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5 years ago
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[FIXED] NPC Sims whose names have been changed have reverted back

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Sony Playstation 4
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? 1.44
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Snowy Escape, Eco Lifestyle, Discover University, Island Living, Get Famous, Seasons, Cats and Dogs, City Living, Get Together, Get To Work, Dream Home Decorator, Realm Of Magic, Strangerville, Jungle Adventure, Parenthood, Vampires, Dine Out, Spa Day, Outdoor Retreat, Paranormal, Nifty Knitting, Tiny Living, My First Pet, Laundry Day, Toddler, Fitness, Bowling Night, Vintage Glamour, Backyard, Kids Room, Romantic Garden, Spooky, Cool Kitchen, Perfect Patio, Grim's Ghoulish Guitar, Holiday Celebration Pack
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I am unsure how you could recreate this bug, as it specifically happened when updating to the newest patch reverted all previous NPC Sims names who I had changed, back to their default names
What happens when the bug occurs? all pre-made NPC Sims whose names I have changed in the past when editing them with "shift click edit in CAS" have reverted back to their default names after installing the latest console patch, 1.44 , regardless of whether or not I have played as those Sims
What do you expect to see? for their names to stay as the names I changed them to
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Updated to the latest console patch from the 20th of July 2021 - 1.44

if it helps specify the bug a bit more, it has thankfully not reverted any of the physical changes to those Sims I have made, just their names

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    4 years ago

    Seems this was fixed with the patch as well as there was no answer.

    Going to mark this as fixed for now but leave open for a moment longer.

    Please post if you still newly have this on a vanilla game.

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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? 1.78.58.1230
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All EP's except for Cottage Living; All GP's except for Dream Home Decorator, and Journey to Batuu; All SP's except for My First Pet Stuff, Kids Room Stuff, and Toddler Stuff; none of the Kits
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have at least one save file you have played in; in any of those saves have at least one pre-made Sim whose name you changed (can be from any pack); check their names in CAS
    What happens when the bug occurs? instead of displaying the new name you gave them before this bug occurred the game will show their original name
    What do you expect to see? the name I gave them
    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? Neutral/Not Sure 

    I was updating a Sim I created using Morgyn Ember from Realm of Magic as a base. When I checked his name he had Morgyn's name instead of the one I gave him. I checked some other pre-made Sims I've changed. All of them had their original names again. To be more precise I changed Bjorn Bjergsen from Get Together and Cletus Harris from Eco Lifestyle. When saving them with the new name to my library and then loading them into a different save they kept the updated name. All save files I have created to this day are affected by this. I'm not quite sure when exactly this happened because the last time I interacted with any of those Sims was before the Dream Home Decorator patch. What's also interesting to note is that the names that were reverted back to their original ones use the English version even though I have started playing the game in a different language. So for example Bella Goth is Bella Goth again instead of Bella Grusel which is her name in the German version of the Sims 4.

  • And here I thought the issue was with MCCC!  I'm seeing NPC's marry and change their names, and then later their names revert again.  For example, Eva Capricciosa was my sim's coworker in the Scientist career.  MCCC married her to Joaquin Le Chien.  Her name changed to Le Chien as it should have, but later it changed back to Capricciosa.  But even stranger-- I occasionally get a task to interact with her, specifically.  And her name in the task is still Eva Le Chien!  The task will complete properly when I do the specified interaction with Eva Capricciosa.

  • SimGuruRitzy's avatar
    SimGuruRitzy
    Icon for EA Staff rankEA Staff
    4 years ago

    Hello All,

    After today's patch (1.79.93/1.47), is anyone still seeing this issue?




  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    Seems this was fixed with the patch as well as there was no answer.

    Going to mark this as fixed for now but leave open for a moment longer.

    Please post if you still newly have this on a vanilla game.

  • LuvMySimz's avatar
    LuvMySimz
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    My Sims name and its prepared food reverted to old name just recently.

    My in CAS "game created Sim" was auto-named "Lana McKinnon" but I changed that to Rosalie ever since of creation about 2-3 month ago.
    Now I transfered the household and her saved House into a different save file. And now she shows as "Lana" and all her cooked meals also show as " prepared by Lana" Why? This never happened to me before. I did transfers before and never had this name issue. And no, I do not have werewolfs. I do have CC but I created a test Sim with a test house for testing purpose, and sure enough, the same thing happend. Sim got renamed and so did the created food. So this issue is eather not fixed or has returned.

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