Yes I agree! I feel like Kayla doesn’t create as much in depth backstory as other creators, which is totally fine, but I love just the simple one she created on the fly for these characters!
I honestly love the idea of doing mini lets plays for these events, like a short story, and a reminder for us to do it too! Especially for the holiday it's like your own little Christmas rom-com. Of course you don't have to but I'd love to watch that.
I really wished Kayla clicked on the aurora picture frame, it's not just a picture, it's a TV! I thought that was really exciting that everyone gets one now, because the one from the Modern Luxe Kit is probably my favorite TV to use.
The reaper event was actually fun, I never had any reason to make ambrosia before. I hope this will have a similar thing, they're kinda like scenarios having you do something different than your used to with gameplay. And hopefully less buggy. I think one thing that could be changed is instead of having each section of the event time locked (which they did shorten this time around) it should all be available to finish from the start, or have it locked by sim days instead of actual days. It would probably take a bit to find the right balance of amount of tasks, how quick it takes to complete them all, and how long the event would be on for but I think that would work better.
I really enjoy these events too, i just wish they were setup to be scenarios anyone could play anytime so theres no rush but encouragement. The sims is a game made for sharing with the community, having exclusive cas or build items ruins what is such a core part of the experience.
@Quintwuzhere I think they've given up on scenarios, which sucks because they just becoming really good, the events feel like a spiritual successor. And I feel like what they should do with the items is add them to the game a few weeks after the event finished so people that participate in the event get 'early access' to the new items, no one misses out but the events still feel worth it.
Same I enjoyed it. I would if they give us more task for our sims to do and unlock random objects. That would make me want to play the game especially, for us simmer that only prefer building.
im from romania and when i saw the update i actually started crying i really didnt expect to get traditional clothing and food from romania in the game 💔💔💔💔
To be fair we did just get a Romanian based world - even if they fully whitewashed it, leaving no ethnic names. Which is disappointing, considering Romanian isn't hard to pronounce.
Im from Poland but i also was really happy, because i like romanian culture and its quite similar to polish, so I can use headscarves and stuff like that for my sims! ^^
As a person from Eastern Europe (I’m from Bulgaria) it’s so cool to see items inspired by our part of Europe. I feel like we were always slept on by the sims team.
same, im from turkey and i was so happy to see some of these clothing items, and some of the architectural styles in the life and death pack look so endearingly familiar it melts my heart
I'm from Eastern Europe, too (Poland here), and I'm really pleasantly surprised with the head scarfs. Looks familiar to me as a Polish gal, so it's a perfect Slavic thing, I guess. I'd love to see more Slavness in the game. We are really overlooked, huh.
I don't mind these events, but I wish we could complete them at any time. Considering how the past two were very glitchy, it's just not fair to make these limited time. More holiday themed items is cute, and I'm happy to see pack limited items included! (the frame tv) bc it means if you don't have the pack, you get the item! and if you do have the pack, you have two! Thanks to the employees at sims for making these items!
Exactly! I think unlocking new things through challenges and gameplay is a cool idea! But the game is so buggy as it is and the reaper event broke so many times for me, I didn't have the free time to finish it because of how many times I had to fix it and lost progress. And looking online, it seems like so many people had the same problem. They spent time on making such cool rewards, but they can't be appreciated by everyone because of the time restriction 😞
OMG I love the clothes with Slavic folklore theme, we don't have anything Slavic. I WISH that EA did Slavic inspired pack. I am not saying that Romania is Slavic, just the CLOTHES that EA gave us are SLAVIC INSPIRED
@@cashmerenerdI mean slavic and baltic country's definitely share similarities though and with how ambiguous the sims is I wouldn't say L&D doesn't also have slavic influence in it
I like that they seem to be adjusting the events based on feedback. I'm a fan of these events in general, but I like quest-based stuff, so it's nice to have some objectives, even if they're short. I did like your idea of having the events saved as a scenario you can play whenever you want (they really need to do more with the scenario feature), but I'm curious to see what future events hold.
i was a little salty about them giving us four wreaths but i guess it helps to think of them more like the freezer boneys from the previous events. I'm super excited about the game console and scarf
I feel like they should make it so EVERYONE gets the event items once the event is over, but if you want them earlier, you can play through the rewards
I finally understand how other people felt when they introduced their traditional items/foods/clothing in the game... the fact that my sims can now make and eat mămăligă, a food that I've been eating since childhood and that i have many fond memories of, has me giggling and kicking my feet since yesterday 😂 like, I'm genuinely so happy!! ❤ It's so silly lol 😭💀
The positivity on this channel is such a breath of fresh air. These updates aren't perfect, and they never are, but let's all get excited about festive bushes and hot choco!
