The next free update to The Sims 4 will bring a brand new career path for freelancers. Yes, your Sim will be able to eschew the stability of traditional employment in favour of the gig economy, as either an artist, writer, or programmer. You’ll be able to get some new career rewards – including a laptop – and the April 16 update will also bring plenty of other new stuff. In the freelancing career, your Sim will work from home on various gigs. As with Get Famous’s actor career, you’ll have an agency which will offer you gigs to complete over time. You can opt into more jobs if you want more money, or fewer if you want more time to yourself. (No word on whether or not you’ll have to hound employers for back payments and stress out over estimated taxes, but otherwise it’s not the true freelance experience.) The laptop career reward is especially notable, since laptops were only recently introduced to the game as part of the Strangerville expansion. Now the long-requested computer type will be part of the base game for free. You can see more details on the update through today’s Maxis Monthly stream, as noted by Polygon. The Sims 4 will get new DLC of each major type in the next six months: an expansion pack, a game pack, and a stuff pack. The developers have yet to detail what those will entail, however. Woohoo: We have researched a list of the best Sims 4 sex mods Even if The Sims 4’s paid expansions have continued to come a little too frequently, there’s no doubt the free updates have added plenty to the game, too.<doc-sep>“We own eight books and zero pants.” Image : The Sims 4 , Moschino The Sims 4 is collaborating with fashion giant Moschino for a line of Sims-inspired IRL clothing, and the photos they released for it are bugging me out. Advertisement Ever since irreverent fashion designer Jeremy Scott took over Moschino in 2013, it’s become a wonderland of bright colors, bold graphic prints, and the word “Moschino” in all caps. Scott has featured imagery from video games in his work before, so this collaboration makes basic sense to me. It’s an array of the kind of clothing Scott is known for: there’s a lot of loud prints and novelty clothes, as well as some humor in the way he turns a T-shirt into a classic trench. The touches from The Sims all make sense to me too, and I think the plumbob earrings are very cute. One item from the collection, the Freezer Bunny hoodie, will be released in The Sims 4 as well. I just can’t get over this photo shoot. What in the fresh hell is this? Image : The Sims 4 , Moschino All of the pictures are real-life models inserted into Sims environments. I can feel my eyes going in and out of focus whenever I look at these pictures, like my brain is trying to figure out how this is all real. Image : The Sims 4 , Moschino Advertisement I keep imagining what they told these models. “Here, put your hands just above your crotch and look confusedly at your shoes. You there, take this log. No don’t do anything with it, just casually hold it.” It’s the clubbing scene that really makes me laugh, though. Image : The Sims 4 , Moschino Advertisement It looks like these are aliens that heard about the human concept of dancing through a third party and then were asked to recreate it. That, or they’re both holding something really tiny. Still, the bizarreness of this photoshoot is par for the course for Moschino, and whimsy has been part of The Sims ever since the first game and its viruses spread by guinea pigs. If you’re eager to get your hands on this collection, it launches online and in stores on April 13. I’m waiting for someone to make custom content from these designs. Let’s see if I can’t make this photoshoot look a little more natural with my Sims.<doc-sep>
Maxis will add a new freelancing career, as well as new furnishings and outfits, as part of a free update to The Sims 4 later this month. The new freelancing career will allow sims to work from home, and pick up gigs that they have to finish before a deadline. Sims can be a writer, artist, or programmer. Similar to the acting career in the Get Famous expansion pack, sims will sign with an agency that will help them get assignments. From there, they can pick which task they want to complete. Freelancer sims will not receive promotions, but will get pay increases as they complete more and more work. They also don’t have to accept gigs if they need a week off, or can opt-in to more tasks if they need the simoleons. This isn’t the first more modern job The Sims 4 has added. A previous free update brought the ability to become a “style influencer” and the Get Famous expansion allowed sims to start livestreaming. The April update also includes new furnishings, like a swanky laptop that can be earned in the freelance career and some plain floating wall shelves to decorate your space with and fill up with clutter. The stream also added that with this update, The Sims 4 will offer full keyboard and mouse support on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. However, the freelancer update will not be released for console with this update. Alongside these update announcements was a confirmation that in the next six months, The Sims 4 will get a new expansion pack, game pack, and stuff pack. Further details on these packs have yet to be announced. Players who want to see the update in action can check out the April 2019 Maxis Monthly stream here. The freelancer update will come for free for Mac and Windows PC players on April 16.