The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits expansion pack revealed, promising an old-school vacation with new woodland and beachside destinations

Other than steadiness patches, The Sims 4 builders have been somewhat quiet just lately. The crew has actually been cooking, although, as a result of we simply had our first have a look at the sport’s subsequent massive second.

The subsequent main launch for The Sims 4 is Journey Awaits, the enlargement that’s simply been revealed.

At present’s trailer is transient, solely actually serving to unveil Journey Awaits to the world. As with most trailers lately, it arrived by way of the medium of YouTube Premieres, and fairly a number of individuals had been idling in chat previous to the massive second, ready for the countdown to succeed in zero.

As most gamers had already predicted, the theme of Journey Awaits is holidays, with two new places to discover as a part of the brand new goal-oriented “getaway” system: Camp Gibbi Gibbi, a woodland vacation spot harking back to youngsters’ summer season camps, and Love Highland, a seashore villa fashion resort which apparently incorporates some actuality TV impressed “challenges”.

Highlights of the pack’s new and returning options embrace the reintroduction of the Imaginary Buddy occult sort (arguably The Sims 3‘s most uncomfortable supernatural life state), modular treehouses, customisable trip venues, and the obvious capability to WooHoo in open water.

There are additionally new choices to work out with spin bikes and freeweights, and a brand new Park Employee profession, with Forest Ranger and Camp Counsellor branches. Older Sims can now acquire the Aggressive trait, whereas little one Sims get loads of new Simology of their very own, from a brand new Aspiration to extra traits, sentiments, and milestone moments.

That is virtually all we all know for now, however we solely have to attend yet one more week till the official gameplay trailer reveals extra on September tenth. Meantime, we do no less than have a launch date for the pack already: October 2nd, with the same old limited-edition pre-order goodies out there for anybody who buys earlier than November thirteenth.

The Sims 4’s most up-to-date enlargement launch has been Enchanted by Nature, which arrived on July 10. Since then, theres been one main replace, which launched final month. The DLC has been fairly widespread with the neighborhood, too.

We recently spoke to YouTuber Eva Rotky about how the sport’s construct/purchase instruments have developed over time, what stays lacking, and what she’d been as much as since Enchanted by Nature got here out. Hit the hyperlink for the total dialog – and this one if you want to appease the gnomes.