I Fully Regret HSY

I feel your pain. Yesterday, after at least three failed attempts to have my Sim graduate, I switched to the back-up save thinking this would help. No. Sadly, my Sim aged up and despite his straight A status, was decreed a Drop-Out! Again. Going off of what others have said, I may well be in your same boat. I went back to day one of my Flashback save, to bring my Sim up the ranks to Global Superstar, which he originally attained in his Teens, so that I could show him in his high school years. I uploaded the family and placed them into a New Save. This after doing the game repair I failed to do after the Patches. He's barely started. Setting up the new save takes time. Originally, I took the time with aging off to get him established before the Patch and the release of HSY. He made it in ten Sim days as he did in my Main Save. And, he managed to win his first Starlight Accolade for Best Song. In fact, he got the three he originally won while in high school. He couldn't get the fourth nominated, which was a clue something was amiss. This, plus the Drop Out status is what sent me to the Back-Up, or Plan B. Which bore little fruit. He still managed to achieve Drop Out just for aging up.

I don't normally do stuff beforehand like that and now it seems it was a useless waste of my time. Glad I created a back-up, but that seemed bugged, too. :open_mouth: I do hope I won't have the groundhog day bug, although to a very limited degree, I've experienced it. Being a Rock Star in the making, he writes songs, too. Used to be, if a Sim couldn't finish it in one sitting, you could click on the sheet music held in their personal inventory and resume. There is no resuming going on. Instead, you get to start it all over again. Face/palm. Writing music, like writing books, takes a lot of time. Sim hours, in fact.

The good news is that by taking him back to the beginning and transferring the family into a new save, Erik still won his first Karaoke contest by the same points count: 86/100. I have some hope. I managed via MCCC, keeping his needs full, to have him finish the song he won his first accolade with. Time will tell. If things don't work out as I had hoped, at least I've shared several updates on the What Happened In Your Game Today thread, to serve as the Flashback story. I just hoped to include pictures from his graduation. (I was seriously deliberating whether to redo his wedding to his high school sweetheart, but now, I'll just be happy to show his graduation.)

Hope you don't mind me joining your rant.

I was going to actually try it today as I have time to really play. Didn't want to use one of my saves as didn't want to take a choice of ruining them. Was going to start a new game and play with just a couple starting out, no use of high school until they had children and grew to teen. But after reading this, I am definitely going to wait until this mess if fixed. Can't believe how bad it all is! Hopefully they will be able to fix it. Have to admit, I am beginning to lose hope.

yeah learned my lesson with mws I am now very hesitant to adding new packs

will probably add werewolves one day just cause its werewolves and occult is big enough part of my gameplay and literally everything in that pack is something i have lots of use for

but all other new packs are definitely getting quite big examination before i will even consider buying them

because i still consider myself lucky my computer runs the game at all after adding MWS it almost didn't and i don't want to risk it again

hoping to be able to add some ram to my computer next year so i can at least eliminate that being potential reason for my troubles

@GalacticGal please, join the rant! I don't mind at all. It messed up my game so badly, mind you I removed every mod and cc cas and cc bb to ensure that wasn't the issue. In the vanilla game most of my properties don't have a functional front door, the game resets every time I travel and I've just disabled the pack. I'm still repairing as I type this and still am unsure if it'll fix the massive issues I'm having

"maggiemae8135;c-18171455" wrote:
I was going to actually try it today as I have time to really play. Didn't want to use one of my saves as didn't want to take a choice of ruining them. Was going to start a new game and play with just a couple starting out, no use of high school until they had children and grew to teen. But after reading this, I am definitely going to wait until this mess if fixed. Can't believe how bad it all is! Hopefully they will be able to fix it. Have to admit, I am beginning to lose hope.

I would wait. I had 3 bugs when it released, those were semi fixed. I started a new save file and every save load is now infected with the "groundhog day" bug which means I can't progress my game because it saves it 3 or 4 sim days in the past. Wait.

I always do a Save As whenever I begin a gaming session. This allows for me to do a rollback, or even a game save recovery, if need be. So glad I have a back-up of my Main Save, though.

@wahini2024 did you play the saves that got infected, or were they just in your Sims4 folder?

Sorry you are having so many problems with this game, @wahini2024. I am taking your advice and not allowing my desire to play to take over. Definitely not playing until this game is fixed! Hope you find a way to repair your game.

"wahini2024;c-18171493" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-18171482" wrote:
I always do a Save As whenever I begin a gaming session. This allows for me to do a rollback, or even a game save recovery, if need be. So glad I have a back-up of my Main Save, though.

@wahini2024 did you play the saves that got infected, or were they just in your Sims4 folder?

My saves were doing okay across the board after the hot fix patch came through. When I started a new save, however, for a single sim challenge every save load was infected by the groundhog day bug. All of them. I couldn't even travel without it resetting back in time.

