The Sims 4’s new Lovestruck growth has a complete bunch of quality-of-life updates that apply to the bottom recreation, that means they’re free for everybody — no matter whether or not you buy the growth. Considered one of these is in the Create-A-Sim menu: You can now set two Sims as companions, so there’s no want to high-five your way into a relationship anymore.
(*4*)Let me clarify. Whenever you create a family in The Sims, you may set a number of relationships; you may set Sims as spouses, siblings, and extra, however there was no way to set a romantic relationship for an single couple. The Sims 4 gamers have to get artistic to rapidly increase that relationship to its desired level, flying by means of friendship and into love. You can do that in a bunch of the way — like taking repeated selfies — or simply high-fiving a bunch earlier than getting to the flirting. However with the Lovestruck growth, that’s no longer the case. You can set Sims as companions proper from the Create-A-Sim menu, that means they’ll begin out with a baseline romantic relationship.
The growth additionally makes relationships extra complicated in the bottom recreation replace, with new settings that management romantic boundaries. These settings are all about jealousy — does your Sim get jealous when participating in “non-physical romance” with another person? What about participating in “physical romance” — besides WooHooing? What in the event that they WooHoo with another person? And are they open to altering their boundaries? All of those are answerable with a sure or no. It’s a new setting that may lead to drama, but additionally permits for extra kinds of relationships, together with polyamory.
There’s additionally one other base recreation choice that The Sims 4 streamers might be enthusiastic about: Inside the recreation choices menu, there’s a new checkbox that’ll pressure the sport to play solely streaming-friendly music — that means nothing that’ll get you in hassle with copyright licensing. Throughout an occasion for press, The Sims 4 crew mentioned extra streaming-friendly music might be added in the longer term.
