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ChimiQuinn94
8 years ago
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[XB1] My Sim won’t cook

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:Microsoft XBOX One Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs ...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    I want a big hole to open up and swallow me.
    I am very sorry for wasting your time and blaming you for porting the bugs of the PC version to the Xbox version.

    I hadn't put a spare counter top in the kitchen in for food prep. So amateur and simple.

    I feel so embarrassed.
    Thank you for taking the time to help me and I apologize profusely and sincerely for being so adamant that the fault was on your end when it was a very obvious oversight on mine.

    Thanks and sorry times a hundred!
    😲
Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
8 years ago
I realise that if I fix it I won't be able to show you the bug.

Totally different angle now.
What I don't understand is I've seen loads of talk about this bug happening on PC and I remember reading that this game was ported directly to consoles with almost no changes as the architecture of the current gen of consoles is so similar to PCs.

So did the people who port the game to consoles just port the whole game without making sure to fix any of the bugs in the process?
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SimQARobo
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8 years ago

@Zekastian9

Bug fixes are carried over from PC to console regularly.  However, unless we know exactly what you are experiencing, we can't confirm whether or not we are aware of the issue that you are describing.  Not being able to bake a cake can be caused by many different things.

Can you share where you've seen this discussed for PC?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    It's not just baking a cake, it's cooking anything from the *Cook* menu at the fridge.

    They take the ingredients out and then the thought bubble appears above their head with the blue footsteps and the red cross, indicating that they cannot do it and then they put the chopping board of ingredients down next to the fridge. Just like when you're telling them to go in the house but you've locked the door to them.

    I've looked on YouTube for videos of this and fixes for it and it's all about the bugs on PC which doesn't help me as I can't go into the game's files like PC users can.

    Can you play Sims4 at your office on a normal retail Xbox One and see if you have the same problem?

    From my extremely limited understanding of the field, it must be something missing in a line of code.

    I really want to carry on playing but my main reason for doing so is getting 10 and then 26 generations of sims in one household (these milestones are achievements on the Xbox One) and I cannot do that with this bug stopping me from aging up my sims with this *blow out the candles on a birthday cake* hoop the game wants me to jump through.

    This is what PC users were experiencing on Sims4 back in 2014.

    http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/805675/my-sims-cant-cook

    Thank you for any help you can give me.
    Sebastian
    • SimQARobo's avatar
      SimQARobo
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      8 years ago

      @Zekastian9

      We've tried it ourselves, but were unable to see the problem, which is why I requested more information.

      It's difficult for us to determine the cause of your issue unless we can see how your lot is arranged.  Even if we were able to see a similar issue ourselves, fixing it would not guarantee that your issue would be fixed, because what you are seeing may be different from what we see.  So a screenshot, video, or save file would be really helpful to us.

      On the thread you listed, one of the more recent posts said "Had the same issue. Game repair didn't phase it. So swapped counters around, and that did it."  Have you tried rearranging/replacing objects on the lot?

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        8 years ago
        I want a big hole to open up and swallow me.
        I am very sorry for wasting your time and blaming you for porting the bugs of the PC version to the Xbox version.

        I hadn't put a spare counter top in the kitchen in for food prep. So amateur and simple.

        I feel so embarrassed.
        Thank you for taking the time to help me and I apologize profusely and sincerely for being so adamant that the fault was on your end when it was a very obvious oversight on mine.

        Thanks and sorry times a hundred!
        😲

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