New Updates COMING SOON for The Sims 4 - Livestream Features Summary
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- This is a GREAT idea. A summary of new features coming in The Sims 4's first ever Pack Refresh. A new concept in which they will add features to existing packs in an effort to improve depth and value. The first target is The Sims 4 Spa Day Game Pack and releases September 7th.
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The Refresh looks very promising, I'm definitely excited. This is a huge step in the right direction, fixing old packs is something they should have done years ago but it's never to late. Hopefully a Dine Out or Island Living refresh are in the works as well.
Agreed. Island Living desperately needs more depth, as does the mermaid life state.
Omg, Dine Out need it soooo bad!
PLEASE FIX DINE OUT
Yeah I might be more willing to buy those if they did a refresh. I have spa day and am looking forward to this. I already had a CC wellness aspiration but now there are more of these and being able to make money off of not only teaching yoga but doing massages and meditation classes is really cool since I feel like we need more normal odd job options. I'm hoping at some point they let us make money from bartending as I feel the mixology branch of the culinary career is frustrating when you have to just mix a ton of drinks at home. I had several Sims bartend for money sometimes in the Sims 3
Island Living aswell as Snowy Escape. The two most shallow expansions they released
Idk who they fired, hired, redirected, got out the way, got in the way, but I'm excited and I like this direction a lot. As soon as they started working with CC creators and paying attention, I've been just a little hopeful for the direction EA is going with The Sims now. Hopefully they don't let everyone's hopes down, for once.
Yes 🙌 All of this. Something good is now happening in the Sims neighborhood. May it be all good from here on out.
It may be happening because EA relinquished some of their control over Maxis, allowing them to make more decisions for the Sims franchise on their own. I think it's likely that's why they're suddenly more responsive to players. I've always had the feeling EA was responsible for the way Sims 4 was being handled, and that the sims team themselves were frustrated with their hands being tied.
@@HughLlewellyn That makes a lot of sense, yeah. That's awesome then lol. I'm glad Maxis is able to make more (and far better) decisions.
@@HughLlewellyn Just curious, is that something that's know knowledge because that's great new. I only ask because I'm not on twitter and the fan site I usually go to for news and info I feel like has been really bad at posting things a lately unless it's about new content
@@HughLlewellyn really? I thought Maxis had completely shut down a few years ago, and EA was the sole company responsible for the sims 4
I'd be glad to see that's not how it is anymore
Honestly a pause in pack releases would be nice so they can focus on doing this to the older packs that feel empty or underwhelming.
Which is almost all of them.
They should've said this game was an early access when they released it
@@helgenlane Very true, make it make sense.
It’s a great start, and I’m surprised at just how much is being added in. Watching the park footage reminds me that I wish they’d add chess tournaments into the game, like the seasonal or City Living festivals, and our Bobby Fischer or Beth Harmon sims can earn simoleons from chess. There’s so many things they can do like that that probably wouldn’t take a great deal of time and effort to code in.
Did you see Fredrik Knudsens' Down the Rabbit Hole on Deep Blue? The very best of YT right there!
Seriously, I loved the chess system in Sims 3- there was a running ranking of who was winning in town and you could spend a lot of time trying to be the top chess player
@@CarlsSimGuides it’s been sitting in my “watch later” playlist, just gotta find a couple of hours to sit and watch it through 😅
@@merchantfan it was great! It’s little things like that. I want a child prodigy sim to rank in the neighborhood 😆
@@CarlsSimGuides do you think they would be able to fix the townie regen system for players who wanna make their own saves from scratch? Im thinking about putting that on the forum now now that we have a possibility to give feedback.
I'm so glad they tied this to Parenthood. If they do this with more packs, make them affect other packs with gameplay, I'd be so happy. But I also want fixes while they do this. I want to buy so many packs but I haven't because of the bugs and illogical gameplay
That would make it soooo worth it!
Its nice to have packs work together so much of Sims 4 feels like a mini game instead of having features complement each other.
Yes and apparently if different occult sims (I'm guessing vampires) wear the face mask something happens. They didn't show or specify but one sim guru mentioned that in the live stream (Said something along the lines of if they couldn't put it in then they would throw a tantrum).