I uninstalled the game and my only real option at this point is to delete my save loads, disable the hsy expansion and rebuild. It's just that messy. It doesn't even guarantee that the groundhog day bug will be gone but I've read that most who disabled the pack no longer had this issue. Fingers crossed. I do have my files saved should I ever be able to restore hsy once the big is fixed.. if it gets fixed anytime soon.

So, far, I'm happy to say, my new game save is doing okay. Now, I have taken to doing the Save As for each save, particularly when it was something I didn't wish to lose. I shut down my game and powered up again moments later just to be certain everything was how I had left it. If it isn't that way today when I power back up, I will report it here. I have made certain that the only groundhog thing I noticed is avoided, by keeping Erik's needs up while he writes his songs. He's got four written, thus far. Since this is a flashback of his high school years, he needs to win his first four Accolades to sync properly with the Main Save posts I've made. He's received his first nomination. so, we'll see what happens.

"wahini2024;c-18171493" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-18171482" wrote:
I always do a Save As whenever I begin a gaming session. This allows for me to do a rollback, or even a game save recovery, if need be. So glad I have a back-up of my Main Save, though.

@wahini2024 did you play the saves that got infected, or were they just in your Sims4 folder?

My saves were doing okay across the board after the hot fix patch came through. When I started a new save, however, for a single sim challenge every save load was infected by the groundhog day bug. All of them. I couldn't even travel without it resetting back in time.

I uninstalled the game and my only real option at this point is to delete my save loads, disable the hsy expansion and rebuild. It's just that messy. It doesn't even guarantee that the groundhog day bug will be gone but I've read that most who disabled the pack no longer had this issue. Fingers crossed. I do have my files saved should I ever be able to restore hsy once the big is fixed.. if it gets fixed anytime soon.

Oh, wow. If I lose all the progress in my Main Save, where my Global Superstar, Rock Star, is up for this 21st Accolade for Best Song, I will be totally traumatized. I created a Flashback save to show him going through high school. I just replaced it with the back up save and I'm still having issues. So, I rolled back to the very first save and uploaded the family to My Library to start them again in a new Save. I gave them a new save folder, too. Nothing else in it. This makes me want to cry. I have restarted this family more times over the past two years than I can recount. Something is always tweaking it. Mostly Patches, to the point I'm quite leery of them now. I finally did a game repair before I actually started the new save, this time. So far, so good. We'll see how things look this morning when I get down to business and start to play. It's not easy getting a Sim to where Erik is at currently (or was, if the worst has happened). If things have gone south in my Main Save, then I'll just have to work all the harder to get this version of Erik to where his YA self was when I left that save for the time being. He's nominated for his twenty-first Best Song Accolade. No wonder I've been losing sleep.

"GalacticGal;c-18171823" wrote:

"wahini2024;c-18171493" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-18171482" wrote:
I always do a Save As whenever I begin a gaming session. This allows for me to do a rollback, or even a game save recovery, if need be. So glad I have a back-up of my Main Save, though.

@wahini2024 did you play the saves that got infected, or were they just in your Sims4 folder?

My saves were doing okay across the board after the hot fix patch came through. When I started a new save, however, for a single sim challenge every save load was infected by the groundhog day bug. All of them. I couldn't even travel without it resetting back in time.

I uninstalled the game and my only real option at this point is to delete my save loads, disable the hsy expansion and rebuild. It's just that messy. It doesn't even guarantee that the groundhog day bug will be gone but I've read that most who disabled the pack no longer had this issue. Fingers crossed. I do have my files saved should I ever be able to restore hsy once the big is fixed.. if it gets fixed anytime soon.

So, far, I'm happy to say, my new game save is doing okay. Now, I have taken to doing the Save As for each save, particularly when it was something I didn't wish to lose. I shut down my game and powered up again moments later just to be certain everything was how I had left it. If it isn't that way today when I power back up, I will report it here. I have made certain that the only groundhog thing I noticed is avoided, by keeping Erik's needs up while he writes his songs. He's got four written, thus far. Since this is a flashback of his high school years, he needs to win his first four Accolades to sync properly with the Main Save posts I've made. He's received his first nomination. so, we'll see what happens.

I haven't had a single issue since I deleted every save, uninstalled the game and disabled HSY after downloading. I hate that I had to even disable it but it made my game useless. I'm rebuilding and just had to let my previous sims go, sadly. If it were Erik though, and how much time you've put into that family, I would be devastated. I play in rotation so my attachment was to all of my sims at various degrees but it did in some way make it a tad easier to blow it up and start over when every family was so badly broken. I couldn't go backwards 3 or 4 sim days for 30 plus sim families every time I would load or even travel. Fingers crossed for you!