Do you play with Occults?

"AquaGamer1212;c-17013454" wrote:

"fullspiral;c-17013449" wrote:

"AquaGamer1212;c-17013440" wrote:

"Chazzzy;c-17013432" wrote:
I have Get To Work and Vampires installed but I do not play with occults. I have mods installed to even prevent them from being generated in my games so I don’t even see them... ever :)

It’s funny, I don’t see them even without mods installed. It’s the weirdest thing ever.

It's because everything was toned down and dialed back for family/realistic players who want the bb, but nothing else.

Oh, when did that happen?

Several times in patches. The game was patched right after GTW, to reduce alien abductions causing males to become pregnant. From complaints. My Sim had one alien baby before it was nerfed. None in the three years that followed. Aliens are also reduced from being bartenders, or hanging out in bars since GT, which broke their disguises so it was easy to see they were aliens. But less likely they are in hardly any bars or nightclubs since then. (at least not in my game). Vampires do not spawn unless you have your Sims turn a few NPCs or read about vampire lore, or that is how it was in my game before I stopped playing. But vampire powers and other things are borked and not patched so not sure if they also toned the appearance of vamps in the worlds since they said they did, then took it back and said they didn't. I'm guessing they are probably toned down, too. ETA: And since there is alien night in GT the ones who were in disguise never show up like they did during GTW. They are bascially confined to that night, and or to being a cashier somewhere out of disguise.

Yes, yes and yes, occults are the best part of this game <3 I play ghosts, vampires, aliens, fake fairies and enjoy the Selvadorada Skelettons, oh, and Patchy from Seasons. But I want more :'(

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Absolutely. In my game they live and hide themselves amongst humans.

Yes, only in one save game though because i like to keep most of my saves realistic.

In a game where all sims' behaviour is pretty much the same regardless of their traits, and pets were quite the disappointment (to me, anyway), occults add some much needed variation to normal gameplay.

Back in TS2, the only occults I liked were witches, because most of the others were basically just normal sims with skin conditions, and ghosts weren't even playable. TS4 has fleshed out aliens and vampires, ghosts are finally playable (although they might already have been in TS3, I don't know), and I'm positive that any future occult life states will get a similar treatment. Plant sims are lame this time around, and I think ghosts could have had more unique options, but still.

"GrumpyGlowfish;c-17027174" wrote:
In a game where all sims' behaviour is pretty much the same regardless of their traits, and pets were quite the disappointment (to me, anyway), occults add some much needed variation to normal gameplay.

Back in TS2, the only occults I liked were witches, because most of the others were basically just normal sims with skin conditions, and ghosts weren't even playable. TS4 has fleshed out aliens and vampires, ghosts are finally playable (although they might already have been in TS3, I don't know), and I'm positive that any future occult life states will get a similar treatment. Plant sims are lame this time around, and I think ghosts could have had more unique options, but still.

Can confirm, ghosts were definitely playable in TS3. Ghost babies could be born, and you could even create them in CAS, and pick their death type, which affected their colors. Compared to that, I find TS4 ghosts kinda lame? I liked the TS3 ghosts with their blank eyes and colorful bodies. If I wasn't on mobile right now, I'd attach an image or two.

I do enjoy playing with occults, and even mod to bring other occults into the game for future gameplay. So far, I've especially enjoyed bringing aliens into my main game, but I find the vampire features more fun to play in separate playthroughs.

I have vampires and aliens. I don't play the aliens at all, but now and then I'll go play with my vampires.

Back in Sims 3, I almost always had a witch. Fairies and genies were my next favorites, but I rarely played werewolves and didn't have aliens.

I play a rotational game where my vampire sim has two roommates both of which are happy to feed her. She also manages the Blood Stained Teeth club who's membership also feeds her.

I don't play with them as often as "normal" sims but I do play with them in rotation. I find myself using aliens the most out of them cause I play on a ts2 save file for ts4 so there's a lot of alien families from strange town. I only ever see new occults generated by the game if I'm playing with the occult in the first place.

The one occult I haven't ever touched is PlantSim, they're just so shallowly implemented