Here is TwistedMexi's trailer for Create a World, a truly ambitious project: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/hqKiaairmJt-smQ.html

Wasn’t the scenarios feature already kind of present in older games? Like sims 2, where if you pick an existing family, they already have memories, relationships, and pre-programmed story that they went through, and you as a player get thrown into the middle of it? Or am I thinking of a different thing. Even pre made families were programmed with a narrative, like in sims 2 with the family of just six orphans, who’s parents and foster parents passed away, leaving them on their own. The family was set with a somewhat low simoleon amount, with all of the kids having a fear of death of a loved one, and dreams of wanting to succeed in the future in one way or another, as well as having a preset strong family bond. Then another family (don’t remember their name) was like some sort of rich family with family drama, where sibling are set to always fight. Like how come sims 2 gave so much more personality to the preset families

I’m kinda keeping my expectations low as I’ve learned to with this franchise. I think scenarios is a great idea in theory, but I won’t say much until I see how it all plays

In conclusion. Could be good, probably will be disappointing

the sims team really don't get it what people want and at this point this is just sad...

"find love after a breakup" even though sims don't remember or feel anything or care when they're dumped lol Honestly, until they make relationships and general existence more dynamic for sims its hard to get excited for any of it. I'll be more excited if its a hint for an upcoming romance pack but otherwise... sounds like it will be just as shallow as sentiments were. I'm also really not excited for this new update delivery thing, where they break my game but don't give me any patch notes to warn me about it

OMG the laugh after the window segment 💀💀 Thank you for bringing the sarcasm while still being informative!

Thank you for making a bite sized summary. I can’t always afford the time to watch the entire stream or a reaction of the full stream. This gave me the highlights and an appropriate amount of sarcasm. Thank you!! 👍🏻

How can they call “Finding Love After a Breakup” a challenge when you can get married to complete stranger in one sim day?? What is the challenge here? Getting rid of the sad emotion? Two paintings and romantic lamp in the room and your sim have never been sad Knowing Sims 4 they for sure won’t add new mechanics or change anything deeper than UI level so I don’t expect dumped sims to fail flirting more or the house set up to having half of furniture as sometimes happens after break up. Even these changes are a surface level and quite boring but I am very sure even they won’t be present in the game Even in DHD pack all they added was new UI, no lines of actual gameplay in the code. What else can we expect from the free update

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excited to see what modders do with scenarios more than what EA does, lol

I'd be more interested in pack refreshes, people already do scenarios without the need for them being in game.

I read scenarios and I was hoping they would be like TS2, like parties or putting your kid in a private school...

I expected quizzes in live mode like the ones we have in the CAS. 🙁 There's already a goal in the game about getting 1 million simoleons. What's the point of this scenario? Saving us time on enabling the cheats? What's the point of starting your Sims life in an already furnished house? Love your honest "enthusiasm" announcing this new update. Never change.

I don't really see how this is meaningfully different from playing an existing family, except you have the goals picked out for you. Like when you jump into an existing family usually there's some implied challenges and implied backstory like coming off a bad breakup or something.

I would like to see more longer, let’s play type content like the Super Sim series. I don’t play the sims at all but I enjoy your soothing narration style and sense of humor a lot!

So just like the home decorator pack when you can already go into homes and redo them, we're getting scenarios that the community already does as well? I already do money challenges, baby challenges and runaway teen challenges so whats the point of this? No doubt someone is going to be excited though.

No doubt these Scenarios are going to fall flat by comparison to existing creator Sims 4 Challenges. Just add more clunky gameplay mechanics that I won't ever use, ignoring existing and well-documented in-game bugs. It's fine. I'll keep going along with it. 🙄

You are my favourite Sims channel when it comes to Sims news, reviews, and opinions! I've been a follower (starting with the website) since The Sims 3 days! Thank you for always making high quality and informative (and funny) videos ❤

These scenarios feature kind of reminds me of the Sims Life Stories and a bit of Castaway Stories, where you play a sim with a storyline and/or a set goal to play out. But, most likely not as in-depth and more just giving you a set aspiration for the household and hopefully giving a sort of challenge. But, as the Carl stated, people already do as such for stuff like challenge let's play you can watch on UKposts. Sort of similar to Rags to riches. But, hopefully they'll give more scenarios with more variety to try out. 😀

