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Thanks in advance to everyone who helps source info! Thanks as well for keeping on topic here — this thread can move fast even on topic as marketing ramps up.
Index (Categories are a Guess for Now)
Blog Posts, Trailers, & Livestreams
Announcement Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0hCTyj2Kc
Gameplay Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il9mN_Hv4RM
FYI:
Upcoming Events
EA Play — June 9–11
Livestream:
EA Play embargo ends:Monday, June 18 - For info from that, head over to @catloverplayer 's thread here:
Sims 4 Seasons EA Play Footage Info Thread[/b]
Game Changers early-access embargo ends: June 20
Pack Release — Friday, June 22
Re. the Q&A thing:
A note from @SimGuruKate about why Sims wasn't in the EA Play announcement event:
Index (Categories are a Guess for Now)
- Blog Post, Trailers, & Livestreams (this post)
- Upcoming Events (this post)
- Weather
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
- Holidays and the Calendar
- Gardening, Scouts, Bees, Traits, Skills, Ambitions, Careers, etc.
- CAS
- Build/Buy, including Gameplay Objects
- Miscellaneous Info
- What’s Not Included & Why
Blog Posts, Trailers, & Livestreams
- Preorder and Description (web page): The Sims™ 4 Seasons
- Announcement Blog: Weather or Not, Here it Comes
- Which Season Are You Quiz!
- Meet the Climates
- Spring Into Action with Seasons
See some warm-weather details from the newest expansion. - Meet the Climate Family - Part One! - Harvest Day
- Meet the Climate Family: Part Two - "part two of a four-part series" - focus on Winterfest and on Selvadorana in Winter
Announcement Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0hCTyj2KcGameplay Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il9mN_Hv4RMFYI:
Upcoming Events
EA Play — June 9–11
Livestream:
EA Play embargo ends:Monday, June 18 - For info from that, head over to @catloverplayer 's thread here:
Sims 4 Seasons EA Play Footage Info Thread[/b]
Game Changers early-access embargo ends: June 20
Pack Release — Friday, June 22
SimGuruNick wrote: »It's a rolling midnight release. If you live in UK, it'll be available at:
Fri, 22-Jun-18 at 00:00 CET
We have received information from several EA Game Changers confirming that early access for The Sims 4 Seasons will begin on June 19th at 10am Pacific, and the embargo for early access capture will end on June 20th at 8am Pacific. This also confirms that the upcoming Sims 4 Game Patch will likely release on June 19th (if not before), since the latest patch is usually required to download and access early release. EA Game Changers will also be attending a special capture session at the EA Play event, so we will likely see additional information and video content from them before the 20th. - The Sims 4 Seasons: Upcoming Patch and Early Access Embargo Dates
Re. the Q&A thing:
A note from @SimGuruKate about why Sims wasn't in the EA Play announcement event:
EA CREATOR NETWORK MEMBER — Want to be notified of patches, new Broken Mods threads, and urgent Sims 4 news? Follow me at https://www.patreon.com/luthienrising.
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Weather in the Worlds: (with some exceptions:)
Rain and Thunder:
From the livestream*:
Hot weather:
Snow and cold weather:
Re. deep snow, please scroll down to the What's Not Included post for the explanation.
Will there be footprints in snow?
Other things:
Will Sims' hair move in the wind?
Rainbows?
Death by Weather and Other Effects on Sims:
The Weather Machine
The Weather Inside
From the livestream:
Ceiling Fans/Table Fans?
Weather and Other Packs
The radiator from Vampires?
The career lots from Get to Work:
Laundry:
From the Livestream*:
Cats & Dogs:
Head down to other sections for more on weather - eg. CAS, Traits, etc!
*Thanks to @lexus20 for Livestream info
Season Defaults
And in new saves?
