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Do you want hybrid occult in The Sims 4 ?
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Do you want hybrid occult in The Sims 4 ? 72 votes
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If The Sims is a puzzle then there should be some connections between the pieces as a whole coherent universe instead of a bunch of independent bubbles ignoring each other.
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionOf course it is possible, but it's too much work for them.
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Third, they've already gone and linked werewolves and vampires to spellcasters in the "Werewolves" pack's lore additions. If they wanted us to stop clamoring for hybrid occults at this point, maybe they shouldn't have seen fit to insert official, cannon lore of that sort into such an open-ended, player-driven game. (Though, personally, I'm the type who doesn't care for pre-made stories or lore in The Sims, since I play to tell my own stories. I never even played the beloved pre-made towns and sims of TS2. Every time I play that game, I build my own world with my own sims in it from the ground up. I'm a heathen, I know.)
So, yeah, hybrids really should have been planned for. I mean, at the very least, they should have made magic a skill system instead of assigning it strictly to one occult type. That way, all sims could learn magic as a skill, with special spells unlocked if the sim is a vampire or a werewolf or an alien or a mersim or whatever. That could have been really interesting. Vampires casting a storm of shadow bats, werewolves projecting a magical manifestation of their inner beast, mersims summoning waves out of nowhere on dry land, fairies insta-growing giant cowplants to terrorize the neighborhood, human sims summoning a hail of red plumbobs, aliens casting Meteor...That would be so much fun.
But seriously, I'd like it *if* they could find a way where they weren't glitchy as all get out, which may not be possible in Sims 4 with the way they have them structured. Right now, Alien/Spellcaster is the least glitchy, because Spellcasters don't have a second form and Aliens don't have a different interface, though even there, you need to go in to CAS from a different sim in the household to be able to change both forms. The other occults all have interference on either the UI or the forms or both (I haven't used any of the mods, so I can't judge how well those help.)
I'm sure that I would have fun if they were back, Plasmathirsty machines and brain hungry aliens wandering in the neighborhood
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionSo yes, I'd love official hybrids. They say they won't make them, but really I think the issue with them is that they're very glitchy, especially in CAS, and they just refuse to make it an official feature where they need to think everything through, fix every bug, and give them unique needs and such. Hybrids are still possible in an unmodded game through cheats, but boy howdy will they be messed up, especially when they have secondary forms. There are mods to stabilize this, but I'm really tired of relying on mods and updating them at every patch haha....
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Or let's combine werewolf and sorcerer for a master of chaos! Or... have a heartless vampire-werewolf who fearlessly curses enemies and devours their prey!
Lots of amazing heroes/villains can come from this!
Other people might want it, and that's fine.
Hybrid occults always remind me of the role-playing trope of the half demon, half dragon, half cat girls (and yes, I know that adds up to 150%...and yet I once saw someone seriously say that very thing in an MMO chat). So, I'm just not into it.
Or a vampire/mermaid hybrid (would likely have to use only the mermaid form and not vampire dark form) would allow for some pretty interesting gameplay too. I mean how terrifying would it be to have a creature who can both drown you and drain you of your plasma with the right combination of powers?
Or Mermaid/Spellcaster = Sea Witch, who could be good or bad, depending on your play style.
I'd also like proper occult/human hybrids as well, like Dhampir.
Unfortunately, I can't actually add Mermaids & Werewolves to the mix without my sim being glitchy. Oh well.