#ts4 reapers rewards

[miasimxo]

💀 Vesta Stryker 💀 I made this lil lady for the Reaper's Rewards event next week! She's not a vampire or anything like that

[limeysims]

Sneak peek 🕯

[sejianismodding]

🎁 [BG/EF61] Reaper's Rewards - CAS Override & FOMO Unlock! 👹

☠️ REMINDER: Double-check the OP for updates!

⚔️ Requires TS4: Base Game

☄️ Updated - 9/24/2024 - Live Event Compatibility Update

🚀 Initial Release - 9/21/2024

🎁 Download & Discussions Post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112399259

🗺️ Modding Announcements Post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109291501

🗺️ Obsolete Release Schedule Poll: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112402725

🗪 @urban-mutt: "it would be better if all players got that later anyway and playing this event would just give you stuff earlier"

I agree! This is what some simmers assumed would happen - that they'd SDX this !@#$ for EVERYONE at a later date - but this is not what's happening. Instead, EAxis is creating and ignoring the problem of lost rewards by putting reward entitlements in a file that's easily lost or corrupted, especially for Console simmers.

EAxis has proper ways of doing this - pre-order reward entitlements don't use the UserSetting.ini file - BUT INSTEAD THEY'RE DOING THIS! AGAIN!

👹 JUST USE THE DAMN SDX SYSTEM, EAXIS!

[nizaberry]

Not a bunch of my Sims freezing to death at the park while I'm try to do my Reaper's Rewards.. Raven is just trying to fish up that dang Angel Fish and they're all dying 💀💀

[azuhrasims]

Week 2 of the Reapers Rewards game play with my self sim. Yes, I got side tracked getting the little beagle Sadie spayed - I wasn't dealing with a dog in heat. We spent more time gardening than we did having to befriend the Grim.

[deuceysims]

Helene has come so far, it's finally time for her to fulfill her goal, and bring the dead back to life...or something like that. What was her goal, even?

Weren't they trying to counter ambrosia?

Who cares, time to find some ghosts.

Joe comes around with gifts and an offer--he'd like to move in with Helene! Too bad that she's more of a lone wolf type. She rejects his offer.

He didn't like that...

Oh well, time to throw a party and forget about this new, weird tension. Morgyn shows up and has a heart to heart with Joe where Helene can hear.

"I don't know why she wouldn't want to live together--we've been dating so long."

"So long? Hasn't it only been a couple of weeks? Of course she still wants her space." Morgyn is quite the voice of reason.

In fact, it's pretty attractive to hear someone more on her wavelength.

The party is a great success, and Helene is learning many new things about herself. One of which being that she doesn't want to be with Joe anymore.

"We need to talk."

"I just don't think we're right for each other. I know you love me, but I have other(worldly) commitments that come first."

"Helene, I knew you'd gone way too far with this Grim Reaper business. Are you even human anymore?"

"This is what I mean... you just don't get it."

With Joe given the boot, Helene finally has the space to get on with her real goal, making (and using) ambrosia. Now all she needs is a ghost to test it out.

She finds Felix Psyded hanging out at the local Ghost Night. This one will do nicely! She always did get along with academic types.

Finally, the moment of truth.

He takes the ambrosia and--

It's worked!

Helene has defied death itself and brought a ghost back to life. Now all that's left is to figure out how to live a normal life after doing something like this.

Maybe she can find her new normal somewhere else. Ciudad Enamorada has served her well, it's time to move along.

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[sanssouci-sims]

jumping on the reaper's rewards bandwagon

Hey hey! It's about time I posted content from my own game, don't you think?? Well here ya go - a break from all the CC finds I keep spamming.

So the "Reaper's Rewards" event is a thing going on now. I saw quite a bit of people in several Sims 4 subreddits showing off their goth/emo/vampire/that kind of dark aesthetic sims they're using to participate in the event (with a few of them also romancing and having kids with the Grim Reaper as a result), so I thought I'd contribute my own character!

Sanguinaria Addams ("Gwen" for short) is going to be the Grim Reaper's little assistant in this event! I've actually shown her before in a previous post where she happens to be the girlfriend of Cassandra Goth. She's actually my Addams Family fan character, though she's kind of a general, all-purpose character as well. She's a mall goth who loves to mix her love of 'girly' things like fashion, hair styling, and makeup with her interest in all things dark and macabre.

She's also quite the enthusiast in seeking out supernatural creatures, including the Grim Reaper himself!

