The Sims 4: Get to Work Expansion Pack Announced!

Your Sims can live out their dream careers by heading to work in the new Expansion Pack. This pack introduces three career opportunities, allowing your Sim to become a Doctor, Scientist, or Detective. Alternatively, if you’re in the entrepreneurial spirit, you can open up your own business and manage its day to day operations.

 

Get To WorkThe Sims 4: Get to Work releases April 2015 for $39.99!

 

 

The Careers

The Sims 4 Get To Work

Your Sims can take active employment in these careers.

Doctors work at the hospital, treating patients, saving lives, performing surgery, and even delivering babies.

Detectives will make their triumphant return, as they investigate scenes, interrogate Sims, and arrest criminals. You’ll start out as a Cadet and can rise through the ranks to become the Chief of Police.

Scientists can create zany inventions, but will they use their inventions for good or evil?

 

Open a Retail Business

Sims 4 Get To Work Retail

Perhaps your Sim is itching to run a successful business. Use your retail space to run businesses like bakeries, clothing boutiques, bookstores, art galleries, and more! Customize your store in Build Mode, then choose the items you’d like to sell. You can manage your employees, and schmooze with your customers to get that final sale!

 

Career Venues

Sims 4 Get To Work Hospital

Sims will have new career venues to travel to, like the Hospital, Police Station, and Science Lab. They can even head down to the Retail District and take an active role in managing their business.

 

New Skills

Sims 4 Photography Skill

Sims can use new skills to create even more unique objects. They can show off their creations at home or sell them for some extra cash! Build up the baking skill to entice customers with fancy confections, or catch the perfect scene with the new photography skill.

On our final note, we’d like to announce that Aliens are officially returning. Let’s discover what’s out of this world, when “The Sims 4: Get To Work” expansion pack drops in April 2015!

 

The Sims 4 Genealogy and Valentine’s Update

Sims 4 Celebration

The Sims is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a new update for The Sims 4!

What’s New?

The main menu of the game has been revamped, adding banners, links to the latest patch notes and forums, and a Create New Household button for active saves.

Sims 4 Genealogy

Family trees are back, now called Genealogy. A Sim’s family tree can be accessed by clicking the Genealogy button in the Simology panel. Hovering over a Sim’s portrait will display their name, career, spouse, relation to the selected Sim, and cause of death if applicable. Married Sims are differentiated by a pink line connecting their portraits in the tree.

 

Sims 4 Valentine's Clothing

New Valentine’s themed clothing were added to Create-A-Sim, including one t-shirt per gender, boxers for men, and lingerie for women.

 

Sims 4 Anniversary Objects

Four new objects can be found in Build Mode, including:

  • Happy Gnomiversary!
  • Bearly Gnome
  • The “Lots of Love” Bear
  • Venue Wall Speaker: Winter Holiday

Whims (excluding emotional ones) can now be pinned, preventing them from being cycled out. To do so, hover over a whim and click the small Pin button.

Four new legacy achievements!

  • Legacy Player: Play a household for ten generations or more.
  • Alphabet Legacy: Play a household for 26 generation or more.
  • Legendary Legacy: Play a household for 100 generations or more.
  • Legacy Leader: Have ten households in the world that have been played for ten generations or more.

Adjustments / Bug Fixes

  • The infamous bug causing bartenders to ignore incoming drink orders has been patched.
  • Dates can be had on the currently active lot.
  • Fireplaces will no longer set ceiling lights and objects on the mantle ablaze, and the chance of fire spreading to nearby objects has been reduced.
  • Sims outside of your current household will now wave goodbye when leaving the active lot.
  • Outdoor Retreat: Sims can no longer enter the Bramble Patch while uncomfortable.

 

Play 48 Hours of The Sims 4 for Free!

To celebrate The Sims franchise’s 15th Anniversary on February 4th, Origin is offering a free trial for The Sims 4!

Starting January 22nd (4:00 PM PST) through February 2nd (10:00 AM PST), Origin users can download and play The Sims 4 for 48 hours at no cost! The Sims 4 joins the ranks of games such as Titanfall and Battlefield 4 as part of Origin’s Game Time program.

Sims 4 Game Time

Claim your free trial through the store page and get to Simming! Your time starts after launching the game for the first time.

