I imagine it would eventually transfer into the female population too, if the small eyes are part of the fathers' genetics. Eventually everyone in town would have small eyes.
That's exactly what's happened to my female child Sim. Her father was affected with boulder-jaw and squinty-eye syndrome. Unfortunately for her, she took after her father's genes and ended up looking like this.
Yeesh if the eyes are supposed to get smaller as she ages, I'm scared to see her as a teenager. Will she even have eyes?!
This is so messed up.
The whole point of playing for me is generations and genetics. Everything else is just fluff.
Granted, fun fluff, but still fluff.
Generation game play has played a massive role in the franchise since The Sims 2. It's a huge part of the way I play my game too. I can't do anything in my game until this is fixed. I think I'm also going to turn off automatic patches for TS4 too.
There's an ask a guru thread going on today at 2PM PST. We should bring this bug up in the thread.
Most definetly. I went through my townies now, and the squinty-eyes-wide-jaw syndrome has affected the entire population. They just don´t look right.
That's REALLY a bad -- many of us are going to have to restore our games to an earlier point in time or start over completely because of this bug.
It overwrites each Sim's genetics and appearance, so I don't think it's possible they could restore what the correct genetic info should be.
Wow I saw this in CAS the other day with randomly generated males and couldn't figure it out. I was also so confused about why the my sims were getting ugly! Explains it all, hope it gets fixed urgently.
Okay, so no luck on Mr. Landgraab - he aged up from teen prepatch in my current game too.
But here's a kid I made in CAS as a Teen, with a really tiny jaw and soft chin and big eyes, followed by what the game wants him to do as a YA and Adult. This is not what the game does with women, and not what it was doing with men pre-patch (at least not for me). Their eyes get smaller only from child to teen (which is the natural progression, because our heads get bigger), and their jaw shape doesn't change:
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I kept wondering why my sims' son didn't look like either of his parents.
This really needs to be fixed. I think that CAS is one of the best things about this game, but there's no point to spending lots of time on sims in CAS if the game just makes all sims look the same after a generation.
I noticed last night when my male sim grew into a adult and I thought he looked different. This thread has made me see why. Unfortunately I saved so he will have to stay that way but I won't play anymore until this is fixed cause I don't want his kids to change! X
Just had my first male born post-patch age to child. His eyes seem very small, but until I hit this thread I didn't think much of it. I guess I need to wait and see what he's like as a teen. I made his dad in CAS; mom was a townie. Neither has small eyes. Dad has aged from YA to A, but I didn't notice any particular difference in the eyes and jaw. Then again, I wasn't looking for them. I'll look next time I'm in-game. It could be that his nose dominates so much, I just didn't notice. Was really hoping the kid would get his dad's nose, but if the game is normalizing things or working on some standard of features .......
I kept wondering why my sims' son didn't look like either of his parents.
This really needs to be fixed. I think that CAS is one of the best things about this game, but there's no point to spending lots of time on sims in CAS if the game just makes all sims look the same after a generation.
I'm not sure what's happening here, but we'll look into it on our end. Thanks for the detailed photos and information, this should help.
Thank you.
As I've pointed out, it's not just happening with aging up male Sims. When I go to manage households, every single randomly generated male townie Sim has this exact same face. They all have the giant jaws and small eyes. The lack of randomization with all of them taking on this default face means that soon they will all look like this through genetics unless we make our own townies and fix them when they age up.
If you look at the male faces in profile view, the bug shows up there too. With mine, the bugged male sims in profile have very flattened faces. Much more so than they did when they looked correct. So for some reason the features flatten out *much* more than they should.
I'm not sure what's happening here, but we'll look into it on our end. Thanks for the detailed photos and information, this should help.
Thank you.
As I've pointed out, it's not just happening with aging up male Sims. When I go to manage households, every single randomly generated male townie Sim has this exact same face. They all have the giant jaws and small eyes. The lack of randomization with all of them taking on this default face means that soon they will all look like this through genetics unless we make our own townies and fix them when they age up.
In my game too.
Every male townie I encounter looks like this. Wide jaw, squinty eyes.
I have noticed the females are quite similar as well, eventhough they dont suffer the squinty-eyes-wide-jaw syndrome.
Clearly, looking at Alex Goth, the genetics are not working. Where are Bellas genes in that monstrosity?!
Guys, there is an official bug thread. So as well as talking to the gurus in the chat, please go over and click "me too" on this thread.
Clicked. I think the title should be: "Small Eyes, Wide Jaw, Flat Profile Glitch" personally...the flattened out pancake profile is bugging me as much as the other points. I just don't want the profile glitch to get forgotten when they address the small eyes, wide jaw bug.
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Agreed.
Yes!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
I'll be at work, so I'd really appreciate if you guys brought it up!
It seems to be affecting a large number of people.
That is why I may have to stop playing...
That looks terrible!
Please, I insist, post about it this afternoon! Everybody.
Let them see it is not an isolated case!
But here's a kid I made in CAS as a Teen, with a really tiny jaw and soft chin and big eyes, followed by what the game wants him to do as a YA and Adult. This is not what the game does with women, and not what it was doing with men pre-patch (at least not for me). Their eyes get smaller only from child to teen (which is the natural progression, because our heads get bigger), and their jaw shape doesn't change:
I've been playing with aging off so I never saw this phenomenon for myself...until this thread prompted me to go into CAS.
Young Adult, Adult and then Teen versions of the same sim. Do not want...
This really needs to be fixed. I think that CAS is one of the best things about this game, but there's no point to spending lots of time on sims in CAS if the game just makes all sims look the same after a generation.
@lovejoyriteia He looks like your version in my game too. I thought he just had bad luck aging up.
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"Yay".
Wonder why they didn't playtest the aging up function after changing it?? And why did they change it??
Alexander Goth in my game. Hope this get fixed very soon!
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Thank you.
As I've pointed out, it's not just happening with aging up male Sims. When I go to manage households, every single randomly generated male townie Sim has this exact same face. They all have the giant jaws and small eyes. The lack of randomization with all of them taking on this default face means that soon they will all look like this through genetics unless we make our own townies and fix them when they age up.
This is August, my sim had him with Don Lothario. I was so happy with him,
Here he is as a teen
I had his b-day party today. This completely ruined it for me.
Now as a Young Adult
boooohissssss
Not a happy camper.
In my game too.
Every male townie I encounter looks like this. Wide jaw, squinty eyes.
I have noticed the females are quite similar as well, eventhough they dont suffer the squinty-eyes-wide-jaw syndrome.
Clearly, looking at Alex Goth, the genetics are not working. Where are Bellas genes in that monstrosity?!
Clicked. I think the title should be: "Small Eyes, Wide Jaw, Flat Profile Glitch" personally...the flattened out pancake profile is bugging me as much as the other points. I just don't want the profile glitch to get forgotten when they address the small eyes, wide jaw bug.