Vincent Sparacino, Concept Artist for The Sims 4, posted various illustrations that he made for the game.
Owl hoodie logo I designed for The Sims 4.
One of my tattoo designs for The Sims 4.
T-shirt logo I designed for The Sims 4 Get To Work.
The Sims 4: New Illustrations by Vincent Sparacino
The Sims 4: 3D Object Models by Joseph Carabajal
Joseph Carabajal published some of the 3D work he did for The Sims 4 Romantic Garden, Kids Room and Backyard Stuff Packs. Check them out!
Add more realism to the world of Granite Falls with this Mod!
Ever wanted to see the world of Granite Falls from The Sims 4 Outdoor Retreat with more details? Now you can thanks to ConceptDesign97!
This Mod changes the texture of the following objects:
- Trees
- Rocks
- Plants
- World Objects & Backdrop
- Terrain Paint
The Mod comes packed with individual texture packages that you can extract seperately. Some objects come with low, medium and high settings in case you want to lower the details of these re-textures!
You can extract these .package files in the Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Mods folder.
Down below you can see some of the screens I took in Granite Falls using this Mod. If you like it, make sure you press the download button down below!
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SimGuruDaniel talks Pets and Seasons for The Sims 4
NOTE: Please take this post with a grain of salt as nothing has been firmly confirmed.
About a year ago, SimGuruDaniel went on Twitter to basically assure Simmers that there’s nothing about The Sims 4 that will limit the possibility of creating Pets and Seasons themed packs:
@IsaSimsBR @ponderthesim There’s nothing about Sims 4 that limits the ability to do seasons.
— Daniel Hiatt (@SimGuruDaniel) September 30, 2015
@purpleclauu No.
— Daniel Hiatt (@SimGuruDaniel) September 30, 2015
Just 3 weeks ago, he replied on a Reddit post that asked ”Do you think TS4 will get pets and seasons?” with the following message:
It’s obvious he didn’t want to actually confirm the idea of these two packs, but there’s obviously irony in the ”what do I know?” sentence, as he is in fact a Game Designer for The Sims 4.
Pets and Seasons have basically been a part of every Sims game, so it’s most likely that we’ll be hearing more about these packs soon™.
Tip: TheSimer
The Sims 4 City Living: Worldwide Events and their Embargo
The Sims Team hosted a couple of Events around the world, allowing various players to get their hands on The Sims 4 City Living and write/record their thoughts and opinions on this pack. The participants will have their previews published on their YouTube Channels and websites during the following dates (provided by DOTsim):
Embargoes and their lift date & time:
- Producer Interviews (Oct 24th @ 7PM PDT)
- Game Information, Screens and Videos (Oct 24th @ 7PM PDT)
- First Impressions (excludes personal opinions and reviews) (Oct 24th @ 7PM PDT)
- Reviews and Opinions (Oct 31st)
Just like before, pack reviews will be released a day before the actual release. That probably means that we can expect certain simmers to get their hands on the Early Access copy of The Sims 4 City Living just like with previous packs, which will give them more time to form their opinions rather than from 4-hour preview events.
We’ll have a list of all articles and videos published by the event attendees so stay tuned on Sims Community!
10 Features I’m excited for in The Sims 4 City Living
For me, City Living is one of the most stimulating packs I’ve seen so far. With its new options for storytelling, fashion and diversity City Living has the opportunity to bring a fresh feel to The Sims 4.
Dynamic living
I am a sucker for vibrant colours and neighbourhoods so when I saw the Spice Market and Arts Quarter I was ecstatic. The area was filled with thrilling colours and flowing streets, it felt dynamic which is something The Sims 4 has lacked in a way. Although we have had vast areas in our neighbourhood to run around and explore in there’s never felt an immense reason to. With soul now implemented into the streets, it gives me a reason to explore the hearty neighbourhoods. It’s not just trees and lakes, more art and for a city girl, it’s home.
