Currently, The Sims 4 is on track to compete with and Stuff Packs in price and value. We have two categories of addons for TS4 that add actual gameplay: full-blown Expansions and smaller, cheaper Game Packs. Expansion Packs, Game Packs and Stuff Packs List The following packs are listed in chronological order. You can see we've received content every couple months since The Sims 4's release date in 2014. How to Install Expansions and Game Packs: Click the 'i' for more information to see the addons you've purchased. You can install them individually from there. Installing DLC EA Origin can sometimes be unintuitive. Each Sims 3 Expansion is listed individually, but Sims 4 DLC is listed under 'more info' the i you see when clicking The Sims 4. Installing them is easy once you know how to access the list. You'll note that your time played is likely only counting time from when you launched the game from Origin. There's no way I've played only 18 hours. The Sims 4 Expansion Packs Expansion Packs typically provide a large amount of new gameplay content, revolving around a central theme. Expansion Packs primarily provide new game systems to add on to our existing selections. For example, Sims 4 Get to Work lets us control Sims at work, while the Sims 3 Pets gives the ability to have Cats, Dogs, and Horses. Many players expect this to eventually occur with The Sims 4 - but it's not guaranteed. Same with Weather, ala Sims 2 or 3 Seasons. In general, new types of buy mode objects, and are to be expected. Many will give us new and , as well as clothing and hair styles to help us customize our Sims. New neighborhoods give us new places for our Sims to reside and explore. Not all Expansions are created equal and what excites one player may be lackluster to another. Even day one, many players feel they get a lot of bang for their buck from an Expansion purchase, but many would prefer to buy the Expansion Pack when it is on sale. You can hire and promote, or even fire employees, accumulate points to buy retail perks, and sell just about anything in the game for a profit - even food! There, you'll complete objectives to raise your work performance and get promoted. Each Career features new objects for the home, so you can make areas fit your Sim's personality. You'll take on cases, and narrow down your suspect. Once you're ready to interrogate them, you can get them to cough up a confession. It's a fun Career with a lot of unique interactions. The Hospital is also where Sims can optionally go to have babies. You'll have access to features that impact gameplay the most, allowing you to make loads of Simoleons easily. Plus, you can clone and transform many objects, along with Sims! You can sell baked goods along with other foods. Sims can be abducted and males might have an Alien child. If you're friends with one, you can ask them to move in. You may just enjoy their powers of transmutation for collectibles, and their ability to read minds. Collect Geodes, and some new miscellaneous collectibles metals, crystals, plants, and an element as well. This will allow for hobby clubs for adults and kid clubs. What retail and active careers are to Get to Work, clubs are to Get Together. This is a major feature and sounds amazing! So both types of clubs you might imagine are in this pack. Your Sim can level this skill and pump up the crowd. Apartments start low-priced, but huge luxurious penthouses are available to the wealthy. You can customize these traits to suit your needs. This feature was included in the base game via a patch preceding the Expansion's release. Compete in some festivals, learn new recipes by tasting dishes, and meet new Sims. If a Festival is in the same neighborhood, there is no loading screen. These Careers have a work from home ability, which gives you a couple of tasks to complete while you work on their moderately difficult promotion requirements. You can serenade Sims, license songs to make money, and watch your Sim progress from awful head-splitting noise to spot-on pitch and great tunes. The Expansion allows Sims to sing at least a dozen songs. Some of which are very catchy. Create-a-Pet is part of the CAS system and will let you select from many types of breeds, or. Dozens of traits are available for each type of animal. As you level up, you learn to teach new tricks. The Sims 4 Game Pack DLC Game Packs are a new concept for Sims 4, and to a player who will own nearly everything the Sims Studio releases, GPs should be an exciting concept. Game Packs are smaller, cheaper bundles that again revolve around a central theme. Stuff Packs featured cars, clothing, hair, and miscellaneous household objects but not many new features that expanded upon how you play the game. What is different about Game Packs, is that we expect them to offer real gameplay content, something that was lacking in Sims 3's Stuff Packs, with the hair and clothing being a side attraction. We can already download hair and clothes from custom content creators, but new gameplay features are harder to come by. This may potentially lead to The Sims 4 having the most diverse gameplay options of any title in the franchise, provided Maxis