhood was a nightmare after that.
Random sims would end up missing, or they would just dissappear when trying to play on their lot (because they "died on a different lot and will return as a ghost").
Completely random NPC's would spawn on my residental lots, certain objects would just vanish, especially the RC vehicles (as they are controlled by the invisible NPC).
Then my sims just wouldn't talk with each other anymore. You could order them to do so, but after walking up to the other sim, the interaction icon would just dissappear (I assume their personality and interests got heavily corrupted).
Eventually the city was hit with a nuke- the game would crash when trying to load the hood, making it unplayable by any means.
Sims 2 making horror stories, one corrupted step at a time
There are certain not allowed to add NPCs that you can cheat children with on the Tombstone of L&D without corrupting, so that's fun. The Therapist's genes are DOMINANT AF
I love this channel it's so Sims 2 related 😌
thank you, i love spreading the word about this amazing game :)
@@crazymarq4390 It's by far the best sims game! And I love that people like still talk about this game :)❤️ even years after sims 4 already came out
I just installed ts2. so i need a quick refresher before i start causing chaos in my neighborhood
the CAS thing is so creepy holy shit
The music of sims 2, brings back memories
2:46 the radio rebel hair fix I cant😭😭
Here is a mistake I did once, I had my sims own a pet store and work there, but heres the problem, they won’t ever ever leave! Because the pets in cases still counted as a sim, and the employee needs to shoo teh sims away out of the place, he basically got stuck there until I killed him with testingcheats.
Oh wow I had no idea about that! Might cover it in a future video
@@crazymarq4390 Thanks Marq! Will you do a hood corruption speedrun once?
How did my game ever survive as a kid?! I did all these things and worse??
Can someone please tell me the name of the song in 0:10 0:18 I really enjoyed playing the Sims 2 :( Nevermind I found it :) it's: Arch of the Sims
I was searching before you edited the comment. I couldn't find it 😂😂😂
I love how you did all of these to show us not to do all of these 🤣
I used to do half the things on this list all the time, no wonder I had so many corrupted neighbourhoods that couldn't even be deleted because they'd crash when you selected them.
Yeah I'm guilty of messing around with my game way too much when I was a kid haha, luckily my game never really got corrupted that badly
I’m sure you can delete neighbourhoods in menu.
I always deleted gravestones because ghosts creepeed me out. I feel like I also used to delete families out of the bin a lot too, but I can't remember that ever causing issues. Maybe because I'd delete my files and start over constantly.
Same here. Based on what I've read recently about The Sims 2 being unstable, I was shocked I've never corrupted my game in all my 10+ years of playing it. Apparently my attention span saved me from a whole world of problems 😭
Number 6 is so annoying I always delete ottomans travelers and other families that come by expansion packs. Hoe much trouble will that make for my game now :(
Is there a way to clean their data so my neighbourhoods don't have possible issues?
But that means your have reinstall the whole game, oof. ☹️ Thank god i never do these corruptions
I've deleted the Nanny's car because she won't leave my house like... several sims weeks in the game. I thought deleting her car would make her leave
omg I did it like yesterday I'm so scared now😭💀
did anything happen to you?
@@heavenstomegh4505 nothing happened so far. Yes the nanny still stayed in the house for several days, and surprisingly she left on her own will! While said "look at the time! I better go"
What are you supposed to do if you don’t want a bunch of gravestones on your lot? I find the ghosts so annoying:/
You can click the grave, select "Move This Grave" and pick the community lot you want to move the grave to. The grave will appear next to the phone booth the next time you visit the lot and your Sim's house should be safe from ghosts
After the urn is broken, are spilled ashes considered a sim by the game? Just like gravestones?
I keep having a problem with Bigfoot walking around pleasant view do you know any way to fix this?
1:30 "Look Mom, I'm breaking the game!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
I have used the postal box to summund the ninja, and later the Grand Witch. And that NEVER created ANY problems. (Then again the lot only had one resident and it was in the beginning of the game and it was in pleasantveiw neighborhood). But I had ALL the expansion and stuff packages. So completely right you are not.
It's proven that doing things on this list has a high chance of corrupting the game, just because you haven't experienced any glitches doesn't mean doing these things is safe, you're probably just lucky, also it usually takes a long time for the game to break after it had been corrupted
@@crazymarq4390 If it was one or two times I MIGHT be lucky, but I have often start ALL over, not because of glitches, but because I made error in that story line I made in my mind. (Or I simply got bored and when I wanted to begging again, long time after. I decided to start all over again. (But then again when I do that I also erase the neighborhood from my Document folder and replace it a fresh from the harddisk drive.
