As you heard in our latest Inside Maxis, we are introducing to the game the first phase of our latest feature, Neighborhood Stories.
This feature is about adding flavor (sabor!) and more life to Neighborhood Sims who live outside your active household. As noted in Nate’s Blog, today’s update will focus on Sims that are connected to your Households and have relationships of some kind with them. Be careful what you tell them!
To start, check out the new Socials in the Friendly and Mean categories. Your Sim can try to convince others to make certain life changes and, vice versa, your Sim’s friends can ask their opinion on pursuing life changes.Two (yes two!) new Aspirations complement the stories you will tell. Be the Neighborhood Confidante if you want all the chisme, I mean, if your Sims aspire to be a helpful and positive presence in the lives of Neighbor Sims. They will be able to earn a new Confidante reward trait, which increases the chance of conversations being pleasant and not at all awkward.
But if your Sims are a bit more… deviant, your Sims can aspire to be a Villainous Valentine who wants to destroy the love lives of all Sims, including their own. What can I say, we love chaos over here. Sims that walk this deviant path will earn the new Twisted Heart trait, which makes all Sad and Embarrassed moodlets decay faster and provides a little bonus social when performing Mean or Mischief socials. They will be heartbreakers, dream breakers, and love takers!
For more detailed information on Neighborhood Stories, check out Nate’s blog. Read it here.
Logitech G LIGHTSYNC
If you use Logitech G LIGHTSYNC-enabled Mice, Keyboards, or Headsets on Windows PC, you can now experience The Sims 4 in an even more immersive experience. You can enable and disable The Sims 4 lighting scheme in-game by going to Game Options > Other and toggle the Enable Keyboard Dynamic Lighting option.
Peripherals with Logitech G LIGHTSYNC technology support these effects:
During Loading and while on the Main Menu, your peripherals will light up with spinning plumbobs.
They’ll reflect the mood of your selected Sim.
When visiting secret worlds, they’ll take on a color scheme inspired by the world itself.
Don't forget that Logitech G LIGHTSYNC requires Logitech G HUB, which can be downloaded from www.logitechg.com.
Last but certainly not least
We took the opportunity to add Likes and Dislikes for Cottagecore in the Music category and for Cross-Stitching and Knitting in the Activity section. These were a bit overdue, but I’m glad we were able to add them for this update!
We also took the opportunity to update the trait icon for Erratic to something more fitting to the trait.
And finally, we have added in Build Mode the “Through the Looking Glass Window” which was seen in some of the Industrial Loft Kit promotional art. You can find it in the Window sort, in the Base Game window options.
We hope that you enjoy these additions and changes, now to the bug fixes.
Bug Fixes
The Sims 4
Is your game filling with empty households? We made a fix to clear the empty Households when loading the game.
Your manicure should stand out - in a good way. It is part of your ensemble and can complement an outfit, adding personality and finishing the look. But what is not a perfect complement is that your manicure kinda became part of your outfit, as in literally part of it drawing a line across it, so we have made a fix for that. This fix is across multiple Create a Sim assets across the Base Game and Packs.
You are the handiest Sim ever known to Sims, so much so that you can upgrade toilets to add an H2O Siphoner outside the area where the toilet is… like with your mind? No longer! As much as we like things to be fixed “magically,” this particular upgrade will require your Sim to be in direct contact with the toilet, yes… physically.
Speaking of handiness, have your Sims ever tried repairing their shower-tub combos or bathtubs, but kinda not been able to get to them? That should be resolved, and we also fixed this same error when Sims tried to perform the Water Recycler and add H20 Siphoner upgrades.
Sims love baking cakes and they love baking and decorating them together with other Sims in a group. They didn’t love that they could not add toppers or candles to them though, but they can now. So have your Sims bake a cake, top it off, and eat it too.
Ever had a friend who said they liked something but really they didn’t and their face showed it? We felt the same with Sims that even though they liked things they had the “dislike” thought bubbles. So we made some adjustments and now their thoughts match a bit better with their feelings into what they say they like or dislike. Honesty is the best policy.
Getting to know someone can be challenging, especially for people like me… an introvert, even more so when Getting to know someone who doesn’t reveal their traits. No worries, we have made a fix so that your Sims are not in that awkward position any longer.
