As you all might know The Sims Team is doing two big releases for The Sims 4 THIS WEEK! The first one is a huge update for The Sims 4 Base Game that’s rolling out for both PC and Xbox One / PS4 on June 2nd! The update is bringing some huge new features to the game including Ladders, Firefighters, Bills & Utilities, Free Window / Door Placement and more that we’ve covered here!
The other big release is The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack that’s coming out on both PC and Consoles on June 5th. Just like with previous Expansion Pack releases this one’s going to have 5 different release times and you can find out exactly when the pack’s coming out in your territory HERE!
The Sims 4 Base Game Update
The first big thing that we’re getting is tomorrow’s huge update for the base game with some of the following additions:
- Build Mode Object Stats Revamp
- Off-The-Grid Improvements
- Ladders
- Free Placement of Windows & Doors
- Bills & Utilities Revamp
- Repomen
- Firefighters
- Inventory 2.0
- Updated World Descriptions
The update will revamp a lot of things so if you have some Mods / CC installed on your PC expect for them to be disabled after the update automatically. It’s also worth noting that the update will probably affect and break some of the current versions of the mods you might have so make sure you keep track of updates from the creators of such mods! If your game is broken after the update and you’ve enabled Mods / CC make sure you disable them until creators release newer versions of their mods.
Here are some useful articles to help ensure a stabile CC / Mods experience after updating The Sims 4:
The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack
Eco Lifestyle is coming out on June 5th for PC, Xbox One and PS4 with different release hours for different territories that we’ve listed HERE!
To ensure that you’ll be able to play the game properly make sure you check these things:
- Make sure your PC runs on a 64bit system. 32bit systems are no longer supported ever since the release of The Sims 4 Legacy Edition and if you have a computer that’s running on a 32bit system you WON’T be able to either update your Base Game nor play Eco Lifestyle.
- Make sure you meet the following system requirements for Eco Lifestyle:
PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM SPECS:
OS: 64 Bit Required. Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10
CPU: 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 Dual-Core 4000+ or equivalent (For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-62 or equivalent)
RAM: At least 4 GB RAM
DISC DRIVE: DVD Rom Drive required for installation only
HARD DRIVE: At least 15 GB of free space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games
VIDEO: 128 MB of Video RAM and support for Pixel Shader 3.0. Supported Video Cards: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or better, ATI Radeon X1300 or better, Intel GMA X4500 or better
DIRECTX: DirectX 9.0, 10 and 11 Compatible
INPUT: Keyboard and Mouse
ONLINE REQUIREMENTS: Internet connection required for product activation.RECOMMENDED SPECS:
OS: 64 Bit Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or 10
PROCESSOR: Intel core i5 or faster, AMD Athlon X4
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GTX 650 or better
MEMORY: 4 GB RAM
HARD DRIVE: 18 GB of Hard Drive spaceMAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM SPECS:
OS: Metal required. Mac OS® X 10.11 (El Capitan)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz Processor or better
RAM: At least 4 GB RAM
HARD DRIVE: At least 15 GB of free space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, AMD Radeon RX 560 or better
INPUT: Keyboard and Mouse
ONLINE REQUIREMENTS: Internet connection required for product activation.RECOMMENDED SPECS:
OS: Mac OS® X 10.11 or later
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5 or better
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, AMD Radeon RX 560 or better
MEMORY: 8GB RAM
HARD DRIVE: 18 GB of Hard Drive space
For all information on the release of The Sims 4 Base Game Update and Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack stay tuned on Sims Community!
So my special needs daughter has the Sims Legacy and she pre purchased the Eco expansion pack and has not be able to download it. I was on chat with Origin and they said that her Legacy won’t run the new release. Is that anyone else’s issue? The basically said and I have it in writing that becuase she has the legacy she will not be able to play the Eco pack.
Is this update for console players
Consolplayers will get ubdates the same day going forward
How I’m sitting here waiting for the update and I is not on Xbox one this absolutely ridiculous WHERE IS THE UPDATE…I WANT LADDERS.
Perhaps try restarting your Xbox. I have ladders, updated billing, improved inventory etc.
My only issue now is that I pre-ordered the Eco Lifestyle and although I installed the 1.4G update and it’s in my list of Sims 4 add-ons; the game itself is still telling me to download to use. I’ve tried rebooting my Xbox so no clue. I’ll have to try Uninstaller then reinstalling. Hopefully that works.
Should be. It may come later though but I think they said something about it in the livestream
It’s for PCs .. clearly didn’t say for consoles.
Yes for consoles to
The base update referenced pc/mac/console. All updates ready june 2nd
Yes but they Xbox, PS4 and pc have different release hours. So you might not see it right away when the PC version come out first, I recommend waiting a day to see if the update is there because my PS4 usually don’t show me an update til the end of the week
My ps4 game has updated but now comes up with an error message. Does anyone else do that? How do I fox this?!
What version will it be?
Hi, This might be a stupid question (so apologies) but when you say PC do you include Mac in that too? Thank you.
What they mean by PC they mean personal computer
Yes
Mac doesn’t fall under the PC category due to having different system specs, and being am Apple-only product. The Mac settings are listed directly under The PC settings, and if it helps my 6 year old mac-book air is currently able to run the Sims at a decent quality
A Mac is a laptop which means it’s a PC
That’s wrong, PC means windows pc, Mac means Apple’s Mac OS
@Shydajah, only some Macs are laptops. Some Macs are desktop computers.