Breaking Invisible NPCs Sims 2 RC vehicles | Corruption Series

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  • Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2024
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  • @Grimonvacation
    @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +45

    The upload schedule is gonna change since my daily schedule is also changing. No video on Thursday this week but there’ll be a video up on Sunday. I’ll share the new upload schedule then.

  • @chkris6889
    @chkris6889 3 года назад +184

    Sims wiki: don't do this thing in your game, it will corrupt your game and cause possibly irreversible side effects
    MONI: *don't mind if I do*

  • @NawiTheCore
    @NawiTheCore 3 года назад +59

    From a coding point of view, this what we call a "dummy." We use "dummies" in many games to avoid having to code basic things like routing all over again. There's no need to code routing for the remove control car from scratch when you can use an invisible Sim instead, attach it to a car, and make the Sim run to a random point nearby.

    • @nerdychocobo
      @nerdychocobo 2 года назад +30

      makes me think about one of the fallout games using npcs to make the trains run..the trains are just a massive "hat" with the npcs walking underneath the map XD

    • @partigiana
      @partigiana 2 года назад +2

      @@nerdychocobo literally was about to mention this

    • @ravenID429
      @ravenID429 Год назад +6

      @@nerdychocobo The thought of that makes my skin crawl lol

  • @m_axj
    @m_axj 3 года назад +105

    I think the NPC cars have the body type of extremely fit so they can run the fastes

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +11

      That’s what I thought too...also wtf I love your videos and I had to double check if it was really you omfg 😭😭

    • @m_axj
      @m_axj 3 года назад +7

      @@Grimonvacation REALLY? I’ve literally watched all your vids they’re so interesting

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +7

      Omg what 😳 I’m having a little star struck moment...Thanks for watching 😭🙏🏻

    • @anongirlfrompoland
      @anongirlfrompoland 3 года назад +4

      Nah, every sim with no character data has a filled up fitness bar but is actually skinny

    • @aniexty4621
      @aniexty4621 2 года назад +2

      @@anongirlfrompoland not case for some sims with no data actually

  • @wingsofzero5732
    @wingsofzero5732 3 года назад +7

    Comment that talked about how the NPC rc car works is most likely correct - there is functionality for Sims to have objects ‘snap’ onto them (a Sim holding the phone or a newspaper is a common example of this working). This was probably a clever solution due to (what I imagine) the team grappling with a new engine that they were unfamilar with.
    They reused this logic for the skunk as well in Pets, as it was easier to grab a cat and reskin it as a skunk than to make a whole new species. If you pull up SimPE you can find a black cat called ‘Stinky Skunk (NPC)’ lol
    Where the team shot themselves in the foot was condensing these NPCs into a single .package file where tampering with it is a very easy thing a player can do. They needed to program a failsafe, or maybe they were and the engine couldn’t handle it for some reason.
    This game fascinates me on a technical level.

    • @iluvcamaros1912
      @iluvcamaros1912 2 года назад +2

      I think the Sims is just a game you interact with in a way that's deeper than a typical game. It's like they wanted you to push it to its limits in a way that most games discourage. I've never played Skyrim or GTA and found myself wondering how the game works.

  • @TheBibirules
    @TheBibirules 3 года назад +10

    It's so funny cause I used to mess around with the tombstone of L and D so much as a kid, I probably added every NPC possible to my household and my game was completely fine lol

  • @rescentwolf2557
    @rescentwolf2557 3 года назад +24

    I’m still get not used to Knut (delivery guy) and now you’re telling me that some cars is actually sims in this weirdo game LOL. My life will never be the same again 😂
    Thank you so freaking much for doing this, I’m so glad that I found you in my recommendations and subscribed of course 😘

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +5

      Thank you very much for the support 😭🙏🏻

  • @Aliceintherosegarden
    @Aliceintherosegarden 3 года назад +39

    I really love your Sims 2 corruption videos. Entertaining yet educating. Reminds me about how unintentionally wild Sims 2 was. If you don't mind I have a small video request: Tips to prevent/fix Sims 2 corruption. I love the game but the idea of corruption scares me a lot.