They're recommending that people do the "event" in a new save (rather than your favorite save, just in case something goes wrong) and without *any* mods (because those can cause events to mess up.)
I really hope so! First one I was able to connect and get the rewards, but the last one, the reaper's reward, I wasn't able to get any rewards! The tasks to complete wouldn't even show up😅
There's only 1 branch of quests and 0 letters, you just need to talk to people and cook a dish. I didn't even need to disable mods, everything is working perfectly fine right now.
Im hoping so. The first one worked, the reaper’s rewards did not work for me at all. So far, this one is fine but I had to take all my mods and cc out and I’m afraid to put it back in until the event is over, which is annoying
I love learning about different foods with different meanings across cultures through the sims. Learning random (but accurate) facts through games or shows or even like in random homework questions about math was my favorite thing as a kid. It’s probably the adhd but when I get to learn about something that I’m not “supposed” to be learning about I.e. history quip of a small country woven into a math problem it just tickles a part of my brain and sometimes even leads to a google deep dive of said subject.
Please make this a series! I get really invested in character's stories. I also really hope this event works this time. I got to week 5 of the reaper's rewards and mine broke, locking me out of the last rewards. None of the fixes on the forums worked :(((
Unfortunately, Christmas time is very busy. A lot of people visit family for the holidays. Personally I travel from Estonia to Denmark to visit my dad's side of the family for Christmas. I am gone around a week and I'm not going to have access to a computer, much less one that can run Sims. Then you have to factor in time to buy last minute gifts and wrapping them all, not including traveling and travel essentials that also need packing. All of that and you still have to add school/work holiday events.
I was fully determined to cheat myself though the quests last time if I didn't have time to play the event naturally, and I don't think anyone should feel bad for doing the same! Real life comes first, and we shouldn't have to compromise on that to not miss out on limited rewards or some fun gameplay. There are mods like UI Cheats and MC Command Center that will help you speed though the levelling and other achievements so that you can still complete the event if you don't have a lot of time.
The wreaths are part of a collection, that's why they have no swatches :) Also, I don't think we have any scarf items yet (since this isn't attached to clothes, it's listed as an accessory!).
btw if anyone wants the frame tv early (the thing simsie thought was a painting of the northern lights; ) it is currently in the eco lifestyle dumpster! i was playing rags to ritches yesterday and was surprised like 'oh thats new' XD
Every week please! It's fun to tag along. Last event didn't even work for me (thankfully this one does) and I still enjoyed your Let's-play about it :)
I think a let's play would be fun! especially if we get a sort of cross over with either your nightmare legacy or not so berry challenges :) and I like this new event because it's not bugged for me and I can actually play it lol
So, the geography is such an interesting thing. Romania is not a Slavic country, but it has/had Slavs on its territory -part of Banat region is in Romania and smaller part is in Serbia (slavic country). There are so many architecture and folclore parallels its crazy! But this blew my mind. Mucenici, the dish that came with newest update, has Serbian (slavic) title. Go Google Translate and type "Mučenici" and you'll get "Martyrs" -exactly what the recipe info says. So cool how in Serbia there is no dish like that, at all, but Romaina has it. And Serbia probably has some food name that Romania has long forgotten :) Yay Balkans!!
i would love a once a week mini series for this! i can't play the sims at the moment so these videos let me stay in touch with the gameplay for these events :]
I would love to see a video weekly of this as a let’s play!! Also I think my favorite items would be the retro game station, new food, hot chocolate tray, and the lights on the bushes! Such a good drop!!
I love this and would be perfectly happy to watch Noelle do random holiday things every week! It feels like they made it a little easier than the last one which is good for more people to get the items quickly, and I like it not being cluttered with the random in game rewards more. I kinda am obsessed with these.
YES PLEASE DO A VIDEO EACH WEEK!!! i love the idea of a hallmark enemies to lovers Christmas movie storyline!! i’m too invested now with Noelle and Gunther. make it a mini series!!! 🎄
I’m liking these quest style login events. I only started playing The Sims 4 this year so there’s a lot of stuff I’m not familiar with. This feels like a good way to help new players learn more about the game, that might not be obvious at first.
I really liked the last event and I like this one even more! It's festive, has good stuff, they got rid of the unnecessary rewards like potions, and it's twice a week so you don't have to wait a long for the next one! It's like they fixed all the issues I had with the last event. And it comes with free stuff outside of the event too! I love it. I hope they do this all the time! And I'd love a weekly update on Noelle! Since the event is bi-weekly you could just smoosh the two into one video and it'd give you more content.
let’s do it every week! i’ll need reminders to go in and get the stuff, and i’m reading divine rivals right now so i’m loving the rival writers story line. I’m excited for the little bear slippers
I really like events. They aren’t glitchy for me but I don’t have that many packs/expansions, so I bet that helps. I also play RuneScape and these events remind me of what RuneScape puts on every holiday. Though RS is way more brutal than Sims 4; if you don’t log in every single day, you miss the reward.
