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Veedock
Seasoned Scout
1 year ago
Status:
Fixed

Overlapping festivals

The festivals from City Living keep stacking on top of one another instead of despawning. My SIM lives in 19 Culpepper House and I play on an Xbox One. I do not use any CC or mods as I am a console player

I first noticed this bug yesterday 20/8/24 but it has escalated today, I tried going into manage worlds and back, visiting different lots and festival locations, and restarting the game. None of these have worked.

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title to fit the AHQ Bug report.

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There are currently two issues going on. One is the overlapping festivals, the other is [CL] [DU] [FR] [ECO] Objects cluttering worlds | EA Forums - 5036144

I personally believe that the overlapping festival issue is fixed while the other is not. The same goes for ice/roller skating rinks and food stalls. They should no longer newly occur.

If you load up an save game from before Patch 1.109.185/1.99 (Sept, 18th, 2024) where you have played in either r-rentals, apartments or penthouses, you will see overlapping festivals in your save game. The reason for this is that because of a fixed bug, all those items were assigned to your apartment instead of the streets data where it should be. The patch fixed that and pushed everything back to the streets, making it visible. Unfortunately they are now stuck there and don't despawn.

Please use this thread if you have food stalls, rinks, decoration and other festival objects getting stuck with the exception of these: Flea Market Furniture, Festival plants, Festival canvases, Flea Market Collectibles. The not despawning of these objects is caused by the other issue so please use the other thread.

For those already having stuck festivals, there's currently no good solution other than to clean them up with S4Studio (you can find info here (Method 2): Festivals spawn on top of each other and don’t go away) or disable the pack temporarily (Resetting world of a certain pack) which only works if you haven't save the game after that September patch. You can also clean up the items with a mod but be careful what you delete and there are certain items that aren't selectable. I do not know if T.O.O.L can delete those. There is no solution for console

If you have festivals NEWLY overlapping, in a save game started after Patch 1.111.102/2.04, please let me know. 

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  • logionX's avatar
    logionX
    Legend
    1 year ago

    T.O.O.L can't delete cups and plates, as well as some items that it can't reach like paintings and plants from the love festival. I had to delete them with sims4studio by removing them in the object list for the zones, but T.O.O.L. can delete almost all of the festival items with the group selection tool. 

    On items that you can select I was also able to delete them by left clicking and select destroy item (debug), that one might require the debug cheats and maybe also the allcheats mod from TwistedMexi. 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    1 year ago

    Yeah, that's what I tested with DestroyObjects then (you do need a mod for that).

    Thanks for confirming.

  • Heyy_itsTesha's avatar
    Heyy_itsTesha
    Seasoned Novice
    1 year ago

    How is this going to help us players who play on PS5 and do not have any mods or CC? Is the only way be to uninstall our expansion packs and redownload all over again?

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    1 year ago

    Hopefully EA can come up with a fix for it. Currently uninstalling packs doesn't seem to be the solution either. 

  • justajar's avatar
    justajar
    Seasoned Newcomer
    1 year ago

    I've seen other players talk about some of the festivals (like the spice festival and the flea market) stacking on top of one another so that when you attend one, all the objects from both are still there and cluttering up the space, making it totally unplayable.

    Well, in my game it happens with all the festivals. They never clear out. Even when you go to visit the lot during a time when no festival is taking place, there's still clutter there as though a festival should be taking place.

    I noticed it began after I installed the For Rent expansion pack. Nothing seemed amiss at first. But I had a sim living in an apartment near one of the festivals and had that sim move out of their apartment. Then I realized that the sims inventory included market stalls, tables, and trash cans from the festival area, all of which were debug items that are unusable, so I don't know how they ended up in the inventory. Shortly after that occurred, then the glitches with the festivals started taking place.

    I play on a PC and have no ccs or mods and didn't activate any cheats when making the move. So I don't know how this could occur apart from a direct glitch between my game and the For Rent expansion pack. Likely conflicting  with the City Living expansion alone, since no other glitches have occurred elsewhere.

  • Scorpio1959's avatar
    Scorpio1959
    Seasoned Adventurer
    1 year ago

    Maybe you will find some more information in this thread

    https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/cl-du-fr-eco-objects-cluttering-worlds/5036144

  • ScottB9's avatar
    ScottB9
    New Adventurer
    11 months ago

    Mine is doing this now. The last event my Sim went to before the January 2025 update the event was fine. I just went to the Spice Festival and it appears all items from all events are present (only Spice Festival items are clickable though). 

  • Same problem, currently am at the romance festival but its mushed with the geekacon. Cant do much of either. I am a PC player no mods or ccs as i dont know how to use them haha

     

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    Addressed multiple cases where festival objects from different events (Romance, Flea Market, Spice, and Humor and Hijinks) overlapped on lots in San Myshuno. Additionally, rogue objects such as coffee cups, plates, flowers, cupcakes, crates, and boxes will no longer appear randomly floating or scattered around the city.

    Fixed in Patch 1.112.519/2.06

    Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing this issues.

    Be aware that the other issue wasn't really fixed and you might still see left-over festivals in your save games.

    Please use this thread if you  have that issue: [CL] [DU] [FR] [ECO] Objects cluttering worlds | EA Forums - 5036144 

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