Honestly, your reviews/updates are superior to other sims news channels. You cover things so succinctly while still giving a lot of needed details
Very kind of you, Cheyenne. Thanks for the compliment and for supporting me.
Spa Day needed very little in the way of fixes to the pack itself so they could focus more on what they were going to add. I'm curious to see how much love a buggy pack like Dine Out is going to get.
Yes! Why do the waiters/waitresses always need the loo?! I wish there was a staff only bathroom door so customers could use the loo in peace!
@@Nixijokenzi I haven't played for a long time now but if I'm remembering correctly, you can actually set doors to be "staff only"? You might try something like that, assuming I didn't just accidentally invent it. (And if I did then obviously it should be in the actual game.)
I agree. Dine out might be the most buggy of the packs, though I would have to mention Get to Work. I would love to see the Doctor career and the Police career without all the bugs that came with them!
@@crimsoncat8244 You can indeed
I wish my sim could buy a plot of land like a restaurant or a store, but run it as a spa instead. From the looks of it (unless I interpreted it wrong), I will have to go to a community lot and "busk" my spa treatments. It's still better than what we had before the refresh- I was always so disappointed with how shallow the wellness skill was. Overall I am stoked for the refresh!
I think it's a solid idea, but I agree with you 100%. I really wish there was more depth to management of businesses etc vs these shallow 'play for tips' types of money makers. Running a spa and earning money should totally be a thing.
IKR, it would be amazing to own a Spa :DD
You could possibly buy a store selling like yoga mats and incense things and then teach classes from there with household members for now
@@CarlsSimGuides I really wish you could set shifts for employees so you can stay open longer if you want to or do some store prep with your employees before you let customers in
Honestly, I think it's not unrealistic to expect that this may eventually come with a Get to Work refresh, providing cross-pack integration. I feel like the scope of the packs are related to their names, and as such, Spa Day focuses on providing relaxing moments to your sims, getting into mindfulness, etc, and not running a business, just like City Living isn't about apartments, but rather the experience of living in a multicultural city, or Island Living not being about running resorts, offering the experience of living on the beach instead.
It was a decent stream. I was excited to hear Saweetie’s song Best Friend on the trailer video but was surprised it wasn’t in Simlish. I think the refresh is a good start. I can’t wait for them to revisit Dine Out.
Thank you! I've been trying to find what song it was! They definitely should have credited it in the description, because I saw it nowhere.
@@biblicallyaccuratecockroach my pleasure.
What do you want added to dine out?
@@nickinicole25 more than anything for it to function as intended. My Sims tried to eat in a restaurant and after several hours seated they were still waiting for their meal. What’s the point of dining out if no dining is taking place?
I always find it odd or jarring when they use English in the trailers. I mean, I get that they need narration, but music should be in Simlish at least. Of course, then they'd have to pay the bands to re-record their songs in Simlish. So... yeah. That's probably why.
This literally bought a tear to my eye! Maybe our YEARS of dragging the Sims4 through the mud theyre FINALLY TRYING!! And shout out to Ebonixxx 😍🥰 BOUT TIME!
Ebonixx dis some amazing work. It's cool for her to be recognized this way. I didn't actually know her but there are so many creators now, but I'm still very happy at her inclusion.
I could listen to her on every live stream and never be disappointed. Her voice is so soothing. And I love her content, too. Glad to have you back, Carl.
I am very proud of her and so happy for her getting this opportunity btw she definitely has the cutest nails 💅🏽
I loved Spa Day beforehand for the build mode items and sometimes the quirks of the pack, but now I cannot wait to play around with customizing my Sims and actually taking them to spas to treat them
I know. Every celebrity Sim I have made or downloaded from the gallery is getting a nail update and reuploaded. Then I am going to all of the female sims I created (not into males wearing nail polish don't @ me). Hopefully the game will auto put nails on NPCs.
I hope they keep refreshing things, like Get To Work, that pack feels like it's lacking a lot. Maybe we can even get a base game refresh?
They should add new empty maps like Newcrest and apartments. I AM begging at this point. Oh and house business option.
Oh god yeah, the maps are so frustratingly tiny. You can't do much with them without bulldozing stuff already there.