I got super burned out from logon rewards because of MMOs. So, ultimately I don't think they should stay logon rewards. I'd be ok with it if they had the event and then a year later turned it into an in-game repeatable quest for every sim to do so it can be a part of their story. Perhaps in their character sheet it could record that they completed that quest or something.
I hope it doesn’t have glitches like the old ones Last time the quests would disappear and i could not bring them back and nothing would fix it And the previous one, all the prizes disappeared, i play on console and as far as I knew it happened to everyone on console, but they fixed it Maybe 3rd time is a charm 😅
They desperately need to make an option for the event to restart it completely and also to restart a particular step of the event. I feel like it would help people troubleshoot. Like for me, they started the delivery of the ambrosia letter to whatever family I started that play session with, and not the family I wanted to play with, so I had to go back to that other family to complete that step.
I was so surprised and excited about this update! It made me kinda emotional when I heard it was an update based on Romanian culture!!!! That is absolutely major! Coming from a Romanian, I would have never thought that we would get anything like this in the game. This is amazing! Also the new world being based on Romanian style, nature and architecture (the big head sculpture is actually real, you can search it up online as the head of Decebal). It’s all surreal! I’m so excited and grateful for this positive exposure of Romania, it has been long awaited.❤❤❤❤
I get the thing with headwear and hairs being complicated but it would be great if there were at least like 4 different hairlines available - tied to appropriate hairstyles that are “under” the headwear. Like one straight, one curly, one afro-texture, and one with no hair. It would also be awesome if they made a version with an underscarf for more hijab options. It wouldn’t be a huge amount of work to implement as they could use the same textures for each piece of headwear and just switch out the current hair texture that’s underneath (it must already be a separate layer to be recoloured separately). It’s a small change that would make headwear much more inclusive!
I really like these events when it’s stuff I’ll use in game. The Reaper one wasn’t really my thing but this one I’m really excited for. I love love the hot cocoa tray, that’ll fit in with gameplay so well like after a family snowball fight. One thing I wish they’d add is being able to watch Winterfest movies.
I'm finding it annoying that during these events i can't safely use mods or it is likely to break the event... I feel like its playing on FOMO to keep people engaged while also limiting players to official content only, idk if it's intentional but it feels manipulative to me.
Oh thank god about the Dine Out patch. My sims can sometimes request a table, but if it’s a date or event, it NEVER WORKS. So my sims keep going on these awful dates. Relatable, but still.
I cannot stand these log in events. I can't even grt the Sims 4 / EA app to work half the time. And any update takes hours since the EA app crashes if I "Update" rather than "Repair".
I like the addition of more food, but the pie menu is getting overwhelming and I wish there was a way to organize by favorites or something! Personally I think Noelle left the big city and moved back to her deceased parents' cottage so she can finally focus on her writing career and baking skills, and then she falls in love right in time for WinterFest... Could also be fun to have WinterFest be the culmination of this quest storyline!!
I didn't even want to play this event but still had to uninstall MCCC and UI cheats because it immediately broke the whole game. I went into build mode and couldn't get out. So my issue with this is that it forces you to play mod-free for however long the event lasts, whether you care about the event or not. I wish you could opt out!
And I'm happy about all the items! I have played the enemys to lovers scenario with him disliking Christmas (his name is Grollo Grinch) and she is toooootally into Christmas, all her outfits are very Christmas themed and he dislikes red and green. They were tricked and bought the same house but no one of them wanted to move out. So at first they hated each other and did mean things (he is also a spellcaster, she is a vampire) but they found each other very attractive sooooo... Nowadays they love each other and have children together😁 And now they can get more Christmas things! Their house is decorated the whole year.
Cute items! But man I wish they would either flesh out these events with more quests, or speed it up by lowering the time in between new stages of the event.
I like these mini events, but last one was hard for me because I'm pregnant and was struggling with morning sickness. I ended up doing all of it the night before.
Honestly, same. Less so for the game console but the frame TV was the only thing I really liked from that kit so the chance for a basegame one is great.
I totally agree the detailed recipes we have in the sims now are one of my favorite things they’ve done! I love to read the descriptions about cultural dishes im not familiar with
I LOVE the Romanian clothing and food, I had a big smile on my face the entire time as a Romanian 😭😭❤️ I even took screenshots and sent them to my whole family and I was like "LOOK MA'!! Romanian culture in The Sims and simsie pronouncing Romanian words!!" 😭❤️ Very impressed with the food descriptions!!
