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slytherclaw95
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[RL] 'Secret Witness' Guilty Sentiment without reason

I'm using the new Royalty & Legacy pack and I think this may be a new sentiment that comes from that pack. I established a Dynasty with a pre-existing family (pre downloading the new pack), and the married Sims in the family keep getting a guilty "Secret Witness" sentiment after they WooHoo. The wife is the Dynasty Head and the husband is rank 4 of 4 in the Dynasty. I couldn't figure out at first what was causing it, but I spent a day working to remove the sentiment, had them WooHoo again, and saw it reappear for both of them. In that case, they hadn't replaced the negative sentiment with any positive ones. Day 2, I worked to remove the sentiment again, and even got the husband to develop two positive sentiments for her while she just lost the negative one. WooHoo again; this time, husband with the positive sentiments kept those, but she without any gained the same negative one again.

Issues with this:

  1. They're married, with two children. It's no secret they WooHoo, to anyone.
  2. Even if they were two Sims having an affair, their affair partner shouldn't inspire a "Secret Witness" sentiment, because they are part of the secret. Only getting caught by a third party should inspire such a sentiment. 

Gameplay wise, it's negatively impacting the Unity of the Dynasty unnecessarily. Everyone else has a relationship of 100 with each other, so this is the only thing that could explain the dropping Unity.

If anyone can figure out the cheat code to remove this specific Sentiment, it would be much appreciated, because it's really starting to drive me crazy.

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted pack tag to fit conventions of the forum.

47 Comments

  • Vanilla test game. New Sims 4 folder. No CC or mods.

    This happened randomly to my test couple. They were elders. Not in any Dynasty. Telling stories to their dogs seemed to fix it, but maybe the dogs being in the room was a problem. Occasionally my Sims get embarrassed by having a pet in the room with an open shower.

    Confusing 🤷‍♀️

  • Same is happening in my save file. I am on Xbox so no mods or cc. At first I thought it was because one of them is a ghost. But that doesn't make sense as even thought she's not alive, she's still married to him. Now I avoid having them woohoo and instead have them be romantic in other ways such as watching the sky together.

  • Definitely from the Royalty and Legacy EP because it's part of the Scandal system, but it should not apply to a sim who isn't A: famous, or B: part of a Dynasty.

    As for the bug itself, I had it happen as well. Had my married couple woohoo and suddenly she feels guilty. Guilty for WHAT exactly, woohooing her own husband? The father of her daughters and the man she's utterly devoted to (disabled Attraction as well).

    Only thing I can suggest, which is how I resolved mine until this is fixed, is enable testingcheats and select Remove All Sentiments from both of them. With any luck, the Sentiment fades fast, though it does make me hesitant to any woohooing attempts despite them being a happily married couple.

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