The Sims 4's rampant being pregnant bug was apparently brought on by 'efficiency optimizations' and has now been mounted
The newborn growth is over. EA has neutered a weird bug lately launched to The Sims 4 that erroneously marked Sims as being pregnant, no matter whether or not they have been male or had beforehand engaged in ‘woo-hoo’.
The bug initially appeared final week, slipping undetected into the sport in a base sport patch that coincided with the launch of the brand new Enchanted by Nature DLC. The bug indiscriminately recognized random Sims as being pregnant, whereas additionally seemingly breaking every thing else associated to being pregnant. Child bumps have been flattened, being pregnant exams vanished from the cabinets, and regardless of my earlier assertion, these phantom pregnancies by no means appeared to provide simulated sprogs.
The bug additionally had a number of different side-effects adjoining to the sport’s reproductive cycle. It prevented falsely impregnated Sims from growing old, however stopped them from woo-hoo-ing ever once more. Now there is a take care of the satan for you.
Anyway, EA says this has all now been mounted. “Right now’s replace will repair the current points seen with Sim Being pregnant launched on July 1,” the writer introduced on its web site yesterday. “The problems have been associated to efficiency optimizations and have now been reverted to resolve the problems reported.” I am sorry, however the extreme pregnancies in The Sims 4 have been brought on by improved efficiency? That is too good.
Alongside this common repair, EA additionally notes that “any Sim being pregnant associated mods ought to return to their pre-update performance, although it’s best to nonetheless test with the precise mod writer for updates.” It had not occurred to me up till studying this that Sims 4 being pregnant mods would exist, and having simply Googled it, I can solely apologise for a way severely I underestimated the Web on that one.
In any case, your Sims ought to turn into pregnant within the regular approach now. Not less than, as regular as a sport that lets your Sims have youngsters with The Grim Reaper will get. As for a way the Enchanted by Nature DLC has been obtained extra broadly, the neighborhood appears divided on it. One Steam assessment by EmeraldOak calls it “the most effective packs that [EA has] launched”, whereas others observe that the fairy theme is a bit bland and superficial, which to be sincere sounds typical of The Sims 4.