[AA] Kayak Water Pathing Freezing Game on Waterfront Lot
I first encountered this bug on the "Camp Gibbi Gibbi" Lot in the neighborhood "Wanderwood Wilds" in the Gibbi Point world. I played two lots in this same neighborhood and only the second lot repeatedly froze my game. The only difference was that the second lot was a waterfront property. The freezing occurs constantly and makes the game literally unplayable. I have to save every minute (one in-game hour) because I can barely make it through a few in-game hours before the game freezes on me and I'm forced to lose what little progress I had made. The only solution post-freeze I have found is to force-close the game with task manager because nothing in-game functions when one occurs. The symptoms of the freeze are as follows: it stops the clock but shadows continue to move. Clicking on objects, the ground, and sims is completely unresponsive. I am unable to shift-click on sims or use console cheats. The sims no longer walk or sail, but if they were doing a stationary action at the time of the freeze, they will continue it in place without completion. I am unable to change to a different sim. I can enter and leave buy mode, but I can't successfully place anything while in buy mode. I can open the pause menu, but anything that requires processing like saving, loading the world map, or trying to return to the main menu results in an eternal loading screen. No amount of waiting has cleared out the freeze. The Problem and Mod Required MCCC Solution: The problem is the kayaks. I noticed that there was at least one on the water every time a freeze occurred, mostly because wandering around the neighborhood like a god is one of the very few things I can successfully do while the game is frozen. During one freeze, there were five kayakers motionless on the water in a group. This isn't surprising because while the game is functioning, townie sims are constantly taking kayaks out of thin air and setting sail. According to my searches, pathfinding water routes are buggy and known to overload the game. Further proof that kayakers are the problem is that I even shift-clicked on a kayaker while the game was working and reset them, only to immediately freeze the game as a result (it later seemed like resetting the kayak specifically instead of the sim using it did not freeze the game, in my experience). To fix this for my game, I used MCCC to ban any autonomy I could find related to kayaking/boating etc. and, surprise, surprise, I was right! The game stopped freezing and actually WORKS when the water is kayak-free. This bug is game breaking and needs a solution that doesn't require a mod. Maybe autonomy needs to be adjusted, a limiter on game processes needs to be placed so they don't stack up out of control, or the glitchy game-bogging water pathfinding could be fixed so it functions smoothly, please and thank you! I don't know why only the waterfront lot had this problem when both the lots I played were in the same loaded neighborhood and exposed to the same kayaking activity on the local lake, but maybe that means only waterfront lots specifically need some kind of fix in relation to townie kayaking. I beg of you, please don't rely on MCCC to be the fix! Not every player has/wants it. Edit By crinrict: Added pack tag to title.
Sims stuck in idle animations
I recently downloaded new cc and all of the sudden my sims are permanently stuck in their idle animations and standing still. I tried deleting the new cc, turned off cc entirely, re installed the game, tried multiple households, nothing has worked. They wont take on new interactions, they wont move anywhere if I ask them to, they just stand in their idle animations. Pets as well. There's another post with a similar problem from four months ago but op hasn't posted lately and i just figured i'd make a fresh one to try to boost the issue. This has been an ongoing issue ive had for a couple months now myself and I keep craving sims gameplay but i cant do anything if all they do is stand still!😭
[EBN] Endless Loading: Everdew (Build/Live)
Bug report. In an existing save (no mods/cc), I cannot load into all of the lots in the forest of Everdew, I get a never-ending loading screen. I have tried loading in with a sim or just via build mode and get the eternal loading screen. However, I can load into all lots in Sprucederry Grove and the Coast of Adhmor without any issues. In a new save, I can load into all of the lots in Everdew. Any suggestions for getting the existing saves to work? I've tried verifying the files - no issues were found. I haven't tried uninstalling/reinstalling the game yet. P.S. This is my first bug report and I clicked on the bug report button but in the breadcrumbs it looks like I'm suggesting an idea - Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title[XB/PS] Can't interact with Gallery without force closing game after Patch 2.32
April 28th update promised a fix to the gallery freezing up issue. This has not been completely fixed. I clicked on 10 items in the gallery normally and then it froze up when I checked again and lost my progress. The curser also moves all over the place. This is unacceptable.[PS/XB] [GALLERY] Can't download Custom Tattoos
It's been almost a month I keep trying to download tattos from the gallery on PS5 again and again and it's impossible I tried everything, verify my internet connection but nothing and is making me so mad at this point, not only I can't download it but I also can't procede with my game like "leave" the gallery and keep creating my sim, completly impossible, the game just stay still, the page loading forever. Wich means that if you had a almost done sim and try to download a tatto, well you can't save it either! Please fix this soon, is making creating sims completly impossible. Edit by crinrict This is a Playstation only issue, related to custom tattoos. If you have freezing and general issues with interacting on XBox or Playstation please use this thread instead: [XB/PS] Can' interact with Gallery without force closing game after Patch 2.32 | EA Forums - 13366628
[S] Ice Proof Sim freeze to death/get chilled moodlet (Patch 1.120.140)
In general I've seen an uptick of played Sims being auto-killed by the system. This rarely happened before getting the Life and Death package. In my current game, while playing the same household across , I've had 4 deaths of my played Sims in, I'd say less than a week of playing time. The first two were played sims that were not active. The last two, within two days at the most, were with an active Sim freezing to death. This Sim has ALL the cold weather attributes including one that says he won't be adversely affected bye cold / freezing weather (I'm paraphrasing). I can't remember the details of the first, but the system gives no way to prevent this from happening. The latest, the Sim returned home from work and joined his partner who was already celebrating with a group at the bar. I saw the Sim arrive, in normal color, almost immediately I clicked him to make an action and he was blue. My instinctual action was to have him walk to the bar so he was inside. I saw he was headed to the fire to warm up. I quickly canceled the current request and clicked on him to complete warming at the fire, and found he was automatically walking back outside to the cold! It was like I was fighting a no win battle against the system. What I would expect would include any one or combination of the following. he'd automatically put on appropriate cold weather clothes when traveling to a colder climate. His traits would kick in so he'd enjoy the cold weather vs freezing. If my Sim didn't have these traits, or not specifically the freezing one, I'd expect a Sim might occasionally freeze to death but not unless I left him out in the cold for a long time; like at an event without out appropriate clothing, or on a long jog in freezing weather. Alternately, in that last scenario, I immediately brought him into action inside the bar when brought to the location, or quickly changed into cold weather clothes, the sim would warm up and not die. I realize having one of your played Sims turn into a Ghost makes using the new Ghostly features more enticing, but give me a break..... Fortunately I save often to prevent losing too much game play when one of many crashes or uncontrollable deaths occur. I go back to the main menu without saving and find out where I have to live Groundhog Day. Unfortunately, we all know, there is no Groundhog Day. You never get the same options even if you could remember exactly what you did and in what order. Please check these algorithms and ensure the triggers for those rare events you force an active Sim to die adhere to safeguards the player has put into play for the Sim. Please add this to a 'One of the Most Irritating Game Play Situations' list. Not that it should matter in this instance, but I'm on a Mac. Game and Mac fully updated. No mods now or ever. Edit By crinrict: Adjusted Title to fit fixed report