Can you make a “how much computer do I need to play the sims” style video for those of us who are NOT tech savvy? Love your videos and want to get more expansion packs but need a bigger computer to run them all!
Oo this looks like it's going to be a fun one, I do love that hedge! 😍 Those slippers look cute too, and who doesn't love a frame TV! I'm excited to be able to do this week by week this time as well, for the Halloween one I didn't have access to my game and was unable to so had to kind of rush it all!
Never in a million years did I expect to see Romania in the Sims 4 haha. Wish they also added Romanian names and sarmale. But yeah with the elections being this Sunday, this sdx drop was timed perfectly
You and SatchOnSims are my favorite youtubers - and I think you are both playing your Christmas Event Story with your Sims in the same house. It's such a sweet surprise for me and it's even more fun to see your different characters and play styles in the same house. I can't wait to see what happens next. The event so fair isn‘t that exciting but what you're doing with it is, as always, great
The new CAS pieces are also romanian inspired. Those are our traditional outfits, most worn on our national day or a few regions. It's so nice to see them in The Sims
Please make a video each week. I’m too invested in Noelle’s story now. A hallmark Christmas movie in the sims? I’m so here for it.
Yes I agree! I feel like Kayla doesn’t create as much in depth backstory as other creators, which is totally fine, but I love just the simple one she created on the fly for these characters!
Yes please! Mostly for the story but also to remind me to grab the items I want and didn't get because I'm busy!
yes please
Please make a video each week
ME TOO!!!
She’s gonna be so excited when she realizes the northern lights painting is actually a new frame tv😎
I didn't even notice that thanks for telling me~ 😂
💯
omg yes i’m so excited for it too!!!
no way!! now I'm excited too hahah
This! She skipped over too many things, thinking the cocoa tray was just decorative, not realising the hedges twinkle, so down Kayla! ❤️💚
"Summer is not invited because it's winter" SENT ME
Didn't know Simsie was a comedian! The way I almost spat my water out!!
I wasn't expecting that either 😂😂😂
She could totally get the grinch trait!
She just do that because of her name.
Winter holiday lol
I was thrilled to see the frame tv as a reward! I personally like these events a lot, I think they are fun to do the mini task list
Right!
Like right now, this is the only way I am getting around to actually playing The Sims 😱😅
I am SO excited about the frame tv if the rewards keep being this good I will be ok with more of these events
Yes! I wanted a framed tv, but I didn't want anything else in the pack it came in.
Same !! I was so hyped ! That and the console made my Day !! 🎉
agreed! I'm SO happy to have new swatches of frame TV because the existing ones are a little special.
I honestly love the idea of doing mini lets plays for these events, like a short story, and a reminder for us to do it too! Especially for the holiday it's like your own little Christmas rom-com. Of course you don't have to but I'd love to watch that.
I really wished Kayla clicked on the aurora picture frame, it's not just a picture, it's a TV! I thought that was really exciting that everyone gets one now, because the one from the Modern Luxe Kit is probably my favorite TV to use.
Ikr I was like I wonder if anyone else caught that
i’m so excited because i’ve been thinking about buying modern luxe specifically for the frame tv hahaha
The reaper event was actually fun, I never had any reason to make ambrosia before. I hope this will have a similar thing, they're kinda like scenarios having you do something different than your used to with gameplay. And hopefully less buggy.
I think one thing that could be changed is instead of having each section of the event time locked (which they did shorten this time around) it should all be available to finish from the start, or have it locked by sim days instead of actual days. It would probably take a bit to find the right balance of amount of tasks, how quick it takes to complete them all, and how long the event would be on for but I think that would work better.
I love these events! I've been playing sims since highschool and I've never once made ambrosia before.. it was alot of fun!
I really enjoy these events too, i just wish they were setup to be scenarios anyone could play anytime so theres no rush but encouragement. The sims is a game made for sharing with the community, having exclusive cas or build items ruins what is such a core part of the experience.
@Quintwuzhere I think they've given up on scenarios, which sucks because they just becoming really good, the events feel like a spiritual successor. And I feel like what they should do with the items is add them to the game a few weeks after the event finished so people that participate in the event get 'early access' to the new items, no one misses out but the events still feel worth it.
Same I enjoyed it. I would if they give us more task for our sims to do and unlock random objects. That would make me want to play the game especially, for us simmer that only prefer building.