I also wish they stopped relying so much on shells, they're so disappointing
yeah, or the ability to easily put additional maps/worlds into the game.. either custom made or pre-made.. an official sort of create-a-world tool would be awesome as well.. haha I’ve been saving lots to library then bulldozing them to build new lots..
Manifesting Dine Out to be the next refresh. If they can make that pack actually work 100% of the time, I'll give them one shiny gold star for releasing a functioning pack 5 years later.
Hi Gigi. Happy to see you as always! Something I'll say about DO is that I think its problems are more fundamental than just targeted at DO. They definitely do need to limit what Sims can do in restaurants, but I think that the base game behaviors also need to be improved a LOT to help DO shine so that it feels like a streamlined restaurant experience. Sims do a lot of dumb things, and of course AI lag etc greatly interfere with the process of running the restaurant.
@@CarlsSimGuides I totally agree. Many of the problems stem from the AI and the engine. Those things you can't fix but I think some things like streamlining the experience so it doesn't take all day and making sims sit in their seats could be improved. Is it too much to ask for the NPC's to just sit and enjoy their meal? I don't want them stealing the food from others, stealing decor because they are kleptomaniacs or dancing to the stereo right where the waiters need to walk. Please just make them sit down and shut up! I also wouldn't mind some tweaks to running a restaurant, like the restaurant actually earning money when you aren't there supervising or when a waitress drops your meal you get a replacement instead of a 70% chance that you never get your food. I only ran a restaurant once and it was such a miserable experience. I want to know that I'm hiring a kleptomaniac before I hire them. I don't need them stealing my decor and causing everyone to jump up in surprise every 5 seconds. Let me hire my family. Let me hire someone at more than level 1 in cooking. Let me decide on raises and not be blackmailed into giving it because I'll lose all the money and time invested in the employees I have. Why do I have to pay for training my employees? Why can't they get on the job training like every Sims who has a job? This could be a fun and engaging experience with some actual effort put into the pack. Everything feels so disjointed, like the people creating this pack had no idea how to code anything and just settled for whatever they could figure out.
@@gigisneckofthewoods I don't believe they think anything is wrong with DO. All I want them to do is stay in their seats, have dates eat their meals and not take 5 hours to eat out. Is that so hard?
I am so excited for this refresh. Finally I don't need cc nails and face masks anymore. Also kids can do wellness stuff too? How beautiful is that!? I was always sad that they couldn't. I really like this refresh and I hope they ll do it with some other packs too. Thank you as always for your video! ❤️
I am glad to hear that you re doing better! Pls take your time and be careful! ☺️❤️
Funny how “yea we will fix our mistakes” would make them more fans. Hope more game company would do this more often
Some companies, especially EA, seem to not understand that when you have good business practices, fix things in a timely manner,, and actually listen to your players/customers most people will actually respond to you and your product positively... without having to be "shamed" by other players to just "be happy". Who would have thought?
It's definitely been about time they did that!
@@BooDotBoo The amount of times people get called entitled for wanting a good working game that they've payed for is unreal
@@That_OtherGuy95 This
honestly? this makes spa day seem much better, its having relivent impact with other packs and even comes with a difficulty modifying trait.
sounds like the "refresh" is a swing in the right direction, hopefully magic is their next target, making 2 more traits, one being a difficulty modifier that makes magic mandatory in their daily life, something like Magic Addict that puts them in a sour mood whenever they do things that magic could have done faster like cleaning or cooking so you have to juggle magic charge with life style and sim health, not sure what the second trait could be yet.
then rework some spells to be more unique, add in a couple of spells, hell use stuff from sims 2 or 3 (or for bonus points add in spells from sims 1 that require ingredients and crystals plus crystal growing! man i loved sims 1's magic system), an example: enchant object adds a random effect to an object mimmicking the same thing from the scientist "experiment on" in sims 3
its simple, feels like a spell you would would expect in the sims and would be unique to spell casting.
then just increase the interactive requirement to ranking up, some "magic classes" rabbit holes and the magic pack becomes much more fleshed out.
fingers scrossed they keep up the momentum and bring out more pack refreshes soon because i sorely think sims 4 needs them to draw people back in(myself included)
You have some really cool ideas! I love the Magic Addict trait, it could really add some depth to wizards and make them different from one another.
