July won’t end Sims 4 as a sign of the only new expansion of the high school, within Supplement “Senior School Years” there will also be a free update that will add sexual orientation to the sim creation tool. This includes straight, gay, and bisexual Sims, as well as Asexual or Aromantic Sims.
The new Sexual Orientation feature allows you to assign a range of attractiveness settings to your Sims. In the image below, you can see what the sexual orientation feature will look like in the Create Sim tool. There are three new options to choose from: My Sim is Attracted, My Sim finds out they’re in love, and My Sim wants to make love to them.
The update will be released on July 28 this year. More on the options below:
MY SIM IS ATTRACTED
These are simple positive statements that clearly state who your Sim is attracted to. If a Sim whose gender does not match the one your Sim is attracted to attempts to romance your Sim, they will be rejected.
You can check any combination of attractiveness (that is, all or nothing) that reflects your Sim’s romantic orientation. Later we will be able to extend this function to other gender identities that are not ready at the moment.
We recognize that the situation where this initial choice is only binary is not ideal. However, mechanically non-binary Sims do not yet exist in The Sims 4. While we have made significant progress in representing non-binary sims with pronoun updates, we are clear that pronouns are not the same as gender identity. We understand that we still have a lot of work to do in this area. I’ll talk more about this in the FAQ, according to the developers.
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MY SIM KNOWS HIMSELF IN LOVE
This setting determines if your Sim’s sexual orientation can change during the game. In this setting, the creators wanted to capture two big stories.
The first is the story of a man who has already figured out who he is, and quite clearly understands who attracts him. For such a Sim, this option will be disabled. These Sims will not change orientation during play and will explicitly reject offers from Sims of a gender they don’t like.
The second story is about a Sim who is not clear yet. Sims with this option enabled will also choose their initial sexual orientation (see previous step), but this may change during gameplay. As your Sim goes through various romantic relationships, they can gradually change completely from where they started.
MY SIM WANTS TO ACT WITH LOVE
This setting determines who your Sim can make love to. If you want to tell the story of an asexual Sim, you can leave all options unchecked. Similarly, you can tell a story about aromantic sims who are interested in love but didn’t choose the romantic attraction option. More information can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions section.
You can also tell even more specific stories, such as Sims being attracted to different genders but only interested in being physically intimate with one of them.
Source :Indian TV
