I started this thread on December 2018. I waited for many fixes for months, but at the end bug get fixed.
UPDATE: The new patch
November 25th, even if it is not listed, fixed this bug:
Vampires can not Back Float at pools Thanks!
UPDATE: Patch September 5th
Vampires
Fixed an issue where Vampires were exhibiting their old weaknesses even though they were not applied.
UPDATE: Patch July 16th
Dark meditation, fixed!
Influence Emotions, fixed! (BUT there is an issue: ALL the vampires have the option, if you use it you will see the animation but if the vampires do not have the power the action will be useless Vampires need to reach the points for this to work.)Update: vampires fixes from June 18th Patch:
-Vampire Sims will now once again gain points after they reach the Grandmaster level on pre-April (2019) patch saves.
-Your Vampires will no longer be unrightfully chastised by NPCs for drinking their blood after they specifically asked if it was ok. Like, I’m trying to be polite here and you said it was fine, and now you’re like all bent about it… what gives?
-Perfect Sun Resistance Vampires will no longer use umbrellas when routing in the sun. Flaunt it, baby.
-We fixed the weirdness with trying to add points while drinking the Draught of Reconfiguration. Now you should be able to add points just fine and your options won’t be greyed out.
-Cured Vampires will now change body temperature. Why you gotta be so cold?
NOTE the Draught of Reconfiguration fix do not fix The Ultimate Vampire Cure not working properly: your human sims keep the vampire weakness no matter what you do.
SADLY this patch give us 3 more bugs for our vampires:
1. Dark Meditation is broken
2. Influence Emotions is broken
3. Vampires can not Back Float at pools
Thanks for the fixes
personally I'm really happy with all of them (I wait months for them) but the 2 of the new bugs are game breakers (really, not dark meditation!!!). I hope we can get an emergency patch, I want to play Island Living with my vampires! Yes I preordered the new EP and I pay completely Vampires GP years ago
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Update: vampires fixes from April 16th Patch:
Vampires
- Vampire Sims created after installing this update will be able to continue to gain points after reaching the rank of Grand Master.
Note: Vampires that already exist will continue to experience a problem with gaining points after reaching Grand Master. We’re investigating a separate fix for Vampires in existing save files.
- Fixed some circumstances where Vampire NPCs could appear at a venue and prevent the player from being able to save the game.
- Fixed an issue where NPC Vampires would have their Vampire Energy drained after completing a load, which was causing them to idle in place instead of performing their expected autonomous behavior.
December 2018
I was waiting for my holidays to enjoy my sims, but when I discovered that the December 20-21 patchs did not fixed my vampires. I was discouraged with SIMS 4 for the first time
Sorry, but that CAS issue that was fixed was not a gamebreaker bug.
I play sims since Sims 2, I know that patches can mess up gameplay, but now I feel they can devastate the entire game.
Please, EA, If you are not going to give us more supernatural packs at least keep safe our vampires. Vampires Gamepack WAS perfect, now is ruined
Well, I will wait as usual for the fixes:
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https://simfileshare.net/download/900868/
This @Hermitgirl
1. Grand Master Vampires can not level up. You can not buy more powers.
2. Vampires with umbrellas are messed up.
3. The Ultimate Vampire Cure not working properly: your human sims keep the vampire weakness.
4. "Slay vampire" do not work with NPC vampires. NPC vampires do not die even if they stay all day under the sun lol
5. Draught of Reconfiguration cocktail not working properly: you can not use all your power points.
Thanks @Madachan88 but I only play vanilla, I do not use mods or cc. But thanks for sharing, maybe other simmers can find this mod useful
for more take a look at my showcase:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/918679/emere-osiazul-showcase-new-steampunk-karaoke#latest
But, issue no. 2 isn't specific to vampires, all Sims have issues with umbrella's - at least I have a few that keep closing and opening them every few steps they take. Or they forget they ever took an umbrella, etc.
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I thought this was only an issue on the console version. Nice to see it isn't, stinks that its a bug for both versions though. I hope they work it out as it impacts my gameplay on my vamps on ps4. I hate them "batting" or "misting" around everywhere, but I've had to resort to that if they go collecting during the day. I thought if they had sunlight resistance they wouldn't need an umbrella during the day, oh well.
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I had a Vampire working on the Good Vampire aspiration which requires buying the Tamed Thirst Vampire Power. If your Grand Master stops earning power points you can't do that. I had to have my Vampire mix the Draught of Reconfiguration so he could buy that required Power to satisfy the aspiration goal. Then he had to mix a second Draught so I could reset his Powers back to ones that are actually useful for him.
I had another Grand Master Vampire mix and drink the Ultimate Cure last light - it reset his Powers and Weaknesses instead. He had to mix a second one.
Gardening with a Vampire is a chore because you have to click on each item for a Vampire to plant it, water it, harvest it, weed it, or spray for bugs. Once in a great while, a Vampire will garden like a human but that doesn't happen very often. If you click on"Tend Garden" the Vampire will look at his garden and declare that everything looks fine even when plants and trees need water, have weeds, or need to be sprayed for bugs. The same thing happens with harvesting plants - you have to click each one until they can do Super Sell.
Seems to work. For now.
With the above mod its doable now. Tehcnically it was possible the whole time if you either
- level your vampire to max rank and then use the cheat for the current maximum amount of points (46 I think)
- use the cheat to instantly hit max rank and get 46 (?) points to use as you please
Thats a new one. Not sure if you want to torture yourself through the bug report over at AHQ for it. But you should.
Honestly Im fine with that. It makes the garden more interactive instead of "fire and forget" until the sim is done.
Hopefully this will be fixed soon from the game developers as there are going to be customers buying this game pack unaware that it is broken as you stated your issues.
I feel your pain Vampires GP is practically TS4 base game for me
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Please take a moment and check bug reports (click "me too" etc): https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/READ-FIRST-Compiled-list-of-reported-Gameplay-Issues/m-p/3445209#V
Also check other packs issues. Sadly, this is a long read for TS4.
I never knew there were that many problems with them and the only thing that would affect my vampires would be the no more points after grand master.
And I am still waiting to see a fix for them training. The training vampire will do both animations for themselves and the one they are training, the other one just stands there. It's not a mod related problem because it remained when I took my mods folder out and repaired the game.
If I click on the multi-level powers (like dampened emotions), it won't let me click it again to level that power up.
Saying "not to be rude", then blatently being rude does not excuse rude behavior.
Indeed @MDianaSanders those umbrellas are a thing for all sims. Usually the queu action is interrupted. For vampires with the Supernatural Speed is a problem with the arm animation, I call it "Broken Arm" that only can be fixed if you travel no another lot. And the vampires with full Sun Resistance use the umbrella all the time For a rotational player is a nightmare because even if you choose to keep out the umbrellas with a household and the you change to another household the previous one will use the umbrellas again
Happy New Year!
for more take a look at my showcase:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/918679/emere-osiazul-showcase-new-steampunk-karaoke#latest
All this bugs are reported, many of them for edges lol. I know that it is not easy to fix them but I really feel vampires are being put aside The garden one is bad too, but Patchy is the answer to that problem.
Happy New Year!
for more take a look at my showcase:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/918679/emere-osiazul-showcase-new-steampunk-karaoke#latest