Sims 4 Vampires, The Mystery of the White Bat
When the Sims 4 Vampires Gameplay trailer first came out, I noticed that there were two color variants of the bat forms. And there are still two color variants when you look at them in Debug. But wh...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qx2qMYhgp8
You can see the two different colors in the Gameplay Trailer when two vamps Woohoo as Bats at 1:43. The male sim turns into the white bat.
But I've had my sims do that and they were always the same dark grey bats.
I've gotten my sim to where all the vampire aspirations are achieved (using no cheats) and that seemed to do nothing. I don't think I've tried making a vamp with a good trait, yet. But I somehow feel that won't be it either. :/
I did once think that maybe your sim needs to have "x" amount of offspring/underlings or a ton of vamp experience, but I didn't test that yet.
Edit: Made a Good Traited vamp, and no white bat. Then I thought what if it was a good vs evil thing, maybe the sims in the trailer were good and evil?
Made an Evil Traited Vamp and had them Woohoo, no white bats...
@DeskCoffee, well, it was worth a try! 🤭 😳 Thanks for your update! 😇 I think maybe it then just must be random. In real life this would mean the lighter bat has a recessive gene and the darker bat has a dominant gene, but I do not know if there is any genetic component to this or not. But that could explain why the lighter bat is rare. 🤔
If I find anything out, I will tell you! Please do the same, since I am now wondering how to get different colors. 🤓
- I'll definitely post if I even see the white bat lol.
Yeah, maybe it is genetic?
This might be an odd hypothesis but in another game, Wolf Quest, you need to have like 5,000 (don't remember exact amount) exp points for one of your wolf offspring to be white.
So what if you need two master vampires and they need a bunch of vamp points when they woohoo for a kid?
Or perhaps it depends on the amount of generations in a given lineage?
I had a family of master vamps once but that file got deleted. ._. And I wasn't paying attention in that one.@DeskCoffeeyes, it could be genetic, or based on exp points and genetic, or how long your lineage is, or completely random. 😃 But thanks to your research, the one thing we do know is that it is not based on Aspiration or Personality traits! 😉 The info about Wolf Quest is interesting, and might shed some light, so we will have to see!
The only other thing I can think of is it might have something to do with whether your Vampire was created in CAS or got turned in-game, but that seems like a long shot.🤔
I'm sorry your master Vamp family got deleted! 😢 And I bet you will be paying attention from now on! 😇
Update: I tested 3 different Vampire families (2 with 3 members and 1 with 2 members), with a total of 8 Vampires tested. There wasn't a difference in the color of the bats between a Vampire made in CAS and a Vampire turned in-game. Also, while bat-color might still be genetic, it is not linked to the human form's hair, skin, or eye color. All of my 8 bats tested were the darker type. If the white bat color has anything to do with genetics, it is a recessive trait and probably randomly generated (as if it were a mutation.) 🤨 Also, all bats had aqua-blue glowing eyes, like the one in your picture. 😉
Again, if I find anything about different color bats and what causes them, or if I see a different color bat, I will tell you! 🙂
- I haven't been able to play in awhile, but I'm starting to think that maybe the game Developers were going to implement them in the game but then decided not to and left the white bat to forever haunt the Debug mode list.
I really hope this isn't the case but I feel like I'm running out of theories to test. I got to around Gen 5 in a lineage of grand masters but still no white bat. .n.
