Hey guys, I've been wanting to know if you could have a vampire without having a dark form and once I got the game I was glad to find out that you don't need one. I was wondering what the purpose of the dark form is. In the descriptions it said it's use to hide that you are a vampire and allows access to your powers. When you do select a power to use you do in fact go into your dark form first, but if you delete it you don't go through one and just use it immediately. I have speculations that maybe if you have a dark form you won't do random hissing and nobody can discover you are a vampire without you telling them. Does anyone know if this is true?

Just my personal opinion, why I think there is a dark side. I've tested a vampire out, who does not have a dark side, and that vampire had the full abilities the same as a vampire who has a dark side. I know as far back as Sims 2, and 3, I wanted my vampires to have two sides, but did not get that until Sims 4. Most of the things we see in entertainment involving vampires, most of the time they too have a dark side as well, yet also have a side they have when they are trying to attract, or just to blend in. I just wished in Sims 4, that no one would know a vampire is a vampire, until certain things happened, other wise the general public would just see them as another human sim.I like having the dark side, this way a vampire can look as nasty and menacing as their player wants them to be, yet, looking as good in their non-dark side. I really hope that when EA comes out with witches, they will do the same for them as well.

Guess another question could be why hide the dark form, maybe it is aspiration traits i have but i never noticed any difference in how people react to me in or out of dark form. I even went as far as to go to a big party and nobody have any negative reaction to me at all in dark form.

It exist to make your vampire EDGY.Nah i think its more like to have dark form fot your vamp.

I think it's more because a lot of the cultural versions of vampires outside Sims have appearance transformation, so this gives us an option to play that way in-game too.

Because in some lore, vampires look like your average human, until they use their powers their monstrous form comes out.or you could give your sim one form, and no matter the powers your sim will look one way doing it all.I think When i create a vampire, he's going to have his Human Form, but also a Demonic form. and At some point I'm going to kill off his Humanity and be 100% Demon

What's the purpose of a dark form?

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SailorCeti
8 years ago
I guess I’m the oddball here. I prefer a more cute aesthetic. Think Mavis. Zing! Anyway, I think once a sims is turned, the game should react different depending on age. For example, child and teens will only have a normal form. Once they age up to young adult, cas opens so they can create a dark form, or opt out. If already a young adult or over have cas do that when turned. They could even make them aspiration rewards. Fulfilling the good vampire one might reward you with the opportunity to purge your dark form. They could do one for the opposite, bad vampire, removing your human form, becoming eternally demonic.
Beardedgeek72
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
"emmaning;c-15577626" wrote:
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"Jestina;15570830" wrote:
It's also a thing in Vampire the Masquerade. The struggle to retain some humanity versus succumbing to the beast.

@Jestina I'm so glad someone else knows about Vampire the Masquerade!
When I finally get this pack, I intend to make a household of Vamps to reflect a few of the different clans by allowing them to basically only have powers and traits that were more dominant within said clans.

That's what I'm doing too! I'm creating a few of each clan and building them with the appropriate traits and powers. I've even been searching for lots that will suit the clan members and I found a cool asylum for the Malkavian and some gorgeous grand mansions for the high clans. There are some city slums for the Brujah and a variety of graveyard parks with underground lairs for Gangrel and Nosferatu. I'm having a blast with it. :)

Do Vamps in TS4 have the ability to keep their dark form? If so, do you use the "normal" form of a Nosferatu as a type of obfuscate ability?

I'm looking forward to the possibility of them releasing a Witch game pack, downloading a hybrid mod and going to town creating Tremere clan members! *fingers crossed*
Oh, and of course, they need to release a Werewolf pack so our Vamps will have Lycan enemies! >:)

You can make your vampire have his or her normal form look just like their dark form, there is even a copy button that allows you to make the two exactly the same, if you choose too. If they do come out with the Werewolves, I really hope they look like the werewolf statues that is in the game.

http://www.sims4.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/sims-4-vampire-angespielt-003_news.png

Do you know how epic it would be for werewolves to not just have a weird hairy version of themselves but a giant werewolf form! It would be awesome if you could choose to just be hairy or actually be a beast!

Yup, they were badly done with the lots of body hair and no beast thing in TS3 imho, which was why I never played them. I hope in TS4 that they would have more beast effects and fur, not just normal looking body hair.

I don't think so; they were very classic werewolves of the Wolfman type (see old black and white movies)

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