playing outdoor retreat for first time in 8 years
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- Revisiting Outdoor Retreat!
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Imagine finding celebs irl just randomly in the woods. Like you’re knee deep in beetles and bam there’s Keanu Reeves.
Apparently justin beiber was seen on a mountainbike in a forest outside of a northern swedish village s couple of years ago, if that counts lol.
** i just vaguely remembered this while falling asleep yesterday but I looked it up and yep in 2017 he was hanging out in the woods around the village Boden in northern Sweden, it was on the news and everything. Apparently it was between gigs in Norway/Sweden. Well the more you know lol
Keanu would probably invite you to fish with him. He's a chill dude😂
....Shia Lebouf
out of context this is hilarious
@@animaloversammy ACTUAL CANNIBAL SHIA LABEOUF
Outdoor retreat needs a refresh. Some work on the world itself, swimmable lake, more outdoor activities and the ability to live there if you want.
I don't care about living there, I just want the option to visit the world like a day trip. Unlike Selvadorada, it makes sense not to be able to live in Granite Falls, since it's supposed to be like a protected national forest where paying for the rentals helps contribute to the rangers' salaries and keeping the place nice. But I would love the option to just come there in the daytime without planning an overnight stay. Wouldn't it be neat to have a little popup if you're still in Granite Falls when it gets dark that says "The park is closing for daytime visitors. Would you like to return home or rent a lot to stay overnight?" and the "stay overnight" option would bring you to the same menu you use now to plan a vacation there.
Totally agree with you about making the lake swimmable. My storyline-headcanon for why it isn't is that the water is too cold, but Sims will autonomously try to swim outdoors in winter elsewhere so that doesn't work as well as I had thought.
I would love to be able to live in Granite Falls!
they REALLY need to refresh the older worlds and make the lakes swimmable!
@@dbseamz Ooh I’d love it if they’d also make park ranger a career along the same lines as a conservationist from island living. But I do still think it’d be cool if they expanded Granite falls to have a small resort town area where people could live feasibly.
Completely agree👍🏻 I am surprised that after the Spa Day refresh this one was not immediately in production for an update. After all this pack was the first and probably needs more help than Spa Day did! I think that ship has sailed unfortunately😞
I love how lilsimsie is like either super chill and sweet or like panic panic at the disco when she plays the sims.
disturbance at the dancing place :)
@Logan Floor 🅥 not the case
I wish I had half the energy on those days. For real I slowed her playback speed down. Bless her for sharing, she is so creative so fast it just pours out.
the sim getting struck by a lightning and dying, while kayla is trying to give an honest review about the pack is very on brand
She definitely did it on purpose lol
@@perpetualsunshine6035 I was like there’s NO way that was accidental 😂
no she for sure killed it bc you have to be struck i think 2 or 3 times to die.
Lmao the sim got laid then immediately got struck by lightning and died and the guy she laid was just like welp that sucks 🤣 I just cannot imagine 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Petition for Stanley to go camping, and try to make money from bug collecting. I'm sure he'll enjoy that!
ooh yes
Keep in mind that outdoor retreat goes really well with jungle adventure. The fact that almost everything is portable means you can take it with you to the jungle. It eliminates the need to buy bottles of shower when you can take a full collapsible shower with you. It's good for vacations on a budget.
This is genius advice
Sometimes when I want a harder rags to riches, I'll have my sims live at the campsite. Not having enough money for another day is a fail state, and they can only have a home when they can afford to buy it outright.
Oooh, that sounds fun.
Ooh that’s my favorite way to do rags to riches too! ❤
Ohhh good idea!
i suddenly must do another rages to riches....right now......
Money might be hard to get at the start but once you get farming, or painting or whatever, the money comes too fast, there really isn't any struggle after a week or two.
i read the title as « playing outdoor for the first time in 8 years » and i was like damn, talk about chronically online 😭
im laughing so hard at this rn. why go outside irl when you can watch your sims go outside instead
The actual chaos occurring as Simsie is just chatting with us lol
My strongest memory is Dan and Phil going camping with Dil and Bob & Eliza Pancakes lol
Yesssss
dont forget about the bear jumpscare and haunted garbage bin!
good series tbh
literally all i could think about this entire video. so many memories 😭
Big same! I didn’t even own the Sims4 at the time but I really wanted it… I’m gonna go put that playlist on and live in some nostalgia
i take my sims and their extended family to a big cabin every winterfest. my favorite way to use outdoor retreat.
I used to love sending my sims camping on their honeymoon 😭
Outdoor retreat with Seasons is a whole other world.
