The Sims 4 Life & Death: 20 FEATURES You Might Not Know!

[@onlyabidoang]

Hey guys! Sorry for the late upload this time around 😅. Been swamped with my medicine intern assignments last month. But to make it up to you, I've included 10 extra features in this video as a little bonus! Hope you guys enjoy it!

[@V-Ra]

Good luck with your internship!

[@yes-sb9jl]

Remember, we always want you to prioritize yourself above content

[@MementoMori0915]

Don’t sweat it mate. 🙂 Life, work and family comes first, we your viewers will be here and happy to wait, and if there are anyone that can’t wait…well they can leave, YOU come first so never feel bad about being late…at least on KZbin. 😆🙂🫶

[@lesterpalacios7894]

Question though? Who is that blue hair sim cause I can’t find her in the new world of Life and death and where to download her?

[@onlyabidoang]

@lesterpalacios7894 she’s not in the game, but you can find her from Maxis’s official account in the Gallery

[@MegaNightcore101]

Funny encounter I had with the skeptic trait. I had a skeptic sim get turned into a playable ghost then tried to have a spellcaster sim bring them back. I couldn't figure out why the spell kept failing so I made another spellcaster try with the exact same results. Glad to know it wasn't a glitch, but imagine not believing in magic so much that you refuse to come back to life.

[@magesticalmysterium6856]

yea...if that's the case...i'm going to modify that, Skeptics Will be targeted by spells, but will Not like it (Unless the spell is of a critical nature)

[@DarkenedRaven]

This happened to me, too. Been trying to bring back one of my ghosts forever now.

[@GeoGamerArtistVlogger]

I dont know, i think its kinda funny that someone just disbelieves magic so much that they can't be resurrected

[@Kualinar]

Can you cast Rite of Ascension on him ?

[@leighclipse]

you could also have another sim make ambrosia since spells aren't working

[@V00doo1Xim]

As a hamster, I can confirm that ghosts woohoo in my cage. It's starting to get annoying now.

[@Mold_Dino17]

Are you the creature that killed my sim accurately 84 times

[@Maskit4life]

@@V00doo1Xim This comment taught me to never read the comments before finishing the video

[@Gracea2064]

Toilet hampster😭

[@fernandapadilla1816]

As a Mexican, seeing the "Weeping Mother" Alice have a quest available to find her children, to reference one of the most popular legends of our culture, is such a fun easter egg I didn't expect to see!

[@SageArdor]

Especially considering one of them died by drowning 💀

[@beaniebaby7725]

La llarona was such a tragic story, honestly made me wanna cry when I heard it. (Sorry if I spelled it wrong, spelled it from memory!)

[@fredchu3982]

Ahhhh cierto la llorona

[@yadiraa4594]

Thought the same

[@mouthwaterin]

@@beaniebaby7725 llorona*!

[@sabrinaloizides-merideth9874]

Just a note, if you try to give a vampire the chase by death trait it ALSO immediately becomes Embraced By Death.

[@Moonlight-x5z]

nice

[@midnight5592]

One of the first things I noticed, such a great detail

[@KuromizakiLuka]

Now I think of it, it's kind of funny how vampires can sometimes get fear of death trait when they're already dead

[@billfred9411]

@@KuromizakiLuka That is kind of funny but technically in most vampire lore vampires do still have their soul so them fearing death still kind of makes sense. Thier body may be dead, but their soul isn't and if they die it will still affect their soul.

[@_missgirl]

okay dropping the plumbob when a sim moves on is hands down the best little detail in this pack! i had no idea about it 😭

[@peggiecreamer4640]

Not to mention that you get 2000 simoleons if you sell it. Cheeky nod to the fact that the Sims was first released in 2000.