Also... is it weird that I literally did NONE OF THESE THINGS except for #10 because I know what to do there???? Not even when I first started playing this game at like 10-11?
I mean, for #2, you resurrected one of the safe Sims LOL - Danielle and Jessica are okay to do, but everyone else isn't unless you get clean templates first.
I have to admit, I did all of those things when the game came out. I was in early teens and internet wasnt popular, also I didnt clean up my sims 3 files and downloaded a lot user made stuff from sims3 page.
Nothing happened to my sims 2 neighbourhoods. I finally broke the line with sims 3 and got those cursed shoes, my whole game world was super glitchy and crashed a lot till I finally managed to fix it.
How my sims 2 didnt explode? I dont know, I played almost daily for atleast hour till release of sims 3. And did "forbidden" stuff atleast once a week.
The only thing I did in this entire list is resurrecting the last husband of Olive Specter as a zombie, he's now living home alone with a cat since Olive died and Ophelia moved out, is my game fucked ? Or maybe I can fix it with the Neighborhood Corruption Checker thingy ?
1:57 this doesn't cause corruption, it just removes the 3d data and unlinks the sims, nothing more.
I was doing many of them when I was little, I was playing for like 8 years and nothing bad happened XDD
But the damage has been done in the back
Question if you get errors during gameplay is that a sign of corruption
So I may or may not have added the food judge NPC to my household and he may or may not be just a object like thing just being there and just out of curiosity, since he may be a part of my household and he may no be the slave I intended him to be... How could I get rid of him if he were part of my family.
You corrupted your game! Congratulations!
@@1980woodpixie no... My mothers game... But, anywho, how would I get rid of it IF it were on my lot
One Time,in Spring season...the winter penguin showed up in my house... that Is corruption or it's normal?
dw it's normal, the penguin might also appear during spring or fall, just not as often as in winter
Local NPC Sims are Corrupt as well. If so the suck, I want some of my Sims to fall in love with local sims
Now I'm worried because I resurrected the Strangetown maid in Olive's graveyard Jessica Ebadi and added her to the Beaker household so that the Beakers could "use her as a test subject." This was before I realized how badly the game could break if you resurrect a dead sim. If I kill her off, will that possibly fix any chance of my Strangetown possibly being corrupted? I haven't gotten any symptoms of corruption in Strangetown as of yet(though I did get a weird squiggly line as a thought bubble in Desiderata Valley due to a bad mod, but that's unrelated and most likely wasn't corruption).
Unfortunately i don't know that much about ways to reverse corruption, but i think once you perform an action that causes corruption, your game is already "broken" because the data gets borked. It's only a question of whether the symptoms show up or not and how badly the game will respond. Tbf even tho a lot of things can cause corruption in this game, it's not that volatile so you'll likely be fine as long as you don't do more things that lead to corruption
Judging from her empty wants, the game is successfully broken already😂
My game has been through a lot😭
@@crazymarq4390 When I was a kid, I did most of the things that are shown in this video (except killing kids)😄 At that time I was completely unaware that it causes corruption in the game, though I did get the warning signs - error messages, empty wants - but I ignored all that😆 I even managed to temporarily fix the empty wants by realizing the fears or even causing sim to have a breakdown (all slots rolled and wants appeared again). Thankfully, I never managed to break the game completely so it won't load😆 I guess I was just super lucky
how do you access the cas lot? I'm just asking out of curiosity I'm not gonna do it cause I would be scared for my sims 2
You basically need to move the CAS lot from the main game directory to the "Lot Catalogue folder" in EA games folder (the one under "My Documents") so that it appears in the lot catalogue. Follow the steps in the 2nd post: modthesims.info/t/47150
That's interesting... I did loads of these things and my game never showed any discrepancies.
Hey! How to delete families without bugs??
You can't. You could delete single Sims, but that's a whole process with SimPE and the Bat Box.
@@SimsAllAround thank you for your answer. Do you know what kind of bugs I will have to deal with? I deleted the families like Ottomas
@@klenno5428If you delete them wrong, you end up with unlinked character data, which is basically incomplete. Sims could spread the gossip (as mentioned) and then it just corrupts the whole thing. That's why people have clean templates or methods to turn off stealth hood families from spawning
Ur vids are amazing!
thank you so much :)
did pretty much all of these things as a kid, games so easy to corrupt lol