I just realised I forgot to mention something in the video but it's too late now lol. If you win the scenario Maxis planned for you to be rewarded with a windmill that would act as a power generator for future storms. Numenor uploaded the windmill object and a bunch of other 'lost & found' objects on modthesims back in 2005~ also I think it was brought back in Mansion and Garden stuff for a different purpose, but I've never played that stuff pack. modthesims.info/download.php?t=37660
Someone should remake this mod. clean up the scenario so the power actually does go out consistantly across all devices, and incorporate it as a somewhat rare occurance during the Seasons thunderstorms.
The power was actually consistent here. Landline phones still work when the power is out (though I suspect many people are too young to remember that), those little radios were battery powered in the past and when you lose power to your fridge you can definitely still open it and take food out. Your fridge not having power doesn't make the food instantly go off after all.
@@ovinedreamer1451 Well yeah, but there are tons of objects added post BG, and not all of them would be effected if the scenario was used as is. would be weird to be able to do kareoke or use an arcade cabinet during a power outage.
Actually, landlines work even when the power's out! I remember having plenty of power outages as a kid in the 90s and still being able to call my parents. Specifically, corded phones will work but cordless will not. They have a separate power source from the house because they're grounded hence "landline." And I guess the fridge still "works" because it's still keeping the food cold and so you can still actually feed your sims since it's 7 hours long. Was fun to see the scenario brought to life hahaha it's unfortunate that they didn't finish it and bring it back for Seasons release.
Haha yes, I remember when mobile phone boxes said "does not replace your landline in an emergency" 😀 first thing we did in the 1980s was call other family members during a power outage!
The butterflies are a part of the base game - but not the ones you can catch, those are from Seasons. The base game ones show up over healthy flower beds and are only an effect, like the flies around dirty objects and trash 🦋✨
When I heard about it I was hoping they might have created some way to turn popular challenge rules on/off so you can't do things that are against the challenge rules gameplay wise until you unlock certain things (not sure if that would be possible though.) I remember back when I was trying to do the apocalypse challenge in The Sims 3 and there are so many restrictions it was really hard keeping track of all the rules and I messed up a few times I think. The current Sims 4 scenarios seem kind of basic (like getting a million Simoleans,) but maybe they'll come up with more creative ones later.
6:55 They were reacting to the thunderstorms you placed. :D They were worth only one simoleon, so they weren't happy about having something so cheap looking in their backyard. ;) They do the same when I place Totalitarian Sky lot object thingy, and it's kinda annoying. Also - the rain was scrapped because EA/Maxis couldn't make it stop raining inside houses, so when this happened here it was expected, but not intended anyways.
Lamare at MTS is working on a huge power & phone service mod that has outages and stuff! It's still in development but it's available for testing. It's much more extensive than what was left in the game files though.
I always thought whether there was something more to writing diary in the Sims 2 or not and now I got the answer! It would be really cool if modders can expand these scrapped ideas and add them to the game, the Sims 2 was WAY ahead of it's time. Also I think at 7:07 they were disgusted with the recent purchase (being the thunderstorm) they're hard to please 🤣
The rain was apparently cut for 2 reasons: they couldn't stop it from raining inside and it caused really bad lag (back then 128MB graphics card was towards the top end of what they had to support). The mod you tried just makes the rain object buyable (also in the mod description the instructions are to place it in the middle of the lot so the rain appears centred on the lot) the mod doesn't cause the power outage itself, but spawning the old rain can trigger the scenario. There were a number of mods which enabled the old rain and they all can trigger the scenario (ones I can think of were a weather totem by Simslice I think, a Tesla coil by someone at MTS, and I believe Carrigon also made a weather spawner object, but I don't remember finding it).
i swear i screamed when i saw these chaotic strings with social bunny party and the cutscene with the party, this is so the sims 2, this is the most the sims 2 thing i have ever seen, if someone asked me how the sims 2 is different from other parts i would show these strings and the social bunny party youve made. i absolutely love this this is going to be my new facebook cover. another extremely the sims 2 thing was the string with the headmaster i just cant i cant believe someone wrote this and actually left it in the files as some easter egg, i absolutely love it this made my day thank you for showing this to us im extremely grateful
To be fair, in some parts of the world house phones work without electricity because they are on a different grid. Ours works even when the power is out because it’s plugged into its own grid.