Lot Traits
As someone who uses The Sims 4 to tell stories while playing, the Lot Traits adds a personality to our homes we have only had to imagine before. Something like a haunted house can now really be haunted with Lot Traits such as ‘Cursed’, ‘Haunted’ and ‘Filthy’. Also, it gives way to many challenges from the Simming community. It will also be a valuable way for YouTubers to expand their Let’s Plays. It makes you really think about the kind of family or household you want to develop and play. I’m jubilant to see what kind of life we can either bless or inflict on our Sims and how it will develop their lives.
Storytelling Possibilities
For the Story Sim Players, City Living has a whole host of ways to feature Simmers tales. From working our way up through the neighbourhoods or lot traits, the ways to present our Sims lives has expanded vastly. We can take our Sims to festivals and conventions, earn money by selling art or crafts instead of a job and have memorable involvement in bringing our Sims legends to life.
Cities
Our wonderful new world of San Myshuno, the vast city landscape is the most beautiful world I’ve seen so far. I mean I love Windenburg, but it wasn’t too long before it became stale so to finally have a city to explore is amazing. Honestly, I was becoming tired of seeing countryside themed areas. In The Sims 3, Bridgeport was the place to live, having so many different areas to settle down in. I loved that diversity of gameplay having a city brought. You could live outside and venture in on nights out and to work or live in the hustle and bustle.
New Careers and Traits
Since The Sims 4 came out, new advancements with Careers and Traits have been pretty satisfying. We had an entire expansion pack for careers, so to be getting 3 within this expansion is interesting. With these new careers, they are more like what we had in The Sims 3 with Ambitions that, they make you explore and go outside for your work with goals and achievements. It’s a positive way to meet the city and its life. The new traits with Unflirty and Vegetarian just adds another depth to your Sim, something I am interested to see play out.
The Sims 4 City Living’s Critic Career will play well with Dine Out’s Restaurants
Yesterday, The Sims Team has revealed more information about City Living’s 3 new Careers. One of them allows you to be a critic and give food and art critics. SimGuruDaniel explained on Twitter that the food critic abilities will also extend with The Sims 4 Dine Out features:
.@pascalio5 @ZerbuTabek You will be able to review restaurant food as a food critic.
— Daniel Hiatt (@SimGuruDaniel) October 14, 2016
@TheSimCommunity @pascalio5 @ZerbuTabek Yes.
— Daniel Hiatt (@SimGuruDaniel) October 14, 2016
Giving food critics will be one of the new assignments in this Career. What better way to do your job than to go to actual Restaurants from The Sims 4 Dine Out?!
The Sims 4 Dine Out originally brought Food Critic NPCs to the table. They mostly just give your restaurant a visit and order some of your meals, after which they give you a critic that will play a huge role in the rating of your restaurant. With City Living, you’ll be able to take the Food Critic role!
The Sims 4 City Living: Political Career Clip
The Sims Team has released a new clip for The Sims 4 City Living, showing off the new Political Career!
The Sims Blog: New Careers in The Sims 4 City Living Send You Out on Assignments
Via TheSims.com!
In The Sims™4 City Living* Expansion Pack, we didn’t want San Myshuno to just be a place of new activity, but also one of new opportunities for your Sims. After all, how else will your Sims claw their way out of a crummy starter apartment and into that amazing penthouse they’ve dreamed of owning?
The city of San Myshuno is now hiring for three unique new careers, each with two branches that add even more flavor and excitement: The Politics Career, the Critic Career, and the Social Media Career, and these new careers aren’t like other careers in The Sims 4. These all have new Career Assignments, which allow your Sims to step out of the office and take care of work tasks in the city of San Myshuno itself. Put simply, career assignments add more variety, more challenge, and more stories to The Sims 4 City Living!
