The Sims 4 - December UPDATE + New Careers UPDATE

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Update:  12/16/2014 – Version 1.3.18.1010

Hey Simmers!

Happy Holidays, Decemberings, and other end of the year tidings! The office illnesses have come and gone (for me) and things are looking up for a festive year end. And just for you, we have an update filled with new careers, holiday goodies, Gallery fun-ness, some cheats, a gnome on the go, a few holiday tunes, interface updates, and a bug or two squashed!

As this is a bit long on the details, and in an effort to keep it brief, I’ll cut my monologue short. So, without further ado, on with the datums!


The Big NEW

• Business Career
  • Climb the corporate ladder, choosing between Angel Investor or Business Tycoon
  • New Career Outfits
  • New Reward Objects and Interactions
  • New Career Reward Rooms
• Athletic Career
  • Kick, punch, and swing your way through the Athletic career, choosing between Hall of Famer or Mr./Ms. Solar System
  • New Career Outfits (did someone say Llamacorn mascot outfit?)
  • New Reward Objects and Interactions
  • New Career Reward Rooms

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Sims now accrue PTO by going to work, and can use their PTO to take a paid day off without losing work performance
  • Sims also want to take time off, and may get tense if they don’t
  • Sims will start off with 3 days PTO already accrued, so they can start work and immediately take a long weekend to recover.

• Family leave
• Parents can now take paid time off for the birth of their baby
• Moms can take time off during the third trimester. Sorry dads, you have to wait until after the birth to take time off
• Family Leave is separate from PTO, and does not affect your PTO balance.

Tuning / Graphics

• Fixed an issue that was preventing live drag from functioning when dragging from a Sims Inventory to an Object Inventory (such as a fridge or bookshelf).
• The game will no longer fail to save if you have over (Step 1: Face computer. Step 2: Place fingertip marked A next to lip corner marked B. Step 3: Say clearly but elongate the quoted phrase) "1 million" satisfaction points.
• Ambrosia will no longer be eaten autonomously by your Sims.
• We fixed an animation issue that can best be described as "we fixed an issue that caused Sims to scratch their back with their elbows when they chose to sit at the edge of a pool with a drink in their hand." It wasn't pretty. Thankfully no Sims were permanently scarred by the experience.
• Sims who sat at the edge of a pool during the moment of bladder failure found they were unable to satisfy their bladder. Whereas had they been in the pool…
• Pregnant Sims have temporary immunity from drowning per a previously agreed upon pact with the Reaper. However, if the pregnant Sim found that they "should" have died while in the pool, their buffs would get all wonky (actual technical term as used by the production team). The buff wonkiness has been fixed.
• Death by drowning will now count towards the Vengeful Deity Achievement.
• Swimming Laps will now help to alleviate the Not Enough Exercise buff that Active Sims can get.
• Pool ladders have an interaction “Get In” that you can choose when clicking on them. That interaction never worked. So, we removed the interaction from the ladders. To get in, you now have to click on the pool. Which sort of makes sense when you think about it.
• If a Sim decided to cancel their adventure in the Forgotten Grotto to go swimming, the Forgotten Grotto would forget that Sim existed, preventing them from adventuring within her forgotten realm. We have spoken to the Forgotten Grotto, explaining that the pool is just another place that Sims want to go, that they have not forgotten the Grotto, they will return once again, but that the Forgotten Grotto can’t forget them, and they must be allowed once again to enter the Forgotten Grotto, lest they be forgotten and thusly forget the Forgotten Grotto. The Forgotten Grotto, jealous... yes. But also forgiving.