June 2 2016
I was super excited to say that alien faces were finally fixed after all this time--But I was tricked.
Bamboozled! Flim-flammed! Hoodwinked!
Since I found out alien faces change when they age last year, I'd test it out in CAS every new patch afterward. Every time I did, I was upset, seeing that it was always the same.
If you don't know what I mean, it's this. The faces of aliens would always change when they age up (or down), regardless of mods. Before, it'd show up like this in CAS.
This is my test alien here, Richard Swain. You can see his face change from Teen to Young Adult.
This only seems to affect aliens who don't have large eyes, pointy chins and small noses. Most game generated aliens tend to fall into those bounds, so they age up without any problems.
However, I checked the game after the patch, and popped in Richard. I was surprised!
(Teen to Young Adult, Young Adult to Adult)
Richard didn't change! I was ecstatic until I decided to do some testing. It was
too good to be true, I thought. I put Richard in some sweet new duds, and threw him in the Daisy Hovel in a new save...
I had him make a beeline to the kitchen to make a birthday cake...
...Throw on the candles...
Then...
???
He was normal!
I literally screamed until I realized the "Richard Aged Up!" window was open. I closed it and then panned back to Richard.
Richard pls
So yes... Bug's still there. My CAS made aliens are pretty much frozen in time still... Unfortunate for my child aliens to watch their friends age up without them as they stay in the guise of an 8-year-old human.
Hopefully it'll be fixed soon. Got my fingers crossed!
(This was already posted in the bug forums and the
Answers HQ forum as well, so I'm not sure if I should repost it?)
Anyone else have any alien aging face problems?
I'm gonna try repairing my game real quick to see if it'll fix it
even though I'm pretty sure it won't work since it hadn't worked for all those other times-- ack, I'm being a debbie downer again rip
On the
bright side, the lighting is nice.
(ahhahah pun)
October 27 2016 Patch
This was a rather big patch, so I hoped maybe the devs secretly fixed this? Yeah... Nope.
Aging in CAS seems to have broke again too.
I aged Jim up and down in CAS and found that his face changes.
Here's a gif showing Jim and Emilia as a Teen, Young Adult, Adult, then Elder. (They're originally Young Adults.)
Here's to hoping they'll get fixed soon
November 7 2017 Patch
Another big patch means another try for the aliens! I jumped in game and popped in Jim again...
...And it's a bust.
Tested in both CAS and in-game with the birthday cake as per usual, with no mods. :T I also checked it with two fresh CAS aliens, Rim and Pim, and they too changed as well.
Here's to another year of hoping another giant patch will save them all.
Comments
Also still waiting for a way to copy their alien face/body to their human disguise and vice versa
Basically they lose any features you gave them that make them look unique and aging up turns them into generic bug-eyed aliens lol
sims pictures
Here's hoping they fix it.
This is the same alien. I exaggerated the facial features that change when they age up.
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I know for sure @TheBlaireWitch made topics about it. I mostly comment about it here and there like a broken record
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Oh I see. Maybe that's just alien facial characteristics? in the same way human faces become a bit leaner when we move from children to teens? although the eyes moving further apart suggests otherwise.
The way this glitch works seems similar to an old 2014 face glitch that affected male sims who aged up within that time frame. All male sims that aged up would automatically age up with small eyes and a square jaw, regardless of what genetics may dictate. It was later fixed so it doesn't happen now--although if you had a sim during that time, it's within their gene pool now so it can show up later.
I just don't think it's fair if this is a supposed feature that aliens have to look exactly the same as a default alien when you can honestly customize everything and everyone now...
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Please fix our aliens. Please oh please!
Does anyone know which SimGurus would be the best points of contact for a request like this?
Hello.
You may like to press " me too" on this thread link on the AHQ EA site that refers to the issue, and post your experiences there
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/OPEN-GTW-Alien-Face-changing-on-age-up/m-p/5111215#M21563
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
You're welcome
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
Hello @Service306
Other simmers are also having this issue,
You may like to press " me too" on this thread link on the AHQ EA site that refers to the issue, or post your experiences there
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/OPEN-Child-s-Hair-Color-Changing-When-Re-Opening-Save-File/m-p/3581609#M3330
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
Hello @Gardening
After your sims have aged up, you can enter the cas.fulleditmode cheat and go into CAS and edit the sim if you would like to.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
If you don't like aliens, you don't have to get GTW. Or if you already have it, use the satellite to ward them away and/or avoid staying too long in areas that would spawn many of them. There's also mods to wipe them out of towns, too.
As for elders, if you don't like them, you can turn aging off so your sims won't age. If you do choose for them to age, you can use the cas.fulleditmode cheat @rosemow provided above to edit the body. If you're concerned about their faces, there are CC face masks you can use on your sims that can negate the effect of wrinkles and lines on their faces, and it is possible to have a "worse back" in the Sims 4 with CAS since you can actually change posture by dragging the back like this:
Pulling upward makes the back straighter, and pulling downward gives them a slouching posture.
I personally like that sims get wrinkles as they get older. It makes sense.
As for the actual topic at hand, my aliens still age up funny. This still isn't fixed yet.
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