Honestly, I'd be happy if the pack does come with one bed you can slot an heirloom quilt on, because I totally expect quilts to just be a wall hanging item.
Soo a mortician is the person that preps the dead for a funeral. They dress them do their hair and makeup to make them not look so scary during the funeral
is somebody not gonna tell him that on the sims site it states that 1. with rebirth traits and skills can/ will cary over 2. the tarot cards can also be bought in build/buy so if you don't want to spend your time collecting you don't have to?
Personally, I believe that a Sims 3 style one truly isn't possible (they actually DID add one for pets that works differently- basically you select the color and then paint it on to the pet). From what I understand, the one in Sims 3 asked A LOT of the game and computers (to the point that the game would start lagging pretty badly if you stayed in Create-a-style too long). The Sims 4 engine was never really meant to handle that from what I can see. As an aside, create-a-style was also a nightmare for CC creators. Several complicated steps were needed just to create, for example, a piece of clothing (which is why TS3 has by far the least amount of clothing CC of the four games).
@@SuperSimmerGal I can definitely see this, you need to add layers to clothing to properly dye different layers without effecting the whole clothing, and there was a lot of hard work, but we need to remember that engines and programming never stay the same, they get better, I truly believe that it is possible to achieve, just with a different / more optimised approach than sims 3 did. Many modern games use color wheels, they could just add the ability to dye items and not apply any patterns or styles to them, similar to how make up works in sims 4. But as we know sims 4 is quite old so it could potentially lead to many errors, and bugs so the only actual way to do it is to overwrite the whole engine to be able to handle such power and I doubt that EA actually cares that much so you’re right, they probably won’t do it. But it is a shame I shall say, all sims 4 packs don’t match since they all have different swatches and it’s so frustrating that you can’t actually match things from the same game. Also it doesn’t matter how many swatches they actually give, since it’ll never be enough.
I will say I'm hopeful for this pack because they've shown they can do REALLY well with supernatural, occult, etc packs. I found out recently it is being done by the same team that worked on the Werewolves pack which makes me even more hopeful as they did very good with the werewolves system.
i actually really like the feature of choosing where the rebirthed sim goes like imagine playing a legacy save where u make a sims deceased parent reborn as their child or something
They added a Chased by Death trait, now they should add the reverse, just for me. I am going to WooHoo the Reaper. He's on his knees begging me to die. I refuse, not because there is so much to live for, but because there's so much to live in spite of. Chased by Death? Fool. Chased by Avi.
@@laurabenevides7061 EA will never be on my level. They are cowards. They would never dare to code the unimaginable, feverish, insane desire the Reaper has to get away from me. They would never dare to put a canonical relationship between me and the Reaper into their bland leech of a game. They are terrified of my power.
@@ayyymacaroni He's a really rapey Looney Tunes character everyone is upset about now. He would chase around and harass women, with the odd twist having the woman chase him and him hating it.
As long as they get rid of the CONSTANT GRIEF CYCLE whenever you keep someone’s urn/gravestone on your property, I’ll be fine. I started keeping them in my inventory because my sims _just kept mourning._ Day in and day out. It was way too frustrating.
Are you sure you don't have a mod conflict? Because that shouldn't happen. My random legacy founder died not too long ago, her grave is in the backyard of the legacy lot, and her husband and adult/teenage children still living there stopped mourning after a few days. Same goes for her husband, who died a few Sim weeks after she did. Now, I DO have a mod that makes powerful emotions last slightly longer, but if anything I'd think that would make a Constant Mourning bug worse instead of fixing it.
I’d love it if they’d add more traits & fun things to buy *in the rewards store. Idk 🤷♀️ if they don’t increase how many traits we could have in CAS, at least give us more things within that rewards store that does have extra traits and things. Yes there are mods that offer that, but I don’t want to have to rely on mods & there’s consoles that can not use mods & some just don’t use mods 🤷♀️
i think in the blog post from a few weeks ago it mentioned being able to keep your earned skills/traits and carry them with you through to the rebirth/next life. At the bottom section for the funerals it says customize burial sites and gravestones, place objects in the caskets. I had to pause to read it.
I hope our excitement for this pack is well founded. This looks so fun! I wish I could play it on day 1 on Halloween but I don’t think ethically I can do it until I know about how it is with bugs.
I’m old enough to remember when everyone was excited for Get Together, Horse Ranch and For Rent. And I’m old enough to remember how that all ended up, too.
@@hawkofmusicIt's kind of odd how the sims community kind of resets every time a new pack comes out. A new pack comes out > Everyone's excited > Disappointment > Repeat.
@@ok.4720It kind of goes the other way, too. The Sims 4 doomsayers tend to forget about the packs that WEREN'T bad on release and were well received (Cottage Living, for example).
You are one of the only simmers with the realist opinions on this game, not paid and bought for either which I appreciate. It's why I trust your opinions on this type of stuff more than anyone else
The few I watch aren't bought. Even the ones that get early access have been critical in the past and don't shy away from commenting on still-broken features and low quality gameplay.
@@WurmzeGoing by another comment on this video, the term isn't all that common in the UK (they mostly use the term "funeral director"), where he's from.
A mortician is actually similar to aesthetician in some ways! Their job is to treat the body and make them look the way they did when they were alive. If you choose to embalm the body (a process that involves soaking the body in chemicals that basically stops the decay process and preserves the body as is), a mortician will do that, and then get the body ready for viewing at a wake. They will sew the eyes and mouth closed so they don’t open during a viewing, and they actually do use special makeup and use photos of the person to make sure they look as much like they did in life as possible, so loved ones can see them as they remember them, in a put together, and peaceful way which can help in providing closure. Especially if someone died in a traumatic way, a mortician’s job is basically to reconstruct the body to make them look more alive and normal and cover up any physical signs of trauma, so family and friends can remember their loved one as normal and at peace. They’re specially trained on how to treat the body and handle those chemicals safely, and they dress and arrange the body in the casket. Not everyone chooses to embalm the body, some cultures and religions don’t really allow it, in which case, you usually cannot view the body, and you must have the burial almost immediately after death because of the decaying process. A mortician will probably still be involved, but they will have a lot less to do. A lot of people choose to embalm the body so they can view them and say goodbye if their passing was sudden and unexpected, and to give people time to travel for the wake and/or funeral. I recently lost my uncle, he passed very unexpectedly from a heart attack, we didn’t even know about all the health problems he had that lead up to it, so no one had any idea something like that was likely to happen. We found out because his sister called us to tell us he died in the middle of the night before in the hospital. His daughters decided to embalm him, it was so unexpected, no one was with him when he died, and no one had the chance to say goodbye, and it allowed some of our family to travel from other parts of the country to see him and go to the funeral. Of course it was extremely difficult still, but I have a lot of respect for morticians and what they do for families to bring closure and honor their loved one when they lose someone.