[@Medusa_The-Bard]

​@peggiecreamer4640 that's amazing

[@gracieisbored9191]

i like to think that the grim’s right hand trait is not him reviving you because you’re buddy-buddy, but actually because he doesn’t want you skipping work 😭

[@onlyabidoang]

Nahh we’re talking about a reward trait here and you can still have the trait even after you quit 😂

[@christofferovergaard6328]

@@onlyabidoang maybe it's a bit of both. "my new interns suck so i'm keeping you around please comeback" - Grim probably

[@Melindrea]

I love-love-love-love-love this pack! Let me add one Lore reference I've not seen people talk about ... So, you can research the House of Fallen Leaves on the computer, right? That's a house from Sims 2: Nightlife, which has three tombstones (two belonging to the same family, the third an owner of the house who died of fright). The family in question? Tricou. So what? Well, if you research the cracked tombstone in the Undertaker career, it belongs to a Jon Smith Tricou. And as you continue deeper in, the family keeps popping up, including a "Jennifer Tricou" haunting the so-called office. Jon Smith Tricou died first, leaving his fortune to his wife, Jennicor. He, his wife and their children were buried at the Gothier Green Lawns, with the teen cousins buried at their old home.

[@SunShine-gf4fh]

Thank you so much for being best KZbinr in Sims games....you never used clickbait thumbnail and always being informative about gameplay.

[@onlyabidoang]

Thank you! Glad you find my videos enjoyable 🥺

[@maydaygremlin]

Anytime anything new comes out with the sims this channel is where I go. Love the videos as always!

[@onlyabidoang]

Ayy thanks man! Appreciate it 🔥

[@sagitta98]

"Hello? PC repair service? Yeah. The ghost just nutted inside my computer and it won't turn on!"

[@alexsoares5739]

sounds like a Joel bit

[@bradenmitchell5565]

And now it's time for YOU to nut to this song! RAAAAHHHH!!!!!

[@ezdor]

I expected you to talk about the Macabre trait that shows funny and cool features. they will never get terrified or scared moods last shorter. they get bored when they do happy things, or uncomfortable with sun (i find it funny because this is like to being a vampire wannabe) they can do macabre interactions with other sims called "Spread the Gloom" and "Make Morbid Observation" they will have positve moodlets when being around the Grim Reaper, during a cold spot or watching a TV static in a lot On Hallowed Grounds, meet a new ghost, when being near dark or morbid events or objects or presence a low friended sim death. they get focused during a full moon or inspired during a rain they will become inspired if they show affections to crows and my favorite one: Macabre is thus far the only Sims trait to change the pose of fine emotion, household picture, relationship panel picture, phone calls and popup icons.

[@Moonlight-x5z]

Yup

[@leslierobertsm33p]

@@ezdor I Gave the macabre trait to a Young adult who was bitten by a vampire. And honestly I don’t regret it at all. I love when the dance.

[@miiKOlapiz]

I will always love the fact that the sim's name is "Abi Cool Last Name"

[@onlyabidoang]

I’m not gonna pass on such a cool last name

[@ninalee1821]

@@onlyabidoang too be fair it is a Cool last name

[@hexx5510]

I am in awe with the amount of content in this expansion pack! As well as the lore for Ravenwood and Lady Ravendancer, they add so much story opportunities for sims.

[@baldpanda6312]

Idk if you’ll read this comment but… I absolutely love that you make these videos. You genuinely do a better job at letting people know what they bought than EA does. I pre-ordered this pack and it’s nice to know what I actually spent money on and what things I can look forward to with this pack. Keep up the great work!

[@onlyabidoang]

Hey thanks for the kind words man! Glad you find the video helpful ☺️

[@baldpanda6312]

You’re welcome

[@exxor9108]

They missed an opportunity to put in a new death type then. Death by Edith. They clearly have inspiration from The Ring. After seeing her come out of the TV, put a emotional debuff that you can't remove unless you embark on a quest to remove it, but it ticks down seven days. And when it runs up, Edith returns to scream your sim to death, leaving their face permanently distorted.