I feel like with the fridge the effects of a seven hour power outage would be quite mild - fridges are designed to keep in the cold and only spend a small amount of time actually running. Now the stoves and especially the microwaves and toaster ovens, that would be interesting. Gas stoves could work while electric wouldn't.
Sims 2 is still the best in the series. I still have the game and expansions. It just doesn't play very well on a newer computer. I miss the game play. I thought 4 had a similar experience but it still needs more. 👍
Yeah it's a bit difficult to get it working well initially, you need the 4gb patch too. There's some useful info here: www.reddit.com/r/sims2help/wiki/index
Oh yeah I created them. It would be crazy if they actually included an event where that happened like the headmaster just shows up to your lot and starts eating cereal for hours or something.
woah... so weird how i was thinking about the power outage scenario and mod today, then i get the notification for this video :ooo i’ve been digging around in the objects.package file recently too because i’m hoping to do a video on pretty much all the scrapped bhavs, bcons, and possibly text strings that still exist in the files. from what i’ve personally seen, the power outage scenario seems the most complete out of the scrapped bhavs so honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if the modder did just extract everything as it was and maybe just finessed it a tiny bit where necessary. as for lightning - all the bhavs i found referencing lightning always mention hot tubs, so either it was never finished or it was just reserved for hot tubs. also, there are definitely more references to breakfast in bed in the bhavs and bcons ^^ the text strings are SO funny! when you mentioned misc. text strings i hoped the weird headmaster calls would be mentioned. unrelated to the bhav stuff, but tank is scripted to always crash johnny’s birthday party... except this event can also be triggered by having johnny throw any party. that’s most likely why he rocked up uninvited hahaha love videos like this!! ☺️
That sounds like a cool video idea. I find the early development of The Sims 2 very interesting/nostalgic for some reason especially all the screenshots floating around with the old lighting and ui (which is weird really because I've never played the version of the game they're from lol.) I was initially planning on just covering the power outage scenario but then got distracted by the text strings haha. There are a bunch of funny ones and the headmaster ones were great. Ah wow, I wonder why they removed breakfast in bed. Maybe they just didn't have time to get it to work. I feel like it would have fit pleasure sim's aspiration lol. I didn't notice that about Tank. I'd actually played that version of The Smith family before and sent them on vacation for another video which is why Jenny has a tan in this video but I don't think I threw a party before that (I don't play that version of Strangetown properly so it's pretty much a YT set lol.) So that's probably why.
There was actually a planned grandchild scenario but I don't think they got very far with it. It seemed that you'd get a phone call (I guess from the Sims parents,) and then it would begin but I'm not sure what you'd have to do after that (one text string mentions something about wanting a larger house.)
If they combined these cut features, the sims 2, things from the sims 3 (especially openworld) and graphics and powerful sim and build customization from the sims 4, the sims 5 would literally be the best life simulation to ever exist.
how appropriate, there was a massive storm outside my house as i was watching this :p shame they didn't bother to implement this in Seasons. would've been interesting (and honestly far better than trees constantly being set on fire/put out...)
Hey thanks for the comment. :) I've been a bit less active myself lately in the last couple of months and uploading videos less often (well besides some Spyro stuff.)
According to the mod description, they disabled the actual lightning in the mod for some reason, and your supposed to place just one storm in the very center of the lot for it to spread out properly I checked the mod files and they did reference lightning strikes, so I'm sure it's possible to re-activate them if you look into it!
Haha I saw your Sims 2 video a while back and I think it was one of the first I watched about unreleased/beta content so your video inspired me to look into the topic more. I'm glad you liked the video :)
17:23 Social Bunny Party could have been some special thing where you have multiple social bunnies on the lot, I believe they can interact with each other?
