The Sims 4 Luxury Party Stuff not only adds new clothing for your Sims, but furniture and radio songs as well! Add some flair to your lot with an illuminated modern bar and accent table, along with a flashy dining set and curtains. Two banquet tables and a food & drink fountain come with new gameplay elements, perfect for lavish parties with a large number of guests.
Furniture
Chiawowi Seat
Uptight Stool
The Parttoman
Table Sequinas
Boom Cube
Shine Bar
Fountain of Mirth
Banquetia Plateau
Fancy Feast Banquet Table
Dream Ruffles
Lamp de Twist
Pulse Panels
The banquet table can instantly be filled with a number of scrumptious dishes, either individually or all at once. Alternatively, you can place your Sims’ own cooking upon it.
Almond Macarons
Chevice and Chips
Roast Chicken
Sausage and Peppers
Vegetable Tempura
Serve up some tasty fondues and beverages for your guests with the new party fountain. Pour in chocolate for strawberry appetizers, or quench their thirsts with some fruit punch. Additional recipes can be unlocked with higher cooking and mixology skills, and some can even affect a Sim’s emotional state with new moodlets after consumption.
Food
Chocolate
Cheese (Cooking level 4) +Inspired moodlet
Caramel (Cooking level 8)
Drink
Fruit Punch
Sparkling Apple Juice (Mixology level 3) +Playful moodlet
Futuristic Punch (Mixology level 5)
Party Extender Punch (Mixology level 8) +Energized moodlet
Mischievous Sims can “add something extra” to sabotage the fountain with a skill level of 4, causing a black smoke cloud to emanate from its contents. Any Sims who partake in the concoction can receive an uncomfortable or possibly playful moodlet. With a high enough cooking or mixology skill, a Sim can improve the quality of the fountain’s refreshments.
Apart from the selection of lovely furniture, several new songs are included with the pack for the pop and electronica radio stations.
The Pool Tool is now available in Build Mode. Use it to draw pools in rectangular shapes. Its four other options extend to triangular, square, diagonal, and octagonal pools. These can be appended onto existing pools to create complex designs. For example, the “triangular pool” can be pretty handy for creating pools with diagonal corners.
Add some decor with the placement of lights and decals. These objects can be placed both in and outside the pool.
Pools can be built anywhere; from the ground, to the deck, and even the second and third floors.
Pool Interactions
There’s only a few pool interactions you’ll see on a regular basis. You can swim laps, splash others, or sit on the edge and chat. Sims with certain moodlets have access to a few more interactions. They could go for a ‘playful’ swim, or swim faster laps while ‘energized.’
Sims who pee in the pool, gain the “secretly relieved” moodlet. This boosts their playfulness but makes everyone else “uncomfortably warm.”
New Outfits!
This update adds the new “Swimwear” category for Sims of all ages. Women can wear bikinis and one-piece bathing suits in all sorts of colors and styles.
Men can wear board shorts, speedos, and a shark tooth necklace.
Girls can wear bathing suits in plain colors or polka-dots. Boys can choose from 3 different shorts in a wide assortment of colors.
Be ready for the hot summer sun with two new sunblock face paint options available in Create A Sim.
Starting today until The Sims 4’s launch, the official Sims Twitch channel will be hosting livestreams of the game at 3 PM EDT. Today’s livestream was hosted by Sim gurus Ryan Vaughn and Aaron Houts and focused on building a weird house with the game’s “tactile and intuitive” building tools.
They started off by using the classic Motherlode cheat to increase their household’s Simoleons. In Build Mode, they opened the Styled Rooms menu. Clicking on one of these rooms brought up a display.
Each room has three different color designs to choose from. Hovering over individual components of the room displayed information about them. You can place any individual piece of furniture from the room into your lot from here, or the entire room itself. There are special career themed rooms, unlocked by reaching level 10 of different career paths.
While decorating a bathroom, Aaron made use of Build Mode’s text search function. As he typed, various objects, tools, and categories matching the text appeared above. You can also filter objects by color. After placing a few rooms, Aaron showed off the three door heights. These correspond with the short, medium, and tall wall heights. Wall height can be adjusted on the fly, and objects affected by this may automatically adjust.
A foundation was instantly added under the house with a simple eight level height slider. Windows can be placed by room, in addition to standard placement. This automatically places evenly spaced out windows across the exposed walls of a room. Aaron displayed the free vertical placement, holding the Alt key to smoothly move a window up and down the wall.