I wish they'd add some dark magic for additional spells, and I would love it if it came at a price, like losing some of your lifespan
Aw, take care of yourself. I like the way that you do your videos. Some people who do reviews put a lot of um, energy into their own back story and things but I don't play like that. This means that your reviews help me out more because my play style is so similar to yours.
me too, i play the sims more like an rpg than a story simulation
I am hoping I can create the bitchiest high maintenance teenager everywhere. I am excited about how if you get nail polish at a spa that it will wear off over time. More gameplay for kids is always good.
This feels a lot like a mod. A good mod. I'm actually kinda excited for this!
I think the idea of emotions itself was a great one. The developers would just have to make it so that these emotions would have real consequences. I need long-lasting, profound consequences of actions in the game. And I wish for authentic, recognizable NPCs. New traits are always a good idea, though.
Haven't been playing the Sims 4 for years now, but if they keep this up and the rest of the packs get the same treatment I might actually look into it again.
Super glad nails and masks are coming to console! Hope to see more from future pack refreshes!
I think the last time I played Sims was the vampire pack. Wow.. that's 4 years. Jesus...
I just watch the channel. Anyway, I'm glad you're better now. We're getting old, dude. When you're young, you break your arm and you're back at it two weeks later. When you're old, you sleep funny one night and you're out for a month.
Awesome to hear they are doing this ,love your channel your the best, we was wondering if you were the one who created Willie Nelson because we downloaded him from the gallery and he started calling for Carl as soon as he started?
😂🤣 so random
@@TanyaOwens Not really? The older you get the harder it is to recover for a lot of people.
Finally! I will always welcome new traits and aspirations (hopefully they’ll add them to detective profession, too). As a nail technician, I am SO excited for doing nails for other Sims :) Yay!
We need so many traits and aspirations!
Yeah I'd love a detective refresh so the cases would actually seem more like real crimes that made sense and a way for criminals to leave jail so they don't grow old and die in there
Its nice to see an overhaul on a DLC, I hope they do this to other Game Pack. I'm glad they made the overhaul free as well
Thank GOD they're giving this to existing owners for free!! I was going to be SO mad if they asked me to pay for the same pack twice, but I fully expected them to. I'm fully of the opinion that they should just give any expansion to us free if we've spent over a certain dollar amount because what fucking game costs $1000???? It's insanity.
I am truly hoping this works and we don't have problems. It looks good and I am excited for once.
I'm excited. Hopefully they'll do this with all of the stuff packs. It seems like they've caught on to the fact that we want to have our sims make money outside of 9-5 jobs
right! I love that it's reflecting modern life
I'm so happy that they're starting to refresh packs I hope next is gonna be island living they missed so many things like mermaid's secret world and the ability to look for them hopefully it's going to be refreshed soon
Thank you so much for posting! The Spa pack was already pretty up there on my most used packs, but now with all this extra gameplay it's going to be even better. I'm so grateful for the diversity of gameplay options, this is a life simulator after all. Stay well
I hope that they do a pack refresh on dine out, and with it I hope they allow us to fully run the resturant with our household, so we dont have to hire employees for them. I bought dine out years ago thinking that I could actually have my sims be the servers and chef and I planned to do a playthrough on my sims living in an apartment above the resturant that they own. But alas, we cannot (yet hopefully)
also the nails thing is really dope
Thank you Carl! It was good hearing from you.
I was so happy to get to publish a positive video!
I'm glad that you're feeling better! Keep taking care of yourself. Be blessed!
I’m having the same problem with my shoulder I need a new rotor cuff 🤦♀️ it is very painful to use the mouse on the computer for any extended period of time. Feel better soon
I'm glad that your shoulder is getting better. I hope that you continue to feel better. I appreciate how much work you put into your videos!!
I hope if they refresh Get to Work they add a whole bunch of knittable and cross stitchable blankets and other stuff. I hope your shoulder is doing better and continues to be better.
I hope they move forward with this in desperately needed old packs, Dine Out has been broken since it’s release and base game weddings are an absolute joke!
Base game and wedding stories are both jokes
I like that you can become a yoga instructor. We definitely need more active careers.