I wish they were turned into scenarios once they end, and, like the log in rewards, become free for all after a little while
im from romania and when i saw the update i actually started crying i really didnt expect to get traditional clothing and food from romania in the game 💔💔💔💔
btw u pronounced mămăligă and mucenici perfectly 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
To be fair we did just get a Romanian based world - even if they fully whitewashed it, leaving no ethnic names. Which is disappointing, considering Romanian isn't hard to pronounce.
that’s really cool I’m happy for you 🥹 that’s exciting I wish could taste Romanian food irl
@@mjm3091 that and the fact that Romanians ARE white too... how EA managed to whitewash white people is beyond me...
When is it white enough?!?
/j
Im from Poland but i also was really happy, because i like romanian culture and its quite similar to polish, so I can use headscarves and stuff like that for my sims! ^^
So the painting in the rewards is actually a tv! It says that in its description!❤
As a person from Eastern Europe (I’m from Bulgaria) it’s so cool to see items inspired by our part of Europe. I feel like we were always slept on by the sims team.
This is the closest that sims will ever be to eastern european representation, probably
same, im from turkey and i was so happy to see some of these clothing items, and some of the architectural styles in the life and death pack look so endearingly familiar it melts my heart
I'm from Eastern Europe, too (Poland here), and I'm really pleasantly surprised with the head scarfs. Looks familiar to me as a Polish gal, so it's a perfect Slavic thing, I guess. I'd love to see more Slavness in the game. We are really overlooked, huh.
I don't mind these events, but I wish we could complete them at any time. Considering how the past two were very glitchy, it's just not fair to make these limited time.
More holiday themed items is cute, and I'm happy to see pack limited items included! (the frame tv) bc it means if you don't have the pack, you get the item! and if you do have the pack, you have two!
Thanks to the employees at sims for making these items!
Exactly! I think unlocking new things through challenges and gameplay is a cool idea!
But the game is so buggy as it is and the reaper event broke so many times for me, I didn't have the free time to finish it because of how many times I had to fix it and lost progress. And looking online, it seems like so many people had the same problem.
They spent time on making such cool rewards, but they can't be appreciated by everyone because of the time restriction 😞
I agree with this like i wish we could them at any point like i dont have time to play it but i would love these rewards so it kind of sucks
As a Romanian, was incredibly hyped when I opened the game today and saw the new clothing and food! They're looking great!
OMG I love the clothes with Slavic folklore theme, we don't have anything Slavic. I WISH that EA did Slavic inspired pack.
I am not saying that Romania is Slavic, just the CLOTHES that EA gave us are SLAVIC INSPIRED
they give us like a polish walkway/brick thing, i need more
i want city with post soviet neighbourhood
@gosiab6871 yes totally
yes please
(but small correction, romania is actually not a slavic country, it’s just bordered by many slavic countries)
@@cashmerenerdI mean slavic and baltic country's definitely share similarities though and with how ambiguous the sims is I wouldn't say L&D doesn't also have slavic influence in it
Its a base game free tv, not art, which is awesome! And also its every couple days rather than every week! Excited to play it all out.
12:57 "Summer's not invited cuz this is winter" KAYLA WITH THE DAD JOKES COMING IN HOT
or in this case cold
I like that they seem to be adjusting the events based on feedback. I'm a fan of these events in general, but I like quest-based stuff, so it's nice to have some objectives, even if they're short. I did like your idea of having the events saved as a scenario you can play whenever you want (they really need to do more with the scenario feature), but I'm curious to see what future events hold.
It's really nice that it's condensed this time, no filler rewards and less waiting. Very nice, a step in the right direction for sure.
i was a little salty about them giving us four wreaths but i guess it helps to think of them more like the freezer boneys from the previous events. I'm super excited about the game console and scarf
Exactly that, they’re in the same collectible category as those freezer boneys
The fact that you can't put them on a door because they block a sim from going through it is extremely stupid
I'd love to watch a week by week playthrough, for the plot, the gunther munch plot will be adorable
I feel like they should make it so EVERYONE gets the event items once the event is over, but if you want them earlier, you can play through the rewards
Agree. I feel like the way EA would agree to is a year later.
I second this!
I finally understand how other people felt when they introduced their traditional items/foods/clothing in the game... the fact that my sims can now make and eat mămăligă, a food that I've been eating since childhood and that i have many fond memories of, has me giggling and kicking my feet since yesterday 😂 like, I'm genuinely so happy!! ❤ It's so silly lol 😭💀
The positivity on this channel is such a breath of fresh air. These updates aren't perfect, and they never are, but let's all get excited about festive bushes and hot choco!
They're recommending that people do the "event" in a new save (rather than your favorite save, just in case something goes wrong) and without *any* mods (because those can cause events to mess up.)
I couldn't get the wreath to be on the door or the window, only the wall. (I didn't have it on "bb.moveobjects" so that may make a difference.)