Let’s start with the political career, where your Sim starts as an activist and ultimately chooses between becoming a charity organizer for good will and a cause, or a politician for that same cause. Activists need to get the word out and raise awareness. Their career assignments will send them to different venues to stage protests and promote their chosen cause. Higher level politicians can give inspiring speeches at podiums, like the one in scenic Uptown, to win public trust and secure votes. Charity organizers, on the other hand, know that money fuels causes and will need to ask for donations…or bribes, with contacts they’ve built throughout the city.
Perhaps your Sim is more interested in being a Critic? Whether the focus of their criticism is food or art, you’ll send your Sims to festivals throughout the city to sample fine (or not so fine) cuisine or review the local entertainment. If the palette is not your preference, you can send your Sims to canvas the museum to pick apart the fine works there.
Finally, your Sims might wish to become a Social Media maven! This career is all about gaining followers via interactions on your Sims’ computer. Conduct live streams, chats, and more to encourage others to follow your Sim and get your numbers up.
The new careers in The Sims 4 City Living are a great hybrid between traditional careers and active ones. On days when you don’t have time to manage your Sims, you can send them to work with a good mood and completed tasks to ensure a productive day. For those times you’re more interested in carefully managing your Sims’ story, your Sim can work from home. You can also send them on assignment to the streets of San Myshuno, and discover what the city has to offer!
The Sims 4 Playthrough: Succubus Life State Mod
I installed a brand new mod today which lets my female Sims become a Succubus. If you don’t know what a Succubus is, it’s a demon which drains the health of other men through romantic interactions (I’m not really an expert in medieval legends so you can refer to THIS page if you’re willing to learn more).
Anywho, this Mod is perfect for the upcoming Halloween season, since there are supernatural powers involved in this.
To become a Succubus, you need to purchase a mirror from Build Mode called ”Lilith’s Gaze”.
For this playthrough I’ll be playing with the iconic Goth Household – mostly with Bella of course.
There’s a small trick to becoming a succubus though – your female Sim needs to be in a Sad or an Embarassed mood. No worries though, I’ll just make Bella and Mortimer fight each other and eventually make them divorce.
Now that she’s Very Sad, she has the ability to Talk to Lilith on the mirror that I bought. After she’s done having a conversation, Lilith has offered Bella to turn her into a Succubus. You can accept the gift or decline it, but please note that after you’ve accepted the gift there is no going back, meaning that your Sim will be marked as a Succubus for eternity.
My Sim is a Succubus – now what?
Once your female Sim has turned into a Succubus, there won’t be anything special to mark your Sim’s turning point. Still, you can get creative and give your Sim a makeover, just like I did with Bella:
Now she’s definitely ready to take some souls!
You’ll notice some changes to your Sim’s needs. For example, eating will no longer satisfy your Hunger. You may get a small boost but definitely not enough to fill the hunger bar. Your bladder needs will be locked for good, and your Sim’s physical appearance will no longer change as they work out / eat.
As a Succubus, you’ll unlock 3 new interactions on other Sims:
- Beguile, which will put a Sim into a Flirty mood
- Drain Energy
- Drain Life Force
Using the Beguile interaction is the best way to introduce yourself to a Sim, as you’ll need a higher romantic relationship to use the other two interactions.
The Drain Energy interaction will restore Bella’s needs, not just the hunger need. Only one kiss performed by that interaction is enough to put your desired Sim into sleep mode!
A Succubus also has another, more powerful interaction, and that’s the ability to drain the life force of another Sim, killing him/her instantly.
After Bella’s romantic victim has died, she didn’t shed a single tear. Yup, a Succubus won’t react to the death of the person they killed.
She has now unlocked an option to turn herself into any life stage she wants: from a Teen to an Elder!
If, for example, your Sim is young adult and you choose young adult interaction, it’ll reset your count towards the adult age. This is perfect if you want to keep your Sim immortal for life!
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So, what stories will you tell with the Succubus Life State Mod?
