Action progress bars no longer are interrupted when a new action is added to a Sim's queue.
Fixed in Patch 1.68.154/ 1.33
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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
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? 1.63.134.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Eco Lifestyle, Island Living, Get Famous, Seasons, Cats & Dogs, City Living, Get To Work, Parenthood, Dine Out, Laundry Day, Cool Kitchen Stuff, and the free Holiday pack.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Normal gameplay, but it happens more often when there's some sort of entertainment nearby.
What happens when the bug occurs? I will have my sim cook herself dinner (or in some cases writing on the computer), only for her to stop midway through to do something else. Example, sim will stop writing on computer/cooking a meal unprompted without the progress bar completing to watch tv, read a book, garden, or even get a quick meal out of the fridge. This also happens when she's grilling (happens most often with Forager's Stew), but in this instance I am completely unable to resume cooking, and I have to throw it away.
What do you expect to see? Sims to be able to complete the tasks queued for them without interruption.
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. Most of the issues I've noticed within the last two patches, I believe. I don't know the exact patch numbers, but before a week or so ago it didn't happen. The grilling one specifically happened with the addition of Eco Lifestyle.
In the case of the writing on the computer, the fix seemed to be to move the book pile from the computer desk into another room, but the sim seems to want to look even further away for entertainment while cooking, like going into the next room to watch tv, or going upstairs to garden. While grilling the Forager's Stew, the sim will stop out of nowhere and when you click back onto the grill, they do the motion of "I can't get there", even if I move it around. In this case, the sim doesn't seem to have anything else to do, they just stop.
I haven't had any mods installed since the patch before the ladders were added I believe, because I didn't know what kind of interactions it would have. The only mod I had in there before that was the most updated MCCC available.
I’ve been having the exact same problem as these! I can deal with my sims stoping doing mundane things like learning skills/doing homework BUT it becomes so infuriating when I’m trying to boost their needs i.e. eating! They don’t finish cooking, but when they do, they never finish eating their food! They just decide to go off and ‘stretch’ or give someone ‘fake bad news’. It makes the game not even worth playing! Has anyone come by a fix yet?
I'm having the same issue as well. It was related to my N.A.P, using cheats I got rid of them but the behavior is still there. It's so frustrating, my sim will stop what I tell them to do to bake a cake or brew herbal remedy or practice programming or shake a rubric cube. I have to remove all grills and ovens, lock the computers and keep deleting the cubes from their inventory. I don't understand why this is happening and I can't fix it.
That's exactly how my game is: unplayable. My sims will stop what I direct them to do in order to complete a chain of actions: push ups, stretch, practice making drinks, and START to make a white cake, but never finish it. Every single sim teen+ does this and it is INCREDIBLY frustrating. Anyone have any ideas on what we can do????
@hannahnotmontanaThe only thing I can think of is turn off NAP voting. Remove all the active naps using cheats and hope for the best. Hopefully with no NAPs active Sims won't be able to do the actions.
well that sure didn't work for me. I hope I didn't risk gaining my trophies for nothing lol 😮😥🤔😟
YO,I don't even reply on here. I did it one time, now I am doing it again. EA I need yall to fix this bug asap because I am not, I repeat, NOT STARTING OVER. Look, I reallllyyy enjoy playing sims but I can't take anymore with random push-ups and I am ready to hurt my sims *laughing inside* It's unplayable you gotta be freaking kidding me!
I have a similar issue on Xbox One with my sim on campus currently and I can tell him to do something and he'll stop halfway through and go off to dance, play a computer, plays with clay, or the digi pad (which had made him miss class) all of which when I am trying to get him to do basically ANY actions on campus. I've even restarted my Xbox fully.
