Re: [OPEN] Check infant/toddler interrupts all attempts to care for baby
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Xbox Series S
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? 1.71
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All except growing together.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play as one adult sim with one or more infants. Disable autonomy.
What happens when the bug occurs? I cannot control my sim if she has an infant. My parent sim will not do anything I tell her to without being interrupted by infant-related actions that pop up automatically. My commands immediately get pushed aside and/or canceled for my sim to go "Check Infant". She CAN'T eat. I've had to click her plate of food 9 times before she finally finished the last bite because my command kept getting canceled for her to go check on an infant that was fully fed, only upset. It's impossible to care for more than one infant as one adult sim without cheats. I'll tell my sim to go feed one of the hungry infants that she left on the floor and she'll just completely ignore my command and go check on or pick up the other infant that was sleeping in their crib. I've had to tell her to feed her infant, that was MUCH hungrier and dirtier than the sleeping infant she kept trying to check on, multiple times before I had to just give up and reset her and the infant on the floor. After doing all of that, she'll stand idle for several in-game hours while the other infant stays hungry and dirty on the floor. I repeatedly tried to bathe one of my infants and she kept canceling my command just to go get her finger bitten 49 times instead. The automatic "Check Infant" action keeps interrupting my commands when trying to care for my sim and my sim's infant. It makes caring for any of the sims take forever and is almost impossible... Either my sim will die trying to care for her infants or her infants will get taken away for starvation because of how many times I have to cancel the game's automatic pop-up actions just to do one thing. If it weren't for the "Reset" cheat, I would've gotten my infants whisked away or my adult sim would've died. The point of controlling a sim as the parent of an infant is to play as the parent of that infant, not for the game to play itself. The game should not be forceful in doing tasks for me. It's not helping, it's making it difficult to play.
What do you expect to see? When autonomy is disabled, automatic pop-up actions from the game should NEVER override the player's commands. When trying to care for my adult sim's needs or my other infant's needs, that should ALWAYS be prioritized over any automatic pop-up actions and said automatic pop-up actions should immediately cancel. My sim can't take care of her infants if she's starving, wetting herself and constantly passing out from lack of food and sleep because she keeps automatically checking on an infant without my control or a way to cancel it without resetting.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. 1.71
The player's commands are more important. No one should be forced to use cheats just to control their sim.
