For one , I want to make it clear.The skintone issue does not bother me much.Im African American.I think we do should have sliders back.That might help, but I think the main issue is.The style that Sims 4 has.The skin style is very cartoonish.Why cc is very realistic.The thing with cartoons it's impossible to have the exact realistic shade, or color like you do in real life. So the cartoon style makes it's a bit limited.This is limited for any race.Not just blacks.The problem to me is having swatches, and style they choose.
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Personally, I think the devs don’t address this because they have no solution for it.
it could maybe be the blue overlay the sims 4 has? I'm not sure but i have also noticed that they look different in CAS than ingame. Hope they fix that.
Because TS4 is a life simulator and storytelling tool, it doesn’t work the same way. A lot of folks don’t to play the game ‘stylized realistic.’ They look for more every day realism and since the game has been going for years now, some kind of realistic representation is required in the game-no matter how cartoony the characters look- because other realistic things have also been represented in game. If TS4 is all about inclusion, it should go for either all or nothing: Adding more skin tone swatches or a colour wheel will solve at least one issue that a lot of people are having.
Now for the other things...
The blue light that pervades everything in TS4 probably has a lot to do with it. Even with default replacement skin tones, I've noticed that my darker-skinned Sims always have a purplish tinge, especially at night. I've started using a color correction preset, which has helped somewhat. The skin tones don't look as bad as they did before.
For those who are interested and don’t want to use shaders:
https://luumiasims.com/post/176043227929/its-been-well-over-a-year-since-noblu-v1-came-out
I think I agree most with this theory. To be fair None of the original skintones have ever looked right. Long before i discovered cc I was trying to make a pale korean sim and a mid tone Cambodian sim and wow did they look all kinds of grey and orange. And there is no black hair that doesn't look blue.
I honestly believe they were going for a silly cartoon look. I mean look how goofy the sims act and walk and grin constantly and all. But the players want realism and down to earth. Opposite of what they were going for.
The cc I use that gives my sims nice looking realistic skin tones is alpha and there is nothing alpha in the sims normally. And everything is bold bright and colorful.
I am south Asian of the darker variety and it hadn't bothered me too much even before I got cc. I just looked at it as the style.
EA/Maxis kind of asked for this by changing their tactics here midway. I don't see why they can't just add in more colour swatches for skin tones, eyes and hair though. There's plenty of RPG's out there that aren't about life simulation at all and have A LOT more options. Modders have been doing it for years. If modders can do it, EA/Maxis can DEFINITELY do it.
While they're at it, I'd like some more unnatural tones too in all categories.
@CAPTAIN_NXR7 How has this mid been for you? Does it cause any issues (graphics, performance, gameplay)? Does it need regular updates?
According to the comments on the mod page, I thought that fix had stopped working properly many patches ago. Thanks for the info!
@SimmerGeorge, @Cynna,
I use both Luumia’s NoBlu & NoGlo (and sliders and body hair) and these mods have always been working fine for me.
I make sure to check the site after the release of a new patch, but if there’s no clear update I just take that chance and put the mods back into my mods folder. So far I have had no performance or graphics issues at all!
This!!!
As of now the game has none of the light northern European skin tones but lots of other shades. It doesn't bother me - it's a game, but I think all this noise about how the game has to represent everybody is the times we live in. It is especially apparent here in US.
The issue is only even getting addressed at all because the majority White influencers have joined the bandwagon to amplify the complaints Black simmers have had for years. Maybe if EA had a more diverse pool of Game Changers for this franchise (different ethnicities, races, cultural backgrounds, playstyles, etc.), more of this game's problems and shortcomings would have been addressed much sooner and more completely.
Due to the fact, that colors from all skin tones was lacking.They don't need add more game changers .Gamechangers qualifications seem to be for anyone.Who is popular enough.It has nothing to do with race.(I don't want anyone to be pick because their race.Thays not equality.)Ironically we have more dark skin tones than white ones .Im glad we're getting more swatches.I hope it's for all races, and not just mine.