The most recent Sims 4 enlargement pack is all about ROMANCE! Known as Lovestruck, the pack’s large options will embrace a relationship app, turn-ons and turn-offs, and completely different romantic relationship dynamics, together with an entire new world to discover. However the dating-themed perks received’t be restricted to the enlargement; there’s a patch coming for all Sims 4 gamers timed to the pack’s launch, and it’ll introduce polyamory options! In the end!
The official Sims blog described the brand new Romantic Boundaries system, which might be customizable for all Sims and can separate out bodily and emotional exclusivity.
Free for all gamers is the brand new Romantic Boundaries system that may can help you customise your Sim’s expertise with boundaries and jealousy. Now you can outline how your Sims method romantic relationships when it comes to bodily and emotional romantic exclusivity. This enables for Sims to this point a number of Sims with out affect to different relationships.
Gamers have been asking for some kind of polyamory options for many years now, so it’s nice that this may lastly exist. Earlier updates have allowed gamers to outline their Sims’ romantic and sexual orientation and their gender expression. It’s one other step in making The Sims 4 extra practical.
Sims have been notoriously jealous in romantic relationships because the days of the unique Sims sport. In The Sims 2, as an example, if Sim A had a crush on Sim B (even when they weren’t in a relationship!), they’d get jealous if Sim B WooHoo’d with Sim C whereas they had been all on the identical lot (not even straight in entrance of Sim A!). Subsequent video games have toned down this romantic jealousy, nevertheless it does make informal relationship troublesome in The Sims. And having a Sim polycule? Virtually unattainable with out mods!
(In fact, that by no means stopped us Johnny Smith-Ophelia Nigmos-Ripp Grunt polyamory shippers — shoutout to the 2008 Sims 2 LiveJournal scene.)
The Sims 4: Lovestruck might be accessible on July 25, with the patch additionally dropping someday round then.