In case your Sims 4 nights have been missing a sure prison frisson for the final 11 years, issues are about to get a complete lot extra thrilling. Over a decade after its launch, The Sims 4 has lastly added the collection’ iconic burglar as a part of its newest free replace.
The burglar was, after all, a perpetual looming menace throughout the primary three Sims video games, threatening to slide onto your lot at midnight – accompanied by a dramatic musical sting – so as to steal your valuables and scarper. Assuming the police did not get there first.
Sadly for followers of late evening thievery and stripy knitwear, burglars did not make the minimize when The Sims 4 launched in 2014. However now, greater than a decade of nocturnal peace is about to be shattered because the collection celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary.
As detailed in EA’s announcement, The Sims 4’s burglar – now named Robin Banks – behaves equally to her earlier counterparts. She’ll sneak into properties after darkish when residents are asleep, shoving objects into her sack earlier than making her escape. Her stealing spree can doubtlessly be stopped, nonetheless, if Sims name the police earlier than she flees into the evening.
The purchasable burglar alarm is again too, guaranteeing the police will arrive in time to make an arrest – and offering different safeguards if Sims are useful sufficient to put in them. A suitably geared up alarm can, as an illustration, zap a passing burglar, inflicting her to drop her stolen items. Moreover, daring (and ideally gym-fit) Sims can take Robin on in a one-on-one battle.
EA says it is added a complete of 37 player-directed interactions and 50 distinctive reactions regarding the burglar throughout The Sims 4’s base recreation and 17 totally different packs. Relying what expansions you personal, canine can chase burglars out of the home, werewolves can intimidate them into leaving, spellcasters can deter them with magic, and Servos can zap them into place. Scientists, in the meantime, can immobilise them with a Freeze Ray, and vampires may need a late evening snack.
If all that sounds a bit a lot, EA notes burglar visits shall be uncommon by default. Nevertheless, these wanting to extend the frequency of break-ins can activate the Heist Havoc Lot Problem, inflicting burglars to show up extra usually and doubtlessly making alarms go on the blink.
The burglar is out there now as a part of The Sims 4’s newest free base recreation replace. This paves the way in which for its upcoming Companies & Hobbies Growth Pack – letting gamers run all the things from a pet cafe to a tattoo parlour – which launches subsequent Thursday, sixth March.
All this comes as The Sims collection celebrates its quarter-century anniversary with a spread of occasions, together with (considerably wobbly) remasters of The Sims and The Sims 2.
