Infants are unplayable

[Emilystewart]

They are severely broken to the point interactions are not working at all with them and multiple times care isn't working, your sim just stands there and I had my child taken by child services because no matter how much I chose to feed, my sim would stand there no matter what and cancel the action. They are frequently breaking my sim autonomy and are bypassing 'autonomy off'. Even trying to do tummy time or even something as basic as changing a diaper does not work. And the infant frequently resets my sim when on the high chair or changing table, sometimes the infant freezes in the high chair and the only way is to move the chair.
And if you put actions into a queue, your sim will automatically do an action not part of the queue or for example would do the second interaction first. They never do the action I do, if I try to change the diaper the sim would feed the infant even when their hunger bar is almost full.

I've never seen the most buggiest feature in a video game before and I never had to go to manage households this many times due to my sim autonomy breaking because even with autonomy off, your sim spams 'check infant' which randomly gets stuck in the queue. I've been on the loading screen more than playing with infants at this point how were they released in a abysmal state??? FYI I play with NO mods or CC, I have DLCs. outrageous, never going to purchase another dlc

[Cat Night]

There are a few things you can do if the infant stuff is buggy, let the infant give the instructions, like get put down here or get fed by, or pick up the infant first before giving any of the other prompts.

[Deus Ex]

I don't bother with them, too broken and annoying to deal with. I just skip that life stage for most part. Only sometimes when i am in mood i do it a bit. Maybe for households i feel more invested in.

[Horns Ablaze]

Yup, very much on point. Bumping for relevance.

[blakkat320]

I noticed the interactions get worse if both the parent and the infant's needs are low. I'm playing base game and have to reset Sims a lot whenever I'm on a lot with an infant. Toddlers used to be buggy, too, especially with the high chair, so it's an old bug showing up in dlc. That's not good.

[Limouzine]

Maxis is focusing too much on young adult content, so it's a no brainer that most of the content meant for elders and toddlers get ignored, and most likely barely even function.

[James3157]

Originally posted by Ranger:

Maxis is focusing too much on young adult content, so it's a no brainer that most of the content meant for elders and toddlers get ignored, and most likely barely even function.

I think that elders get ignored slightly more than toddlers, but even though that is true elders are actually my third favorite lifestage after teens (2nd favorite lifestage overall even if I did not own High School Years), adults, and young adults (tied 1st place with adult lifestage because there is very little difference between them besides a slightly older looking sim for adult) instead of toddler (3rd least favorite after infant and newborn where I actually like newborn less than infant because they are treated as objects) or child (4th favorite) lifestage. Growing Together barely adds any new gameplay to elders. Life & Death seems to add more meaningful gameplay for elders than Growing Together, but only for the dying part of it and a possibility for rebirth when an elder dies so that way he or she is not old anymore where probably the best recommend lifestage for rebirth is somewhere between toddler (especially if you want top notch or happy toddler trait) and young adult instead of infant. Toddlers overall seem to get slightly more new gameplay than elders mainly from Parenthood instead of Growing Together.

The only new things toddlers get from Growing Together is milestones. Growing Together is mainly focused on adult (because of midlife crises), young adult (but not as much as the other three lifestages I mentioned), child, and infant lifestages instead of teen, toddler, and elder. I personally think that Growing Together would have been more popular on Steam if Parenthood and Growing Together were to be combined together in one expansion pack instead of sold separately, but too late for that now. Perhaps EA might do something similar to what I mentioned with Project Rene where something similar to both Parenthood and Growing Together are sold together in one expansion pack for at least $40 USD when not on sale instead of sold separately, but not with The SIms 4.

[Kiichain]

It's completely unplayable. I have to reset the sim multiple times and then I see the animation go for the thing I've cued but it is a cancelled action and doesn't actually do what was queued it's so frustrating. I think I'm gonna play on older games it's so bad with sims 4.

[Jehane]

Infants are annoying. I usually age them up pretty fast because them having all those milestones doesn't really change much about their later development. The first kid my Sims ever had didn't even get to experience all those milestones because I didn't own the pack they came with, and she turned out great. Toddlers are much more fun and less annoying than infants.

[Xenon The Noble]

Infants... someone suggested an orphanage and moving the infants there. I call them grandma's and just move them into that house. I don't play them. Yeah, queue is buggy. Game becomes a very bad movie when sims don't take direction.

[Xautos]

if you don't age up infants correctly you'll end up having infant traits trying to assign to your older sims. for example a teenager has gassy trait trying to assign all the time, and the next thing you see is your teenager on their knees on the floor acting most strangely until you give them an order and the strange animation ends.