The Sims 4 recently introduced Sentiments – a new way for Sims to build (or destroy) relationships with each other. Although the current list of Sentiments in The Sims 4 is pretty big (over 50 if you count the ones that come with Snowy Escape), there is still a lot of room for improvement and new Sentiment additions.
Considering the Sentiments feature is pretty new to the Base Game we could see a lot of new additions in the future. Until then Sims 4 modder @lumpinou decided to take the matter into their own hand by exploring the possibility of Custom Sentiments!
They explained that creating Custom Sentiments for the game is possible (using external modding tools of course) and that there’s almost an unlimited amount of Custom Sentiments you’ll be able to add into the game.
Are custom Sentiments doable? yes. Will I make roughly a billion of them to put in my mods? yes. Am I by any chance making a First Impression system for Sims when first meeting each other, which will influence friendship & romance development? You know it.
Some examples. Aiming for a November release. Using the moods mod as well to vary up reactions, see that ‘suspicious’ moodlet? 😉 First impressions don’t last forever & can be overcome…. Hopefully there’ll also be time for a very tiny Woohoo Wellness update.
The modder confirmed that they’ve already started working on some of the Custom Sentiments that will build interesting chemistry between two Sims. You can check out some of the examples above!
They’ve later explained some of the technical details behind Custom Sentiments:
They definitely are doable! They can be tricky to work with because adding certain ones will ditch existing ones, so it’s important for us modders to be careful and not make overly powerful sentiments that wouldn’t warrant it… But I hope creators will go crazy with this anyway!
— Lumpinou’s Mods (@lumpinou) November 25, 2020
Traits mostly to start with, as well as incorporating the results of other mod’s systems. It will make more sense once you see it in action. This is a small project though, keep in mind 😂 I’m still mainly working on Woohoo Wellness & Pregnancy Overhaul, and on partial break 😂
— Lumpinou’s Mods (@lumpinou) November 25, 2020
Lifestyles are on a list together so until someone figures out how to inject into that, the only potential way to have custom ones would be overriding the file and that means all mods with them would conflict with each other. IF the UI lets us make custom ones to begin with.
— Lumpinou’s Mods (@lumpinou) November 27, 2020
We’ll let you know as soon as first Custom Sentiments get released!
