Haunted Halloween Update

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Magic and mischief collide this Halloween in The Sims Mobile! Your Sims can become the half-witch and wizard of their nightmares as they play tricks on friends at the spookiest party of the year or disguise them in vampire costumes as you go treating for candy. Enjoy a feast of live events to uncover new magical rewards that can transform your home into a haunted mansion for Halloween!

Gameplay Action Changes

We’ve made some permanent (and exciting) improvements to the way you play The Sims Mobile! Here at Firemonkeys, the team are always listening to your feedback and working hard on ways to improve so we can be the best Sims experience on mobile. Thanks to our passionate players in our community (we're looking at you!), we’ve made changes to our basic ‘actions’ gameplay mechanic to make the time you spend in Briny Heights even more seamless. Now you can spend more time doing the things you love with your Sims!

Currently, when your Sim undertakes actions during events, quests and around their home, you would have seen a pink and white star icon to tap on an object. The animations of your Sim used to play for 5 seconds and then you would have seen a green tick above their head, encouraging you to collect rewards.

The new changes:

• We’ve completely removed the green ticks to help create perfect screenshot moments
• Collection of rewards is now automatic and occurs at the beginning of the action.
• Sim will continue the animation indefinitely until you select a new action, whenever you want!
• There is no change to energy costs, so you can spend your energy any way you like
• This will permanently impact the way you play Sweet Treat Showdown, Treasure Hunt and Eco Workshop events, , even smaller things like sitting on a couch!

The end result of this change is that you can play through events and do actions with your Sims at your own pace! You can perform actions quickly if you just want to use your Sims’ energy, or you can take it slow and enjoy the animations without worrying about the green tick getting in the way! At this stage, “risky” actions have not changed (pink and white sunglasses icon), they will still have a tick for now.

Object Breakability Removed

Have you ever noticed the sound of flies buzzing around furniture in one of your rooms? It means the item is broken and your Sim can't use again until you repair it. From this update onward, we've disabled object break-ability forever! You will no longer have furniture that needs to be repaired, including no more buzzing flies!

Keep an eye out for more information from our team in future updates as we continue to implement more changes!

Treasure Hunt

Get ready to explore the dig sites around Briny Heights once again with your Sims in the ‘Fright Night’ live event! Sims Explorers Guild and Smallfry need your help – get your magnifying glass and prospecting tools ready, because its time to start uncovering special artifacts and searching for clues all around town this Halloween!

Stylist Simmers will love redecorating their rooms with enchanting décor fit for a sorcerer, plus dressing for supernatural success with witch-inspired attire, perfect for casting new spells. As you progress through the event, the prizes range from Art Nouveau pieces of décor designed to complete an entire room such as chairs, mirror, bookcase, dresser and potions display cabinet. Don’t miss the crystal ball and magic potion cauldron set grand prize that glows in the dark!

Here are the exclusive items to look forward to:

Grand Prizes

• Magic potion couldron set
• Art Nouveau staircase
• Headband hairstyle for female Sims

Other Prizes

• Peakcock wall-mounted basin
• Medicine apocethary cabinet
• Collared medium length dress for female Sims
• Magic items display case
• Haunted bookcase
• Art Nouveau wardrobe dresser
• Art Nouveau dresser
• Art Nouveau toilet
• Art Nouveau chair
• Art Nouveau table
• Crystal ball
• Floral wall light
• Wooden wall mirror
• Lunar phase painting
• Old-fashioned regal freestanding stove
• Striped pants for female Sims

Become a treasure hunting expert by reading our tips and tricks FAQ here.

Sweet Treat Showdown

To continue the spooky celebrations, the first ever Sweet Treat Showdown event rerun ‘Treat-sylvania’ begins! The bakery venue in Parkside will be been overturned for a spooktacular Sweet Treat Showdown challenge! Players will enjoy a frighteningly fun event filled with cake challenges perfect for trick or treating! The grand prize rewards include a standing coffin bed and gothic hairstyle (pictured below). Other milestone prizes include a range of 17th century-style vampire outfits, evil decor items like a regal chandelier, vampire table and other vintage decor for your Sims homes.

