Vampires no longer breaking in

Occasionally, I get a break in or see the vampires running in warp speed in City Living. But I'm glad if they are not automatically breaking in nor do I play with those features because I am not a fan of the occult (in my game) either. That said, as some have suggested, I'm sure you will probably get more interaction of this sort if you do things like approach the Sim Vampires or study their books and read about vampire lore, etc. It's the same with Aliens, too. Less interaction, then, less visibility of them.

"Kita5399;c-17584018" wrote:

"Pamtastic72;c-17583909" wrote:
If they’re going to break in it will be between midnight and 2 a.m. in game time, and every sim in the household must be asleep and the doors must be unlocked. The frequency has been severely decreased since pack launch due to several simmers who only wanted the CAS and BB in the pack but not the vampires themselves very vocally complaining. Now they can set the no trespassing for vamps on their doors, but sincerely doubt the frequency of break ins has been increased.

Gosh, hope that didn’t sound too bitter.

ETA: you can increase the likelihood by studying vampire lore, researching vampires on the computer, and interacting with vampires in game.

The researching and interacting hasn’t increased it happening at all (for me at least), I’m on a new save too. I believe Pets being awake also keeps them away, as pets take up a Sim slot, so the game doesn’t consider them separate.

Yes pets do count, that’s why I rarely play with them. I feel like I have had some luck with researching and interacting as long as my whole household is asleep by the hours specified, but again we now have to force something that should be spontaneous and provide an element of surprise.

@Pamtastic72 I couldn’t agree more! I also don’t want to have to pick and choose which packs/features I get to use, they should all work together. I’m trying to get a story going without cheating but I don’t think it’s going to work. My spellcaster will either have to purposefully go seek out and visit a vampire, or give up her black cat familiar.

"Kita5399;c-17584060" wrote:
@Pamtastic72 I couldn’t agree more! I also don’t want to have to pick and choose which packs/features I get to use, they should all work together. I’m trying to get a story going without cheating but I don’t think it’s going to work. My spellcaster will either have to purposefully go seek out and visit a vampire, or give up her black cat familiar.

I don’t understand buying a pack titled Vampires if you don’t want them in your game and then basically ruining the pack for everyone who actually wanted vampires. I feel like if the nerf features we paid for we should get some of our purchase price back. I paid $20.00+ USD and now I rarely get vampires so I feel I should get like $10.00 back.

"Pamtastic72;c-17584064" wrote:

"Kita5399;c-17584060" wrote:
@Pamtastic72 I couldn’t agree more! I also don’t want to have to pick and choose which packs/features I get to use, they should all work together. I’m trying to get a story going without cheating but I don’t think it’s going to work. My spellcaster will either have to purposefully go seek out and visit a vampire, or give up her black cat familiar.

I don’t understand buying a pack titled Vampires if you don’t want them in your game and then basically ruining the pack for everyone who actually wanted vampires. I feel like if the nerf features we paid for we should get some of our purchase price back. I paid $20.00+ USD and now I rarely get vampires so I feel I should get like $10.00 back.

Options I don’t mind, toggles are fine if they want to add them (like the new door locks).. but completely (just about) removing a feature is absolutely false advertising.

"Kita5399;c-17584077" wrote:

"Pamtastic72;c-17584064" wrote:

"Kita5399;c-17584060" wrote:
@Pamtastic72 I couldn’t agree more! I also don’t want to have to pick and choose which packs/features I get to use, they should all work together. I’m trying to get a story going without cheating but I don’t think it’s going to work. My spellcaster will either have to purposefully go seek out and visit a vampire, or give up her black cat familiar.

I don’t understand buying a pack titled Vampires if you don’t want them in your game and then basically ruining the pack for everyone who actually wanted vampires. I feel like if the nerf features we paid for we should get some of our purchase price back. I paid $20.00+ USD and now I rarely get vampires so I feel I should get like $10.00 back.

Options I don’t mind, toggles are fine if they want to add them (like the new door locks).. but completely (just about) removing a feature is absolutely false advertising.

Agree 100%

"Pamtastic72;c-17584064" wrote:

"Kita5399;c-17584060" wrote:
@Pamtastic72 I couldn’t agree more! I also don’t want to have to pick and choose which packs/features I get to use, they should all work together. I’m trying to get a story going without cheating but I don’t think it’s going to work. My spellcaster will either have to purposefully go seek out and visit a vampire, or give up her black cat familiar.

