I have played with vampires in my sims 4 for over a year and I know how they are supposed to work. I originally had a regular sim that was turned into a vampire by Vlad. The problem is that my existing vampire Sims suddenly lost the ability to edit their vampire features in create a Sim. The option simply vanished. Here in the picture, it should be above the hair icon while editing head, but its gone. I believe this is some sort of bug related to one of the latest two or so updates to sims 4, as this problem never existed before. I also added Vlad to my household in a game, and was unable to edit his vampire features. I changed Nancy Landsgraab into a vampire, and I was totally unable to edit her features in CAS. Whats even stranger, I managed to make this problem go away once by repairing the installation and clearing the EA app cache (allowing me to edit the vampire features), but today the problem surfaced again and now clearing the cache doesnt seem to help. Instead, the forms became linked when previously I had unlinked them in CAS.

@manjimaruFIN How did you take the Sim to CAS ? It should be there if you use Change Sim. not on Plan outfit. Is it also missing if you create a new one ? Any mods/cc ?

1. I was playing an existing game and clicked "enter create a sim". I was able to edit the features yesterday after I cleared the EA app cache, but today the issue resurfaced. 2. I have zero mods. I have never had any. Ive already repaired the installation twice.

@manjimaruFIN I'm confused. Which options do you have when you click on Face ? That's where the vamp features should be.Your first pic has them missing but I tested my game entering CAS the following ways- Household Manager --> Choose existing household. Option is there- Moved Vlad into a family --> Choose household in household manager: Option is there- Loaded Vamp household, entered via Plan outfit --> Option missing as per design- Loaded Vamp household, entered via Change Sim --> Option is there.- Clicked Create a new Sim in the lower left corner of the map and created a new vamp --> Option is there.- Didn't test Modify in CAS via Cheat but I think for that you would probably need to enable fulleditmode for cas.Where exactly did you enter it ? From the household manager or the map ?

I did some more testing, and it seems that when starting a completely new game the options are there (IN CHARACTER CREATION); as well as loading a household from my gallery when starting a new game.(I was mistaken at first and thought that new game didn't have the options, but I was just being blind so I edited my previous post)However, my old savegame that I had started a number of updates ago seems to not have the options. I guess its possible that this savegame somehow got corrupted during an update. Here are pictures of Vlad in my household in that old save, and where I enter CAS. As long as the problem is only in this one savegame and not universal, I can live with this.

Ok, I have successfully located the issue. If I have a vampire household, and then I move into Vlad's manor, merging my house hold with Vlad's household, the editing options disappear. EDIT: ok, even a new household that has nothing to do with Vlad, cant edit the features after character creation. I created a new household, placed it in forgotten hollow fledermaus bend, entered CAS and the options aren't there. I loaded the household from my gallery while starting a new game because I want to use a specific sim. EDIT x2: I created a completely new vampire Sim and placed the household in forgotten hollow. I enter create a Sim. I cannot edit the vampire features. So this is not related to my old saved household.

Create a sim missing vampire features

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crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
@manjimaruFIN How did you take the Sim to CAS ? It should be there if you use Change Sim. not on Plan outfit.

Is it also missing if you create a new one ?

Any mods/cc ?
manjimaruFIN
New Traveler
2 years ago
1. I was playing an existing game and clicked "enter create a sim". I was able to edit the features yesterday after I cleared the EA app cache, but today the issue resurfaced.

2. I have zero mods. I have never had any. Ive already repaired the installation twice.
crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
@manjimaruFIN I'm confused. Which options do you have when you click on Face ? That's where the vamp features should be.

Your first pic has them missing but I tested my game entering CAS the following ways

- Household Manager --> Choose existing household. Option is there
- Moved Vlad into a family --> Choose household in household manager: Option is there
- Loaded Vamp household, entered via Plan outfit --> Option missing as per design
- Loaded Vamp household, entered via Change Sim --> Option is there.
- Clicked Create a new Sim in the lower left corner of the map and created a new vamp --> Option is there.
- Didn't test Modify in CAS via Cheat but I think for that you would probably need to enable fulleditmode for cas.

Where exactly did you enter it ? From the household manager or the map ?
manjimaruFIN
New Traveler
2 years ago
I did some more testing, and it seems that when starting a completely new game the options are there (IN CHARACTER CREATION); as well as loading a household from my gallery when starting a new game.
(I was mistaken at first and thought that new game didn't have the options, but I was just being blind so I edited my previous post)

However, my old savegame that I had started a number of updates ago seems to not have the options. I guess its possible that this savegame somehow got corrupted during an update. Here are pictures of Vlad in my household in that old save, and where I enter CAS.

As long as the problem is only in this one savegame and not universal, I can live with this.
manjimaruFIN
New Traveler
2 years ago
~~Ok, I have successfully located the issue. If I have a vampire household, and then I move into Vlad's manor, merging my house hold with Vlad's household, the editing options disappear.~~

EDIT: ok, even a new household that has nothing to do with Vlad, cant edit the features after character creation. I created a new household, placed it in forgotten hollow fledermaus bend, entered CAS and the options aren't there. I loaded the household from my gallery while starting a new game because I want to use a specific sim.

EDIT x2: I created a completely new vampire Sim and placed the household in forgotten hollow. I enter create a Sim. I cannot edit the vampire features. So this is not related to my old saved household.
crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
@manjimaruFIN and you enter cas through the household manager ?

Sorry, I'm still a bit unclear so could you maybe post a screenshot of where you enter CAS for the existing households ?
manjimaruFIN
New Traveler
2 years ago
Here?
crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
@manjimaruFIN That option is focusing to change the likes/dislikes. Just use Change Sim on the mirror or the household manager instead.

It is possibly an oversight that it doesn't work from there but since the likes/dislikes panel pop-up when you choose the option, it could also be intentional. I simply don't know.

You also can't for example change the sexual preferences or gender from there which is possible when you choose change Sim as well.

Going to run this by a CM to see if EA wants to treat this as feedback, design or as a bug.
manjimaruFIN
New Traveler
2 years ago
Thank you for this information and spending effort of going to CM.

The main issue I have with this lack of functionality is that when my Sim turns other Sims into vampires, I won't have a way to influence their vampire features. Instead they are randomized. If this is intentional, I think it would be cooler that the turned sims would "inherit" my vampire Sims dark form features instead of them being random..

My goal was to start with a "head vampire" Sim and then grow a vampire family around them by turning other Sims into vampires. Lack of control over the fledglings features is a bit of a damper.

Another issue is that this button is still called "create a sim". I think its very confusing to have different features under the same name button depending where you enter it.. I think it is generally considered poor design that two buttons with the same name lead to different places..
crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
@manjimaruFIN I agree that the naming could be better. Edit likes/dislikes for example.

But you can do more than that so maybe that's why they opted for enter cas.

There are other ways to do it though :D