Landline phones were connected to phone cables, and while that particular phone's base is likely electrical, to charge the phone, the phone would have stayed charged enough for hours, not needing power, until it lost its charge. There are still landline phones that exist that do not rely on electrical power, but most people do not have landlines, but cell phones (which also will work until their batteries die). However, the large stereo should not have worked, but the portable one could have run on battery power. The reason why weather was not implemented in the basegame was because they could not figure out how to keep the rain/snow from falling inside the houses. In order to likely obtain the highest score, the sims wants would likely need filling, similar to an outing. The more sims you fullfill wants for, the higher the score. I wonder though, if they planned on sims rerolling wants, similar to going to a community lot?
I've never played The Sims 2 base game. My first experience (not counting the PS2 release) was Double Deluxe + Freetime. My stepmother had Double Deluxe but didn't want to share her disc so I grabbed Freetime at Toys R Us so I had a disc to play with (and snagged her double deluxe for install, when she wasn't home, lol).
Love the new video! I had no idea that anyone had actually figured out how to put that scenario in the game, really cool to see how it worked (more or less).
One of the other Mr Monster messages said something like "Because of you, I failed my field sobriety test on the way to school" 😭best Sims character and he's not even in the game.
At my grandparents house it use to rain up front but not out back and it was incredibly weird. I’m not sure why it does that but I can do that irl. Obviously not like… the most common thing so probably don’t want it like that constantly in game but that weird rain in one area but not in another actually does happen in real life. It’s incredibly weird.
Oh yeah now that you mention it my dad said that happened where he lives sometimes. It also sometimes rains in different areas of my town but not everywhere lol because the UK weather is really patchy sometimes.
I guess the phone still works during the power outage because they were afraid disabling it could lead to unfair situations. What if your sim ran out of food and was starving to death, or a fire started and you had no alarm?
I recently went back to playing TS2 and wish I knew about modding/programming so I could make an Off the grid mod. As far as I know there isn't one. I'd really like to have it for for my apocalypse challenge. The best you can do right now is not pay your bills. As others have said landline phone work even when the powers is out, but due to the risk of shock by lightning during a thunder storm you really shouldn't talk on them, although I don't think sims could get electrocuted that way, but technically if the storm is raging the sims shouldn't be on the landline phone.
Somebody mentioned that Lamare on modthesims is working on a Sims 2 power mod, I haven't tried it yet and it's still in development but there's a thread talking about it here (they've been working on it on/off for a few years the most recent post was in October): modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=592293&c=1&ht=&page=1&pp=25#startcomments I'm not sure if that could help, from the looks of it it's possible for the power to go out and then you can use a back up candle.
Great research. Thank you for finding new strings that do not appear in the release version of the game. Please tell in which resource you found them: resource name, its group and instance from SIMPE.
They were all in the text list resource in the \objects\objects.package file. the power outage scenario is just named [text lists] and in group 0x7FF37E31 and the instance is 0x0000012D(301) the social bunny party one is also named [text lists] and then it's in group 0x7FEDFE1C and instance is 0x0000012E(302) The headmaster phone call is in [text lists] and the group is 0x7F10E2FF and the instance is 0x0000012D(301) and breakfast in bed is [text lists] 0x7FDFCFA7 and then instance is 0x0000012E(302) teddy bear one is named Dialog prim string set, group is 0x7F6577D6 and the instance is 0x0000012D(301) Think that was all the ones I mentioned. There are a lot of other weird and sometimes creepy ones though lol if you look through them all (like some dialogue that seems connected to killing Sims.) Also some cool things like references to slumber parties, and being able to call someone over to help deliver the baby when a Sim is giving birth (from the emergency phone tab I think but they removed that later.)
Power outages return in the Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle and the update it came with it but didn’t return in the Sims 3 at all in any of the expansion packs and updates let alone in the Sims 2 seasons.
