The Sims 4 Vampires Game Pack

Guide to Gameplay Additions and Features

The Sims 4 Vampires
The Sims 4 Vampires Game Pack Guide
The Sims 4 Vampires arrives January 24, 2017 for PC and Mac. Click to enlarge this for a better look - you might even want to use it as a wallpaper!

The Sims 4 Vampires Game Pack arrives January 24, 2017. This new pack allows players to make Vampire Sims, with detailed character creation (down to the fangs and their alternative dark form). Vampires gain ranks, from fledgling to grand master, and pick up new powers along the way. The pack includes a neighborhood, as well as many occult-themed objects with which to decorate the home. This guide to The Sims 4 Vampires will show you the majority of new gameplay features in the pack and lead you to more detailed information that shows you how to become a creature of the night and what to do if your Sim encounters one.

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The Sims 4 Vampires: Guides and Features

The Sims 4 Vampires: features such as furniture, objects, and decor

Becoming and Playing a Vampire (Guide)
In this guide, you'll learn how to become a vampire in the game pack. This new system is rather detailed, allowing players to ascend in power, from playing as a weaker Fledgling, to taking on now abilities and weaknesses as they lose their humanity and become a more powerful Grand Master. Vampires thrive on plasma, which satisfies their thirst, and are weak to sunlight and garlic. Vampires ditch the Energy, Bladder, and Hunger needs for Vampire Energy (which doubles as mana for using abilities but doesn't deplete normally) and Thirst, which must be satisfied by consuming plasma.

You can customize the look of your vampire in Create-a-Sim, choosing the length of their fangs, and how they look when they take on their Dark Form. This second form gives Vampires a nasty evil look and is used to reveal their true nature.

Vampire Ranks & Levels (Guide)
As Vampires use their powers to feed and meditate to recover energy, they gain ranks. Each rank up gives the player points and unlocks extra vampire powers. This guide will teach you about the various ranks of vampire and how you can level up.

Vampire Powers and Weaknesses (Guide)
Vampires in the Game Pack have both powers and weaknesses. For each Vampire Rank you gain, you will accumulate more power points that can be spent on new abilities and perks. However, in order to avoid losing too much humanity, a vampire must adopt weaknesses to balance them out. As they grow stronger in undeath, it is sensible that they may lose the ability to eat regular foods, or hiss uncontrollably. Vampires might learn to turn into a bat or mist in order to get around faster, increase resistance to sunlight, mind control other Sims, or make themselves more attractive. There are many perks to be picked up, and you can supermax beyond Grand Master to learn them all! Read this guide to learn all about Vampires' powers and just what they do.

Vampire Lore (Guide)
There is a new skill in The Sims 4 Vampires. The new Vampire Lore skill lets regular Sims learn about the undead and the ways that they can protect themselves. This knowledge may also serve regular vampires, because they can get the ability to order Plasma Packs, which let them drink blood on the go.

Other Gameplay Features & Additions

    Vampire in The Sims 4
  • A New Neighborhood Yep, this pack comes with a new neighborhood, too! It is not a full world, but an unique place to build your vampire's lair. Forgotten Hollow looks about as Gothic as you'd expect it to look given the dark theme of the pack (pictured below). This neighborhood is well suited for vampires with its much longer night phase, great for a vampire family.