Eternally wishing that EA would let the sims team refresh more packs even though it clearly wasn’t a super profitable endeavor
something to keep in mind. there are FREE tents in the sims from back when sims sessions happened. you can still find them on the gallery if you look up sims sessions. they even have the toddler stuff lights, and food stalls.
as someone who hasn’t bought outdoor retreat i’m still kind of desperate for it because i miss camping irl and so i want to live vicariously through my sims
Even though it's old I definitely still recommend it. If you can buy it when it goes on sale it's definitely worth it!
@@adelinelacroix6743 Agreed! I love this pack even though it's not as "big" as the newer ones. Its just so cozy
plus if you're into the rustic furniture the bed swatches slap hard
I literally bought the pack for that double braids hair LMAO
If you want options, you can get Snowy escape. There's a tent in that pack and sims can go camping with it just like in Outdoor retreat.
Cloudgaze / Stargaze interaction came with this pack, and a TON of people use that all the time to build relationships!
outdoor retreat, lil campers, cottage living and country kitchen kit make for great backwoods lot builds. Love making forest homes.
I do appreciate the amount of shoes and use a lot of them all the time. I wish we got a minimum of 5 new shoes for every EP and GP. My biggest gripe is the lack of opportunities to find the bugs and plants, especially when you can’t plant them because of bug issues.
I'd love if we were able to raise the bugs as well. Collect a wild specimen, put 'em in a big terrarium like a fishtank, and boom, infinite bugs. We can raise bugs with Eco Lifestyle now so it wouldn't even be out of the picture if they ever refreshed it. Which they won't but hey, for now it's free to dream.
@@biblicallyaccuratecockroach I think Little Ms Sam has a mod that lets you make all herbalism recipes with plants only, it's super helpful, so you don't need to be going on vacation 24/7 to find more bugs.
Definitely gonna play an herbalist spellcaster who knows the copypasto spell.
@@bigawesomewatermelon9511 Only way to make it work without breaking out the bug spawners from debug. Unless the GtW cloning machine works on these? I'm unsure.
@@biblicallyaccuratecockroach There's at least 1 greenhouse on the Gallery with all Herbalism plants growing and shelves stocked with all the bugs. Just add a cloning machine and/or Spellcaster who knows Copypasto.
This pack brings back childhood memories of camping with my family. They really took a lot of inspiration from campgrounds in canada.
Now that we’ve had a lot of occults, I’d love to see how Vampires holds up.
I like vampires in The Sims 4, but the world disappoints me. Theres nothing there..
@@jessicarvalho13 Indeed. Five lots, one is empty, and another's a mess (Vlad's castle, although to be fair to them big places ARE difficult). Also the world itself is pretty bare on details, and a pretty huge missed opportunity to have a hidden lot on the boarded-in cave entrance. Heck, I'd accept it being a new entrance to the Forgotten Grotto caves. Just something to fill the world. There's bits of scenery like a couple garden benches off the path near the edge of the cliff, but there's not much point in roaming when the world is so small and sparce.
@@biblicallyaccuratecockroach
I really feel bad about deleting Vlad because Vlad is so iconic but I badly want to build a grand Victorian/goth church there 🙃
@@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah You can still pick him up from a new save, or from the Gallery, and move him back to town if you want him back. Maybe the IRS finally caught up to him for all the property taxes he's been evading for the last hundred years, and after being evicted he now has to live down the road across the Vatores and feel sad for losing his mansion 😂
Other than the lackluster world, it's still one of the best game packs if you want what it offers. On-theme CAS, multiple gameplay paths, aspirations you can't just finish in a day, no gamebreaking bugs, constantly updated with new packs (like umbrellas, ability to exclude vampires from coming to your house etc.). Dare I say it's the best pack from the era it came out in, almost no other pack holds up this well still.
You can make the bug repellent from this pack and use it to protect your SIM from insects on their jungle adventures. So you're SIM won't be bothered by airborne gnats, public bathroom mosquitoes and random attacks by bees etc while excavating will only occur after the repellent wears off. I recommend a reapply every 4 hours to repel all those creepy crawlies.
Game pack was released in my birthday. I asked my parents to buy it in Origin that day, they allowed, I was a happy child 😊
I looove simsie’s building videos, but the chaotic energy of her lets play’s are just impeccable
Honestly, love the game play throw back but I would love to see what building with Outdoor Retreat looks like 8 years later.
simsie’s recent sims 4 shell build was a tiny cabin & it basically is a outdoor retreat build! its was really good if you’re looking for that content :)
/genuine
@@softnoobie Awesome, thanks for the tip!
I hope it’s somehow possible for Maxis to make the destination worlds livable. We got the rental lot type but not the livable world type. I have my fingers crossed they free Granite Falls and Selvadorada.