From the livestream*:
Seasonal Changes
Kimmi made the new Seasons icons on the selector screen:
Season Customization
Seasonal Activities
Re the skating rinks:
Seasonal decor:
The seasonal time doesn't include months:
*Thanks to @Tomatplante for livestream info
Built-In Holidays
Blog Post featuring Harvestfest: https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/pc/news/the-climates-part-1
More on Winterfest!
On gift-giving:
https://twitter.com/SimGuruGeorge/with_replies
Any holiday can be cancelled/deleted:
Birthdays
Pre-Seasons Events
I clarified this as well with a Simmer on Reddit. If you start an event via the phone, nothing is different. If you want to schedule an event, start with the calendar not the phone:
Custom Holidays
There's some Spooky Stuff integration:
Available Holiday Traditions
Some are:
For more, see the trailer from June 7!
From the livestream*:
Surprise Holidays
The Calendar
The calendar week starts Sunday:
Connections with Other Packs
*Thanks to @icmnfrsh for livestream info.
Gardening Career, Gardening, and Bees
From the livestream*:
- If plants are under a roof they're considered "sheltered" and will grow even out of season.
- With higher levels of gardening you can tend to bigger areas of plants at once (like watering and getting rid of weeds will affect multiple plants).
- There's a new "Super Sell" option which harvests and sells harvestables at once (the area of affect with higher levels affects this option too, so the higher your level the more harvestables you can harvest and sell at once).
- Only five levels of evolution (you can hover and see them) and it's an immediate action.
From the livestream*:
It turns out that unlike TS3 bees, there are a lot of things to do with bees apart from collecting honey.
- They can pollinate nearby plants
- You can collect a swarm of bees to do your bidding, like wooing or attacking someone, and fetching gifts
- You can bond with the bees to improve your relationship with them (lots of relationship bars with inanimate objects like snowmen, actually)
Scouting
From the livestream*:
Preferences
Traits
New Reward Traits:
Screencap 1
Screencap 2
From the Livestream*:
Skills
From the livestream*:
* Thanks to @lexus20 and @wormstache999 and @icmnfrsh and @kalaksed \ for Livestream info
Seasonal CAS:
Outerwear?
From the Livestream*:
Custom Content
*Thanks to @lexus20 for Livestream info
Build Mode
Glass Roofing:
It has multiple versions:
Decorations:
Gameplay Objects
Buy Mode
The picnic basket is decor:
New Lifestate?
New Food:
From the livestream*:
New Harvestables:
From the livestream*:
New Music and Radio:
From the livestream*:
New on TV:
Mods and CC
Not official, but for anyone who doesn't know, the song from the Announcement Trailer is Len, "Steal My Sunshine":
*Thanks to @kalaksed and @12JEREMIA and @TresaofPern for livestream info
Deep Snow:
@SimGuruGrant on deep snow (I'm including all 4 posts because they're numbered):
Could the issue re. deep snow be partly world coding?
Why answer this only now?
Hail
No New World or Maps:
Some thoughts from @SimGuruEmory on not being able to do All The Things in game design/development:
Why the Console version isn't being released at the same time:
However,
Various Things
PlantSims? Penguins?
Seasonal Allergies?
Collections?
Lounge Chairs?
Beaches?
Soccer?
Ceiling Fans/Table Fans?
Sunburns?
Igloos?
Slow Dancing?
New stairs?
Also... Snow! Bees! YAY!!
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
A very wise decision I think.
Toddlers can use kiddie pool
another tweet confirming this
Will plants freeze up once it snows so we’ll need to harvest everything in the fall?
Speaking of plants are we getting new ones? Hoping for sweet potatoes, squash, corn and watermelon to go with different seasons.
I also hope we get new harvestables/ plants, but we'll probably only get new flowers since there's the new floral arrangement table
https://twitter.com/SimGuruKate?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/940199/seasons-simguru-maxis-sourced-info
Rain gear for toddlers, a smooth longer hairstyle for women, the man bun, the curly hair on the summer gal, the small ponytail for the dad, curly hair for the daughter (it seems), and a bob that I don't think I've seen before. It looks much smoother than the one we currently have.