[NOT BUG] Pre-Patch Sims: Appearance not fixed with tooth patch update [ Edited ]

[AngelGirl232]

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? 1.97.62.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Cats and Dogs, City Living, Cottage Life, University, Eco Lifestyle, Fitness Stuff, Get Famous, Get to Work, Get Together, High School Years, Nifty Knitting, ParentHood, Seasons, My Wedding Stories, Growing Together
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? By aging up a child sim that was affected by the loose tooth bug
What happens when the bug occurs? Sim has shrunken facial features as a teenager.
What do you expect to see? A normal teenage sim.
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 

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I updated my game to the latest patch and before doing so I removed all my mods. And I deleted the local thumbcachepackage. I even tried repairing the game. But my child sim that was affected by the loose tooth bug appearance is still messed up when you age her into a teenager. I have an unbugged copy of her in my gallery and the second picture is how she's supposed to look as a teen. 

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted title.

[EA_Cade · Accepted solution]

Hey all, 

For clarification: If you saved your game after a Sim was altered by the Lose Tooth feature (before we disabled it back in March), then that Sim has been permanently altered within that save file, and the fixes that were pushed live yesterday will not restore them to their previously unaltered state.

[SoraBunni]

Same thing here. I’ve waiting for this issue to be resolved so I could finally age up my sims. Their faces are still deformed with the pinched noses. 

[thefailedbeta]

@AngelGirl232 I'm confused. You say that the child was affected by the loose tooth bug. Did that child sim have their skin tone and features corrupted after having a loose tooth (ie, turned flat pitch black) or were they affected by the skewing of eyes, teeth, and facial features caused by last week's patch?

[MoonlitexAngel]

@AngelGirl232 This actually happens when they're children right after losing the tooth. Love that they ignored this part of the loose tooth bug and re-enabled it./s

[MoonlitexAngel]

@thefailedbeta Neither. When GRO was released there were two bugs loose teeth caused - the skin one you mentioned and squished facial features that get progressively worse the more teeth a child loses. They all fell under the same thread.

[SoraBunni]

@thefailedbeta Children who had lost teeth prior to the feature removal, were aging up with changed facial features. Weird faces, scrunched up noses, looking completely different. This is unrelated to the facial bug from last week. 

[WildPandasEatU]

Product: The Sims 4

Platform: Xbox

Which language are you playing the game in?English

How often does the bug occur? Everytime

What is your current game version number?1.75.2.2310

What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? I have all available Expansion packs, Game Packs, and Stuff Packs installed.

Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? By aging up a child sim that has lost one tooth or more.

What happens when the bug occurs? Sim’s facial features appear tiny/distorted as a teenager, as if they’ve shrunk or been pulled to the middle of the face.

What do you expect to see? Sims should age up to teen without their faces becoming distorted.

Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? N/A

Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? I’m not sure

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I updated my game to the latest version, but the bug is still present.

[MoonlitexAngel]

Commenting my own experience with this from last time (working on testing for this time). The child's facial genetics are changed as soon as they lose the tooth. It isn't happening upon age up, it's happening as children. It's just harder to see on a child vs a teen.

I tested this by having a child pull the tooth once I had the moodlet and after making sure their face was fine. After they pulled the tooth, I filled the gap (in case that caused the problem) and then pulled them into CAS and their features were shrunk. It seems to get progressively worse too the more teeth they lose.

The first attached picture is what he should look like, the second is after he had lost a couple teeth.

[MoonlitexAngel]

@SoraBunniSince it happens as children and this is a genetics issue and not a visual issue like the bug caused by last week's patch, waiting is unlikely to fix it sadly.

The only workaround I found was using MCCC to copy/paste their old facial genetics onto them as a teen. It's part of the "CAS" module. This requires keeping old versions of your child Sims available (if you don't have one you can recover a save up to 5 saves back) to copy features from.

Preventing it from happening in the first place means either skipping the child stage entirely or just not letting them sleep ever cuz if I remember right the loose tooth moodlet happens only after they wake up from sleeping (don't know if naps count or if there's any form of sleep they can perform that doesn't see it come up) 

[AngelGirl232]

@thefailedbeta I haven't been playing the game so I wasn't affected by last week's patch. I updated today because I was hoping my sim's face would finally be fixed. I think there were two different components to the loose tooth bug. Skin tone corruption and changes in facial appearance (especially if didn't pull the tooth right away after getting a loose tooth buff). I've only dealt with the latter. When the bug first came out and people mentioned that their sims' faces were changing when they aged them into a teen I tested my two child sims who had loose teeth by aging them up in unsaved games. One was spared this one was not.