Benevolent means good basically, it’s the opposite of malevolent. Ma-carb is how’s it pronounced and mortician is somebody who works in a morgue preparing bodies etc
I thought the same thing. Benevolent blessing is basically a guardian angel who watches out for the living vs a malevolent spirit who causes harm or fear to the living.
Even then its a silly trait, this make sense irl because we cant confirm the existence of aliens or ghosts, but in the the game universe they literally receive phone calls from the dead to go the bar.
@@augusto7681 that's not the point, the point is how much it affects the gameplay (well, imo). I think it would be fun to make a skeptic sim meet all kinds of supernaturals and keep vehemently denying their supernaturality. Send them to the magic world, Sixam, etc. And after their home looks like a museum of magical and otherwordly knick-knacks, have them explain to their grandchildren that those are just novelty items, and no, grandma doesn't behave any differently during the full moon, they just watched too many cartoons.
I know this isn’t the point, but my grandpa doesn’t believe in ghosts but he believes in aliens and werewolves, but I feel like they should make an exception, like you don’t believe in all the supernatural but you only believe in one, or you don’t believe in the supernatural at all, (still sorry for this isn’t the point, I understand what you getting at!)
@@Lila-ie1eo Thats my point, pretend they dont believe in supernatural is just a moodlet, it doesnt impact gameplay. It would be different if for example no sims could see ghosts, but sims with a special trait can interact with them. Or if the "supernatural chaser trait" make these sims have more compatibility with occults.
This is honestly the first time in a long time I've been actually kind of excited for a pack instead of warily optimistic. Of course it's going to bring all kinds of bugs and break the game for a while... but I actually hope it does well, it brings me back to being excited for Sims 2 and 3 packs. I haven't even touched my game since a little after Growing Together came out and Life and Death might bring me back. If it flops, it would be one of the biggest disappointments yet for 4 imo. Edit: Mortician deals with dead bodies, for example for funerals. They are the ones that preserve the bodies, embalm them, make them up and such. It's VERY interesting work. There's also a fun horror game on the occupation, Mortuary Assistant. Also a haunt can also be a common, popular place to go. 😅
Tarot Cards should also be a skill you can work towards. I think it would go perfectly under the medium skill actually which this packs seems to have a lot of cross pack features with Paranormal Stuff anyways. And as you level up, you can get better at readings which can offer different outcomes and good/bad moodlets. Also if you have this pack and the paranormal stuff pack, I hope you’ll be able to do the same readings using the crystal ball. Speaking of, I think the mortician career is cool but I would’ve rather had a fortune teller career. It could’ve been one of those rabbit hole careers with a work from home option. Using the cards or crystal ball, you can hold readings with clients at home or take your cards around town to find new clients and maintain a good relationship with them. There’s just so much they can do with Tarot cards so I hope it’s not as simple as you get them and can perform a simple reading with no skill to get better.
Exactly. If nothing else, give it a month before modders get a hold of the tarot cards and have so many variations involving them. 😂 I do disagree with his point about being able to make money doing readings- that is *not* a good thing to do as a beginner, and in my experience, can muddle with the intent of the reading, so I would be more than happy for it to be hobby only. I've personally only done readings for free and in exchange for other goods, never currency. It definitely should be a skill, though. It takes time to learn. It would be cool to have the option to get a higher level and be able to do larger readings for money once maybe at level four or five, and having mood buffs that correspond to the outcomes and your own skill level.
@@EtaryaFae I agree I think it should be a hobby/skill similar to using the seance table for your own personal reasons. I think the only way you should be able to make money is if there was a fortune teller career which the tarot cards wouldn’t make you money, it would just be one of the job objectives. But as an object and skill, it should be solely for personal use. I’m just hoping there’s more to them because right now it sounds like it will be like one of the table games with a moodlet or two. But I’m sure there’s modders already jotting down ideas as we speak lol
@@EtaryaFae There are plenty of mediums who charge for readings with tarot cards. They are using their energy to do the reading so why shouldn't they get paid. I don't dabble in that shit anymore thank God but I don't think your comment is ethical. Readings for free, ehhh.
@@Ready-ForTheEnd Sorry, when I type fast my phone tends to cut text when I do so. There was more to my comment, edited for what was cut as well as fixed spelling mistakes because my phone didn't register them. I have no problem with paid readings, if you're familiar with the craft. However, I've seen so many people who try and charge crazy money before they even get to really know or understand their cards and how they work together. I just don't think the Sims should be able to do it from the second they build/buy a deck. That's my own opinion based on personal experience, that's all, and I'm just hoping that EA doesn't make a joke of it all.
They MIGHT actually do that - as cash grab - 😅 "Your Sim, Blankety Blank has a yearning to spend 24 hours in - "insert name of world not yet owned, with link to buy NOW"....😂😅😂 Seems in Character...
You mean Circe and Loki Beaker? They're not his parents- they just wanted him as a test subject (In TS2, they don't even have memories of adopting Nervous, and it's implied he came to live with them as an adult). His actual parents are Olive Spectre and (it is heavily implied) the Grim Reaper himself (neither of which the other two people in the picture resemble).
Mortician is taking care of the 'beauty' pieces of death - recreating the image they had in life in death as well, so they do your loved ones makeup and hair to make them look as much like they did in life for their final ceremony. (This does not mean they are a coroner or medical director, however. It is different depending on the state and agency you work for.)
