alien abductions no longer produce alien babies
Product: The Sims 4
Platform: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? 1.99.264.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All except bust the dust (disabled)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? have a male sim get abducted by aliens and impregnated
What happens when the bug occurs? if you check with mccc (or wait until it's born) you'll see the babies are NOT aliens and there is no partner listed (no alien pollination technician). The sim will not get alien buffs, it will get the regular pregnancy buffs with all the vomiting etc that a normal pregnancy would have
What do you expect to see? I expect to get alien babies from alien abductions
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. July 18th 2023
I hope you can fix this because I'm going to have to cancel all my alien baby challenge streams until it's fixed. No alien babies, no alien baby challenge. Please don't wait to fix this. My 100 alien baby challenge stream is my most popular stream and it saddens me to have to cancel it.
UPDATE: AFTER REMOVING MC COMMAND CENTER I am getting alien buffs instead of regular pregnancy buffs - it remains to be seen if an alien baby will emerge 🙂
UPDATE: after testing this vanilla, I was able to have an alien baby - I was only using a few mods that could've affected this: Mc Command center, UI Cheats and Pandasama's Birth Mod. Just in case anyone else was having this problem, I'll update again as soon as I know which one it was. My guess is mccc, because that appears to have the most to do with occults, whereas the birth mod doesn't do anything about determining a baby nor does ui cheats to my understanding
UPDATE 8.1.23 Even though I was able to get an alien baby by removing my mods (specifically the 3 mentioned above) I still received a regular birth certificate rather than an alien one even tho the baby arrived in an alien pod, and I'm unable to breastfeed the alien baby.
FINAL UPDATE AND CONCLUSION: This is a problem with MC COMMAND CENTER - when abducted and impregnated, mccc throws a last exception ( here file:///C:/Users/Sue/Documents/Electronic%20Arts/The%20Sims%204/Mods/McCmdCenter_AllModules_2023_4_1/mc_lastexception.html ) and the result is the screenshot attached we did not receive an alien baby the 1st time, 2nd time vanilla we did get alien baby, but regular birth certificate.
THIS APPEARS TO BE A COMBINATION OF AN ISSUE WITH GET TO WORK TUNINGS AND MC COMMAND CENTER needing a hotfix.
