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Gingerxyz
Rising Hotshot
4 months ago
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Reviewed

[GTW] Alien Abduction always triggers Fear of the Dark

I have a household that's had a LOT of alien abductions over the course of a few weeks, with 4 different young adult sims being abducted multiple times each (this is to be expected given that 3 are in the scientist career, the 4th is an alien, they have an ever increasing number of alien children as a result of all the abductions, lots of alien friends and acquaintances, and the lot has an observatory, a telescope, a rocket ship, etc, and they have lots of collectables including space rocks and alien creatures), but I noticed that upon returning from their abduction, they ALWAYS appear to become afraid of the dark. This is regardless of their emotional response to the abduction (the 3 human scientists are always excited by it, the non scientist alien gets angry). I would understand it as something that has a chance of happening, since the abduction happens at night, but it seems odd to me that it would happen EVERY time, regardless of any other factors. And with a sample size of easily over 10 abductions, spread across multiple sims, it seems unlikely that this is just bad luck with the RNG.

Playing on PC, currently on version 1.113.277.1030, but this save has been active since the beginning of the Blast From The Past event, and I believe I've seen this with every abduction in it, so the the issue dates back at least a couple versions before that.

It happens with and without mods (first seen before any mods had ever touched the save, I've since added MCCC to increase the household size limit because I didn't want one sim's many unplanned alien babies to prevent the others from having children and I didn't want to split the household) 

Edit By Crinrict: Added pack tag to title. Would be great if you could start adding pack tag and thread tags to your posts. More info here: [PLEASE READ] Information/Questions about the bug forum | EA Forums - 11850203 

6 Comments

  • Gingerxyz's avatar
    Gingerxyz
    Rising Hotshot
    4 months ago

    It always triggers right as they get dumped back to earth. No fear before abduction, they arrive home and immediately, fear kicks in. Notification makes it hard to miss the connection. 

    If you mean, had they previously had the fear on any other occasion, I can say with certainty that one of them has never had it for non alien abduction reasons, and I'm 95-99% sure that's the case for the other three too.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    4 months ago

    Hi Gingerxyz

    yeah, that's what I meant as the fear of dark is bugged and comes back even if you cure it so wanted to make sure that's not your issue.

  • Gingerxyz's avatar
    Gingerxyz
    Rising Hotshot
    4 months ago

    Okay, yeah, I think in this particular case it's an abduction specific thing, as I've been using the satellite to prevent abductions for a couple of in game weeks now (6 alien infants at once on long lifespan is MORE than enough thank you very much) and I don't believe anyone has had that fear in that time.