Noticed some Sims doing more of the “A-ha!” or “Eureka!” animations while not being in a Scientist Career? With this update, the “A-ha!” moment doesn’t happen as frequently if your Sims are not in the Scientist Career (they will still do it due to Environment Score, but not as frequently). Though, in all honesty, if a Sim has an epiphany of some kind, shouldn’t they exclaim: “Eureka!”? Discuss.
Ghosts can now eat Ambrosia and become regular Sims again! Isn’t this the plot of a movie about a friendly ghost? Sounds familiar.
Perfectionists Sims will now save their paintings in their Inventory instead of starting over even after completing a perfect painting. Maybe they were striving to perfection… too hard.
I like knowing tiny bits and facts about the people I know and I like - but getting like and dislike messages about Sims in Households I am not playing is not my cup of tea. I mean, cute, but not the time. This issue should be resolved and you will see these messages only of Households you are currently in control of.
Get Together
The Go Sledding Activity club icon has been added.
Eco Lifestyle
So you’ve got the hang of vertical gardening - perfect for small spaces! You have several A-OK-Bloomer Vertical Planters, you’ve started to sing to your plants, cared for them appropriately, talked to them, and you decide to grow Cruelty Free Meat - but realized you couldn’t harvest it? We reviewed our planters and sang a few songs to them and now you should be able to harvest Cruelty Free Meat from vertical planters.
The Fabricated Floor Light (the round bottom one) is now able to be Fabricated.
Cottage Living
Being helpful in your community is good. And if you are in Henford-on-Bagley, even better. Sims that offer a helping hand and are Meddling and Peddling can now see and perform the “Encourage to Flirt with” interaction… encourage away! But don’t forget to tell me all about it!
Are you going to the Finchwich Fair? Crops, Llamas, Cows, and Chickens… Sims that submit high value items to the Fair will now have a better chance at winning First Place. Remember me to one in Finchwich Fair… he was once a true love of mine.
Living in the Simple Living Challenge can be rewarding, except when you can’t eat your Onigiri, Seaweed Ramen, and Avocado Maki Rolls. Our designers decided that Seaweed shouldn’t be the secret ingredient, so now you can make these dishes when living a simpler living.
Spa Day
Does your Sim desire to be a Self Care Specialist, but they are having trouble managing to keep regular clients so they never achieve this goal? It should be resolved now, so go get it, get it, get it.
Realm of Magic
Hereee we areeee… born to be Sims! They are the royalty of the Unnnniverrrseee. They are immortal, your Sims have inside the Immortality Potion. They have no rival, no other Sim can be their equal… now that the potion works!
Dream Home Decorator
We adjusted the pay for Interior Designers in their higher levels. I personally did not see an issue with this, Interior Designers need to get their coin, but we recognized it was maybe a bit too much compared to other levels in the same career path.
Just when you thought Kleptomaniac Sims had met their match, alas no - they really had to go for that Kid’s Tent. What can you do? We fixed the issue that on Attempt to Swipe the tent would not disappear from the lot and not be in the Sim’s Inventory… in any inventory. So with this fix you will see your swiped tents in the Household Inventory.
Nifty Knitting
Sims with autonomy ON will now be able to Knit when they are not having fun. Sims just want to have fun.
Bust the Dust
Those adorable - but filthy - Dust Bunnies were at it again! Maids didn’t have the heart to bust the dust completely. We told them it was ok to do so as no real bunnies are being harmed - just dust ones - and now they should be busting the dust entirely.
Be the Neighborhood Confidante if you want all the chisme, I mean, if your Sims aspire to be a helpful and positive presence in the lives of Neighbor Sims.
This made me laugh. That's exactly what I thought when I read the description of Neighborhood Confidante. Become the town gossip.
I'm happy for more bug fixes but man it feels like it's never enough. And especially since we get new ones everytime they add more content...I'm always fearful the game is gonna be left in such a disaster state like Sims 3 was.
Glad to hear they've zapped the Cottage Living empty households bug. Can't wait to test it out. Not getting my hopes up re: salvaging my already severely borked saves, though.
