Product: The Sims 4
Platform: PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
What is your current game version number? 1.103.315.1220
How often does the bug occur? Often
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Holiday Pack, Romantic Garden Stuff, My First Pet Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a sim with the jealous trait see their spouse taking care of their infant.
What happens when the bug occurs? The jealous sim, upon seeing their spouse interact with their child, will have the jealous pangs reaction until the spouse puts the infant down. The jealous sim will develop the fear of being cheated on.
What do you expect to see? The jealous sim not reacting at all? I will have to test with other child age groups.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Only MC Command Center, UI Cheats (weerbesu), and TOOL (TwistedMexi)
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Not sure.
Hey Crin!
I tried this again in a new save with no mods or CC. I got the fear triggered within less than a minute of gameplay where the non-Jealous parent interacted with the infant for a few social interactions (I'd say 3-4).
For control, when I aged up the infant, I had the couple interact after every 3 interactions the non-Jealous parent had with the toddler. Additionally, I locked the family in a room with no objects other than the ones used to take care of the child/survive so the Jealous parent could always watch. With the toddler, the reaction and fear also triggered, however, it took much longer (around half a Sim day).
Interestingly, when the toddler aged up into a child, no reaction or fear was triggered, despite for a whole day the non-Jealous Sim played dolls with the child.
I get that for Jealous Sims, the Jealous Pangs moodlet and reaction are "not always reasonable" (as per moodlet description) but it's still weird that Sims fear their spouse cheating on them when they hang out with their kids.
