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New Novice

10 months ago

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Legacy family Ghost Sims came back to life after update

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Steam-PC
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? 1.110.265.1030 DX11
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Horse Ranch, Tiny Living, Seasons, Realm of Magic, Parenthood, My First Pet Stuff, Holiday Celebration Pack, Growing Together, Cats & Dogs, Blooming Rooms Kit, Backyard Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Log in to a Legacy Family save where the founding Sims are ghosts and see if they still ghosts or alive
What happens when the bug occurs? My legacy family ghost sims are now alive as normal, playable sims
What do you expect to see? I expect my ghost sims to stay dead and not be regular sims suddenly
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? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. After the latest update (10/23/24)

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I have a legacy family, The Rolland family. I'm on the 5th generation. The 3 founding members of the legacy family (The Rolland Family) have headstones in the backyard of the legacy family home. They visit the family frequently as ghosts.

After the recent update, the 3 legacy family ghosts are no longer dead but show as living, playable Sims. Their gravestones are still present, but they are no longer ghosts. This has not affected any other ghosts in the game; this only happened to the 3 founding members of my legacy family.

gameplay issue

crinrict
10 months ago
@Jeneration536 Can you turn them back to ghosts in CAS with Fulleditmode cheat ? (try on a backup)

12 Replies

crinrict
Hero+
10 months ago
@Jeneration536 How did they die ? By regular old age when they were older ?

This seems to be a problem with ghosts that had a ghost type that are either missing or not available for the age group.
Jeneration536
New Novice
10 months ago
Yes they all died happily old age!
crinrict
Hero+
10 months ago
@Jeneration536 Do you have a backup of the save before tuesday's patch ? If so, can you test on that one if it happens again ?
Jeneration536
New Novice
10 months ago
Yes, i have a saved back-up. I just tested it and, unfortunately, the same issue is still there. My ghost sims who died of old age are now alive. Even on my back-up save
crinrict
Hero+
10 months ago
@Jeneration536 Can you turn them back to ghosts in CAS with Fulleditmode cheat ? (try on a backup)
Jeneration536
New Novice
10 months ago
Yes it worked! I did have to assign a random cause of death to each ghost sim (death by anger, death by cowplant, etc.) since there is no option for "death by old age," but at least they are ghosts again. Thank you @crinrict !! You are the best 🙂
crinrict
Hero+
10 months ago
@Jeneration536 There should be a death by old age if they are elders. if that's not in your game, maybe it explains why they are no longer ghosts.

They are all elders, right ? If so, I would try a game repair.
EnkiSchmidt
Hero
10 months ago
I can second that. I have a save with many playable ghosts, varied causes of death, including old age. All those ghosts are okay.
In my newest save I had a playable ghost whom I downloaded from the gallery. He is an adult and just now he appeared as a passerby in a park, alive again. I did a save_as and loaded the previous save again, this time checking on the household the ghost is in. He showed up as a ghost in household managemant and still was aghost when I opened CAS (cause of death: Old age), but when I loaded the household, he spawned as a living/non-occult sim. So in my case at least it was a mismatch of age group and cause of death.
crinrict
Hero+
10 months ago
@EnkiSchmidt Adults can't die of old age so that is to be expected. Guess someone used a cheat to make him that way and that is now a problem. This isn't really a bug and has it's own thread in feedback or general discussion. Not sure where it was moved.
Jeneration536
New Novice
10 months ago
You are correct. My Sims died of old age, and then I used MCCC to age their ghosts down to Adult (because I didn't like they way they looked and acted as elderly ghosts). When the update came out last week, that confused everything. But I got it sorted now. Thanks again!