It's been a pretty big
couple of days for Sims news. We just got the new road map yesterday,
which teased the next three packs coming to The Sims 4 including a new
romance themed expansion pack. I just made a whole video talking about
that road map, so I'll link that down below for you if you haven't seen it, and just now I
opened up my game and I got this Sims delivery incoming notification, which means that there's
some sort of new content being added today. I think this Sims delivery stuff is
still kind of confusing to people, so basically when they do these
SDX drops it's like a mini update. They typically have a real full patch
about once a month for the game, but then they'll also do these SDX drops in
between patches, and this is just a nice way to quickly get out free content for us, so there
won't be any bug fixes or anything like that. This is literally just going to
be a tiny drop of new content. In the past, it's been like one new hairstyle, or like a couple of new hair swatches,
maybe a couple of furniture items, so it's never a huge drop, but it is free
and it's always fun to get new free stuff. Oh, and The Sims just posted about it. Okay, so make a splash with
today's free Sims Delivery Express. Dive into new swimsuit swatches
perfect for your hot Sims summer. Available now in the base
game, and we have a video. Let's see what they're getting for us. So it looks like they've just recolored a lot of
the base game swimsuits, but even stuff for kids. We haven't gotten more swimsuit swatches in the
base game since the original swimsuit update. Like, this one that she's wearing
-- this is the patterned one. I never even use that one because
I don't love the patterns on it, so it's really fun to have more colors, and it's
great to have more stuff for the little kids too. Oh my gosh, they're even showing
it paired with some T-shirts. Do you think they recolored the t-shirts too? Oh my gosh, this is a great idea. Swatch updates are such a way
to please The Sims community. I've been trying to tell them this. I've been begging for more
swatch updates for so long. Obviously it's nice to get brand new
swimwear altogether, but like going back and just adding a few more colors to the
existing ones completely refreshes them. They've done a couple of pretty
big swatch updates in the past. We got that big window swatch update. They did some new swatches on the wedding
dresses when the wedding pack came out. A lot of the base game furniture
got some new wood colors recently, and we got a bunch of new stuff on the
bathroom clutter objects recently too, but it's rare that we get CAS swatch
updates, so I'm really excited about this. This is actually really funny because in that
teaser yesterday, they said priming for passion polished my look for a sultry splash, so we kind
of knew it would be a swimsuit sort of thing, and they had the swimsuit emoji in the
tweet, but I did not expect it to be today. I thought we'd have to wait a little bit
more than 24 hours to get the update. Okay, I'm going to restart the game now
so we can go take a look at this stuff. Okay, I think I might actually start
with the little ones first because I think I'm most curious about what they have. So in the base game, we have this little one piece
swimsuit and some really cute stripey swatches. Oh, look! They've got Voidcritters too. Oh my god, that's actually really adorable. Look at this one with like the
pineapples and the freezer bunnies. We've got a little gnome swatch. Oh, so that kind of matches
the one from the swimwear kit. The swimwear kit didn't have
anything for toddlers I don't think, but now we have this in the
base game for the little ones. We also have this little gnome swatch too. And then this swimsuit -- I don't
think that these swatches are new. I feel like we had all of these already, but I
also don't ever use this, so I could be wrong. And then we also have this
little tank top version as well, which looks like it matches
the full body outfit version. It's the same colors, it's just cut off. Oh my god, look, there's matching shorts too. Oh, that's so cute.
That is really cute. And you know what?
These are like obviously meant to be swimwear, but I feel like you could
super easily use this as just like a regular tank top or a regular pair of shorts for your
toddler, especially in some of these swatches like these little stripey ones -- you could
use that as a normal pair of pants easily. And there's some plain solid color versions too. This is really nice to have. I didn't really consider this also just
being a nice like plain pair of shorts recolored for toddlers, but this is
actually useful for more than one purpose. So that's all the stuff for
toddlers, and then for children -- Am I wrong in saying that this one piece
swimsuit looks like it's completely new? Because I recognize these two, but
I don't think we ever had this one. I'm second guessing myself right now, but I am
fairly certain that this one is completely new, and it looks like it matches the toddler
one, so we've got all of those same swatches. This is so cute! I really like how they put the Voidcritters on it. That is just adorable, and it's nice nice
to have some simple swatches as well. I think that this top might also be new. I swear I've never seen this before, so I
think we have a new simple top, and then we also have a matching top that matches the one
piece and all of those same swatches again. I don't think any of these have new swatches.
