{"id":77523,"date":"2026-05-07T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77523"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:36:37","slug":"the-sims-4-has-big-changes-coming-later-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77523","title":{"rendered":"The Sims 4 Has Big Changes Coming Later This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>150 bug fixes and new features are on the way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-sims-4\">The Sims 4<\/a> later this month. <\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;an incredible range of content and experiences&#8221; released since The Sims 4 launched way back in 2014, the team said it is now committed to &#8220;making that content even better by delivering improvements to the gameplay that matters most to Simmers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To help achieve this, the team has outlined a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/the-sims\/the-sims-4\/news\/laundry-list-may-5-2026\">Laundry List<\/a>&#8221; of just some of the changes coming in a huge base game update on May 12, including a number of fan-requested improvements such as optimizations for Infants, Toddlers, Sleep, and &#8220;general Sim autonomy.&#8221; The community has also helped shape the priority order by voting for their top issues.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest changes will be an increase in the frequency of automatically generated backup saves, and a new <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.ea.com\/blog\/the-sims-game-info-hub-en\/layer-up-a-creator%E2%80%99s-guide-to-base-layers-in-cas\/13349904\">layering feature<\/a> in Create a Sim, &#8220;continuing to expand on the technical info we provide to Modders and [content creators] to support their work.&#8221; Oh, and you&#8217;ll be able to add a super cute new Infant Playmat, too.<\/p>\n<p>The team promises that the &#8220;fun doesn&#8217;t stop there,&#8221; and this work will continue to roll out in the months ahead, along with more free content,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>150 bug fixes and new features are on the way to The Sims 4 later this month. With &#8220;an incredible range of content and experiences&#8221; released since The Sims 4 launched way back in 2014, the team said it is now committed to &#8220;making that content even better by delivering improvements to the gameplay that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":77525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77527,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77523\/revisions\/77527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}