Sims don't dress selves, random nudity, and baristas showing up at restaurant.
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? 1.54.120.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All current as of 8-24-2019. Every expansion, every stuff pack, etc.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Just play the game. Have a child/teen/adult wake up and go to school/work/an audition. They will not automatically change out of their bedclothes before leaving. Have any sim go outside during cold weather and they will not change into the right gear on their own. Have a sim skinny dip. They will not put their clothes back on even when company comes over. Some sims shower naked in the rain on crowded Myshuno lots on their own. Try meeting goals for parties or events. Sometimes all sims on lot will stand frozen and the only way to fix it is to swap between buy/build mode and play mode. Change a cafe into a restaurant. The old barista sim will show up and occupy the waiter's station and prevent the waiter from serving food.
What happens when the bug occurs? Have a child/teen/adult wake up and go to school/work/an audition. They will not automatically change out of their bedclothes before leaving. Have any sim go outside during cold weather and they will not change into the right gear on their own. Have a sim skinny dip. They will not put their clothes back on even when company comes over. Some sims shower naked in the rain on crowded Myshuno lots on their own. Try meeting goals for parties or events. Sometimes all sims on lot will stand frozen and the only way to fix it is to swap between buy/build mode and play mode. Change a cafe into a restaurant. The old barista sim will show up and occupy the waiter's station and prevent the waiter from serving food.
What do you expect to see? I expect my sims to be able to dress themselves for school/work/weather automatically like they used to, before whatever patch broke this function. I expect sims to put on clothes after skinny dipping if the lot does NOT have the "clothing optional" trait. I expect them not to shower randomly on crowded city living lots in the rain. I expect sims to stop freezing in place when trying to achieve party or festival goals. This happens on celebrity set lots too, but you have to wait it out since build mode is disabled there. I expect the lot change to take 100% effect and the barista to stop showing up when I turn a cafe into a restaurant.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. It started with the release of Island Living and has not been fixed.
I've seen numerous reports of these exact bugs but no solution. Please fix your coding before focusing on new content =\. Happy customers who know they can trust their game not to break when buying a new expansion are more likely to buy the new expansion.
I've discovered that going to the Origin launcher, clicking the gear next to The Sims 4 and choosing "repair" from the options will fix most of these problems. It fixes the sims not dressing themselves problem 100% without a doubt, apartment living or not. It also fixes service sims (like chefs and baristas) showing up on apartment lots. I can only assume it fixes the restaurant issue as well, though I didn't get to test that as I did a fresh install and only chose the "repair" option when my game started getting wonky again.
If anyone else has the problems I was having, I strongly recommend going into your game launcher and choosing to "repair" the game, which will start validating the files and seems to fix the game.