In the funniest way possible.
Last week The Sims Team has surprised everyone with a huge update for The Sims 4. Although everyone had expectations that the upcoming Patch would only prepare the game for the upcoming Decor to the Max Kit, the team included a huge update for the Neighborhood Stories feature.
Our team member has written a handy guide for the new Neighborhood Stories Features in case you want to know about all what goes on!
As you see in the screenshot above, the new feature allows for the player to control what goes on in their neighborhood while they’re playing an Active Household. Well, at least control certain life aspects within The Sims 4.
It’s only been a few days since players have been able to play with the new features but I have to admit – the feature has already gone off the rails for many of the save games where this feature has been enabled.
Reddit user Tomdaninja has reported that one of the Sims in their saves has died after cereal randomly self-combusted.
YouTuber and content creator @onlyabidoang reports a huge surge of new babies for the Bheeda Household in their save game.
Screens via @onlyabidoang
The baby fever in The Sims 4 doesn’t just stop there. Player @ShannonP1120 reports a HUGE surge of adopted babies in several of their Households in their save game.
I know I was excited for the whole neighborhood progression thing but ummm is the neighborhood progressing a little too much 😭 what is going awnnnnn why does this man have SEVEN children 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/BOoilUuG0g
— shan (@ShannonP1120) March 20, 2022
The children in The Sims 4 just keep multiplying to the player for some reason!
I left this family when their kid was a toddler how do they already have four additional children 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/laIvm5D0R6
— shan (@ShannonP1120) March 20, 2022
Probably one of the funniest scenarios that I came across in regards to The Sims 4 Neighborhood Stories is from Reddit user bluevanillatea.
They’ve shared a scenario that happened in their game where “the story progression update has caused the landgraab household to now solely consist of 1 cat in a mansion”.
To make things more funnier, the Cat is just sitting there in its green hoodie looking around at the camera like they robbed the place.
Screen by bluevanillatea
The OP later explained how this scenario came to be:
Apparently Nancy died and then Geoffrey moved to Sulani in order to cope with her tragic death
Woah.
Besides the fact that the Neighborhood Stories Features definitely needs some tuning in the babies and adoption area, the chaos that this feature allows is definitely something I want to see more of.
What are your experiences with the Neighborhood Stories? Let us know in the comments below!
25 Comments
This must be their most epic fail since the introduction of Kits!
Reply to Lucas Hearsay
I don’t understand why you have so many dislikes, you’re absolutely right!
Reply to Daniel Mendes
Hahaha! Do you think? I just post my opinion
Reply to Daniel Mendes
Its cause this is a fanboy site like the official forums. Nothing but praise can be said here or else. Its like Reddit but for Sims only.
Reply to Murp
People can disagree with you. Nobody is even boasting in the comment section.
Reply to Lucas Hearsay
The most funny thing about the Bust the Dust kit, is that it’s not the first vacuum cleaners in the game, we have the 2 types of Roombas from Cas & Dogs, tho, the vacuum cleaners from the kit is portable, the Roombas are not, tho, I think the Roomba itself can be put into your Sim’s inventory since you can move it around the lot in Live Mode, but the Roomba stations are not portable. Also, according to James Turner’s Cottage Living Let’s Play, he has an unbreakable Roomba named Sucker, yet, Sucker JUST KEEPS ON BREAKING! I think it’s the rain tho, cuz that’d be pretty hilarious if it was
Reply to Samantha Simpson
Hahahahahahaha! That’s just funny!
I had 12 sims suddenly die at the Spice Festival, including friends I had invited! My sim was a high level spellcaster so he was frantically casting Dedeathify over and over! Meanwhile the black baby glitch is back, white families are giving birth to black babies again. This was previously fixed 5-6 patches ago!
Reply to Wander Bear
Omg glad it’s not only me. Here I am just suspiciously eyeing the baby mama’s like…. where have you been??? That ain’t your husband’s baby.
Reply to Wander Bear
The baby glitch was never fixed for me. All of my babies are black no matter who their parents are
“the sole remaining resident of the Landgraab mansion is a cat” is the most gripping concept I have seen in a hot minute. I would watch a movie about this
Reply to Charlie
Me too.
He moved and left the cat all alone? Typical Landgraab
Reply to Chiral
Oh, I hate to break this to you, but that cat is guilty. If that cat is anything like my cat there’s bodies somewhere in that mansion. All that jabber of “a death in the family made my owner move” is a huge red herring.
Flashback to when Sims 2 was just out with story progression. Within an hour of gameplay every, and I mean every household, had an addition of at least one adopted child.
I think we’re in desperate need of marriages, but the deaths are hilarious. Death by blush explosion, the infamous exploding cereal, and of course the classics (freezing, overheating, electrocution).
On the subject of the cat that happened to me in the Munch household. I also ended up with Izzy Fabulous’s triplet children living all alone in Henford after he told one too many dad joke…!
Even if you disable it. They still adopt and get pregnant, change career, etc. So why did they include toggles if the toggles don’t work.
Reply to Murp
uh oh?? rly? i dont really want that to happen…..
Oh I love it. Bring the chaos on! The feature is fully configurable so if I don’t want something I just turn it off, but I’ve been having a blast with the chaos and I have no care or concern for townies except the ones my sims have a relationship with, which I turn off from the shenanigans
Reply to Meredith von Lasher
Sadly, if you turn it off, it’s still going to happen. I have the feature completely turned off. I went into every house and disabled it. I’m seeing all sorts of random nonsense.
I’m seeing one or two new random pregnancies per day from NPC Sims, including pregnancies from affairs. It happens mid-day, every day. I’m seeing households randomly move out to homeless. I didn’t enable the feature, but it’s happening regardless. I went in and enabled the feature, deselected everything, and then re-disabled it, to no avail. And now I have stray children joining houses, and looking nothing like their parents. It’s way too much chaos.
And now I’m getting random animals adopted??
At first I didn’t realize you can customize the different neighborhood advancements and I had elder sims adopting a lot of kids and one couple in which the wife was a little younger got pregnant though her husband was an elder and she was just about to turn into a elder. All these sims already had grandkids but decided to start over again I guess.
My mom {who should be way past menopause btw} KEEPS ringing me and asking me whether I think her and my dad should have another baby. I have 2 siblings and we’re all already grown. AND they’re grandparents, I have 2 kids myself!! So I just keep telling her NO pls I don’t think it’s a good idea but still.. she calls me every other day like “so you’re saying you DON’T think we should have another baby?” she really really wants to and it’s so annoying haha
Death by exploding cereal is amazing and I’m upset my played sims can’t die from it. Seriously, if npc’s can die off at such a high rate (four of my sim’s friends’ parents/grandparents died in two sims days) then why is it so hard for our playable sims to die. They need to strike a MUCH better balance there.
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