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Intern_Waffle_64
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5 months ago
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[GRO] Lullaby Build Song Plays Constantly

Growing Together has a lullaby build mode song. It plays more often than any other song in the game's soundtrack. I have every single pack, so there's a lot to choose from. This song plays at minimum once per 20+ minute build session.

There are also two instances of this song in the game's audio files which may account for some of its being chosen more often, but statistically do not explain how often it plays.

Please, for the love everything, please make this song play less. It has actively damaged my experience with this game since Growing Together came out. I hate this song. 

Edit By Crinrict: Correct tag. Please see this for a complete list of all pack tags: General Information About The Bug Reports Forum | EA Forums - 4965007 

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  • for completions sake could you please add tags for mod usage (if you use any or not) 

  • Forums wouldn't let me log in for a few days but they're added now. (Great job on the new forums, EA!)

  • Semi update, semi-secondary-bug-report, but now the song from Businesses and Hobbies that sounds beat-for-beat like The World is Not Enough by Garbage plays nearly every time I'm in buy mode, so I suspect it may have the same or a similar issue. The lullaby song is also still ever present. And I don't mind it (and in fact its one of my favorite sims compositions ever), so I didn't mention it, but Rodeo Time Again from Horse Ranch does the same thing. It's so much more often than other songs with these that it CANNOT be a statistical coincidence.

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    EA_Cade
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    3 months ago
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    Hello all,

    If any of you are still encountering this on the latest game version (without mods), would you be willing to share your save file(s)? If so, please send me a private message with a link to the file.

    Instructions can be found here. Please also include a link to the thread the save is for.

    Thanks!

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    Intern_Waffle_64
    Seasoned Veteran
    3 months ago

    I've sent a link to my save file alongside two streamable videos of the offending growing together song(s), I believe they are two separate songs but they're both annoying lullabys so I forget to actually listen to see if they're the same or not lol

    In the DM I mention opening/closing buy mode repeatedly to see what plays, and getting the lullaby song pretty frequently, but forgot to note that simply letting the songs cycle I definitely get it in the first 3 songs nearly every single time.

  • Update on this: The song is actually a base game song that came with the Infants update alongside Growing Together. There are two nearly-identical songs. I suspect the small number of base game themes means this one appears to play more often than other pack themes, as base game themes are played more often than all pack themes in general.

    So the game says "Time to pick a new song" and the base game is weighted significantly higher than any packs, so 9 times out of 10, it'll play a base game song. Then because there's only so many base game songs, 20% of the time, it'll be one of these two nearly-identical horribly out-of-style songs. 

    I have created a mod to remove them entirely from the game. I don't know that this counts as a bug so much anymore but it still should be addressed IMO as it does diminish the experience of using build mode when such mismatched music can play so often.