Ever since Island living or perhaps even before I've noticed that children can no longer drown. This is strange because I remember for a fact that they used to be able to. At first I thought maybe it was an ability since I had a mermaid child and that would make sense, but then I tested it with a regular child and both in the ocean and in pools they cannot drown.Not really sure if I even have a point to this I'm just wondering why the change and why wasn't it mentioned in the patch notes?

What?? Why did they change that? Yes children could drown in pools....

Graham demoed a child Sim drowning when they first patched in pools. Someone needs to verify this, they really need to stop nerfing things from this game.

"drake_mccarty;c-17146854" wrote:Graham demoed a child Sim drowning when they first patched in pools. Someone needs to verify this, they really need to stop nerfing things from this game. And especially stop omitting them from us.

Remember when TS4 launched with memory timelines for each individual sim, where we could see the memories/screenshots that were attached to each sim of the household and instead of improving them and their UI, they completely removed them? Yeah....http://i.imgur.com/a15Six2.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eH8ErDqHm8Here it is.At 00:40:07 mins

Children can no longer drown | EA Forums

zeldagirl180
6 years ago
"MidnightAura;c-17146888" wrote:
Children could definitely drown. As already pointed out Graham got in trouble for drowning kids in a live stream.

I’m tempted to fire up my nieces copy of sims 4 on console which is two patches behind and see if kids can drown.

They need to stop watering down this game. It’s pathetic.

Please do and let me know! I'm curious to see how recent it was.
elelunicy
New Spectator
6 years ago
"Nindigo;c-17146933" wrote:
Um, why is it a big thing if children can't drown? I find the nature of complaints to be really quite disturbing sometimes.

Cause it would mean they stealthily removed a feature that has been in the game for years. Or it's a bug in which case they need to fix it.
Nindigo79
New Spectator
6 years ago
@elelunicy I prefer your reply...
wildirishbanshee
New Novice
6 years ago
I blame Graham for this... @SimGuruGraham fix it, please?!
Reiylaa
New Spectator
6 years ago
"Sigzy05;c-17146857" wrote:
Remember when TS4 launched with memory timelines for each individual sim, where we could see the memories/screenshots that were attached to each sim of the household and instead of improving them and their UI, they completely removed them? Yeah....

http://i.imgur.com/a15Six2.png

YO thank you for this. I remember having this in the game but could never find it now and had kinda convinced myself I had made it up in my head. I wish this was back in the game, I don't really get why it was removed.
comicsforever
6 years ago
its a bug guys no sims can die in a pool right now its in the ea bug report my link wont work
please go and click me to
zeldagirl180
6 years ago
"Nindigo;c-17147000" wrote:
@elelunicy I prefer your reply...

sorry, but pregnant sims...
https://i.gyazo.com/355289304316b7326138281dd60b6240.png
Sharooonia
6 years ago
I didn't know they could ever drown so I guess I won't miss it. It seems like an odd thing to be upset about.
zeldagirl180
6 years ago
"Sharonia;c-17147026" wrote:
I didn't know they could ever drown so I guess I won't miss it. It seems like an odd thing to be upset about.

It's more restricting on my stories. Child sims can already only die from very few things. I had a story where someone lost their kid by drowning, while another family had wishes for a kid and that kid's ghost came out of the well. Little things.

fun fact: Toddlers not being able to die from fire is actually explained in the lore. In the sims 2 there is a statue of a woman who was killed in a fire after forgetting her food in the oven for too long. Her ghost actually watches over babies and toddlers and protects their skin from the flames.
comicsforever
6 years ago
its a bug guys no sims can die in a pool right now its in the ea bug report my link wont work
please go and click me to