Hey Satch, idk if this is the right comment section to post this but, I was browsing through Instant Gaming and saw a new DLC called "Stay Up, it didn't have anything written on the item page, tho
@@kara7278I did the same thing! I don’t really understand why it’s there in instant gaming as if it’s an upcoming pack, but all I could find when I googled it was articles about the werewolves pack from 2022, so I assume it’s a mistake, and not a new pack leaked
Synonymes for mortician : Undertaker, Funeral director. They should bring the trait number to 5, do the same for lots. In fact, giving 5 traits to Sims imply also allowing 5 traits for lots as both use the exact same functions. Should be easy as there is already a mod that allow the Sims to have 5 traits, and have the side effect of also having 5 traits for all lots. Then, do with the Sims what have been done for the lots : Give the Sims challenges, as as for lots, make them able to have unlimited number of challenges. Sim traits possibly make things easier, give some bonus. Sim challenges make things harder, give some malus. Shy, vegetarian, lactose intolerant, squeamish should be obvious challenges. Have mutual exclusion. An outgoing Sim can't be shy. A neat Sim can't be a slob. Inheritance... According to the text, CHILDREN can be part of the inheritance. So, one could have one child getting inherited by one Sim, and another getting inherited by another Sim, from another family. Get a homeless Sim inherit one child and the Moneygraab inherit the other. I really hope that the inheritance mechanism will introduce per Sim funds, with optionally a shared family fund.
Yoy onow Satch, I'm not surprised that this occult themed pack seems to be the moat well put together in a while. Espscially since in TS4 there is this extremely weied push for IRL and Family centred gameplay. The Devs probably feel like they don't get to have as much fun with the more whimsical elements of the sims franchise, so when they're given a greenlight to go ahead and make an occult entered pack, it's like a breath of fresh air and they're allowed to be really creative and fun. Thats my theoey anyway.
I am literally excited for this pack. Because it's my favorite pack. I haven't got it yet. I already pre-ordered it, but I'll wait for the 31st of October so I can start playing It yay.
Mortician is like an undertaker. I can't wait to see the reborn thing, it will really make legacy play meaningful for me. Just hope they maintain memories and skills
Love the idea, hate the execution. Why my lazy Sim is suddenly active after one jogging session? I would love things to work that way but unfortunatelly it isn't like that
@@Awanturyna It seem most things in this game are coded to be randomized, They doesnt make action+action that trigger something, you can do a few romantic interaction and suddenly they want to move to your house. It doesnt feel like we earn the stuff we receive.
No, they don't. I'm doing a random legacy challenge and my heir, his siblings and his two daughters all have different GT traits (for instance, some have the high confidence trait, others the low or neutral one, others have one of the value ones, and still others have infant or toddler related ones). It's always interesting see which ones each will get (and I'm guessing I haven't even seen them all, as I've been too busy just keeping up with the family to try to reach all the different milestones and such).
@@SuperSimmerGal I'm talking about the personality traits you can get in cas, not bonus traits. Almost every single sim for me gets squeamish, cheerful, and one other (I can't remember rn) as their acquired traits through self discovery moments. I think it's a cool concept, but I don't like it in practice bc they all end up the same. Again, this is different from bonus traits like confidence and values
The way I interpreted "Benevolent Blessing" is possible the ghost being a kind of "Guardian Angel" who will watch out for a particular sim or maybe multiple sims. For example, maybe the mother dies and the mother watches over the children even though she is dead. It would be interesting how they will make the will system work as the sims have shared household funds. If they have the will system and the beneficiaries don't get anything it will make me so mad! LOL 😆
True. Though if I had both, Sims would definitely have to wait. Lucanis is calling my name 😂 Though between this and Veilguard with NO micro transactions and it looking actually decent... I hate the hope it's causing, because I don't want the letdown.
@@SuperSimmerGal No online access at _all_ ... Even to the DA: Keep, where your previous games stories are. World state building is in the main game only. Perfect for the people who sail the seas who couldn't connect on previous titles. 😅🏴☠️ Cautiously optimistic, but trying to tamp down my hype.
"I don't quite know what a mortician is, but it sounds quite fun." - Satch I am constantly amused by the random things that Satch doesn't know - always gives me a chuckle, especially when he makes guesses and then just keeps talking. Like he could Google it or something, but no. 😁
It sounds like the paranormal 2.0 package. I am playing now with it, when I called the Grim to talk for the Grim challenge, there was a choice from Paranormal to join the death hunt or something, he answered it was too early for that 🙂
Imagine if they had a Learn all the Lore quest line! And you could level up with a skill by it..and get something like Lore Historian with some neat rewards.
1:34 No, you don’t understand. I want that photo frame so much. They made one a few years back that is no longer available. You can pick the pose you want and to some degree the outfits they are in. You can lock it so that the image has all of the household from generations ago or keep it unlocked and it updates as they age and people join or leave the household. It is simple, but amazing.
@@augusto7681 The only way I know how to get it is the frame that the gave away to people who connected their Sims Mobile game a few years back. I don’t have that. I would absolutely love to have a way to do that in game. The frame itself doesn’t matter. How do I access that function in game without the frame I mentioned?
@@augusto7681 Ah. That explains it. Yeah, I wish they had a version for everyone or even a version in one of the packs that would always be available for purchase and not just limited time.
I'm really hoping the new world will be bigger and have things to explore so I can move my vampire family there. Even a new hidden world/lot would be amazing.
We technically get three careers - one has two tracks (Mortician or Funeral Director), and then this Grim Reaper one which may also have different tracks. I am really excited for all of them!
I'm trying really hard to not be too excited about this so Satch being excited isn't helping 😭 I just don't want to be disappointed, but this really sounds like so much fun
I really really hope we can work as a Fortune teller with the tarot cards as a freelance career or something. I really want a spellcaster, medium/fortune teller.
Haunt is a place, typically where a haunting is occurring (though it's also used to describe a place you visit regularly). Haunting is the act of affecting the corporeal world as a non-corporeal being (in this instance). Benevolent means good, well intentioned, helpful. A benevolent dictator is a person with absolute power that uses that power for good purposes (as an example). Can't believe I have to say this on this channel of all places but I'm tempering my expectations. This is EA after all and this EP is coming out WAY too close to the last one to have gotten a ton of development (and more importantly, TESTING). It's refreshing to see you're excited though. That's different.