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +7

      Thank you and absolutely, I’ll make a video on how to fix/prevent corruption 💛

    • @peachforce
      @peachforce 3 года назад +5

      For now, I'd highly recommend you read the Sims 2 Wiki's guide to corruption (easy to Google.) And the big rules to remember are:
      1) don't delete Sims
      2) don't mess with the objects.package file
      3) get clean neighborhoods to avoid the corruption EA never fixed in the originals
      Everything logically follows from that. For example, this video hits 1 and 2: potentially deleting Sims by saving with the RC car, and messing with the "universal NPCs" (which are stored in the objects.package file). Sims Wiki has some really helpful advice on which mods to get, what to do with your files, etc.
      And don't worry too much! Remember, people have been playing the game for decades now. Can't be too hard to keep going :)

  • @cia-maria
    @cia-maria 3 года назад +52

    They say you learn something new (about the Sims 2) every day lol
    This is so interesting, I wonder why they decided to make the RC cars work like this? Seems like a clever solution in theory but as always it potentially destroys your game in reality lol

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +15

      They could’ve done it because they didn’t have the time or maybe just laziness, regardless it can be a problem but it is what it is lol

    • @micahcook2408
      @micahcook2408 3 года назад +7

      @@Grimonvacation yeah Will wanted to do many things with TS2 but it seems like publishing deadlines scrapped or half hazardously pushed things together.... EA has been messing up this franchise since TS2 and keeps doing so in favor of meeting deadlines and impressing investors sadly....

    • @micahcook2408
      @micahcook2408 3 года назад +1

      @@Grimonvacation also do you think the Pet Birds cause the same issues if they’re set free??

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +6

      @@micahcook2408 I think that if you set them free, it works the same as selling an rc car maybe? Don’t quote me on that though cause I’m not sure lol

  • @OmenaOmega
    @OmenaOmega 3 года назад +18

    I think this is why some CC animated animals that are "free-running" are notorious for causing problems the same way the RC car does, and especially if you delete the package from your dl folder because you're deleting the NPC that comes with it

  • @kathryn3582
    @kathryn3582 3 года назад +19

    when i was a kid i added mrs crumplebottom to my household and turned her into a toddler

  • @shrex7887
    @shrex7887 3 года назад +30

    Most people seeing Grim Reaper: 😰
    Moni seeing Grim Reaper: 😏

  • @Eszti1218
    @Eszti1218 3 года назад +96

    I remember when I was playing Sims2 as a kid back in the day, one of my sims once had the RC car appear on their relationship panel. At the time I thought it was really weird, wonder if this had anything to do with it.

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +16

      Maybe it did 🤔

    • @xTwilightWolvesx
      @xTwilightWolvesx 3 года назад +6

      Was this Bella Goth, by any chance? In Strangetown there’s a glitch where if you’re friends with Bella Goth, there’s a chance she’ll “network” you with an NPC if you have Apartment Life installed.

    • @ravenID429
      @ravenID429 Год назад +1

      What was the icon?

    • @Eszti1218
      @Eszti1218 Год назад +5

      @@ravenID429 a thumbnail of the car itself was.

    • @ravenID429
      @ravenID429 Год назад +5

      @@Eszti1218 God that's even creepier lol

  • @WikiCap
    @WikiCap 3 года назад +10

    This is genuinely so horrifying! I actually now believe that I had an issue with my objects.package file because of these invisible npcs. And Hoodchecker reacts to these npcs and sends a warning that a sim with no data has been generated. This seems to be these cars/birds/robot things. That's scary.

  • @chkris6889
    @chkris6889 3 года назад +10

    I wonder if sims that have incomplete data in some way always have the Fit body type. I remember watching your video about ghost children and looking through all of the ghost child's stats (for the blog post I made about it, which is done by the way!) and she also had the Fit body type. She normally has the Thin one at the start of the game. Just thought that was a neat thing

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +3

      Oh you’re right, it might be that they always have the fit body type 🤔 I’d love to read your blog post btw if you don’t mind sharing the link! 😃💛

  • @pastelmode7707
    @pastelmode7707 3 года назад +31

    I've been playing sims 2 for about 10 years now and this is the first time I'm hearing about the rc car being an npc 🤯
    Also, congrats on the 300 (even more now as I'm writing) subs! 🥳

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +1

      I didn’t know about it either until someone in the comments from a previous video mentioned it so I did some research about it. It’s super creepy to think about! Also thanks love 💛

  • @foxfox8739
    @foxfox8739 3 года назад +13

    Imagine playing the Sims 2 for years, and never knowing this. AAA.
    Love ur vids!