Wow...I am sincerely impressed and excited for this. It improves and adds onto what's already in the game, and it doesn't come at the cost of a new pack. We need these free improvements to have real incentive to keep playing the game, especially when the paid packs have little to offer. Here's to hoping this step is one of many that EA takes in this direction
I play with spa day in almost every save where I have a famous or very social sim so the high maintenance trait makes me happy because that’s what I’ve been going for!
I never would’ve even considered they’d do so much for a refresh though, considering what we’ve gotten so far 😭
This refresh makes the game pack worth the $20 I spent and adds GAME PLAY to the GAME PACK
It is a combination refresh and b'day gift since Sims 4 just turned 7
I'm glad your shoulder's doing a bit better! Repetitive motion injuries are REAL and boy do they suck!
Welcome back. I appreciate the effort you put into your videos and understand why you may need a break. Thanks for the update! ^-^
One thing I wish they’d added was acne. It would have been a perfect addition with the face masks
I think the parenthood pack adds some acne face overlays in the cas, unfortunately it's only visual and doesn't have an effect on your sim's mood. I have seen some mods that add acne (slice of life I think is the main one, but I don't use that one so I don't know for sure), unfortunately console players and players who otherwise don't use mods are left out. You're right, there is an opportunity to expand on gameplay around acne care.
Good to have you back Carl. I like this refresh that they have done, I do feel that there were other packs that were more in need of a refresh though and I really hope that this refresh does not end up causing bugs that we have to wait for months for them to fix.
Please, always take care of yourself Carl. If you need time off, of course take it! We will be here when you get back. Thank you for all your help over the Years playing Sims. My game wouldn't be what it is without your guides.
I'm excited for this! I have always loved Spa Day, and its one of the packs I use a lot. It will be great to have even more cool things with it, and I love more aspirations and ways to make money! Adds a little variety.
This is the sort of stuff packs used to include and I'm so glad they're working through them. More traits and aspirations are such a huge aspect of my way of playing. Excited for future updates!
Sorry to hear about your shoulder. Glad you took care of yourself for a bit there. Wishing you well!
I'm really thinking that the surge of Paralives is the cause of all this going back and giving players what they want trend the Sims seems to be having.
Yes! Exactly what I’ve been saying for a while. EA is now feeling the pressure because I have no doubt Paralives will draw in a large crowd. It looks promising.
Yes! That's exactly what I was thinking
Shows the importance of competition
I'm glad there is at least one other person that wasn't excited about Cottage Living besides me.
Something that helped me get rid of shoulder inflammation due to mouse use: I now use a trackball mouse. It takes a bit of time to get used to it, but it's worth it! Hope this helps. I really enjoy your videos
this is actually so cool! i really like how they included the detail of having sims' skin become irritated if they overuse skin care products. i hope they continue to give more packs refreshes like this, or even go back and fix some bugs that are still present in a lot of them. i think this could be a really good direction since i oftentimes feel like the sims team moves on so quickly from previous releases even if they have obvious issues that could be resolved.
Hope your shoulder gets better quickly! I’ve missed your videos but glad you are taking time to recover. 🤗
It's a great thing to see CC creators actually get involved with improving this game.
...can I point into the fact they chosen the LEAST broken pack for their "refresh"? Like, Spa Day is essentialy about nothing, but it also doesn't have anything gamebreaking. Well, at least by now.
Meanwhile Bust the Dust is a bug hunter's treasure trove, not to mention utterly bad gameplay options. This is the pack that BEGS for a fix, and yet...
Well, at least there would soon be some more lolz when EA breaks there poor game even further.
Ye Spa Day isn’t broken, it just feels like a stuff pack lol. But the new trait and aspirations fix that.
You're not wrong, but in a way that blandness of Spa Day does make it a target I guess. Most people would prefer something like Dine Out get this treatment, but I'm sure others are in the works. The company needs to do things like this regularly and CL also needs a refresh and it's the most recent Expansion!
@@CarlsSimGuides my favourite feature is the obsidian egg, you can make obsidian eggs and bacon and go burn someone’s house down, if you get a bunch of sims in one house then travel with all of them to a lot, you can feed them all these eggs and burn the place down. Perhaps not everyone’s style of gameplay but it certainly is interesting
Yeah, plus they already added some gameplay by making the wellness stuff work with the mindfulness system of Snowy Escape. I use meditation and the sauna a lot to get mindful and be able to surge emotion
I watched the Livestream, but I really appreciate the way you touched on all the important details in less time for those who don't have time to watch a longer video. Love your videos!
