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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 2.5.8.2300
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? get together, werewolves, vampires, paranormal, city living, cats & dogs, cottage living, eco lifestyle, island living, jungle adventure, my first pet, realm of magic, seasons, snowy escape, spa day, spooky stuff, strangerville, life & death
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? By adding occult eye and facial features to appropriate sims in CAS then saving and entering live mode. There is also a problem with weather appearing to come through the housing, but that's more a visual thing as opposed to a game play problem. It doesn't create a mess, but it often looks like it's snowing or raining directly into the homes.
What happens when the bug occurs? The added features disappear upon entering live mode. All of my spellcasters use eyes from the Vampires pack, and my newest Ghost, also a spellcaster, originally had eyes and eye features from theVampires pack in order to appear more dead. It worked for the first 15 hours of game play and then nothing. All gone suddenly. Even my vampire's features are normal human. He has no dark form as the intent was to make an ancient vampire who never hides his features, that is who and how he is, and yet the sunken eye sockets and the glowing eyes that he had are now changed. I also noticed that my ghost spellcaster that was mentioned also had his ear piercings changed from the scythe piercing to the spellcaster ear piercings for no known reason at all. To be clear, these all worked fine when I first made this sim and started the Life & Death pack, and then changed without reason or warning. Most of my sims are spellcasters with 1 vampire and 2 werewolves and it's the spellcasters, including the mentioned ghost, and the vampire who are all affected. I even saved the new ghost to my library, started a new game, inserted him into the CAS, and the eye and face features were there as he was saved, but disappear immediately upon entering the live mode.
Edit: It is now that the longer I play the new save, the more things are deteriorating in the game itself, from the Afterlife Anonymous meeting taking place more often than it should be scheduled to, to exiting CAS from just changing outfits and his portrait showed him as a living Sim, and not a ghost as he actually is. There is a strange stuttering in the game as well which only developed recently, and some of the ghosts just stand there, conjuring up materials with the ghost power, though I don't know how much of a glitch that might be. They just stand in one location and keep using ghost powers to create a mess. I can say when I first started the Life & Death pack, that wasn't happening. Tablets keep reproducing at an alarming rate when working as a reaper, to the point that every desk on the lower level has several tablets on it that seem to grow in numbers every time my sims goes to work as a reaper. Ever since installing Life & Death and beginning a new save, the game has just been slowly deteriorating over the last few days to almost becoming unplayable in its current state.
What do you expect to see? That my Sims be allowed to return to their proper states of being, as I designed them. It seems a bit lost that they can be assigned those features in CAS and yet those features are immediately removed upon entering live mode. Rather ruins the game play and the intended character when a sim who is made to fit and appear as that certain occult is rendered entirely mundane and unable to at least appear as they should, as they were designed to appear. I would also hope that the other problems are fixed but lets start with the CAS problem first, perhaps.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Bought and installed Life & Death. Everything was normal for the first day of playing the new pack and then suddenly not at all.
Attached are how he should look and how he appears after entering live mode. Some times the eyes are turned to normal eyes, other times they are made to be the eyes from the reaper event from October.
I am having this exact issue too, ever since the Life and Death pack. I have all packs, and am on Xbox series X.
- Rebekyy21 days agoRising Hotshot
I wish they would just revert the occult picker cas update until they can make it without breaking our occults appearance. We only need to pick our occult once but their appearances are permanently broken now.
I wish they would take this more seriously like they always have with fixing non-occult sims visual bugs.
- 21 days ago
I play on a Windows PC (without Mods) and created a witch with occult eyes (completely white) on 12.01.2025 - i.e. before the latest update -; one day and thus 16 hours of play later I opened the Camara via the phone and promptly my witch was no longer “blind”, but had light brown, then blue and then light brown eyes again, just after each reload and trying to undo via CAS.... That was also the last day I played Sims 4.
When I found it here in the forum, I was and still am shocked at how long this bug has existed and I can certainly understand that it takes away a lot of fun from the game and the lack of response from EA is incredibly frustrating.
This is now the 4th bug that prevents me and my way of playing Sims 4 from playing the game the way I enjoy it (what's the point of continuing to play a blind witch who isn't blind?). I actually started the witch out of “pure desperation” because I'm so frustrated with the Cottage Living bug with the dying chickens and can't continue playing my family because of it. ☹️
That was my last attempt to play Sims 4, as the many bugs and lack of response from EA just make me even more demotivated to start a new game. If the bugs are fixed at some point, I might start Sims 4 again. However, maybe I'm just too spoiled by other publishers... 🤨
- FairyTailNarza21 days agoSeasoned Rookie
Ever Since the update, my two Vampire Sims's fangs keeping changing to the normal teeth after CAS Mode. I don't think this is mod related because all my mods are updated to the latest patch.
I hope there's a modder who can temporarily fix this bug until EA permanently fix this bug.
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