EA will implement this feature with the new High School Years Expansion Pack, but it will be available to everyone.
we already knew that The Sims 4 intends to represent all kinds of groups. That is why, at the gates of the launch of the DLC ‘Yes I do!’, EA valued do not allow downloading in Russia due to the country’s homophobic policies. the editor ended up retracting of this decision, and has continued to develop functionalities such as the one announced today: the possibility of choose sexual orientation of our Sims.
The Sims 4 allows you to change your sexual orientation through the combination of different optionsAs we read in the EA blogthe new Expansion Pack, with the name of High School Yearswill introduce an update for all players that will allow us to decide the sexual orientation of the characters through several options. Because, taking into account that technical limitations do not allow more than two genres to be added to the game, the developer has decided to improve inclusivity through other means.
As you can see in the image above these lines, the Create a Sim mode introduces three new options. First of all, ‘This sim is romantically attracted to‘, will allow us to decide the gender that will interest our character, although from EA they assure that this option could be expanded in the future with the inclusion of more alternatives.
The second option, ‘Mi sim is exploring romantically‘, causes the avatar to not have a defined preference and therefore show interest in the current two genders in The Sims 4. Lastly, the ‘My sim is interested in WooHooing with‘ gives us the possibility to choose the genders with which our sim will want to have sexual relations. This update will allow you to carry out different combinationsbecause we can have a friendship with the right to friction if our sim is aromantic, but is interested in maintaining intimate relationships with a close character.
Considering this update is coming at the same time as the High School Years DLC, it looks like we’ll be able to start changing our sims’ sexual orientation on next july 28. This is set as one more step for EA to improve inclusivity of his life simulator, because during the last months he has been releasing patches that introduce personalized pronouns in The Sims 4.
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