With the announcement of The Sims 4 Snowy Escape Expansion Pack The Sims Team also revealed that the pack will be bringing a new feature to the table called Lifestyles.
They’ve briefly explained what the feature will offer, saying:
The Sims 4 Snowy Escape also introduces Lifestyles and Sentiments features, adding more depth to Sims’ personalities and relationships. For the first time, up to 16 Lifestyles will manifest in response to a Sim’s actions and habits, changing their behaviors significantly more than Create a Sim traits as they reflect a Sim’s lived experiences. Lifestyles manifest in response to your Sim’s actions and habits, changing their behaviors appropriately.
The Lifestyles Feature has been described as being more significant than the CAS traits considering that they reflect something that your Sims have already lived through.
In the latest gameplay trailer they’ve given a first look at the Lifestyles Feature and what some of the Lifestyles will be. Keep in mind that there are 16 Lifestyles total and that not all of them will be visible to you right away (hidden).
Some of the revealed lifestyles include: Sedentary, Energetic, Close Knit, People Person, Indoorsy, Outdoorsy, Junk Food Fiend, Health Food Fiend.
The official blog post has revealed an additional Lifestyle that wasn’t shown in the trailer: Workaholic.
In the end we get nothing.
Traits don’t affect autonomy >All sims behave the same > Sims develop lifestyles based on behavior > All sims have the same lifestyles > Everyone still has the same personality: none!
So in the end we get nothing. Just the illusion that if we buy this pack personality will be fixed. It will not. They should’ve just copy+pasted traits from TS3 and apply proper autonomy. Many lifestyles are taken from TS3 anyway.
so well said, if not mods this game would be dull
y’all love ts3 so much, i wonder why you don’t go play it instead of complaining that the developers aren’t here creating TS3 2.0
like.. the game is still there. just play it if it’s so good
Only problem is TS3 got built on a system that was outdated as TS3 content was still coming out. At least we can play all of TS4 at the same time whereas TS3 crashes completely with all of the packs let alone store content lol.
Since it adds nothing, as you say, then we shouldn’t have any complaints if this is EP exclusive. Also, wouldn’t it be better to watch some game changers first to see how much of nothing it is to make a final judgement. Personally, I don’t watch the streams because only some of the gurus seem to play the sims as it’s intended (as they were players before becoming gurus) and don’t make it too boring watching.
The hidden cellphone ones might be something like addicted to cell phone/social media and the opposite of that.
The one with the heart could be flirtatious?
What’s sad is I am more excited to see what modders can do with this system since I already expect EAs content to fall flat especially after 1 or 2 playthroughs. Hopefully it has a good base potential for mods to expand upon even if it’s to just add more lifestyles to the list.
Feels like these should be base game updates and not part of this expansion only?
Very unlikely EA would’ve green light that if it wasn’t tied to a pack.