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The Sims twenty fifth anniversary is subsequent month, and as anticipated, EA has a great deal of actions, updates and new content material deliberate for the celebration. However one factor gamers weren’t anticipating was the shock replace EA simply launched for The Sims 3.
The new replace merely fixes a difficulty that made newer Intel CPUs unable to run The Sims 3, permitting the sport to be run on fashionable machines extra simply. Though EA hasn’t made a public assertion relating to the replace, some gamers are hoping this might imply extra updates for The Sims 3 are on the way in which.
Whether or not that is the case or not is tough to say. In any case, EA hasn’t even publicly acknowledged that it launched the replace. However even when EA has no extra deliberate content material for The Sims 3, players–and modders especially–are thrilled to see new life breathed into the sport.
“So it begins,” Sims modder SimMattically tweeted after discovering the replace.
The final time The Sims 3 obtained an replace was again in November 2015, and it is completely doable the newest replace was merely launched to make sure gamers proceed to purchase the sport. However gamers who miss the sport’s extremely detailed customization choices (a lot of that are nonetheless absent from The Sims 4) are joyful to see this replace, even when it is not essentially indicative that extra Sims 3 content material is on the way in which.
Throughout its heyday, The Sims 3 struggled to run even on high-end PCs. Crashes and bugs have been widespread, however gamers beloved the flexibility to make Sims’ hair, garments, nails, and furnishings any colour they wished by way of the sport’s colour wheel. That colour wheel is sort of completely absent from The Sims 4–it can be utilized when coloring a pet’s fur, however can’t be used on Sims’ hair, garments, furnishings, partitions, or flooring. Sims 4 gamers have bemoaned the sport’s lack of customization choices for years, and since fashionable machines will now have a neater time working The Sims 3 with out crashing, the newest replace permits nostalgic Simmers to journey again to the great outdated days, when Sims (and their homes) may very well be any colour of the rainbow.
There is not any telling whether or not EA will launch additional updates for The Sims 3–and in the event that they do, these updates are prone to be targeted on stability enhancements slightly than new content material. Nonetheless, having the ability to load up an historical save file and customise Sims to your coronary heart’s content material is definitely one thing to have fun, even when the replace itself is not formally part of The Sims twenty fifth Anniversary celebration.