Base Game Update 10/22

I'm completely surprised. This patch was called a Big One, and I just now updated my game. It's done already. Lickety-split. Either my computer/WiFi is screaming fast, or something . . . I don't know.

Wait! You can choose the reaction now!

Before you couldn't even click to mourn/witness death of a sim.

That's interesting... That's like in The Sims 3 where if you click on a dying sim, Mourn appears.

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Children taken by the social worker no longer getting deleted - finally! (I can't remember having it happen and have a mod in place to keep the kids, too, but the possibility of that one breaking always made me anxious.)

Customizeable tombstones are so welcome, too. I always disliked the enforced "You were not a human" gravestones for occults. Now if we could get the same for the plumbob, that would be nice. (Again, I have a mod that does this, but you know, mods aren't failsafe.)

Sims only gaining weight when on an active residential lot - another mod obsolete, good.

Globe bar drink platter fitting on coffee tables - seems like a small ting, but was so annoying.

OMG this patch. Where have you been all my life? 🖤💜🖤💀👻⚱️

Interestingly, this update has upgraded me to DirectX11. Something that was never an option for to me to use before. While using DirectX11, i can't switch between the game and other programmes i have running at the same time. 

I'm a bit confused by this comment. They updated the way gravestones and urns work and added new ones for our merfolk. Now we can "woohoo" with Grim, and they added a way for players to create ghosts in CAS. There are also other improvements, such as new occult options in CAS. All of this is optional unless I've missed something.

Even the latest Life and Death EP isn't going to force funerals on you, at least I highly doubt it. I certainly understand where you're coming from with not wanting a lot of death-related content in your game, but it should be able to be played around.

Infant, Toddler, Child Sims taken by Social Workers go to Household Menu in Manage Worlds, rather than being deleted.

HUZZAH! really hope this works so tired of mean aunties taking my sims out of universe just cause they got bad parents

Ghosts can now be created in Create a Sim for Child through Elder ages.

ah so close I so wish they would have included toddlers and infants on there so I could have whole family of ghosts from cas hopefully I'll still be able to cheat them at least

Am I the only one who thinks that SimGuruNinja is doing the voice over?

I went to create a date and it sent me back to the world screen: