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jmac2727's avatar
3 years ago

Conquered fears getting perma stuck on Sims

Another game breaking bug to look out for, if your not saving every five minutes at this point then you are doing it wrong LOL. This one is a doosy, what happens is that after conquering a fear, it will randomly plop back on the Sim later, but this time enhanced. Nothing you do gets rid of it, it's perma locked on the character

The fear I got stuck with was fear of the dark. So I tried conquering the fear again.... nothing. Reset the Sim.... nothing. Traveled to another lot... nothing. It was fear of the Dark so I was "OF COURSE, I'll get the courage perk and that'll solve it" ... nope. The funny part of it was I was crippled with the fear of the dark sitting outside during the day. This is the third major bug I've personally run into since the patch, you gotta try really hard to break something this bad... the masochistic side of me is actually impressed.

Has anyone else encountered this one? I did a search and didn't see any mention of it, but maybe my search skills are off. Thankfully I was able to recover from a previous save so I "only" lost about 4hrs of gameplay. When you breath a sigh of relief at "only" having lost 4 hours of gameplay... is that a good sign for a game or a bad? ... hmm gotta think about that.
  • I want to make a correction, I called the fear a "perma" fear and I think I was not correct. I still think it's bugged, and the fear stuck on the toon for a LONG time, but it did eventually go away. I think what finally made it go away for good was completing a few other fears after the issue, then the "fear of the dark" stopped popping back on it's own. I hope this helps others with the issue, keep playing and resolve a couple more fears on the character and see if the "fear of the dark" stops popping back over and over.
  • Here's the bug report. Looks like 60 other people have encountered it so far... please share your info there or at least click "me too"
    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-HSY-Sim-Still-Holds-Fear-of-being-afraid-of-the-dark-after/m-p/11667795/highlight/true#M220967

    there are workarounds posted at top of page 2