Sorry to hear about your injury! I’m glad you were able to take a break at least!
So glad you're back ♥ hope you're feeling better!!
i hope we can still use cc masks and nails though because i really don’t wanna lose things i play with regularly in my game
Sorry to hear you have been suffering with injury Carl. Loving to have you back though x
The pain is much better. For a while I worked through it but it got worse and worse near to the point of tears. Around CL I was like, I really can't be motivated to work through this pain and decided to take some time to investigate what was wrong and get myself well. The pain is MUCH improved and as a side effect I'm stronger, too. Thanks :)
I was just thinking about this when your notification came up! 😊💕
Glad to Sims reaching out to these awesome mod/cc creators for these updates. At this rate it might be 3 more years of Sims 4 😳 but hey now I can start removing some mods from ny game making more room for cc
Thanks for all your hard work. Please don't push yourself too hard and take the time to get better. You can only do your best when you are at your best! Also, your input about The Sims 4 in invaluable.
Thank you, Akira. It's better now. I have pushed myself at times but decided my health was more important and I know I made the right call. I only like making videos when I have something to say, anyway. I think making videos I WANT to make makes for a better video, right? :)
@@CarlsSimGuides Absolutely! Follow your passion.
I wonder if they could do more "instructor" careers/gigs? Like be a knitting instructor, ski instructor, painting instructor, etc. It seems like it would be a great reward for maxing out skills, and to add to the available careers/gigs. Glad your shoulder is improving. We all need breaks sometimes!
Ohh my godddd this is so cute. Im imagining a yogi mom raising her kids and giving them great skills by doing daily yoga with them
Spa day is one of my most used game packs, along with outdoor retreat, so this refresh looks really exciting! I hope they keep doing it. Some of the older packs could really benefit from things that got added later on, like ~cough~ the city living festivals being on the calendar
I hope they fix dine out and outdoor retreat. Every time my sims goes on vacation it rains the entire time
So happy to see you back, you're my favorite sims guru 💖
Hope you have a quick and pain free recovery.
I was actually SO surprised that so many new things were included (THREE NEW ASPIRATIONS?!), and it made me really excited for the future refreshes to come. I'm really looking forward to seeing what they will add with the other packs, hopefully Dine Out being one of the next ones. I really want to see more aspirations and traits added to the game for more depth. Also super excited that children are getting more activities! ❤️
It's interesting that they showed this off in a park not a spa. I hope you can do this on spa and gym lots too. When they teased this earlier, I thought they might let us own and run spas like restaurants, but maybe having your sim be the yoga instructor rather than the manager is better for this pack because it ties into the yoga skill and will be more different from other packs where you're the owner/manager of the business.
As a nail polish enthusiast, I am very excited about this addition to the game. The other stuff looks nice too and I hope they do this for other packs that desperately need an overhaul (I'm looking at you, Dine Out)
Thank you for this summary! I hope you recover well and feel better
I really wanted a pack to focus more on raising kids making them perfect mixing different lifestates and creating lineages but more importantly they should add official challenges with some kind of in game reward.
I actually enjoy spa day, as I enjoy playing in a gardening and yoga with wellness and baking kinda dreamy way. So to make money teaching yoga sounds very cool. Especially if possible to set up and teach a class in my stylish garden at home :)
I don't own Spa Day, I was intrigued by the concept, but not sold on the complete pack, because it seemed lackluster. I'm curious now, might consider purchasing.
I think this is a great step, improving content that's already in the game, instead of shipping new DLC that we might not need.
Hope you feel better soon Carl!
I literally have a high maintenance custom content trait so I am very pleased to be getting an official version. And more aspirations is so exciting and all I want, I am a big goal-oriented player so having more aspirations (and whims if they ever update those) is great!
Welcome back, glad to see you're feeling well & motivates enough to return to making Sims content 😁 and thank you for the nicely organized summary
It was much needed and much appreciated. Still wish we could choose up to 5 traits though. I agree with you on Cottage Living. It fell flat for me too. Speedy recovery!