Yesh mortician is a bit like a esthéticien for dead people. You should seriously watch iZombie, Dead like me, Six Feet Under. Any would make a great LP parody with this pack.
It’s the audacity of the audacity of the audacity for me! You are so right. There are so many systems at work in the sims that conflict with each other across packs. I want this but I’ll wait it out to see if it actually works.
I really want the photoframe from the early buyers rewards! I missed out on the first version of this frame with the launch sims mobile back in 2018. I want this object to easily make a family photo of all members of my sims households. Of course ravasheens modded version is better because it let's you set a back ground but even with the CAS background, it will be useful as it doesn't require mods. I just wish this portrait wasn't locked behind a time limited offer, just like the last one.
This would have been the perfect pack to include a kind of voodoo religion, or some sort of cult that venerates death and ghosts /have a different view on death , we already have voodoo dolls !
@Painfuldreamer5813 well there are a few people here that work with dead bodies the coroner the medical examiner a mortician and a funeral director all have different roles
For once I'm lucky being Canadian even though in many ways we are neither fish nor fowl. We use both British and American expressions, and I as a person of UK heritage, (mother moved to Canada 🇨🇦 from Scotland in 1957, fathers family moved from England to Connecticut c. 1600 (John Webster 1st Governor of Connecticut), and in the late 1800s to Nova Scotia from Massachusetts), have a long standing interest in the British Isles, and find their expressions easy to understand. The UK after all is really simply the parent of both North American nations.
Don't give up all hope on funerals- they did actually fix My Wedding Stories not too long ago (and some speculated that it was to increase the chances of funerals working correctly).
call CNN satch is excited about the sims
😂
In the video title AND on the title picture ???? 😲 excited?
He musta had a ton of caffeine 😂
I think he's been replaced y'all
Worst news.
A mortician is like a funeral director/coroner. My daughter is in mortuary school now. We're really excited about this pack.
Right, it's basically replaced the word Undertaker.
I’m also excited to live vicariously through my sims once again and live out my long lost dream of being a mortician 😅
Same! I love it too.
I would’ve been more excited if the mortician was a live career. It would’ve been really easy to do.
Too bad it’s a rabbit hole 🙄
It seems like their strongsuit is supernatural related packs
yes ! i played w the sims 3 pack sooooo much
which honestly im glad because i’ve always preferred supernatural types of games / packs anyways
@@sorbet29 if you like supernatural sims stuff you should try the sims psp version! It's so well executed and the storyline is amazingly written
agree! vampires was good for an early supernatural pack, and werewolves was amazing and one of my most used packs
@@sorbet29 my comment got deleted for some reason but if you like supernatural stuff I’d definitely recommend the sims psp!
My therapist: Satch excited for a sims pack isn’t real…it can’t hurt you
Satch:
I think the *chased by death* trait is more like YOLO, and you constantly put yourself in precarious situations :))
Hmmm Final Destination vibes?
I understand is as an unlucky, but staying positive despite all this unluck? Like, I am happy i am still alive, it could be worse🤷carpe diem
Or that Sim just attract ghosts wherever he goes. A bit like some peoples attract cats & dogs and other attract mosquitoes.
I actually think that trait might be pretty fun, depending on the statistics of how common you get "unlucky"
I think it’s like, likes exciting activities that have a chance at dying, but also more likely to die while doing them
Mortician: Works in a funeral parlor to prep the bodies of the deceased for burial. Similar to an undertaker or funeral director there I believe.
They way Satch pronounces macabre 🤣 And not knowing what a mortician is. Zero goth blood running through his body, bless him ❤
I've never heard anyone pronounce it as macabray before 😅
I love how people are geniunely shocked to see Satch be excited for a sims pack 😂
Same
To be fair, he's probably excited about torturing his ugly people sims and it being a gameplay thing and not a sign of being a serial killer.
@@ScooterinAB You're probably right
The crow and town name are an homage to Edgar Allen Poe.
I thought the same thing. When I saw the crow, my first thought was the poem "Nevermore" by Edgar Allen Poe.
@@hallucinoJEN1978 Bingo! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Honestly, I'd be happy if the pack does come with one bed you can slot an heirloom quilt on, because I totally expect quilts to just be a wall hanging item.
3:09 I genuinely almost choked on my soup on that Queen Elizabeth thing.
I was hoping someone else would comment about that
He's so funny 🤣
I read this while drinking soup and i find that quite funny
Soo a mortician is the person that preps the dead for a funeral. They dress them do their hair and makeup to make them not look so scary during the funeral
is somebody not gonna tell him that on the sims site it states that
1. with rebirth traits and skills can/ will cary over
2. the tarot cards can also be bought in build/buy so if you don't want to spend your time collecting you don't have to?
I will not be surprised if they add an expansion pack for a color wheel after saying it was not possible for 10 years
Personally, I believe that a Sims 3 style one truly isn't possible (they actually DID add one for pets that works differently- basically you select the color and then paint it on to the pet). From what I understand, the one in Sims 3 asked A LOT of the game and computers (to the point that the game would start lagging pretty badly if you stayed in Create-a-style too long). The Sims 4 engine was never really meant to handle that from what I can see.
As an aside, create-a-style was also a nightmare for CC creators. Several complicated steps were needed just to create, for example, a piece of clothing (which is why TS3 has by far the least amount of clothing CC of the four games).
@@SuperSimmerGal I can definitely see this, you need to add layers to clothing to properly dye different layers without effecting the whole clothing, and there was a lot of hard work, but we need to remember that engines and programming never stay the same, they get better, I truly believe that it is possible to achieve, just with a different / more optimised approach than sims 3 did. Many modern games use color wheels, they could just add the ability to dye items and not apply any patterns or styles to them, similar to how make up works in sims 4. But as we know sims 4 is quite old so it could potentially lead to many errors, and bugs so the only actual way to do it is to overwrite the whole engine to be able to handle such power and I doubt that EA actually cares that much so you’re right, they probably won’t do it.
But it is a shame I shall say, all sims 4 packs don’t match since they all have different swatches and it’s so frustrating that you can’t actually match things from the same game. Also it doesn’t matter how many swatches they actually give, since it’ll never be enough.
The Sims expansion pack is actually expanding Satch's vocabulary 😂
Haunts are places. Hauntings are actions.