  • @gise230207
    @gise230207 3 года назад +10

    Omg I've played Sims 2 for like 15 years now and just a couple years I learned about the npc cars and bird etc. .. it blew my head absolutely.. so creepy!!!!😭 At the point that I don't want to use that car or have birds anymore 🤭
    Same with Bigfoot incomplete sim , Mrs Crumplebottom , penguin, skunks etc . Those likeobjetcs Sims that I don't want to even interact with fearing corruption of the neighborhood or the game 🤣 (I have the objects package as read only but still.. )

  • @kieranwillis395
    @kieranwillis395 2 года назад +2

    The worst is when you add the remote control car. Literally an invisible face on default female CAS lol

  • @peachforce
    @peachforce 3 года назад +7

    Keep your defaults in! I love seeing other people's games with their choices of defaults, even when they don't match :)
    I wonder: is there a way to make the invisible Sims visible? Some box ticked in SimPe, changing their appearance in the mirror, buying them clothes...? There must be something EA did that can be undone... I'm so curious to see what they look like! I'm sure it's a contortion nightmare like when Sims WooHoo or fight.
    Thanks again for making this series! So much fun to watch.

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +3

      I do wonder 🤔 I’ll have to really go in and see what can be done with these NPCs...

  • @sofiaserafini8286
    @sofiaserafini8286 3 года назад +28

    Your videos are so interesting! Please keep making them😊❤

  • @kwiatlotosu44
    @kwiatlotosu44 3 года назад +30

    i wonder what would happen if remote control car got pregnant

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +11

      I wonder 🤔 Might not be possible though since the npc disappears when the rc car is not being used and when the npc is stuck to the rc car, it can’t do anything else but make the car move in that moment

    • @sarag6792
      @sarag6792 3 года назад +6

      @@Grimonvacation but if you use toombstone of L&D?🤔

  • @userjoao
    @userjoao 3 года назад +12

    I don’t think they have a relationship with “every sim that’s used an rc car” lol they just for some reason have a preset relationship with every sim in the neighborhood as soon as they’re added to the family

  • @lozzatronxo8347
    @lozzatronxo8347 3 года назад +31

    I’m honestly so excited by this series! Found myself checking everyday for a new video so I’m excited for Thursday!!

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +5

      That means a lot 😭🙏🏻 Thank you

  • @RedVelvetyJess
    @RedVelvetyJess 3 года назад +2

    Okay I had no idea the RC vehicles were controlled by invisible NPCs running around that's so interesting but also really freaking creepy

  • @carmenwinstead693
    @carmenwinstead693 3 года назад +11

    your channel is so underrated, i hope you blow up in the community soon!

  • @Iron_Stigmata
    @Iron_Stigmata 3 года назад +11

    Omg! I'm so happy you've gained subscribers! This series is really awesome lol. And omg... I think this may have ruined the penguin for me 😭. I knew the lil guy was an object, but knowing that he's anchored to an invisible Sim has really freaked me out! 😂🙈
    Edit: "NPC Remote Control Car wants to talk" is one of the most accidentally chilling sentences I've ever heard 😭😭

  • @kittydoesstuff7357
    @kittydoesstuff7357 3 года назад +33

    This is very informative! Also it's pretty funny watching someone do things that everyone is advised against. BTW congrats on 300 subscribers!

  • @nonamesorry7135
    @nonamesorry7135 3 года назад +24

    How long is the list of things that can corrupt your game in the sims 2... Seriously I feel like every time I look at something sims 2 related I find out about a completely new unexpected way to break this game. It's fun and all but can you even play this game for a longer while without losing everything lol

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +11

      There’s many things that can break the game but all you really need is to be a little cautious and use corruption mods like hoodchecker to make sure your game is all good.

    • @Queerlien
      @Queerlien 2 года назад +2

      Honestly I have heard people saying they have gone years playing the game without realizing it was corrupted. Of course programs like hood checker and being careful with your mods is always helpful.

