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9 years ago
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[FIXED] [CL] Apartment neighbour gets stuck with reading mail noises

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? n/a
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Get To Work, Get Together, City Living, Outdoor Retreat, Spa Day, Parenthood, Dine Out, Fitness Stuff, Movie Hangout Stuff, Perfect Patio Stuff, Luxury Party Stuff, Spooky Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play a household living in an apartment with neighbours. Occasionally, you will see the neighbours go out of their apartments and check their mailbox.
What happens when the bug occurs? After they are done reading their mail, they will get stuck with the sounds of reading the mail - background paper rustling noises and they will be muttering as if they are reading the mail saying things like "Ah" or "Oh" or "Uh huh". If you try to have a conversation with them, their voices will be interrupted constantly with the "Ah/Oh/Uh huh" dialogue while they speak. They stay bugged like this until you travel off the lot or reload - it isn't fixed when they go back in their apartment and go invisible - it stops only when they are completely despawned by travel or reloading.
What do you expect to see? After they finish reading their mail, the audio of it should end.
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

I've noticed that if I spot one of my sim's apartment neighbours at the mailbox browsing their mail, then the noises they make while reading the mail gets stuck on them even after they finish.

While they are standing there reading the mail, they make some sounds such as "Ah..." or "Uh huh" or giggling and the sound of envelopes rustling. The noises persist even after end the interaction with their mailbox (the sim affected keeps making those noises even though they are idle and not reading mail) and they seem to stay that way indefinitely – I haven't seen if they return to normal only after a restart or if just travelling or letting them despawn back in their apartment will stop the persistent noises.

If you try to start a conversation with them while they have these mail reading noises going, they just continue on making those noises overriding their normal voices they'd make when having a normal conversation.

I'd kinda describe it similar to that other bug where practice singing voice gets stuck, but this time instead of singing noises, it's reading mail noises.

No cc or mods.

EDIT: video example:


Update: I created a mod to fix this issue, Google search for “simvasion mods apartment mailbox fix” to download it from my WordPress blog.

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Tag

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    5 years ago

    Sims no longer read their mail aloud while conversing with their apartment neighbors. Talk about rude, right?


    Fixed in Patch 1.68.154/ 1.33

    If you're still experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.

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  • I'm trying the super sim challenge and I just can't bring myself to do the city aspiration because it requires living in an apartment which means I would have to listen to that sound all the time. It drives me nuts! At first I thought it was from living in a 'needs TLC' apartment... nope, my sims room mate kept going to check the mail and made the aha and ooh and giggling noises non stop. I was trying to figure out what the noise was, and yep, its rustling mail. I suspect this fix is low on the list of things that EA will look into. Sad, because I really enjoy city living. 

  • Sketch793's avatar
    Sketch793
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    Don't let the noises stop you from completing the aspiration. You only need to live in an apartment for two steps of the City Resident aspiration and both steps should only take a few minutes. You can move out again as soon as you've given an apartment key to a friend in the first milestone and as soon as the game registers your apartment value for the final milestone. There might not even be time for a neighbor to check mail.

    Alternatively, you could live in the Spire Apartments. There's only one apartment so there won't be any neighbors.

  • Hey! So I did something that definitely helps with this issue, though it is not a fix just a way to do the city living aspiration without this noise driving you nuts. I have 'fill empty homes' turned off in my settings and so all of the original san myshuno sims have died and no new sims have spawned in their place. I won't take a room mate because I know they will glitch and make the noises. It is just a way to get around it if you don't mind being the only sim in an apartment building. :P

  • Another bug that hasn't been solved, even though it's been reported years ago... I just got City Living as my newest pack, and this is still an issue!!!!!!!! Neighbor read her mail and then visited my apartment, with a continuous "woosh" and ah/mmm/hmm/aha sounds. ☹️

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    Sims no longer read their mail aloud while conversing with their apartment neighbors. Talk about rude, right?


    Fixed in Patch 1.68.154/ 1.33

    If you're still experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.

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