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dsubyalexg
New Spectator
2 months ago
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Reviewed

[GTW] Alien Abductions Freeze the Game

While I was playing in the scientist career in Get to Work, my sim got abducted (as they typically do), but when they came back, I was suddenly unable to do anything in Live Mode. I couldn't switch sims, double/triple speed, or even zoom out using my mouse, and my sims were completely unresponsive, aside from idle animations of them simply standing, so it wasn't an entire freeze, and time wouldn't pass. Even attempting to exit the game would go unresponsive, as well as trying to save would put it on a never-ending loading screen.

I did all the typical things to do in this scenario, removed all CC, repaired my game, removed the localthumbcache file, and nothing would work. I've moved this household out, changed lots, etc. and nothing seems to be working. 

Not sure if this is a post-update glitch, or if this is just me.

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4 Comments

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    This has been a known mod issue in the past. Seems some custom alien eyes caused this.

    Since you say you removed all mods, did you also tried this:

    • Close the game
    • Rename Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 to Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4_Old
    • Repair the game
    • Start the game. All your content will be gone now as the game created a new folder. All your saves/.. is still in the old folder so not to worry. 
    • Start a new save game
    • Check if you still have the error
    • Report back with your results for further steps on how to get your stuff back.

     

  • Simsplayer083's avatar
    Simsplayer083
    Seasoned Novice
    4 days ago

    I have experienced this bug today, so far I have removed mods folder and repaired game, I also evicted the sim and moved them back in as it was saved directly before the sim was abducted. As soon as the save loads and plays the sim is in the middle of being abducted still even after following all the above guidelines. I did have a couple of mods and cc originally but very minimal and definitely never any alien eyes so it can't be that, that's caused it. The sim wasn't enrolled in any Get To Work careers either which I thought odd, they were in Evergreen Harbor and doing a freelance crafter career.

    I noticed in the original bug report it was reported on a Mac, I am a PC user.

  • hyacinthbouquet's avatar
    hyacinthbouquet
    New Spectator
    3 hours ago

    I experienced the exact same issue yesterday two times. Deleted mods, repaired the game and same thing happened again. Lost 5 hours of gameplay in total (never ending saving screen). The game has been broken since Life & Death patches I wouldn't be surprised if it's a bug/glitch unrelated to mods.

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