Re: [OPEN] [PSP] P. Investigator: Lots Don't Spawn with Specters or Cursed Objec

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Re: [OPEN] [PSP] P. Investigator: Lots Don't Spawn with Specters or Cursed Objec

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I’m having this too!

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Paranormal Stuff Pack

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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.99.305.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All packs installed except: Journey to Bautu My First Pet Stuff Dream Home Decorator Nifty Knitting Horse Ranch No Kits installed.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Not too sure, I stumbled upon it while playing.
What happens when the bug occurs? When the bug happens, ghosts from the Paranormal Stuff Pack, won't appear on the lot for the Ghost hunting career.
What do you expect to see? Accepting the job and going to the lot works fine, but after I get there to start banishing the ghosts, none show up so the job becomes incomplete.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

This bug only happens after a period of time of my sim doing the job without problems and then suddenly it just stops working. I have tried another sim and the same thing occurs. Then I just ultimately don't play that career. I do have mods installed; however I took them out and I'm still having the same issue. 

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Sims 4 Paranormal Investigator: no cursed objects or specters on gigs

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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Sony Playstation 4
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.80
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Paranormal Stuff Pack, Snowy Escape, Get Together, Cottage Living, Desert Luxe Kit, Werewolves, Realm of Magic, Discover University, Seasons, Cats & Dogs, My First Pet Stuff, Island Living, Get Famous, City Living, Parenthood, Vampires, Get to Work
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Become a licensed Paranormal Investigator and go on a gig. After the first few gigs, haunted objects and specters will stop spawning in the home. Maybe 1 cursed object will spawn every hour and the only way to finish the gig is to spam the “Perform Ceremony” option and stay late.
What happens when the bug occurs? No cursed objects or specters will spawn on gigs after the few jobs. Maybe 1 cursed object will spawn an hour and that is it. It is not enough to fill the progress bar. You cannot progress through the gig unless you spam “Perform Ceremony” and knock down the 1 cursed object that will spawn an hour. You must also stay late at the gig and cheat your energy level up in order to perform enough ceremonies to pass.
What do you expect to see? There should be cursed objects and specters on the site when I show up for the gig and keep spawning throughout the gig. The amount should increase the higher difficulty of the job.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

I cannot properly use this pack unless this bug is patched. This is a serious bug, it leaves the pack entirely unplayable and there is no known workaround. 

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Re: [OPEN] [PSP] P. Investigator: Lots Don't Spawn with Specters or Cursed Objec

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Another Me Too added to the pile after 3 years of this issue not being fixed, but I'm not surprised, it's a pretty strange bug. I had it happen on the first gig before I ever tried this career so I didn't even know it was broken. After failing many times and finding out my experience with this pack is all wrong, I investigated why.

 

When the active gig starts and your Sim travels to the target household lot, the lot itself gets a modifier applied that is supposed to run actions on "spin up" which is when the loading screen is still covering the game. And the game correctly recognizes the active gig and runs the actions... but the actions don't happen. That's because to perform these actions the playable active Sim has to be loaded during "spin up", but that for some reason fails and happens too late. Answering why that fails is really difficult and I could only expect the developers to figure it out.

 

On the technical side, the ZoneModifier 'ZoneModifierBroadcastLoot' action runs the '_perform_action' method but 'active_sim' is always None on saves that encounter this issue. Makes no sense to me, but seems like a potential flaw with how the spin up state for setting the active Sim happens after zone modifier actions run and need that Sim. Something somewhere doesn't happen because of something else and hopefully someone finally looks at it and corrects it.

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Re: [OPEN] [PSP] P. Investigator: Lots Don't Spawn with Specters or Cursed Objec

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So I don't know what is actually wrong with the game, other than what I explained in my previous post, but I made a fix for this bug. The fix itself is a hacky workaround that assures existence of the active Sim when loading into a gig to perform the necessary actions for the career to work, so it might even fix some other bugs in the game related to this issue. Who knows.

 

Get the fix here: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1011850/paranormal-investigator-career-spawn-issue-fix-m...

Hopefully this link won't be considered a third party link and removed since it's the official Sims forum.

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Re: [OPEN] [PSP] P. Investigator: Lots Don't Spawn with Specters or Cursed Objec

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@MR_TURBODRIVER I saw your post on eX-Twitter and if I ever get around to playing this career before the official fix, I thank you in advance!
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Re: [OPEN] [PSP] P. Investigator: Lots Don't Spawn with Specters or Cursed Objec

★ Apprentice

I'm having the same problem. Disappointing to see this hasn't been fixed but I guess we expect too much of EA these days.

First time I played this career recently, so didn't know it wasn't supposed to be like this. Failed a bunch of them because I couldn't complete in time. 

Human sim. Pregnant and not pregnant - same problem.

Then suddenly it started working. Same save. Out of nowhere. It was great, we were painting and baking for the spectres and everything was fine.

Now I load up again and it's broken again.. 

I'm trying a few different tips from this thread but nothing is working. Don't really want to download a mod to get this to work, just want things to work as they're supposed to.

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No Specters on a Paranormal Investigation

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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.107.151.1020 DX9
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Almost all of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Go on a paranormal investigation with level 5 medium skill
What happens when the bug occurs? I take my sim on a paranormal investigation, but no specters spawn on the lot. Paranormal objects do appear, and occasionally Temperance as well, but never specters.
What do you expect to see? Specters should be spawning on these investigations, especially on the hard level ones.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

My sim (a regular sim) has an investigator license that he got from Guidry. When I take him on a paranormal investigation, no matter the difficulty, specters fail to spawn. This makes the investigations very boring. There are paranormal objects and occasionally Temperance, but no specters. I've never downloaded any cc or mods, and specters do spawn on haunted residential lots, but not during an investigation.

 

I know there are a number of people with this issue, but no one has found a solution yet.

Please help, thanks Standard smile

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No Specters Spawning During Paranormal Investigation

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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.107.151.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Cats and Dogs, Seasons, Cottage Living, City Living, Island Living, Eco Lifestyle, High School Years, Growing Together, Get Together, Horse Ranch, Outdoor Retreat, Spa Day, Dine Out, Vampires, Werewolves, Parenthood, Strangerville, Realm of Magic, Romantic Garden, Backyard Stuff, Paranormal Stuff, Bowling Night, My First Pet, Moschino, Tiny Living
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a Paranormal Investigator sim go to work and wait.
What happens when the bug occurs? No specters spawn on the lot, nor are they preset upon arriving. Cursed objects appear as normal, only the specters are missing.
What do you expect to see? I expect specters to be present when my paranormal investigator sim goes to work.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

This bug seems to have started at the same time that my sim was called to a gig at an apartment rather than a house for the first time, but I'm not sure if the apartment caused it or if it's just a coincidence. I put my family on the gallery and moved them to a fresh save and the glitch was still present, but if I switched to a new household and tried there they did appear so I do think it has something to do with the lots she's been to.

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Re: No Specters Spawning During Paranormal Investigation

★★★★★ Apprentice

I just got this bug now. The event popup showed on the top left of the screen, but the space next to the haunted house pic was blank. No Specters were popping up. No Temperance. Over time the haunted items popped up across the lot, but not nearly enough to successfully finish the job. My sim's performance took a huge tank from fair to poor.

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