Unless you're in Appalachia, where a "haint" is ghost and a place with ghosts is hainted.
I will say I'm hopeful for this pack because they've shown they can do REALLY well with supernatural, occult, etc packs. I found out recently it is being done by the same team that worked on the Werewolves pack which makes me even more hopeful as they did very good with the werewolves system.
i actually really like the feature of choosing where the rebirthed sim goes like imagine playing a legacy save where u make a sims deceased parent reborn as their child or something
They added a Chased by Death trait, now they should add the reverse, just for me. I am going to WooHoo the Reaper. He's on his knees begging me to die. I refuse, not because there is so much to live for, but because there's so much to live in spite of. Chased by Death? Fool. Chased by Avi.
Great idea! And your description is very EA like, I would love that
That's some Pepe le Pew shit right there.
@@laurabenevides7061 EA will never be on my level. They are cowards. They would never dare to code the unimaginable, feverish, insane desire the Reaper has to get away from me. They would never dare to put a canonical relationship between me and the Reaper into their bland leech of a game. They are terrified of my power.
@@ScooterinAB IDK who that is but he can chase Death too if he wants
@@ayyymacaroni He's a really rapey Looney Tunes character everyone is upset about now. He would chase around and harass women, with the odd twist having the woman chase him and him hating it.
Me: should be doing an assignment
Also me: would rather play Sims and watch Satch😌
The Sims 4 does supernatural packs decently well. It’s definitely their lane. Which this effort and detail extended to everything else though.
Queen Elizabeth the second’s “bit on the side” 😂 I actually snorted
As long as they get rid of the CONSTANT GRIEF CYCLE whenever you keep someone’s urn/gravestone on your property, I’ll be fine. I started keeping them in my inventory because my sims _just kept mourning._ Day in and day out. It was way too frustrating.
Are you sure you don't have a mod conflict? Because that shouldn't happen. My random legacy founder died not too long ago, her grave is in the backyard of the legacy lot, and her husband and adult/teenage children still living there stopped mourning after a few days. Same goes for her husband, who died a few Sim weeks after she did.
Now, I DO have a mod that makes powerful emotions last slightly longer, but if anything I'd think that would make a Constant Mourning bug worse instead of fixing it.
Satch blink twice if you're being held by EA .Kidding aside ,Life and Death looks good!
I know that mortician is mostly used in the US but c'mon Satch... 💀💀💀
What would they be called in the UK?
@@GullibleGallbladder funeral director (according to Google, I am not British)
I'm not a native English speaker and I've heard of mortician. Genuinely surprised Satch doesn't know.
I’d love it if they’d add more traits & fun things to buy *in the rewards store. Idk 🤷♀️ if they don’t increase how many traits we could have in CAS, at least give us more things within that rewards store that does have extra traits and things.
Yes there are mods that offer that, but I don’t want to have to rely on mods & there’s consoles that can not use mods & some just don’t use mods 🤷♀️
Everyone is excited about the career, I just wanted to romance the Reaper ☠️
Sameeeeee. I also want to have babies with ghosts. I love the mystical motherhood challenge.
i think in the blog post from a few weeks ago it mentioned being able to keep your earned skills/traits and carry them with you through to the rebirth/next life.
At the bottom section for the funerals it says customize burial sites and gravestones, place objects in the caskets. I had to pause to read it.
Benevolent means like good kind, also the way your said macabre made me chuckle
I've been searching for a comment about macabre 🤣 it's me when I'm reading words which I've never heard pronounced before.
I hope our excitement for this pack is well founded. This looks so fun! I wish I could play it on day 1 on Halloween but I don’t think ethically I can do it until I know about how it is with bugs.
I’m old enough to remember when everyone was excited for Get Together, Horse Ranch and For Rent. And I’m old enough to remember how that all ended up, too.
@@PetraElliottCreates same bro, I am so not looking forward to another failure, it seems everyone has short memories and too much money
@@hawkofmusicIt's kind of odd how the sims community kind of resets every time a new pack comes out. A new pack comes out > Everyone's excited > Disappointment > Repeat.
@@ok.4720 ikr
@@ok.4720It kind of goes the other way, too. The Sims 4 doomsayers tend to forget about the packs that WEREN'T bad on release and were well received (Cottage Living, for example).
By the way satch i love watching your videos and your brutal honesty about the sims
I love this honestly it opens my eyes 👀
You are one of the only simmers with the realist opinions on this game, not paid and bought for either which I appreciate. It's why I trust your opinions on this type of stuff more than anyone else
The few I watch aren't bought. Even the ones that get early access have been critical in the past and don't shy away from commenting on still-broken features and low quality gameplay.
OMG I have a gameplay idea. Life & Death + Realm of magic = American Horror Story: Coven (I can finally live my best life as Fiona Goode)
Must be the first time I come across someone that never heard of morticians before !
Maybe he hasn’t had a family death yet? Surprised me as well though lol
@@WurmzeGoing by another comment on this video, the term isn't all that common in the UK (they mostly use the term "funeral director"), where he's from.
They need to give US 5 traits on CAS full stop
Imo 3 is fine for me. There’s not that many traits in game to make that many diverse sims with 5 traits.
A mortician is actually similar to aesthetician in some ways! Their job is to treat the body and make them look the way they did when they were alive. If you choose to embalm the body (a process that involves soaking the body in chemicals that basically stops the decay process and preserves the body as is), a mortician will do that, and then get the body ready for viewing at a wake. They will sew the eyes and mouth closed so they don’t open during a viewing, and they actually do use special makeup and use photos of the person to make sure they look as much like they did in life as possible, so loved ones can see them as they remember them, in a put together, and peaceful way which can help in providing closure. Especially if someone died in a traumatic way, a mortician’s job is basically to reconstruct the body to make them look more alive and normal and cover up any physical signs of trauma, so family and friends can remember their loved one as normal and at peace. They’re specially trained on how to treat the body and handle those chemicals safely, and they dress and arrange the body in the casket. Not everyone chooses to embalm the body, some cultures and religions don’t really allow it, in which case, you usually cannot view the body, and you must have the burial almost immediately after death because of the decaying process. A mortician will probably still be involved, but they will have a lot less to do. A lot of people choose to embalm the body so they can view them and say goodbye if their passing was sudden and unexpected, and to give people time to travel for the wake and/or funeral.
