Life and Death Negative thread
This is the place to put your thoughts and concern of the new expansion pack.
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An excerpt from the blog post I'm curious about (with these parts in bold):
For some Sims, leaving life behind is hard to do. With The Sims 4 Life & Death Expansion Pack, players can let their Sims linger on as playable household members where they can wreak havoc on the living or lend a helping hand. Ghost Sims who build special connections with each other can also pair up for a special, spectral Woohoo inside objects of all shapes and sizes. As Sims adjust to their playable Ghost Sims form, they can customize their looks in CAS, build Ghost Powers and even earn Fear or Goodwill essences from their interactions with the living to make simoleons. Yes, there is still room to grow in the afterlife!
What do they mean by that? I really hope they aren't saying these as empty marketing words to pad out the blog's content (ghosts can already be part of the household and you can change their appearance in CAS).
Also, the rebirth thing... Why aren't the sims starting from the newborn phase?
And Bucket List goals... Please I hope that it'll be cross-pack compatible! I hope it will include occult stuff too. Growing Together did well-ish... But High School Years pre-patch really messed it up bad.
Pack seems interesting, but I can't help but be... Skeptical... (get it?)
I think they’re not currently playable. You can add them to the household but they do their own thing like Cats and Dogs if I remember. And the CAS options either aren’t there or are extremely limited.
I took this to mean they will be a proper occult with their own things to do and needs etc, and you’ll be able to customise them fully in CAS.
Regarding rebirth, it seems to suggest you can come back at different lifestages. Maybe you choose.
You can control them like any other sim (and they have special interactions too). And you can edit their appearance in the CAS. They have all the same customization options, except you can't choose their walkstyle.
There's even a cheat to add them to the household. Simply click on a gravestone while holding down the shift button (testingcheats must be enabled) and there's the option.
I'm also a bit confused about the "playable household members" and the mention of CAS. To me this isn't anything new but a part of the basegame for years.
I have a household with four human ghosts and four ghost horses. You can play with them like any other sims (with the human ghosts of course). They have some limitations (afaik they can't join a career - never tried) and they also have some special features like possessing objects. And of course, they already can be edited in CAS.
Whatever they mean with "playable household members" and "they can customize their looks in CAS" as something special of the new pack is a mystery to me.I suspect what they're trying to say is that ghosts will just be a part of your household--maybe you can even make a ghost in CAS rather than having to go to the trouble of making a living sim, killing them with cheats, and then adding them with a different cheat just to start with a ghost--and maybe that there's some CAS options for making them more ghosty instead of just looking like transparent people.
But a lot of the copy here sounds like they're saying the pack features things that are already in the game.