The way I understood Scenarios was that you had to go out to the main menu of the game to trigger it, i.e. the game itself won't recognize that e.g. you've broken up with a Sim and then offers you to play the scenario. Going out to the main to trigger it is not an immersive way of playing the game. Thus I'll probably forget about the scenario while I'm playing, i.e. the only time I'll see it is when I start up the game. However, due to the fact that I play the game for a solid 5-8h straight and then I won't touch it for like a month 1,5 later, I will have no clear recollection of where I was in my gam. Therefore I probably won't be sure if it's a fitting time to start a scenario or not.

Nice to hear from you. I get it, it's been real dry in the sims world. Look forward to your expanding content next year. Take care.

I'm mad that I spent all my money on this game and have gotten so bored that I haven't played it in a year 😓 it's more fun to watch your videos than to play the game. Thank you for keep us informed and keeping things fun.

A scenario gamemode is something that I definitely think will help flash out gameplay, it's surprise they only thought to add it out this late in the series

A memories system would be sick, I mean it kind of gives a bit more history to the world your Sims live. P.s link Johnny Zest to the Landgraabs 😂

I'm not mad about the "Scenarios" feature per se, but with the timing. Why now, of all things this game lacks? Oh, and hello Carl! Hope you're doing fine, love your content, bro :)

The best part of all of this is literally CAW mod. Ooof. I'm legit excited for that though!

I’ve already been briefed on the “update stream” but I came here for the extreme sarcasm and disappointment I needed to hear!

I wasn't expecting them to port a full-fat version of Bustin' Out for the base game, but I expected something akin to a *heavily trimmed* version. They have the Aspirations system already; they could *easily* use that to create a Bustin' Out-style tutorial-esque Scenario. I *hope* this system is much more ambitious under the hood and modders can actually make something akin to the console Sims games.

Jumping over into Paralives news sounds like a great idea.

The tone...oh carl....you're 1 of a kind

Excited to hear the mention on nostalgic content! Would love to see some sims 3 or even 2 video content from you. You 1000% HELD ME DOWN during the sims 3 era and help me so much with TS4 too. Wish I’d had you back in the sims 2 days, or even now, as I just started playing that one again and am a tad lost at times… ha

great shout out to mexi, his CAW looks amazing

I think scenarios could be pretty cool depending on how well they could work with the various challenges. Or better yet, let us create the scenarios! It would be nice to more or less have something keeping track for me if I were to do the 100 baby challenge, and being able to restrict my sim from getting a job or getting married (just to remember that it's a part of the rules or whatever) could be very handy and fun.

I would love new nostalgia content! As it stands, I get that from rewatching your reviews of TS3 expansions.

Thanks for covering the stream, good to see you in my notices! Hope you're doing well and having a great week! Best of wishes.

It pisses me off that they’re going to blatantly rip off of simmers challenges that we’ve been doing for years and calling it innovative

Learning that scenarios aren’t in game and are just sims challenges is just annoying. But what pisses me off is that they take things from packs and put them in base game which is unfair to the people who bought the pack. I don’t see why they cant make one new hair instead of taking it from people who paid??

CARL!! It's great to hear from you! I haven't seen any new videos from you lately. Glad to know you're okay!

excited for the new year and seeing what nostalgic content you'll be doing on the channel! i've watched your whole super sim series and really enjoyed it!

scenarios only interest me because i can never play long enough to care about finishing my own scenarios (and i usually get too overwhelmed by having to do everything myself) so maybe by having something i can actually tick off and have a tracker thing for, i may have more reason to do it, if that makes sense? but then again, maybe not. Shall have to wait and see i guess

As always, thank you for your videos! Had no idea anything new had been announced so I appreciate you giving us the breakdown.

