Comme nous nous en doutions, à l’occasion du 15ème anniversaire de la licence des Sims, EA Games nous offre une nouvelle mise à jour pour les Sims 4, sans crier gare 🙂
Cette mise à jour gratuite de 430Mo apporte dans ses valises beaucoup de choses bien sympathiques, dont la Généalogie ! Il y a également des nouveaux désirs (à épingler pour ne pas les perdre), des nouvelles réussites, des nouvelles tenues pour la St Valentin, des nouvelles musiques et bien sûr des corrections de bugs.
Vous pouvez découvrir le contenu en vidéo et / ou en images un peu plus bas 🙂
La Généalogie :
Elle sert à consulter l’histoire de votre Sim, de ses parents, de ses frères et sœurs, ou de ses grands-parents, jusqu’à 10 générations. Vous pourrez y voir le métier de n’importe quel sim présent dans l’arbre, et la raison de sa mort. Malheureusement, ça ne sera pas indiqué si votre sim a déjà été mort et ramené à la vie.
Les nouvelles réussites :
Encore un peu plus de difficulté dans notre jeu avec ses 4 nouvelles réussites qui vont demander beaucoup de patience :
Les nouveaux vêtements :
Le nouveau gnome et le nouveau nounours :
Voici le Patch Note :
La généalogie est maintenant disponible. Vous pourrez consulter l’histoire de la famille de vos Sims, notamment les frères et sœurs, mères, pères, grands-parents (et certains arrière-grands-parents, et arrière-arrière…), les relations par alliance (comme le beau-père), les demi-frères et demi-sœurs, et les conjoints, bien entendu.
Ouvrez le panneau Simologie (ou utilisez le raccourci [Y]) et cliquez sur le bouton Montrer la généalogie du Show Sim.
Suivez 10 générations (4 après et 5 avant) du Sim actif (oui, 5 + 4 = 10)
Cliquez sur d’autres Sims affichés pour se concentrer sur leur généalogie
Si un trop grand nombre de Sims apparait à l’écran, vous pouvez cliquer sur un espace libre du panneau de généalogie, et l’y faire glisser pour en voir plus.
Passez le curseur sur les portraits des Sims pour voir leur relation avec le Sim actif, leurs carrières actuelles, comment ils sont morts et avec qui ils sont mariés.
Le menu principal a été remodelé. Parcourez les bannières en jeu pour découvrir les nouveautés sur Les Sims, ce qui vous attend, ce qui fait fureur dans la Galerie, des conseils et des astuces, et plus encore !
Nous avons mis à jour les envies
Les envies sont automatiquement actualisées lorsque vous dormez plus de 4 heures, devenez hébété, ou rentrez à la maison après avoir travaillé
Passez le curseur sur une envie et cliquez sur le bouton Épingler afin d’épingler l’envie que vous souhaitez conserver (désolé, vous ne pouvez pas épingler d’envie émotionnelle).
Ou cliquez sur le bouton X pour obtenir une nouvelle envie.
De nouvelles réussites sont disponibles en jouant avec les générations.
Joueur d’héritage, Héritage alphabétique, Chef d’héritage, et Héritage légendaire !
Nouveau contenu dans Créer un Sim !
Vous trouverez les chemises de la Saint-Valentin pour homme et pour femme dans la catégorie t-shirts
Vous trouverez les caleçons de la Saint-Valentin pour homme dans la catégorie sous-vêtements
Vous trouverez la lingerie de la Saint-Valentin pour femme dans la catégorie soutien-gorges
Nouveau contenu dans Créer un Sim… ou pas !
Les gnomes ont envoyé un émissaire pour le 15ème anniversaire, cherche le Joyeux Gnomiversaire !
L’ours en peluche amoureux est prêt à passer la Saint-Valentin avec vous.
Nous avons trouvé le Gnome ourson qui se cachait dans la forêt de la retraite extérieure, l’avons invité à sortir de sa tanière, et l’avons introduit dans votre jeu.
