Today’s Sims 4 stream was broadcasted live from the production pit at Maxis and hosted by Sim gurus Ryan Vaughn, Grant Rodiek, and Antonio Romeo. Various members of the Sims 4 team also made appearances.
Familiar faces Andre DaSilva and Babs L’amour were joined by new Sims Tracey Hills and Albert Peterson in their Willow Springs home.
The gurus empty a room of the house and plan to fill it with crafted furniture. Babs begins crafting an end table at the woodworking table, making use of the handiness skill. Albert is building his mental skill at the science table. In addition to unlocking new science table potions and computer and social interactions, the mental skill will make the logic skill easier to obtain once a child ages. After completing the end table, Babs begins working on a Large Bear Sculpture.
Andre heads outside to weed the tomato bush while Tracey feeds the Cowplant. At level 8 of the gardening skill, a Sim can graft two plants together to create a plant that grows both types of produce.
Andre is in the focused emotional state, so now is a good opportunity to work on his programming skill at the newly purchased computer. Being focused enhances the rate at which he can learn the skill, evidenced by the purple outline around the skill progress bar and the purple background of the interaction in the queue. Andre has the genius trait, so he becomes focused more often.
He has plenty of satisfaction points, so the gurus open the Rewards Store to redeem a couple new traits for him. “Beard guru” Argus Hulin stops by and chooses the Gym Rat trait, and Grant picks the Shameless trait. Gym rats don’t lose hygiene and have fun while working out. Shameless Sims won’t become embarrassed.
After a short load, the household heads across the street to visit another house in the neighborhood. It turns out that no one lives here, however, so they head over to a trailer house in Oasis Springs. This was a bust, as no one is currently home. The shameless Andre tries to chat up some local ladies. Tracy goes fishing and catches a chest containing an apple.
They nearly visit the Rattlesnake Juice Bar for the third time, but Andre and Babs instead head to The Blue Velvet Nightclub. It’s not as lively as they’d hoped. Andre tends to the bar, and it appears that Pancake Bob works here.
After returning home, Babs picks up a voodoo doll and binds it to the unsuspecting Andre. A lumberjack sculpture is placed out of her inventory. Sculptures and paintings your Sims make can produce emotional auras that affect nearby Sims. She performs voodoo and forces Andre to frolic around the house. Poking the doll backfires, giving her an uncomfortable moodlet. Poking it again is successful, and Andre receives an angry moodlet. Andre can prune a nearby bonsai tree into various shapes. He is feeling inspired, so he has a special inspired shape choice.
The gurus rock the Landgraab family’s world by bulldozing their home and placing lots made to look like a pyramid, a spaceship, a floating house, and a castle. The castle is an incredible creation with fully furnished rooms and a lovely garden. Fences were used around the rooftops to emulate crenels.
From the Gallery they add a Sim modeled after Leonardo DiCaprio, an unfortunate creature called “The Bogeyman,” and one unibrowed fellow. Leonardo and The Bogeyman duel atop a tower, with the blue monster coming out victorious. Two more individuals rocking unibrows were added, and the Full House achievement was unlocked by having 8 (the maximum) Sims in the household.
The Hungry Games lot from the Gamescom presentation made its return. This time the Sims actually got to try it out. All six present Sims were instructed to the middle of the maze. Nancy Landgraab won the race, with Leonardo and The Bogeyman far behind the pack and in need of a bathroom break and a nap. The bathroom and bedroom are all the way on the other side of the maze.
The two waddle through the winding walkways and past shooting fountains. The Bogeyman is right outside the bathroom, but his bladder gets the best of him. Leonardo gets just as far before having to pass out. With no room in the narrow maze, he must slowly walk all the way outside and drops to the ground. Shortly afterwards he is awoken by his bladder…
To see all the entertaining interactions between the Sims 4 team, be sure to watch the stream!