These are the same as before. And we did also get a new pair of matching shorts, so we have the same ones that
toddlers got in all those same colors. This is really nice, and same thing -- this could totally be used as a normal pair
of shorts and normal tank top. I sort of expected to get some sort
of swimsuit update because of what the teaser said, but I didn't think
there would be anything for kids. I was sort of thinking that maybe if we're
lucky we'll get like one new bikini for adults, and even then I wasn't sure if the
swimsuit was supposed to be like underwear because they were making all
these jokes about woohoo in that post, so I didn't know if I was misreading it, so I'm
really glad that it actually is a swimsuit update. I don't think that infants got anything because
there's not a swimwear category for infants, so I feel like we probably didn't get anything
new for them -- these are all the same as before. But for young adults, oh my god, did
they add more swatches to all of this? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on. I think that this is like eight new swimsuit tops because previously we just
had these four in this category. We had like the bodysuit, we had the bikini top, we had this bikini top, and
then this patterned one. This is so much more than I
was expecting them to add. Okay, let me look through all these. And there's more bottoms too. We
have like a new high-waisted version. I think this one's completely new. It's not really high-waisted, it's just
higher-waisted than the other ones were, but this looks like it's going to come
in like all the same matching swatches. Let's leave it in black and
just look at all the tops first. So this is the same triangle bikini top, but in a few new colors it looks
like, a few new plain ones. This one I always perceived as being
like a kind of fancy plain strapless top. I feel like I need to go and find
the original version of this. Yeah, look, this is what the
original version of this thing was. It has like the stripe down the middle. I never ever ever have my Sims wear this, and I've
never thought about it being swimwear, but they added a second variant and then put a ton of extra
colors on it so we can use this as a swimsuit top. That's so nice. It's nice to have like more coverage as well, and then you can kind of mix
and match it with the bottoms. And this one is also just a shirt, so you could use this for anything,
it doesn't have to be for swimwear. Same with this tank top -- this is just a
regular plain tank top from the base game, but they've added a second version of it
and put all of these same swatches on it, so we just have some nice new
color variants that you can use. This shirt I never ever use. This is like the Eliza Pancakes shirt. You know what I'm talking about.
She wears this version of it, but they took this tank top and they recolored
it in all those same matching swatches as well. I still think this tank top is kind of ugly,
but I actually like it better in solid colors, and I'm not mad about having more variants of it. It's always nice to have more
stuff like this in the base game. It looks like we got that other strapless
top from the base game recolored too. I usually use this one for formal wear. I never really considered using it as a
swimsuit top, but that actually is really nice. This is that version, and normally
it only has four swatches, so I don't really ever think about this shirt. I'm kind of confused why we still have
the original variant and this one now, but I think it's just easier for us to
see all the new versions like this anyway. And you could totally match this
with like a pretty skirt or like a nice pair of pants and use it for a formal outfit. I'm so glad to have more colors. I was just not expecting this
much stuff in the update. Then we have this swimsuit
top, and I never use this one. This is the original version.
I hate this version. This is like my least used swimsuit. I just don't like the colors, the
texture, the pattern, I don't know. Not really my vibe, but this is just a nice
plain recolor of it with some solid colors. It seems so simple, but this
is such a nice thing to have. We also got this new swimsuit top,
which is a recolor of this one. Same thing, I don't really use this one
because I don't like the patterns that much. I like the patterns sometimes,
but most most often I want plain, so we have this new plain version and
it looks like a completely new swimsuit. I really really really like this version. This is my favorite one out of all of them
now, and I like the colors they picked. They're all the same colors because you can mix
and match them, but I like this purple one a lot. And then last, we have one more tank top. Same thing, just those same swatch
colors, but it's a nice plain tank top. Weirdly, it looks like they did not recolor
any of the one piece swimsuits for adults. It's just a whole bunch of new tops
and then also a bunch of new bottoms. So we looked at this one earlier, we have
this completely new bottom it looks like, and then we have a recolor of this
version to match the like triangle bikini. This one will match the bandeau style strapless bikini, and then this one has that
little buckle to match this bikini. It looks like we also got a set
of recolors of these swim shorts, so we have like a million new variants of
this pair of shorts, which is super nice. I've never noticed how bad the texture on that
little string looks, but now I can't unsee it. I hate that. But these come in some pretty simple
colors, and it also comes with white and black each of them, so you can kind
of mix and match these however you want. And these could also probably work as
just like a plain simple pair of shorts. I think that this pair is completely new. I don't know if I've seen these before,
but I could be wrong about that. The texture on these is not great either. You can tell that it's painted on, so it doesn't
really look like the best, but it's still not a bad thing to have more colors even if the
colors aren't really the best versions of them. Oh no. I'm not obsessed with this one, okay? A couple of them just look kind of weird.
