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Blood0rchid's avatar
5 years ago
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Cancelled Action not leaving Queue

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Sony Playstation 4
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.28 (latest on PS4)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Outdoor Seasons Pets stuff Cats and Dogs
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a sim do any action that takes some time - mostly seems to happen with EATING and WRITING
What happens when the bug occurs? When I set my sim to write their book - and then cancel the action to do something else,. the X out icon of the writing won't go away - even if the action stopped.
What do you expect to see? The cancelled action "bubble" to disappear in the queue once the next action is being started.
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? No

I noticed this happening last week.

Nothing new was entered.

It does occur for other actions that take time, but I mostly noticed it staying after starting or resuming writing a book genre or eating food.

  • This can happen from time to time with many actions, though some are notorious (drinking from other Sims as a vampire for example).

    It should  have no negative impact. Travelling to another lot deletes the symbol.

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  • @Blood0rchid I don't know how you do this on PS4, but on PC, you turn on cheats. Then you press Shift and click with your mouse. Click on "Reset Object (Debug)". This resets the sim and removes all actions from his / her queue.
  • alanmichael1's avatar
    alanmichael1
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago

    This can happen from time to time with many actions, though some are notorious (drinking from other Sims as a vampire for example).

    It should  have no negative impact. Travelling to another lot deletes the symbol.

  • @Zack4358 Thanks, but I am playing this one with no cheats to get the achievements. Even using one to fix this will ruin the save... I will try what @alanmichael1 said below and ignore it or travel to remove it.
  • valohim666's avatar
    valohim666
    5 years ago

    I just wanted to add another method for those that don't want to travel just to remove the stuck interactions, and it's easy enough too. Just select "Manage Worlds" then "Just Go to Manage Worlds" (unless you want to save first, which is always a good idea anyway), then simply navigate back to your household and select to play it. When you do this it seems to react in a similar way as if you had just loaded your save and started playing, so I'm sure it could also help with other potential issues that reloading a save can help with. Just traveling would be better if you wanted to take your sim somewhere anyway, but using Manage Worlds could be good if you want to keep your sim where they are.

  • 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? 1.110.294.1020 DX11
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Almost all of them up to For Rent. Haven't bought any new this year. Seriously, there are over 100 packs, Dude. No way I'm listing them all.
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Do just about any action.
    What happens when the bug occurs? Canceled actions lock up and stay in queue. If there are more than two actions in queue, played Sim doesn't stop the action. Most often happens with conversations. Also, since it can't be reported under the mods section, this happens both with and without mods active.
    What do you expect to see? Canceled actions actually canceling.
    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? No

    Don't have screenshot on my phone. 

  • jtemplar's avatar
    jtemplar
    Seasoned Traveler
    4 months ago

    Have the issue on XBOX, it randomly occurs, latest one was making a drink for another sim from the bar, the other sim didn't take it and the action was stuck