Product: The Sims 4Platform:PCWhich language are you playing the game in? 한국어How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)What is your current game version number? 1.54.120.1020What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? all except moschinoSteps: How can we find the bug ourselves? You just simply play strangerville story and end it. I played with one household (2 adults, 2 children) and one of them was the hero, and one was the partner who defeated mother plant together. My house was in the Strangerville Plaza.What happens when the bug occurs? The cloud over the lab doesn't disappear even I defeat the mother. Every single time I play, every time it stucks in the sky.What do you expect to see? No bizzare clouds after defeating the mother plant!!!!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 see that?I'm sure that someone reported this in the past and yet not solved.I sure want a refund if this bug remains... I don't want any clouds and I'm tired starting over and over again.WORK EA!!!!+ One simple info:My household was living in Strangerville Plaza, and I realized that any other neighbors (the richier one, and the lab) had no clouds after the fight.Only the Strangerville Plaza has it.

@EA_Arrenai Yes I still see plants but in places I cannot access. I revived mother and killed her again just to see if it was bugged and I still have the problem. I did the quest with a sim that used to be a landlord and I wonder if that is an issue.

@crinrictyou mean, "only 2 peoples marked it as a problem in this topic in this forum" 🙂 I am sure it is widespread, just not everyone, including myself, realize it's a bug and it shouldn't be like this.But now I know 🙂

@EA_Arrenai I removed my mods folder and deleted the localthumbcache and ran the game. I still have the cloud and the plant in areas I cannot access. When I travel to the science lab, it looks like everything is normal but when I travel back home the cloud and plants show up.If you hover your mouse over the the science lab bar, it is still black. I am not sure if that was suppose to change during the story or not. I am going to try to revive the mother and play through the whole story with another character. Do you have a suggestion for the best way to revive her? Should I set a level of strangeness or anything? I am pretty clueless with this pack because I just play through the story for the first time recently. I really love the world but the cloud and plants are really killing the world for me.

Okay, I solved it myself.Just come on, everyone can say delete the mods, delete the cashes, make a new save file, etc... It's so common and useless advise, usually everyone tries it before asking, you know?I totally re-installed the game,ran with no cc, no script mod except the all cheat mod (to skip the storyline).Here are the results:1. A whole new game : successfully removed the bothersome cloud.2. Gameplay with some mods, ccs : nope, no problem.3. Gameplay with a script mod : perfectly working.4. Gameplay with my old family : The cloud is there, the weird plants remains.5. With a new game I merged my old family with the new sim, not just simply replacing it (I don't know how to say it in English properly) : no glitch occurred.6. Same circumstance, but used the old lot I made when I was playing Strangerville before : the game was perfect.So something was in my old household, yet I don't know what's the problem.Or maybe you must make a brand new household when you are playing Strangerville, not just simply using your old household in your gallery.WHAT THE HELL OF A GLITCH IS THIS? I don't understand.Thank god and my free time now I can replay the Strangerville with my favorite household and my favorite house lot I made before, not just simply restarting all things over.Does anyone can replicate this?

Well, that's three now with me ! I played with a new game recently, and the clouds didn't go after killing the mother plant. I removed my mod, repaired the game, back up an old save before I kill the mother plant, revived her and kill her again… nothing worked. I guess it is a recent bug. I killed the mother plant in a different game when StrangerVille was released. I didn't had this issue before.

[OPEN] [SV] Strangerville Cloud Remains After the Story

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crinrict
Hero+
6 years ago
Hi @biupforsims

tested this on my own game and I can't replicate. Tried to get the screenshot about the same angle and as you can see, there's no cloud.

The save is older though

Can you duplicate the issue on a new save that never saw any mods/cc ?
biupforsims
6 years ago
@crinrict Umm.. Didn't you think I've already done it?
crinrict
Hero+
6 years ago
@biupforsims I don't know. You just wrote that you tried multiple times but not if you did that without mods installed

You put you remove them, but I don't know at which point and also not if you deleted your localthumbcache files.

I can only go from what I see in my game and I can't duplicate it.

This thread is the only other report on it that I've seen: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/Strangerville-Cloud-Stuck-in-the-Neighborhood/m-p/8025777 so it doesn't seem really common which I tried to troubleshoot.
biupforsims
6 years ago
Okay, I solved it myself.
Just come on, everyone can say delete the mods, delete the cashes, make a new save file, etc... It's so common and useless advise, usually everyone tries it before asking, you know?
I totally re-installed the game,
ran with no cc, no script mod except the all cheat mod (to skip the storyline).
Here are the results:
1. A whole new game : successfully removed the bothersome cloud.
2. Gameplay with some mods, ccs : nope, no problem.
3. Gameplay with a script mod : perfectly working.
4. Gameplay with my old family : The cloud is there, the weird plants remains.
5. With a new game I merged my old family with the new sim, not just simply replacing it (I don't know how to say it in English properly) : no glitch occurred.
6. Same circumstance, but used the old lot I made when I was playing Strangerville before : the game was perfect.
So something was in my old household, yet I don't know what's the problem.
Or maybe you must make a brand new household when you are playing Strangerville, not just simply using your old household in your gallery.
WHAT THE HELL OF A GLITCH IS THIS? I don't understand.
Thank god and my free time now I can replay the Strangerville with my favorite household and my favorite house lot I made before, not just simply restarting all things over.
Does anyone can replicate this?
TelonRello
6 years ago
I was able to replicate this, well, by accident anyways.
A long time after finishing the quest, I had a family request maximum strangeness, followed by normality. The ensuing result was normalcy, with the plants everywhere.
rostsit
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Wow, didn't realize this was a bug :D Well, you still have "strange fruits" and you can plant them or get other sims infected by them, so plants still growing (kinda, they grow slowly and usually start growing anew after each reload) is not a bug. But I agree the cloud shouldn't be there.
Why this is marked as "solved"? Because it's not.
crinrict
Hero+
6 years ago
@rostsit Cause OP marked it as solved.
rostsit
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@crinrictas if it's "Solved for him"? 🙂 I just want to make sure it won't get overlooked by the developers because of this mark.
crinrict
Hero+
6 years ago
@rostsit That's not a problem.

There's only two users that have this issue though.
rostsit
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@crinrictyou mean, "only 2 peoples marked it as a problem in this topic in this forum" 🙂 I am sure it is widespread, just not everyone, including myself, realize it's a bug and it shouldn't be like this.
But now I know 🙂

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