Maxis has anounced the subsequent base recreation replace to The Sims 4 will assist you to decide your sexual orientation.
The function will likely be out there to all Simmers when the Excessive College Years enlargement drops. You will not have to personal the latter so as to add your orientation.
With Sexual Orientation, you’ll be capable of assign a sequence of attraction parameters in your Sim. After you’ve gotten it set, when a Sim whose gender doesn’t match your attraction settings makes an attempt a romantic interplay, they are going to be rejected.
There will likely be a number of attraction containers out there to mirror your sim’s romantic orientation. In case you change your thoughts on who your character is drawn to down the road, you should utilize the “Change Sim” interplay on a mirror or dresser to entry CAS and alter any of the settings manually.
In case you depart the Sexual Orientation settings alone, your Sim will romantically behave as they at present do earlier than the function’s launch.
Sooner or later, the studio says it plans to increase sexual orientation to incorporate further gender identities unavailable at the moment.
Maxis mentioned that whereas it realizes there will likely be considerations that the preliminary choices are solely gender binary, mechanically, non-binary Sims don’t exist as a result of technical limitations.
This is because of The Sims 4 being eight years previous and reliant on methods initially architected with a gender binary in thoughts. Correct mechanical methods to completely help non-binary Sims will likely be one other step down the road.
The replace is anticipated to launch on July 28.