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DreamyStarbi
New Spectator
25 days ago
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Troubleshooting

Entering CAS Reverses Game Progress

I use a Mac laptop, I use no mods, and I only have the free Holiday pack in my game

Hello! Just yesterday, Monday, November 27th, I encountered a bug while playing my game. I only made a bug report once it happened again around 10:28 on Thursday, November 28th.

What occurred was that upon entering CAS, in my case while a sim was pregnant, in labor, or having a baby in the household, time would reverse. What I mean by that is any skills would be reversed back a few, such as a toddler sim going back to 1 on movement speed when originally at 3, ages would be reversed, such as a toddler going back to being an infant, and the pregnant sim would either be no longer pregnant, or if the baby was in the household the sim would be pregnant again. That also brings in another error where on a different save, it made the sim who was just pregnant be pregnant again, but the newborn, now infant, was still in game but was no longer registered as said sims child. The pregnant sims newborn would have the same gender and skin tone as the infant. I do have a screenshot showing what comes up when the said pregnant sim is being played and the infant was clicked on. Should also include that the infant was listed with no birth parents at all.

I do want to preface, I did attempt to use the ResetSim cheat on both saves, but even then it wouldn't work. I only know of one person on the Answers HQ who had the issue, but only I got a short response on my two posts and we were the only ones trying to problem solve between us. Plus, the other person plays on a windows laptop

I would also like to add a few extra details that may help, but I do not know. Both saves it occurred in were 100 Baby Challenges (second one was because my Infant was about to be taken away from hunger on my first attempt), so I haven't checked if this bug happens on different saves yet because I am too scared to lose progress. When I entered CAS, I did it in the Simsology tab. Both times there were at least two toddlers in the household. Plus. First time it was two twins and a newly aged up toddler and the second time it was two toddlers. Also, the bug seemed to happen after a sim got aged up the same day or the day beforehand. They were usually the one to be reversed in time.

Hopefully this bug can be fixed soon, because this could be a game-breaking bug if it gets worse.

  • I play on PC, not MAC, but I do have some recommendations. I hope they help. 

    1. Before you make any more saves, see if you can recover a save that you made before you encountered these bugs. Here's a link to crinrict 's tutorial on recovering saves in case you don't know how it's done. Recover Backup Save Game 
    2. Since you've identified some potential causes, stop going into CAS while those causes are present. 
    3. Don't save your game if there's something wrong and you can't fix it. Exit without saving instead. It's better to lose a few hour's progress than the the entire save. 
    • DreamyStarbi's avatar
      DreamyStarbi
      New Spectator

      Thank you so much! I'm so sorry I haven't responded yet, I have family out at the moment. But, I will give this a shot once I'm able to.  I have already exited without saving on the recent save (unfortunately lost two days of progress because I forget to even exit the game most days), and haven't gone into CAS when the issues are presented. I'm holding off on those two saves for a bit, so I should be a little more safe as long as I have no intentions of restarting that challenge for a third time haha!

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