Second gameplay post:
That last post was my initial exploration. I started another save just to check it out. Actually its my “flip this house” fun play I have but don’t post about. I decided to use Joanna Fontenot, one of my favorite sims to play to try it out. She has a ton of skills but not maxed by any means, so she is a bit of a challenge to play. She bought a blank plot in Newcrest. She immediately got a call from Thorne Bailey giving her the option to travel to Batuu. We did.
Note: Joanna Fontenot was born with a random glitch, she is a vampire/witch hybrid (vampire dad and witch mom) and has abilities of both. This doesn't happen very often but, its really cool when it does. Her UI looks a little different, and you do have to add vampire powers via cheat codes because her Vampire Powers/Weakness tree does not show up. Her spellcaster tree does. I gave her the ability to fly as bat, command other sims, sun proof, and vampire creation powers. She is a low ranking vampire with no weaknesses. Carl's Sims Guide website has all the cheat codes for this if you need it.
Stuff we did on Batuu...
Joanna met Honda Civic (Hondo), emo Kylo Ren, meanie Lt. Agnon, and pushy Rey Skywalker.
I do need to make a note about interacting with these premades. They are considered hidden households so you can't find them under unplayed household menus. Apparently, in order to be Disney friendly, there are no romance interactions, unless you add them to your household and make them playable. You can't call them when you go back home, and you can't travel with them. You can't cast spells on them, drink plasma, perform any mermaid or alien interactions on them, or other vampire stuff. Except I did get the option to turn them into a vampire...hmmm....
Also, you have limited friendly social interactions too, sort of like interacting with a celebrity. Mostly brighten day, get to know, discuss interests, etc. I think because there are unique voices for several of the characters and they recorded a limited set of interactions during production.
She met smuggler Honda Civic in the Cantina https://i.imgur.com/d8gck5j.png
and won a sarbecc (spelling?) game against him and won 400 galactic credits. https://i.imgur.com/s0QBSaf.png
She met Lt. Agnon in the First Order quadrant of Batuu. https://i.imgur.com/aonNqKe.png
He sent her out on some missions like getting supplies for the First Order https://i.imgur.com/mSUUBcx.png
Spreading positive propaganda about the First Order https://i.imgur.com/vqjlZUV.png
Checking IDs https://i.imgur.com/ywqzi1V.png
And making arrests if the citizen was “suspicious” https://i.imgur.com/cDm5s6d.png
Jo is outgoing and a friend of the world, she also has the polite trait from the parenthood pack so its really easy for her to make friends. She and Lt. Agnon, commander of the First Order quickly became best friends. OMG JO!! XD https://i.imgur.com/XE9ThG9.png
She also took some missions from Honda Civic https://i.imgur.com/AummyAH.png
She had to go “retrieve” a package that involved her breaking into a house and stealing the package. https://i.imgur.com/9KmjbEi.png
Jo has all positive 4 parenthood traits so she kept getting uncomfortable and guilty of mean interactions like stealing and fighting with citizens.
She met Rey, and quickly started talking about science, apparently Rey got bored and used the force to make Joanna go away. https://i.imgur.com/MsSJAU4.png
Seriously she does this hand wave and you automatically travel to a cantina. I couldn’t get a screenshot because it happened so fast. Jo had a dazed moodlet.
She was a big hit with emo Kylo Ren. https://i.imgur.com/zNaYo2K.png
He loved to tell her creepy stories https://i.imgur.com/Ca1rWTu.png
But being a blood sucking witch hybrid, I think she had him beat on creepy stories and experiences. "Dude I can fly around as a bat!!" https://i.imgur.com/a33E1D8.png
Kylo really liked her! https://i.imgur.com/JcCKjEx.png
Hanging with the locals
She met the occasional slightly fluffy storm trooper https://i.imgur.com/95Ko5kF.png
It kept reminding me of Barf in the Spaceballs movie.
https://i.imgur.com/DvGtMka.jpg
Weird flirty local “aliens” https://i.imgur.com/GC7QcsW.png
More storm troopers https://i.imgur.com/25O7oOP.png
Some hot smugglers in the cantina https://i.imgur.com/Ml2EVBM.png
She got his number
LIGHT SABERS!!!
