Life and Death Negative thread
This is the place to put your thoughts and concern of the new expansion pack.
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The trailer was interesting but I think we need a lot more information. The gameplay trailer and the developer livestream should help. If not, the embargo lifting for the EA Gamechangers will also make a difference.
Will deaths be updated where death in a bed like in the trailer can occur? Will we see the essence of a sim leave their body? The current base game death when sims die of old age is pretty sad, they just fall down on the ground and become an urn.
What is the playable Grim Reaper career? Is it like the career from Paranormal Stuff Pack? I don't want a reskinned version of that.
I saw that the specters from the paranormal stuff pack have already been reskinned and are in this pack. We already had haunted houses in Paranormal Stuff pack, but I see it listed as a feature here in this EP.
Funerals look like Weddings from My Wedding Stories which wasn't working until this last patch that we got. Even though it still isn't 100% work reliable, as sims still did not sit where they were supposed to. The English Simmer did a video to see if weddings have improved based on this latest patch but some guests still did not sit down, someone ate the cake before the wedding started, and the officiant portion did not work. So if they can't get working weddings, and the funeral system is going to to be very similar (set lists of activities, location and time, dress code/color, etc), I don't see how these can function.
I don't like playable ghosts being locked behind a paywall. In previous sims games, ghosts were playable from the jump. We didn't even get ghosts from day 1 in the Sims 4, it was eventually patched in. They could have patched in the option for playable ghosts, even if they leave some of the features to haunt or help the living out.
What do you mean by playable ghosts being locked behind a paywall? You can make ghosts playable in two ways:
- Befriend a ghost (relationship must be high, almost max), and ask them to move in.
- When testingcheats are enabled, you can simply shift-click on the ghost's gravestone and add them to the household.
And the ghost is then part of your household. And you can control them like any other sim. And they have special interactions too (with some deaths giving even more new interactions).
So, playable ghosts are not locked behind a paywall. They can be playable since they were added in.
In previous sims games, ghosts were playable from the jump.
Only in The Sims 3 and The Sims 2 for console versions only. The Sims 3 required your sim to complete an opportunity to add a ghost to the household. In The Sims 2 console games, sims that died immediately became a ghost you could control and their goal was to get resurrected.
The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 for PC didn't feature playable ghost. The Sims 1 did feature a charm that made your sim a ghost temporarily though.
