Bear costumes are offered, campfires can be attended

Jan 14, 2015 07:18 GMT  ·  By

The development team at Maxis and publisher Electronic Arts are pushing forward the expansion process for last year’s The Sims 4 by launching a new piece of content called Outdoor Retreat, which is designed to allow gamers to explore nature with their characters and engage in some new activities.

The trailer shows the new location of Granite Falls, which has been created from the ground up to allow stressed and preoccupied characters to get out of the city and explore the woods, which contain surprises like herbs and insects.

The official announcement for Outdoor Retreat for The Sims 4 adds, “No camping trip is complete without the proper supplies. Your Sims will be able to purchase a tent and outfit themselves in new hiking gear. For the less adventurous Sims, they can still camp out in the comfort of their backyard.”

The new unique activities for the life sim include horseshow, hermit hunting and stargazing, and once the characters are relaxed they can gather around the campfire in order to tell stories, either fantastical or horror-themed, or simply drink out of the new cooler item.

The Herbalist skill introduced to The Sims 4 is designed to allow gamers to create remedies and to identify plants.

The game is also getting access to bear costumes, which allow characters to scare their friends and generate some unique situations.

The Sims 4 will create an eco-system of DLC

When The Sims 4 was launched, plenty of fans of the series appreciated the way Maxis tried to streamline the experience and make the personality of each character more important to the way they interact with others to evolve.

But the title also had issues and plenty of community members were critical of the tendency to restrict the complexity of the title and to limit the options gamers have.

Cynics are saying that Electronic Arts put less content than usual in the core The Sims 4 package because it wanted to get more money from the fan base in the coming years by launching downloadable content, like the now available Outdoor Retreat.

Maxis has also said that it wants to listen to the desires of the community and will move fast to solve any issues that it flags.

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