I recently lost my uncle, he passed very unexpectedly from a heart attack, we didn’t even know about all the health problems he had that lead up to it, so no one had any idea something like that was likely to happen. We found out because his sister called us to tell us he died in the middle of the night before in the hospital. His daughters decided to embalm him, it was so unexpected, no one was with him when he died, and no one had the chance to say goodbye, and it allowed some of our family to travel from other parts of the country to see him and go to the funeral. Of course it was extremely difficult still, but I have a lot of respect for morticians and what they do for families to bring closure and honor their loved one when they lose someone.
Well Said.
Benevolent means good basically, it’s the opposite of malevolent. Ma-carb is how’s it pronounced and mortician is somebody who works in a morgue preparing bodies etc
I thought the same thing. Benevolent blessing is basically a guardian angel who watches out for the living vs a malevolent spirit who causes harm or fear to the living.
Skeptical sims don't believe in ghosts... but believe in aliens, mermaids etc.? Why not make them not believe in EVERYthing supernatural?
Even then its a silly trait, this make sense irl because we cant confirm the existence of aliens or ghosts, but in the the game universe they literally receive phone calls from the dead to go the bar.
@@augusto7681 that's not the point, the point is how much it affects the gameplay (well, imo). I think it would be fun to make a skeptic sim meet all kinds of supernaturals and keep vehemently denying their supernaturality. Send them to the magic world, Sixam, etc. And after their home looks like a museum of magical and otherwordly knick-knacks, have them explain to their grandchildren that those are just novelty items, and no, grandma doesn't behave any differently during the full moon, they just watched too many cartoons.
I know this isn’t the point, but my grandpa doesn’t believe in ghosts but he believes in aliens and werewolves, but I feel like they should make an exception, like you don’t believe in all the supernatural but you only believe in one, or you don’t believe in the supernatural at all, (still sorry for this isn’t the point, I understand what you getting at!)
@@Lila-ie1eo Thats my point, pretend they dont believe in supernatural is just a moodlet, it doesnt impact gameplay.
It would be different if for example no sims could see ghosts, but sims with a special trait can interact with them. Or if the "supernatural chaser trait" make these sims have more compatibility with occults.
@@Boo0oo0o_spooky I understand. That would be cool, but waaay beyond the level of a trait, it would have to be a whole mechanic.
Aesthetic kitchen 4:44
This is honestly the first time in a long time I've been actually kind of excited for a pack instead of warily optimistic. Of course it's going to bring all kinds of bugs and break the game for a while... but I actually hope it does well, it brings me back to being excited for Sims 2 and 3 packs. I haven't even touched my game since a little after Growing Together came out and Life and Death might bring me back. If it flops, it would be one of the biggest disappointments yet for 4 imo.
Edit: Mortician deals with dead bodies, for example for funerals. They are the ones that preserve the bodies, embalm them, make them up and such. It's VERY interesting work. There's also a fun horror game on the occupation, Mortuary Assistant. Also a haunt can also be a common, popular place to go. 😅
I can recommend game 'A mortician's Tale'.
@@Awanturyna Ohhhhhh looked that up and it looks so cute 🥺☺️
Tarot Cards should also be a skill you can work towards. I think it would go perfectly under the medium skill actually which this packs seems to have a lot of cross pack features with Paranormal Stuff anyways. And as you level up, you can get better at readings which can offer different outcomes and good/bad moodlets. Also if you have this pack and the paranormal stuff pack, I hope you’ll be able to do the same readings using the crystal ball. Speaking of, I think the mortician career is cool but I would’ve rather had a fortune teller career. It could’ve been one of those rabbit hole careers with a work from home option. Using the cards or crystal ball, you can hold readings with clients at home or take your cards around town to find new clients and maintain a good relationship with them. There’s just so much they can do with Tarot cards so I hope it’s not as simple as you get them and can perform a simple reading with no skill to get better.
Exactly. If nothing else, give it a month before modders get a hold of the tarot cards and have so many variations involving them. 😂 I do disagree with his point about being able to make money doing readings- that is *not* a good thing to do as a beginner, and in my experience, can muddle with the intent of the reading, so I would be more than happy for it to be hobby only. I've personally only done readings for free and in exchange for other goods, never currency. It definitely should be a skill, though. It takes time to learn. It would be cool to have the option to get a higher level and be able to do larger readings for money once maybe at level four or five, and having mood buffs that correspond to the outcomes and your own skill level.
@@EtaryaFae I agree I think it should be a hobby/skill similar to using the seance table for your own personal reasons. I think the only way you should be able to make money is if there was a fortune teller career which the tarot cards wouldn’t make you money, it would just be one of the job objectives. But as an object and skill, it should be solely for personal use. I’m just hoping there’s more to them because right now it sounds like it will be like one of the table games with a moodlet or two. But I’m sure there’s modders already jotting down ideas as we speak lol
@@EtaryaFae
There are plenty of mediums who charge for readings with tarot cards. They are using their energy to do the reading so why shouldn't they get paid. I don't dabble in that shit anymore thank God but I don't think your comment is ethical. Readings for free, ehhh.
@@Ready-ForTheEnd Sorry, when I type fast my phone tends to cut text when I do so. There was more to my comment, edited for what was cut as well as fixed spelling mistakes because my phone didn't register them. I have no problem with paid readings, if you're familiar with the craft. However, I've seen so many people who try and charge crazy money before they even get to really know or understand their cards and how they work together. I just don't think the Sims should be able to do it from the second they build/buy a deck. That's my own opinion based on personal experience, that's all, and I'm just hoping that EA doesn't make a joke of it all.
2:21 Spend 24 hours in Batuu
Gods, NO
They MIGHT actually do that - as cash grab - 😅
"Your Sim, Blankety Blank has a yearning to spend 24 hours in - "insert name of world not yet owned, with link to buy NOW"....😂😅😂 Seems in Character...
Literally this was my thirst thought! I cant xD
@@janetwebster5099I'm guessing it will be limited to worlds you already own.
a mortician is someone who takes care of funerals like dresses the bodies and helps the family find a casket
1:33 I think the family potrait belongs to the nervous subject and his so called parents fam. Left one really looks like nervous subject.
