December 2019 - last edited December 2019
Ugh, what a patch this was. Fired my maid, can't progress on acting and just when I thought I would at least be able to play with my photographer freelancer again, I can't take the pictures the way I wanted anymore
I'm having the same issue. I think they messed something up when they tried to fix the "jump across floors" bug, since the movements that don't work anymore are the ones that caused the bugs. That makes the tripod camera pretty useless for me, free movement was the best feature of the pack and now I am locked with those basic angles who won't let me frame my pictures properly.
December 2019 - last edited December 2019
recently discovered that my tripod is 100% functional. when i select it and click take a picture everything works fine but the Q and E keys dont work in camera mode. when using the tripod its supposed to work the same way as tab mode but for some reason its not. I dont know when it stopped working as i was using a lot and with mods but for some reason now its not. i can only take pictures in the genral sense i can no longer use the more dynamic aspects of it. Does anyone know how to fix this?
edit: just took out all my mods and problem still exists so im really at a loss is this a new update where they took thaat feature out or a bug ?? whats going on and how do i fix this please help thanks
December 2019
@Rumplestiltsim I recently did some testing with the camera and tripod. Some of what I found may be helpful to you:
Please let me know how it goes.
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December 2019
Good Luck
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December 2019
Hi!
The up and down arrow keys DO NOT work the same way as the Q and E keys used to. The up and down arrow keys just tilt the camera up and down from a fixed height, while the Q and E keys used to enable you to adjust the height of the camera (i.e. closer to or farther away from the ground). This probably wouldn't matter to players who take photos more casually (if at all), but as someone who plays mainly for the freelance fashion photographer career and likes playing with angles and such, it's a bit frustrating. I would much rather not have the floor jumping bug fix (I just made my studio on the ground floor after discovering that bug), than having this reduced camera/tripod movement.
December 2019 - last edited December 2019
Yeah, it's broken. WASD now function as the arrows do, which renders the tripod useless by eliminating the free camera mode that made it special. It's kind of an absurd that the key object of a pack doesn't work properly anymore, thanks to that update from hell which also made all of the the key aspects of Get Famous stop working as well.
I'm hoping the tripod issue won't be thrown at the end of this never ending list of pending fixes, but seeing how many people here don't even know how it used to work, I'm afraid this will take the back seat And that is, IF this isn't their way of "fixing" the jumping bug. Surely they can't call it a "fix" if by fixing it they mean disabling the broken function.
@SheriGRThank you for going through the trouble of testing the object in hope to help us with the issue, though.
December 2019
OMG THATS SO ANNOYING. Especially when I only fired my maid because people said that was the quick fix for the fast forward bug where my game would randomly go three times speed and It wouldn’t let me play at normal speed! This is getting out of hand why are the bugs intertwining 😕😕😕😕😕
December 2019 - last edited December 2019
I’m having the same ‘lack of free movement’ problem with the tripod in Camera mode. Glad I’m not the only one, but frustrated it’s happening at all! It was such a great feature and my main justification for buying the Moschino pack! Livid! 😫
December 2019
For me, this is by far the worst new bug that was introduced with the 1.59.73 patch. If I had known about this, I honestly would not have updated my game. I can live without a maid or the currently broken shower/tub-combos, but not having the full functionality of the tripod is truly heart-breaking! What's even worse is that a lot of people don't even seem to understand what some of us here are saying!
January 2020
I am having the same issue. This was a feature that was so amazing in my game - I used to line my Sims' houses with all of their family portraits. But now, without the free-move functionality, it removes so many creative portrait options from us. I really hope they recognize the issue and fix it soon.