I had no idea this was the first ever pack! I didn't play the sims around this time but I got Outdoor Retreat about a year ago and loved it ever since! My sims always get great mood buffs after they've been camping.
I was obsessed with this pack when it first came out! All my households went on vacation at the same time!😂
That's how I was with cats and dogs! I just found six saves from 2017 of different siblings and all of them had like 4 pets each. Revisiting that and having to take care of them all was... interesting
At 7th level handiness, you an talk to (view) the mascot statue and get a blueprint to build those. They cost 375 to make, but can be sold for up to 5000 on the selling tables. I use this as a way to make quick money.
This is not well known apparently. I mentioned it another video, and many didn't know about it.
"And I can link that down below for you"
Says Kayak.
That's it, she just says it most of the time. I don't fall for it anymore.
😂
😅
I feel like they should do a refresh of this pack
I know lilsimsie has expressed in the past that she isn't the biggest fan of the Island Living pack (gameplay wise), but as someone who loves mermaids, I'd love to see her play with it again and maybe talk about ways that she thinks it could be improved. I think, while limited, its got a few cute gameplay features, and Sulani as a world is genuinely really pretty. Especially seeing as how we've gotten the werewolves recently, I wish the Sims team would go back and update their older occult Sims.
I agree!
I think the herbalism skill is really cool and I love having my sims go camping. It’s just really serene and calming. In jungle adventure I feel like there’s this pressure to complete it, but with outdoor retreat the sims can just chill and have fun and that’s it
I love these types of videos when you solely focus on older packs! These videos remind me of older game features I completely forgot about! I have been stuck in a rut playing the Sims 4 so watching these videos makes me want to go back and play with packs I don’t often use that often :)
The lots in outdoor retreat are actually so nice - some of the best EA built lots in my opinion
I love how simsie made the soothing skin balm and didn't use it on her arm 😅😢
I'm not an outdoors person, so it occurred to me to create a guy character for the first time in my life in early 2015 when Outdoor Retreat came out for me, He liked fishing, the outdoors and collecting an had a golden retreiver. . He met the hermit and fell in love with her, so I had to research how to move her to his world and get a new hermit. Meanwhile as he was dating the hermit, he collected and farmed, in rags to riches at home, to go from just having a plot of land to having a small basically furnished cabin with a large farm. When she moved in, they kept farming and built a second story to their one room cabin and also a bathroom. Eventually the oldest son went to college with some of my other characters, including Moana Motunui from Island Living in College and they started dating. After the outdoorsy guy left with his new bride, he only went back a couple of times with the family but they hated it and then I took my 3 witches only to collect bugs for their spells as they didn't not enjoy camping either.
I’m still waiting for the refresh for this one!! It’s really good, and I would still say it’s one of my favorites lol
Ngl, my favorite part of this pack is the bear fursuit. It’s so goofy looking 💀
I absolutely love the roaming bears, but dang, I wish we could disable the childhood phase of wanting to wear a bear suit 24/7
@@Kristenhas3cats If you're on pc, there is a mod that changes it to the princess and pirate costume.
@@notnormalyet that would be way better!
@@notnormalyet ooo whats the mod called
I love going camping, but i don't do it often, so having this pack gives me so much serotonin ❤ i didn't know how much i would like it
I don't have that pack, but it really gives finland and camping vibes
We need more stuff for infants. I hope there is a patch that gives infants clothes, cas, and build/buy for all the packs that have already come out.
They literally never will. The packs that came out before toddlers don’t have updates with toddler stuff. What’s likely to happen is a couple kits for infant stuff (I would say stuff pack but those are a thing of the past) and hopefully infant stuff with future packs.
They have a little campers pack for kids
I just remember being terrible at Outdoor Retreat and mixing it up with the campgrounds from The Sims 2: Bon Voyage and being disappointed there was no achievement system for going on vacation. I doubt they'll refresh it but this would be cool if they expanded and refreshed it. It could even be put into the milestones system.
I love Outdoor Retreat build/buy, they work so well with the addition of off the grid. I use the lighting options constantly, I think they're super cute, and the brightest off the grid lighting we have. I also use their boots in CAS 24/7, but then again, I wear boots in real life as much as I possibly can too...
If they ever refreshed this pack I would love them to add an archery skill which both adults and children can do.
My biggest complaint about Outdoor Retreat and the Herbalism skill is that you can't get the insects anywhere other than in Granite Falls. Like, I can take the plants home and grow them in my garden, but I have to go camping over and over again to get the insects, so that I can actually use the skill. I wish the pack added insect spawners everywhere.