About the Logitech G LIGHTSYNC... I totally forgot they did something similar with Razer a while back. Last month I had to replace my mouse and actually got a Razer mouse this time around. I should check if my mouse works with Dynamic Lighting. I also just replaced my keyboard (everything wants to break at the same time ) but went with Corsair. Darn.
Realm of Magic
Hereee we areeee… born to be Sims! They are the royalty of the Unnnniverrrseee. They are immortal, your Sims have inside the Immortality Potion. They have no rival, no other Sim can be their equal… now that the potion works!
I'm playing my game offline because I don't want to wait until my soon to be broken mods are fixed, but they almost won me over with this parody of my favorite Queen song.
I'm glad to see they added cross stitching and knitting to Likes and Dislikes, but I really hope that they add all the other skills they missed (like archeology and pet training).
I hope interior designers still have good pay, don't really know why the erratic needed a new pic but other than that I only care about messing with sims I'm not playing so far I had Sachiko convince her neighbor to try for a new job and a baby so we'll see, also I saw a sim that I don't like the wife of for no reason and he was turning blue. So after asking to see his winter clothes I had her convince him to divorce her...he must have been very grateful about the clothes change.
Reddestiny921 on the gallery...still not sure if I capitalized the second d..lol
All the sims err'day
I'm glad to see they added cross stitching and knitting to Likes and Dislikes, but I really hope that they add all the other skills they missed (like archeology and pet training).
Can someone make a list for all the missing ones so I can tweet it to simgururuskii because she answered a tweet asking for the eco lifestyle skills and said she will ask about it.
This patch is giving me anxiety since they announced it. Maybe I will be pleasantly surprised by the patch, and end up loving it, but... I need to know how much random it is and if there is an option to turn it off.
The way I play, in my 'main' save I have currently 15 played households in my game and 23 that are 'unplayed' but I still switch to them sometimes as I need. They're all interconnected, and follow the carefully planned story. That was the reason I fell in love with the Sims in the first place - because I could play it however I want and have Sims play out MY stories.
From how it was presented, it sounds like my Sims will now ignore it all, ignore all the relationships, who-is-who, all the rules and laws it took me a whole year to establish, and make completely random life changes, break up or have babies with random Sims.
And it seems there isn't a toggle to turn it off, for all saves, for all worlds, households, and Sims, because it supposedly "forces me to choose a boring world" and that the only way to "control" it is by clicking through popups?
So my question is - IS there a way to turn it off and return to my "boring" world, if I decide it's too random and I don't want this in my game?
So my question is - IS there a way to turn it off and return to my "boring" world, if I decide it's too random and I don't want this in my game?
It is so new. I am just reading on the forum in order to learn more myself. For the time being I am staying offline. Hope we will know more soon. I am a rotational player as well.
I've been playing on a brand new, vanilla save--haven't even messed with the townies or the lots--to do the "perfectly well rounded" challenge. My challenge sim started dating Summer, and so far she's the only one that's called asking for advice. She asked if she should push for a promotion. I think this is appropriate--a girlfriend would ask for advice about that--and so far none of his other friends have asked about anything. It then informed me that she'd been promoted.
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What’s New?
Introducing Neighborhood Stories
As you heard in our latest Inside Maxis, we are introducing to the game the first phase of our latest feature, Neighborhood Stories.
This feature is about adding flavor (sabor!) and more life to Neighborhood Sims who live outside your active household. As noted in Nate’s Blog, today’s update will focus on Sims that are connected to your Households and have relationships of some kind with them. Be careful what you tell them!
To start, check out the new Socials in the Friendly and Mean categories. Your Sim can try to convince others to make certain life changes and, vice versa, your Sim’s friends can ask their opinion on pursuing life changes.Two (yes two!) new Aspirations complement the stories you will tell. Be the Neighborhood Confidante if you want all the chisme, I mean, if your Sims aspire to be a helpful and positive presence in the lives of Neighbor Sims. They will be able to earn a new Confidante reward trait, which increases the chance of conversations being pleasant and not at all awkward.
But if your Sims are a bit more… deviant, your Sims can aspire to be a Villainous Valentine who wants to destroy the love lives of all Sims, including their own. What can I say, we love chaos over here. Sims that walk this deviant path will earn the new Twisted Heart trait, which makes all Sad and Embarrassed moodlets decay faster and provides a little bonus social when performing Mean or Mischief socials. They will be heartbreakers, dream breakers, and love takers!
