Latest The Sims 4 Expansion Triggers Pregnancy Wave

Latest The Sims 4 Expansion Triggers Pregnancy Wave

From DualShockers (Written by AJ Arnaldo) on | OpenCritic

If you're doing a ranking of all the funniest game-breaking bugs of all time, I bet you'd put The Sims 4's July 1 patch at the #1 spot. In what might be the most hilariously catastrophic bug in The Sims 4's decade-long history, EA's July 1 patch has turned the game into one massive maternity ward.

To be clear, the bug isn't affecting every single player in the game, but it's so widespread that a significant number of players are saying that they're getting false pregnancy markers which created bizarre and funny situations where characters who shouldn't be pregnant are now expecting.

Welcome to The Sims 4 Enchanted By Nature expansion, where everyone can be fairies and get wings alongside a pregnancy apocalypse.

The Technical Oopsie That Started It All

It all started when The Sims 4's pregnancy system broke down after the July 1 patch. This prevented players from taking pregnancy tests, using the "Try for Baby" action, and going through the normal pregnancy stages.

Apparently, the cause of this problem is because of EA's newest game pack, Enchanted By Nature, which in its implementation in the game, has somehow also removed the pregnancy...