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xlittlexwolfx
3 years ago

Grim reaper won't leave

I'm playing Sims 4 on PS4. I had a sim die a few months ago when I had last played. Grim came, reaped the body, an urn appeared, Grim continued to just stand in my house.

I decided to play again today (January 19th 2023). I opened the game, and an elder sim died and a cat died at the same time (what a way to start the game). Grim went over to the elder sim first (glitching through the wall instead of going through the door) and reaped him. An urn appeared and the dead sim showed as a ghost in my household for a short period of time before disappearing. Grim then went over to the cat and reaped the cat. An urn appeared and the cat disappeared immediately from my household. Grim is once again stuck in my house just floating and looking around not doing anything. I can't interact with him and I can't make him go away, he's just stuck standing in front of my bathroom like a creepy bathroom attendant. 

I do not have any mods or any cheats on or any custom content that might interfere with how the game is supposed to behave. I have maybe a handful of the purchasable DLC, so I'm not sure if that would effect Grim at all. I'm also not sure if any of the new updates have anything to do with this either (as sometimes that just happens). 

It's not really a MAJOR issue to have Grim stuck in my house, as he still does his job, but as far as role play immersion goes, it does make it a little weird.

3 Replies

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    3 years ago
    @xlittlexwolfx Could you try if the cheat resetsim Grim Reaper does anything for you. Since that doesn't use testingcheats it shouldn't mess with your achievements.
  • xlittlexwolfx's avatar
    xlittlexwolfx
    3 years ago

    @crinrict I tried a couple of times but the game kept saying "sim not found", which was weird because he was clearly just standing on my lot (now in my yard because he took one of my chickens). So I closed out of the game entirely and opened it back up again to see if anything would be different but he's still out in the yard like a creeper (he might be waiting to take one of my other chickens but I'm not sure?).

    Thanks for trying to help!

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    3 years ago
    @xlittlexwolfx It's possible that you need to have the actual name of the grim reaper. They are basically just Sims in a very special role. I though Grim Reaper works but could be that it's not.

    Are you doing achievements on this save or do you not care about them ?

    If you don't, you can use testingcheats on and then click on the reaper to reset that way but I don't know what the equivalent of shift-click on console ist.

    If you do care about them, you could try a backup to see if it would even work like that.

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