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The Sims 4’s next update lets you meddle with your neighbours' livesPlay god even more in Neighborhood Stories next week
Play god even more in Neighborhood Stories next week
I’ve always seenThe Simsseries as the ultimate life-meddling games. It’s one of those, well, sims, where it’s all too tempting to recreate friends and family you know in real life and send them on a path you’ve chosen. Right now inThe Sims 4, players are limited to making life choices for these Sims they’ve created, doomed to watch Neighbour Sims do their own thing. But on November 30th, the Neighborhood Stories update will let you influence what these NPCs do, from starting families to changing careers.
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While there are some decisions they can make autonomously, Neighbours will never go ahead with anything without asking for your input first. For example, they’ll always give you a call to check whether or not they should accept a marriage proposal or career promotion. To be fair, those are big decisions! I’d probably call a friend or family member about that sort of stuff.
EA note that “Neighbour Sims” refers to most of the NPCs in the game, but not special ones like the Grim Reaper. You can’t just go and ask death incarnate if they fancy a career change. (Though I totally think you should be allowed to do exactly that, “hey death, wanna open a cake shop with me?")
There’s a lot EA want to do with this, so the update will come in multiple parts, with the first one focusing on Sims connected to your main household - coworkers, friends, randos they met at the gym, that sort of thing. After that, they’ll roll out these changes to all Neighbour Sims. They don’t give a date for that just yet though.
Neighborhood Stories arrives next week, on November 30th.
EA recently added challengesto The Sims 4 too, as well ashundreds of new colour swatchesto pretty-up items you can build. They seem to be pretty focused on expanding the base game at the moment, which is nice to see.
