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The New Expansion Pack's logo
New - Celestial Crystal Crown Effects and Quirk Removal
New - Fame Quirks
New - Media Production
Fame Perks Guide
Becoming a Star: The Celebrity Fame System Explained
Actor Career in Get Famous
Acting Skill in Get Famous
Get Famous Cheats
My first impressions of the Get Famous Expansion. Includes tips and ideas throughout, which will help you with the acting career, acting skill, and making your Sim a celebrity.
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Getting a celebrity's autograph. Sims' autographs are worth more when they die. Autographs appear in your Sim's inventory and can be hung on a wall.
The Sims 4 Get Famous was released on November 16, 2018. This new pack focuses on adding means of making your Sims celebrities. It adds a lot of little features and two big ones. First, there's a celebrity system that ranks your Sim's fame and will allow access to exclusive areas in the new town of Del Sol Valley (based on Hollywood). The Expansion includes a large catalog of build mode items players can buy, with a large emphasis on high-end furniture and luxury items. Players can take part in their Sim's rise to fame in a new active career, playing an actor.
Get enough fame points, and your Sim will rise in celebrity level. This is a core feature of Get Famous.
The Expansion's core feature is its Celebrity fame system (See Guide). Completing gigs as an actor, selling paintings, or performing comedy routines in front of a crowd can all give Sims a small amount of game. Children can also partake in the system, but not fully (they can reach 2-star Celebrity). They have their own drama club which will help them to get a head start in acting.
A guide to fame gains in the Get Famous Expansion. Includes good perks for helping your Sim to gain fame faster with fame perks.
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Sims go wild over Celebrities. Perhaps too wild. I hope they reduce the amount of fawning over celebs. My Sim even attempted to throw him tips when he played guitar. Let's not throw the rich dude money when we have $500 in the bank, Summer.
On each level up in celebrity rank, Sims will get perk points that can be spent. These tend to have a variety of effects, like giving you more fame gain for using skills, making mean interactions give you fame, launch your own brand, or giving them easy career advancement. Some require you to have either a positive or negative public image.
As Sims gain fame, they'll reach a new star level. Upon reaching this new level, a quirk will be assigned. Sims who do certain actions are inclined toward certain quirks, maybe like drinking lots of juice from the bar. Sims can have negative quirks, and be known for their bad reputation. As you gain fame, you'll unlock perk points which can be spent to give your Celebrity bonuses, or access to exclusive clubs.
The fame system also has a Public Image reputation system, which works somewhat like the character values in Parenthood and swings positive and negative. Being nice to fans and coworkers will likely earn you a good reputation, while mean socials and throwing a tantrum on set will decrease your reputation. Reputation is only gained/lost when other Sims can see you exhibiting your good or bad behavior. It appears that for both extremes, there are special benefits. A reputation can always be changed, but it will take effort.
A summary of the Sims 4 Get Famous livestream, detailing the Actor Career and new Acting Skill..
Acting auditions clearly state skill level requirements, so that you don't come unprepared.
Get Famous' active career is Actor. Players will take control as their budding star visits the movie or commercial set, but only after completing an audition and accepting the gig from their talent agency. There are a few different talent agencies to choose from, each with differing benefits. Players who take perks like established name will not have to undergo auditions in order to get a part, and thus may advance more swiftly in the actor career. It's presumed you can send your Sim to work autonomously, but that their performance may suffer. This is, of course, if the active career is similar to the Scientist, Doctor, and Detective careers in Get to Work.
The Acting career also comes with an acting skill, which you'll level up to get new interactions and bonuses.
The Get Famous expansion surprisingly features a media production skill, letting Sims film with drones and traditional cameras to hone their craft. You can do vlogs and have your Sim edit the recordings to boost quality, gaining followers, fame, and residual income. Here is our text Guide to the Media Production Skill.
Becoming a Star: The Celebrity Fame System Explained
An actor does a children's show. Surely not a world famous celebrity, but on their way!
