Ooops, they took it down. Somebody managed to read it whole? I've read about two new aspirations, festivals and a brief mention that all worlds can now be treated as vacation (but no details) and now it's gone...
I read it all, from what I can remember:
All worlds can be treated as a vacation world.
Two new woohoo spots, the hot springs and the ice cave.
Two new deaths, vending machine and falling off a cliff.
Some new festivals, one for children which includes void critter hunting (like pokemon go), a festival of lights and I can't remember the other one.
You can go hiking as a proper group activity, up to four sims, one is the leader and you get options and such (chance cards maybe, I can't remember exactly).
New weather is thundersnow storms where you can get caught in storms - this is covered in the blog post.
This is looking so good now.. I am pleased that vacation worlds will be in all worlds and was wondering as swimming in the lake was added to this world if they will open up the ability to swim in other worlds too.. I like the way there appears to be plenty of activities for kids and hiking is a group experience. I cannot wait for the Livestream
Copy/Paste from the leaked page. Still had it open.
Exciting new Features from the exclusive Snowy Escape Livestream
14 mins ago 0 118
Time to dust off your skiing-gear and pack your bags for a trip to Mt. Komorebi, the new Japan-inspired world from the upcoming pack for The Sims 4: Snowy Escape! We were invited to join an exclusive livestream of the new expansion pack. SimGuruGraham showed a lot of fun and exciting details about the new pack that we want to share with you. So stay tuned for some cool ins-and-outs of the upcoming content!
Here’s a quick summary of the most exciting features:
Children can now wear a uniform to school.
Sims will take their shoes off when entering their home.
In the World of Mt. Komorebi, Sim can swim in the water that is available in the world. We saw a Sim swim in the local river.
Sims can eat with chopsticks.
Two new deaths and two new woohoo spots.
New weather conditions.
Over 150 objects in this expansion pack.
Any world can now be used as a vacation world.
Japanese styled roofs and rock gardens.
Watch the Official Gameplay Trailer
New aspirations
In this pack your Sim can choose two new aspirations: Mt. Komorebi Sightseer and Extreme Sports Enthusiast. Thrillseeking Sims can pick the Extreme Sports Enthusiast for a life full of snowboarding, rock climbing and adventurous expeditions to the peak of Mt. Komorebi.
For the Mt. Komorebi Sightseer aspiration tasks will include eating food at the town’s festivals, taking a swim in the Wakaba river & taking a selfie with the Mt. Komorebi mascot, YamaChan. You can find a giant statue of him in some of the neighborhoods and he plays a big role at the festivals.
Festivals
The Children’s festival takes place during the weekends. There’s a special void critter hunt much like Pokémon GO going on at the festival. Toddlers and kids can even craft paper samurai hats.
Another festival that takes place in the traditional neighborhood is the Festival of Lights. Paper lanterns will flow down the river, fireworks and even bonfires. You can also purchase exclusive clothing at one of the stalls.
There’s also a Festival of Snow near the Onsen Bathhouse that has the most amazing sculptures that will light up the neighborhood. If this isn’t enough to lighten up the place, there’s also a fireworks event happening during this festival.
New Foods and Drinks
There are 15 new foods and drinks in Snowy Escape. Hot Pots are a great new addition in this pack. This will take the cooking moment to the table with other Sim to enjoy. This will make cooking a bit more social.
New ways of eating food
You can now choose how Sim will eat their dinner. You can choose between forks, wooden, plastic or steel chopsticks.
Lifestyles
Lifestyles are about the lived experiences of our Sims. You can obtain them if you’re doing a lot of extreme sports in the next couple of days for example. But they can also fade away when your Sim isn’t really active in that lifestyle anymore. If you really want them to be gone you can buy a potion in the reward store or you can call a lifestyle coach.
Some of the lifestyles you can unlock are Workaholic, Hunger for Love, Frequent Traveler and Health Food Nut. There are 16 different lifestyles you can acquire for your Sims.
Sentiments
Sentiments are a new addition in The Sims 4. They will give Sim certain emotions from things that happened in the past or happening right now. For example your Sim can hold grudges with other Sim. When those Sim come near each other they will have a stronger reaction and will have an effect on your Sims’ emotion.Or when you’ve had a great experience hiking with family and you’ve taken your own path after the hike and go skiing. The Sim will start to miss them and starts feeling sad.
