Forum Discussion

Re: [FIXED] Family Tree is broken since 7/31/18 patch

 

Product: The Sims 4
Platform: Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Get to Work
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? After 3 generations, the tree gets bugged.
What happens when the bug occurs? The family tree doesn't show some descendants and others are incorrectly linked.
What do you expect to see? I expect to see the family tree correctly.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes, custom content
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. 7/31/18 patch

I have this problem as well. For example, from one man's perspective it only shows grandchildren from one of his three children while all of them have their own kids and from his wife's perspective it shows the same grandchildren correctly but the rest are not connected to their mothers but to faceless/unknown sims.
I tried reverting to a save prior to the patch but it had this problem as well. I do however know that this was not like this before the patch.

12 Replies

Replies have been turned off for this discussion
  • SimGuruIcarus's avatar
    SimGuruIcarus
    Icon for EA Staff rankEA Staff
    7 years ago

    Thank you for all your saves and reports!

    We will investigate this! :D

  • Its_Mizore's avatar
    Its_Mizore
    7 years ago

    Not sure if it is related but my Family Tree does not load at all. It just shows the spinning animation like it is trying to load and nothing ever shows up (tried to let it load for 20 minutes). I do have a big family tree spanning across 7 generations and about 80 sims and it is connected to 5 different external families outside of the main bloodline... It was working up until the patch.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Hey, I have some info that might help, I'll try my best to explain with my broken english.

    I'm having the same issue (no cc/no mods) and I've noticed that this "random sims" on my family tree are actually copies of existing sims. I'm playing the 100 babies challenge, so a lot of my main sim's children have had children of their own and some are already dead of old age.

    What I did was to click on the "random sim's" child to open up that family tree, and I've noticed that the "random sim" was actually a copy of my main sim's child, that already show's up on the main family tree. I took some prints to illustrate since I'm not sure you guys will understand what I'm trying to say:

  • in the same boat. a set of triplets aren't even connected to their family. instead showing them as cousins to non-existing parent.

  • MoonlitexAngel's avatar
    MoonlitexAngel
    7 years ago

    Happening to me as well. I don't play generational families often, so I hadn't noticed it till going back into an old save. In the first picture you can clearly see that the female Sim's parents are correctly connected to her. But once I switch to their children together, her parents move over to being connected to her husband instead.

  • tessvb94's avatar
    tessvb94
    7 years ago

    So do we know when they are gonna fix this? It annoys me so bad, since I am playing with a family of 7 generations and now my tree is totally messed up...

  • Slightly off topic, is that your version of the Pleasant Family from Sims 2?

  • PianoGenius85's avatar
    PianoGenius85
    7 years ago

    @PrinceHayden87 wrote:

    Slightly off topic, is that your version of the Pleasant Family from Sims 2?


    No, I usually randomize sims in CAS. This was the sims family that my sims was going to marry into.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    7 years ago

    @PianoGenius85

    bit unsure what you're trying to say. I don't think it's just active families that are affected by this issue.

    You think yours is different then the rest of this thread ?

About The Sims 4 Bug Reports - Archive

This is a read-only archive of bugs previously reported on Answers HQ. Click "The Sims 4 Bug Reports" in the right-rail to browse and create new bugs.14,624 PostsLatest Activity: 9 months ago