Comparison between The Sims 3 and The Sims 4
The Sims 4 has some features new to the series; in the same time, many features has been lost since The Sims 3.
New features
- Create a Sim: Hands-on interface.
- Build mode: Improved and easier
- The Gallery
- Traveling across worlds / neighborhoods without losing relationships, inventory or any other data
- Emotions: each emotion allows unique interactions
- Multitasking
- Sims can resurrect other sims from a book called "The Book Of Life" in which sims themselves can create.
- Museums
- Comedy clubs
New Objects
- Rocket ships
- Monkey bar
CAS
- Pants are tucked in under boots
- Headwears and hairpieces are now separate
Little Features
- Breastfeeding
- Delete and move objects Sims are using without the
moveObjectcheat - Sims can wear any hat with any hairstyles without changing the other
Returned features from previous expansion packs
- Cowplant
- Voodoo doll
- Nightclubs
- Violin
- Grand pianos
- Cupcake machine
Lost features
CAS
- Create a style no longer possible.
- Teens and proceeding life stages are all the same height
- No opacity slider for makeup
Life states
NPCs
Objects
- Dishwasher
- Pool
- Newspaper
- Cars (they exist only as ambient decorations)
Cheats
- constrainfloorelevation
- familyfunds
Build Mode
- Changing ground/floor elevation (the lot is completely flat).
- You can't have foundations on one area without having them on every wall in the lot.
- Ability to rotate and/or reposition (when placing a lot into a larger one) a lot when placing it.
- Sims 4 has a maximum of three floors, but the foundation is no longer counted as a floor.
- Steps can't have different railings on each side (nor a railing on one side only, except when that side is against a wall).
- No more basements
Live Mode
- No more open world
Notes
- Some could complain that the MoveObjects cheat is removed but as referenced in a article from SimsVIP here, that Moveobjects is having issues and Maxis are working hard to fix it.