Get Famous features two new Aspirations for Sims. World Famous Celebrity's goal is to achieve maximum fame and be known all around the Sims world. Master Actors will seek to max out the acting skill and career. I'll update this when I learn of the reward traits for these two, but for now I'm relieved there are new goals for Sims to pursue as we have not had enough Aspirations in previous packs. Two is not many, but it's something. Only one new trait comes with the pack - Self-Absorbed. This will make a Sim crave attention and gives them a tense debuff when they haven't had enough recently. This will be a good one for Celebrities who want to be surrounded by paparazzi.
Three new lot traits are present in the Expansion. Get Famous adds two public lot traits that will determine how many celebrities will visit the lot. Hottest Spot in town will see more high level celebrities appear, while Up and Coming Hotspot also attracts increased attention. Celebrity Home is meant for residential lots. Sims who actually live in the home will get a mood boost, while flagging this home as a celebrity home for a non-celeb will result in the 'poseur' moodlet coming up, implying the Sim is a wannabe.
New - Celestial Crystal Crown Effects and Quirk Removal
New - Fame Quirks
New - Media Production
Fame Perks Guide
Becoming a Star: The Celebrity Fame System Explained
Actor Career in Get Famous
Acting Skill in Get Famous
Get Famous Cheats
I clipped the following pictures from the trailer.
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A bouncer watches for low celebrity Sims trying to sneak into the party.
A Celebrity surrounded by Paparazzi
Children's Shows are one of the genres actors can take part in.
The new town of Del Sol Valley at night
An actor in costume and make-up.
A Sim getting make-up before filming begins.
A Cowgirl and Cowboy Butt...
More of the new Neighborhood of Del Sol Valley
Fans line up to see a celebrity
A Mansion in Del Sol Valley
On the Movie Set
A Star
Paparazzi
Pirate movie set and costumes
Sci-fi movie set and costumes
Shooting a Commercial
Throwing money to show off wealth
An Actor accepting an award - players will be able to control actors on the set to help them succeed and grow famous.
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The Sims 4 Seasons expansion now has options! Want to disable weather or make plants in season year-round? You can do so with my new Seasons Tuner Mod
The past month, I've spent every day tinkering The Sims 4, making quality of life improvements, gameplay changes, and new difficulty settings for the game. If you'd like to learn more about my project, visit the post on Patreon where you can download it now.
Cottage Living Guide! Here is my guide to new features in the Sims 4 Cottage Living Expansion
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I have much more to come, since you can actually write a few guides about this pack!
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There is a new platform tool in The Sims 4. There's also a new Sentiments system, but it'll take some time to create a guide to that. Players can also use rental lots in any world now by changing lot types of builds in manage worlds.
I've created a massive List of The Best Mods in The Sims 4 that should be very helpful to new players and those who have not yet explored modding and how much it can do for your gameplay.
New - Secrets I have a new guide to secrets in the game. If you prefer, you can also watch a video about secrets in Sims 4.
Nifty Knitting is now available. Learn all about the stuff pack on my guide page here.
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This is inspired by a new series in which I start at toddler and gradually take on the major bonuses. Here's a link to the full playlist!
I now have a guide page to Tiny Living Stuff where you can learn about Murphy Beds, the new death, as well as the lot bonuses you'll receive if you manage to keep the size of your lot down with this new pack's Tiny Home Lot Type.
New I now have a guide to Making Super Sims in The Sims 4. Look for a text version within the next 72h. It won't have THAT much more info but it will help out as a checklist.
This was inspired by a series, "Let's Play a Super Sim" in which I start at toddler and gradually take on the major bonuses. Here's a link to each part for people who are interested. You can also see the Let's Play as a Playlist on Youtube.
The Sims 4 Discover University has been announced for November 15 for PC/Mac and December 17 for Xbox and Playstation 4 consoles. Click to learn more about the pack, see my summary of the livestream or read our FAQs below.
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