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Today I'm sharing the Early Access version of the new RPO Collection update.

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Core:

If a pregnant Sim does not reveal the pregnancy to others around, starting at 2nd trimester, if they hug or do other close-proximity interactions, the other Sim will notice the pregnancy.

Some new notifications to clarify some situations

Added back in the setting to disable romance between in-laws, formerly from the discontinued RPO M21

Some text changes & optimizations

bug fixes, notably to the "view family members" and "view relationships" interactions

M4 (paternity testing features):

IMPORTANT: these changes are not retroactive; they will apply only to new pregnancies. Previous cases where your Sims might be in the middle of a paternity test story might not be able to play out entirely with the update as too much has changed. If you're playing a storyline like that right now and it's crucial to you that it goes through entirely, finish that storyline before updating.

Sims can now do a paternity test for previous children (not just for the latest)

Sims can now reveal having lied about parentage

Sims can steal a hair to do secret paternity tests with

consequently, the "psychic" interaction (which was until now the only way for a Sim  to figure out the truth about revealing it to the suspected partner) could now be made more realistic, ie, it doesn't always find the answer.

new integrations with EP21 secret child system. Now the paternity system from RPOM4 and EP21 secret child system should work hand-in-hand well in the cases where they both trigger. EP21’s system has more narrow contexts than RPOM4, so it's not necessarily abnormal if the latter engages but not the former.

when a child is already born at the time of the test, now their name is on the paternity certificate alongside the parents'

Other, less player-visible changes also occurred, such as streamlining of some elements to maintain better consistency

M9 (adoption):

when adopted Sims who are aware of it want to look for their bio parents but said parent is dead or culled, now they will be able to find that out, whereas before, they simply didn't see the interaction to look for bio parents in these case