Tuesday, 31 March 2015

8 Things You Can Do in The Sims 4 Get to Work

It’s Time to Get to Work!

Hooray! Our first expansion pack for The Sims 4 is now available in North America, and will be rolling out to the rest of the world in the coming days! In The Sims 4 Get to Work*, you can take control of your Sims’ every action while they’re on the job and determine whether they spend their days saving lives as a daring doctor, solving crimes as a fearless detective, crafting inventions as an eccentric scientist, or becoming a simoleonaire by creating their own retail business.

But that’s not all you can do! We’ve gathered together a list of eight things that make the expansion pack stand out. Here are just a few of the amazing things you can do in The Sims 4 Get to Work.

Play good cop/bad cop. Cracking the hard cases and finding the right clues can help your Sims become the Chief of Police someday. In the Detective career, your Sims can dissect a crime scene, dust for fingerprints, take clues to the crime lab, nab the suspected criminal, and take them back to the Police Station for questioning. How your Sim interrogates the perp is up to you – good cop or bad cop, the choice is yours.

Create breakthrough inventions. No one knows when inspiration will strike. Your Scientist Sim could be gardening when BAM! They have an idea for a new invention like the SimRay. Thanks to this breakthrough, your Sim has the ability to control the minds of other Sims in an instant, freeze surrounding Sims in ice, or to transform objects into almost anything they can envision!

Make the whole town fall asleep instantly. Despite what comic books have taught you, science isn’t all about ray guns. Your budding Sim Scientist can tinker away with the Invention Constructor to create other amazing inventions, including a Satellite Dish. This creation detects aliens, decreases your Sims’ chances of being abducted and gives your Sim the ability to launch a signal into space. And as particles rain down from the sky, all the Sims in sight instantly fall asleep. Science is awesome, isn’t it?

Deliver new life. Your Sim can step into the career of a Doctor and work to hone their skills, making house calls and performing emergency surgery. You can even get a front row seat as your Sim brings baby Sims to their loving parents.

Create the business of your Sims’ dreams. Watch the simoleons roll in as you build up and customize every facet of your Sims’ business. From a bakery to a clothing boutique or an art gallery, your Sims can determine what items to sell, manage their employees as they see fit, and schmooze customers to close the ever important sale.

Explore new areas. Whether your Sim is saving lives at the Hospital, booking criminals at the Police Station, creating outstanding inventions at the Science Lab, or chatting up customers at their own business, you’ll find a number of new places to explore. You can head to the new shopping neighborhood, Magnolia Promenade, and visit (or open) a store, or you could take a trip that’s quite literally out of this world.

Take amazing pictures. Your Sims can do more than work in this expansion pack. They can try their hand at a new kind of art with the Photography skill, taking pictures and hanging them on the wall to impress their visitors. There are filters and selfies, too, letting your Sims really express themselves.

Learn to bake. Photography isn’t the only new skill available – your Sims are also able to create new, delicious treats with the Baking skill, making wonderful cakes and pastries. Once they’ve created the sweets (or savories) of their dreams, they can choose from a variety of decoration options to finish them off. Of course, you’re able to use both of these skills in the business world if you want to – there’s nothing stopping you from creating your own bakery or photo studio.

So, ready to rule the workplace? We’re really excited about this expansion, and can’t wait to see the amazing creations you’re going to make, and the wonderful stories you’re going to tell.

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Basements, Bunny Eggs, and Painting Upgrades Added in Free Update

Its Here!!!!!

Paint A Picture of Decorative Eggs in Your Basement!

We rolled out a free Update to all The Sims 4 players this week. If you’ve loaded up the game recently there’s a good chance you’ve already downloaded the Update. If not, you’re in for a surprise – it’s packed with some great new content, totally free to our players.

Besides general tweaks and fixes which you can read about in the patch notes, this patch adds four updates into the core game: Basements, an upgrade to the easel, two new hairstyles (unlocked thanks to the hard work of the community during WooHoo weekend), and a Bunny Egg Hunt that’ll run through the month of April.

Let’s start with the biggie: Basements and a fourth top-floor. These aren't just any basements: they’re The Sims 4 basements. You can dig two levels down, and customize them using all of the creative tools available in Build Mode to create absolutely incredible lots. And while we were at it, we added another floor above ground – now, buildings in The Sims 4 can be six floors in total, up from three.

f you’re looking for something new to decorate those basements with, there’s something in this Update that’ll do the trick. Easel updates were rolled out in this new patch, and they let your Sims paint portraits of what they can see in the world. Want to portrait of your Sim’s loved one on the wall? Do it! Want to paint a picture of your house to put in your house? A little weird, but we’re not going to get in your way.

We’re also starting a time-limited challenge that’ll run through the month of April. We’re calling it the Bunny Egg Hunt! This month, your Sims might find some interesting decorative eggs scattered around the world. There are ten different designs in all, and they’re part of a new collection that’s only available for the next few weeks. If you collect them all, you’ll unlock a giant stuffed bunny!

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Get Ready for Basements in The Sims 4

a quick look at basements in The Sims 4, part of a free update releasing on March 26. When we started working on basements we wanted to make sure they were special. These aren’t just any basements, these are The Sims 4basements. That means maintaining the flexibility of game’s building systems. We wanted basements to really take advantage of the tools you already know how to use, and to allow the same level of creativity we’ve seen since launch

Using the new basement tool, you’re able to draw a basement from the floor above easily. Once it’s there, you can begin building with all of the normal build tools, making just about anything you can think of. We’ve had a lot of fun in the past few weeks building different things using the new basements and The Sims 4’s creative tools.

What makes them so great? Well…

You can build them two levels deep. If you’re not content with simply one level of underground housing, we have you covered. You’re able to build a second level underground as well. This, mixed with the addition of one more floor above ground that’s being added with this free update, brings the new total house size to six floors – double what it was before!

You can delete their ceilings. After you build a basement (or two) you can select the basement block, navigate to ground level, click the yellow highlighted area, and completely remove the ceiling. We’ve had a ton of fun creating everything from underground bunkers to open-air houses that look like giant holes in the ground.

You can put pools in the basements. Who hasn’t wanted to drop into their personal basement pool for a midnight swim? But basements can be even cooler than that. Besides being able to create pools in basements, you’re also able to build pools adjacent to basements. That means a pool can be right up against the side of a basement, and if you make the pool’s walls out of glass, you’re basically making a giant human fish tank.

You can make your Retail Business even weirder. So, you’ve built a fun bakery in The Sims 4 Get to Work* using the new retail system. Awesome! Good work! But what if you wanted to expand your business? You could always build a shop in your basement, too, selling anything from toilets to… alternative clothing.

Excited? You won’t have to wait long to build your own basements. They’re available in a patch rolling out, for free, to all users on March 26 in anticipation for next week’s launch of The Sims 4 Get to Work.