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5 years ago

Stylist: Created Makeover outfits replaced randomly

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Occasionally (10% - 49%)
What is your current game version number? 1.74.59.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? University, Seasons, Cats & Dogs, City Living, Get Together, Get to Work, Realm of magic, Parenthood, Vampires, Dine Out, Moschino, Toddler, Romantic Garden, Cool Kitchen
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a sim in the stylist career use the "Offer makeover" interaction to a nonplayable sim. Create five everyday outfits. Wait a while (it may take a few game days).
What happens when the bug occurs? some of the outfits will eventually be replaced by random ones.
What do you expect to see? The outfits created during the makeover should never change unless explicitly changed in a subsequent makeover.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

It may be relevant that the sim offering the makeover is a spellcaster and the sim receiving it is a roommate. Also, sometimes when exiting CAS after doing a makeover, the game does not return to live mode, it goes to the transition screen but never returns to live mode (I'm not sure if this is related).

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  • @WizardX0 are they replacing the outfits in CAS (did you check there) or could this be a situational outfit kinda issue ?
  • They're not being replaced in CAS. What happens is that I'll make the outfits, close CAS using the check mark, the sim will; be wearing one of the new outfits and everything will be okay for a while. Later I'll see the sim wearing a different outfit that I did not create. It does not seem to be related to any situational outfit or any of the normal reasons for an outfit change (like weather or getting out of the shower). I've seen it happen and the sim's outfit just abruptly changes without the usual outfit-change animation. There does not seem to be any reason why the sim would be changing outfit at that time. They change into a randomly-generated outfit and not one of the career or situational outfits. When I give them another makeover and get into CAS again, I'll see that the new outfit has replaced one of their everyday outfits.

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    crinrict
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    5 years ago
    @WizardX0 Have a bit of a lost in translation moment here. Don't think I've ever played the career that far so, when you give them the make-over, this becomes their new outfit for good (or should), right ? It's like if you take the Sim to CAS with the cheat and then change the outfit for them ?

    So assuming that's how it's supposed to work, let me try rephrase what happens in your game

    1. Your Sim has the task to do a makeover on a Sim and you go to CAS with that Sim and give him a new everyday outfit which is then saved as their new outfit (they don't have any secondary or third outfit in that category)
    2. After a while you see the Sim you gave the make-over to in a different outfit than you gave him and if you take them to CAS with the cheat, the outfit you have chose is no longer on their everyday outfits but a random new one.

    Do you see the actual change happen ? like the outfit changes in front of your eyes ? Situational outfits can be pretty random if they are walk-bys
  • Makeover puts you into a limited version of CAS where you can change the other sim's clothes, hair and makeup. You can make up to five outfits of each type (everyday, formal, workout, etc.) Yes, it's like having gone into CAS with a playable sim and changing their outfits. I would make five everyday outfits for the sim, including the primary, and often one other outfit of each type. Since the sim was my roommate, I could see what they were doing all day and sometimes they would change into a new outfit that was not one of the ones I created. I would go back into CAS, using another makeover interaction, and see that one of the everyday outfits I had created had been replaced by something else. I've seen it happen, and it does not seem to correspond by anything that would cause them to change into a situational outfit. The outfit that replaced the one I created does not look like a situational one.

    I've done this before and it seemed to work fine, although then I was only changing one outfit of each kind. Now I'm giving them five new everyday outfits. I've noticed it doesn't seem to affect the primary, so I'm experimenting to see if I still have the problem after deleting all the outfits except the first. 

    I did not use cheats to do this, I used the offer makeover social which is available to sims in the stylist career.

    Also, the outfits were not any of those I created using the "Create trend" ability which is also part of the stylist career. "Create trend" lets you design outfits that will be randomly worn by sims in world. This works something like situational outfits, except that it's not linked to any situation. For example, a sim walking by outside might be wearing their normal outfit or one of the "Trend" ones.

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