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Keijra
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3 years ago
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[ARCHIVED] Tooltip indicates wrong object

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Occasionally (10% - 49%)
What is your current game version number? 1.90.358.1030 (64)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a parent and child combo go to the Youth Festival. The parent orders an ice cream crepe. Upon returning, the parent goes to bed.
What happens when the bug occurs? The tool tip for the bed is identical to the tooltip for the ice cream crepe from earlier.
What do you expect to see? I expect it to be a bed and not an ice cream
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

So I have all the packs and no mods. Playing on a PC. This is a brand new save. 

I took my sim and child to the Youth Festival and the parent had a Matcha Ice cream crepe at the festival. When they came back home, the parent went to bed and the child then played on the computer. I noticed that the tooltip over the parent's bed now read as "Matcha Ice Cream Crepe" 

So, I am thinking that there is a pretty obvious connection here between the last thing that the sim touches and when the random object suddenly decides it is something else entirely. I've seen fruit trees call themselves beds as well. 

I've attached a screenshot of what I am seeing in game. 

After the parent woke up, I went to see if the tooltip appeared again and it did not. So I am guessing that it maybe has to do with the natural decay of how long the ice cream lasts in game (9 hours before it goes bad) and is actually attached to the Sim and not the bed itself. 

Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, adjusted title.

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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
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    3 years ago
    @YourFriendJessie Ah, ok.

    I'm going to merge this with the tool top being wrong thread. Usually it happens a lot for beds but I've seen others as well.

    Looks like basically the same issue to me though although you did say they sometimes both show for you ? If you happen to grab a screenshot of that as well, please post tha too
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
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    3 years ago

    Please add a screenshot. You can add images to posts in two ways

    Click on the tool bar and choose the image icon

    Or attach them to your post with Choose file at the bottom (not available in quick reply)

  • Product: The Sims 4
    Platform:PC
    Which language are you playing the game in? English
    How often does the bug occur? Occasionally (10% - 49%)
    What is your current game version number? 1.95.207.1030
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? None
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I'm not sure how it happened, but I *think* this is how to reproduce it... 1. hover over an interactable 2. move mouse cursor off screen while still hovered over the object. 3. bring cursor back to screen and hover over a new object.
    What happens when the bug occurs? Objects will sometimes display the wrong tooltip or overlap an incorrect tooltip on top of the correct one.
    What do you expect to see? Tooltips should only appear on their respective item/object
    Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
    Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

    this bug isn't major - a simple save+quit to main menu and reloading the save fixes the issue. i would have a screenshot below - but for some stupid reason this form doesn't allow embed images because not being able to quickly screenshot and drop it in this box as an embed is definitely a helpful feature for a bug report forum (but i'm getting off-track).

    the steps above may reproduce the bug, i wasn't really paying attention when it happened - though this wouldn't be the only UI bug i've seen in this game.¨¨

    Edit By Crinrict: removed Tag to from Title. Please only add platform & pack tags yourself.

  • My bed keeps showing that it is a book when my mouse hovers over it. It’s always the same book and it pretty annoying. 
    It does go away if you sell them replace the bed but it does happen again in time. It does also happen with different types of beds. 

  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
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    3 years ago

    Hi there @Keijra,

    Could you edit your post please and fill this template out for me?

    Product: The Sims 4
    Platform:
    Which language are you playing the game in? 
    How often does the bug occur? 
    What is your current game version number? 
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? 
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 
    What happens when the bug occurs? 
    What do you expect to see? 
    Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods?
    Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? 

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