💯my reaper event was messed by a save that had mods at one time
oh lord.. third times the charm? right??
I really hope so! First one I was able to connect and get the rewards, but the last one, the reaper's reward, I wasn't able to get any rewards! The tasks to complete wouldn't even show up😅
the first two hardly worked for me but surprisingly this one appeared instantly in a pre existing save and had no issues with week one!
There's only 1 branch of quests and 0 letters, you just need to talk to people and cook a dish. I didn't even need to disable mods, everything is working perfectly fine right now.
Im hoping so. The first one worked, the reaper’s rewards did not work for me at all. So far, this one is fine but I had to take all my mods and cc out and I’m afraid to put it back in until the event is over, which is annoying
I love learning about different foods with different meanings across cultures through the sims. Learning random (but accurate) facts through games or shows or even like in random homework questions about math was my favorite thing as a kid. It’s probably the adhd but when I get to learn about something that I’m not “supposed” to be learning about I.e. history quip of a small country woven into a math problem it just tickles a part of my brain and sometimes even leads to a google deep dive of said subject.
I love that you made a straight up Hallmark Christmas Movie protagonist for the event
Please make this a series! I get really invested in character's stories. I also really hope this event works this time. I got to week 5 of the reaper's rewards and mine broke, locking me out of the last rewards. None of the fixes on the forums worked :(((
Unfortunately, Christmas time is very busy. A lot of people visit family for the holidays.
Personally I travel from Estonia to Denmark to visit my dad's side of the family for Christmas. I am gone around a week and I'm not going to have access to a computer, much less one that can run Sims. Then you have to factor in time to buy last minute gifts and wrapping them all, not including traveling and travel essentials that also need packing.
All of that and you still have to add school/work holiday events.
I was fully determined to cheat myself though the quests last time if I didn't have time to play the event naturally, and I don't think anyone should feel bad for doing the same! Real life comes first, and we shouldn't have to compromise on that to not miss out on limited rewards or some fun gameplay. There are mods like UI Cheats and MC Command Center that will help you speed though the levelling and other achievements so that you can still complete the event if you don't have a lot of time.
The wreaths are part of a collection, that's why they have no swatches :)
Also, I don't think we have any scarf items yet (since this isn't attached to clothes, it's listed as an accessory!).
horse ranch has two (although one is the same item flipped backwards) but it's very themed, obviously 😅 it's so nice to have a simple plain scarf!!
btw if anyone wants the frame tv early (the thing simsie thought was a painting of the northern lights; ) it is currently in the eco lifestyle dumpster! i was playing rags to ritches yesterday and was surprised like 'oh thats new' XD
I can finally make a typical Polish Grandma in the sims!!!
Finally, i can make myself in the sims♡
i would love to see her rom com story play out each week!
Every week please! It's fun to tag along. Last event didn't even work for me (thankfully this one does) and I still enjoyed your Let's-play about it :)
I really really liked the frame TV and the old video game thing!!!
I think a let's play would be fun! especially if we get a sort of cross over with either your nightmare legacy or not so berry challenges :) and I like this new event because it's not bugged for me and I can actually play it lol
"I gave her the Clumsy, Bookworm and Outgoing traits" - This is smelling like a Hallmark character... xD
So, the geography is such an interesting thing. Romania is not a Slavic country, but it has/had Slavs on its territory -part of Banat region is in Romania and smaller part is in Serbia (slavic country). There are so many architecture and folclore parallels its crazy!
But this blew my mind. Mucenici, the dish that came with newest update, has Serbian (slavic) title. Go Google Translate and type "Mučenici" and you'll get "Martyrs" -exactly what the recipe info says. So cool how in Serbia there is no dish like that, at all, but Romaina has it. And Serbia probably has some food name that Romania has long forgotten :) Yay Balkans!!
I need to see Noelle's story continue! Please make this a mini series!
the way kayla didn’t realize it was a FRAME TV
Hello??? The hot cocoa tray is so cute and the detail on the drinks??? Amazing!
i would love a once a week mini series for this! i can't play the sims at the moment so these videos let me stay in touch with the gameplay for these events :]
I would love to see a video weekly of this as a let’s play!! Also I think my favorite items would be the retro game station, new food, hot chocolate tray, and the lights on the bushes! Such a good drop!!
I love this and would be perfectly happy to watch Noelle do random holiday things every week! It feels like they made it a little easier than the last one which is good for more people to get the items quickly, and I like it not being cluttered with the random in game rewards more. I kinda am obsessed with these.
I was hoping they’d bring back Jasmine Holiday as a sim for the event, but I will take the (non-event locked) BG items as a compensation
I love the idea of a weekly episode. It helps me get into the holiday spirit. Lilsimsie your enthusiasm is infectious.
