Alongside the release of the new High School Years expansion pack for The Sims 4, the game has added a slew of new features, available to all players, for free. It includes the addition of some long-requested features, including the ability to select a sexual preference for each Sim, and grow body hair.

Also new is the addition of ‘Wants & Fears’ which will affect the long-term growth and personality of your Sims, as well as improvements to the in-game phone. All of these elements are key when it comes to the upcoming high school-themed content.

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The new sexual preference mechanic will be multi-faceted, allowing you to choose who a Sim is attracted to, both physically and romantically. It’ll also allow Sims to choose who they’d like to ‘Mess Around’ with, or decide whether they’re still exploring their options.

However, the sexual preference feature is binary as it exists right now, meaning you can only select attraction to men or women. The Sims 4 development team has publically acknowledged this limitation – it’s present due to the age of the game, and the inflexibility of its decade-old code structure. Hopefully, this means an alteration to the feature will be investigated in the future.

You can view the official Sims 4 update notes on the Sims 4 website.

Edmond is the managing editor of GamesHub. He was previously at GameSpot for 13 years, where he was the Australian Editor and an award-winning video producer. You can follow him @EdmondTran

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