THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
vcpink:
Quote from: TashaFaun on 2009 May 19, 15:30:51
Quote from: vcpink on 2009 May 19, 15:24:00
yes, in all likely hood this recent leak is mostly identical to the one for 2 June, of course barring any changes made when the booty was plundered.
Is your shift key badly damaged?
Actually yes, it is a little fitsy... sorry.
vcpink:
Quote from: TashaFaun on 2009 May 19, 15:36:14
Quote from: vcpink on 2009 May 19, 15:34:12
Actually yes, it is a little fitsy... sorry.
Good to know, otherwise I would have assumed you're just a lazy idiot. ;)
No, not lazy, just an idiot. The problem is that the keyboard takes a moment to recognize that I've pressed SHIFT and when I type quickly it doesn't register the stroke as a capital letter. Other times I get the shift on the first few letters of an acronym but it'll conk out in the middle making my letters FUBAR and look like this FuBAr. I really hate that and I need to get a new keyboard, but that's really off topic now isn't it?
Zazazu:
Quote from: Rhayden on 2009 May 19, 07:34:40
Quote from: ttech on 2009 May 19, 07:19:44
The people making it sound horrible are over exaggerating, IMO.
One post Tasty Tourist knows more than KBC, news at 11.
Well, there's a tendency to overcriticize, especially in this situation. Because EAxis should have learned by now. All-in-all, it's a pretty good game that definitely has potential and in many ways is more challenging than TS2, but some of the bad points are screaming for mods. Others are balanced by the good. Yet others just aren't fixable...Build mode is extremely awkward, and there seems to be some problem with placing windows where they'll initially appear okay, then the next second the wall is filling them in. Vertical scrolling in Build and Buy doesn't work well for me.
Quote from: Inge on 2009 May 19, 07:55:04
Quote from: rufio on 2009 May 19, 07:49:07
Inge, two of the sims' shadows by the picnic table are behind the table/other sims. You can see the other sim's shadow to the right of white-skirt-wearing woman's butt.
Ok I see them now. That's a relief! There's something not quite right still, but anyway it's better than nothing.
They are jagged and, yeah, not quite right. This was my light reflection beef from before.
Quote from: coltraz on 2009 May 19, 08:05:54
Someone said when you zoom out you can pick a new house to play. how? all i get are filtering options and if i click a house i only get an option to visit the house i clicked with the Sim I am bound to. I've switched houses by going to "edit neighbourhood". is there an easier way?
Not that I know of, and even that had me stumped for a bit. You have to go to Edit Neighborhood, then something like Modify Active Household. Then it yells at you that it'll be wiping your sims' promises (aka, Pescados gripe about want progress).
Quote from: Pinstar on 2009 May 19, 10:51:15
Quote from: Zazazu on 2009 May 19, 06:55:41
Oh look, a bug. <truncated, relationship issue>
Is there any possibility that it might be there by design?.
One of the things that bugged me about TS2 was that any of a sim's friends/best friends could instantly be turned into lovers by a single romantic action. This new design might be there to make sure that romances start as romances, and friends stay friends past the critical point...
I started off the relationship with her asking if he was single and complimenting him on his appearance (both under flirt). Neither had commitment issues or any sort of trait that should stop them from having the kiss interaction. I tried with identical sims (trait-wise) and was able to get them to romantic interest in just a couple hours. With these, they were best friends, with me spamming Great Kiss...kiss/makeout, eventually living together, making a baby...yet no status change. Definite bug.
Quote from: cassblonde on 2009 May 19, 11:42:02
My last question involves game play: While the active Sim family is busy with other things(at work, asleep, working through a bunch of things you've told them to do) can you take the camera and go wander around the Hood? If you do is there stuff going on or does stuff only happen on comm lots when your active Sim is there? I like the idea of being able to spy on, take pictures of and make up stuff about what the other Sims are doing while my playable Sim is otherwise occupied(and boring).
Yes, you can definitely watch other things while any and all sims you are following are off doing other things. I use the time they are off work to track down collectibles or new people to befriend, or just watch others go about their day. The town square, especially, is always really active. You'll get a popup when your sim is done with a class or on their way home, and a little tracker do-job when you have them selected, ala the sim trackers on SC4:Rush Hour.
Quote from: Sigmund on 2009 May 19, 12:01:13
-The customization options available-- sort of. The actual meshes available are very limited, but the fabric swatching tool is nice, at least at first. After the novelty wore off, I found myself wishing there were more pre-made options available.
Copying styles is actually pretty easy, if not obvious. In Buy/Build, click on the Create-A-Style button (the palette). You can create as normal, or you can click on an existing object part and drag to another object, then pick the "section" to be matched.
SciBirg:
Interesting quote from bit-tech.net:
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...there are problems but that it’s highly likely they’ll be corrected before the game hits shelves. In all honesty though, we’re not sure that’s the case as, from what we’re aware of, The Sims 3 is done. It was actually meant to have been released already and was delayed mainly for marketing reasons – so improvement on the existing product is an unknown quantity.
This is a pretty good and fairly detailed preview. Scroll down and read the last sentence and have a laugh.
Zazazu:
Here's an album with 17 screenshots and notes on each. Enjoy.
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