Official Livestream: Growing Together!

I liked the stream! It was a tad long, but that is just me being used to hit pause whenever I watch anything lasting longer than 28 minutes... The gurus did a great job, and the only bad was the sound but it improved.

I was happily surprised by CAS! So many casual items there that I know I will use a lot.

Happy with kids finally learning regular skills, at least some. It really makes sense that a child playing the piano does not need to start from scratch again once becoming a teen.

Infant looks great. I normally not play babies, and with the free infant update they are not really the selling point for me. Nice there are a few objects improving on that infant experience, though.

I like the world, too. Especially the Gilbert Garden hood looks nice. I will need to adjust my plans on who to live where. Easier to plan after seeing the world, and I'm so grateful we got more than a glimpse of all 3 hoods.

My least liked feature is the milestones, as I don't see how I can benefit from them. I really hope they will limit to say the 10 latest, or deleting old milestones that are less important. I got the impression that none of them will ever be deleted, and I really don't see why my Adult sim need to look up when he got the "first taste of food" milestone? I think infant milestones should be deleted when your sim becomes teen. Hopefully we can delete each milestone that we don't want to keep. I don't look forward to clean up milestones for my 500 played sims, though... Instead I worry hey will affect game performance for no gain. And - I'm not very fond of popups, so I really hope there won't be 10 milestones per day in a household...

I do wonder how infants learning will work when playing on rotation. How many sim days do EA think we play in one house before moving on? I wonder if there will be much point if I play each infant only for 3 simdays. With most packs added, I need to take care of so many different aspects in this game... but of course, infants shall have my full attention for a while.

Lmboooooooo @ Grimsurudoi naming the world's and his conflict with the designers. ??????

"DaniRose2143;c-18235776" wrote:

"AncientMuse;c-18235752" wrote:
Let me first start by emitting my sympathy hugs to all the cc/mod creators out there who are about to get hit with a massive cc-fix nightmare (for mods and cas and build/buy).... ouch!

Just off the top of my head: It looks like all doors/gates, many if not most comfort items, many surface items, storage items, all kids furnishings, all kids toys, plumbing items (or maybe just bathtubs?), etc.... And then there's also the endless list of mods that will get hit with both the big baby update and the new pack (pie menus, cas options, new interactions, etc).

Anyways, it looks like this pack is going to be one of those 'essential' must-have packs if you want the full benefit of gameplay options (like Seasons or Cats & Dogs).

As a non-family player, I can't wait for this pack (and the infant update)! :D

I might just have to get one (or more) of my 'single-and-loving-it' sims preggers.... >:)

I hope the CAS and BB items won't be hit too hard, but this is definitely going to break some things. On the other hand this is going to be the Modpocalypse. A lot of stories here on the forums in creative corner and on blogs all over are going to wind up on hiatus or sims and lots are suddenly going to look veryyyy different.?

If everything functions like it should, and this pack drops as trouble free as Werewolves did, it will end up being worth it.

Speaking of modpocalypse.....

This baby update is going to give a whole new meaning to the infamous "100 Baby Challenge" that simmers have been playing. I can't wait to see who will be the first simmer to take it on after babies are no longer bassinet fixtures and must be tended to individually, constantly.

Babypocalypse! :#

About the BG update:

Science baby!!! Epic! I will really look forward to this feature. It would have solved so many predicaments in my stories, but now I'll be able to. Thanks, Devs!

I'm still neutral about the infants, but I will enjoy playing them for the first time. The new stuff looks cute (yay for the new bassinets).

But I'm afraid that the next patch will break the whole game, and that they won't fix the supernatural speed (Vampires & Werewolves) that the Devs broken in November :s

About the EP:

I liked some items like the Treehouse, the family photos and the water features.

The stream was all about talking, and talking and talking but not showing the gameplay. I only saw notifications, and so far the milestones look like badges (no gameplay at all). Sorry now I feel that the EP is not for me because:

-The devs never said if they took the occults into account for the gameplay.

-Thanks to how the devs showed the new lot type I feel it is like a simplified Arts Center (from City living). I already play with the beautiful Arts Center lot.

-The world is a let down: I expected at least ONE urban neighborhood. The residential neighborhood is not customizable even if I demolish the premade houses. It is full of fake houses of the same style. I did not see anything special or new at the world (or maybe the devs did not show everything because they keep talking and talking and talking).

-I feel the new system will be like Wants and Fears, Lifestyles, "Story Progession" and that compulsive "Best friends" from HS (that I did not bought because of this, it is the only one that do not have an OFF choice) : bad tunned features that destroys the already achieved personalities of my sims.

-I saw that the OLD toddlers issues were not fixed.

Maybe all this is a perception of the livestream... I will see how the EP works for other players ;)

I was undecided if I was going to watch since I had work and get moody around lunch time but seeing the little bits here and there glad I missed it, it will be fun to find all the things, I so can't wait.

This looks really in depth and includes a lot of updates/integration that I've been hoping for! :mrgreen:

All the new pie menu social optionssssssss!!!! Been dying for more social opppptionsssss???? I can't believe it.... and they added family kiss it seems!!! ??? I saw one that said "best hug ever"
I love the ones that seems accurate to elders too.
I'm melting for this because I used so many mods to get this kinda stuff.

Claim the other sim as an alien ???
Ugh I love this

I loved everything and the remaining 13 days until release seem endless. I don't want to play my game without this content anymore.

"simgirl1010;c-18235573" wrote:
New Pie Menu

Spoiler

https://twitter.com/SimGuruNinja/status/1631740799422717953?t=B-K3kCuUaybCU5zMw1ulnA&s=19

I'm intrigued by the "Adopt Casey" here. Can we adopt kids via socials now? Step-kids? Science baby surrogacy kids? Homeless townie kids?

Did Ninja slip up on info that hasn't been mentioned again?

And I hope we will have a Sims 4 Studio update with batch fixes for all of the CC that breaks with the infants update by the weekend after release!