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The town square in the Sims 4 world of Forgotten Hollow
The Straud mansion in the sims 4 forgotten hollow included in the vampires game pack
Click to Enlarge. Night shots of the forgotten hollow town square and the Vladislaus Straud Mansion, which is home to an ancient Vampire.
  • Vampire Visits at Night - While you'll naturally encounter Vampires out and about at night, Vampires can also visit your Sim while they're sleeping, just to get a little drink. Maybe you should turn to the computer to begin learning vampire lore in order to defend against them!
  • New Looks: With such a focused pack, you can expect many character customization options in CAS. Players can select from an assortment of new clothing, hair, and even give their vampire the right fangs for the look. Vampire styles range from normal-looking to classic Nosferatu vampires, bald and with pointy ears.
  • New Build and Buy Mode Objects: You can decorate your lot, or the new town of Forgotten Hollow, with your own Gothic architecture and incorporate decor fit for a creepy vampire family.
  • New Skill - Pipe Organ: Sims can learn to play the organ and become a true master of creepy music. Like other music skills, you can of course license songs to make a little extra money.
  • Coffins & Bat Woohoo: Coffin beds are available for Sims, and of course you can woohoo in them - I mean, who would have guessed otherwise... Two Vampires that both have the ability to transform into a bat are able to woohoo right where they stand! Also weird!
  • New Aspirations: A few new Vampire Aspirations are included in the Game Pack, which are highly welcome! One allows you to play as a Vampire that doesn't feed on others, another sets you toward being a Grand Master Vampire. Yet another allows you to be rewarded for building a Vampire family. In all, there are three included in the Pack.
  • New Plants and Herbs: Plasma Fruit, Garlic, wolfsbane, and Sixam Mosquito Trap seeds. There are a few new types of plants that can be grown in your gardens. You can also find them around in the new world of Forgotten Hollow. These can be used to make potions and garlic wreaths with the Vampire Lore skill.
  • Vampire Bloodlines: Sims can be born as a vampire, though their powers will not come out until they are teens, assuming they were lucky (or unlucky) enough to get the gene from mom and dad. They will stop aging at Young Adult, though you can use a birthday cake to advance them to Adult and Elder if you so choose.

Vampires Trailer

Vampire Screenshots

The following pictures were taken from the youtube video so that you can get a better look at them. Click to enlarge each of them for a high resolution view.

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Abby graybillsays...
How do you play the game sims becasue it is not letting me.Scared
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Melissasays...
Can I decorate or dress a normal Sim neighborhood or normal Sim with the vampire pack items? Or is it strictly for vampire sims and forgotten hollow.
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Playalotsays...
Once you own the pack you can decorate who you like and where you want with any items from any pack. Smile
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Melissasays...
Thank you so much!
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Laurensays...
I need to know,
Can two vampires have a vampire baby?
Admin: Yes. Two vampires will always have a vampire nooboo.
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Daniellesays...
Hi! I need help. Everytime I click a household on Forgotten Hollows, I always get stuck on the loading screen. It's not hanging but it is taking forever. I just downloaded the new vampire update. :-(( please help. :-((
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Playalotsays...
Deleting both the game cache and Origins cache should help with this:
How to delete the game cache
How to delete Origin Cache
We have a full tech section with many super useful tips here: Tech Tips so looking at reducing lag/freezing tips probably will be of interest to you too.
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Draven Darkshadowsays...
If you cure vampirism do you have to restart if you become a vampire again and do you lose all your skills and have to start those over again?
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Playalotsays...
So if you cure a vamp and then transform them back into being a vampire, they keep the actual points but all their perks and weaknesses have been reset. So you end up with a vampire again but with no weaknesses or powers claimed and just the total worth of points that they had prior to being cured.
So my vamp had 11 powers (7 actual claimed powers but 2 were at L3) and 11 unused points (and 3 weaknesses) after being cured and them transformed back into a vampire he had no weaknesses and no powers but had 54 points for me to spend.
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Jennifersays...
Can vampire be turned off in the game? I don't really want them in my game, but I wouldn't mind the stuff that comes with the pack.
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Playlotsays...
No, there are no toggles for anything in TS4. If you don't interact with any vampires you really won't see them much in your game. In some of my games I don't see any at all. But you can not remove them completely.
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chrissays...
This game
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Briansays...
Ok, so I got this pack last October when it was on sale, and I had no idea how glitchy it was until the April bug fix patch finally fixed it. Vampires are now doing things I never saw before, but were supposed to be doing all along. The Vatores still freak me out with that fast move thing, Vlad finally uses his bat form, vampires do... whatever that is when they're around each other, and finally... they don't stand around twitching for hours on end!
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Chezie13says...
I've been having trouble with the relationship between 2 of my married sims, love on max but the friendship was no existent. I have worked out that it is down to when they feed, if they see each other feed the relationship suffers. The best way I have found around this is to take them to one of the bars in oasis springs have one of them talking in the mirror while the other feeds then swap them over. It took me ages to realise why they kept arguing when they both wanted romantic interactions.
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Playalotsays...
If vampires use the compel action to drink from a sim rather than 'ask' all sims in the vicinity will take a negative hit to their relationship with the feeding vampire.
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Hannekesays...

I LOVE this pack, it's my absolute favorite! <3



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