I get pleasure from The Sims most when it is ruining my day with random occasions and in the present day The Sims 4 is bringing again one of many greats: the burglar. After a not-so-sneaky teaser this week The Sims 4 has dropped a base recreation replace which, amongst a listing of bug fixes, additionally provides a novel new thief to grab your loved ones’s stuff. It is nice to see the outdated gag make it again to the sequence, particularly after I’ve had such a great time getting burgled in The Sims 3 lately.
The burglar was a sequence staple for The Sims till The Sims 4, the place they’ve all the time been tragically absent. Back within the day, a horror movie-esque violin wail would sign hazard approaching the home—typically only a raccoon coming on your trash however typically a incorrect’un to steal away these hard-bought possessions.
“The notorious Robin Banks (yep, that’s her identify—we couldn’t resist) solely strikes at night time, sneaking into your Sim’s residence whereas everyone seems to be quick asleep (or even when they’re awake!),” EA explains in its dev diary for the replace.
Along with the burglar herself, The Sims 4 is bringing again burglar alarms to place in your houses as simply considered one of some ways to foil an tried theft. Police NPCs are returning too because the default responders to alarms or calls to report the housebreaking.
Interestingly, there’s a variety of interplay with present DLCs too, from canines having the ability to chase off burglars to werewolves scaring them away or spellcasters enchanting them into leaving. There’s even a brand new lot problem known as “Heist Havoc” that makes burglaries extra frequent on a chosen property.
“In whole, we’ve included over 50 distinctive reactions throughout the bottom recreation and 17 completely different packs, together with 37 player-directed interactions,” EA says, which does actually look like quite a bit.
I’d felt just like the burglar was an odd alternative for a base recreation replace forward of the Businesses & Hobbies enlargement in that they do not really feel all that associated to one another, however at a meta stage each have a fairly clear give attention to rising interactions between expansions and the bottom recreation, which is refreshing to see.
In different Robin Banks FAQs:
- Yes you’ll be able to befriend her (however are you able to woohoo?)
- Yes she will die however a brand new burglar will fill her footwear
- She can steal Buy Mode objects however cannot swipe most Build Mode options
My criticism with Live Mode in The Sims 4 currently has been how, in contrast with different elements of the sequence, it so typically asks the participant permission to make something fascinating occur. I’m simply hoping that the return of the burglar means I’ll really must take care of the results as an alternative of seeing a popup on display screen that lets me veto the occasion. Based on what’s been specified by the announcement submit, it positive does sound like that is the form of ‘take care of it’ random occasion chaos I’ve been hoping to get extra of.
The burglar (and police and burglar alarms and so forth) are all coming to The Sims 4 base recreation in a free replace that goes dwell in the present day, so go on and begin putting in these residence safety techniques now.
