Overwatch is a game mod developed by NRaas Industries that attempts to correct known errors produced by the game in The Sims 3. It runs in the background and automatically attempts to correct any problems that it finds, such as unroutable Sims, corrupted game data, and references to content that no longer exist.
It also performs a nightly cleanup (5 AM in Bridgeport, 3 AM elsewhere; these times can be changed in the manual settings) to reset various objects, delete abandoned vehicles, turn off televisions and stereos in inactive households, and recover missing or abandoned Sims. The mod will produce a notification reporting on any actions it takes.
An example of a notification given by Overwatch's nightly cleanup routine.
Overwatch creates a new pie menu entry on the active Sim and at city halls, allowing players to configure its settings. However, it is designed to work out of the box and can start working as soon as it is installed.
Overwatch has been praised for its ability to improve game performance.[1][2]
Options
Among the things it can clean up, and which can be enabled/disabled in the nightly automated cleanups, include:
- Clean up Concert
- Clean up Genealogy
- Clean up Inventory
- Clean up Outfits
- Clean up Relationships
- Clean up Skill Modifiers
- Clean up Vehicles
- An additional opt-in setting can tell the game to clean up vehicles each hour instead of each day.
- Recover Missing Sims
- Recover Wandering Toddlers
- Reset All Gnomes
- Reset Check
- Restart Digital Photos
- Stuck Check (Checks for Sims who complain about routing errors to everywhere)
- Stuck Check Auto-Reset (Applies the "ResetSim" cheat to all detected stuck Sims)
- Turn off Stereos
- Turn off Televisions
- Clean up Elevators[TS3:LN][TS3:ITF]
- Clean up Laundromat[TS3:A]
Opt-in settings
- Clean up "Situations"
- Clean up "All Homeless" (Townies)
- Cleanse The Dead
- Delete All "Magical Gnomes" (Magic gnomes)
- Purge Genetic Hair
- "Testing Cheats Enabled" (Automatically turn on Testingcheats)
- "NRaas.Overwatch.DropInvalidVacationHomes:MenuName"[TS3:WA] (Only found in the "Immediate" menu, and lacks a proper name)
- Stop Pet Adoption[TS3:P]
- Disable Full Moon Lighting[TS3:SN]
Other settings
- Affect Active Lot (Whether the automated cleanups should also affect the active household's home lot)
- Display Nightly Notifications
- Instantation Check
- Logging
- Show Sim Menu
- Report On First Reset Check
- Set Alarm Hour (Changes which hour of the day that the automated cleanups should happen)
Additionally, while the "Version" options in other NRaas mods list the version of that specific mod, the "Version" option in Overwatch lists the version numbers of all NRaas mods that are in use in that gameplay session.
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References
External links
- Official download page at NRaas Industries
- Interactions information page
- Overwatch FAQ