[@joebenzz]

Oh god that's disturbing. I love it!

[@4Sevvy]

I love this pack so much! My legacy founder worked under the grim reaper, and became a horror novelist, her husband became a ghost, is in the undertaker career and is going to rebirth, they have had three kids (twin teens and a baby), they will be doing the paranormal career, playing with vampires, and the third kid im going to have complete the tarot card collection. theres so much to do in this pack

[@3DPlagueDR]

The 'embraced by death' trait also applies to vampires. By default vampires get the 'embraced by death' trait. At least, so far as I can tell. A vampire sim I had made before the pack came out got the 'embraced by death' trait the first time I loaded that save with the pack enabled. Giving a vampire the 'chased by death' trait, either on initially making them or on age up from child to teen will see the trait automatically turning to 'embraced by death'.

[@OdysyisXalos]

Two things I gather from this video.. One Chase By Death basically allow you to become any ghost type you want. And the second thing is.. if you can turn robots into ghost.. can you rebirth them as human? I really wanna try that and see if it works now.

[@onlyabidoang]

I’ve seen some players do it with ghost servos and yes, they can! As long as they have max soul’s journey (even tho it’s hidden and you can only use aspirations as they cannot have bucket lists)

[@mandala314]

When Edith the ghost comes out of the tv and screams, the sim pees ... in all The Ring movies they die surrounded by a puddle of water! Now i think maybe it wasn't water 😅

[@kaitlando636]

Lol

[@ActualSideOfRice]

I do wish Death by Baleful Bog was a thing instead of a random death. Instead of turning back into a human and then dying. You just stay a ghost. Similar to when the wishing well doesn’t full revive you

[@SierraFloof]

Omg, they really added try for baby with Grim Reaper after a tons of work around by players! Good for Grim

[@Merry-Ghoul]

meterstick jim: it is now possible to 'try for baby' *wheeze* with the grim reaper

[@yeasty_shoes0666]

Finally. Ive been waiting for this. I love your vids as they are more clear and I like your format

[@onlyabidoang]

Thank you! Really glad that you like this kind of format 😁

[@haileymorris174]

A reference to the ring is kinda cool. That movie messed me up as a kid

[@FabioCapela]

If you have the Get to Work expansion, the Ghost Goo serum (which you learn how to make at level 6 of the Science career) helps with the ghost and grim reaper aspects of this expansion. Consuming the serum turns you into a ghost for 4 hours, without risk of real death, though it has a 20% chance of failure. The failure (which you can force by making a tainted version of the serum) is also interesting, as it has a 50% chance of summoning the Grim Reaper. (You can also summon the Reaper, with the same chance, with a tainted version of the Reaper's Friend serum, but Ghost Goo is much easier to craft.) To make things better, you can use the cloning machine to clone the serums.

[@juliantotriwijaya9208]

"The events is actually works! Shocking", our bar is so low it's under the floor right now XD lol.

[@kaylatarapaskoski2390]

4:36 That shouldn't be the case, all decendents should have the birthmark

[@kaitlando636]

Ikr

[@Unit102ALPHA]

4:01- "I ain't paying for the Child Support." The Vergil is STRONG with this one!

[@WhyrenGP]

your thumbnail made me realise that EA actually pached out a feature to later sell as DLC

[@luckyduchesse8924]

0:41 I always forget about creator code 🤦‍♀️ I'm so mad, I would've put your code in because you're a real honest and entertaining guy. I love your content, I think you're awesome. I need to remember to put your code in 🤦‍♀️

[@onlyabidoang]

Hey no worries! Still really appreciate the fact you’d like to use my code and support me, and I really thank you for it 🥺

[@micellaragua]

I love watching videos about packs that I’ll never get bc I don’t have money

[@Paloma-qs3he]

I have a solution for you, become a pirate 🏴‍☠️🦜

[@shuggieintwo5063]

money? 😮

[@zaiden2becausejustzaidenisused]

could always sail the 7 seas

[@micellaragua]

@@zaiden2becausejustzaidenisused I’ve thought of that

[@rw5763]

Just pirate them , I did it too it’s safe and works amazing. Ea doesn’t deserve your money

[@neville2308]

This is one of my new favorite packs. My other fave ones are realistic like parenthood and seasons and growing together so I didn’t expect to love this one, but it’s amazing!

