Over the past few years, The Sims 4 fans created a lot of themed challenges for all players to enjoy. However, after downloading patch 120, Simmers can now play a brand new feature, Scenario. Currently, there are five Scenarios that players can play. The new challenges are located right under the Load Game option in The Sims 4 Main Menu.
In the Survive The Holidays Scenario, players need to create two Young Adults and they have to survive living together during a certain holiday. It kind of resembles the Finding Love After A Breakup as both Scenarios have two Sims that despise each other.
Survive The Holidays Scenario Walkthrough In The Sims 4
There are two potential outcomes for this particular Scenario; No Hard Feelings and Love To Hate You. In the first one, players need to make the two Sims become friends without any negative sentiments. While the second one requires both Sims to be romantically involved but as enemies with benefits.
No Hard Feelings
The first step is to pick appropriate Traits while making the Sims. For this Scenario, friendly Traits are crucial to making both Sims tolerate each other. For example, Outgoing, Good, and Proper will ensure the success of friendly interactions.
After creating the family, players need to pick a house. The World or Lot doesn't matter as long as both Sims live together. Upon arriving, players will notice that there aren't any sad or angry moodlets and the two seem fine. They need to take this opportunity and start a friendly chat.
But beware; after a short time, the Sims will start gaining bad moodlets. When this happens, players need to stop the conversation and let the two Young Adults control their emotions. A quick tip to remove bad moodlets is to use mirrors.
Every time the two have positive emotions like Happy and Playful, immediately start a conversation. Keep repeating this step until both Sims gain a decent amount of Relationship Points in their Friendship Bar. After a while, they become Best Friends and the challenge is complete.
Love To Hate You
This outcome requires the two Young Adults to be Flirty. The first step to achieving this outcome is to pick the Romantic Trait in Create A Sim (CAS). There are alternative methods to get them Flirty if players don't wish to use this Trait:
- Taking a steamy shower
- Listing to Romantic music
- Buying a potion from the Rewards Store
Don't try to make them friends first as it will be pointless. They need to stay as enemies to achieve the second outcome. When both Sims are Flirty, choose interactions from the Romance Category to fill up the Romance Bar. Players will notice that this Bar is Pink while the Friendship Bar is still Red. Don't fret, this is what Simmers need.
When the Pink Bar is filled enough with Relationship Points and the Friendship Bar is Red, the two Sims are now lovers but hate each other and the Scenario should be complete. However, in some cases, the Scenario doesn’t get marked as finished. This is because, while making some romantic choices, the red Friendship Bar is decreasing.
In this case, after filling the Pink Bar, Simmers need to pick choices from the Mischief Section to gain negative Relationship Points. Do not pick from the Mean one as it will take points from the Romance Bar.
The Sims 4 is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S.