Because the newest Sims 4 replace launched, gamers have seen some odd bugs–even by the Sims’ requirements. As of the most recent patch, which launched burglar Robin Banks to the sport, little one and child Sims might seem pregnant, have beer-bellies, or be oddly muscular.
Some gamers on The Sims subreddit, as picked up by Eurogamer, seen that a few of their little one sims had been out of the blue showing pregnant–in one case, the consumer claimed the bug was affecting each male little one of their recreation.
The bug seems to be visible only–the little one Sims have fortunately not been given the precise being pregnant state and usually are not about to present beginning to different Sims–but in a recreation like this, visuals are essential to most gamers.
Different posts on the Sims subreddit recommend there are extra visible glitches affecting younger Sims, with one publish displaying a group of surprisingly buff infants, and one other displaying a baby Sim who seems like he is been hitting the fitness center.
One Reddit consumer theorized that the sport is one way or the other mixing up little one and grownup physique varieties, mistakenly making use of grownup musculature, beer bellies, or pregnant bellies to little one and toddler Sims. Whereas it is simple to repair an grownup Sim who’s been assigned the incorrect physique sort, little one Sims’ our bodies cannot be personalized, making this bug troublesome to get round. Even ageing up after which regressing the Sim would not seem to reset the body-distorting bug, based on gamers’ experiments.
The Sims has a historical past of unintentionally hilarious bugs, just like the one which gave infants freakishly lengthy limbs again when the brand new life state was first launched, however EA’s poor observe file of fixing bugs means gamers are sometimes anxious about how lengthy disruptive bugs will stick round. Whereas this bug hasn’t been formally acknowledged but, EA encourages gamers to report bugs by way of its boards, the place a thread has been began to catalogue physique distortion in little one Sims.
EA lately re-released The Sims and The Sims 2 as legacy editions, together with all their DLC packs. Nevertheless, these re-releases additionally launched with numerous bugs which have pissed off gamers. A Sims neighborhood supervisor has stated that the legacy recreation bugs are at the moment being investigated.