[@pixelatedtoast]

13:57 The static TV and Edith are a reference to the horror movie The Ring, the American version of the Japanese horror movie "Ringu. The tv static and the images that appear is the cursed video tape that u watch that gets Sadako/Samara to kill u in 7 days. It seems that the tv static is specifically referencing the "Scary Movie 3" version. A parody movie of The Ring and Signs. You can tell its the parody version bc Bob Pancakes sits in the chair and is seen throwing up afterwards, just like the man seen in the parody version of the video tape. 🤓 🤓 🤓

[@pixelatedtoast]

Edith wandering around the well is also referring to The Ring/Ringu as that's how Samara/Sadako died. The stare refers to the iconic Sadako stare from Ringu, as that's how she, and Samara, kill people. If you look into their eyes they kill you with their psychic powers..after 7 days of watching the video tape of course.

[@jyf.7551]

I always look forward to your comprehensive overview videos, Abi!! Would love for you to make more videos showcasing the features in each pack, or even gameplay

[@sleeplesstime]

Imagine dying just to get your soul be made into soup. Worst afterlife ever lol.

[@AaronL0905]

So Lady Ravendancer is interesting not just bc it's our first look at a lore sim that has been implied for ages but bc of her being bugged and sometimes not being a spellcaster In my two saves one was in fact a ghost of a spellcaster and in another one she wasn't Could it be that being set to be a ghost as soon as she is summoned is somehow overwriting her being a spellcaster?

[@claragreenfield6317]

20:09 You can also *reap plant souls* at some point in your reaper career 💀😆 Made it so much easier to hit the soul quota in the reaper career too! Just have a big garden and reap dem plant souls! 😆

[@dinjarind]

Thank you for this video! I just began playing with this new pack and it's been so much fun, but I didn't know exactly what I could do in the new map. It's so cool how much it was added!

[@gracerobertson6546]

I had no idea about a lot of these, thank you! Also, love the PvZ music!

[@sirpugsalot7459]

I think it’d be really nice if you had a Violin in your inventory you could challenge grim to a Violin challenge as a reference to A Devil Went down to Georgia

[@jayrichard9633]

I’ve been testing out the grims right hand trait and the only death type it does protect from my knowledge is the mother plant death since it does invoke the grim reaper

[@Delrosi]

This has been the best promotion of the pack so far. Awesome work.

[@courier6960]

The imagery of playing the grim reaper in a dunking competition for someone’s life is hilarious

[@GK-ob1ni]

I can't get over amazing this pack is! There is SO much gameplay in it. I usually get bored with a new pack after a few days, but it's been 3 weeks now and I'm still enjoying it. I really hope that EA has turned a corner and will give us more content in each pack from now on. Especially after seeing how many great reviews this pack has received and how happy simmers are with it.

[@juliaboros5694]

Thanks for the great insight of this pack!! I bought it last week (and used your creator code of course) and have been having a really good time. I'm convinced this is one of the best packs ever from the Sims team.💚

[@onlyabidoang]

Aww thank you for using my code! Really appreciate your support 🥹

[@Moonlight-x5z]

I was waiting forever man I'm so glad you uploaded all the tips and tricks I was clueless when I had the life and death pack

[@Astark4646]

Abi, thank you for making this videos and for adding subtitles, they help me a lot! Greetings from Spain! ❤

[@rneechan1864]

Finally!! The moment I've been waiting for abi talking about this pack for a longggggggg time, this shall be fun!! ✨

[@Hello_Jaime80]

I didn’t know some of these! I had no idea about the plumbobs! That’s cool. I also didn’t know you had a creator code now! I’ll use it next time!