 

Secret Hermit’s House Lot in Granite Falls!

Hidden in the Granite Falls Forest lies the entrance to a secret lot known as the Hermit’s House! While you’re on vacation, fast travel to the Granite Falls Forest National Park to start your adventure.

 

 

Exploring the Brambles

Outdoor Retreat Explore Brambles

During your expedition you will encounter multiple scenarios in which you must choose the correct answer to proceed. Some of these scenarios come in two different forms, indicated in our guide with an A or B.

Step Forward, lest ye be an embarrassed coward.

Upon further investigation, you stumble upon either a web blocking your path (A) or a bubbling brook (B). You could try to find another route to avoid the web, or stop to fish in the brook.

Keep Walking or Go Through Web

A) Face your fears and traverse through the spider web. The other route is much worse, trust me.

B) Congratulations! You’ve just avoided a painful encounter with Ursus Arctos!

You may now find yourself growing tired and are given an option to rest (A). Otherwise you’ll spot a shiny object in the distance (B).

Sally Forth or Ignore The Object

A) Sure, take a nap. That’s if you don’t mind ticks attacking you in your sleep.

B) Avert thine eyes! That’s no object, but a woodland monster!

Outdoor Retreat Hermit's House

Traveling onward, you’ve discovered a sacred cove. But who is that mysterious Sim?

Travel Towards the Sim and enter the Deep Woods

Outdoor Retreat Hermit

Not to worry, brave adventurer, it’s just a peaceful hermit! You’re now free to befriend him, mooch off of his belongings, and fish to thine heart’s content!

The Sims 4 Mods: Adult Beanie Visor

Sims 4 Beanie Visor Mod

The cool beanie visor hat is exclusive to children no more! The Adult Beanie Visor is available for teens through elders in all nine original colors!

Download it here!

*Requires the Outdoor Retreat game pack.

Notice any bugs or have suggestions? Let us know in the comments!

The Sims 4: January 13th Patch Fixes The Family Loading Bug

Sims 4 Patch Notes

It appears that, at least since December, Simmers have been plagued with a bug that prevents them from loading up their families. Apparently they got kicked out to the neighborhood screen upon loading the file. This issue has been finally resolved as of today in the January 13th patch!

Another interesting bug that was fixed today made the fertility rate skyrocket, causing a new baby boomer generation! Aside from that, Johnny Zest will finally have his name spelled correctly after seemingly being swapped around for no reason!

Patch Notes: Version 1.3.32.1010

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that resulted in our players being unable to load their household after installing the 12/16 patch, and instead being bounced back to the neighborhood map. The community was very helpful in identifying this issue (providing feedback and save files), thank you!
  • Fixed an issue where the game would become unresponsive on load if the player had a large number of households, rooms, and lots in their My Library sort.
  • Sim fertility levels had reached an all-time high recently, and twins were popping out all over! Our specialists have examined the issue, and administered a correction to the abundant babies. Sims should no longer find they are having twins (or triplets) at an alarming rate.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented career progress from properly tracking the Sims skill progression towards career goals.
  • Working out on workout equipment will no longer count towards the play chess daily goal for the Astronaut career.
  • We fixed an issue that was a result of this: let’s say you had a Sim, we’ll call him Joe, and he lived in a household, say the Smiths, and you uploaded Joe, also known as Joe Smith, to the Gallery, and then you decided to add Joe to the Jones’ household by downloading him from the Gallery, thus now creating Joe Jones, and then you edited Joe Jones in Create a Sim, this would also modify Joe Smith.
  • The “In Need of a Break” buff is no longer in need of a break, and now correctly displays its information in the hover tip.
  • Zest Johnny will henceforth be known as… Johnny Zest!
  • Fixed an issue that could result in “bad things” when attempting to merge a Sim from the gallery into a household that already has a copy of that Sim in it.
  • Fixed an issue that could result in “bad things” when attempting to merge a household from the gallery into a household that already has a copy of that household in it.
  • We however failed to fix the repetitive nature of some of our release notes.
  • The Venue Wall Speaker: Spooky has made a return to the catalog after spending some time on the ‘other side’ to re-spookify itself.
  • Lots placed from the gallery that have used the move objects cheat will no longer delete their moo’d objects when the lot is placed.
  • The National Park venue now has tuning associated with it… so Sims who show up will know they can leave, rather than lingering around indefinitely, wandering aimlessly with no apparent purpose, direction, or desire (they could have at least played music…).
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing the user from uploading multiple rooms to the gallery if the rooms were uploaded consecutively.

