[FIXED] [GTW] [V] Non-disguised Occults showing disguise in thumbnails

I also started experiencing this yesterday when my game had to refresh the localthumbnail cache. The undisguised aliens in my game appear as their human forms in the family portrait preview in Manage Households, but when I checked them in game they were still undisguised.

i wonder if this is a new change that they applied because of mermaids, in order to keep their identities secret? I haven’t checked to see if this happens to vampires that are in dark form in game.

It looks like it's doing the same thing to vampires in their Dark Form. I put one of mine in his Dark Form, and the Family Portrait and Household thumbnails showed him in his regular form. Even when I saved the household and went to the neighborhood screen.

I do want to add though, that the thumbnails are correct when viewing the sims in question from the genealogy screen. Aliens appear non-disguised, as they are when I play them, and the vampire I left in his Dark Form does show it in the genealogy screen. 

If it's not a bug, I don't like it. I'm not a fan of how you're forced to have human disguises anyway, so I never bother with them. But this makes my thumbnails look as though some random townies have infiltrated my families.

I agree. If it's not a bug, I don't like it. The first two playable aliens I had in my family tree, I kept the disguises on at first, because it was an interesting mechanic (and I wanted the Double Life Achievement), but after that I just didn't care. I leave the aliens in their normal, alien form. And it's disorienting when they're wearing their unused disguises in the thumbnails.

This issue is also affecting baby alien sims, who last I checked didn't have disguises at all. I had an abduction-induced alien baby born just prior to the June 18 patch; post-patch he appears as a "normal" sim in the family photo in the Manage Households screen. (The child on the far right is also an alien.) 

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? Русский язык
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.52.100.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Just go to any townscreen, click on the house of any family with one or several sims being occult members (aliens or vampires)
What happens when the bug occurs? Even if saved in their true form (alien or vampire), all pictures of an occult sim, big or small, show such sims in their disguised form. The same maybe true for other occult forms.
What do you expect to see? All pictures of an occult sim should show him/her in the state they were saved with, be it ture form or disguise, just like it was before Island Living
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. Island Living plus previous/accompanying patch

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After the Island living installed, even if saved in their true form (alien or vampire), all pictures of an occult sim, big or small, show such sims in their disguised form.
The same maybe true for other occult forms, I didn't check them.

While just a visual, it is quite an annoying glitch. In my game, some sims NEVER use disguise, it's quite disturbing to see them in other forms for me.

The first 2 pictures shows townscreen. The third picture shows how this sim was saved and how she should look like.

I feel like it's worth noting, I just noticed while playing today that the thumbnails are correct IF, AND ONLY IF, a member of the household currently being played is travelling from one lot to another.

HOWEVER, if viewing from the manage household screen/neighborhood view, the thumbnails are still bugged.

I really hope this is changed at some point. I have a full town of aliens that now no longer look like themselves from the map view which is unfortunate.

Any update on this? It's bugging me so much, my town is full of aliens because i have a maxed out scientist and i NEVER use the disguise and then i can't find them in manage household because i don't recognize them. And then they have kids with human townies and suddenly i have rainbow coloured babies popping up (because they have no disguises) in random households. The whole thing is so weird.

Also, people should be able to show who they are all the time, no more hiding in closets/disguises, be proud of who you are!