[ARCHIVED] [V] [ROM] Occult eyes/features disappear when entering live mode
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 is your current game version number? 1.110.265.1030 What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them. Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Give an occult supernatural eyes, go into live mode. What happens when the bug occurs? The eyes will change to a normal color you didnt set them as, not the original occult eyes. What do you expect to see? Eyes staying the same. 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. The Life and Death patch.
After the life and death update, when you give an occult(I only tested it with vampires but i assume its the same for all of them) occult eyes, they will always change to a different color when you enter live mode. I seem to be able to keep them in dark form so far but not in normal form.
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I also have this issue. All occult sims lose their occult CAS while in their "human mode". This seems to happen not only when they're in live mode, but also when their household portraits reload. It doesn't help much to change their features back, such as giving vampires back their vampire eyes, as these will revert either immediatly or when the game is restarted. I have more trouble with other occults like mermaids, where the mermaid eyes aren't selecteable while they're human. Linking the forms doesn't work to reset their features. This issue is the same in my modded as well as my non-modded save files.
same thing is happening for me. tried to change their eyes back to how it was in CAS but every time i log back in, it's back to a normal eye color. sometimes it even changes color when i log in. but never to how it was.... it still works when i show their dark form though ? please fix this ☹️
@CoratanniThe gravestones and/or maybe the new cas option to change the occult type of already existing occult sims in cas. It seems like they made the vampire cure and werewolf cure obsolete.
Yep same here. My spellcasters look weird asf and they don’t have an alternate form to turn into. I didn’t do anything to change them.
Updated the game, repaired it. Booted up my save and when I opened the game they had brown eyes instead of pure white.
I also tried everything previous thread posters done. Change in CAS and it automatically reversed with a new random human color as soon as back in Live mode. Started new saves, same thing.
Went back to original save, sent my sims to Magical world to make her not-spellcaster and then turn her back into witch, same thing.
Never modded, own all packs possible.
Hope this is fixed soon.
edit; only occult displaying eyes correct in my game is Aliens. But they have different swatches so that might be why
I'm having this problem as well. It was tolerable when it was only affecting toddlers and kids as when they aged up to teens and older, the eyes worked properly. Now, it affects older sims who have a longer life span than those two age groups which in turn make it more frustrating (for me). I saw this happen when I took my vampire into cas to modify his work outfit. Now, not only did his occult eyes revert to human eyes, but he no longer has his vampiric features (fangs and eye sockets). He still has his pointed ears and pale skin, but everything else that makes him a vampire is gone.
What he's supposed to look like
What he now looks like
It seems like I can't play with a good chunk of my saves now as I am primarily an occult player (especially with werewolves and vampires). With this bug, it feels like I can't even play with the saves I want to because then it will get bugged out. I really REALLY hope this gets fixed soon as it was working before the 10/22/24 update and now, it's bugged out. This is about as bad as elder werewolves' eyebrows turning grey and being unable to change them. It's frustrating to say the least. This issue does seem pretty easy to reproduce, compared to the child/toddler occult eyes bug.
Edit: It appears that this bug does not affect teens. I loaded into my save I've been using for the Reaper's Rewards event. In one of my playable families that is all vampires, the adult and young adult vampires bugged while the teens still have their occult eye colors. I have one YA vampire that still has his occult eyes, however, so I don't know if it's a case that I started the save with him as a teen or if it affects the first two sims (almost like the holiday bug that only affected certain sims in households). Whatever the case, my teens appear safe from this bug, but I still hope it gets fixed soon.
Edit 2: I did a little more testing. At least for me, the bug appears when entering cas with the modify career outfit cheat. I took my sims into cas the normal way (and through shift-click cheat) and my vampires were ok. However, when I took my vampires into cas to modify their career outfits, that's when I saw the bug occur (this is including teens as well). I have no idea if this is what's happening for others, but this is what is happening in my game. So I guess for me, as long as my sim doesn't get a job or I don't go into cas to modify their career outfit, then their eyes/features are safe. Sucks that I can't have them work or modify their career outfits, but until this gets fixed, it's the only workaround to keep them as they were...
Edit 3: I forgot to mention that the vampire I screenshotted and shared was one I made yesterday, after the update. I noticed it right away when I took him into cas to modify his work outfit and he had reverted to human eyes. I'm mentioning this as I'm seeing people say that it seems to only affect vampires pre-update over vampires made post-update. As for my two adult sims in my Reaper's Rewards save, they were vampires made pre-update and were affected by the bug while my three teens and one YA (who aged up from a teen) were safe from the bug. The only time their eyes reverted is when I took them into cas to modify their career outfits. I just wanted to point out that the bug does affect post-update vampires as well, just not in the same way(?).
This tracks bc I had two vampires with the "shark" teeth from Island Living. They now have human teeth. However, my mermaids with the shark teeth retain those teeth even in human form in live mode as they're supposed to. I think right now vampires and spellcasters can't retain teeth and eye changes in general, but that's a hypothesis based on my own save file.
Edit: My spellcaster did retain her gap smile from HSY at least, so those stuck.
Also extra weird--my ghost vampire retained the mermaid shark teeth. His brother, who is alive, did not.