UI / Text

  • Fixed an interface focus issue where the eyedropper tooltip was preventing the eyedropper from properly functioning.
  • Fixed an issue that occurred when opening a modal window on top of an open inventory stack, which would cause the stack to fail to correctly display.
  • Text will no longer overlap itself in the phone menu if the text string is too long.
  • You can once again add a description to your Rooms and Lots that you upload to the gallery, rather than using the comment field… which was ingenious!
  • You will no longer be told twice that you can take Family Leave if there is more than one eligible Sim.

 

Sims 4: Outdoor Retreat Trailer Releases Tomorrow!

 

Tomorrow marks the release day of the full Outdoor Retreat trailer. This time we got a look at the new horseshoes activity and some of the new build mode objects included in the pack. Sims can end a romantic night of sitting by the campfire and gazing at the stars with a little woohoo in their tent.

We’ll be breaking down all of the game pack’s content in our overview after its release this week.

 

New Outdoor Retreat Trailer to Come Next Week

 

A new 16-second long teaser for the Outdoor Retreat game pack was released today. The full trailer is scheduled to arrive sometime next week, so stay tuned!

The Sims 4 Introduces Game Packs with Outdoor Retreat

Sims 4 Outdoor Retreat Camp

New content is coming to The Sims 4 starting in January in the form of Game Packs. A Game Pack is much like the Stuff Packs of previous Sims games, but with additional gameplay content as well. These are the first paid content packs for the game and cost $20.

Outdoor Retreat is the first of these packs. It includes a new area called Granite Falls. new costumes such as a bear suit, new hairstyles, and new objects to interact with like a campfire and tents. Additional info is coming in January, so stay tuned!

Sims 4 Outdoor Retreat Stargazing

The Sims 4 Careers Update is Out!

Sims 4 Careers Update

Announced back in October, the highly anticipated careers update is now available!

 

Careers

Sims 4 Business Rewards

The Athlete and Business career tracks were added to the game, each with two branches.

At level 7 of the Athlete career, a Sim can choose between the Professional Athlete and Bodybuilder branches. while Sims in the Business career have a choice of either Management or Investor branches.

Sims 4 Athlete Rewards

In addition to the new careers, Sims can now acquire Paid Time Off by going to work, and have three days at the start. Female Sims can go on Family Leave during their third trimester of pregnancy, and both parents can take off after the birth of their child.

 

Adjustments

Many small adjustments were made to the game with this update, most notably:

  • Some career and aspiration goals were deemed too difficult or too large a gap between previous goals were made easier to complete.
  • Fruit and vegetables obtained through gardening can now be eaten.
  • Several doors, windows, and roof trims were given new color choices.
  • The rate of weight gain was reduced by half when your Sim is actually hungry.
  • Sims will no longer grab drinks from the refrigerator autonomously.
  • The lounge venue is no longer the Elder hotspot.
  • Objects will break less frequently.
  • Sims will now autonomously use swimming pools at venues.
  • You may now view the various panels for a Sim when they are at work.
  • A Sim’s life stage will now display when hovering over them.
  • Taking screenshots is enabled during Create A Sim.
  • The phone menu and career panel have received modified designs.
  • A layer of dirt will form on Sims with low hygiene.

 

Cheats

Sims 4 Set as Head Cheat

Three new cheats were added to the game, and another was fixed. Testing cheats (testingcheats on) must be enabled in order for these cheats to work.

The Set as Head cheat has been fixed and can now actually be used. After enabled testing cheats, you can shift click on any object and place it on your active Sim’s head.

The sims.give_satisfaction_points # cheat allows you to instantly give your Sim satisfaction points based on the number inputted.

Players looking to unlock all career reward furniture without doing the work can use the bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlement cheat.

The kinara candles were able to placed on that shelf with the move objects cheat.

 

At last, the Move Objects cheat has made it to The Sims 4! bb.moveobjects allows you to place any item in any location, disregarding placement rules. In addition, pushing the 0 number key will move an object down, while the 9 number key will move it up.