The list has grown so large now that it won't all fit in one post! This first post here contains some new features but be sure to follow the link below for more features!
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12363829/#Comment_12363829
Come on folks! Help me build a running list of features found in Sims 4 at launch that were not found in Sims 3 at launch. Remember it can even be something as simple as a type of object.
This is a list compiled by YOU, the fans. I'm merely keeping track of everything. So please feel free to post with any features not yet listed or with any sources not yet sourced, or if you see any mistakes that need to be corrected.
Don't be shy, jump right in!
New features to the series:Create a Sim:
Ability to change the size and shape of just about any Sim body part/area
The bro traitHats can be used with any hair styleBoots go over and under pants legWalk styles
Aspirations now have specific traits attached to them.
Children can now have Aspirations specific to them.
Sims can have five outfits now instead of three per category
Improved randomization function (randomize just skin tone, hair color, body type, etc etc)
Search function/filters to search for certain colors/materials
With the genetics system players can now create children based on only one person.
With the genetics system players can now create siblings and parents
You can now make YA siblings with teens and children in CAS
Sims can wear leggings under skirts and shorts now.
Hoodies that actually cover the Sims head
Ice cream cone earrings
Pregnancy and Babies:
Any outfit can be worn as maternity wear.
Pregnancy tests
Unexpected pregnancy lengths
Maternity leave is not mandatoryPregnancy comes in different shapes and sizes depending on your Sim's body type
Bassinets no longer required to give birth at home.
When your sim is in labor they are still playable. They can watch tv, interact with other sims, ectSiblings can feel "Sad" from new siblings being born
With the genetics system, children can now inherit a blended skin tone from their parents.
Your Sim now has different needs and emotions when they are pregnant.
Breastfeeding
Sim life:Video gaming skillProgramming skillRocket science skill
Comedian job
Enhanced emotionsRomance barMultitaskingEnhanced group social interactionsAbility to write books that affect emotionsAbility to resurrect a sim with a book you have writtenGourmet cooking skillCan order more than one type of pizzaWoodworking skill
Assigning roles to Sims during parties
You can make useable and decorative objects out of wood (musical instruments, furniture, plumbing, statues)
Ability to have all aspirations
Ability to keep progress in one aspiration when you change to another
Improved aspirations (more detailed than just family or knowledge)
Photo bombs
3 new ways to die; dying of hysterical laughter, dying of being enraged, dying of being mortified
Paintings and objects affect Sim's emotions
You can bake birthday cakes
Mentors
Different types of Showers that affect emotions
Sim can get writers blockSims can now read skill books beyond their level but become confused doing soSim can now choose to keep a book they write without publishing itSims skilled in writing can write love emailSims can write screnplays, jokes, violin music, guitar music, piano music to sell for moneySims can now self publish their books
New career: Tech Guru
Ask about Woo Hoo/Birds and Bees talkEnhanced WooHoo!!!! (decreased hygiene from engaging in it, "unsatisfying" woohoo, etc)Sims can now purchase/earn more traits
All clothing will be available for any category
Can do push-ups and sit-ups on the ground
Sims talk while sleeping
Teens can babysit
Build mode:SMOKE DETECTOR CAN BE MOVED UP AND DOWN THE WALL!! BEST NEW FEATURE EVER!!Ability to move entire rooms and houseWall heights
Cheat that allows you to change sizes of objects.
Ability to move windows up and down a wall
Curved roofs/more dynamic roof options
Different color roofs on same lot
The ability to place columns in fences\walls without a cheat
Topiary bushes
TVs can be placed on flat surfacesWindows can be added to an entire room at onceCurved fencesSpandrelsFriezesRoof trimAdd corbels to your porches Add a string course to the top of your exterior walls
Curved foundations
Awnings for Roof
Enhanced foundation options (more looks, different heights, and more!)
Fences can connect to your house (with a foundation)
Gardening boxes
Ability to edit every lot you visit
3 Different Door Sizes
8 Different heights of foundation
Stairs can be dragged to made wider
Holding ALT while placing windows allows smooth vertical window placement
You can place rooms on top of themselves with movement tool to make floating rooms
Individual Roof Coloring
Career Reward Styled Room- unlocks after Level 10 of the career, after unlocking each special item in previous levels!