In The Sims 4 you no longer need supports for rooms spanning more than two spaces past the ground floor. They can even float in midair! You can move a room up a floor by placing it on top of itself. Roofs are highly customizable, allowing you to resize and curve the shape. The eaves, or bottom edges of a roof, can be adjusted together or individually.
On the toolbar at the top of the screen you’ll find many familiar tools. The Design Tool allows you to choose a different color design for an object.
In the Lot Info Panel you can edit certain details of your lot, including the name, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and the lot type. It also displays the current value of the lot. This ties into sharing it on the Gallery. When changing the lot type, it will display what items you’ll need for the lot to work properly. You will be unable to change the lot type while there are Sims living there.
Saving your room to the Gallery or your library is done by selecting the room and clicking the Save To My Library button on the toolbar. You can save the room or the entire lot. Now you can change the display image and the room or lot’s information.
The background buildings light up in the night.
Aaron began placing grass over the harsh desert terrain with the terrain tool. The size and feathering can be adjusted. To liven up the environment, various outdoor plants were added to the front of the house. In The Sims 4, terrain and outdoor plants can be placed on top of rooms. Surrounding the top with a fence turned it into a block. This removed the terrain, but Aaron was able to quickly add it back. Now the whole block and its contents could be moved together.
Fountains can be created with a selection of different shapes. You can customize your fountain with trim and place different water emitters and decorations inside of it. Differently colored water emitters will change the color of the water as it passes through and glow at night.
After completing the strange house, it was uploaded to the Gallery. They pulled up Edna and Mary’s Place, a residential lot uploaded by Graham Nardone. When placing a lot from the Gallery, you can choose whether or not it is furnished. After placing the lot, a notice popped up noting that items were removed. The lot contained the Plumbob Lamps rewarded to owners of The Sims 3 and its expansions, which Aaron and Ryan did not have in their game. After a quick look around the house, they decided to show off the object resizing cheat.
You’ll be able to find the lot they created on the Gallery after the game’s release under the TS4LiveStream Origin ID. We’ll continue our rundown of the livestreams in the coming days. Stay tuned!
Peter Moore (COO of Electronic Arts) and Rachel Franklin (Executive Producer of The Sims 4) presented a live demonstration of The Sims 4 at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.
Using the power of the Create A Sim tool, they designed a Sim based off of Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany. She looks close enough for the most part, just with a bit more volume to her hair.
Next, they showed off Peter Moore’s Sim and made him extremely muscular since he’s been training for marathons. His Sim had some funky body proportions, made even more awkward when he switched into his ‘executive’ outfit. Certainly, you can just click on a body part and shrink those bulging muscles right away.
They proceeded to show off the Build Mode, where you can move an entire mansion just by dragging it across the screen. It wasn’t as snappy as it looked in the trailer videos, but to be fair, it was a complex house that may have needed some time to process moving all those rooms.
We even got a little bird’s-eye view of one of the neighborhoods in Willow Creek. Look closely at one of the houses designed to look like the Freezer Bunny.
In this neighborhood, we get to meet Pancake Bob, whose current mood state made him depressed. Peter Moore’s Sim, in contrast, was generally happy, providing for some unique interactions between the two. Pancake Bob’s emotional interactions lets him complain to others about his problems or ask for advice from other Sims. Peter Moore, on the other hand, could cheer him up, or brighten his day to improve his outlook.
Lastly, we were treated to a special scene with the Cow Plant; which then proceeded to eat Peter Moore as soon as he grabbed the cake dangling from the plant’s tongue. A few moments later, the cow spat him right back out, immediately placing Peter in a bad mood.
Anyway, the major announcement at this event was for the Create A Sim demo which was released yesterday to the general public. I guess the timing of the conference was supposed to coincide with its release, but it appears this was a little too late.
Earlier this morning, The Sims team released another video showing off some of the new features in Build Mode. In addition to the traditional methods of building a home, you can now take pre-fabricated rooms of various shapes and sizes and adjust them to your hearts content. Players can speed things up by plopping pre-furnished rooms to their layout in a similar fashion to Simcity 2013’s service modules.
One major theme the video highlights is the ease of using the various build tools. All it takes is one click to place several windows along the wall. You can morph a roof in various shapes and add some trim in a snap! Even the foundation for the entire home can be adjusted at any time by dragging a button along a slider.
One of our personally favorite features is how the furniture’s placement adjusts as you expand the size of the room. We’re also excited to see that now we can adjust the windows on the walls to various heights—and best of all—set the walls to three distinct heights.
Well that’s all for now, hopefully we’ll learn more about Buy Mode in the upcoming days, see you soon!
