Pets patch released

[gethane]

By replacing the exe with the older (cracked) version, you're essentially rolling back part of the patch. You are now running an unholy hybrid.

Awesome!  I wonder if I should stop that.

[Giggy]

shit patched up.
I'm scared of what would come out as

[ZiggyDoodle]

Growing up did nothing to improve the borked face.

Elder sister Sienna holding Cassie as a toddler.




And now, Cassie after she spun into childhood.



As this now appears to be a genetic defect, I wonder if it can be passed on should Cassie have kids. 

[miros]

As soon as she's old enough to use the plastic surgery machine, do so! 

Then run her through SimPE to copy the modified face to her inheritable genetics.

You don't want those genes reproduced!

[Qosmic]

Or use Sim Surgery right away instead. That's what I'd do. Maybe export her older sister, tweak her features a bit in BS or CAS to not have an identical sim, and then use her as an archetype.

[J. M. Pescado]

Simsurgery doesn't work for actually changing sims at last check. For some arcane reason it possesses only the capability to copy one sim that is ALREADY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD onto another similar sim. This is rather useless, since copying a sim in such a manner thus requires you to CREATE AN UNWANTED TEMPLATE SIM, which means fun-with-deleting-crap.

[Qosmic]

But I thought it was safe to delete sims from the Sim Bin if they hadn't interacted with anyone or been put on a lot? Without any extra deleting of memories etc.

Anyway, another alternative would be to use the older sister as the archetype directly, and just modify the dominant face parts perhaps.

[jrd]

The wrong NPC hair is not limited to maids: I also get it on my papergirls/boys. But not all NPCs are affected, police and gardeners appear fine.
Still no problems seen on Sim aging (I've had a baby - toddler- child and a child - teen transition thus far).

[Ness]

There's a child at my school with naturally red hair and naturally black eyebrows.

[J. M. Pescado]

But I thought it was safe to delete sims from the Sim Bin if they hadn't interacted with anyone or been put on a lot? Without any extra deleting of memories etc.

Anyway, another alternative would be to use the older sister as the archetype directly, and just modify the dominant face parts perhaps.

Wrong. Deleting sims from the sim bin does not fully remove them. You should instead delete them with the deleter tool from the Lot Debugger and cleanup in SimPE.

SimPE's simsurgery cannot import a modified face in any form. You would have to manually extract a LXNR and import it over the one in your sim file.

[floopyboo]

Has anyone else had a jump bug explosion since installing the patch, or am I just extraordinarily lucky?

[Qosmic]

Wrong. Deleting sims from the sim bin does not fully remove them. You should instead delete them with the deleter tool from the Lot Debugger and cleanup in SimPE.

SimPE's simsurgery cannot import a modified face in any form. You would have to manually extract a LXNR and import it over the one in your sim file.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by simsurgery not being able to import a modified face. I also don't know what LXNR is, but what I meant was using the existing older sister (as she is) as the archetype, transfer her looks onto her sibling (when they're of the same age), and possibly edit the dominant facial features in the Sim DNA afterwards. But sure, plastic surgery would probably be simpler (including modified genetics) than this method.

[Sleepycat]

in my game any sim that looked as scary as Cassie, would die 

The wrong NPC hair is not limited to maids: I also get it on my papergirls/boys. But not all NPCs are affected, police and gardeners appear fine.
Still no problems seen on Sim aging (I've had a baby - toddler- child and a child - teen transition thus far).

I noticed the night before last that I have a Maxis/ea female vampire (the Contessa or whatever she is called) that has blond eyebrows and brown hair. I haven't noticed any other hair problems yet but I also haven't been able to play much.

Has anyone else had a jump bug explosion since installing the patch, or am I just extraordinarily lucky?

I have had 1 jump since patching pets, female sim was playing the piano and husband walked over (not sure what he was going to do) and suddenly she was standing next to him. The same sim had used the same piano before with no problem (after patch) but the husband wasn't in the room so I figured it was caused by whatever he was going to do or a hack. I wish I had remembered to turn testingcheats on before playing that Lot.

[dizzy]

Wow. I'm glad I haven't bothered patching yet. 

[LadyLiberty]

That poor, poor child. 

I am with you, dizzy...  all the way.

