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CCuteCCabaret
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9 months ago

Grim Reaper only has 1 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? 1.110.311.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Start a new game, summon the Grim Reaper somehow and try to learn his traits, either via the Observant reward trait or using Get to Know/Discuss Interests. If you take Grim into CAS via cheating him into your family, he either has no traits, or only one trait.
What happens when the bug occurs? Grim Reaper only has 0-1 traits, and spamming Get to Know does not result in being told any of Grim's traits most of the time.
What do you expect to see? Grim should have 3 personality traits like every other Young Adult and older sim.
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'm not sure when this started happening or whether this is a bug or working as intended but at least ever since the patch that came with the start of the Reaper's Rewards event (NOT the one that made us able to woohoo Grim without convoluted cheating), my Grim reapers across multiple saves only ever have 1 personality trait and frequently start out with 0 at the start of a new game.

Using the Observant Reward Trait upon a new game load won't give me any traits, and using Get to Know or Discuss Interests doesn't give me any traits either - but eventually, somehow, over time, one trait will spawn, always random. If you take Grim into CAS by cheating him into your family, he usually has 0 traits, and then spawns one when you exit. If you play a few game days, he also eventually seems to spawn a personality trait, but I don't know when or what process is causing this.

The ways I have tested contacting Grim are joining his career, using the Grimophone item, or killing a sim and having him show up to reap the soul.

This may not be a bug - it may be intentional that Grim will only ever have 1 trait. Or maybe Grim was never supposed to have any personality traits at all and something got messed up when making him woohooable again? But I asked a lot of people about their experiences and they claim that at least before the recent patches, their Grim Reapers always had 3 traits. Mostly I want to know if this is a bug at all or if this is intended behavior. I don't have any older saves to test this with, unfortunately.

I kind of narrowed it down that a specific MCCC module I never use normally gives Grim 3 traits but somebody swore to me that they had never used that mod and that their Grim from an older save had 3 traits. Obviously I can't prove that this person isn't mistaken/lying, but I figured I would post a bug report anyway to try to get some clarification from the devs.

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  • in my case I know I was always able to get three traits out of him if Grim hung around after a reaping.  

    But now, even with the observant trait, he doesn't show any traits at all with an introduction, and only one trait appears with the "get to know"  interaction. Discuss interests, get to know, and deep conversation all just result in him getting bored now instead of giving me the other three traits.  Wondering why the observant trait doesn't work with him and why he only has one trait after that.  Was this an intentional change?  

    I experienced this on a totally vanilla, new game, refreshed folder set, however, I have not yet updated for the new EP.  I went offline just before that, after doing 4 weeks of the reaper rewards..  Looks like it doesn't get fixed with the update, either?  Normally I do use MCCC and this time I didn't so maybe based on what you're saying, that's why I had them before.  

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    Kamira29
    8 months ago

    I have the same issue. I have full relationship with Grim reaper and he will not tell me his other traits. I got the music, the decor, the colours, his career but one trait only.

    I have tried all the interactions mentioned above. When I try asking him I even get a negative relationship point. 

  • Same, my Grim has only Animal Enthusiast, I guess it´s fitting because only time I saw him reap souls was my rooster and hen... while animal aging is turned off. 

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