New Sims Delivery Express Today! 5/25

Honestly, aside from my nitpicking and new!Alexander's tragic teen appearance; the new looks are good. They're not what I would've done and I'm def gonna make some tweaks but they're what was needed overall: (1) no whitewashing of Cassandra or Bella, (2) Bella gets her ribcage back and is appropriately aged, and (3) family members get established weather clothes (vs randomized townie fashion).

In general I said a couple of days ago in "unpopular opinions" that I have no longer care about the townies overhaul, but I have expected that EA will add our townies more personalities, small improvements such as nails or new skintone, relations, likes, dislikes ect. but instead od any improvement I see reggression. Goths no longer look like Goths even from the previous games. Everyone have black-red clothes only for every ocasion and weather. There is no personality improvement, no new relation and totally nothing new. Even the skincolour is bad. Have we really been waiting for something like this?

"Onverser;c-18115311" wrote:
Honestly wasn't expecting much but I'm disappointed... The skin color doesn't even match their old skintones, it's way too cool toned and ashy compared to 2 and 1. It took me 10 seconds to match their actual skintone :|

https://i.ibb.co/mcgbK7X/oh-lordy.png
https://i.ibb.co/5Ftp0cS/oh-lordy-2.png

Also I feel like Bella's makeover has just taken away her personality... She had a fun cartoony look before, now she just looks tired, and even the iconic dress is gone. I just don't get this makeover all round, seems not very well done and a waste of development time. If they're not gonna add any new assets they could've just got players or gamechangers to do the makeovers as I've seen base game player made makeovers that are a lot better done

Can I ask which skintone you are using? Asking cause I can NEVER find the right one when trying to recreate past sims. You are spot on about the problem with the skintones though, they're too "cool" and ashy looking.

"Calico45;c-18115259" wrote:
Hm. I wonder if this means the NPC update is going to be parted out through SDXs instead of proper consolidated updates. That'll be hard to avoid or rollback, if so.

My advice would be to save the families as you want them before any new SDX, that way you can choose which ones to keep, and which ones to use the new ones for. Another idea, if you want to avoid these changes entirely, is to make a "start-up save" with all the families as you want them, and always start a "new" game by loading that save and then resaving it as another name. That way you will be completely untouched by any of the future changes to the premades.

"deedles64;c-18115277" wrote:
I give makeovers to all my townies. Guess I'm going to have to go "fix" them now? Also in the save I am currently playing the Goths now have 4 more children,lol!

This doesn't affect current saves, only new ones. In my main save the Goths are long dead, their grandson is now a grandfather. It would be very weird if the new versions suddenly spawned. Luckily they won't.

Personally I like the new Bella, she looks more "real" than she did, and less perpetually surprised, more like a cunning young wife. I approve. I will give Mortimer back his jacket though, it fits a southern gentleman I think (he's also the only one in my game allowed to use it).

Please tell me they updated their traits and aspirations?

"BlueR0se;c-18115269" wrote:

"simgirl1010;c-18115261" wrote:
https://twitter.com/LuddySimmer/status/1529509871250739200?s=20&t=l_X8NNNHPD0tgseTsv4n1A

Hm...mixed feelings. Better than what we got at base game launch for sure but the skintones doesn't feel right (except Mortimer's). Like the shade is off. I feel like it needs to be "warmer" if that makes any sense. Mortimer looks good, but looks more akin to Gomez Addams vs Mortimer Goth. It may be based on an earlier Mortimer that I'm not familiar with, though. And tbf, I'm pretty sure the Goths were inspired by the Addams family so it makes sense.

Bella looks realistic as a Latina, color wise.

Edit: I will definitely have to copy and overwrite the Goths in my save from a new game to get the new look. I DEFINITELY prefer the new look.

"BlueR0se;c-18115328" wrote:

"Onverser;c-18115311" wrote:
Honestly wasn't expecting much but I'm disappointed... The skin color doesn't even match their old skintones, it's way too cool toned and ashy compared to 2 and 1. It took me 10 seconds to match their actual skintone :|

https://i.ibb.co/mcgbK7X/oh-lordy.png
https://i.ibb.co/5Ftp0cS/oh-lordy-2.png

Also I feel like Bella's makeover has just taken away her personality... She had a fun cartoony look before, now she just looks tired, and even the iconic dress is gone. I just don't get this makeover all round, seems not very well done and a waste of development time. If they're not gonna add any new assets they could've just got players or gamechangers to do the makeovers as I've seen base game player made makeovers that are a lot better done

Can I ask which skintone you are using? Asking cause I can NEVER find the right one when trying to recreate past sims. You are spot on about the problem with the skintones though, they're too "cool" and ashy looking.

Sure, it's this one in maximum darkness

https://i.ibb.co/nLdrxy0/skin.png

The old Goths were my Goths, especially Bella. Sure, these new Goths look more subtle and sophisticated, but I liked the cutesy cartoony look the old ones had - that's what made them part of the kooky Sims world for me. And we've known them for so long now that they're kind of like old friends, just right the way they were.... (I hope the old ones will still be on the gallery!)

But maybe I'll decide that these new Goths are long-lost relatives living in romantic Tartosa - I think one of the mansions there would be perfect for them!

I got my first in game look and my opinions on Bella and Mortimer haven't changed. If anything Mortimer is even better looking in game then in the screenshots. Alexander is.....yikes. Cassandra, oh my, even as an elder she's still wearing the same outfit and hairstyle. Oof! I've already been experimenting with new outfits for YA Cassandra. Unlike Alexander she aged beautifully. Edit: Oops wrong link.

https://i.imgur.com/3HimbU9.png?1

There were always going to be differing opinions after the update of a family like the Goths. And Bella is just such an iconic Sim. But I like the new look, she looks more realistic. Not just her features but also her physique. I removed the mouth crease when I played around with the new Goths in CAS and made some outfit changes - obviously they could only use BG items - and I like this Bella. She is less cartoonish, but I still feel there is something familiar about her. I am not going to start playing a new save, but I may replace the current Goths with the new ones in some of my saves.

https://i.imgur.com/WVcb9p9.jpg