I took a pretty long break from the game, so Gwen had quite a bit of catching up to do with a bunch of weekly tasks that have already been released. ^^;

First, Gwen got some mail from the Ambrosia Society Newsletter, which basically told her to start planting snapdragons so she could harvest and cook with them to make ambrosia. She planted a snapdragon as well as a lily, and did a bit of research on them. She learned a lot!

After that, Gwen figured she needed a break from research for bit, so she decided to head to the Willow Creek Archive Library to just chill and read just for fun. While there, she ran into her girlfriend's little brother, Alexander! Poor kid was all alone, lmao. He seemed to be having fun playing on the computers, though!

yall remember playing games on the library computers when you were kids?? i know i did irl ahahahah

Gwen and Alexander got along well (they had good compatibility!), so she figured he might be interested in what she'd been researching........ though she tried not to mention anything scary or related to death/the Grim Reaper.

Gwen: "Fishing, huh? That's cool. Seems like you know quite a bit about the stuff meant to make you live forever."

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I just thought it was pretty cute how Alexander was so happy to talk with Gwen. Such a pure boy, protect him at all costs. (and hope he doesn't go bald when he ages up into a teen)

After a bit, Mei Prescott (the principal of Copperdale High School) showed up and Gwen figured she might as well talk to her too. I imagine she and Cassandra went to Copperdale as students and only really saw 'Mrs. Prescott' one or two times for minor misdemeanors (mostly not following the dress code), but were otherwise good in their classes and graduated with decent grades.

Unfortunately, good old Mrs. Prescott didn't seem too thrilled to engage in such a 'trivial' conversation with her former pupil. She told Gwen what she already learned from Alexander, after all.

Then again, it could have been worse: if Gwen hadn't changed into a more 'proper' outfit, maybe Mei would have yelled at her even more for dressing inappropriately and 'not learning' from the times she spent in her office.

...Or maybe it's already kind of bad, considering Gwen thinks good old Mrs. Prescott is old and used up, LMFAOOOOO

also thanks game for reminding me to turn off the attraction system, it always bugged me when my otps/favorite couples didn't find each other attractive

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Finally, Gwen spoke with the librarian...

...who also basically just told her what she already learned.

So we DEFINITELY gotta go fishing in order to make ambrosia. THANKS, GOT IT

Peep a wild Katrina Caliente in the background lmfao

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Finally, after cooking a recipe (you actually have to be level 3 or higher and I just maxed out Gwen's cooking level with cheats so it was more convenient lol) and replacing her old record player with the "Grimophone", Gwen got to summon and meet the Grim Reaper himself........ without having to sacrifice another sim!!

I think I actually took the above screenshot because Gwen was sharing melancholy thoughts with Grimmy (she has the "gloomy" trait) and I just thought it was funny how he looked super shocked about it. Go figure, the harbinger of death and despair itself acts all surprised Pikachu at a goth girl (probably) talking about death.

or maybe she just divulged her self-insert fanfiction she'd been writing with him in it.

Did I mention Grimmy showed up in a flirty mood??? 😂

I'm going to be posting more about Gwen's adventurers as the Reaper's little assistant, so stay tuned!! Maybe I'll file these under their own tag, lol.

Next Part

[siimplyjessica]

So I was playing the reaper challenge with a cute family a hot ass sim, (as we all play that hot fantasy life, girl, well i do, i dont want anything too realistic over here, i would just be playing FUCKING LIFE, lmao)that I made marry Caleb CULLEN cough Vatore, they were having steamy woohoo everywhere CHILE and a cute little vampire baby was well, an obvious consequence..so there I was doing reaper reward challenges and then BAM my main sim BLANCA dies of fucking laughter I'm like holy shit..FUMING angry and then I remember it's an ambrosia challenge...? so I just added the bitch back to the house and now she's breastfeeding the baby as ghost hopefully the embroidery challenge really works lmao

Will post some bullshit evidence pics in a sec.. ssmh

[mzellepers]

" reaper mission "🩻🧟‍♀️

_ Yeah, “she” has completely made herself at home. . . Thanks mod : BasmentalDrugs

🚬 weeds & hot chocolate☕

[disorderpotato]

I forgot that the Grim Reaper could be summoned via the grimophone, so I couldn't think of anything better than inviting him to stay at my place for a week. However, the reaper was a jack of all trades and an excellent cook. Although he only cooks a white cake. Seriously, the whole fridge is full of white cake.

[cerubean]

i have once again made over the vatores

[miasimxo]

What it means to have a bestie 💀🖤

[limeysims]

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[sejianismodding]

Happy At Home is unlocked but I still found something to rant about: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113187075

☢️ It's Patch Day and the Happy At Home fiasco is finally resolved, with a catch. - A short rant that I'll expand later if necessary. I need to update my mods.