That's cool that they included it. I don't have most of the Sims 4 expansions and I've only played the trial of eco lifestyle a while back, and didn't experience any power outages but I only got the chance to play it for several hours lol.
I think The Sims 4 scenarios that were recently released are kind of different but have the same name. The Sims 2 scenarios like the dating meter + rewards that were released in Nightlife clearly inspired the dating system in The Sims 4 though (technically that would also be a scenario but I don't think they used that word until the new patch.)
Yeah I think it would have been better if I put it further back on the lot then it probably would have covered the whole lot instead of stretching onto the other side of the road lol.
Someone make a Kickstarter for putting this stuff back in, and I'll literally put in $250. But you have to have modding experience, cuz I ain't waiting three years
Scenarios in the sims 4 are nothing like the sims 2 ones. I will never forgive EA/Maxis for naming them scenarios. They are just dumb ui stuff and they called it a day like its something new
I liked the video, I know your ad's are skippable but I thought it was hilarious one of them was 28 minutes long & about religion 🤣...How is that relevant in the current context ? 🤔 and who wouldn't skip that ? ... I guess I'm just a hill of beans, never truly meant to understand 😞
Oh wow I've never gotten a 28 minute advert before on CZcams that is insane. The video wasn't even that long (surprisingly for me lol.) I've heard other CZcamsrs mention that they get a lot of weird ads that are unrelated to the content before though (and sometimes completely contradicts it.) You can't control what ads they pick though. I feel like they should allow you to select from topics or something. I've never tried to check because I think if you watch your own ads it's probably against terms of service or something.
Ah man that's annoying... That's the one drawback with the regular Sims updates. Not sure I can be bothered doing that for this though lol (I have so much cc although most of it shouldn't effect gameplay.) Maybe if I hear about a really great scenario or something I'll try updating stuff.
@@CalipersandTongs I hateeee updating my mods too 😭😭 but yeah tbh the scenarios are not fun at all 🤷♀️ I'm waiting for Modded Scenarios tbh, modders make everything better 😂
I just realised I forgot to mention something in the video but it's too late now lol. If you win the scenario Maxis planned for you to be rewarded with a windmill that would act as a power generator for future storms. Numenor uploaded the windmill object and a bunch of other 'lost & found' objects on modthesims back in 2005~ also I think it was brought back in Mansion and Garden stuff for a different purpose, but I've never played that stuff pack.
modthesims.info/download.php?t=37660
it kinda lowers the bills
Someone should remake this mod. clean up the scenario so the power actually does go out consistantly across all devices, and incorporate it as a somewhat rare occurance during the Seasons thunderstorms.
That's exactly what I was thinking! Make it rare and only during thunderstorms.
The power was actually consistent here. Landline phones still work when the power is out (though I suspect many people are too young to remember that), those little radios were battery powered in the past and when you lose power to your fridge you can definitely still open it and take food out. Your fridge not having power doesn't make the food instantly go off after all.
@@ovinedreamer1451 Well yeah, but there are tons of objects added post BG, and not all of them would be effected if the scenario was used as is. would be weird to be able to do kareoke or use an arcade cabinet during a power outage.
sadly nobody is taking on this project
I love learning about the Sims 2 development. This game was so ambitious.
Actually, landlines work even when the power's out! I remember having plenty of power outages as a kid in the 90s and still being able to call my parents. Specifically, corded phones will work but cordless will not. They have a separate power source from the house because they're grounded hence "landline." And I guess the fridge still "works" because it's still keeping the food cold and so you can still actually feed your sims since it's 7 hours long.
Was fun to see the scenario brought to life hahaha it's unfortunate that they didn't finish it and bring it back for Seasons release.
Ah I didn't know that lol that's cool/useful.
I wanted to say that! It seems like a lot of us are forgetting about how landlines worked now. They're not connected to power but a landline.
Haha yes, I remember when mobile phone boxes said "does not replace your landline in an emergency" 😀 first thing we did in the 1980s was call other family members during a power outage!
Lol yes I was about to comment that, so true only 90s kids will remember that.
