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@nickinbigd In all this time, there has been no feedback from EA that they have taken note of the bug and are working on a solution.
Instead, they seem to be only interested in selling new packs. Whether the game is playable or the customer has fun doesn't seem to interest them. I'm very disappointed.
It gets worse if you have one try to suntan. They have the tan lines from the default underwear. 307 people had this problem, Me Too's all over the first post. Crickets from EA and Maxis.
- WillBridger6 months agoSeasoned Newcomer
I found a temporary fix:
https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/other-mods-reset-bathing-outfit
That mod works with the commands stated. You will have to use the commands multiple times as it is not a permanent fix. - Mr_T_20246 months agoNew Ace
@WillBridger As i wrote in Post #7 in this thread - Resetting the bathing outfit helps only for the session. It doesn't fix the issue. And I'm not sure you're doing your sims any good with the way this mod works. It is made for emergency cases when wrongly tagged CC breaks the bathing outfit.
- WillBridger6 months agoSeasoned Newcomer
@Mr_T_2024 That is why I stated "temporary fix"
- nickinbigd6 months agoRising Ace
And not even a temporary fix for those of us on consoles
- bc0414sc6 months agoSeasoned Vanguard@nickinbigd I really have to turn off auto updates on my PS5. Everytime the fix some bugs, most of which I don't seem to care about, they break something else that causes chaos and they never seem to be able to fix the truly immersion breaking bugs.
- Sejian6 months agoSeasoned Veteran
I'm going to update my "underwear override" BAND-AID and give this some more attention, but I don't have an ETA on either. I'm wrapping up some other projects and still doing 1/14/2025 compatibility checks.
I just popped in to post my screenshot and bump this thread like I do with this one - https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Spine-distortion-on-male-Sims-with-female-frame/td-p/13895791
UPDATE 1/14/2025 MAKES FOUR OFFICIAL UPDATES AND WE'VE JUST CROSSED INTO FOUR MONTHS.
This issue first appeared with Update 10/22/2024.
Apart from those FOUR updates, we've had (if my count is correct):
- 2 Kits
- 1 Creator Kit (+4 coming soon)
- 1 FOMO Event (+1 coming soon)
- 1 Expansion Pack
Everyone else enjoying their 25-Year Anniversary? I know I am! I haven't had a good play session since Feb-Mar 2024, and when I finally figured I'd take some time off from modding and play a little I came across this thread. Our bodies are broken, "automatic outfit switching" and whatever is going on with the "Bathing" outfit is broken, but hey! NEW KITS! REDESIGNED HOUSES! A ROADMAP OF CONTENT! ................................................
- Speedy12366 months agoRising Traveler
I've had this bug for months too. It's very visible if you play with a censor remover mod and I found it annoying very quickly that my sims skinny dip at the bluffs in their undies, so went to look for a fix. I have been using this mod (https://simfileshare.net/folder/21822/) for a while and it makes sims naked again. It's a default replacement for the black/pink CAS underwear (I think it's just transparent "pants/bra"). This means sims are always naked even in situations where they would wear underwear (sims are naked in CAS when you remove all their clothes, edit their tattoos and body hair etc), sims are naked when receiving massages at the spa (not in the sauna, because they wear towels there). If this doesn't bother you, while using this mod at least pc players can have naked sims again (no tan lines when sunbathing in the nude too!). Just putting this here in case some of you find this a helpful solution until the bug gets fixed.
- Sejian6 months agoSeasoned Veteran
@Speedy1236
Indeed, an "underwear override" is the most effective band-aid. - Mr_T_20245 months agoNew Ace@Speedy1236 I did some tests with transparent clothes as well but i didn't know how to override this default underwear. This is basically a good idea, but the creator of this CC forgot the "naked buff". Sims don't react embarrassed and treat them as if they were dressed. I think he just took the default underwear as template and exchanged the textures, which is a good approach. I'll try to add the buff.
It is definitely a good temporary solution - at least for PC. But it won't help console players and it is also not a real fix of the bug, so i don't hit the "accept as solution" button.
I still hope the Devs will fix this quickly, It doesn't look like a big thing to fix this and it is immersion breaking for months now.
But thanks for sharing this CC. - 5 months ago
I haven't kept track of the dates but there have been at least 4 updates to The Sims 4 since October. The most recent was just a week or so ago. Although I see 19 pages of user comments on this forum the problem still has not been addressed by the developers of the game.
Today this site asked me to take a survey on my experience with AnswersHQ. I told them I was dissatisfied and that it was all a bunch of chatter if the EA game developers never look at or respond to it.
I've logged this error three times from within the EA app, I've tried repairing the game a few times and uninstalled and reinstalled the game once. I'm not interested in fixes from the user community; I just don't have the energy. I just want to play the game with the gameplay I'd become accustomed to. BTW, they also :"deprecated" the cheat for free real estate with the October update, but that's for another thread. Looking at naked cartoon people isn't important to me, it's the lack of response from the developers that encourages me to finally find something else to do. They could at least let us know they're working on it or that it's a permanent change to the game for the sake of children who play and figured out how to turn off the pixelation.
- Mr_T_20245 months agoNew Ace
@CptAhab77 Communication is the key. And this is also important in a forum. EA decided against a ticket-system where you can send a mail and get an answer. They made it this way. That's ok in general, but they still should give their customers regular feedback. This forum is for bug-reports and if they would write "we were able to reproduce the problem and can confirm it is a bug and we are trying to fix it". people would be patient. I reported this bug in October and in November a Community-Manager wrote that he forwarded it to the team (which is great but not in all threads you get this messages). But i still don't know if anyone of the devs is working on it or if it even made it's way on a "ToDo-List".
Regarding your "free real estate cheat" - They released updated versions of some houses of the basegame in the galery with the latest update and for one of them i used this cheat to place it. so i think it is still working.
I still hope for a soon fix. It breaks the gameplay because the behavior of the sims changed, some interactions don't make sense that way and it also looks ugly even under the censor grid and i think it has to do with changes for the life & death occult cas stuff.