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crinrict's avatar
10 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. 

19 Comments

  • ArianaLee721's avatar
    ArianaLee721
    New Scout
    3 months ago

    Between parents interrupting each other, actions dropping for no obvious reason, and routing issues, caring for infant and toddler sims is pretty aggravating, especially lately. 

  • Nightgypsy's avatar
    Nightgypsy
    Seasoned Ace
    3 months ago

    Now the butler did it and she is not supposed to be tending to minors at all. 

    I had to double check because it seems that every time I load my game I have to tell the butler to stop gardening and stop attending to minors. I knew I had done it when I loaded this instance up so I don't know why she just took the child out of the crib and sat her on the ground. 

  • Nightgypsy's avatar
    Nightgypsy
    Seasoned Ace
    3 months ago

    I just saw this happen...

    The toddler is causing this part of the problem by wanting/calling the mom. So ok, the mom should go tuck her in, not take her out of the crib and put her on the ground and then do nothing. Which is what happens!

  • My household has three parents and two toddlers. \When one parent cares for a toddler, puts the toddler to bed, another will come take them out and put them on the floor. Never mind that the toddler's energy is full red. Just now I had the dad put the toddler back in the crib and the mom comes and does it again. This happens the majority of the time. Basically, when an infant or toddler needs care, all parents are alerted and go to take care of the child and do not recognize that it has been done or is in the process of being done. This happens with putting them to bed, bottle feeding, and high chair feeding too. And for times when care has not been given, the parent does not seem to check to see what is needed so they will keep picking up the toddler and putting them down, then another parent may come and do the same thing.

    It seriously takes ALOT to get one toddler cared for sometimes and I have two to care for. I did see another topic for check infant causing problems but I do not think that exactly fits my issue. I think it is part of it maybe, that the check infant is not recognizing that another parent is handling it or has handled it. Another factor may be that all of the parents are vampires and move very fast. So any check that might be in place to let them know another parent is closer does not have time to be delivered, so they arrive and wait and as soon as they can they undo what the first parent had already done.

    The dad has just put the toddler in bed and the mom just comes and takes her out and puts her on the floor. 

    I had the dad put her back in the crib and immediately the mom came and did it again. 

    Dad has just put toddler in high chair to feed her and the mom comes and takes her right out before he can.

    Here she does it again with the other dad. 

    And she does it again and you can clearly see she is not doing any check or she would know the child needs to sleep and not remove the toddler from the crib. This is the problem I am complaining about that is obviously broken and needs fixed somehow. 

     

  • When you play with a big household and the infants or toddler need help everyone is starting to check on them. Unfortunately that leads to nobody helps them because the action is not possible to complete as they can’t reach out for them until the other one checked on them and so on. Also one after one starts to hold the infant, places them on the ground until the next one holds them and so on. The issue with a toddler is that you need so much time to bring them to bed and the infants are starving. That’s really annoying and it does not make fun to play with infants and toddlers. 

  • Sometimes the parents of my infants will be right next to the infant when I give them a command to change a diaper or feed or otherwise care for an infant, and instead of carrying out the command,  they will call the other parent (who is across the house) to come take care of the infant. This happens multiple times in a row after cancelling the other parent intervening and telling the original parent to do it until I lock the original parent and infant in a room and give the command again. THEN they carry out the command. I can't find the pattern for why this is happening in multiple families in multiple different save files. I play on PC with no mods or cc.

  • Deckete's avatar
    Deckete
    Rising Vanguard
    8 months ago

    Something similar happens in my game. The infant is sleepy and the father puts him in the cradle, the infant doesn't sleep and cries. Any interaction I set the father to do is canceled so he can take the infant out of the crib. With great difficulty, the infant sleeps in the cradle.