continues down this route and release as many of them as they did in the past. It's a natural park with three zones and several lots, but contains a lot of big open forest for your Sims to enjoy. It's up to you. Sims can sing campfire songs, do a weenie roast, and all kinds of camp-y activities that would be expected in this game pack. The waterfalls and areas you can venture to are absolutely gorgeous, with wildlife skittering through the forest and vistas in abundance. Exploring this area and finding them in their beautiful area is part of the fun. This type of lot has yoga instructors that regularly visit. They are available with the pack or from the gallery, so there are many choices. Sims can get better at these things, though at the moment the benefits are unknown. Yoga provides exercise meaning fat reduction and muscle building while also providing long-lasting moodlets. You can learn yoga from an instructor, or on your own. Both of these have a set of different massages for different moodlets, all are long-lasting and powerful for keeping Sims happy. Sims skilled in Wellness can give massages, a masseuse can be called to come over, and you can of course pay for one at the Spa. Sims are of course able to visit them, but it's more interesting to.. You may go from serving up grilled cheese to baked alaska and lobster thermidor. Maybe you don't need it at all as a restaurant manager, but the chef sure will. This makes Dine Out a well-constructed restaurant management simulator. This is an exciting development for people who use the gallery, as I'm sure some amazing themed restaurants will pop up. You can buy The Sims 4 Dine Out from Origin. In order to survive, they've got to have plasma blood which can be had by feeding on Sims, growing plasma fruit, or simply ordering some Plasma. The new area looks great and perfectly matches the theme of the pack. Naturally there are many Gothic looking items with which to decorate and build. One of which is a darker form that has extra or different vampire abilities. To facilitate that, Sims Studio have added dozens of new hair styles, clothes, and even body features glowing eyes and fangs that let you customize the vampire's look. You can buy the Vampires DLC from Origin when it is released in January 2017. These values determine the people they grow up to become. These traits directly impact autonomous behavior and how Sims will react to life situations. Directing autonomous kids is a viable gameplay type now, because you can teach the kids to be better Sims. The skill increases your success at doing those things and unlocks new abilities for parents. There's a lot of little things in this pack, more so than usual, including new decor and clothing. You can buy The Sims 4 Parenthood DLC from Origin. You can buy the Jungle Adventure DLC from Origin. They are a much greater value than Stuff Packs in the past, comparing release prices and the amount of items. Each item costs about half as much. Stuff packs are generally light on the gameplay, but feature new objects, hair and clothing styles for Sims. In this incarnation, they also have styled rooms sometimes. There are about 30 new items here, with which to decorate your Sims. All are very elegant. Be careful no one bursts into flames! As far as gameplay, it is a bit sparse but some players want to have it all! It's a great place for a date! These NPCs can be assigned a bed to live within your home, cook meals, repair and clean, and help to raise the kids -- or a garden! Check the guide for more information on using this new feature. These add a dose of realism to the game. They should really put sims 4 pets as an expansion pack. Pets was good in number 3 but they need more than just horses, cats, dogs, cattle, poultry, rodents, reptiles and birds they should really put more pets in that your sim can interact with like i don't know maybe a ferret or a hamster they could add Guinea pig or even pigs. There are all sorts of animals they could put in maybe they could put in a zoo expansion pack where you go to the zoo and interact with the animals like tamed baby panthers and meerkats or koalas and pandas that would be a really good idea. I love the Sims 3 simply because of the amount of objects that actually came with the base game pools, spas, vehicles, etc but as far as overall gameplay, building and graphics go I'll choose the Sims 4. I have a slow computer that lagged horribly with the Sims 3, especially in CAS but I rarely get that with the Sims 4 to the point I've actually been able to make a whole heap of Sims videos for YouTube! One thing I would really love that they took away was the colour wheel where you could customise almost anything, from the colour of a Sim's hair to the wood on a bed. The pre-made swatches - though stunning and gorgeous - are quite limited and is quite annoying when a set of furniture for example have gold handles on the drawers but the matching bbq is silver. Yeah, I really liked customizing my stuff's colors down to the smallest detail. Another thing i wish they added is custom hair colors. I find the unnatural hair colors... 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