[@onlyabidoang]

Thanks for the support! It means a lot that you are using it 🥺

[@xxelmoth]

This pack came at the perfect time because I just lost my fur baby. I can’t wait to celebrate you in game forever Freddie! 🥹🐾😻

[@hugo_dummy]

awesome video as always 😁 love the format, it shows all the features so clearly and in a fun way. thanks!

[@7mariepierre]

I was waiting for this video! I haven’t really exploited the ghost path yet. Can’t wait to do so!

[@docette2015]

I hope the internship is going well! And damn, this is some good stuff -- I am absolutely BAFFLED that we seem to have gotten a lot of good content with minimal bugs with this pack. Like, what happened? XD But this makes me very glad that I asked for this pack as a Christmas or birthday present (my birthday is two days after Christmas, sooo). :) Thanks for showing all this off!

[@gianeirationgco5163]

The chess challenge with the Grim Reaper reminds me of the Sims 3, where you can also challenge him to save a sim from dying. I think that feature in the Sims 3 was base game, and I’m glad that this came back but other than chess there are tons of challenge that you can choose to challenge Death himself

[@SevenEllen]

Thankyou so much for the Reaper's Rewards in the gallery - My Reaper's Rewards got stuck. I heard a LOT of people have this problem too.

[@onlyabidoang]

No problem! It’s a shame that the event is pretty buggy

[@Cakebraincat]

I didn't realize that lake could be a death sentence. I'm glad I never tried it.

[@kali6753]

Now I do understand why my sim died from overexertion. I've wondered myself why he was death from this because he was a young adult. Because of the lake and the buffs I've used with him so often. Makes sence now.

[@TheInsaneVane]

@@kali6753 Young adults (and other ages) can have Death by Exhaustion via the Research Machine from Discover University. In this case it's mental rather than physical exhaustion.

[@michaelkennedy8776]

Lady Ravendancer not a spellcaster in my game either, I hope it gets fixed. This pack is one of my favourites!

[@asdfzhou]

I don't know why your accent makes me sleepy if I keep listening for 10minutes😜love your videos anyway❤

[@resolute_visit]

I knew I was gonna like this pack when they used one of my favourite songs in the trailer but I was not expecting it to have so much new content and as a CAS lover all the new CAS clothes are really nice too, best pack so far imo

[@TacoQueen33]

This pack is definitely a must!

[@_eys]

14:09 omg, The Ring easter egg?

[@mandala314]

ikr?! So fun!!!

[@lalaulala8948]

As a funeral chair, I feel entitled to share my similar experience with ghosts woohooing in me. It's absolutely vexing and bewitching.

[@mariacarvalho2926]

The pvz music in the background is probably the best easter egg and it might not even have been intentional

[@heyalfikr]

Fun stuff about emotion, especially the sad due to death emotion: a celebrity with Emotion Bomb quirk can delete the sad buff after having an emotional meltdown. You don't need to wait 48H for it subside normally. Draw back is it sometimes delete a positive emotion too.

[@misssunnysyu]

the hamster 💀

[@lefishe3713]

Unfortunately, the interaction of becoming a temporary ghost, whether through the lake water or the gambling game, is leaving the sim with a sad/angry mood that keeps appearing all the time, as if the sim had died in that mood, and this is very annoying.

[@angelofsugarpops]

Edith coming out of the TV is an awesome feature!

[@shesholdingcorn]

Using Ophelia Specter (Olive Specter's niece) as the example for getting a baby with Grim is kinda weird I'm ngl 😭

[@Delrosi]

This is amazing. Thank you!!!!

