Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Pretty much everything. Latest was Pets and Season, and this bug didn't happen as often as after the latest patch following Seasons.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Try to make your Sim eat a meal. Make sure you have a two story house with sitting furniture on the second floor. And a porch far away from the kitchen and with sitting places. And make sure you got several fitting sitting places like a dining table right by the kitchen (which your sims will blatantly ignore).
What happens when the bug occurs? The Sim gets super confused about where the heck to sit their butts down to eat their food. It doesn't matter if there's a dining table nearby with fitting chairs, or even a couch a room away. They'll pick chairs that are in the second floor, right above the kitchen, thus run all the way through the house to find a place to sit and eat. Like they don't plan a route according to what's nearby on the same floor, rather what's closest on the floor above. And then when they finally manage to sit down, they start getting up for no reason, getting up to pet the dog, getting up to stand and talk to someone, getting up to stand in the middle of the room and look confused, etc. Basically, getting these sims to complete a meal takes forever (and a ton of micro managing), and they got school in the morning so it gets super infuriating when you can't get these guys to eat, toilet and shower even though you wake them hours on beforehand, because the meal takes hours upon hours of you having to micro manage them until the meal is eaten.
What do you expect to see? Them being told to eat, followed by them sitting their butts down at the nearest possible seating location (on the same floor!), finishing the entire meal while sitting on the same chair that entire time, thus the meal taking max an hour or so before they can run off to do the other stuff they gotta do before school. Definitely less micromanaging, I've got a big household I can't keep watching them all individually to make sure they manage to eat a meal, or have to pester them 4-6 times just to remind them that they forgot to eat the food they're holding (or that they discarded cause they don't care what I tell them to do)!
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. It wasn't this bad until the patches in July. I haven't had mods at all since before Pets came out, and this eating stuff wasn't half as bad back then nor right after Seasons was unleashed.
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