Unless you have a cordless phone, which works on electricity.
The butterflies are a part of the base game - but not the ones you can catch, those are from Seasons. The base game ones show up over healthy flower beds and are only an effect, like the flies around dirty objects and trash 🦋✨
Yes this, I remember being a kid and only having base game and seeing the butterflies around healthy plants. :)
When the Sims 4 team mentioned scenarios in the update this is what I expected, not challenges fans have already come up with ☹️
When I heard about it I was hoping they might have created some way to turn popular challenge rules on/off so you can't do things that are against the challenge rules gameplay wise until you unlock certain things (not sure if that would be possible though.) I remember back when I was trying to do the apocalypse challenge in The Sims 3 and there are so many restrictions it was really hard keeping track of all the rules and I messed up a few times I think.
The current Sims 4 scenarios seem kind of basic (like getting a million Simoleans,) but maybe they'll come up with more creative ones later.
lol same
It's lazy
Exactly
@@Ronsquaremy that's all EA is now
6:55 They were reacting to the thunderstorms you placed. :D They were worth only one simoleon, so they weren't happy about having something so cheap looking in their backyard. ;) They do the same when I place Totalitarian Sky lot object thingy, and it's kinda annoying. Also - the rain was scrapped because EA/Maxis couldn't make it stop raining inside houses, so when this happened here it was expected, but not intended anyways.
God, that headmaster string was brutal. I kinda wish they kept it, to be honest!
Lamare at MTS is working on a huge power & phone service mod that has outages and stuff! It's still in development but it's available for testing. It's much more extensive than what was left in the game files though.
Oh that's cool I'll have to check that out.
I can't see anything about it on her page. Can you link me to where you heard that from please?
I always thought whether there was something more to writing diary in the Sims 2 or not and now I got the answer! It would be really cool if modders can expand these scrapped ideas and add them to the game, the Sims 2 was WAY ahead of it's time. Also I think at 7:07 they were disgusted with the recent purchase (being the thunderstorm) they're hard to please 🤣
Oh yeah that makes sense, it was only a §1 thunderstorm 🤣
From what I remember butterflies were present in base game but they had no interaction. They were hanging around the flower beds and that's it.
Ah OK I couldn't remember if they were or not.
In Simpe there was a string of text indicating that there was supposed to be a pool boy in the game
Wow I missed that one. They really planned a lot of stuff lol.
@@CalipersandTongs Yeah in the discord server someone posted a magazine images of sims 2 and it shows some sims 1 models
The rain was apparently cut for 2 reasons: they couldn't stop it from raining inside and it caused really bad lag (back then 128MB graphics card was towards the top end of what they had to support). The mod you tried just makes the rain object buyable (also in the mod description the instructions are to place it in the middle of the lot so the rain appears centred on the lot) the mod doesn't cause the power outage itself, but spawning the old rain can trigger the scenario. There were a number of mods which enabled the old rain and they all can trigger the scenario (ones I can think of were a weather totem by Simslice I think, a Tesla coil by someone at MTS, and I believe Carrigon also made a weather spawner object, but I don't remember finding it).
i swear i screamed when i saw these chaotic strings with social bunny party and the cutscene with the party, this is so the sims 2, this is the most the sims 2 thing i have ever seen, if someone asked me how the sims 2 is different from other parts i would show these strings and the social bunny party youve made. i absolutely love this this is going to be my new facebook cover. another extremely the sims 2 thing was the string with the headmaster i just cant i cant believe someone wrote this and actually left it in the files as some easter egg, i absolutely love it this made my day thank you for showing this to us im extremely grateful
To be fair, in some parts of the world house phones work without electricity because they are on a different grid. Ours works even when the power is out because it’s plugged into its own grid.
I feel like with the fridge the effects of a seven hour power outage would be quite mild - fridges are designed to keep in the cold and only spend a small amount of time actually running.
Now the stoves and especially the microwaves and toaster ovens, that would be interesting. Gas stoves could work while electric wouldn't.