New Deaths
In The Sims 4 Snowy Escape you can expect 2 new deaths.
Death by Vending Machine
When an item is stuck and you make an attempt to take it out, it can cost you your life. Death by Falling
When you fall off the cliff during rock climbing there’s a chance it’s not just an injury… Don’t go climbing with icy weather conditions. New Woohoo Spots
Two new and very exciting new woohoo spots for your Sims:
Woohoo in the Hot Springs
You can woohoo in the hot springs in the Onsen Bathhouse or place a hot spring at your lot. Woohoo in Ice Cave
During the Mountain excursion you can come across an ice cave. It might be sealed and frozen over or it might be available to your Sims.
New Collectibles: Simmi
Simmies are the new collectables in The Sims 4 Snowy Escape. You can find them in vending machines for example or find them at festivals. If you’re really lucky you can even find golden Simmies. You can collect 12 different Simmies and 12 rare golden variants of them.
The World and lots
There are a total of 14 lots in the new world. One of the neighborhoods is a more traditional Sinbamachi, the other neighborhood looks a bit more modern and of course the snowy mountain neighborhood.
Hiking
You can hike together as a group and enjoy the nature around you. You may encounter wildlife such as creepy critters so be prepared for that. You can go on different hikes such as bamboo forest, meditative walks or do an exercise trail.
New Social Event: Mountain Climb Excursion
You can form a group and go on a mountain excursion. Just like all the other social events, there are different tasks to complete. You must choose an excursion leader and the excursion team members. You can form a group of max 4 Sim to climb the mountain.
You’ll start off at the Onsen Bathhouse so you can prepare for your journey to the top of the mountain. Take a nice warm dip in the hot springs to heal your past injuries a bit faster, get some food from the vending machine and of course take a bathroom break.
You will start your journey on top of the slopes. You can either use rock climbing gear or you can try and free climb your way to the top. But don’t worry, they didn’t include avalanches in this expansion pack. They did include some extreme weather you’ll have to look out for.
You’ll come across base camps. More dangerous routes and eventually you’ll reach the top of the mountain.
Skiing, Snowboarding and Sledging
To start your journey of becoming a great snowboarder or skier you can start with taking the bunny ramp to test your skills. Sledging will also take place at the bunny ramp. Sim can even go sledding with toddlers. It looks so cute! Kids can go skiing and snowboard from the large slopes.
The large slopes that require a gondola to reach the top will have different intensity levels and different grades in difficulty. Each time they will choose a new path down the mountain on the same slope. Snowboarders can record a POV Snowboarding video and earn royalties from them. It’s great to see the developers included a way to make money from these activities.
Weather
There are a few weather conditions that will determine whether the slopes are safe enough to use. For example with icy conditions, the slopes will be very slippery and Sims can injure themselves.
There’re also new weather conditions in The Sims 4 Snowy Escape. Thunder snow storms are one of the new weathers. It’s a blizzard with lightning that can be quite deadly.
When you’re mountain climbing, the chances that extreme weather will occur will get greater when you’re reaching for the top.
What will be in the new Base Game Update
Sunken entryway, platforms you can create a fully raised decorative platform to place plants for example. They come in all shapes and sizes!
You can now go on vacation anywhere!
Go on vacation in ANY of the available worlds, not just destination worlds.
I really hope the vacation change works both ways and we are able to live in the destination worlds. I suspect they're going to remain rental only though so I'm not getting excited until I know either way.
I'm really excited that they're doing the festival thing again in this pack. I enjoy that a lot from City Living and it's fantastic to think my sims can actually enjoy this kind of thing while on holiday now as well. 💖
I really hope the vacation change works both ways and we are able to live in the destination worlds. I suspect they're going to remain rental only though so I'm not getting excited until I know either way.
I hope for this as well. This will be such a great addition. Can't wait for Livestream to learn more.
There is so much to take in. Between the trailer and the leaked info. I'm just still super excited for this. The last two EP's broadened my game and gave me things to do but this world and everything .. I just want to immerse my sims in it.
Everything in the leaked page sounds amazing, although it does beg the question of why wasn't 90% of that in the gameplay trailer.