This is seriously my favorite aspect of the game. Light Sabers!! I sent Joanna to Doc Ondar’s Den of Antiquities (I keep calling it Doc Brown’s Den of Iniquities) to buy some stuff. She bought some kyber crystals and light saber handles. She put them together https://i.imgur.com/tyDw9n5.png
And did this animation https://i.imgur.com/HcBSleB.png
https://i.imgur.com/81eIyc4.png
Followed by an evil laugh, I think that is due to it being a red kyber crystal https://i.imgur.com/vbPl2s7.png
You can go to the rabbithole Jedi temple and request a lightsabre challenge. This dude showed up. https://i.imgur.com/FILqW75.png
https://i.imgur.com/gkbu5Uw.png
She lost https://i.imgur.com/vQccHgP.png
He insulted her.
Some random occult stuff.
Joanna was bummed at the fact she can’t do her magical and vampire thing. She still got around on her broom https://i.imgur.com/MAfGQnQ.png
and the occasional creepy vampire hiss tick https://i.imgur.com/mCpV7RX.png
My “A.D.D” quickly set in and I got bored with the repetitive missions and interactions. I got a wacky idea. I wanted to see what Kylo looked like, and if I could add these folks to my family. Sure enough I could! But you have to use the testing cheats true thing and then shift click on your mouse to bring up the option menu. So with a little magical flourish, Jo abducted Kylo Ren, Lt. Agnon, and Rey and transported them back to planet Earth. https://i.imgur.com/hXjyLCY.png
Earth
My weird little group of roomies moved into the Bros/ BFF house (The one with Zoe Patel) in Oasis Springs. https://i.imgur.com/Dd333eC.png
They soon discovered the tv. The cooking channel was a big hit https://i.imgur.com/sbSbywq.png
Lt. Agnon and Emo Kylo Ren enjoy watching the news too https://i.imgur.com/fdSabEL.png
Since I lost all of Jo’s spells whenever I download her again from the Gallery (seriously, that is so annoying!), she has had to learn them over again https://i.imgur.com/FVmQBz2.png
GeekCon
It was Geek Con! Joanna thought it would be a great idea to take her abductees to San Msyhuno and show them around. She of course is a major geek, and she loves to cosplay. We went with the apocalypse outfit from Get Famous https://i.imgur.com/UF4BkBS.png
Kylo Ren was impressed and wanted to cosplay too, so he went as Grandpa Darth Vader https://i.imgur.com/8v0YQND.png
Mom!?! https://i.imgur.com/mY0VGPG.png
Of course we had to get the Geekcon t-shirt https://i.imgur.com/u2dtx7b.png
The VR game platforms were a major hit https://i.imgur.com/DAyocSG.png
Rey was having ton of funhttps://i.imgur.com/v0E3h6n.png
Kylo was having the time of his life apparently https://i.imgur.com/T2RWk57.png
Rey got into the spirit of the cosplay so she and Joanna had a sparring session with the light sabres. I had to make them some because they do not have them in their inventory when you add them to family https://i.imgur.com/9yneGDi.png
Lt. Agnon was not impressed with Geekcon so he started picking up the ladies. Lt. Agnon has the mean trait so I figured he and L. Faba would hit it off. https://i.imgur.com/RPkHZw8.png
He was trying to show off his muscles lol https://i.imgur.com/IzLdoUr.png
He discovered the bar too https://i.imgur.com/caYhUL5.png
And karaoke https://i.imgur.com/a77WJqC.png
Meanwhile Kylo met Angela Pleasant and was quite smitten. https://i.imgur.com/Xbu1i5l.png
He’s a bit awkward since he’s a loner, a bit shy. Joanna is the best wingwoman ever and talked him up to Angela, and suggested hooking up with him. https://i.imgur.com/8kYYhQo.png
She was impressed https://i.imgur.com/AssA8kN.png
Emo Kylo Ren lived up to his reputation. Dude! Why would you talk about death with a girl you just met!?! XD https://i.imgur.com/wMEOCs9.png
He did have a relationship hit with that interaction, but we’ll work on that.
