Vampires: differenze tra le versioni

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Vampires are by definition “Creatures of the Night” and, for this reason, their use suits best at nighttime. Vampires in The Sims 2 Nightlife were a copy of the old-fashioned literary and classic movie-based vampires, thus wearing classic clothes, stalking with their teeth covered by their arm and with the ability to turn into bats at will. The Sims 3 Late Night offers a more modern-based concept of the vampire, making it more up-to-date and more similar to modern movies and novels, and stripped of the old fashioned aura that characterized Nightlife vampires.

Base characteristics of new Vampires

Identifying a Nosferatu-Sim among the crowd is not so difficult: they have a pale skin and glowing eyes. By the way, the pallor of their skin in Late Night is less pronounced than in The Sims 2 Nightlife. Their eyes are not crimson anymore, but a special eye lens has been applied OVER the standard eye iris, so that every player can have different vampires with different eye colors (still brighter though and, by this mean, Vampiric).

All you have to keep in mind is that, once your Sim has become a vampire, it will maintain his original eye color, only in a supernatural way, i.e. glowing.

Other than glowing eyes, another vampire's characteristic is the show up of the bite mark in the neck of a newborn vampire, which should last for several days and then disappear (but it doesn’t apparently, it’s probably sort of a vampire mark). Unfailingly, there is also the show up of the typical sharp canine teeth (upper and lower set) and a light aura around the vampire skin, better seen at night (this almost invisible during daytime). In The Sims 3 Late Night vampires aren’t immortal: they live longer than any other normal or occult Sim but they will die of old age, sooner or later.

Vampires and Relationship Panel

Relations with vampires are highlighted in pink on the relationship panel.

After Hunt, vampire's preys are highlighted with multiple pinkish circles:

Unique powers and Skills

Late Night vampires own supernatural powers they can use to hunt their preys or, more simply, to befriend other Sims more quickly.

Vampiric Vigor

Vampires' motives lower more slowly during nighttime (from 6pm till 6am) thanks to the Vampiric Vigor moodlet which also erases any negative mental effect (ex. a vampire cannot get stressed at night). In add, it provides them a really supernatural speed in skills learning (try it yourself!).

If a normal sim is near a stranger vampire, he will suffer the Hunted moodlet, making them feel unease.

Vampires’ motives have been dyed in purple and their Hunger motive bar has been replaced by the Thirst bar.

When a vampire learns a skill with the Vampiric Vigor moodlet (during the night), its progress bar will be surrounded by a flying bat (showing that the skill speed gain has been doubled).

Mental powers

Vampires can use several mental powers on other non-vampire Sims during nighttime, from 6pm to 6am (i.e. when affected by the Vampiric Vigor moodlet):

• Make (SimName) think of me: this interaction forces the targeted sim to think about the vampire, raising their Long Term Relationship by 10 (LTR) and providing a nice bonus for starting a chat. When using this power, a bunch of hearts and bats will fly over the victim’s head.

  

  Target Sim effect of the Think of me Power

• Read Mind: this power allows the vampire to read the target’s mind, in order to find out one of its traits, zodiacal sign, career, or favorite color, music and food. During this interaction, both the vampire and the target will be surrounded by some blue waves.

Read Mind in action

You can use these interactions by clicking on the targeted Sim. All mental powers can be used only at once and on one sim at a time: you have to wait a little before you can use the same mental power on the same Sim again.

Vampiric Powers haven't space limitations. A vampire can read someone else’s mind even if it’s on the opposite side of the town (you only have to look for him/her in the map).

Strength and Run

Vampires run quicker than normal Sims and other occult Sims (they’re the fastest Sims at the moment) and while they’re running, a transparent blur will appear behind them to prove their speed.

Vampires are stronger than normal Sims during a fight (on same level skills), they also have a greater chance to win a fight (a special moodlet is given to a vampire which manages to defeat a mummy – a very hard battle, should the vampire not being skilled in Martial Arts!).

They’re also indefatigable, their endurance is infinite, allowing them to train with gym and martial arts-tools without suffering the fatigue. Their only potential fatigue is determined by a low energy bar (under 25%), in that case make them sleep.

Vampire run with motion blur effect

Thirst

Plasma Juice

Vampire Sims do not need to fulfill the Hunger need, but must satiate their Thirst instead. There are many ways they can do that, some quicker or more convenient than others, but every method will do the same thing: fulfill the vampire’s thirst before him/her perishes.

Plasma Juice

The quickest and simplest way to fulfill the thirst is to drink the plasma juice, which can be taken from every fridge in the game (provided that a vampire is starting the interaction) for free.

You can find the juice under Snacks.
You can also loot the hospital and the supermarket for plasma juice, but be careful not to get caught.

Plasma fruits

Plasma Fruit

• If the plasma fruit quality is Very Nice, the vampire will get the Sated buff.

• If the plasma fruit quality is Outstanding, the vampire will get the Sanguine Snack buff and an 8 hour block of the thirst bar.

Drink

As many of you may know, the classic direct way to fulfill a vampire’s thirst is to drink directly from the source, which means from other Sims. They must, however, be granted for permission from the victim before trying to bite.