Totally ! I thought the same! A little easter egg ❤
You mean Circe and Loki Beaker? They're not his parents- they just wanted him as a test subject (In TS2, they don't even have memories of adopting Nervous, and it's implied he came to live with them as an adult).
His actual parents are Olive Spectre and (it is heavily implied) the Grim Reaper himself (neither of which the other two people in the picture resemble).
Mortician is taking care of the 'beauty' pieces of death - recreating the image they had in life in death as well, so they do your loved ones makeup and hair to make them look as much like they did in life for their final ceremony. (This does not mean they are a coroner or medical director, however. It is different depending on the state and agency you work for.)
Hey Satch, idk if this is the right comment section to post this but, I was browsing through Instant Gaming and saw a new DLC called "Stay Up, it didn't have anything written on the item page, tho
I saw that too! But I did some googling and it looks like it was a hint they dropped when they were releasing Werewolves. I could be wrong though.
Yeah, there is a Sims 4 roadmap from 2022 with the same title. “We can expect 1 The Sims 4 Game pack and 2 The Sims 4 Kits spread over May and June.”
@@kara7278 oh, I see. It took me by surprise because I've never seen it before
@@Meganthamac oh, thanks for the info
@@kara7278I did the same thing! I don’t really understand why it’s there in instant gaming as if it’s an upcoming pack, but all I could find when I googled it was articles about the werewolves pack from 2022, so I assume it’s a mistake, and not a new pack leaked
If the same team that worked on the Paranormal pack worked on this one, it will be great.
Synonymes for mortician : Undertaker, Funeral director.
They should bring the trait number to 5, do the same for lots. In fact, giving 5 traits to Sims imply also allowing 5 traits for lots as both use the exact same functions. Should be easy as there is already a mod that allow the Sims to have 5 traits, and have the side effect of also having 5 traits for all lots.
Then, do with the Sims what have been done for the lots : Give the Sims challenges, as as for lots, make them able to have unlimited number of challenges.
Sim traits possibly make things easier, give some bonus.
Sim challenges make things harder, give some malus. Shy, vegetarian, lactose intolerant, squeamish should be obvious challenges.
Have mutual exclusion. An outgoing Sim can't be shy. A neat Sim can't be a slob.
Inheritance... According to the text, CHILDREN can be part of the inheritance. So, one could have one child getting inherited by one Sim, and another getting inherited by another Sim, from another family. Get a homeless Sim inherit one child and the Moneygraab inherit the other.
I really hope that the inheritance mechanism will introduce per Sim funds, with optionally a shared family fund.
Chased by death sounds like the unlucky trait from the sims 3.
9:08 😂😂 bro. you’re so real for that 😅
He’s mad at that point😂 it’s all because of that wedding disaster
Bro so am i, this might be the coolest expansion packs yet!
"I don't know what a mortician is- but it sounds fun!" 😂
1:16 NERVOUS SUBJECT SNEAK?!?!
A mortician is an undertaker. You're so deliciously British ❤️😅
I hope satch googled what a mortician is after this video was up
Omg the crypt is basically the mausoleum from the Sims 3 base game!! I missed that so much😭
We DEFINITELY NEED tarot reading as a CAREER!
The family portrait frame was a free gift to sims 4 if you downloaded sims mobile back in 2018
Yoy onow Satch, I'm not surprised that this occult themed pack seems to be the moat well put together in a while. Espscially since in TS4 there is this extremely weied push for IRL and Family centred gameplay. The Devs probably feel like they don't get to have as much fun with the more whimsical elements of the sims franchise, so when they're given a greenlight to go ahead and make an occult entered pack, it's like a breath of fresh air and they're allowed to be really creative and fun.
Thats my theoey anyway.
4:50 being a mortician sounds fun 💀💀💀💀💀
pack was tease before project rene 3 years so i dont think it will be rushed.
If this pack is out & the funerals work well, I want Satch doing Shanice's make up on stream 😂😂
I am literally excited for this pack. Because it's my favorite pack. I haven't got it yet. I already pre-ordered it, but I'll wait for the 31st of October so I can start playing It yay.
Who is ready for Ghost Shanise and Ghost Shantell??
'Haunting and haunts' in that circumstance they mean a location a person/ghost regularly goes to.
"The bar is one of Satchs regular haunts."
Mortician is like an undertaker. I can't wait to see the reborn thing, it will really make legacy play meaningful for me. Just hope they maintain memories and skills
no joke, im excited too, im trying not to hype myself, and im mad that i want it. but i do.. i feel like my sims need it..
“ allegedly “ 😂a good pack. “ allegedly “ 😂 love you Satch hilarious per usual ❤❤❤😂
The new "acquired" with growing together aren't even fun bc they all end up being the same for every sim. I would love default 5 traits instead
Love the idea, hate the execution. Why my lazy Sim is suddenly active after one jogging session? I would love things to work that way but unfortunatelly it isn't like that
@@Awanturyna It seem most things in this game are coded to be randomized, They doesnt make action+action that trigger something, you can do a few romantic interaction and suddenly they want to move to your house. It doesnt feel like we earn the stuff we receive.
@@augusto7681 agree, i hate this. Random generator is NOT gameplay 🤬.
No, they don't. I'm doing a random legacy challenge and my heir, his siblings and his two daughters all have different GT traits (for instance, some have the high confidence trait, others the low or neutral one, others have one of the value ones, and still others have infant or toddler related ones). It's always interesting see which ones each will get (and I'm guessing I haven't even seen them all, as I've been too busy just keeping up with the family to try to reach all the different milestones and such).
@@SuperSimmerGal I'm talking about the personality traits you can get in cas, not bonus traits. Almost every single sim for me gets squeamish, cheerful, and one other (I can't remember rn) as their acquired traits through self discovery moments. I think it's a cool concept, but I don't like it in practice bc they all end up the same. Again, this is different from bonus traits like confidence and values
The way I interpreted "Benevolent Blessing" is possible the ghost being a kind of "Guardian Angel" who will watch out for a particular sim or maybe multiple sims. For example, maybe the mother dies and the mother watches over the children even though she is dead. It would be interesting how they will make the will system work as the sims have shared household funds. If they have the will system and the beneficiaries don't get anything it will make me so mad! LOL 😆
EA releasing this and Dragon Age: The Veilguard on the same day is just so uncool tbh 😂
True. Though if I had both, Sims would definitely have to wait. Lucanis is calling my name 😂 Though between this and Veilguard with NO micro transactions and it looking actually decent... I hate the hope it's causing, because I don't want the letdown.