For more detailed information on Neighborhood Stories, check out Nate’s blog. Read it here.
Logitech G LIGHTSYNC
If you use Logitech G LIGHTSYNC-enabled Mice, Keyboards, or Headsets on Windows PC, you can now experience The Sims 4 in an even more immersive experience. You can enable and disable The Sims 4 lighting scheme in-game by going to Game Options > Other and toggle the Enable Keyboard Dynamic Lighting option.
Peripherals with Logitech G LIGHTSYNC technology support these effects:
During Loading and while on the Main Menu, your peripherals will light up with spinning plumbobs.
They’ll reflect the mood of your selected Sim.
When visiting secret worlds, they’ll take on a color scheme inspired by the world itself.
Don't forget that Logitech G LIGHTSYNC requires Logitech G HUB, which can be downloaded from www.logitechg.com.
Last but certainly not least
We took the opportunity to add Likes and Dislikes for Cottagecore in the Music category and for Cross-Stitching and Knitting in the Activity section. These were a bit overdue, but I’m glad we were able to add them for this update!
We also took the opportunity to update the trait icon for Erratic to something more fitting to the trait.
And finally, we have added in Build Mode the “Through the Looking Glass Window” which was seen in some of the Industrial Loft Kit promotional art. You can find it in the Window sort, in the Base Game window options.
We hope that you enjoy these additions and changes, now to the bug fixes.
Bug Fixes
The Sims 4
Is your game filling with empty households? We made a fix to clear the empty Households when loading the game.
Your manicure should stand out - in a good way. It is part of your ensemble and can complement an outfit, adding personality and finishing the look. But what is not a perfect complement is that your manicure kinda became part of your outfit, as in literally part of it drawing a line across it, so we have made a fix for that. This fix is across multiple Create a Sim assets across the Base Game and Packs.
You are the handiest Sim ever known to Sims, so much so that you can upgrade toilets to add an H2O Siphoner outside the area where the toilet is… like with your mind? No longer! As much as we like things to be fixed “magically,” this particular upgrade will require your Sim to be in direct contact with the toilet, yes… physically.
Speaking of handiness, have your Sims ever tried repairing their shower-tub combos or bathtubs, but kinda not been able to get to them? That should be resolved, and we also fixed this same error when Sims tried to perform the Water Recycler and add H20 Siphoner upgrades.
Sims love baking cakes and they love baking and decorating them together with other Sims in a group. They didn’t love that they could not add toppers or candles to them though, but they can now. So have your Sims bake a cake, top it off, and eat it too.
Ever had a friend who said they liked something but really they didn’t and their face showed it? We felt the same with Sims that even though they liked things they had the “dislike” thought bubbles. So we made some adjustments and now their thoughts match a bit better with their feelings into what they say they like or dislike. Honesty is the best policy.
Getting to know someone can be challenging, especially for people like me… an introvert, even more so when Getting to know someone who doesn’t reveal their traits. No worries, we have made a fix so that your Sims are not in that awkward position any longer.
Noticed some Sims doing more of the “A-ha!” or “Eureka!” animations while not being in a Scientist Career? With this update, the “A-ha!” moment doesn’t happen as frequently if your Sims are not in the Scientist Career (they will still do it due to Environment Score, but not as frequently). Though, in all honesty, if a Sim has an epiphany of some kind, shouldn’t they exclaim: “Eureka!”? Discuss.
Ghosts can now eat Ambrosia and become regular Sims again! Isn’t this the plot of a movie about a friendly ghost? Sounds familiar.
Perfectionists Sims will now save their paintings in their Inventory instead of starting over even after completing a perfect painting. Maybe they were striving to perfection… too hard.
I like knowing tiny bits and facts about the people I know and I like - but getting like and dislike messages about Sims in Households I am not playing is not my cup of tea. I mean, cute, but not the time. This issue should be resolved and you will see these messages only of Households you are currently in control of.
Get Together
The Go Sledding Activity club icon has been added.
