So I FINALLY decided to buy it due to the recent gender update lol. Here’s what I’ve found so far:
To make a trans guy with a smaller body who can grow facial hair, you’re going to want to start with the “male” choice, then hit the (…) button, and select “feminine” body type. That way you’ll be working with a smaller body type and bulking that up, and you’ll be able to put facial hair on your guy.
I took some screenshots of what the different initial Male/Female selections do with the Physical Frame choices:
1. The first is Female with Masculine. As you can see, this gives you a larger-framed person with breasts. You can change the pregnancy/clothing/toilet settings independently on your own. You can adjust breast size too so you could make them smaller, basically flat-chested. This person cannot put on facial hair options.
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2. Next is Female/Feminine. Again, you could still adjust the toilet preference so this person could pee standing up and impregnate people if you wanted to!! This person cannot put on facial hair options.
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3. Next up, Male/Masculine. Pretty standard, larger frame. They could still get pregnant if you wanted them to though. This person can put on facial hair.
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4. Last but not least, Male/Feminine. Again, you can really adjust all the details of the body to make this person look really masculine and muscular; this was just the default setting. This is the setting I used for my trans guy character. This person can wear facial hair.
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SO! Those are the BASIC body shapes, but they are HUGELY modifiable!
This is a male/feminine guy I made for one of my households. He will have facial hair, he’s just a teen at the moment.
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Here’s another trans guy!
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Rhodey what are you DOING back there, did you just realise Tony has an ass??
could this be changed during a sim’s life or is it smth you choose only once you create it?
You choose the body shape/functions once, during character creation. But as for clothing, they can wear anything you want them to at any time, so they could be a child/teen in feminine clothing but when they hit a certain point in your narrative you could change all their clothes/hair/etc to masculine stuff. They can also gain or lose weight, so I think you could bulk them up or slim them down?
[EDIT] So someone mentioned you CAN change body stuff, so I went back in to check and YES! You can change absolutely everything about your Sim’s appearance even after you start playing them. Click the mirror to change appearance as usual, but unlike previous Sims games, you can change their bodies! Want a different nose shape? New eyes? Bigger or smaller waist? GO FOR IT. Plastic surgery finally exists in the Sims world lol.
They just took down the gender division. So you can put girls stuff on boys or boy stuff on girls
You can also make a male sim with a female body and vice versa and do a lot of other customizing if you want to make transgender sims.
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Okay, so I’m rather pleased, ATM.
I’m a fan of the Sims, but I haven’t been able to play it in a couple months because my PC isn’t working right.
With this gender stuff that just came out I wanted to play it again. So out of curiosity I googled to see if I could play it on Mac or if it would make me rebuy it (which i would not do, I’m not paying twice)
can we take a moment to just think about how incredibly scary magical healing is in-context?
You get your insides ripped open but your friend waves his hands and your flesh just pulls back together, agony and evisceration pulling back to a ‘kinda hurts’ level of pain and you’re physically whole, with the 100% expectation that you’ll get back up and keep fighting whatever it was that struck you down the first time.
You break your arm after falling somewhere and after you’re healed instead of looking for ‘another way around’ everybody just looks at you and goes “okay try again”.
You’ve been fighting for hours, you’re hungry, thirsty, bleeding, crying from exhaustion, and a hand-wave happens and only two of those things go away. you’re still hungry, you’re still weak from thirst, but the handwave means you have ‘no excuse’ to stop.
You act out aggressively maybe punch a wall or gnash your teeth or hit your head on something and it’s hand-waved because it’s ‘such a small injury you probably can’t even feel it anymore’ but the point was that you felt it at all?
Your pain literally means nothing because as long as you’re not bleeding you’re not injured, right? Here drink this potion and who cares about the emotional exhaustion of that butchered village, why are you so reserved in camp don’t you think it’s fun retelling that time you fell through a burning building and with a hand-wave you got back up again and ran out with those two kids and their dog?
Older warriors who get a shiver around magic-users not because of the whole ‘fireball’ thing but the ‘I don’t know what a normal pain tolerance is anymore’ effect of too much healing. Permanent paralysis and loss of sensation in limbs is pretty much a given in the later years of any fighter’s life. Did I have a stroke or did the mage just heal too hard and now this side of my face doesn’t work? No i’m not dead from the dragon’s claws but I can’t even bend my torso anymore because of how the scar tissue grew out of me like a vine.
Magical healing is great and keeps casualties down.
But man.
That stuff is scary.
shit just got creepy
Or maybe magical healing doesn’t leave scars or damage. It is magical, after all.
So after years of fighting, your skin is still perfect. Unmarred. In fact, you’re actually in better shape than regular people who don’t get magical healing when they fall out of trees or walk into doors or cut themselves while cooking dinner. You’re in such good shape that it’s unnatural.
And the really good healing magic takes away more than just the obvious injuries. You first start noticing it after about ten years when you go home and haha, you look the same age as your younger sibling, that’s funny.
Not so funny ten years later when they look older. Or forty years later, when you bury them still looking like you did at twenty. When do you retire from this gig anyway? How much damage is too much damage?
How many times do you glimpse the afterlife, or worse, how many times don’t you? What do you live through, get used to, show no outward sign of except a perfectly healthy body, too perfect for any person living a real life.
How many times are you sitting in a tavern with your friends and you hear the whispers, because the people around you know. How can they not know? Your weapons shine with enchantments and your armour is better than the best money can buy and there is not a damn scar on you. You hardly seem human to them.
How long before you hardly seem human to yourself?
And you find yourself struggling to remember the places where the scars should have been, phantom pains that wake you screaming, touching all the old injuries and finding nothing there. It’s all in your head. Was it ever anywhere else?
How long before you’re fighting a lich or a vampire or some other undead monster and you wonder…
“Ridiculously easy buttermilk biscuits!” You click the link. It’s a novella about finding inner peace in suburbia. You never knew you were disturbed till now.
“Ridiculously easy green beans!” You click the link, there are twelve ingredients. None of them are green beans.
“Ridiculously easy salted pistachio caramel latte coffee cake in three easy steps!” You click the link. There are twelve steps.
“Ridiculously easy marshmallow fondant!“ You click the link. It’s another novella about suburbia, this time about the dangers of feeding chemicals to your children. You wonder when you acquired these children and worry about their eyes. They are too bright, too happy, too shining…
“Ridiculously easy evaporated milk custard!*” *Must own own cow.
“Ridiculously easy shortcake in 12 steps!” You click the link. There are no steps.
“Ridiculously easy, easy to make, easy in three minutes, easy!” It doesn’t tell you what you’re making but you’re pretty certain it shouldn’t be hissing.
“Ridiculously easy,” the article reads, “easy, it’s so easy, easy” you hear laughing. Your face hurts why does your face hurt?
“It’s so easy,” you tell you friends, your smile is not your own. You can feel your teeth growing, “so easy, you’ll hardly feel a thing!”
