New Meteorite Death

It took about 2 days to get it to happen in my test save.

"Kbobster;c-18129014" wrote:
oooh! fun! didn't sims 2 have that? I might be wrong.

Well, The Sims 2 had it with satellites instead, but yeah. Though your sim needed to watch clouds/stargaze on the ground.
The Sims 3 took it to jumpscarish heights. A really really really rare chance that a meteor falls on a sim (the chance is larger if a telescope is used), and that one may kill more than one sim.

The Sims 4 takes from both of the games (The Sims 2's single kill, The Sims 3's meteor).

I will probably have to mod it so that there is less warning before a sim dies. Wonder if it can happen to npc-sims as well?

Knowing that children can also use telescopes, I had to test it out.

And the results are here!

Children can get the warning that a meteor is heading towards them, but once the moodlet expires, nothing happens.

Conclusion: Children can't die by meteorites.

"CelSims;c-18129055" wrote:

"Gordy;c-18129023" wrote:
I always disliked how much work you had to put into some deaths in Sims 4. Like you have to be struck by lightning at least twice to die, you have to go out of your way to force your spellcasters to die by overloading, and a lot of other deaths have a warning moodlet. There was little surprise because you had to actively try and kill your sims. If this meteorite death is this random thing that can happen, that adds a lot of unpredictability and uniqueness. It's great.

Unfortunately it is another where you have to ignore the giant warning and let it happen. You get a warning that the meteor is on the way and then have a few minutes to get your sim inside. Your sim will only die if you ignore that.

I don't like that. Where is the fun in it if you know it's coming? I guess they have to do it this way these days cos a lot of people would complain otherwise. Me, I like surprises. And if I really didn't want a dead sim I could quit without saving.

All you'd have to do is save your game before using the telescope, just in case, if it was a precious sim.

"CelSims;c-18129055" wrote:

"Gordy;c-18129023" wrote:
I always disliked how much work you had to put into some deaths in Sims 4. Like you have to be struck by lightning at least twice to die, you have to go out of your way to force your spellcasters to die by overloading, and a lot of other deaths have a warning moodlet. There was little surprise because you had to actively try and kill your sims. If this meteorite death is this random thing that can happen, that adds a lot of unpredictability and uniqueness. It's great.

Unfortunately it is another where you have to ignore the giant warning and let it happen. You get a warning that the meteor is on the way and then have a few minutes to get your sim inside. Your sim will only die if you ignore that.

Yes, that is indeed the trend.

However, the player will have a problem if the sim doesn't have an indoors to run into. For example, bringing a telescope too far away from home or using it on a camping trip. With 15 sim-minutes on the timer, farewell!

Though I have thought of a solution: death mode option. It would have three settings: no death (for players who hate death), easy mode (deaths are predictable and require work), and hard mode (deaths can be unpredictable). Right now, the only real random death is death by murphy bed.

I was just playing around with the new death to see the if the ghost has anything special about them… Meteor Ghost re-enact their death sequence including the sounds, lights and explosions. This can also happen inside to the ghosts. What terrifying existence for them.

I know it's supposed to be rare, but I lost a sim within the first day. Two other sims (I was running a household with 5 sims - the 4 occults you can make from CAS and 1 human) used the telescope autonomously and were fine. I direct my human to use it and BOOM! Even in the middle of the afternoon.

Fortunately, he was created to be sacrificed in just such a way (and then added back into the household as the ghost.)

I've already lost 2 sims from about 3 hours of gameplay. I hope that it's a coincidence though because I don't want too many sims dying.

I am SO psyched for this!

I think the apocalyptic day of reckoning is coming closer for my Sims. I need Ghosts - interesting Ghosts - and I think it's time to build the Squid Games, Sims style. >:)