Corded landline phones work without electricity because they receive enough energy to function through the line cord.
Sims 2 is still the best in the series. I still have the game and expansions. It just doesn't play very well on a newer computer. I miss the game play. I thought 4 had a similar experience but it still needs more. 👍
Yeah it's a bit difficult to get it working well initially, you need the 4gb patch too. There's some useful info here:
www.reddit.com/r/sims2help/wiki/index
The visuals you created (I assume) for the final message were very fitting. Had a good chuckle at them.
Oh yeah I created them. It would be crazy if they actually included an event where that happened like the headmaster just shows up to your lot and starts eating cereal for hours or something.
woah... so weird how i was thinking about the power outage scenario and mod today, then i get the notification for this video :ooo
i’ve been digging around in the objects.package file recently too because i’m hoping to do a video on pretty much all the scrapped bhavs, bcons, and possibly text strings that still exist in the files. from what i’ve personally seen, the power outage scenario seems the most complete out of the scrapped bhavs so honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if the modder did just extract everything as it was and maybe just finessed it a tiny bit where necessary.
as for lightning - all the bhavs i found referencing lightning always mention hot tubs, so either it was never finished or it was just reserved for hot tubs.
also, there are definitely more references to breakfast in bed in the bhavs and bcons ^^
the text strings are SO funny! when you mentioned misc. text strings i hoped the weird headmaster calls would be mentioned.
unrelated to the bhav stuff, but tank is scripted to always crash johnny’s birthday party... except this event can also be triggered by having johnny throw any party. that’s most likely why he rocked up uninvited hahaha
love videos like this!! ☺️
That sounds like a cool video idea. I find the early development of The Sims 2 very interesting/nostalgic for some reason especially all the screenshots floating around with the old lighting and ui (which is weird really because I've never played the version of the game they're from lol.)
I was initially planning on just covering the power outage scenario but then got distracted by the text strings haha. There are a bunch of funny ones and the headmaster ones were great.
Ah wow, I wonder why they removed breakfast in bed. Maybe they just didn't have time to get it to work. I feel like it would have fit pleasure sim's aspiration lol.
I didn't notice that about Tank. I'd actually played that version of The Smith family before and sent them on vacation for another video which is why Jenny has a tan in this video but I don't think I threw a party before that (I don't play that version of Strangetown properly so it's pretty much a YT set lol.) So that's probably why.
I love the sims bustin out, that was my favorite game for gameboy. The music brings back so many memories
Yeah that was a really fun game. The ending was kind of random though lol.
"Scenario: Grandchild" made me laugh for some reason
There was actually a planned grandchild scenario but I don't think they got very far with it. It seemed that you'd get a phone call (I guess from the Sims parents,) and then it would begin but I'm not sure what you'd have to do after that (one text string mentions something about wanting a larger house.)
Butterflies are in the released base game. They show up over well taken care of flowerbeds.
Omg, the reaction of the sims was the stupid checking out the new object and they were disgusted because it was cheap lmao
If they combined these cut features, the sims 2, things from the sims 3 (especially openworld) and graphics and powerful sim and build customization from the sims 4, the sims 5 would literally be the best life simulation to ever exist.
how appropriate, there was a massive storm outside my house as i was watching this :p
shame they didn't bother to implement this in Seasons. would've been interesting (and honestly far better than trees constantly being set on fire/put out...)
I remember this object I downloaded from MTS2 that could create power outages, without storms
I’ve been so inactive but I’m binging all your videos that I’ve missed. I love videos like this, so cool to see cut features! 💛
Hey thanks for the comment. :) I've been a bit less active myself lately in the last couple of months and uploading videos less often (well besides some Spyro stuff.)
According to the mod description, they disabled the actual lightning in the mod for some reason, and your supposed to place just one storm in the very center of the lot for it to spread out properly
I checked the mod files and they did reference lightning strikes, so I'm sure it's possible to re-activate them if you look into it!