When you make Venue lots, you can choose which type of venue and the game will tell you want you need to make a fully functional venue
F5 allows quarter Snap to Grid item Placement
You can delete Rooms Sims are standing in and they fall to the ground
You can use hot keys to adjust terrain paint feathering
Trees do not have to be on the ground, you can put trees on the roof
Terrain Paint on flat roof
You can Change the color of the water jets of fountains
Fountains Light up at night, dependent on the color of the jets
You can save rooms you build to your local files
The exterior wallpaper corner details (brick, siding etc) automatically appear on the corners.
Lighting works with split level homes (lower levels no longer very dark). Also lights sit at the appropriate height on split levels.
Buy mode:Cupcake making machineRockets
Chemistry lab for children
Giant microscope
Craft table for children
Monkeybars
Pirate Ship for Kids
Ability to disable auto placement of counters so that you can pick the part
Bonsai Tree
Magic 8 Ball
The list has grown so large now that it won't all fit in one post! Click the link below for more features!
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12363829/#Comment_12363829
Comments
Edit: Misinterpreted this from a previous announcement.
- The bro trait
- Walk styles
^This
Also there's basketball courts?! Love it.
Ability to play multiple households without losing relationships
Improved pathing. (Sims no longer get stuck when trying to move through narrow spaces.)
You can delete objects that your sim is currently using
If you click on the book shelf, there will be categories to choose from, like: Romantic, Emotional, Skill, Children, Humor
In game gallery
Search function in Build/buy mode
Enter build/buy mode from live mode on community lots.
Ability to share individual rooms, not just homes and Sims
From "manage worlds" you can go in and build on any lot, regardless of whether or not there is a sim family there in residence
Mousing over Whims will tell you exactly what caused them to appear
Auto save feature, WOOT!
You can move objects without going into Build/Buy
Other:
Genetic gardening
Enhanced bills (more realistic and bigger penalties for not paying them like having water shut off)
Being able to travel between towns
Chimneys separate from fireplaces
Mirrors have a true reflection
Days have been confirmed to last longer so that you can get more things done in a game day
Fires can pass through walls
Capturing memories from screenshots; Sims reminisce and remember how they felt and can recognize Sims in them
Curtains now move
Water dripping animation on recently watered plants
Gardener for public spaces
Unlockable lots / areas
The Townie Generator
FreeRealEstate cheat
Sims can write an excuse note action to get out of work (and school?)
12 new rewards
Lights affect non-active floors
Beds specifically made for children and teens that carry "Uncomfortable for adults" modifier
Game will be more mod and CC friendly
Up to 20 Sims per lot
Cowplants have life cycles
Cross-breeding of frogs
Grim has a more in depth character now.
Sims can use the rocketship to explore space and bring back stuff from outer space that they can't get on Simsearth
Grim has a more in depth character now.
Hidden Fantasy Neighbourhoods.
Dynamic soundtrack.
Sims can catch frogs at ponds.
Unlockable areas with high skill levels.
Sims can dig mounds to find fossils.
Sprinklers inside houses put out fires.
Collect MySims Statues from rocks
New party gameplay with hosts, locations, mixologist (some parties) and rewards for parties. They will also now give you a status of your party and what to do to get that status.
Can use gardening skill to grow flowers.
Features that were not in Sims 3 at launch that are now in Sims 4 at launch:
Violins
VooDoo dolls
Pianos
Punching bags
Children sims can play musical instruments
careers will have extra participation
Those super-cool 3-D video games
Grandfather Clocks
more interactions with babies
Children interacting with babies
Ability to customize each radio station individually
Wedding arches
Mixology as a base game skill/career.
Styled rooms (pre-decorated rooms)
eTablets
The ability to take selfies
Cow Plant
Tattoos
No launcher required
Muscle and endowment sliders
Large windows and doors for different wall heights
Science skill
Reading books to children
Sims can write poetry
Animated birds and ducks as decoration environment
Come back items! Things that were found in previous games and will be in Sims 4!
Open Venues
Sims can fish at ponds
Sims can adopt
Variety of Sim voices
Sims can rummage through trash cans
Friendly, rude and friendly introductions
Sims can heckle
All lights still have "Auto Lights", "Turn on", "Turn Off", and you are still able to change the color and intensity. All of these can also be done on Community lots.
