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crinrict's avatar
8 months ago
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Check baby interrupts all attempts to care for baby

Repost from AHQ thread (c/p)

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.96.365.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Seasons, cats and dogs, get together, discover university, free holiday, parenthood, toddler stuff, cottage living, strangeville, get to work,
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Try using a parenting option (like feed or change diapers) for an infant that has more than one need in the red
What happens when the bug occurs? If an infant has two or more needs in the red, or one need red and one yellow, any attempts to actually resolve those needs will be repeatedly interrupted / canceled by “check infant” leading to a loop where you have to keep pausing to cancel the “check infant” as it appears, before it managed to cancel your attempts to actually solve the problem
What do you expect to see? If a parenting interaction is currently being used or queued, don’t auto cancel it to “check infant”. Generally, being less over zealous about the “check infant” effect.
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? Neutral/Not Sure 

I’ve tested with and without mods and this still happens. It is possible to get around this by pausing and canceling the check infant, but it won’t just appear once. It’ll keep coming back very frequently. Sometimes I have to cancel it 3x or more while just trying to walk across a room and put baby down in the high chair. It’s really disruptive. 

13 Comments

  • Nightgypsy's avatar
    Nightgypsy
    Seasoned Ace
    13 days ago

    I have uploaded my save file for you. I had to create a save specifically for this and age the toddlers down and move family members back in so that the family was just as they were when all of this was reported. I can confirm that during this process that the problem of putting the child in and out of the crib issue is still present in this game version. 

  • Here is a good example of caregiving being interrupted because sims pay no attention to if another sim is already doing something with a child. Like here, reading them to bed, or when trying to feed them in a high chair. In this instance, the dad was reading the child to sleep because she was very tired and the butler walks up and kneels down and I could see the question mark thought bubble. Then she takes the child out of bed, walks a short distance away and sits here down and the child is upset because she is tired. The butler should not have interrupted and taken the child when they are doing something with another sim. What they are doing shouldn't matter. Secondly, the butler obviously did a check to see what the child needed and as you can see in the third photo, she only needed sleep. So again, the butler should not have taken her out of bed. All sense is broken when it comes to caregiving. I am not just blaming the butler. All sims will do this stuff and it just turns into an infuriating loop for me, the player. Also there was no routing issue here. I think the child showed that thought bubble because the butler was in her way. As soon as I unpaused she walked right around her and went back to her bed. 

     

  • Another good example. The dad picked up the child because I told him to talk to him. So he sat down in the chair to do so but nothing is happening because the mother came and apparently she wants to practice standing with the child. The butler is wanting to do something with the child as well and so they are all just waiting and nobody is able to do anything. I cancelled the mom wanting to practice and she went on about her business, but the dad still couldn't talk to the child because the butler was still standing and waiting. So I reset the butler and that caused the dad to dump the child on the ground and it dropped the command from queue where I had told him to talk to the child. So I told him to talk to him again, but the butler snatched the child up and took him away and this made the command I had given the dad drop off.