How To Do A Recent Wicked Whims Mod Update For The Sims 4 2023

[Music] foreign ERS in this video I'm going over what to do during a wicked whims update and I'm also covering a little bit of how to handle animations during Updates this is actually requested you guys probably have noticed if you've been following my channel for a while that I do do some updates on certain mods um depending on how popular they are and how much they're used or how hard they are okay so let's go ahead and get into it the first thing you're going to want to do when there's a wicked whims update is go over to the EA app so you just double click on the EA app if it's on your desktop if it's not search it once the EA app loads in put in your information once you're logged in you'll just click on the Sims 4 to see if there's an update to know if there's an update you'll say it right here instead of saying play it'll say update but in the case that you had your automatic settings on click the three lines in the top left corner go to settings then head over to application and then turn off application updates automatically it should be gray when you turn it off and if you want to turn these two off that's entirely your choice Okay the reason you do this is so that it doesn't mess up your game sometimes when you automatically start up the Sims 4 game when there's an update and you just install mods it can affect basically um your game it's not detrimental or anything like that but I mean it'll be like really making it lag and just a lot of other problems all right so now that we know there's no update we're good to go but in the case that there was an update here's how you would handle it you would exit the EA app you would go ahead and head over to the file Explorer icon at the bottom of your screen if you have MacBook you will click on finder of course for what we just did for EA app by taking turning the applications off you're gonna do the same thing for origin if you have mac all right so go ahead and go over to the documents folder if you see it go to EA go to Sims 4 and then head over into that mods folder now typically what I'll do when there's an update is I'll get the wicked whims mod that was already installed and I'll delete it now you can choose to put the old update on your desktop if you want but I just deleted to get it out the way after you do that you want to grab your mods folder and put that on the desktop because you you still want to use that later make sure that when there's an update you have better exceptions installed it looks like this Twisted Mexi's better exceptions if you do not know how to install that please go over to my channel and look for the better exceptions um tutorial I have went over how to install this mod and what it's used for all right so once that's done you have your mods folder on the desktop go ahead and head over to the wickedswimmod.com press enter once you're inside click on download and it will tell you when the most recent update was for me it is July 24th 2023 it is August 17th as I'm recording this you always want to get the latest updated version okay so they did say that it is compatible with the August 3rd edition of the game so what that means is there was no need for an update because it seems to be working for everybody what updates mean is that the mod creator has to go inside their Mod change up whatever it needs to change so it can go along with the update that the Sims mod just did so if there's times where you're commenting on the video and you're like hey my game's still not working and I say it probably needs to be updated that means it's out of your control the mod creator has to update the mod so all you can do is patiently wait for them to do it and kind of go from there all right as far as animations are concerned you just gotta scroll down here and click on one of these animators it'll bring you over to the lovers lab site you do have to sign up in order to download so you're not going to see a download link as soon as you click on the site you'll have to create an account if you can't get in for whatever reason or you lost your password just make a new account okay as far as animations are concerned I never normally have to update these during updates so everything should work just fine now you're going to click on ititch.io and you're going to scroll to the bottom so let's do that now alrighty so once you're at the bottom you're going to see a purple download button and a wicked whims name I always tell you guys this but if you're new to my channel you never heard this before I always tell you guys to make sure you download the recent update the one that's closest to the date that you're downloading so obviously I'm not gonna download July 19th when there's July 24th and that's closer to the date that we're at okay so just use your discernment when you are doing this and obviously don't download both all right once you do that it's gonna pop up like-minded or it's just going to download at the bottom of the screen for you you click save if you have to and then most of the time once it's downloaded you'll be able to access it at the bottom but if for any reason you had an update on your computer or something you don't know how to access your downloads I personally have to come up here and then I can see my file when you click it it will bring you into that individual folder but if not you can go ahead and just go to the file explorer folder icon down there click on the downloads folder and here you will see the wicked whims it now we're gonna click it and then we're gonna right click and select extract all once you extract make sure that you pay attention to this next part okay so once you select the wicked whims folder you're going to go ahead and open up the mods folder that you put on the desktop so we're going to go ahead and do that now and then this is in the case that there's an update this is how you would handle it so you get the one that you just downloaded right and you're gonna double click on that folder once you do that you're going to select Wicked whims mod inside this folder is going to be two turbo pages that is what goes in your mods folder not this entire folder that we just opened so I'm going to go ahead and put this in the mods folder so that way when we put our mods folder back inside it will be already updated we're going to double click and we can tell that there's only two turbo Pages which means you did it correctly after you've done this all right what you're gonna do is you're gonna update your game how do you do that you go to your EA app or origin all right once you do that you're gonna click update mine's not gonna say update because it's not time for an update but you will click update you would let it update while your mods folder is on the desktop once it's done updating and it says the update has been finished you will then go into the EA game load it up and then you're gonna exit the game after loading the game when you load in the game it is going to say items are removed the when this happens Do Not freak out just press OK press OK it's just letting you know that you had mods in here that are no longer in here anymore and the reason why you have to load up the game before you even put the mods folder back inside is because it is not going to allow you to just throw the mods folder back inside and then update the game because then it's going to reset everything it's going to reset your script for mods all this other stuff you don't want to go through all that so when there's an update you you have to go all the way into the game after you're done updating it then exit the game you can save and exit or just exit really doesn't matter because all your saves for your mods are already in there so you don't have to worry about that not being saved once you're done with that you're going to go ahead and open up that file explorer head over to the documents folder then the EA then the Sims 4 and then once you're in here you can choose to delete this local thumb cache just to get rid of some storage problems if you can't find it don't freak out so at the end of the world then we're going to drag this mods folder into the Sims 4 folder okay now it is important to understand that the game is automatically going to regenerate a mods folder all you have to do is replace this file in the destination okay and then there you go you don't have to worry about you know having two mods folders or anything it just replaced it with the folder that already had the mods in it okay now you're gonna load up your game and if you have better exceptions inside it's going to tell you what is out of date and then you're gonna go update those mods the same way we would do with the wicked wins like I just showed you okay if you guys have any questions leave them in the comment section below I hope this video was helpful check out simplicitysim.com the link is in the description below I have ebooks that you will love that will help you with 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Channel: Simplicitysimlife

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Keywords: how to update a recent wicked whims mod update for sims 4

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Length: 9min 28sec (568 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 19 2023