The Sims 4 Excessive College Years enlargement pack (opens in new tab) is approaching July 28, however even for those who do not need to spend $40 so you may relive the drama and trauma of highschool you may nonetheless be capable to get pleasure from a number of the pack’s new options.
Alongside the enlargement, a few attention-grabbing modifications will probably be launched to the The Sims 4 base sport at no cost, ones the group has lengthy been asking for. First, your Sims not have to seem like clean plastic motion figures—physique hair is coming to the sport in the end, together with chest and abdomen hair, arm and leg hair, new facial hair choices, and sure, even again hair.
This furry new characteristic is not only a ornament you select within the character creation menu—you can toggle an possibility for growable hair, that means your Sim will go from a five-o-clock shadow to a beard and physique hair will slowly develop over time. Naturally, shaving will turn out to be an possibility so you may preserve your Sim neatly groomed as a part of your hygiene routine, if that is your factor. It must be famous that whereas that is being added to the bottom sport, gamers who buy the Excessive College Years enlargement can have extra physique and facial hair choices than are included on this free replace.
One other long-awaited characteristic being added is the choice to decide on your Sim’s sexual orientation—to a level, not less than. Regardless of pronouns being added to The Sims 4 lately, the sport’s underlying techniques nonetheless think about Sims to be both males or girls, and so the brand new sexual desire choices nonetheless replicate a binary gender system.
“That is largely a technical limitation at this time limit,” stated lead designer on the enlargement, Jessica Croft, throughout a presentation on Excessive College Years and the brand new sexual desire options. “We do not even have, mechanically, non-binary Sims.” Croft stated this new system is not “the end line” however extra of a place to begin for a extra expanded and inclusive system.
With the choices accessible, you can select in case your Sim is interested in males, girls, each, or neither, which is able to decide whether or not or not your Sim responds to advances from masculine or female characters. You may also select whether or not or not your Sim is exploring romantically or not (helpful for asexual or aromantic characters or gamers, or anybody who simply would not need to purse romantic relationships for no matter purpose), and select in case your character is keen to WooHoo (or for teen characters, “Mess Round” because it’s being referred to as within the enlargement) with masculine or female characters, or each, or neither. These choices will be modified at any level within the sport.
It is definitely not a complete sequence of sexual orientation choices, however not less than it is a small step ahead and hopefully we’ll see The Sims 4’s techniques develop extra advanced and have extra choices sooner or later. These new options will probably be added to the bottom sport when the Excessive College Years enlargement arrives on July 28.
