"Bust the Dust" visual effects no longer appear when the Dust system is turned off.
Fixed in Patch 1.91.186/1.63
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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
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? 1.71.86.1220 (most recent)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All except: Vampires, Batu, Spooky Day (SP), Knitting (SP), MFPS (SP), CAS kit
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Install Bust the Dust kit. (I've got the dust system disabled because it was too buggy for me)
What happens when the bug occurs? Sims will receive tense/romantic/inspired moodlets from BtD kit, despite having the system turned off in settings. Has been occurring on non-residential lots (even the top of the mountain expedition from Snowy Escape). Also, conflicting moodlets have been stacking simultaneously (attached screenshot for reference)
What do you expect to see? I expect to not see the moodlets at all, since having the gameplay disabled, especially not in inapplicable areas.
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
I would really love to be able to play with this pack, but the system is incredibly disruptive to regular gameplay.
Just to update everyone here. The dust piles seem to rack up behind the scenes, if the option does work. You won't see them, but if you use the robot vacuums from the pets pack, it will vacuum them up. It also crashes every now and then because of that. Disabling the pack was the best option for me so far, I've explained how to do so in numerous posts in this thread and so has a hero. You'll hear the dreaded noise of a dust bunny spawning and not find it, but it will still be there, apparently. And as your robot vacuum (rhoomba) is riding around, it may just crash to desktop, no errors or anything. After disabling the pack entirely, the crashes went away. I don't know if this would happen if the pack is not disabled in options, as since I first downloaded the pack and my life turned into just vacuuming up dust, I have tried repeatedly to disable it through that option checkmark and uncheckmarking it, at this point I don't even know which enables the pack or doesn't. I think no checkmark means it is not turned on. I just disable it in the command line parameters (sorry console users) and game runs fine with no issues. I really want this pack to work, I like the idea of it, I just want it to at least get some quality testing with it. Any quality testing to be honest. Why is the dust so much for one sim that they have no life other than vacuuming? Why won't it disable properly in options? What sort of quality testing was actually put into this pack... err kit, before it was released? And how come this pack works fine for a lot of others, apparently? I don't understand. I don't use mods, I don't use cheats, I don't use custom content, and I've done far more hours of trying to fix this than it seems EA/Maxis did in testing it, and I can't figure it out. I'm a bit upset about it, so take my little negativity with a grain of salt. I just hope it gets fixed and I feel for those on console experiencing this.