Grand Prizes:

• Wall-mounted coffin bed
• Gothic hairstyle for female Sims

Royal Box Prizes:

• Chandelier with cobwebs
• Vampire Table
• Vampire chair
• Gothic gown for female Sims

Sweet Box Prizes:

• Jack-o Lantern
• Portrait of Evil Baron
• Cobweb wall decal
• Wall cracks
• Caldelabra
• Stuffed bat teddy bear
• Classic tuxedo and shoes for male Sims
• Gothic cuff ruffles for female Sims
• Skeleton tights for female Sims
• Single bed

Get all the ingredients you need to prove you’re the best baker in our Sweet Treat Showdown FAQ Blog!

Bug Fixes

Thanks to your reports on Answers HQ, our game team have been hard at work squashing bugs! Here is a list of just a few notable mentions that we’ve fixed in this update:

General

• Sims shadows were corrupted in few android devices
• The infinite "another land expansion is currently unlocking" error should no longer occur
• Completed Land Expansion success guitar pick stuck popups should no longer get stuck
• Active land expansion pop-ups should no longer disappear on zone change/transition
• Wall mounted items disappeared from home lot when risky action is interrupt during the celebration sequence, this should no longer occur
• Camera can be moved way further than usual when performing risky actions in events and now should behave normally
• All kitchen benchtop counters can now be placed outside
• Now ‘long tapping’ on a room to opens Build/Buy mode and now selects that room
• Malt Shop Jukebox from ‘Kitsch’ pack should no longer offer actions after being turned off

Improved the resolution, texture, and effects quality for a number of devices

• Improved artifacts on Plumbob and other lights visual effects using low spec devices
• Glowing visual effects were not seen around pink plumbob while performing actions
• Improved the game resolution in some newer devices
• No visual effects were seen in Izzy’s Fashion Shop
• Shadows of all Objects and Sims were pixelated in OnePlus Nord

Live Events

• The Treasure Hunt event map should no longer reveal the types of events before they're unlocked eg. "Expedition" text was seen on Civic Center Venue event UI before unlocking it
• The Wumple’s Wishlist tutorial should no longer trigger after starting a Treasure Hunt event
• Fixed some crafted rewards not fully unlocking via Eco Workshop:
• Once only and repeatable items were not working as expected
• "Snowflake Splender Infay Table" object was not seen in B/B when crafting
• “Crop It To Me” outfit was not fully unlocked
• “Women's Clothing” wall decoration item could not be purchased from Build/Buy after earning

Fixed colour swatch and clipping issues with a number of Build/Buy objects:

• Child Sims no longer hovers in front of “Full of Beans Bag” chair, they now correctly sit on it
• When building multistory homes, the wall items, windows and doors should now successfully clip with the below floor roofs, when placed on second and third floors.

Fixed clipping and texture issues with a number of clothing items:

• Seam is observed on the forehead when applying "Wild And Wavy Cut" style from “Fourth of July Bonanza” pack
• Fixed visible seams on over 35 different female tops at the neck of the Sim when applied
• Skin tones needed adjustment on 'A Mid Flutter's Dream' top

Here are the playable event dates for this update (all dates in PDT):

• Treasure Hunt ‘Fright Night’: 11-day event starting from Monday 26^th October
• Wumples Quest: 5-day event starting 29^th October
• Wumples Quest: 5-day event starting 7^th November
• Sweet Treat Showdown ‘Treatsylvania Haunt’ event rerun: 11-day event starting 12th November

Show us your Sims celebrating Halloween in their haunted homes! Use the hashtag #TheSimsMobile when you chat with other players and SimGurus on Twitter and double-tap our posts on Instagram!

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