I love that there is a children's festival-kids were so left out of the festivals in City Living and Island Living, so it's nice to see one especially for them here. Crafting paper hats sounds adorable, and I love that they continue to add to the Void Critters with the "Pokemon Go" game. It really does seem like they've made an effort to include all age groups, which is always nice to see. Toddlers can sled and craft at the festival, and kids can start to learn to snowboard and ski. Also-school uniforms!
I'm also really excited that they've started to get more creative with the social event system beyond "here's a new theme of party." The Mountain Excursion as a social event sounds like fun, but I'm also excited to see what they could do with this system in the future outside of "a party where we eat" or "a party where we wear costumes".
I'm genuinely curious why Lifestyles were featured in the trailer but Sentiments weren't. From what I saw of the Lifestyle system, it seems to be taking some cues from both Get Famous's perk and quirk system and Parenthood's character value system, while Sentiments resembles a memory system like the one in TS2, where Sims' memories affected their mood. I'll be interested to see how they show this off in a live stream.
Thanks for all the information! Do you think that all worlds can be treated as residential? And do Sims have to take their shoes off, or is it optional?
@Dannydanbo oh, yes, I would love more sizes than just the 2x, that would be so awesome! @stilljustme2 can you use the digital sketchpad to paint from reference? I hardly ever use that object. I wish that sims could sit on the floor to use laptops, they do not seem very portable really when you need a surface to use one.
You can do any of the painting styles normally available on an easel -- using it doesn't count for either the home work assignment to Create Paintings, or maybe it's the aspiration assignment (I should check that once my Sims have enough money to afford one; just moved them to a new apartment in the Arts Quarter because they got tired of the mice and the roaches in their Needs TLC place in the Spice District) but I know there's a mod at MTS that fixes that.
Yeah, you need a surface for the laptops, but it doesn't have to be a desk; I had a Sim in Sulani and they just pulled it out at their kitchen table. If you're at the park you might be able to use a picnic table; I should give that a test sometime.
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Ooops, they took it down. Somebody managed to read it whole? I've read about two new aspirations, festivals and a brief mention that all worlds can now be treated as vacation (but no details) and now it's gone...
I read it all, from what I can remember:
All worlds can be treated as a vacation world.
Two new woohoo spots, the hot springs and the ice cave.
Two new deaths, vending machine and falling off a cliff.
Some new festivals, one for children which includes void critter hunting (like pokemon go), a festival of lights and I can't remember the other one.
You can go hiking as a proper group activity, up to four sims, one is the leader and you get options and such (chance cards maybe, I can't remember exactly).
New weather is thundersnow storms where you can get caught in storms - this is covered in the blog post.
So all worlds can be treated as vacation worlds. But can all worlds be treated as residential?
yes except granite falls, the star wars one and selvadorada
This is looking so good now.. I am pleased that vacation worlds will be in all worlds and was wondering as swimming in the lake was added to this world if they will open up the ability to swim in other worlds too.. I like the way there appears to be plenty of activities for kids and hiking is a group experience. I cannot wait for the Livestream
I'm already thinking where I want to put some vacation homes; I might restore The Old Salt House to a residential lot (currently it's a bowling alley/lounge) in the San Myshuno Spice District for family vacations, and do a studio penthouse for a vacationing couple in the Arts Quarter. And I'll evict Catarina Lynx and her brood of cats to Not in World population so I can have her house in Brindleton Bay for honeymooners; someone did a great conversion of the Salty Paws bar into a restaurant which will be handy for vacationers. Now just have to decide which house(s) in Sulani will be rentals...I'd like to have one as sort of an eco-retreat (my ophthalmologist told me about one he took his girlfriend to for her birthday -- well, at least he's technically single... ) using some of the EL lot traits and solar/wind generators.
Adding open water swimming to other worlds might be a bit tricky at this point just because of the existence of multiple save files that they'd have no access to change. Maybe they could do it but it would be for new game saves only.
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Ooops, they took it down. Somebody managed to read it whole? I've read about two new aspirations, festivals and a brief mention that all worlds can now be treated as vacation (but no details) and now it's gone...
I read it all, from what I can remember:
All worlds can be treated as a vacation world.
Two new woohoo spots, the hot springs and the ice cave.
Two new deaths, vending machine and falling off a cliff.
Some new festivals, one for children which includes void critter hunting (like pokemon go), a festival of lights and I can't remember the other one.
You can go hiking as a proper group activity, up to four sims, one is the leader and you get options and such (chance cards maybe, I can't remember exactly).