I hope you do a whole series on the event!!! I like that they're not complicated, I think it just adds some fun storytelling stuff :)
YES PLEASE DO A VIDEO EACH WEEK!!! i love the idea of a hallmark enemies to lovers Christmas movie storyline!! i’m too invested now with Noelle and Gunther. make it a mini series!!! 🎄
Pleaseeee make it a video each week! The grim videos were my favourite and have been so comforting lately:)
I would LOVE a weekly let’s play with Noelle! The romcom/hallmark movie vibes are so fun this time of year.
I’m liking these quest style login events. I only started playing The Sims 4 this year so there’s a lot of stuff I’m not familiar with. This feels like a good way to help new players learn more about the game, that might not be obvious at first.
I really liked the last event and I like this one even more!
It's festive, has good stuff, they got rid of the unnecessary rewards like potions, and it's twice a week so you don't have to wait a long for the next one! It's like they fixed all the issues I had with the last event. And it comes with free stuff outside of the event too!
I love it. I hope they do this all the time!
And I'd love a weekly update on Noelle! Since the event is bi-weekly you could just smoosh the two into one video and it'd give you more content.
9:54 Thanks to the sims 1-2-3 I learned not only food names but also a whole new language.😂
let’s do it every week! i’ll need reminders to go in and get the stuff, and i’m reading divine rivals right now so i’m loving the rival writers story line. I’m excited for the little bear slippers
WE NEED A LETS PLAY FOR HER 18:40
Please, please, please do the rom-com and a video each week, love that so much!
As a player who only has base game, I’m super excited for the frame tv
I really like events. They aren’t glitchy for me but I don’t have that many packs/expansions, so I bet that helps. I also play RuneScape and these events remind me of what RuneScape puts on every holiday. Though RS is way more brutal than Sims 4; if you don’t log in every single day, you miss the reward.
I got super burned out from logon rewards because of MMOs. So, ultimately I don't think they should stay logon rewards.
I'd be ok with it if they had the event and then a year later turned it into an in-game repeatable quest for every sim to do so it can be a part of their story.
Perhaps in their character sheet it could record that they completed that quest or something.
I would love to see weekly vids about this event!
I hope it doesn’t have glitches like the old ones
Last time the quests would disappear and i could not bring them back and nothing would fix it
And the previous one, all the prizes disappeared, i play on console and as far as I knew it happened to everyone on console, but they fixed it
Maybe 3rd time is a charm 😅
They desperately need to make an option for the event to restart it completely and also to restart a particular step of the event. I feel like it would help people troubleshoot.
Like for me, they started the delivery of the ambrosia letter to whatever family I started that play session with, and not the family I wanted to play with, so I had to go back to that other family to complete that step.
I was so surprised and excited about this update! It made me kinda emotional when I heard it was an update based on Romanian culture!!!! That is absolutely major! Coming from a Romanian, I would have never thought that we would get anything like this in the game. This is amazing! Also the new world being based on Romanian style, nature and architecture (the big head sculpture is actually real, you can search it up online as the head of Decebal). It’s all surreal! I’m so excited and grateful for this positive exposure of Romania, it has been long awaited.❤❤❤❤
I always love more clutter stuff. I play a lot with cottage living so that blanket set is so nice.
LOVING the Holiday Rom Com idea
I get the thing with headwear and hairs being complicated but it would be great if there were at least like 4 different hairlines available - tied to appropriate hairstyles that are “under” the headwear. Like one straight, one curly, one afro-texture, and one with no hair. It would also be awesome if they made a version with an underscarf for more hijab options.
It wouldn’t be a huge amount of work to implement as they could use the same textures for each piece of headwear and just switch out the current hair texture that’s underneath (it must already be a separate layer to be recoloured separately).
It’s a small change that would make headwear much more inclusive!
i would watch a video for each week of this romcom - esque event you got
I really like these events when it’s stuff I’ll use in game. The Reaper one wasn’t really my thing but this one I’m really excited for. I love love the hot cocoa tray, that’ll fit in with gameplay so well like after a family snowball fight. One thing I wish they’d add is being able to watch Winterfest movies.
5:27 so a Hallmark movie.
I said the exact same thing lmaoo
ok but that dine out glitch was getting on my last nerve!! I thought it was my mods!!! ITS BEEN BROKEN SINCE FOR RENT
I think that's not a painting, that's a tv 🤔 10:46
Yasss christmas hallmark romcomm! They need to take a small vacation to a christmas castle pls
It was just Romania's national day this past weekend, so their timing is great. Ps you pronounced mamaliga well!! ❤
The new wreaths are actually a new in game collection as well!