Omg hahah I wasn’t expecting to get a mention in this!! It caught me by surprise!! But I loved this video so much!!
Haha I saw your Sims 2 video a while back and I think it was one of the first I watched about unreleased/beta content so your video inspired me to look into the topic more. I'm glad you liked the video :)
17:23 Social Bunny Party could have been some special thing where you have multiple social bunnies on the lot, I believe they can interact with each other?
Yeah they do interact with each other in game so it could have been related to that.
Landline phones were connected to phone cables, and while that particular phone's base is likely electrical, to charge the phone, the phone would have stayed charged enough for hours, not needing power, until it lost its charge. There are still landline phones that exist that do not rely on electrical power, but most people do not have landlines, but cell phones (which also will work until their batteries die). However, the large stereo should not have worked, but the portable one could have run on battery power.
The reason why weather was not implemented in the basegame was because they could not figure out how to keep the rain/snow from falling inside the houses. In order to likely obtain the highest score, the sims wants would likely need filling, similar to an outing. The more sims you fullfill wants for, the higher the score. I wonder though, if they planned on sims rerolling wants, similar to going to a community lot?
Here I thought the power outage mod for Sims 4 was cool. Just another cool feature brought from another game.
I've never played The Sims 2 base game. My first experience (not counting the PS2 release) was Double Deluxe + Freetime. My stepmother had Double Deluxe but didn't want to share her disc so I grabbed Freetime at Toys R Us so I had a disc to play with (and snagged her double deluxe for install, when she wasn't home, lol).
I'd love to see the breakfast in bed mod
Love the new video! I had no idea that anyone had actually figured out how to put that scenario in the game, really cool to see how it worked (more or less).
One of the other Mr Monster messages said something like "Because of you, I failed my field sobriety test on the way to school" 😭best Sims character and he's not even in the game.
My childhood landline phone never used electricity! It just connected to the telephone line
At my grandparents house it use to rain up front but not out back and it was incredibly weird. I’m not sure why it does that but I can do that irl. Obviously not like… the most common thing so probably don’t want it like that constantly in game but that weird rain in one area but not in another actually does happen in real life. It’s incredibly weird.
Oh yeah now that you mention it my dad said that happened where he lives sometimes. It also sometimes rains in different areas of my town but not everywhere lol because the UK weather is really patchy sometimes.
I guess the phone still works during the power outage because they were afraid disabling it could lead to unfair situations. What if your sim ran out of food and was starving to death, or a fire started and you had no alarm?
I recently went back to playing TS2 and wish I knew about modding/programming so I could make an Off the grid mod. As far as I know there isn't one. I'd really like to have it for for my apocalypse challenge. The best you can do right now is not pay your bills.
As others have said landline phone work even when the powers is out, but due to the risk of shock by lightning during a thunder storm you really shouldn't talk on them, although I don't think sims could get electrocuted that way, but technically if the storm is raging the sims shouldn't be on the landline phone.
Somebody mentioned that Lamare on modthesims is working on a Sims 2 power mod, I haven't tried it yet and it's still in development but there's a thread talking about it here (they've been working on it on/off for a few years the most recent post was in October):
modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=592293&c=1&ht=&page=1&pp=25#startcomments
I'm not sure if that could help, from the looks of it it's possible for the power to go out and then you can use a back up candle.
Thanks.
That monster ending was a little terrifying...
Great research. Thank you for finding new strings that do not appear in the release version of the game. Please tell in which resource you found them: resource name, its group and instance from SIMPE.
