There seem to be a lot of new pre-interact interactions (like kissing both cheeks, etc). One that's starting to get kind of annoying is I'm constantly seeing two sims walk up to one another and, for lack of a better word, seethe at one another like they are angry. Then they just go into a normal conversation like nothing happened. It's really stupid looking; if they actually disliked one another I could see it, but half my sims seem to greet each other like this, like two wary dogs, and it's almost like it's related to the new pets somehow. What's next; are my sims going to sniff each other's tails?
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The thing is though, the sims aren't doing a mean interaction afterwards. Maybe they do this when they ARE going to be mean as well, but they're doing it as an almost standard way to say hello in my game. And my sim is constantly kissing other sims on both cheeks, including other male sims (whether or not he has a romantic relationship with any of them). I think what you're thinking of as far as the kiss cheek is the regular kiss on the cheek pre-greet, and yes, that one only happens with romance, but there is also a double kiss cheek, kinda like the French do. Someone said that these other ones were supposed to start with City Living, but weren't really working, but I'm not really sure.
The kiss on the cheek happened between two of my male sims who were good friends (no romance bar). It's almost always a handshake so I'm not sure what happened. It was slightly awkward to watch (there's nothing wrong with that, but they were supposed to be "manly" men and they're taken). It's certainly not supposed to add to the relationship bar, because it's one of those things that's just an initial greeting, like the waving/glaring/hugging/handshakes.
Ya, I am not a fan of my hetero male sim rubbing cheeks with Don Lothario.
Speaking of greetings, has anyone noticed the constant hug greeting amount household members? Sure, hugs are great, but it gets old when the 2 sims are eating at the table together, both get up, pick up their plates, and then hug each other? I can understand the hugs if both sims are standing up, but not when they’re eating at the table.
I started a bug thread for the excessively buggy greetings on the EA help forums. An EA person said that they’d take note. Maybe it’ll be looked at for the next patch!
WHAT'S WITH THIS GREETING ? A BUG ? (link here)
Yea, it happens and not just with household members. Basically any greeting that isn’t a wave usually causes them to halt what they’re doing just to initiate said greetings. It’s a bit annoying in that sense, especially in your example where they get up just to hug. I wish sims would learn to just skip greetings sometimes, especially when you live with the person and just saw them a few hours ago. They should also skip most of it when one or both are already sitting down. Would significantly reduce the amount of musical chairs going on in this game.
if some of your sims fight & argue then it also might be they are in enemy clubs, you have to check that, if you don't want clubs fighting each other, then you can set those to either neutral or friendly while playing the leader of the club
but both cases have nothing to do with what OP describes
it's about just the initial autonomous iconless greeting animation, nothing more
That's the greeting kiss. It came with Get Together but since the Nov patch it happens a lot more. It's an autonomous interaction. It's just a friendly kiss on both cheeks.
I don't use clubs, by the way, and I think it's a bit ridiculous that my same household members would randomly start fighting and brawling all the time, since they're actually related and have a good bond with each other, but that does seem a bit off topic.
The kiss on the cheek interaction is quite common where I come from and you don't really have to know someone all that well in order to do it. When I'm on a birthday sometimes people I barely know initiate it. It always makes me uncomfortable and I don't like it, so if I can hold it off and just shake hands I will, but it's quite common in our culture. No need to be good friends for it either, lol. The only time I would consider it truly weird is with someone you've never met before.
I noticed this for the first time in my game last night too. I'm doing an Extreme Rags to Riches challenge so my Sim basically lives in the parks. It seemed almost every greeting between townies/premades was the seething animation. But, then they'd just start talking normally, taking selfies, showing pics, etc. Some even hugged afterward.
The only time I've ever seen the cheek kiss greeting thing was between one of my Sims and his librarian friend.
Doesn't really bother me. At least in this save. As long as they give my Sim tips for playing the violin he fished up, no biggie. I can see how it would be annoying if was happening to my main Sim though and if the relationships were to take a hit downward.
the seething/angry greeting occured once yesterday, unfortunately it was too quick to make a screenshot & i still don't like it, it doesn't make ANY sense to me - should it mean that those sims don't match with another or what ? even if, how have those sims enough info without even ever have spoken to each other that they dislike each other that much to greet that way ? doesn't make any sense
& yes, that Ask To Leave animation is just awful !
in TS2 they just wave, this is how it should be, neutral
i am not against negative interactions, by far not, TS4 needs those, but not having a choice & being left with only one awful animation to move forward with simple everyday interaction between sims is very limiting & actually skewing my gameplay
Then in windenburgh she seemed to take great offense to Marcus flex sitting down with her at a coffee shop along with the other sim in the background. These sims were judging super hard.
TS4 uses the waving animation but it's for "Goodbye" interaction, and that just leaves the conversation, A Sim won't leave the lot. There was/is the mod to change "Ask To Leave" animation to that waving one. I'm not sure if that's still working. Still, the best option would be if we had a choice whether we want to kick out our guests or end a meeting in more friendly way. It could also be based on the current emotion.
This is the mod that coolspear @ TFM Naughty Asylum had adjusted to update it. This was the original Friendlier Goodbye mod that Reubenhood had made back in 2014.
I've used the Friendlier Goodbye mod forever as the alternative looks like there is something wrong, lol.