Une nouvelle version de l’enceinte Vacances d’hiver a été ajoutée à la catégorie audio
La suite en anglais :
Gameplay / Tuning
There is a reward store to spend your satisfaction points on consumables and traits – go spend them. There is now a tutorial tip that will remind you.
Fixed an issue with the way that relationship decay was functioning that was causing recently acquired friends to quickly un-friend. A buffer has been added to keep friends as friends, and provide the player the ability to react to negative outcomes as they happen.
Titan and Titanic will no longer be blocked by the Gallery profanity filter.
Sims were not informing their partners if they were pregnant after taking a pregnancy test. Thus leaving the partner in the dark until the “Whoa, where did they come from?” moment. Now, if the pregnancy test-takers partner is on the current lot, they will share the big news with them. If they aren’t… well… what the Sim doesn’t know…
NPCs will now wave goodbye when they leave the lot, and nearby Sims will return the wave (if they aren’t busy eating, showering, sleeping, smashing doll houses…)
We fixed an issue where newly made households from Create A Sim, that had their future homes edited before moving in, would lose their relationships to one another upon moving into the lot.
Adults that were asked to read to children would often times become so engrossed in the story that they would forget to actually read to the child. We’ve fixed this issue by informing the adults that the purpose of reading to their children is to connect with them, creating a lasting bond of love and trust, and not so much about finding out just how far Spot can run.
It is no longer possible to use the Play with Genetics option in Create A Sim to create a child of a child or teen. The Play with Genetics Sim selector was incorrectly, in some cases, allowing a child or teen to be selected as the parent.
In addition we fixed a few other issues with the Play with Genetics selector that were creating confusion when setting relationships.
It should no longer be possible to create a child and parent of the same age.
An order of operations issue was fixed that prevented the player from setting sibling relationships that were valid to set.
And we fixed an updating issue that prevented the drop down from properly displaying relationship options.
The Grim Reaper is no longer available to age up from the Sim selector. Grim is in fact ageless, as you know, and the option was a test of The Reaper. Congratulations you passed, one additional year has been added to your life.
Children will find the computer less accommodating to…um, if two consenting adults should happen to be in a rocket… I mean, if there is a rocket in space, and you are at the computer, you can listen to the launch, and the broadcast from space. But if the adults are in the rocket… well, if the child tried to use the computer… and the consenting adults were to, that is to say, if they became friendly then… the child can’t listen at the computer anymore.
The second milestone of the Rambunctious Scamp aspiration has been changed to practice typing for 4 hours.
The Gym Rat trait was confusing, and has been updated. Gym Rats build fun and don’t lose additional (does not affect the normal rate of hygiene decay) hygiene while exercising.
Now 50% less tutorial, because… well, you know.
We fixed an issue that would cause Sims to lose work performance unfairly if… here we go… Sim A and Sim B traveled to a non-home lot. Sim A (the non-working Sim) traveled to another lot just before Sim B (the working Sim) went to work, and then Sim A returned to the lot they just left, which would then cause Sim B to return from work early and thus lose performance.
If you could follow that bug, I should show you some of the bugs we fixed with generational game play… create an 8 Sim household, marry 2 of them, have step children, and some adoptions, then kill somebody. Re-arrange the family through manage worlds and splitting, and re-enter live mode. Notice that the Earth has stopped rotating…
We fixed an issue that was causing Gallery lots to break that was the result of saving a new lot on top of a pre-existing lot in the player’s library that had been shared to the Gallery.
Angry pregnant Sims will no longer choose to Take an Angry Poop when taking a pregnancy test (yep, you read that).
Updated the text when clicking on a Sim in the relationship panel to Travel With… instead of Invite To… The latter option was confusing and did not properly inform the player that they would be taken to the Neighborhood Map in order to travel.
