For Rent Gameplay Trailer

That was... a lot. I need to re watch it 3-4 times more and then wait for the flood of breakdown videos on Youtube. But everything looked gorgeous, and it certainly seemed simple to adjust the housing. And individual rents, so you don't have to charge for the rest of the family if you don't want to.

Gah, I'm really going to have to consult my budgeting for all this. I've got three games/expansions to pick up in the next month at this point (This, the DDV expansion, and Candela Obscura)

Yeah, I couldn’t understand what the speaker was saying, lol. I thought it looked good, though! The only thing that concerns me is the lease. I don’t want to have to keep moving my sims back in or remembering to change the number of days they can live there.

ETA: simgurunova confirmed on Twitter/X that tenants rent indefinitely, but the number of days refers to a time period where leases can be broken without additional fees or changed!

"greydonn;c-18326988" wrote:
I had a hard time understanding him as well, but putting on captions worked wonderfully.

I'm a bit disappointed, honestly. What they showed was great, but I'm concerned. I'm questioning now if I'll be able to have specific sims move into specific units, as if moving them into an apartment in city living, or if it'll be like hiring sims for restaurants- you get to pick from a couple sims, and that's it. And I was hoping we'd see non-rental unit gameplay. We haven't seen anything for the night market, botanical garden, or the animal sanctuary. :(

Oh, man. If we can’t move specific sims into specific units, I’m going to be extremely upset. I’ve worked hard preparing for this pack between making my duplex & the sims that I want to live in it.

Hopefully, there’ll be a livestream that will clear up a lot of the confusion. I’m also wondering if we can set fenced in backyards to specific units.

"bizuktag;c-18326978" wrote:
I appreciated seeing more details about unit configuration and setting rent, but - without meaning to sound too harsh - I found numerous parts of the the dialogue difficult to understand due to the voice actor's accent.

Oh good Im not alone in this. Im going to watch again but with the closed captioning on this time since I did have a little trouble understanding the VA and felt like he was talking a little too fast at some parts.

For anyone having issues understanding the dialogue, they provided captions, just tick the "closed captions" (CC) box in the youtube window :)

"ULIBABA66;c-18326992" wrote:

"SnaveXs;c-18326984" wrote:
The narrators voice sounded familiar. I can't think of his Youtube name but he usually provides facts about the game.

He is most likely not onlyabidoang if he's the person you may mean, onlyabidoang is Indonesian, I think this narrator is from Thailand? :open_mouth:

Wait some people are now claiming they might have used AI voice for the narrator, not sure if that is true or not. But I enjoyed the trailer regardless, and I cannot wait to play it as I have preordered the EP already <3

Yeah, That's who I thought of.

"SnaveXs;c-18327006" wrote:

"ULIBABA66;c-18326992" wrote:

"SnaveXs;c-18326984" wrote:
The narrators voice sounded familiar. I can't think of his Youtube name but he usually provides facts about the game.

He is most likely not onlyabidoang if he's the person you may mean, onlyabidoang is Indonesian, I think this narrator is from Thailand? :open_mouth:

Wait some people are now claiming they might have used AI voice for the narrator, not sure if that is true or not. But I enjoyed the trailer regardless, and I cannot wait to play it as I have preordered the EP already <3

Yeah, That's who I thought of.

onlyabidoang is amazing! I am just not sure if this is his voice though.

That was very interesting, but I have a lot of questions - the biggest being the one I'm seeing already here - how do tenants work exactly? Is it like assigning an NPC household to a lot (only assigning them to a unit)? Are they even actually NPC households (or are they somehow part of the played household)?

Other questions I'm left with (mostly because I don't new "obvious") ...

Can you have NPC landlords?
Can you have a multi-unit lot populated entirely by NPCs?
Can you have "absentee" landlords (which is to say a landlord who lives on another lot entirely)?

This expansion has a lot of potential and I'm excited to learn more.

Oh and I didn't have any problem with the audio track.

"greydonn;c-18326988" wrote:
I had a hard time understanding him as well, but putting on captions worked wonderfully.

I'm a bit disappointed, honestly. What they showed was great, but I'm concerned. I'm questioning now if I'll be able to have specific sims move into specific units, as if moving them into an apartment in city living, or if it'll be like hiring sims for restaurants- you get to pick from a couple sims, and that's it. And I was hoping we'd see non-rental unit gameplay. We haven't seen anything for the night market, botanical garden, or the animal sanctuary. :(

I hear you. I'm hoping we still have the ability to just evict townies and plop in whoever we want into the units, the way we can in the single family homes and San Myshuno apartments. I'm thinking maybe this feature is just for if you only want to play the landlord and not the tenants and want to play through the process of "finding" tenants. They did say that we can turn existing lots into apartments, so I would imagine that's not an issue with existing households.

I guess now we just have to wait for the livestream to learn more about how it works.

I understood the narrator just fine. I am happy that they used the voice of someone that may be from Thailand instead of another perky American voice to please the masses. Anytime you have to say not to be rude/harsh/offensive, you’re being just that. ?

Also this trailer was great! I’m so excited!