‘Life By You’ reduce “unlucky” deaths resulting from COVID

Paradox has revealed that Life By You is not going to function deaths by sickness or different “unlucky means”.

Set to launch in Early Entry on September 12, Life By You will see technique titan Paradox Interactive tackle The Sims with its personal life simulator.

Nevertheless, whereas illness is a function in EA‘s Sims sequence, Paradox didn’t need Life By You gamers to lose their characters resulting from sickness.

Talking to GLHF, Paradox Tectonic head Rod Humble – ex-producer for The Sims – revealed that sickness or “unlucky means” won’t be able to kill characters in Life By You.

“We truly eliminated all of that resulting from COVID,” shared Humble. “So we had the thought of illness and dying by unlucky means, nevertheless it simply didn’t actually sit proper. And it’s not that recreation. The sport doesn’t include any violence in it.”

Humble added that different grownup themes like “nudity and romantic relationships” will stay within the recreation.

“That’s actually extra concerning the emphasis of that type of storytelling, the necessary stuff,” the studio head defined. “I believe there are a number of video games on the market that already do violence and the darkish aspect quite a bit higher.”

“We’re additionally [a] life sim, and you can also make grandma and your loved ones,” added Humble. “We don’t need individuals to see horrible issues occur to grandma. That’s not cool. So yeah, we’ve tried to make it as good as we will.”

Although Life By You remains to be months away from launching in Early Entry, Humble just lately warned followers to take its PC system necessities significantly.

“For those who’re going to play the sport, you’re going to wish a superb gaming PC,” mentioned Humble, who defined that Paradox might look to optimise the sport additional post-launch.