The Sims 4’s new Lovestruck growth has an entire bunch of quality-of-life updates that apply to the bottom sport, that means they’re free for everybody — no matter whether or not you buy the growth. One among these is within the Create-A-Sim menu: Now you can set two Sims as companions, so there’s no must high-five your manner right into a relationship anymore.
Let me clarify. Once 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 option to set a romantic relationship for an single couple. The Sims 4 gamers need to get artistic to shortly enhance that relationship to its desired level, flying by way of friendship and into love. You are able to do this in a bunch of the way — like taking repeated selfies — or simply high-fiving a bunch earlier than attending to the flirting. However with the Lovestruck growth, that’s now not the case. You’ll be able to 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 advanced within the base sport 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 “bodily 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 brand new setting that may result in drama, but additionally permits for extra kinds of relationships, together with polyamory.
There’s additionally one other base sport possibility that The Sims 4 streamers can be enthusiastic about: Inside the sport choices menu, there’s a brand new checkbox that’ll pressure the sport to play solely streaming-friendly music — that means nothing that’ll get you in bother with copyright licensing. Throughout an occasion for press, The Sims 4 crew mentioned extra streaming-friendly music can be added sooner or later.
