"Known Alien" tag hits everyone in conversation -- even humans.

Ayradyss

I just came across this. It's not exactly easy to replicate, as it's triggered by an NPC alien's autonomous interaction. (I did have it happen twice, so it seems to be consistent -- it's just that there's no way to purposely trigger it yourself, you just have to wait and see if the circumstances come about.)

What happened is this: My Sim was at a dance party with a friend. So she was in a group, though only with one other person. (I'm not sure if the grouped condition is significant, but mention it just in case.) She got into a conversation, which became a multi-person conversation. One of the NPCs in the conversation was an alien. This alien was not in my Sim's group, but was a part of the multi-Sim conversation. Said alien NPC used an alien power. Suddenly my Sim got a whole set of notifications that she'd discovered an alien in disguise -- one for each Sim in the conversation. Yes, every Sim in the conversation was tagged as a 'Known Alien' to my Sim. Now I have human Sims like Luna Villareal and Geoffry Landgraab marked as 'Known Aliens,' among others.

I don't know if there's anyway to 'undo' the tagging, but it would be nice. (Other than going back to a previous save and losing a few hours of play -- I hadn't saved for a while.) Hopefully this will be noticed and fixed -- that would be wonderful.

rosemow

Hello.
I am sorry that you have had this tagging issue in your game.
If you haven't saved the game, it would be good to come out of the game without saving, although you will lose progress.

If you have saved, you can try rolling back your save game to an earlier version, before the dance party conversation.
These links explain how to do that.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/783120/how-to-roll-back-your-save/p1
https://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-restore-a-previous-saved-game-in-the-sims-4/

If the issue continues to keep occurring, repairing the game may help. To do that, right click on the sims 4 picture in Origin and click repair.
Try resetting your sims 4 folder and see if that helps. To do that, move your sims 4 folder ( that is in Documents -Electronic Arts - then the sims 4 folder is there ) to the desktop. Then start the game, and a new sims 4 folder will be generated. Exit the game and then copy back the "options.ini" and "ReticulatedSplinesView" files and the "saves" , "screenshots" "tray" "custom music " and "mods" folders from the desktop sims 4 folder to the new sims 4 folder, replacing the new generated files/ folders with the old files/folders from the desktop sims 4 folder .

Ayradyss

Thanks for taking the time to read this and for the kind suggestions, Rosemow. You're always one of the kindest people on these forums, and I really appreciate how you always try to help!

As far as I can tell, this is just some kind of glitch in the conversation system. It doesn't really 'gate' any gameplay -- meaning it doesn't break anything in a way that prevents me from playing my game or using any interactions. But I do end up with these 'Known Alien' tags on non-alien Sims in my relationship panel that just don't go away. I don't know if there's any fix for that. Nothing that I've found so far.

crinrict

Sounds like a bug. There were/are other instances of this. They fixed the one where you would suddenly be in a romantic relationship with everyone in group conversation. Sounds like there's more ..

If you could make a report at AHQ here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/bd-p/The-Sims-4-Bugs that'd be great, I'll add it to the compiled list then.

rosemow

Hello.
It would be great if you made a bug report thread about the issue like crinrict posted about, on the AHQ EA site. By doing that, other simmers can also post their feedback on the issue or press " me too".

Ayradyss

@crinrict -- thanks for checking on this! I've entered a bug report here, as you suggested.

rosemow

Hello.
It is good that you have created a bug report on the AHQ EA site. Other simmers who have had the same issue can also post their feedback about the issue on that thread, or press " me too". It is great that you have posted the link to the bug report thread here.

crinrict

Ayradyss wrote: »

@crinrict -- thanks for checking on this! I've entered a bug report here, as you suggested.

Great, Thanks. I'll add it to the list tomorrow