I love collecting bugs, I wish you could do it in all the worlds
The fact that I’ve been playing this game for 7 years and didn’t even knew there was a hidden world with this pack.. I am embarrassed now 😭
I took my sim and her friends on a camping trip to celebrate after prom (and miss a week of school bc I cba tbh) and it was the worst! Tbf, it was snowing heavily bc it was winter but there was nothing to do and everyone kept leaving the lot for hours of the day, it was very confusing and I ended it after a weekend to take them to Mt Komorebi instead so they could ski
Video idea:
Revisit vampires!
Idk why but I think it would be fun and chaotic
I think this pack would be sooo much better if it got a refresh like Spa Day did!
I always get like lost because there's so much "off lot" space in Granite Falls😅 I have a similar issue with the Island Living world
I wish they would refresh this pack.
I feel like such an easy change would be to make granite falls/all the vacation worlds accessible to live in...
the feature i use the most from that pack is the cloudgazing/stargazing interaction. builds fun (only a little) and social at the same time without you having to babysit your sim. super useful if i want to quickly level up a relationship
I love the shoes in this pack, I still use them on most of my sims! And I feel like all the shoes make sense in a pack that (at least back then) was our only way to go hiking or exploring. Good footwear is, after all, so important. This is one of the earlier packs that I still use alot of CAS items from.❤
This is one of the three I actually have! My sister and I asked for it for Christmas several years ago and have treasured it ever since. Sure, I don't always use the camping features nowadays but goddamn did young me LOVE the way I could make my sim look like some kind of lumberjack 😂 it was my favourite thing
outdoor retreat really seems liek a cool pack, if only they would do a refresh
You should revisit old game packs!
She did Jungle Adventure recently. I think she’s playing through some older ones.
1:11 Also, let's not forget base game has a lot more hairs now too. They've added some hairs from packs to base game.
outdoor retreat is such an important integral part of my sims 4 gameplay!!!
the herbalism skill felt like we actually had to actively seek out and do which was fun to have my sim do.
the fire pit and all the camping stuff is so fun and I use the buy/build stuff in my normal houses so much. the hairs and shoes I use all the time bc theyreally helped flesh out the options we had at the beginning and still hold up now.
to me at least lol. it's a must have bc I'm so used to using the stuff a lot.
I’ve actually used this pack again a lot recently because I’m doing the Ultimate decades challenge (by Morbid Gamer) and herboralism is a really useful skill for medieval times 👌
Y'now, I only picked up this game pack last year or so, but honestly? Something about it just feels cozy. Even if it isn't much compared to the rest of the content, something about it just feels nice. ❤
that scent association thing is so funny bc someone will be burning a bath&body works eucalyptus stress relief candle and i’ll be instantly transported to thinking about the Vampire Diaries cause my mom constantly had that burning when I was bingeing that series
I also have a strong connection between food and memories, like whenever my mom makes my favorite soup, I get in the mood to watch Dexter bc I ate it for the first time while watching Dexter
I have had Outdoor Retreat for a while and I never knew that the herbalism skill can be gained there or that there was a hidden world haha, I am definitely going to try this for myself now!
I love outdoor retreat mainly because I love camping lol, but it could use some refresh, specially they should make it possible for the sims to swim there!
Yesssss
I adore this pack and so glad to see it played!
The fact that it came out 8 years ago blows my mind!
I love outdoor retreat! It’s one of my top packs. I love herbalism and all the outdoor game play. I love collecting plants in game and I love that this pack gave us really cool plants!
I love going to the park and seeing sims in the woods playing games on their phones. It's relatable, but I wish there was some kind of mechanic that they would run out of power or not have wi-fi.
I love the world, I just wish they would fix it so we could swim there. I always build summer houses for my sims to visit. I usually add a breakfast restaurant to the world and a spa for my sims to visit.
I love that simsie is playing these older packs ❤️ 10/10 content lovin it
I officially did it. I caved. I bought my first ever Sims pack since I bought the Base Game - Growing Together.
I love outdoor retreat. I love the camping option vs. rental cabin
Honestly I keep hoping that outdoor retreat will get a pack refresh, there are so many fun mechanics from other packs that could be easily implemented in that one (rock climbing, swimming in the lakes, etc). Also if they made it so we can place the bug spawners in other worlds and lots even the herbalism skill would be 10 times better. I use that skill a lot when I make spellcasters, I'll have them sell potions in tonics in a retail store a lot of times.
I need them to upgrade outdoor retreat so we can live there; seeing as we got rentals in the basegame a while back
You actually can if you own paranormal and maybe tiny living as they have new residential lots such as tiny home residential and haunted house residential.
