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mdouglas2010
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1 year ago
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Sims give birth to clones - Genetics don't mix

Ever since Life and Death released, when sims have a baby, it's just a male or female clone of the mom (sometimes the dad, but usually the mom) or the parent that birthed them. This happens in CAS too when you play with genetics - direct clone. Copy/paste. No genetic mixing. 

This breaks the game for anyone who has families and/or does legacy challenges. 

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title fit archived bug report: [ARCHIVED] Sims give birth to clones - Genetics don't mix | EA Forums - 11724399 

Generally bugs still open in the archive do not need to be re-reported unless you have new info.

8 Comments

  • I've seen this happen recently in my game too. I had Lilith Vatore have a baby with Rory from the werewolf pack and their daughter just looks like a clone of Lilith. No resemblance to Rory at all. 

  • Deckete's avatar
    Deckete
    Seasoned Vanguard
    1 year ago

    I've noticed it on mine too, only a little differently. The skin color is sometimes that of the father or mother, but the rest is the exact copy of just one parent.

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    VictoriqueS2
    Seasoned Traveler
    1 year ago

    Está um saco de jogar, tantos bugs agora mais esse no meu jogo, todas os bebês que nascem são clones da mãe, as vezes só muda o tom de pele. Extremamente irritante, não arrumam o jogo e sai lançando pacote atrás de pacote, quebrando cada vez mais e tornando nossa experiência horrível. 

  • They used to mix fine IMO but now it's just EXACT clones and re-rolling/randomizing doesn't do anything except change clothes. I hate it.

  • NastasiaZi's avatar
    NastasiaZi
    Seasoned Traveler
    1 year ago

    Same. I have no CC and mods, but it happens. Please, fix it. It defeats the purpose of the game, cause one of my favorite aspects in the Sims is mixing genetics😢

  • baicat_x's avatar
    baicat_x
    Seasoned Novice
    8 months ago

    This!  Also, My legacy family of 11 generations has many twins. Every single time, one twin takes after one parent, and the other twin the other parent. 

  • NarelleArt's avatar
    NarelleArt
    Seasoned Observer
    15 days ago

    I'm so glad this isn't just me. 😭

    I have been having this issue a ton and its so frustrating and disappointing. Especially if one parent has really distinct facial features and its their face copied onto the kids.

    Ex: Neighborhood stories generared another son for the Goths that looks just like Mortimer, which I thought was cute at the time. My legacy sim (male) ended up marrying this mini-Mortimer. They had two kids, a boy and a girl. Boy had the legacy face, girl had Mortimer's face. Continued with the girl and she married a sim of mine that had a very round face, opposite the thin sharp features from Mortimer (I was hoping they would balance out). They had twin girls, both with Mortimer's face, and a younger son, with the dad's face. Mortimer's face on all the women of my legacy is rough... (I'll try to remember to come back and add screenshots.)

    It was super noticable in that save because Mortimer's face is so distinct but is definitely happening in my other saves too. My 100 baby mom makes so many little clones of herself.

    Skin and hair colors end up somewhere in between the two parents and occasionally a single feature from the other parent might get swapped in. Like if a kid got all of Mortimer's face copy pasted but swapped in just Bella's lips, eyes, or nose.

    (I'm on PC and do have Mods. The only one that has a shot at impacting this is MCCC but I don't think its to blame, especially since others here are reporting the same issue with no mods.)

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