    • @kewoshk
      @kewoshk 8 месяцев назад

      I remember reaching the 7th gen in my family and everything worked perfectly (it took me about a year of constantly playing the game to get there.) I didn’t even know about the Bat Box or the HoodChecker. And I modded the game heavily (mostly CAS stuff though.) I had never altered any game files back then so that’s probably why. Didn’t know about the Tombstone of L&D either, played the game how it’s meant to be played for an end user.

    • @dundee6402
      @dundee6402 8 месяцев назад

      People are making this a much bigger than it actually is.

  • @Sylphella
    @Sylphella 3 года назад +3

    This reminds me of how the Presidential Metro Train in Fallout 3 worked. I'm not the best at explaining, so I'll just copy the explanation from r/gamedev
    "Far more interesting is the Presidential Metro Train in Fallout 3’s Broken Steel DLC. It turns out it was easier to make the train car a piece of head armor and slap it onto an NPC than it was to make a working vehicle. The NPC (with train hat) can be spawned wherever it needs to be. All you see is the train car on the tracks, but under the surface is a person with a train on her head.
    There’s another trick when you actually board the train, and it’s almost as weird. Again, there aren’t physics for making a train car move in the Gamebryo engine, so you’re not actually on the train. Instead, the player is equipped with a piece of head armor that covers the field of view and looks like the inside of a train. Then a camera animation is played that makes it look like you’re on a moving train, but you really just have a helmet on"

  • @shyhistorian
    @shyhistorian 3 года назад +8

    When 300 becomes 400 subs in DAYS.

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +1

      I know I’m so great full and amazed 😭💛

  • @hotdogcart
    @hotdogcart 3 года назад +8

    Not sure if I commented this before, but maybe in a future video you could show us what messages pop up when you run HoodChecker on this neighborhood?

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +2

      I’ve shown it briefly in another video but I think it would be a good idea to make a video on hood checker all on its own.

  • @glanni
    @glanni 3 года назад +2

    I don't allow my sims to play with cars or helicopters anymore. I had one Sim wish for a car, and she kept playing with it but it always unsettled me greatly, so I decided to put the car in her inventory and never let her use it again.

  • @MeowingCookie_
    @MeowingCookie_ 2 года назад +2

    I wonder if you tried to change the npcs appearance if they would show up? Kind of like what you do with servos to give them a human body

  • @JessicaLovesFoxes
    @JessicaLovesFoxes 2 года назад

    I just found your channel today. So glad that you're at 2.57K now! Hearing how happy you were about the 200 was so wholesome. I love this kind of mysterious Sims 2 stuff! :D

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  2 года назад +1

      Hi, thank you sm 🙏🏻 I still get overwhelmed when I see my sub count. I’m so grateful for you and everyone watching my videos! 😭

    • @JessicaLovesFoxes
      @JessicaLovesFoxes 2 года назад

      @@Grimonvacation You're very welcome! That's so sweet :'3

  • @ceriwilson3143
    @ceriwilson3143 3 года назад +5

    I was so happy when I saw this in my subscription box, I enjoy this series a lot. Also, congrats on 300 subs! It wasn't too long ago that you had 100 😂
    I was aware of what the RC Cars truly were, but seeing them in motion was interesting. It is eerie when you think that when your sim plays with a car, the game spawns an invisible, faceless lady...
    It was funny for me when you hovered over *NPCSkunkSkin, because it visited my lot due to a child ghost a couple of years ago. It wasn't even the actual skunk, but a cat with a white stripe down its back. This may have been because *NPCSkunkSkin is where the skunk gets its texture from, but it's been a while since I looked into it. It didn't even have any interactions. You could click on him and select actions, but they were blank; it was weird. I removed him from my lot with moveobjects.
    Tangent over, I thought of a video idea, if you're interested. There are two hidden Bluewater Village child townies called Jeannie Chen and Elle Rodiek. They're not in the townie pool, but in the Default family (at least that's where I've seen them in SimPE). You have to manually put them in the townie pool using SimPE, if you're comfortable with that. These little girls have fractured data, as the game recognises them as adult males. It's interesting. They're said to cause corruption, but I've never messed with them before.

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +1

      I’ve never used sim PE but if you have any more information on them please do share so I can see if I can get them in my game for a video. Sounds really interesting!