They were all in the text list resource in the \objects\objects.package file.
the power outage scenario is just named [text lists] and in group 0x7FF37E31 and the instance is 0x0000012D(301)
the social bunny party one is also named [text lists] and then it's in group 0x7FEDFE1C and instance is 0x0000012E(302)
The headmaster phone call is in [text lists] and the group is 0x7F10E2FF and the instance is 0x0000012D(301)
and breakfast in bed is [text lists] 0x7FDFCFA7 and then instance is 0x0000012E(302)
teddy bear one is named Dialog prim string set, group is 0x7F6577D6 and the instance is 0x0000012D(301)
Think that was all the ones I mentioned. There are a lot of other weird and sometimes creepy ones though lol if you look through them all (like some dialogue that seems connected to killing Sims.) Also some cool things like references to slumber parties, and being able to call someone over to help deliver the baby when a Sim is giving birth (from the emergency phone tab I think but they removed that later.)
they should have kept the headmaster dialogue that's so funny 😭😭
Butterflies were in the base game, they just only hung around planted flowers.
Sims FreePlay alpha started in dec 10 2010.
I've heard about the power outage in the beta development of the sims 2 just recently,that is interesting!
Power outages return in the Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle and the update it came with it but didn’t return in the Sims 3 at all in any of the expansion packs and updates let alone in the Sims 2 seasons.
That's cool that they included it. I don't have most of the Sims 4 expansions and I've only played the trial of eco lifestyle a while back, and didn't experience any power outages but I only got the chance to play it for several hours lol.
Phones worked with a power outage irl, if I remember correctly.
Yes. Landline phones don't actually use electricity from the power grid, so even during a power outage your landline would work.
I think you can see both bees and butterflies around the flowers but they can’t be caught.
I wish sims 3 would’ve done this
yes there are butterflies in the base game
As far as I am concerned, you did not need electricity to use phones back in the days))) just phone lines.
Oh yeah another commenter mentioned that but I didn't know that haha. Never checked to see if it worked during a powercut before.
monsieur marcel duncechamp?? was the dev who wrote that an art history major lmao?
So the idea of scenarios in TS4 came from this?
I think The Sims 4 scenarios that were recently released are kind of different but have the same name. The Sims 2 scenarios like the dating meter + rewards that were released in Nightlife clearly inspired the dating system in The Sims 4 though (technically that would also be a scenario but I don't think they used that word until the new patch.)
I have an old phone like that one irl and doesn’t need electricity to work, just landline
This could have worked as a feature in the sims 4.
i wonder if it depends where u put the object file for where the rain is, 😅😅 idk tho ive never played w it but ive always wanted to
Yeah I think it would have been better if I put it further back on the lot then it probably would have covered the whole lot instead of stretching onto the other side of the road lol.
Someone make a Kickstarter for putting this stuff back in, and I'll literally put in $250. But you have to have modding experience, cuz I ain't waiting three years
very nice
Scenarios in the sims 4 are nothing like the sims 2 ones. I will never forgive EA/Maxis for naming them scenarios. They are just dumb ui stuff and they called it a day like its something new
Since this video I have tried a few and I found they were either fairly repetitive or too easy.
I liked the video, I know your ad's are skippable but I thought it was hilarious one of them was 28 minutes long & about religion 🤣...How is that relevant in the current context ? 🤔 and who wouldn't skip that ? ... I guess I'm just a hill of beans, never truly meant to understand 😞
Oh wow I've never gotten a 28 minute advert before on CZcams that is insane. The video wasn't even that long (surprisingly for me lol.) I've heard other CZcamsrs mention that they get a lot of weird ads that are unrelated to the content before though (and sometimes completely contradicts it.) You can't control what ads they pick though. I feel like they should allow you to select from topics or something. I've never tried to check because I think if you watch your own ads it's probably against terms of service or something.
The sims 4 thing it's cuz of mods, I had to take all my mods out and update em 😭
Ah man that's annoying... That's the one drawback with the regular Sims updates. Not sure I can be bothered doing that for this though lol (I have so much cc although most of it shouldn't effect gameplay.) Maybe if I hear about a really great scenario or something I'll try updating stuff.
@@CalipersandTongs I hateeee updating my mods too 😭😭 but yeah tbh the scenarios are not fun at all 🤷♀️ I'm waiting for Modded Scenarios tbh, modders make everything better 😂
Hope everyone in Europe is doing alright, speaking of power outages.
The sims is just like Animal Crossing. Both franchises water down old games.
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