New weather is thundersnow storms where you can get caught in storms - this is covered in the blog post.
So all worlds can be treated as vacation worlds. But can all worlds be treated as residential?
yes except granite falls, the star wars one and selvadorada
I’m still hoping that they will allow Granite Falls to be residential someday.
Ooops, they took it down. Somebody managed to read it whole? I've read about two new aspirations, festivals and a brief mention that all worlds can now be treated as vacation (but no details) and now it's gone...
I read it all, from what I can remember:
All worlds can be treated as a vacation world.
Two new woohoo spots, the hot springs and the ice cave.
Two new deaths, vending machine and falling off a cliff.
Some new festivals, one for children which includes void critter hunting (like pokemon go), a festival of lights and I can't remember the other one.
You can go hiking as a proper group activity, up to four sims, one is the leader and you get options and such (chance cards maybe, I can't remember exactly).
New weather is thundersnow storms where you can get caught in storms - this is covered in the blog post.
So all worlds can be treated as vacation worlds. But can all worlds be treated as residential?
yes except granite falls, the star wars one and selvadorada
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I read it all, from what I can remember:
All worlds can be treated as a vacation world.
Two new woohoo spots, the hot springs and the ice cave.
Two new deaths, vending machine and falling off a cliff.
Some new festivals, one for children which includes void critter hunting (like pokemon go), a festival of lights and I can't remember the other one.
You can go hiking as a proper group activity, up to four sims, one is the leader and you get options and such (chance cards maybe, I can't remember exactly).
New weather is thundersnow storms where you can get caught in storms - this is covered in the blog post.
I hope for this as well. This will be such a great addition. Can't wait for Livestream to learn more.
I love that there is a children's festival-kids were so left out of the festivals in City Living and Island Living, so it's nice to see one especially for them here. Crafting paper hats sounds adorable, and I love that they continue to add to the Void Critters with the "Pokemon Go" game. It really does seem like they've made an effort to include all age groups, which is always nice to see. Toddlers can sled and craft at the festival, and kids can start to learn to snowboard and ski. Also-school uniforms!
I'm also really excited that they've started to get more creative with the social event system beyond "here's a new theme of party." The Mountain Excursion as a social event sounds like fun, but I'm also excited to see what they could do with this system in the future outside of "a party where we eat" or "a party where we wear costumes".
I'm genuinely curious why Lifestyles were featured in the trailer but Sentiments weren't. From what I saw of the Lifestyle system, it seems to be taking some cues from both Get Famous's perk and quirk system and Parenthood's character value system, while Sentiments resembles a memory system like the one in TS2, where Sims' memories affected their mood. I'll be interested to see how they show this off in a live stream.
The shoe thing, the uniform, and the food option makes me so happy! 😍😍
Here in my house we take the shoes off now (coronavirus), and some of my sims will do the same
More suspicious people might not consider these matching counts to be a coincidence.
Be careful where you woohoo on a mountain.
Thanks for the interactive map it was great to be able to take a look at the lots and surrounding mountains/countryside
You can do any of the painting styles normally available on an easel -- using it doesn't count for either the home work assignment to Create Paintings, or maybe it's the aspiration assignment (I should check that once my Sims have enough money to afford one; just moved them to a new apartment in the Arts Quarter because they got tired of the mice and the roaches in their Needs TLC place in the Spice District) but I know there's a mod at MTS that fixes that.
Yeah, you need a surface for the laptops, but it doesn't have to be a desk; I had a Sim in Sulani and they just pulled it out at their kitchen table.
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
yes except granite falls, the star wars one and selvadorada
I'm already thinking where I want to put some vacation homes; I might restore The Old Salt House to a residential lot (currently it's a bowling alley/lounge) in the San Myshuno Spice District for family vacations, and do a studio penthouse for a vacationing couple in the Arts Quarter. And I'll evict Catarina Lynx and her brood of cats to Not in World population so I can have her house in Brindleton Bay for honeymooners; someone did a great conversion of the Salty Paws bar into a restaurant which will be handy for vacationers.
Adding open water swimming to other worlds might be a bit tricky at this point just because of the existence of multiple save files that they'd have no access to change. Maybe they could do it but it would be for new game saves only.
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
I’m still hoping that they will allow Granite Falls to be residential someday.
I missed that, Where was that info dropped?
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I like this idea.