  • @mousey2120
    @mousey2120 3 года назад +5

    The flickering is because your smooth edges is off or greyed out

  • @missacat5027
    @missacat5027 3 года назад +2

    ??? I didnt even know this was a thing. I guess this corruption dosent happend often if you just play the game normaly? Ill try and remember not to save when my sims are using those objects just incase. :x

  • @CottageHills
    @CottageHills 3 года назад +2

    The graphic glitch thing can be fixed by turning smooth edges to more in graphic settings.

  • @dreamielynn1264
    @dreamielynn1264 2 года назад +1

    WAIT maybe the Sims that disappeared from my neighborhood were deleted by the rc car

  • @Jason-ju3ng
    @Jason-ju3ng 3 года назад +2

    Congrats on 300! You've earned it

  • @P3vlogVid
    @P3vlogVid 10 месяцев назад +1

    Do the rc cars still work in other households after you've added the NPCs to a household?

    • @ravenID429
      @ravenID429 9 месяцев назад +1

      Probably just adds a different instance of it

  • @hannibalspectre637
    @hannibalspectre637 3 года назад

    This was so interesting! Thank you for sacrificing ur game to the corruption gods I appreciate you

  • @Cinirakan
    @Cinirakan 3 года назад +2

    I wonder what would have happened if you had someone use the other car/helicopter while Nervous was using the first one. Would another NPC spawn?

  • @Lisspeed
    @Lisspeed 3 года назад +2

    Congrats on 300 (nearly 400 now wow!) Subscribers! You deserve every bit of them and it's so cool to see your channel grow. I also love how you sound more and more confident in each video! :D
    I remember the moment I figured out cheats existed in Sims 2 I corrupted my game like crazy not even knowing I was corrupting it hahaha. Thanks for this serie, it's so much fun to see.
    Sims 2 as great as it is, was pretty badly programmed and has so many scary things as a result!
    Thankfully nowadays the only corruption I get is related to my Sim meeting NPCs like Unsavoury Charlatan, but that is thankfully rather easy to fix.
    Which program do you use to edit your videos? c:

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +1

      Thank you very much, I use iMovie on my iPad Pro just because I find it the easiest and fasted way to edit my videos, also, I don’t need any fancy editing software since iMovie does the job. 💛

    • @Lisspeed
      @Lisspeed 3 года назад

      @@Grimonvacation I mixed you up with someone else in the last video ahhh!! But either way, just wanted to add thank you! :D I'll check it out. IPad's can be a bit difficult to work with when it comes to computer so I constantly have to put things in the Drive hahah.

  • @ourfaces3091
    @ourfaces3091 3 года назад +3

    For me, the graphic glitch stopped when i set all the graphics settings to max. also when i used graphics rules maker, i used the recommended settings

  • @Violetshy5
    @Violetshy5 3 года назад

    And now another week later you're at 600 subs! Congratulations!

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +1

      Thank you and I know I still can’t believe it! 😭🙏🏻

  • @Дэад
    @Дэад 2 года назад

    You can avoid flickering screen by just changing two things in notepad

  • @Gulamaja
    @Gulamaja 3 года назад +2

    I did not know about this feature! I'm still learing things about a game that came out in 2004

    • @Grimonvacation
      @Grimonvacation  3 года назад +2

      There’s always something weird to discover about the Sims 2!

  • @dreamielynn1264
    @dreamielynn1264 2 года назад +1

    So...the RC cars are dangerous objects and should not be used?

    • @emmestein
      @emmestein 3 месяца назад

      You should probably be able to use them.

  • @fkaciggs
    @fkaciggs 3 года назад

    omg you're right that is frickin creepy!

  • @WindowsXPFrog
    @WindowsXPFrog 3 года назад +1

    Loving this series 👍

  • @betterhusk6780
    @betterhusk6780 2 года назад

    Mind if I ask what mods you’re using?

  • @ViceCityExtra
    @ViceCityExtra 3 года назад +1

    Is it the same with helicopter?

  • @higherquality
    @higherquality 3 года назад

    what if you kill off the rc car npc?

  • @jesaea
    @jesaea 3 года назад

    Love your voice!

  • @NEWBOTANICA
    @NEWBOTANICA 2 года назад

    intro song?

  • @anetab1424
    @anetab1424 3 года назад +4

    Who got this in recommendation?

  • @DinoBunnyStudio
    @DinoBunnyStudio 3 года назад

    Hot