Thank you so much for this summary! I was too lazy to watch the 2-hour stream, but wanted to know what it was all about 😄

Glad to see you back ❤️

Ooooh paralives update I'll be watching! Something to be excited about there! I thought scenarios sounded neat when I saw people's video titles but I can't believe how basic the money one was lol. Felt very out of touch as a lot of people do this already and they're adding nothing to it. Step one, create sim, step two, make a million dollars. Ok sims. Maybe would have been better to wait until they at least had 4 before releasing? Not a very exciting fall/winter season for Sims :/

So happy to hear from you again, even if there's nothing really going on in sims news!

It sure was great to here from you Carl, you were missed!

Just excited to see this in my feed! Missed you ❤

I can't wait for your reaction to when scenarios are live.

Hi Carl! Feels like it's been ages, glad you're here with us! Thanks for the summary, too! (I watched part of the stream, but was underwhelmed and bored, not interested in scenarios, I play with Sims I raised, only rarely with actually newly created Sims or families)

thanks for the video, carl!!

Wow I didn't even get a notification for this, I just randomly decided to look up your channel.

Yaaay! Missed you, Carl. I hope you are doing well. :)

So, if I chose too many toddlers, and my sim completed it, then later died from old age, do I pick a new scenario with one of the kids? or is that just meant to be the end of the game lol I've gotten really fed up of the generational gameplay. I'd have several new sims I raised from toddlers, but if I want to play with just one, the other six will die unemployed, friendless, no family, etc.. It's so lifeless and boring... idk if the sims 4 team are uncreative or if higher ups are squashing their creativity or what, but this just sucks

Good to see a video from you ☺️ I hope you are doing well

I've been looking forward to a new video from you

Great video as always

I'll take a Dine Out refresh, thanks.

As ever an amazing video, well thought out. I agree with the point u made. The scenarios are challenges and maybe that's what they are going for

Missed you, Carl! I was just wondering where you were today but I guess there hasn’t been much to report on 😅

To be honest it seems like they are slowing down with the sims 4, and they seem to be giving up. Like no new packs for the rest of the year, only kits 🤮

commenting for algorithm! youre the only sims content creator i watch :) youre straight to the point and deserve more views!

Thanks because I wasn’t sitting thru the livestream

Yay been waiting for your video Carl!!! My go to dude for all Sims!!! Carl as much as I follow your tutorials for mods and CC I can't figure it out. Mods in the other Sims 1 through 3 were easy ! I know it's something small I'm not doing right. No other sim UKpostsrs will answer my cry for help. 🤞 ✌️💜🙏 ✌️🖤🙏

I missed you, Carl! ❤️

This scenario thingy reminds me of that campaign mode you had in the sims medieval where you had objectives with certain sims to be satisfied in order to win.

What would we do without you! A million thank yous!!!!

thanks for another informative video.

Honestly, this is dumb af. No regrets on hopping off this train a long time ago. This vid caught my attention because of it saying new features.. I can add my own scenarios any time I want without EA babying me about it or forcing me into picking one. But have fun to all the people who still play sims 4, hope it’s not really as dumb and boring as it sounds.

Thank you for watching the livestream so I don't have to. I try but find it soo boring. I find you 100% more entertaining.

Carl, you're the best in the game my guy! Keep doing what you do!!

Yay!!!! I'm disabled so I'm excited!!!! I didn't know the petition existed but I know discussion within the community has gone on for years.

thanks for the video :)

The current Sims dev team doesn't seem to understand what the sandbox genre is like how earlier Sims games were. We don't need premade challenges of things we already make up in-game.

looking forward for that “nostalgia content”!

the scenario challenges are like the goals in 2 point hospital, which i actually really like , so im hoping theyll be good.

Its a good thing I kept my expectations low

I'm more excited about what you have planned for next year than I am the current updates/expansions of Sims 4.

So scenarios are just "one or two steps removed out of an aspiration except without the reward?" Yikes. Looking forward to those future videos you mentioned at the end, those seem like neat topics!

Spiral staircase. Normal diving board. PULL YOUR HEADS IN, MAXIS! Listen to people who buy your product. The options for this game are endless. I personally hope they'll make a space station, but I'm not holding my breath.

Am I the only remembers and LOVED the TLR (the Sims Resource's) Challenge Scenario Wizard thing for Sims 2?