I don’t understand buying a pack titled Vampires if you don’t want them in your game and then basically ruining the pack for everyone who actually wanted vampires. I feel like if the nerf features we paid for we should get some of our purchase price back. I paid $20.00+ USD and now I rarely get vampires so I feel I should get like $10.00 back.

Yeah, and it's the actual gameplay that was taken away from us, not like it was a piece of furniture that no one used, or unlockable or something. The way people on the forum (like myself) are always asking for more gameplay, it's completely counterproductive to actually remove it. Why would you even consider doing that? Especially when it's the developers themselves who specifically told us that the reason Vampires weren't part of a bigger pack was because they wanted to avoid forcing them onto other players who didn't want them, and this way, those people could skip the pack altogether. Well, it's not the Occult players' fault if those people bought it anyway for some chairs and clothes. Whatever happened to personal accountability?

And on top of it, they just added a new feature to all doors for those same players. Can we please get Vampire break-in feeding turned up again? Please? It was seriously my favorite thing in live mode.

I had one break-in after I first got the pack. It was the first and last. If I'm not playing a vampire, I only know they're there because I see one ocassionally rush past.

Btw, I played a vampire sim a little while ago and I created this park where vampires could gather and have vampiric spars.

I added the Vampire Nexus trait to the lot and no vampires show. Ever. And I have tons in this save.

Only human children visit autonomously. Without adult supervision. At 3 in the morning.

?

"LiELF;c-17584116" wrote:

"Pamtastic72;c-17584064" wrote:

"Kita5399;c-17584060" wrote:
@Pamtastic72 I couldn’t agree more! I also don’t want to have to pick and choose which packs/features I get to use, they should all work together. I’m trying to get a story going without cheating but I don’t think it’s going to work. My spellcaster will either have to purposefully go seek out and visit a vampire, or give up her black cat familiar.

I don’t understand buying a pack titled Vampires if you don’t want them in your game and then basically ruining the pack for everyone who actually wanted vampires. I feel like if the nerf features we paid for we should get some of our purchase price back. I paid $20.00+ USD and now I rarely get vampires so I feel I should get like $10.00 back.

Yeah, and it's the actual gameplay that was taken away from us, not like it was a piece of furniture that no one used, or unlockable or something. The way people on the forum (like myself) are always asking for more gameplay, it's completely counterproductive to actually remove it. Why would you even consider doing that? Especially when it's the developers themselves who specifically told us that the reason Vampires weren't part of a bigger pack was because they wanted to avoid forcing them onto other players who didn't want them, and this way, those people could skip the pack altogether. Well, it's not the Occult players' fault if those people bought it anyway for some chairs and clothes. Whatever happened to personal accountability?

And on top of it, they just added a new feature to all doors for those same players. Can we please get Vampire break-in feeding turned up again? Please? It was seriously my favorite thing in live mode.

It’s sad that it’s all imagination now, I feel like I could nearly achieve the same effect with some CC and the kiss neck animation, it’s all pretend anyway. I don’t mind being in control of my story that’s sort of the point of the Sims, but the unexpected keeps it from getting stale. I really only play my occult rotation for short little bursts, because ultimately I’ll burn out and lose interest. At this point it’s mods to the rescue for me, but it shouldn’t have to be that way.. I paid for a game it should work as advertised.

"SilentKitty;c-17580903" wrote:
Jupp, no scary vampires in my save either. I am so disappointed about it :'(

It is like they have real difficulties getting frequency for stuff right. When the pack came out some players had vampire-break ins nightly and came to yell on the forum. Cue mega-nerf.

Now N.A.P.s are completely too spammy, wait a bit and they will go extinct too.

How about just.... not going overboard in the beginning with a new feature.

Please turn the vampires back on again!!! Pretty please!!

I modded risky vampirism into my save so that each break-in could vary the risk of my sim turning into a vampire. I was ready to play my sim as a vampire but I did to be out of my hands as to when. It was very easy, after the first visit from Vladimir it never happened again.

I miss break-ins, they added a scary element onto the Sims 4. Those are few and far between. It is so irritating not knowing when a random patch just obliterates something that you truly enjoy in the game.

I don’t understand why they didn’t just make it a turn on/ off feature . I miss vampire break ins. It gave that scary feels like you mentioned . It was the one thing that didn’t make the sims feel that childish.