Iraida Fustii posted a screenshot on Twitter with a caption saying:

This is the surprise my buddies sent to me, they made me in Sims4. They’re testing the game. I’m waiting for september.

The tweet got quickly deleted, but people over at Mod the Sims were quick enough to save the screenshot and the caption!

After reading yesterdays post from arstechnica.com, I have learned a few new things about what we can expect from The Sims 4. The major thing that stood out to me was the new building options. Remember how in The Sims 3 you have to go to a separate window to download houses or lots built by other players, known as The Exchange? Well, according to arstechnica.com there will be an in-game browser that will allow the player to search for player made content and the drag and drop into the game. The user will also have the option to choose single rooms, furnished and unfurnished, instead of the whole lot. This greatly intrigues me as an avid builder in The Sims games.

Of course, there is the previously stated news that you can grab, drag, and drop whole rooms. Instead of the more unconventional choice of destroying and rebuilding option.

I am greatly looking forward to building in The Sims 4. It seems as though the creators have really upped their game and made changes that are worth it, to build mode.

Here’s a quick and dirty screenshot on my dev computer. Alice is chatting while working out at the gym.

–SimGuruGrant

Simfans.de shared with us these gorgeous Willow Creek concepts in High Quality!  🙂

Honeywell put together a list of new and interesting info from PC Games‘ Preview of The Sims 4. This preview was not made during E3, but after PC Games’ visit to Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores.

Please note that the text below was translated from Deutsch to English using Google Translate, so there may be a few grammar errors.

CONVERSATION

• Large number of topics; compared to a graphic adventure.

VENUES/NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVITIES

• Park, playground (with a pirate ship), library, gym (where an elder Sim died of a heart attack), museum and bar are all mentioned.
• You can tend the Community Garden, pick fruit trees, and fish in the canal and then use those fresh ingredients to cook meals.

SOCIAL EVENTS

• Party, Dates and Weddings
• Unlock optional goals and rewards
• In addition to guests you have the option to invite an entertainer, a catering service and a bartender.

ANIMATIONS

• 10,000 animation clips
• “There is no maximum number of concurrent actions.  Your Sims, for example, can now be in the gym running on a treadmill while talking at the same time and watch TV” —Marion Gothier

MUSIC

• 65 hours of music in 8 variants
• Aproximately 3 dozen songs
• Radio stations include:  alternative, blues, electronic and pop.

Via PC Games!

Via PCGames

Source: SimCookie

Jeux Video visited Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores to learn more about The Sims 4. Some info they mentioned are the stuff we already know, but they did include 2 new informations about in-game music of TS4:

• There are 25 music composed in Simlish.
• Music will be softer in character creation and more rhythmic when choosing clothing.

They also included this new CAS image!

Thanks SimCookie for the find!

SimGuruGraham decided to answer some questions about The Sims 4 on Twitter. We summarized all of his tweets into a bullet list:

• You can delete all the Sims living in the world. The game will continue to randomly generate other Sims that come visit though.
•  For visitors (townies), the game will first attempt to pull Sims from an editable list of Sims that don’t live in any world before it randomly generates additional Sims. Theoretically you could populate that list with a bunch of your Sims and it would never need to pull in any random Sims as visitors.
• There’s a little trick you can do in Sims 4 that lets you lock your camera to follow a NPC. It’s fun to do on occasion.
• Yup the censor grid is making a return. Just small enough to watch your Sim poop while reading their tablet if you’re into that.
• You can change between multiple outfits at any time, or take your Sim back into CAS to plan new outfits.
• There isn’t a stylist career in the base game. When you go back into CAS it’s just for changing things like clothes, makeup, etc.
• Moodlets are back – they help you understand why your Sim is in a particular emotion. They aren’t strictly positive/negative now.
• Wishes are gone. They’ve been replaced with Whims (similar concept, but a bit more fleeting and moment to moment than a wish).
•  There are no “neutral” moodlets; every moodlet contributes to an emotion. When Sims have their needs get low for example, they get moodlets that push them into the uncomfortable emotion. The traditional need bars are there as well.
• The main difference is you don’t promise a whim to a Sim. They naturally come and go based on what you’re currently doing, so they help provide some direction and give you more ideas about what additional possibilities there are for your Sim.
• And for longer term life direction, there are now aspirations instead of lifetime wishes. Aspirations provide more steps along the way rather than one ultimate goal, and you can change your aspiration to something else anytime you like.
• You can’t lock a whim.

A Sims fan asked EA Brazil on Twitter why does Battlefild Beta exists and not The Sims 4 Beta.  They replied with ”Demo is enough? Soon, soon”.

This isn’t the first time EA Brazil ”leaked” a certain Sims information. Each of their leak was confirmed several days/weeks later, so let’s hope this one will be confirmed soon as well.

This tweet by EA Brazil can be related to our The Sims 4 CAS Demo find.

Source: @TheSims4Info

Mica Burton revealed her and her husband’s Simself that was created during E3.