Sims cannot directly drown sims

Edit: Turns out the attack fills our sims needs and I just missed it before. It's not drowning but it's something at least.

I really hope the gurus address this & if it's something they will update or change in the future to be more impactful on game play because right now it's just a fancy animation that doesn't impact game play.

Okay so the sim gets their motives drained, then swims to shore and then disappear off the lot & fixes them up, so really it doesn't do much other than just a fancy animation. Not impactful at all.

I must say the Sims 4 as a whole does have a lot of unimpactful animations/things sims can do. One thing mods do do is add a tonne of new moodlets for more impactful interactions.

I thought you had to do the interaction twice to drown a sim. Been playing a different way but def want to play an evil mermaid eventually.

@Hermitgirl Apparently people have tried the interaction 20 times in a row and it does nothing.

It definitely would not raise the rating above T (as long as they didn't make the animation especially gory, which they obviously wouldn't), so I don't see why this was not in the pack. I feel like it's another example of The Sims 4 being made into a way too happy-go-lucky game where nothing ever really goes wrong. And I'm getting so tired of it.

I'm amused at the people arguing semantics. "Sure, sims can die but it's not a sim directly causing the death". Yeah but the players often go to great lengths to kill their sims. It's part of the game. I'm not sure how mermaids being able to cause a sim to drown would be so awful in a game where the developers take joy in putting in creative ways for sims to die to begin with.

So I voted not disappointed because this is a feature I probably wouldn’t use.

But after reading the comments I think that they should have included the feature that sims would die if you do the command twice in a row.

For me the problem is that they said this was included so it bothers me that they lied about that. I am sure no one would have thought it was a possibility if they hadn’t said anything.

"Evilyn_1007;c-17131628" wrote:
So I voted not disappointed because this is a feature I probably wouldn’t use.

But after reading the comments I think that they should have included the feature that sims would die if you do the command twice in a row.

For me the problem is that they said this was included so it bothers me that they lied about that. I am sure no one would have thought it was a possibility if they hadn’t said anything.

Exactly right. Like many have said, we were misled into thinking that mermaids could do this, and these people were not corrected. So when it is found out that they actually cannot do it, so many were disappointed and that's why this poll is so relevant. To see just how many people had their hopes up but were misled and let down. I do hope the gurus are watching some of these treading topics.

Well I made an evil mermaid... then I made two evil mermaids to test it out.
I did have a lot of fun luring the sim.. especially with two mermaids, singing, (dunking), kissing.. (which you can do with 0 romantic interest), and skinny dipping all the while pulling him under between until the sirens call was available. After many hours of toying with him, he finally got away. I was hoping for a direct drowning.
I will find a way... because I'm use to setting up a sim death when I want it. I'm guessing I'll have to move the victim sim in to watch his motives and make sure he can't get away.
I guess the devs didn't want to give us a direct murder sim-on-sim style.. I'm disappointed but not really surprised. I'll either work with it or get a mod to "enhance" the ability later.

"Simmingal;c-17129643" wrote:
I don't think its really the rating even
its just they don't want direct sim murders
i don't recall them ever being a thing in sims
like up to now emotional deaths are probably closest it gets to being ''direct''
...or woohooing your grandpa bae too much

Does Medieval count? There were executions and duels to the death in that game.