TL;DR: As expected, EAxis managed to !@#$ up even this and I'm still using my FOMO Unlock mod. You can keep it or remove it, it's up to you. Happy At Home is unlocked, it's just not unlocked properly.

The catch is that instead of removing the lock code to truly unlock the items, the way I did in my FOMO Unlock, they instead... did some other !@#$. I think they added the entitlement data to our account data, the way Reaper's entitlement data is added to our account data.

Why is this an issue? Well, I'ma tell it to ya'!

Happy At Home has always had an additional problem. The reason I made the FOMO Unlock was because the INI modification never worked 100%. Something has always been missing, and that something results in the Happy At Home CAS items constantly regaining the NEW CONTENT gold badge. You just have to switch categories in CAS to see it pop back up again and again and again and again, ad infinitum.

This is a MINOR issue, very, very MINOR, but it's an issue, an unnecessary issue, and whatever neurodivergence I have makes it an irritating issue. It's an irritating issue because I know it's an unnecessary issue. I know that if EAxis did what I did to FOMO Unlock Happy At Home- heavy sigh.

Barring them somehow removing the entitlements from our account data, this is the last time I will rant about Happy At Home.

Now let's talk briefly about these patch notes: https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/update-10-1-2024

Is it narcissism?

I know I have narcissistic tendencies - I was "raised by" a toxic narcissist, but I'm not talking about me.

Almost a year after the Always-Online Sim City (2013) scandal of lies and bullshittery, EAxis released an offline patch, framing it as a gift to the community, as though they hadn't pathologically lied up to and after the release of Sim City (2013) about Always-Online being a core concept of the game that the game simply couldn't work without. Always-Online is what killed the Sim City franchise, because EA, despite being an estimated $37.9 BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY, refuses to invest in proper servers. Folks don't really understand or accept that The Sims 4 (2014) suffers from server woes but it does and it's why going offline in App and game is a form of troubleshooting. It's why the idea of a future Sims game having "Online features" terrifies me.

More recently, CD Projekt Red lied about the state and features of Cyberpunk 2077, released it before it was ready, and since then have proceeded to gaslight anyone who criticized the state of the game or them for their pathological lying.

"We changed how Event rewards are stored with our September 18 update. After this change, we learned that some Simmers are missing rewards they earned through the Happy At Home Event we ran earlier this year." - THE BUG REPORT IS THREE MONTHS OLD. I WAS PRESENT AND INVOLVED. WERE THEY NOT INVOLVED? IS ANSWERS HQ JUST A WATERING HOLE THEY STOP BY ONCE EVERY THREE MONTHS?

"The addition of the Happy At Home Event rewards with today’s update are a one-time make good to thank you for your patience as we continue to work on, and improve, Events in The Sims 4." - IT'S ALMOST AS THOUGH EA ISN'T A 42 YEAR-OLD COMPANY SPECIALIZING IN GAME DE- WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, ARE WE PRETENDING WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE THREE MONTH OLD BUG REPORT OR ARE WE ADMITTING WE KNEW AND JUST DID NOT A FUCK?

Should I explain to the people how easy it is to unlock these FOMO rewards, because it doesn't require entitlement data and it certainly doesn't require THREE MONTHS of "improvements" and- by "patience" do they mean stating the event is over and there's nothing to be done, or removing all actual solutions, temporarily banning simmers for helping other simmers and calling it disruptive spam, telling me they believe "Gaming is for everyone.™" while- y'know, they could've just said, "we're working on improving future events and making them account-bound and we will unlock Happy At Home for everyone in a future patch, please bear with us." It ain't that !@#$in' hard, but it would've required them acknowledging they !@#$ed up.

Say, are we on a three-month issue resolution cycle? If so, can I expect a half-arsed "fix" for our bodies in a month's time? - https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Spine-distortion-on-male-Sims-with-female-frame/td-p/13895791

[fizzytoo]

a witch's tiny studio apartment ✨

[azuhrasims]

Last of week of those Sims 4 Reapers Rewards. I happened to load in on a Wednesday which is lucky business because Wednesday nights are ghosts nights at the bar. Watched my buddy Felix harass one of the Calientes and got a lovely root beer float. Self sim only had a half a level to go to max out the Gourmet Cooking skill. Also fortunate as you need to be level ten to make Ambrosia. Got it made, through a friendly get together party with easy goals. I am lazy. Invited Felix and twisted his arm into eating that Ambrosia I spent 6 weeks making.

What did I get? I self sim with skills I will never have in real life and a collection of freezer bonnies on the mantel. Cool?