They head back home
Is this Magic?! And Lite Brite duels
It was still early enough and her abductees were hungry so Joanna conjured up some pizza. https://i.imgur.com/dItrt19.png
Wow! The Force can’t do that!
https://i.imgur.com/dZQkaGk.png
Sage of Practical Magic Simeon Silversweater was walking by so Joanna introduced herself.
Weird, I feel like we had kids together in another reality! (they are married in another save of mine) https://i.imgur.com/5O0Ep2x.png
They had a duel for knowledge https://i.imgur.com/qFJmpC0.png
Kylo and Rey are suitably impressed https://i.imgur.com/aABsfwE.png
Simeon won https://i.imgur.com/deOz7DP.png
I guess that little duel inspired them because Kylo and Rey had a sparring session autonomously! Awesome! https://i.imgur.com/p31gf9t.png
Then Kylo engaged in a sparring session with Joanna https://i.imgur.com/jBK87Ep.png
So what does Kylo look like and some stuff I want to note about this pack
Light sabre duel animation is actually really great. I can’t wait to see what modders do with it. I can see the light sabers being modded to look like swords.
One thing I would like to see is adding sparring with light sabers as a club activity. This would be great for “Jedi” school households or for geeky clubs to go LARPing in parks. Maybe it could be added in an upcoming patch? I know someone will mod it in as an option but it needs to be a fixture in the game for console and vanilla players.
Apparently Kylo, Rey etc are considered hidden households because I could not find them under my households. So you will have to use the "add to family" option cheat when you hit shift+click on your mouse. Or the add to family cheat if you have MCC. I will send Jo back to Batuu. I imagine the game will autogenerate another Kylo and Rey etc.
So far Joanna, Kylo, and Rey are getting along great. Kylo is a loner, ambitious, and hotheaded so he has a tendency to have temper tantrums but isn’t too bad. Rey is cheerful, ambitious (or self-assured I can’t remember) , and good so she is a delight to be around. Lt. Agnar is self-assured, mean, and ambitious. He’s a cheerful guy but he has a tendency to insult everyone so I don’t know how long he will last as a roomie. I might marry him off to Judith Ward or L. Faba or something.
Rey has this weird attempt of an English accent she was pre-programmed with. Not all her interactions have speech associated with it so she has a tendency to be talking with no sound.
Kylo has that grating modified speech due to his helmet. Its honestly hilarious. I am pretty much keeping it on all his outfits because that is just my weird sense of humor. But here is what he looks like!
https://i.imgur.com/TdqklOz.png
I returned to Batuu to see if Kylo, Rey or Lt. Agnon copies would be generated by the game if you add the originals to your household. They do not. No replacements have showed up so far. There are plenty of scoundrels, first order officers, and resistance people walking around that you can interact with to obtain info, missions, etc.
Another fellow simmer had the following question: I guess there aren't any Siren Lullabies (Emotion Manipulation), Calling Thunderstorms, Bringing the Lightning, other forms of weather manipulation, or Summoning Volcanic Bombs either... Maybe judging Children of the Islands?
Here's what I found out:
I sent Nalani the mermaid and Professor Psyded the ghost to see what would happen...
Psyded the ghost was able to ghost scare sims in his household (Nalani) but not the major characters or random walkby sims in Batuu. https://i.imgur.com/LFJdCdD.png
He can possess certain objects though. https://i.imgur.com/GziMUyZ.png
Nalani can perform mermaid interactions on members of her household but that's it. I didn't see any mermaid option when scanning her. She can't change the weather in Batuu. https://i.imgur.com/qu6K6wj.png
She sang Charmer's lullaby on Psyded and he got all flirty https://i.imgur.com/6gou6Iv.png
More Screenshots:
She can summon Island Elementals and they show up! https://i.imgur.com/LahXqya.png
Poor kid got a bad review from the Elementals https://i.imgur.com/oQWiRrX.png
Also, if you add Kylo, Rey etc. to family and make them playable, they do NOT generate new ones! But you can still interact with storm troopers, resistance folks etc and still get the same socials and missions.