We’ve missed you carl

Scenarios would be cool if they would put in the challenges that are hard to keep track of. The standard legacy challenge is really hard to keep track of and it would be great if there was an in game feature telling me if I had already used this or that trait for a sim when I'm on the 5th gen. Money though is really easy to keep track of in game especially if you start with nothing and doesn't seem like something you need. I'm hopeful that even if they don't add in the hard challenges that modders will.

Thank you for that summary! Lol don’t have time to watch them talk and talk and talk 🤣

Idk why on watching this, I will still continue to play sims 3..but I like your voice :)

The fact that I don't even watch the Sims streams anymore, I just wait for Carl 😂

first 30 seconds: oh thank god

I'm not holding my breath, Carl. The best packs, kits and addons have been from modders. The sad part is without them I wouldn't even be touching my copy of Sims4... Go to School Meaningful Moods Slice of Life Brookheights Dunkin Brands Pufferhead Stuff Ugh and even scuzzy Wicked Wims are far better than what we've recieved from EA/Maxis. I thank all the modders for the overlays, clothing, bb recolors and reskins. After all that vanilla is nearly unplayable for me.

Sims team: here are some challenges ig, using the stale/broken mechanics of our current game TwistedMexi: **releasing a literally world-changing mod soon** aw how cute

It’s becoming fairly clear that development on TS4 is now just being used as a cash cow as the development of TS5 rushes ahead, meaningful content is fairly unlikely to be added to the game at this point. I wonder if we’ll ever get those spiral staircases.

Also if you want the missing loft window a cc creator put one out AWHILE ago for the free

Memo to me: stop expecting EA to listen to our demands, they never listen!

Aren't these SCENARIOS just a Maxis in-game version of the challenges that players come up with in the forum? Those sound a lot more interesting than these two "things" that still will need fixing when released (but isn't that becoming the Maxis way, release, then fix, eventually, loft window notwithstanding).

The scenarios, players have been doing them since day dot on TS4. Sure, some players might not know of some of the challenges, but wouldn't be too hard to do. With two sims i have, am doing a rags to riches type one with them, with the second of the two sims having done a runaway teen one. So really, these "scenarios" are nothing new at the end of the day, they are just being shown directly in-game to you. So yes, nothing new with them honestly, with what we know about them so far.

I think it's interesting to consider what happens if they add more existing challenges to the game. I know these challenges have been around forever, so idk if you can track creators, but things like the million simoleons scenario is basically a legacy start with a twist. Do the originators of these challenges get paid? Like say they did the 100 baby challenge as a scenario. Just curious!

If they can actually make it where they don't break mods in the future, I'll be happy, but that sounds to me like Sims 5 is coming out late 2022. We all know they're wrapping up Sims 4 (at least within a few years for sure) but why else would they say no new worlds and worry about mods (or at least, promise not to break them) unless they're not really doing anything that involves coding after a certain point in time? Definitely makes me think Sims 5 is coming sometime soon. I also suspect there won't be a lot of Pack refreshes and it's possible no major bug fixes but then I'd be much happier if they did that first. Also, LilSimsie was like "I know nothing" and I believe her because when it comes to Sims 5 we don't even know what sort of system they'll have in place to promote the game among streamers so why would they bother to tell the current Game Changers? It'd give them a leg up but that just makes it more likely something will get leaked.

I hope you do work on some legacy Sims content Carl! I've given up on TS4 (though I love watching your updates, you have the right level of cynicism compared to many UKposts Simmers who make turds sound like diamonds lol) - but it was UKposts Simmers who play the old games who made me realise how many cool features and aspects of TS2 and TS3 I'd never noticed or appreciated when I was a kid and teenager playing those games. So I'd love if you turned your guides / OG Sims content into video content!

I think this choice of scenarios would be interesting if it were used as an organizer for challenges that players have already created. For example this 100 bae challenge that EA is sponsoring, this scenario option could be noting how many boyfriends/girlfriends your sim has already got and maybe suggest ideas on how to conquer them (like asking for a date in place X or Y).

I guess if nothing else, being able to set up a rags to riches scenario with the click of a button and maybe get a badge or something after is a nice convenience.

Sounds like challenges with with little twists.