Sims will no longer use the Observatory until they are near death. Rather, they will now exit after a reasonable time.
Fixed an issue that was preventing the Technically Adept goal “Maintain Focus for 2 Straight Hours of Video Gaming” of The Computer Whiz branch of the Knowledge aspiration from completing properly.
Sims can now have dates on their currently active lots.
Bartenders are back on the job! Autonomous and player requested beverages are once again being served.
Sims will no longer believe they can mourn their loved ones while they are doing other actions, such as cooking, which was causing the Sim to cancel the non-mourning action.
So fire… recently we informed you that fireplaces could catch nearby objects on fire and well they did. Including ceiling lights, objects on the mantelpiece… and apparently they did it a lot. We’ve lowered the chance of fire spreading to nearby objects and made the way in which fire spreads from the fireplace to be cone shaped, which should prevent mantel placed objects from catching fire…. which you couldn’t put out anyway. So yeah… oops.
As a result of bad hygiene, Sims were getting dirty, and then dirty and stinky. Now Sims will get stinky, and then dirty and stinky.
Sims will no longer get a whim to know themselves… that is to say to introduce themselves to themselves.
Crash / Performance
Some players were reporting that they were continuing to be unable to load their lots after the 1/13 release and we have fixed additional issues with being bounced back to the Neighborhood Map. Thank you for the save files that helped us track this issue down, we love looking at your save files!
In addition, we fixed an infinite load issue that resulted if the player attempted to load into a lot that had been split via Manage Worlds, with a baby.
We have spent time optimizing load times. It should be noted that the amount of improvement is dependent on machine spec as well as the size and content of the save file.
Additional fixes were made to reduce save game bloat which will help lower the amount of memory required in order to load the save file, and provide stability.
Fixed a crash that resulted if the player attempted to ‘Save to Library’ an item they had previously reported.
We fixed an infinite load… I’m sorry to interrupt myself, but honestly as we have not yet been able to test if it really is infinite, the best we can do is assume, although given the lifespan of your average computer, the decay rate of the plastics and metals contained within, and the generally low longevity of even the high end hard drives, I have to imagine that we are being quite disingenuous by saying infinite. None-the-less… we fixed an infinite load issue when favoriting items on the gallery that had been reported.
Build / Graphics
Fixed an issue that was causing seated Sims to shift to the T-pose when attempting to clean a stack of dishes on the surface in front of them.
A Moment at DevCorner: T-pose is what is meant when a Sim fails to play an animation, and instead reverts to their default position, which is shaped like a T (standing with arms outstretched).
We have adjusted the Sim lighting when Laptop Mode is active to be less unfriendly to the “I need light to see” players.
When visiting the Rattlesnake Juice Bar, Sims will no longer take an oddly long path to avoid the front edge of the lot.
The Landgraabs did not run a proper geological survey of their homestead before moving in. This resulted in their inability to go swimming in some pools, on some parts of their lots, some of the time. The sum of these issues have been fixed.
UI / Interface Updates
Using the game options to change resolutions will now properly save.
Btw, did you know you can also drag the window to resize it? (including very small sizes)
Hovering over the skills in the skill panel will now display example objects that you can use to help build those skills.
The “It’s Not Brain Surgery” achievement now has an icon when it slams your screen… SCREEN SLAM!
It’s 2015, did you know? We totally knew that… now. (patch notes now have the correct year)
The Sims Outdoor Retreat
Adding a log to the campfire while seated, will no longer cause the log to appear too soon, spin around, and then… feels like I’m watching some sort of talent reality show just before the really good talent arrives and they’re warming you up with the “you’re just not cut out for this” crowd.
The Bramble Patch is no longer available to explore if you are uncomfortable.
The horseshoe pit is no longer an exclusive hot spot for the focused and undistracted. Sims are now allowed to queue Join Game on the horseshoe pit no matter what they were doing previously.
Thank you for all your feedback, your help, and your time,