I may be wishfully thinking, but perhaps EA will catch these things with whatever patch goodies go into Seasons.  Was it just me or did it seem like GLS cleaned things up and made them run nicely?  I find myself wishing whoever was in charge of that would have been put on this project.

*glad she listened to Pescado*

[ZiggyDoodle]

I've played only Cassie's lot since "patching."  Naturally I made a backup of my game folder before installing the patch.  If I remove my current game folder and replace it with my backup, will this effectively remove the patch?

Am guessing it won't, so perhaps Cassie is destined to be the old maid of Pleasantview, surrounded by lots of cats.

Presuming she lives that long.   

[maxon]

Growing up did nothing to improve the borked face.

As this now appears to be a genetic defect, I wonder if it can be passed on should Cassie have kids. 

mmmm ... it looks like her cheekbones are falling out of her face.

[kuronue]

crapcrapcrap... is it possible to, um, un-patch my game? Or would I have to reinstall?

One of my legacy heirs married and had kids with a redheaded maid... I don't want to suddanly have blond hair mucking up my photos >.< I havn't gone in game since I patched I think

[Tyraa Rane]

I thought the issue was with NPC outfits...? So if the maid's no longer wearing her NPC outfit, she should have the correct hair, I think. One of my sims moved in and married Lucy Hanby; she still has her red hair. (The blonde maid who replaced her, however, has suddenly become a brunette. )

[KatEnigma]

You can't uninstall the patch. And replacing the game folder won't do it either. You'll have to uninstall/reinstall Pets. Which I finally did last night so that I at least have the option of taking out my phonehack without breaking all my phones. 


I need to play some more in other lots, though. I did age 2 babies up to be mildly ugly toddlers, but I can't tell if that was just coincidence or not since they were the first kids born to their parents. The one did improve when he aged to child, the other is still a toddler. I HAVE gotten kids who look like that in the game, or at least in CAS. I usually only play CAS sims and test out in CAS that I can get children from them that aren't malformed like that, otherwise they're not allowed to breed or I adjust their features.  But this time I just made Hilary Duff a brunette in CAS and then married her to Malcolm Landgraab.

[jrd]

I thought the issue was with NPC outfits...? So if the maid's no longer wearing her NPC outfit, she should have the correct hair, I think. One of my sims moved in and married Lucy Hanby; she still has her red hair. (The blonde maid who replaced her, however, has suddenly become a brunette. )

In my experience this is correct. The NPC outfits are messed up, no doubt due to some improper merger of Seasons hair+outfit code.

[kuronue]

I don't think I made her change clothes ever.. but, ok, so putting her in some decent CC would fix it, or prevent it, or whatever? Got it.

[ZiggyDoodle]

Borked Cassie is not worth reinstalling the game, plus I'm curious to see if her, ah, delicate cheekbones will continue into her teen years. 

If so, a cowplant is in her future.

[hedgekat]

I haven't installed Pets yet much less the patch and I have had some rather unusual looking toddlers.   They don't always grow out of it as children but usually do by adulthood.  The worst I had was the boy with two faces.  Like Janus he had an extra face on the back of his head.  And also an extra eye in each temple.  Really weird.  But that one did grow out of it as a child. (I'd post a pic but can't figure out how to do it.) The ones with weird cheekbones usually take longer. 

 Also  with one of my neighborhoods shortly after installing Uni/NL or possibly one of their patches,  all the born-in-game sims in the neighborhood had their DNA reset as if they were CAS sims.  Both dominant and recessive traits were the same.  It was a b**** to fix but I did have a hard copy of all of them so I was able to fix it with Simpe.  And it was only one neighborhood that was affected.  The hood was only in second gen at that time.  Now it's in fifth and has over 400 characters.  NO npcs or townies.   Sure would hate for that to happen again. 

[Arina]

I haven't installed Pets yet much less the patch and I have had some rather unusual looking toddlers.   They don't always grow out of it as children but usually do by adulthood.  The worst I had was the boy with two faces.  Like Janus he had an extra face on the back of his head.  And also an extra eye in each temple.  Really weird.  But that one did grow out of it as a child. (I'd post a pic but can't figure out how to do it.)

I think if that happened in my game I would probably scream and cry irl. That is terrifying!

Thanks for the advice on the patch and Seasons, and thanks to everyone who's posted their horror stories, for you have saved my sims' future children from an ugly (literally!) fate