


Most of the problems addressed by the patch sound relatively minor as these things go, although a couple of crash bugs have apparently been corrected. But the real trouble seems to be with babies who were "incorrectly hibernating within household inventories," a strange bit of behavior that can result in various undesirable outcomes, including being locked in the household inventory if you manage to kill off every other Sim in the house and what sounds like a sort of runaway asexual reproduction. That's really more of a feature than a bug in my book, but I'm not a Sims player so maybe my perspective is skewed.

Also fun: Dating with Death. "Fixed several issues with Sims attempting to go on dates with the Reaper, resulting in non-responsive game states," the patch notes explain. "The Reaper still loves ya baby, he is just too busy to go on a date with every lovelorn Sim that vies for his attention."

The full breakdown of what's what is up at EA's help site . The Sims 4, as mentioned, is out now.