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The Sims 4 Get Together: New Activities for your Clubs
Mod The Sims member icemunmun has created a few mods for The Sims 4 Get Together that will add much more activities for your clubs to perform together!
With these mods you can encourage your club to perform activities that you originally weren’t able to perform before, such as tea drinking, cloud / star gazing, jogging and so much more.
NOTE: Some of these new activities require certain The Sims 4 packs!
Here’s a list of all new activities that you can implement with these mods:
- Activity Table Club Activity (for Kids) – BG
- Cow Plant Activities – BG
- Popcorn Machine Club Activities – Movie Stuff SP
- Pumpkin Carving Club Activities – Spooky Stuff Pack
- Tea Drinking Club Activities – BG
- Voodoo Club Activities – BG
- Collect Crystals – BG
- Collect Insects – BG
- Practice Herbalism – Outdoor Retreat GP
- Make Ice Cream – Cool Kitchen SP
- Jog – BG (Separated from Athletic)
- Look for Lost Toys – Kids Stuff SP
- Massage – Spa Day GP (Separated from Spa Activities)
- Sauna – Spa Day GP (Separated from Spa Activities)
- Retail Management – Get to Work EP (thanks to @arkeus17 for the idea)
- Star/Cloud Gazing – BG
- Dig Treasure – BG
- Trade monster Cards – Kids Stuff SP
There are some activities that icemunmun is still working on, so make sure you keep an eye on this thread!
To download these activity mods, CLICK HERE! You can install them by extracting the .zip files in the Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Mods folder.
The Sims 4 City Living: Basketball Clip
UPDATE: The Sims Team has released this clip in english language!
The Sims Germany has released a new clip for The Sims 4 City Living, showcasing the new Basketball activity!
The Sims Blog: Game On, Inside and Out with Video Games and Basketball in The Sims 4 City Living
Via TheSims.com!
We want every The Sims™ 4 expansion to provide new activities for your Sims, and The Sims 4 City Living* Expansion Pack is no exception! We took time at the start to discuss which activities would be ideal for the city streets or cramped apartments, and we arrived at two solutions that we think are perfect for gamer Sims: shooting hoops in the afternoon, then wandering back to your apartment for some video games! Whether your Sim prefers multiplayer or single player games, we’ve got them covered.
Let’s start with the basketball hoop, which will get your Sim outside of their apartment and into the street for some fresh city air and athletic activity with friends. When the court is empty, Sims can practice their game by shooting solo, whether it’s 2 pointers, 3 pointers, or even dunks (if they have the skills). Sims in a particular mind-set can even dream big and pretend they’re playing against the stars in the big leagues. If your Sim is out with friends, challenge them to a game of hoops to see who has the best shot on the court. Be sure to wear your new jersey to look the part!
After a game of hoops, and hopefully a quick shower, your Sim can flop onto their couch to play some video games. That’s right, we’ve added a video game console! Many of us here on the team have spent time crammed into a tiny apartment playing video games with friends, so this is a story we knew we needed to tell!
Sims can play a series of games, alone or against friends, from some of our favorite genres. Your Sim can enjoy a sci-fi action RPG, a racing game, and even a collection of classic party games. The video game console looks great and is a fantastic new fun object to recharge your Sim after a tough workout, or slog at work. The video game console also supports the Video Gaming Skill, which will really come in handy for Sims participating in GeekCon competitions. But, more on that later!
Whether it’s outside with friends in the warm Spice Market sun, or tucked into a comfy sofa with a bowl of chips and a controller, your Sims have more ways to entertain themselves than ever before in The Sims 4 City Living, coming November 1.
The Sims 4 City Living: New Wedding Venue Clip
The Sims Team has released a brand new clip showcasing the new wedding venue (Myshuno Meadows) in The Sims 4 City Living.
The Sims 4 City Living: New Karaoke Clip
The Sims Team has shared a brand new clip for The Sims 4 City Living, showcasing karaoke and its features!