"...Veilguard with NO microtransactions" Is EA feeling okay? 😂
@@SuperSimmerGal No online access at _all_ ... Even to the DA: Keep, where your previous games stories are. World state building is in the main game only. Perfect for the people who sail the seas who couldn't connect on previous titles. 😅🏴☠️ Cautiously optimistic, but trying to tamp down my hype.
I am always excited about occult sims packs! They're always objectively good!
Love how every trailer has Satch learning a new word. So far we've got Ambrosia, Macabre and Mortician
"I don't quite know what a mortician is, but it sounds quite fun." - Satch
I am constantly amused by the random things that Satch doesn't know - always gives me a chuckle, especially when he makes guesses and then just keeps talking. Like he could Google it or something, but no. 😁
It sounds like the paranormal 2.0 package. I am playing now with it, when I called the Grim to talk for the Grim challenge, there was a choice from Paranormal to join the death hunt or something, he answered it was too early for that 🙂
Imagine if they had a Learn all the Lore quest line! And you could level up with a skill by it..and get something like Lore Historian with some neat rewards.
I cant wait to play around with the reborn thing, it might be a minor thing but i cant wait to play around with it
I’m SO excited for the mortician career!! Idc that it’s gonna be a rabbit hole just the existence of it makes me excited
Bestie, a mortician is the person who preps bodies for burial
1:34 No, you don’t understand. I want that photo frame so much. They made one a few years back that is no longer available. You can pick the pose you want and to some degree the outfits they are in. You can lock it so that the image has all of the household from generations ago or keep it unlocked and it updates as they age and people join or leave the household. It is simple, but amazing.
That photo frame function is base game.
@@augusto7681 The only way I know how to get it is the frame that the gave away to people who connected their Sims Mobile game a few years back. I don’t have that. I would absolutely love to have a way to do that in game. The frame itself doesn’t matter. How do I access that function in game without the frame I mentioned?
@@StoryGirl83 I had no idea other people didnt had it. Lets say my game isnt original.
@@augusto7681 Ah. That explains it. Yeah, I wish they had a version for everyone or even a version in one of the packs that would always be available for purchase and not just limited time.
I'm trying not to get too excited about this pack. And the fact that satch is so excited, when usually he's so tempered, is not helping!!
I'm really hoping the new world will be bigger and have things to explore so I can move my vampire family there. Even a new hidden world/lot would be amazing.
I can see what kind of bugs we might get "Why is my dog a mortician?" Lol
Dudes!! This makes me think or Real of magic!! I adore that pack/ex pack!!! This looks so good!
We technically get three careers - one has two tracks (Mortician or Funeral Director), and then this Grim Reaper one which may also have different tracks. I am really excited for all of them!
Mortician's are the people that prep the body for burial.
I'm trying really hard to not be too excited about this so Satch being excited isn't helping 😭 I just don't want to be disappointed, but this really sounds like so much fun
I burst out laughing when you said a mortician could be a fun career 😂
I really really hope we can work as a Fortune teller with the tarot cards as a freelance career or something. I really want a spellcaster, medium/fortune teller.
Haunt is a place, typically where a haunting is occurring (though it's also used to describe a place you visit regularly). Haunting is the act of affecting the corporeal world as a non-corporeal being (in this instance). Benevolent means good, well intentioned, helpful. A benevolent dictator is a person with absolute power that uses that power for good purposes (as an example). Can't believe I have to say this on this channel of all places but I'm tempering my expectations. This is EA after all and this EP is coming out WAY too close to the last one to have gotten a ton of development (and more importantly, TESTING). It's refreshing to see you're excited though. That's different.
They already had me with pet crow
Yesh mortician is a bit like a esthéticien for dead people. You should seriously watch iZombie, Dead like me, Six Feet Under. Any would make a great LP parody with this pack.
It’s the audacity of the audacity of the audacity for me! You are so right. There are so many systems at work in the sims that conflict with each other across packs. I want this but I’ll wait it out to see if it actually works.
I really want the photoframe from the early buyers rewards!
I missed out on the first version of this frame with the launch sims mobile back in 2018. I want this object to easily make a family photo of all members of my sims households. Of course ravasheens modded version is better because it let's you set a back ground but even with the CAS background, it will be useful as it doesn't require mods. I just wish this portrait wasn't locked behind a time limited offer, just like the last one.
This would have been the perfect pack to include a kind of voodoo religion, or some sort of cult that venerates death and ghosts /have a different view on death , we already have voodoo dolls !
They usually do well on supernatural packs so I’m pretty excited for this one
Rebirth into the Goth's?? Now that's funny. This might be entertaining 😅
Finally an expansion pack with a lot of content!
Is “mortician” an American term? 😂 They take care of dead bodies like an undertaker.
It’s the technical term for a morgue worker, the person who works with the dead bodies.
@Painfuldreamer5813 well there are a few people here that work with dead bodies the coroner the medical examiner a mortician and a funeral director all have different roles
Its like make-up artist, hairdresser and stylist but for dead bodies, so they look better on their last trip
For once I'm lucky being Canadian even though in many ways we are neither fish nor fowl.
We use both British and American expressions, and I as a person of UK heritage, (mother moved to Canada 🇨🇦 from Scotland in 1957, fathers family moved from England to Connecticut c. 1600 (John Webster 1st Governor of Connecticut), and in the late 1800s to Nova Scotia from Massachusetts), have a long standing interest in the British Isles, and find their expressions easy to understand.
The UK after all is really simply the parent of both North American nations.
Don't give up all hope on funerals- they did actually fix My Wedding Stories not too long ago (and some speculated that it was to increase the chances of funerals working correctly).
I honestly dont really care if something is really a trait as long as it influences how my sim plays ultimately