Eco Lifestyle
So you’ve got the hang of vertical gardening - perfect for small spaces! You have several A-OK-Bloomer Vertical Planters, you’ve started to sing to your plants, cared for them appropriately, talked to them, and you decide to grow Cruelty Free Meat - but realized you couldn’t harvest it? We reviewed our planters and sang a few songs to them and now you should be able to harvest Cruelty Free Meat from vertical planters.
The Fabricated Floor Light (the round bottom one) is now able to be Fabricated.
Cottage Living
Being helpful in your community is good. And if you are in Henford-on-Bagley, even better. Sims that offer a helping hand and are Meddling and Peddling can now see and perform the “Encourage to Flirt with” interaction… encourage away! But don’t forget to tell me all about it!
Are you going to the Finchwich Fair? Crops, Llamas, Cows, and Chickens… Sims that submit high value items to the Fair will now have a better chance at winning First Place. Remember me to one in Finchwich Fair… he was once a true love of mine.
Living in the Simple Living Challenge can be rewarding, except when you can’t eat your Onigiri, Seaweed Ramen, and Avocado Maki Rolls. Our designers decided that Seaweed shouldn’t be the secret ingredient, so now you can make these dishes when living a simpler living.
Spa Day
Does your Sim desire to be a Self Care Specialist, but they are having trouble managing to keep regular clients so they never achieve this goal? It should be resolved now, so go get it, get it, get it.
Realm of Magic
Hereee we areeee… born to be Sims! They are the royalty of the Unnnniverrrseee. They are immortal, your Sims have inside the Immortality Potion. They have no rival, no other Sim can be their equal… now that the potion works!
Dream Home Decorator
We adjusted the pay for Interior Designers in their higher levels. I personally did not see an issue with this, Interior Designers need to get their coin, but we recognized it was maybe a bit too much compared to other levels in the same career path.
Just when you thought Kleptomaniac Sims had met their match, alas no - they really had to go for that Kid’s Tent. What can you do? We fixed the issue that on Attempt to Swipe the tent would not disappear from the lot and not be in the Sim’s Inventory… in any inventory. So with this fix you will see your swiped tents in the Household Inventory.
Nifty Knitting
Sims with autonomy ON will now be able to Knit when they are not having fun. Sims just want to have fun.
Bust the Dust
Those adorable - but filthy - Dust Bunnies were at it again! Maids didn’t have the heart to bust the dust completely. We told them it was ok to do so as no real bunnies are being harmed - just dust ones - and now they should be busting the dust entirely.
@Skyrryx, starting game menu. I need to enable my cc. Took out the few mods I had.
This made me laugh. That's exactly what I thought when I read the description of Neighborhood Confidante. Become the town gossip.
It becomes available after loading a game. Has this been different before?
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/995765/broken-updated-mods-cc-nov-30-2021-neighborhood-stories-patch#latest
I've only ever done it in the main menu :v
Edit: Oh wait, I'm thinking of Other, not Gameplay. My bad.
S3 simblr: http://simplysimming.tumblr.com/
S4 simblr: http://simlogic.tumblr.com/
I'm playing my game offline because I don't want to wait until my soon to be broken mods are fixed, but they almost won me over with this parody of my favorite Queen song.
All the sims err'day
Can someone make a list for all the missing ones so I can tweet it to simgururuskii because she answered a tweet asking for the eco lifestyle skills and said she will ask about it.
Idk I guess they would but I was gonna just tweet to a simguru to increased the chance of them patching it in
The way I play, in my 'main' save I have currently 15 played households in my game and 23 that are 'unplayed' but I still switch to them sometimes as I need. They're all interconnected, and follow the carefully planned story. That was the reason I fell in love with the Sims in the first place - because I could play it however I want and have Sims play out MY stories.
From how it was presented, it sounds like my Sims will now ignore it all, ignore all the relationships, who-is-who, all the rules and laws it took me a whole year to establish, and make completely random life changes, break up or have babies with random Sims.
And it seems there isn't a toggle to turn it off, for all saves, for all worlds, households, and Sims, because it supposedly "forces me to choose a boring world" and that the only way to "control" it is by clicking through popups?
So my question is - IS there a way to turn it off and return to my "boring" world, if I decide it's too random and I don't want this in my game?
It is so new. I am just reading on the forum in order to learn more myself. For the time being I am staying offline. Hope we will know more soon. I am a rotational player as well.