[@lingitsheshark]

If you're a spell caster and a reaper, you can collect souls from havestable plants in the magic realm. Maybe you can just travel there but i havent tried that

[@lingitsheshark]

Teen sims can't work on their souls journey... Unless they are a ghost. To get a headstart on a sim's bucket list, turn into a ghost temporarily and write a few goals

[@lingitsheshark]

I just got bust the dust too and i think its hilarious you can vacuum toddlers clean

[@NotToday-hj6ff]

Ini yang gua tunggu2 bro Abi

[@saipirunc.6261]

Thank you Abi!

[@ChiliiStyle]

i love the new spooky music on the radios, it reminds me so much of the one in sims, which was my favourite

[@kaileyadams2712]

I’m going to test it out to be sure. But I saw someone on tiktok say that the grim born trait helps in the grim reaper career with promotions. But I have no guarantee

[@midnight5592]

The skeptical trait is useful for relationships that include an alien, it keeps them from autonomously erasing the others memory

[@saynotohaddonfield9828]

Ghost of the girl coming out from TV after waching weird footage. Also there is a well on recording as well on world map sounds familiar...

[@kkoal1]

The plum bobs becoming real objects is so crazy to me like that kinda IS their soul

[@ecivedsusagep]

Welcome to the list of funniest things possible in the sims, three way between two ghosts and a scarecrow

[@rueruerue]

them leaving their plumbobs is kinda creepy for me😭

[@calamitybrain5012]

I have a sim with chased by death in my household. Her mom got zapped while building a robot in a museum lot and I got the pop-up. Seems my whole family is at risk now. Ah well

[@minomizus]

I love this pack so much! The only thing I would've added is bringing back death by fright from the sims 2!

[@Biscuit_gamer34]

The grim born is interesting. I would love this.

[@malice6081]

I remember when the patch notes for one of the Sims games said they removed the ability to try for baby with the grim reaper.

[@pattiy8240]

Awesome!! I learned quite a few new things! 😎 👍

[@MilkTeaMayhem]

Summoning the grim reaper with the Grimophone made talking to him about Grilled Cheese a little easier

[@thegotlandisfarmer8774]

Skeptic sim: I don’t believe in the supernatural! werewolf in its wolf’s form: …are you blind? Or do you think I am a normal wolf walking on two legs?

[@giorgostrim3709]

Seems the new traits have more depth than people realised at first.

[@hufflepuffler2575]

We got working funeral events before working weddings…..CRAZY 😂

[@张扬-p1j]

The end is so hilarious....

[@mi1kguts]

this is how you do an expansion fr. can't wait to buy it

[@BrendanP]

21:44 Even the horse dung?! Hahaha!!! 🤣🤣

[@Wyv2004]

I think Edith is a reference to the sims 1, idk if thats the reference.. either way pretty cool

[@mandala314]

The static tv turns to the Cursed Video! Edith = Samara! Very cool

[@MaybeIs1999]

I love the P.vs.Z background music 🤣

[@digitaldrugz106]

As kinda odd as a death pack was I truly believe it’s one of the best the sims team has released😅

[@westworld237]

I’m definitely getting this when it’s on sale

[@theshadowofjericho4164]

Yea the servo soul journey might be an oversight.. They got a lot of oversights in the sims 4 dlc packs. Like how the fitness pack's earbuds do not work as earbuds and do absolutely nothing for music lover sims. Having to click "listen" is not how it should work, that alone makes it feel like a last second addition that they didnt put much thought into. Its essentially just a radio for the PLAYER, not earbuds for the sim.. Been an issue on forums since 2017 so its best to assume these oversights will never be fixed. 💀

[@paulmessina9165]

Tina should Complete the grilled cheese aspiration

[@jacquex_x3166]

Imagine explaining to your friend, you won their life back by beating grim in basketball 😂

[@onlyabidoang]

Or a game of jenga lmao

[@TheAnxiousOwl]

Maybe the plumbots do have a soul but are way more indestructible and only fall asleep when out of power so they work differently.