You should be able to reinstall and keep your saves, but I don’t know how to do that on Xbox, unfortunately, just on a computer.
Some of the things that are general bugs and therefore not likely to be fixed by a reinstall:
-my sims sit down and get right back up 30 seconds later and sit down at another table like during a date or a family dinner, rinse and repeat.
-vet employees don't do their job half the time, I own a vet clinic
-My sims have way too many fears and there are almost never opportunities to speak about them and the same old fears come back, one of my sims has the brave trait and still has this issue.
-Sims go to a bathroom all the way across the house after using the toilet instead of the one already in the bathroom
-I turned everything off in neighborhood stories except for get a career, and people still kept dying of random events and having babies etc.
(this one’s just a maybe, but I’ve seen a few complaints and it does seem there’s a larger issue of gameplay settings not applying correctly right now)
Things I am less familiar with and may be fixed by a reinstall - unless anyone else has a guess what’s happening:
my teen son sim disappears from the bed during the night and reappears just outside the gate of the property and just stands there until given a new command
-If I buy a hamster/rat/hedgehog it never gets hungry, never needs food yet there is no food in the bowl when you zoom in on it. The option to feed is greyed out and always says animal is not hungry
-sims disappear like when they open the fridge to begin cooking or sometimes at other times and reappear 10 to 15 seconds later, this happens on occasion.
Hi, there
I'm not a console player, but I think the "Neighborfood Stories System" works the same way, so I'm only writing about this.
I assume you have NFS unchecked and off in "Game Option>Game Play", but what is the "Manage Households" panel set to?
If you don't have everything turned off and the "Enable Neighborhood Stories" box in the upper right corner of the panel unchecked, as shown in this image, then give it a try.
Be sure to close the panel by clicking on the "check mark" in the lower right corner. Finally, uncheck the "Game Option" checkbox.
Since I started using this way for my games, I have had no issues at all about NFS, so give it a try.
Again, not really sure how it works on Xbox. But on a computer, you can “repair” the game which checks/redownloads game files (base and expansions by default) without overwriting saves, or you can move or rename the Sims folder, uninstall and reinstall (also presumably everything) to start up in a completely fresh setup and check if bugs are gone, then start moving files from the old saves and tray folders in the old sims folder into the new one, to restore saves and library.
