[OPEN] [DU] Scared Servos don't have appropriate facial expressions

I've also noticed this. First I just thought it was the bug of that the servo's facial expression disappears just randomly, which sometimes happens with just any emotion, but having a paranoid servo I've now noticed that they NEVER have a facial expression when scared.

Yeah, this is an issue I've noticed recently myself.

In the meantime until when & if they fix the issue, I figured out how to make a fix and shared it over on MTS: 

Scared Buff Fix for Servos 

I can confirm that scared Servos don't have proper facial expressions - their faces are simply blank when scared. I believe The Sims Team forgot to design the appropriate facial expression for Servos while working on the scared emotion update.

I'm surprised this hasn't got more attention. I guess not many people play with Servos. I'm here to add to the list of people experiencing this.

It appears that when the Scared emotion was added to the game, the coding for Servos was done in such a way that they are supposed to use the Sad expression. The Sims team didn't create a Scared specific expression for it.

They updated the portrait code correctly to use the Sad expression but not the actual Servo itself.

There is a mod to fix this available on MTS. It adds in a modded version of the Sad expression to remove the crying tears just for the Scared emotion.

Personally, I feel that The Sims team should have created an actual new expression as all of the existing ones match the colours of the emotions but the Sad expression, even if it was working, doesn't match the Scared purple.

@Alistu  I completely agree with this, I think the expression should match the scared purple. I think they can have the same eye shape as the sad eyes though.

Btw, about not many people playing with servos, I think it has a lot to do with the servos being hard to acquire. To build one yourself you need high skill in robotics and A LOT of resources and time. The other way to get one is to add an auto-generated one to your household, but I think we should be able to create them in CAS too, just like with the other life states. Therefore I wrote some feedback on this in the feedback part of this forum a while back, you can find it here.