That headscarf is what I am wearing right now irl. This is amazing!
I'm finding it annoying that during these events i can't safely use mods or it is likely to break the event... I feel like its playing on FOMO to keep people engaged while also limiting players to official content only, idk if it's intentional but it feels manipulative to me.
Oh thank god about the Dine Out patch. My sims can sometimes request a table, but if it’s a date or event, it NEVER WORKS. So my sims keep going on these awful dates. Relatable, but still.
The quests are actually only a couple of days apart, the last quest is available in about 2 weeks.
As a romanian, I AM SO HAPPY!! It's the bestest thing it's a free update!
I cannot stand these log in events. I can't even grt the Sims 4 / EA app to work half the time. And any update takes hours since the EA app crashes if I "Update" rather than "Repair".
I like your writer romcom story. I could see each week of this. Your call. Love the content as always.
I like the addition of more food, but the pie menu is getting overwhelming and I wish there was a way to organize by favorites or something! Personally I think Noelle left the big city and moved back to her deceased parents' cottage so she can finally focus on her writing career and baking skills, and then she falls in love right in time for WinterFest... Could also be fun to have WinterFest be the culmination of this quest storyline!!
2:03 As a Romanian, as soon as I saw the blanket, the headscarf and clothes I knew it was Romania related. I’m really proud. 🥹🥰
I didn't even want to play this event but still had to uninstall MCCC and UI cheats because it immediately broke the whole game. I went into build mode and couldn't get out. So my issue with this is that it forces you to play mod-free for however long the event lasts, whether you care about the event or not. I wish you could opt out!
We want to see it every week! :D
And I'm happy about all the items! I have played the enemys to lovers scenario with him disliking Christmas (his name is Grollo Grinch) and she is toooootally into Christmas, all her outfits are very Christmas themed and he dislikes red and green. They were tricked and bought the same house but no one of them wanted to move out. So at first they hated each other and did mean things (he is also a spellcaster, she is a vampire) but they found each other very attractive sooooo... Nowadays they love each other and have children together😁 And now they can get more Christmas things! Their house is decorated the whole year.
The new bread looks like those "S"'s we all drew in middle school 😅
Cute items! But man I wish they would either flesh out these events with more quests, or speed it up by lowering the time in between new stages of the event.
12:59 summer’s not invited cuz it’s winter made me laugh more than it should’ve 😂😂
I like these mini events, but last one was hard for me because I'm pregnant and was struggling with morning sickness. I ended up doing all of it the night before.
Omg I'm really just doing this event for the frame TV and game console....happy holidays simmers🎄🎅
Honestly, same. Less so for the game console but the frame TV was the only thing I really liked from that kit so the chance for a basegame one is great.
THE NEW DRESS IS GORGEOUS OMG
My game is broken, I hate these events 😓 I missed all of the last ones, too
I totally agree the detailed recipes we have in the sims now are one of my favorite things they’ve done! I love to read the descriptions about cultural dishes im not familiar with
I LOVE the Romanian clothing and food, I had a big smile on my face the entire time as a Romanian 😭😭❤️ I even took screenshots and sent them to my whole family and I was like "LOOK MA'!! Romanian culture in The Sims and simsie pronouncing Romanian words!!" 😭❤️
Very impressed with the food descriptions!!
Can you make a “how much computer do I need to play the sims” style video for those of us who are NOT tech savvy? Love your videos and want to get more expansion packs but need a bigger computer to run them all!
Oo this looks like it's going to be a fun one, I do love that hedge! 😍 Those slippers look cute too, and who doesn't love a frame TV! I'm excited to be able to do this week by week this time as well, for the Halloween one I didn't have access to my game and was unable to so had to kind of rush it all!
I was seriously going to buy the kit to get a frame TV...now I don't have to! I'm excited.
Never in a million years did I expect to see Romania in the Sims 4 haha. Wish they also added Romanian names and sarmale. But yeah with the elections being this Sunday, this sdx drop was timed perfectly
You and SatchOnSims are my favorite youtubers - and I think you are both playing your Christmas Event Story with your Sims in the same house. It's such a sweet surprise for me and it's even more fun to see your different characters and play styles in the same house. I can't wait to see what happens next. The event so fair isn‘t that exciting but what you're doing with it is, as always, great
Simsie: “We’ve all seen that movie.”
Me: Yeah, You’ve Got Mail
The new CAS pieces are also romanian inspired. Those are our traditional outfits, most worn on our national day or a few regions.
It's so nice to see them in The Sims
I love the headscarf!! I have alopeica and typically wear a headscarf versus a wig so I absolutely love this!!!
i’ve been struggling a lot with a recent diagnosis and your videos are such a comfort to me. ❤