@@dontclick7674 omg I didn’t think of that 😳
LilSimsie, you weren’t alone! I remember when this came out I was all for it! It was so neat. I still think it’s neat to revisit it with the Seasons EP!
I usually create clubs and send the club members on a weekend camping trip to bond
I love the amount of furniture we can carry in our bags from this pack.
Imagine popping out a shower from your backpack and then shower in the middle of a city center.😂
Ali woohoo’s and then is immediately struck by lightning and dies🤣🤣🤣
I know taking selfies together has replaced it, since it is more powerful, but when this first released and for years after, cloud gazing together (which came with outdoor retreat) was the best way to boost relationships ! I don’t do the herbalism skill that often because it’s very grindy but I do have a few sims who maxed it and a saved room with all the herbalism potions and I use those to set up like a crystals and remedies type shop that sells the herbalism potions. Perfect for my sims that need fertility elixirs, or for gearing up before going to the jungle.
This video ending by her sim dying is the most Simsie thing I’ve ever seen lol.
I live in the woods, go tent camping a couple times every summer for our big, long vacations, and love mountain lakes over ocean beaches. This game pack is right up my alley. I SO wish they would make this world livable!!! Granite Falls and Glimmerbrook are my absolute faves!
I just love this game pack for the cozy factor!
Can you do another no mistakes challenge!? I just binged your other ones and they made me laugh so hard!!!😂
I didn’t get The Sims 4 until 2020 and Outdoor Retreat was the second game pack I got (the first was Parenthood). I got both during a sale and I can’t say I’ve gone camping a lot, yet, but I definitely use the CAS a lot. The shoes are used in almost every household I make. I love that braid hairstyle. The clothes is pretty in my style, too. And it’s got some nice furniture. I don’t use all of it, but I definitely think it was worth it.
I was looking forward to this one! I remember when outdoor retreat was announced i was soo excited because it was the first dlc content the sims 4 had!
This pack needs a refresh so badly! I absolutely love the idea of this pack but it definitely needs a little more… refreshing. Also I wish Dine out could have all the bugs ironed out.
Outdoor retreat is one of my favorite packs both cas and build wise! I love the style of everything and the gameplay is so cozy!
Tent is great in 100 baby. The kids can come along to weddings, and take a nap. You can woo-hoo wherever whenever, just pop out the tent.
I hardly ever take my sims for vacations, but this is one world that I did enjoy visiting even with children.
My vivid sims memory is sitting in the Starbucks parking lot in my car at like 9pm just listening to music trying to download Sims 4 to my laptop because my internet at home was garbage so I had to download it elsewhere 😂 There are a couple songs that always remind me of that moment when I hear them 😄 So I totally get what you mean!
There’s a milestone for meeting the hermit 👍
I love outdoor retreat! I started playing the Sims 4 a few years ago and it was the first pack I bought after Seasons.
ur not alone with ur strange associations…the winter candy apple perfume from bath and body works and lana del rey’s ulta violence album take me straight to the sims 3
I was really excited for Outdoor Retreat when it came out because my family spends a lot of summer at our cottage and I thought this was the closest I could get to that in the Sims. Had a family of parents + two children go on vacation and... Quickly realised there was nothing to do. I was incredibly bored after the first day. Haven't gone on vacation in Sims 4 since lol
I have that same association thing but with the cowboy island in poptropica. My dad made me black bean soup for lunch and i was playing and eating. Now i can only think of poptropica cowboys when eating it. Which is kind of a fitting association actually
LilSimsie, I don't think it's just nostalgia, I bought Outdoor Retreat in 2022, and I find it charming too. My inner ten year old loves finding a secret world in the brambles and collecting bugs and insects to make concoctions, and I get happy when I see a cardinal or a chipmunk. For family gameplay, having my child Sim terrify her parents and a werewolf with a ghost story is so fun. (Her mom wants to be a werewolf, so we brought Kristopher on the camping trip, it's a whole thing.) The "bears" are so silly but still make me laugh, classic Sims.
I also think it works so well with recent packs. Living off the grid without an electric lantern is infuriating. (I bought Eco Lifestyle first and was so mad - they can make hydroponic planters but not a flashlight???) And being able to bring the portable shower on traipses through Jungle Adventure is a game changer (I'm not patient enough to stock up on waterfall in a bottle hah.) And now that I can bring adorable sleeping bags (from Growing Together) into the mix, a family camping trip including a toddler is even cuter.
I use this pack all the time because my Sims are so often outdoorsy. Everyone wears the hiking boots or utility shorts. Kids always take up scouting, so there's always a family camping trip. But I've barely messed with herbalism, weirdly enough.