This post is part 1. Part 2 is here: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/15448691/#Comment_1544869Blogs and Trailers and Streams
Launch blog, including the launch trailer:
Live Forever with The Sims 4 Vampires Game Pack!
Launch blogbroken down into screenshots:
https://simsvip.com/2017/01/10/sims-4-vampires-game-pack-70-trailer-screens/
Vlad's blog:
https://www.thesims.com/en_GB/news/sims-4-vampires-deardiary
Vampire powers blog and trailer: Vampire Powers blog and trailer:
https://www.thesims.com/en_GB/news/sims-4-vampire-powers
Mini-trailers:
SimGuru StatementsThe World
The world is residential:
Lot sizes:
New lot traits!
Sorry, no cemetery
Non-residents?
There appears to be something new to catch in a new fishing spot:
But no secrets:
CAS and Vampire Appearance
The new CAS "copy" button is for between forms:
How about the new washed-out skin tones?
Vamps can be regular-form only or both regular and dark form:
Normal Form: make it as vampish or normal as you want.
Dark Form: optional 2nd form you can set. make it as vampish or normal as you want. If you have a Dark Form then your Vampire will automatically switch to this when acting vamp-y.
We wanted to support certain fictions and give you flexible options.
Here's one I was wondering too (so pick your poison: recreate from scratch in CAS or take gameplay time to turn):
Walk Style:
does any one know if the walk style optional ?
It's optional.
Some of our inspiration was drawn from...
Nosferatu, Interview w/ a Vampire, Bram Stroker's Dracula, Lost Boys, Blade, From Dusk till Dawn, Twilight, Buffy, Underworld, True Blood, Vampire Diaries, Dark Shadows, Near Dark.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a few.
Vampires in popular media are incredibly diverse. They have as many differences as similarities. And everyone seems to have their own specific version of what one should look like and how it should behave. So right from the start, it was very important to us to cater to a variety of styles rather than just picking one specific flavor of vamp and really let the player define what their vampire was.
In CAS, can we make families of humans and vamps and them be related? (sibling/parents?)
Yes.
Buy Mode
Coffins
Vampires can sleep in beds just fine. Well... it actually depends on their Powers & Weaknesses. There's a Weakness that will make it so your Vampire can only regain Vampiric Energy from Coffins.
So it's up to you!
1 sleeper at a time in a coffin.
Arachnophobe warning!
About that mirror...
And that wallpaper!
Do babies get new bassinets?
(So that's a yes
)
Does the organ autoplay like the City Living piano?
Any familiar tunes?
Plants!
Plasma Trees, Wolfsbane, & Garlic are the new harvestables for the pack.
Garlic makes for a WONDERFUL Vampire defense. (provided, of course, the Vampire isn't immune to its effects)
Collect stacks of garlic and turn it into Braids & Garlands. Place those around the home and Vamps will generally want to avoid it. But if the Vamp has Power that allows them to be resistant to garlic.... yikes. In that case I would highly suggest good Vamp Lore knowledge to maintain a healthy supply of Vampire Resistance Cocktails.
Skills
Organ = 10 levels. (We could have gone the easy route and just tied it to piano skill, but where's the fun in that!? There's so many new songs for the Pipe Organ it naturally made sense to give the object its own skill.)
Vamp Lore = 15 levels. (But each level ranks up faster than the normal 10 lvl skill. LOTS of unlocks to be found under this skill. VERY useful for Vamps & Humans alike)
^^ In this modern day and age the computer is the best place to start. Some quick research there will lead you to the right books you'll need.
Vampire Controls?
It's not that it isn't possible. It's more that it wasn't at all a simple or trivial addition. We looked into this feature at depth. I know folks wanted this option. I did too. In the end, it was going to be quite lengthy to implement and very likely to inteoduce many (deep) bugs. The magnitude of additional testing required would have really stretched our QA folks thin. We knew some players would be upset by not including this option.
So we tried to design a set of rules to allow for players not necessarily interested in the vampire gameplay to still find this pack approachable and satisfying (while not watering down or otherwise compromising really cool Vampire gameplay for those that do want it).
Stuff other than cemeteries that isn't in
No new scared emotion.
Why no scared emotion (too long to post all of here):
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/15468702/#Comment_15468702Continued two posts down!
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Comments
Thankyou for posting the twitter posts about the pack! It is very helpful and this thread will be a great way to keep up with information about the pack!
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
Vampire Needs
Vampire Powers and Weaknesses
@SimGuruNinja at http://thesimscraper.com/2017/01/22/behind-the-scenes-making-game-packs-with-simguruninja/
Vampire that die and turn into ghosts:
More Gameplay Stuff
Do vamps have to drink blood?
Is vampirism permanent?
Do they glow like Aliens?
Can anyone coffin-woohoo?
What about sunlight?
Can we hunt the vamps?
Turning:
Premades
So, that townie with the great hair from the pre-launch teaser?
Interaction with Other Packs
Dine Out:
Get to Work:
Get Together:
can Vamp-only clubs do Vamp things?
And random info:
plasma not blood?
My sims 4 studio with poses for download and stuff: click
Updated with Werewolf Diaries (1)
I'm alternating between work and checking the twitter feeds and I am blown away by the detail! I want to know more about the powers and weaknesses like NOW - I really feel like those will be the last piece of customization that makes these vamps work for me. I think we won't till next week. Gah. (Oh but I want the build/buy and CAS regardless, so, there you go. Sold. It's so GORGEOUS.)
Twitch: ForgottenAmber
Discord: ForgottenAmber
#BobSquad
#BobSquadForever
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@SimGuruDrake please sticky this thread.
Can Anyone ask if it will be possible to create a club for Vampires Only in Get Together and have them do Vampire-Things?
Only when you create a new sim if I'm not mistaken.
Will do
That seems to be the case. It shouldn't be too difficult to get an existing sim to turn via gameplay.
Or by turning Sims in gameplay, or having a Sim ask to be turned. The limit seems similar to Aliens... but MC Command Centre has an "alienize Sim" feature, so maybe @Deaderpool will be able to add that for vamps too.
Just asked.