[FIXED] [V] Some vampire powers disappear after entering a new lot

This has affected one or two of my vampires too but it only seems to affect particular traits such as deadened emotions, and the stat ones. Others, like sun immunity are fine.

I also found that my vampire lost her 'fine' status when she was on the public lot and when she went home she was still without it. But when I moved her to a new home, it reset her and it returned. I put her back with her family and the 'fine' status stayed. So it can be reversed, its just an annoying workaround.

It does only seem to affect certain high level traits though. And I am not sure whether vampires can have all stats unlocked without a cheat being used or not? Mine came from the gallery but in my own game none of my vampires have these traits, not even my Grand Master...and so I don't know whether it is only those with all skills unlocked affected or whether the issue is with the traits in all vampires.

When I had the issue I had no mods or CC as I don't use it. It happened after the patch.

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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? City Living, Get Together, Get to Work, Parenthood, Vampires, Dine Out, Spa Day, Outdoor Retreat, Toddler Stuff, Fitness Stuff, Bowling Night Stuff, Vintage Glamour Stuff, Backyard Stuff, Kids Room Stuff, Romantic Garden Stuff, Movie Hangout Stuff, Spooky Stuff, Cool Kitchen Stuff, Perfect Patio Stuff, Luxury Party Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 1. Create a vampire. 2. Max Vampire skills to include the traits that prevent the Vampire from losing social, fun, and hygiene. 3. Make this glorious Vampire join the Doctor career. 4. Go to work. 5. Observe the fun, social, and hygiene needs decay.
What happens when the bug occurs? The fun, social, and hygiene needs decay when they shouldn't due to Vampire traits.
What do you expect to see? The needs do not decay.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

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This just started happening after the most recent patch pushed to the game. Prior everything worked as expected.

This is also affecting my vampire. It's fixed when you restart the game or go out to the main menu, but it makes traveling really bothersome. I hope this gets fixed soon.

My Sims also lose their fine +10 emotions. This happens every time you move from one batch to another. I must back off my game and reboot it for the emotion to come back. It's a recurring situation ... Thank you for your attention.

I also experienced the same bug. Did you solve it?😢

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HI @soho248

it's an open bug that EA needs to fix. Haven't heard of any workarounds.

The vampire bug has a lot of symptoms. A lot of people are not playing vampires because of this but I am because I want to find out exactly how far this bug extends.

Workarounds - the abilities reported in this post reappear if you move the sim to another lot and then move it back into the family. It's annoying but it does work. It doesn't prevent the same thing happening again. A couple of other people have suggested other workarounds but I haven't tried them.

Other symptoms of this include:

Sim vampire levels up but certain abilities are not enabled (Vampiric Slumber is a key one here, even if the opposing weaknesses are not selected). This happens on home lots and on away lots but isn't consistent - the same vampire can generally later learn the skill it couldn't learn before. I have one exception to this - one of my vampires is completely unable to learn Vampiric Slumber no matter where he is.

Sim vampires appearing with sun immunity when they have not the level to obtain it. I am unsure if this can be a genetic inheritance as it happened in 3 sims in my game and all of them have at least one parent with immunity. It was suggested as I didn't play with one of them for a long time that the game maybe associated the ability with him as though he were a NPC vampire, but this hasn't been proven for his son who I have played with. I actually like the twist that these three vampires have become sun immune, but suspect it's actually part of the same bug. So as much as I don't want to reset them, I feel it needs reporting as well.

I had one household with two vampire teen sims who aged up at the same time. One could learn to fly as a bat and the other could not. Later the one with the issue could learn to fly as a bat. I mention this because this sim is one of those mentioned above with the sudden sun immunity.

I have heard other people report other missing powers but I haven't experienced this myself. Just that there are numerous parameters involved in this bug (or a collection of bugs) that may be related to changes in the patch. Also the fact that powers can go missing at home.

The biggest issue for me though is that some sim vampires are appearing with very drained stats when you load the house. Sims are also randomly appearing outside of their houses as if they just moved in, when that isn't the case. In these instances I have been lucky and no fatalities - but other people have lost sims due to this.