Oh goodness, I hope you feel even better Carl!!! I had a pinched nerve in my wrist a while back, mouse use really is a pain in the butt...
They actually added so much stuff!!! This is genuinely amazing
Thank you for always giving me the sims news quickly! Thank you for being real!
I am super excited to see them refreshing some of the older packs. It would be nice to have more interesting gameplay in, say, Luxury Party Stuff or Realm of Magic. I would love to see Realm of Magic's Spellcasters using a system more akin to the Vampire system-- take flaws as you build up, have layers of skills, etc. I doubt this will happen, but I am happy to see that SOMETHING is happening.
Also, take your time with the videos! I love watching your content, but there is always time for rest when you need it!
Refresh the get to work, being doctor is like working alone, fix that.. i can open the store at home, and i can open it without have to revisit my store just like vet/restaurant
this is definitely SORELY needed, especially if they'll be adding more traits and aspirations because we're severely lacking those. the fact that we needed pack refreshes so badly though really just highlights that they REALLY should have done this sooner... like i'm glad they're doing it at all but after morale has been so low for so long it's kinda hard not to look at this and be like "you guys just had this idea NOW...?" like, they probably should have prioritized this on the ladder before kits, lol. here's hoping dine out is high on their list of packs to refresh because that pack is so much fun in theory but damn near unplayable in practice...
Sorry to hear you've had some bad shoulder injuries due to too much computer work! As someone who makes a living working on computers 8 hours + a day most days of the week, certainly feel that pain!
Thankyou! This was a great video and means I can skip the lengthy stream :D hope you continue to recover well from your injury.
Take care of yourself, Carl! Thanks for posting what you can and what you're interested in. I don't like watching fluff videos, so no worries there.
Right, I don't really like making a video "just because" ... I think people would get tired of hearing from me unless I have something of substance to talk about. I do have a couple ideas on the horizon but do not want to be repetitive. This is why I never established some sort of schedule. Thanks for the support!
Hope you get better ~ don't forget your viewers like myself enjoy your commentaries :)
I'm glad to hear your shoulder is getting better. Take all the rests you need!
So my main point of criticism has nothing to do with the idea of refreshing packs of the past. I think that's a fantastic idea. But in doing so, they are admitting and recognizing the packs in The Sims 4 have been incredibly broken, flawed, and empty. So I think it is a little strange that while acknowledging the flaws in past packs, they still put out Dream Home Decorator and Cottage Living which continue the cycle. Fixing past packs is great but FUTURE packs should be finished on release. Otherwise the game will never be fully "refreshed" before they drop it.
Mic drop honestly
glad you are takin care of yourself Carl! thanks for the vids
This gives me hope that someday they might update and fix more recent packs like Eco Lifestyle and Cottage Living so are functional and have enough content to be worth buying. If this is what the developers have to do to get around EA imposing unrealistic deadlines that don't let them finish stuff before release, good for them for finding a way to produce something worth playing.
Hope your shoulder gets all better soon. Don't push it. I feel better about this refresh after seeing your video. I watched the trailer and saw the nails, but didn't get much else out of it. Apparently I didn't pay enough attention. I can't be bothered with the live streams.
Thank you for bringing good news! Spa day was already one of my favorites, I bought it after seeing your video about it actually.
i feel like were getting things the devs probably wanted to do but didnt get the time needed until now.
I've been missing your Sims videos
After almost 2 years of not playing Sims 4, I can say that I think my burnout is over. I've been trying to get things running with little success, but I'm hoping to be able to play soon enough. If I get everything goes well, this'd be the first update that I've been able to join the community with since Realm of Magic in September of 2019.
Kinda good they are trying to make spa day relevant. I have it but never use it because none of my sims ever get whims related to it any more for some reason. I doubt that will change now, but perhaps if my sim has one of those aspirations I might actually do some of it
They should also do the career or monetized option for the Hair Stylist and Costume Designer in the Get Famous pack and upgrade them to free-lance careers. That is, if they ever decide to "refresh" that pack. Either way, all of these added features or refreshing of past packs just seems like another way to stall around before releasing sims 5.