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HeroicJay
New Adventurer
7 years ago
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[FIXED] [IL] Mermaids have no tail/no hydration bar (missing trait)

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? 1.52.100
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Get Together, Cats and Dogs, Island Living (obviously), Vampires, Spa Day, Movie Hangout Stuff, Perfect Patio Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Just wait for a mermaid to spawn, teenage or older. Must be randomly-generated, not player-generated or one of the three existing townies.
What happens when the bug occurs? Affected mermaids never have mermaid fins while swimming, even after being invited to join a playable Sim's household. (You can modify their fins from a dresser, but they still won't use them.) They have Hygiene, which is not increased while in the ocean, instead of Hydration. However, they still have some other properties of being mermaids, like their songs.
What do you expect to see? Correct trait, correct behavior. Outed or playable mermaids should have fins when swimming and Hydration, not Hygiene, meters.
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. Installing Island Living

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When I noticed a randomly-generated young adult mermaid behaving incorrectly, I used a trait-checking mod to look at her traits and noticed she was missing a trait found on Nalani and my custom-generated mermaids, whether outed as mermaids or not. The trait was identified as "trait_OccultMermaid_TYAE". This still occurred in a fresh save file after disabling all mods except the trait checker (it does not modify traits, it just looks up what they are). Upon realizing the bug and checking various Sims, I have yet to see a randomly-generated mermaid with the TYAE trait, or a non-randomly-generated mermaid that didn't have it. So I'd guess that missing trait is the culprit.

After some more playing around, I was able to get a bugged mermaid to transform in the water, but her Hygiene bar is still present. 

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Tag

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    5 years ago
    Randomly generated Mermaid Sims will no longer be seen without some features in affected Simmer Saves. However this fix is not retroactive, so it should be seen fixed in new saves.

    Fixed in Patch 1.69.57/ 1.35

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

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  • HeroicJay's avatar
    HeroicJay
    New Adventurer
    7 years ago

    One more thing as a follow-up to the picture: I moved Iosefina out and had my main Sim get her to admit being a mermaid. She now has trait_OccultMermaid_Discovered. And now she does transform in the water... but she still has Hygiene.

  • HeroicJay's avatar
    HeroicJay
    New Adventurer
    7 years ago

    Cheating to add the TYAE trait did, in fact, fix the remaining issues.

  • Annabee95's avatar
    Annabee95
    7 years ago

    I noticed a townie mermaid sim swimming around with legs after the most recent update. I removed all my mods, and this was still an issue for all mermaids. I'm not sure what to do at this point.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    7 years ago
    @Annabee95 This issue is probably related to a bug that occurs for townies. They're missing a trait they need to be 'proper' mermaids.

    I merged your post with the existing bug thread.

    Please click me too on the first post.
  • linelink69's avatar
    linelink69
    New Scout
    7 years ago

    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? 1.52.100.1020
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All except My First Pet, Fitness, Bowling, Romantic Garden, Movie Hangout, and Grim's Ghoulish Guitar.
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play as a family with no mermaids and go to a lot with ocean water with NPC mermaids, and watch them swim.
    What happens when the bug occurs? Mermaids go in the ocean and never turn into a full mermaid, as in tails never appear and they swim like a normal human sim.
    What do you expect to see? Mermaids with tails in water.
    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. When Island Living was installed grating access to mermaids and oceans.

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    When NPC mermaids are in the water, they do not change into their mermaid forms with their tails as if they were human sims. This happens with and without ALL of my mods and custom content. I have repaired through origin as well without mods/cc. 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    7 years ago
    @linelink69 Does your Sim know they're mermaids ? They will only use that form if they have been discovered.

    There is however a bug with a trait not being added properly so I merged your post with that.
  • kreatora's avatar
    kreatora
    Hero (Retired)
    7 years ago

    I thought also that this is a bug. Till yesterday. Yesterday, my sim became the best friend of one young lady and she admits to him that she is a mermaid. This caused that suddenly I could see all the mermaids in the game. It looks like you can not see them until one of them admits to your sim that she is a mermaid. It's like a trigger that starts something in the game.

    But of course, it just explains why the player can't see them in the game, it has nothing to do with broken Hygiene what is still a bug.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    7 years ago
    @kreatora The missing trait is also still a bug. I tested this and it's def. missing.

    You get a discovered trait but the ya one is still missing

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