All of these can be for "All Lights" and "This Light" and the color changing in done by a slider though all the colors, instead of a select few presets, and the light auto-update to the color you slide to while sliding
Off Grid Placement: (Alt – while holding object)
ff Angle Placement: (Alt – while rotating object)
The following people have helped with sources:
Jdavij20033
bludhound
ebuchala
Aoralys
Pamhamlet
I_am_bean
KitOnlyHuman
korelious
Writin_Reg
Vampirspiegelei
jackjack_k
RobBauer
HadassaXD
Alizatina
Echowever
Evalen
Damienf519
RobBauer
rensdesim
Joxer4Gabby
joop123
BlkBarbiegal
Davlan
Links to posts that contain sources:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12415139/#Comment_12415139
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12386241/#Comment_12386241
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12372454/#Comment_12372454
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12415383/#Comment_12415383
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12445641/#Comment_12445641
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12470291/#Comment_12470291
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12473829/#Comment_12473829
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12475459/#Comment_12475459
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12502093/#Comment_12502093
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12505587/#Comment_12505587
Links to videos of game play:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/771682/yet-another-new-sims4-gameplay-video-a-lot-of-very-interesting-stuff-german-with-translation
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/772318/the-sims-wiki-video-preview-10-minutes#latest
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12449404/#Comment_12449404
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/12453820/#Comment_12453820
And of course a big thank you to everyone who has provided information for this thread! This list exists because Simmers like you are awesome!
For a moment I thought TS4 had actually revealed more features...
It still looks like a game that lacks five features for each one it has.
Edit: lol I see some people disagree with me so I'm just gonna elaborate on my comment a little more... It's the principal xD. Pools have been in the base game since the Sims 1 and you would expect something as basic as that to be in a life simulator game. Toddlers have also been in the base game since Sims 2 and toddlers are much harder to animate which is why you can't assume we'd get them later on in an expansion pack. Cupcake machines, voodoo dolls (an item that would make more sense in a supernatural EP) and rocketships all could be added in expansion packs and I would imagine they'd take less time than toddlers, a whole life stage. That's what I feel anyway, pools and toddlers should be in the base game (since it is a life simulator and the jump from baby to child is way too big) and those other items could be added later on. Just my opinion.
Nope it's not in the game.
Thank you for doing this!! There has been too much complaining on these forums lately.
He can't. TS4 would pale even more in comparisson and his list would have pratically no items.
programming skill
rocket science skill
ability to make objects larger
chemistry lab for children
hats fit any hair style
boots go over pants legs
astronaut career
ability to write books that affect emotions
ability to resurrect a sim with a book you have written
gourmet cooking skill
ability to visit other towns
ability to play multiple households without losing relationships
The thread is less than 5 minutes old; the other thread with the "omitted" features is over a month old.
Let's give people time to share all of what they know Mr. Negative.
Hey hey hey! If the "omitted" thread can list things like "eyelash length slider" then we can go ahead and list cupcake machines and voodoo dolls.
Eh, he later clarified by saying Sims will use both hands. Close enough. It's staying on the list :P
That was in sims 3, level 9 of the military career
-Comedian job ( totally new)
-Genetic in gardening ( improved features)
-Stange giant machine that looked like a microscope
Oh onother thing on the hacking you are wrong in sims 3 computer wiz sims could hack computers at night for money and if caught they got fined
You don't see the inherent problem of complaining about a lack of features from previous games then openly admit said features weren't even in all three previous games?
If you don't see the problem with your very own argument then there is nothing I can do to help.
The most logical thing is to compare it to it's immediate predecessor.
But it's not the sims who are left or right handed, it's to do with object and animations, which is exactly the same in sims 3 as some animations were left handed whilst others were right. So really it shouldn't count.
I seem to recall that tweet by Graham ages ago saying that.
Maybe that was just a way of confirming it was random in some way, or they alternate.
Yes, in my eyes TS3 was a failure because it left out hot tubs, diving boards, open venues, socializations like in TS2, interactions, a more emotive Sim, children's games, and on and on. IMHO, TS3 was a fail to be as far as the base game was concerned because in lieu of the open world they focused on that more than the did they Sim and left out everything from TS2 concerning the 'lively' TS2 Sim. And they took their focus off the Sim and on to selling stuff and it became known as, The Sims 4, The Download Content Game, among many more people than here.
You have to look at TS1 and TS2's base since the box says The Sims 4.
Why? Eylashes are way more important; all sims have them.
Okay, I clarified this to state "ambidextrous" Sims :P
Also I've updated the list with new things people listed as well as removing things that were indeed in Sims 3 at launch.
*being able to travel between towns this will really come into play when newer expansions add new worlds and people will not have to create whole new saves and abandon their current families just to be able to experience them.