The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits Gameplay Trailer Gave Us A Peek At The Sims 4 Custom Venues In Greater Detail!
Last week, the announcement of custom venues in The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits reveal trailer had the community buzzing with questions about how functional and flexible the system was. Well, today’s Gameplay Trailer gave us an insight into their specific functions, and how crosspack gameplay can be utilised for endless possibilities. Let’s take a look at everything we’ve seen so far!
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What Are Custom Venues?
Simmers who played with the ‘Small Business’ lot in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies will find the new ‘Custom Venue’ lot type familiar. When building, you can now assign a lot as a ‘Custom Venue’ and unlock a wide range of modifiers, from staff uniforms to role assignments. You’ll also have the freedom to fine-tune how the venue operates, including activity schedules and which Sims take part in them. Best of all, once you’ve perfected your setup, you can save it as a preset for future builds!
The blog post has revealed some examples of preset venue/getaway types:
- Fitness Retreat
- Outdoor Kids Camp
- Romantic Competition
- Cooking Competition
- Cozy Bed and Breakfast
- Creativity Retreat
- Senior Living Community
- Sim Popularity Contest
How Do Schedules Work?
Schedules for Custom Venues appear to work much like the new getaway system, giving you fine control over how your lot functions. You’ll be able to decide which roles are assigned, when activities take place, what kinds of Sims show up, and even what they wear. Schedules can be chosen from a number of presets or built entirely from scratch by slotting activities into different times of day.
You can make your venue as simple or as detailed as you like. Want a pool lot where Sims swim around the clock? Go for it. Prefer a gym with structured spin classes and a coffee break in between? That works too. And just like with The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies’ Small Business lots, there’s plenty of potential for cross-pack gameplay woven in. Here are all the features we spotted:
- Naming Custom Venues
- Assigning custom roles
- Role Library: Choose from several pre-set roles
- Saving schedules
- Choosing from a number of schedule presets
- Selecting start times for activities
- Choosing which day the activities take place
- Assigning a uniform per activity
Cross-Pack Possibilities
As of late, “Expansion Packs” mean more than just expanding gameplay, with many new packs adding more cross-pack gameplay to create a true sandbox experience for players. The gameplay trailer highlights this perfectly with “Sul Sul Island”, a parody of the reality show Survivor. In this getaway experience, Sims must tough it out on a tropical island alongside a Vampire who, rather inconveniently, is required to drink plasma every day at 1pm. A tough challenge for the Vampire, considering Sulani is known for its bright, sunny weather!
Of course, that is just one example of the cross-pack possibilities with The Sims 4 Custom Venue lot type. You could create a haunted house in which paranormal investigators (The Sims 4 Paranormal Stuff Pack) survive a number of nights in a house filled with playful (or evil) ghosts. Or, with The Sims 4 Bowling Night Stuff Pack, you could create a custom bowling alley and arcade. How about a celebrity wellness retreat, away from the prying eyes of the paparazzi, with The Sims 4 Get Famous? I personally can’t wait to see what players come up with!
The recent blog post detailing features of The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits has shed some light on which cross-pack features will be available for presets:
- Cats and Dogs Expansion Pack: Dog Training
- Get to Work Expansion Pack: Corporate Retreat
- Island Living Expansion Pack: Off the Grid Survival Competition
- Get Together Expansion Pack and Parenthood Game Pack: Child Care
- Spa Day Game Pack: Refreshing Spa Getaway
- Fitness Stuff Pack: Ultimate Fitness Boot Camp
When Will We Find Out More?
The best way to find out more will be upon the release of The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits on October 2nd! However, in the meantime, there is a Q&A scheduled for October 1st that will cover the new Getaway System that ships with the pack. With the amount of crossover between the two systems, I’m certain some more light will be shed on The Sims 4 Custom Venue lot types.
What ideas do you have for The Sims 4 Custom Venue Lot type? Let us know down below, and make sure to follow Sims Community for all the latest on The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits.