The texture is just kind of strange. Obviously you can wear the same stuff across
both masculine and feminine frame Sims, but for masculine Sims we did
get this tank top recolor. I really like this sort of periwinkle
color. I think that's nice. And this one of course comes in all
of the same colors because then you can swap and like mix and match
the different pieces if you want. And then for these Sims, we have those two
pairs of shorts that we just looked at. I'm being dramatic I think. I don't really think that
these shorts look that bad. You know what it is? I think it's the lines on the side. When you look at them straight on, the side is
like having a weird visual glitch where it's kind of shiny or something, but it's not actually
bad, it's just like a visual thing where it looks weird to have it traced in white on the
edges, but it only looks weird from the front. I'm being so dramatic. These shorts are fine. I'm
sorry about my complaining. I don't hate them anymore. So these are all of those colors
again just in case you missed them, and I don't think I'm missing anything else. I feel like that was everything. I wonder if they made any new styled looks. Oh, they didn't. Okay, I've been playing around a little bit.
I have uncovered some issues. First of all, this tank top
does not work with these shorts. You can see it has like a
weird visual bug right there. You can use the other tank top, but not this one. I think it's because this
one is supposed to tuck in, but these shorts don't let you, so
it has like a weird glitch happening. I also think that this color is
my favorite of the new swatches. I really like this kind of purpley blue color. I did also uncover one other issue where for
some reason the teal swatch of these bottoms has a blue trim, but the teal swatch of the top
has a white trim, so they don't match each other. I'm sure there might be a couple other
mistakes like that somewhere in this. I feel like it's bound to happen because they
made so many swatches, but it is kind of sad because I like that teal color and now I feel like
I can't use it because it doesn't actually match. But overall, I am extremely
excited about this update. I know it seems like kind of a small
thing because it's just new swatches and like a couple of new swimsuit pieces,
but I'm going to use these all the time. This is so useful to have the
swimsuits more built out in the game, especially since so much of it is kind
of multi-purpose and not just swimwear. The base game could always use more swatches, so I am never going to complain
about any swatch update they give us. Sims Team, if you're listening to this, can
we please have some more swatch updates? My number one request for a swatch update
right now is some of the base game beds. I think we could really benefit from
some new bedspread type swatches. But if you are taking requests, the
base game beds, the kitchen cabinets, the couches, and also the rugs I think could
really benefit from some more color variation. When you're trying to make a starter home,
you end up using the same swatches on the cheapest base game bed every single time,
so I'd really like some more colors to use. I'd be curious to know in the comments what you all think would be the best
to update in the base game. If they were to go back and add more swatches
to one item, which one would you pick? For me honestly, it would just
be the cheapest base game bed. That is my number one request for more swatches. I think that's everything in the SDX drop, but there actually is one other
huge free thing right now. They're giving out the Blooming
Rooms kit for free starting today. Unfortunately, I think it's only free on
PC and Mac and not on console this time. They told us they were going to do this a
while back because they're trying to give it out for free as like an apology about the EA
app officially being forced upon everyone now. Because for a while there, only PC had
the EA app and Mac still had Origin, but they've officially rolled out the EA app
everywhere, so this I think is like a gift to the community because of the switch over, so
I think that might be why it's not on console, but I know that's really annoying
and I'm really sorry about that. But if you do play on PC and you don't have
this kit, make sure you go and grab it. You can just buy it for 0
dollars on the EA app right now. And honestly even if you do play on console, I would still see if you could try to make an EA
account somehow because then you can claim this. Even if you can't download it right now, if you can still claim it then
you'll have it in the future. Because you never know, you might get a computer
someday and then play The Sims on it then, and at least this way you'll have
claimed this now when it's free. I'll probably make an entire video playing with
this kit this week just to like really show it off and make sure you don't forget that
it's free, but go and grab this right now. I don't know how long it's going to be
free for, and I don't want you to miss it. Free stuff is always good, but I think on that
note I'm going to wrap this video up right here. If you missed my video
yesterday on the new road map, I'll link that down below so
you can go back and watch it, and if you want to come hang out I'm live every
single day over on my Twitch channel this month. We're actually doing a huge fundraiser
for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and today I am letting my Twitch chat decide
what I build, so wish me luck and I will see you over there, and make sure you subscribed
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