The Vampire can use the interaction Hunt (by clicking on the ground) in order to find the more succulent prey. During the hunting process, the vampire uses the heat vision.

• If the relationship between vampire and prey isn’t at least at LTR 20, the prey won’t let the vampire feed and the interaction will suffer a negative impact. (Partners and Spouses need only LTR 10)

• If the relationship between vampire and prey is at LTR 20 or more, the vampire will be allowed to drink from its prey and the bite will be given on the wrist, if it's an ordinary prey, or on the neck, if it's a lover. (Bites given to a lover/partner/spouse will always be given on the neck).

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  Vampire Hunt interaction

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  Active Heat Vision during Hunt

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  Bite on the wrist

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  Before a bite on the neck...

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  Bite on the neck

Should your vampire being a celebrity as well, be careful to prey your victims on isolated places, otherwise he will suffer the Disgraced moodlet.

A vampire feeding on a regular prey gets only the sated buff, while feeding on a Hunted Prey (recognizable by the special pinkish-circle icon in the relationship panel) will gain the Sanguine Snack buff, a nice +50 mood bonus.

A Vampire cannot bite Occult Sims of course, only regular Sims (and only adult Sims, you cannot feed on pregnant Sims either). The victim-Sim of a bite will be weakened with a proper moodlet and cannot offer his bloo…er plasma again for a day at least.

Regular food

Plasma Pancakes and rising thirst motive

If your Sim is vegetarian, or if you just won’t give up regular food, there’s a more culinary way to satiate your vampires with no plasma spillages, a method accessible to everyone: the cooking skill! Who said a natural cook vampire cannot keep on cooking and yet being satisfied by its job? It’s true that vampires can eat regular food, but they won’t earn any privilege by doing it and they can get sick, nauseous and put on weight uselessly, but if the meal has been prepared with plasma fruits, the vampire thirst will be fulfilled anyway!

Here’s a practical example: are your Sims used to eat pancakes at morning? As long as the Sim that prepares the meal (not necessarily a vampire) has plasma fruits either in the inventory or in the fridge… there you go! Plasma Fruit Pancakes at your service! This is the only way to fulfill the thirst by eating normal food (any recipe with a fruit slot among its ingredients will do the thing, such as the Stu surprise).

CAUTION!!

Do not let any normal Sim eat plasma fruits or any plasma fruit-based meal! Although it still fulfills the hunger bar, it gives normal Sims the nauseous buff with pretty predictable results.

Under the heavy sun

A Vampire under the Sun

Sun harms vampires! A vampire can walk under the sun for a few minutes, but after a while it will start to smoke and a pop-up will warn the player that vampires do NOT like being under the sun, and it’s better to search for an indoor place to hide.

If the vampire can’t find a place to hide in time, he will suffer a 2 days penalty in which all its powers will be annihilated.

By indoor place we mean:

• Any closed room (even if surrounded by windows)
• Any home (either residential or community)
• Any Rabbithole (career lots, hospital, bookshop, etc. and even the subway).

What is EXCLUDED

• vehicles (either on 2 or 4 wheels)
• any roofless room or not delimited by 4 closed walls (NO half-walls or fences)
• the Science Cupboard in the Butterfly Promenade in Bridgeport

Vampires and garlic

A vampire that eats garlic, drinks something made with garlic or a Sim that has eaten garlic (and with the Garlic Breath moodlet) will feel sick and nauseous and can sometimes pass out.

Vampiric Sleep

Vampiric Sanctum

Even Vampires need to sleep just like any other Sim (well, apart from mummies) and for this purpose a special bed has been introduced for them (different from Nightlife coffins). The better use of it is during daytime.

A vampire sleeping on the altar enters a state of deep meditation that erases any negative mental moodlet during the sleep, but won’t be given any positive buff when he wakes up. There aren’t even the sleeping “Zzz” during the meditative sleep.

However, a vampire can sleep in a regular bed instead, and when he wakes up he will be granted the special Slept like the Dead moodlet. The sleeping Zzz are replaced by V during the sleep.

Remember to always let your vampires sleep when they’re tired, because whenever their energy bar gets under 20%, they will be weakened and their powers inhibited as long as their energy bar remains low.

Turning into a Vampire

In order to become a Vampire, you must ask another Vampire to turn yourself: the Vampire must be (roughly, some traits changes this tuning) be at least a Friend, otherwise it will reject.

A Vampire Sim can also offer a Sim to turn into a Vampire.

A Sim who has been bitten from a Vampire wonders if the bite has been made from a mosquito or a spider. The Vampirization process is not immediate and requires 48 hours to complete.

The bitten Sim can still be bitten from other Vampires before the Vampirization has completed. During the Vampirization process the some popups will notify the player that the mutation is in progress.

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  Infected Vampire

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  Real Mutation

Vampires children

Vampire little girl biting her teddy

Vampirism is genetic and such transmissible to the children if both parents are vampires.
If only one of the parents is a vampire there’s 50% chance that the baby will be a vampire, otherwise it will be normal.
All the motives will be standard until the baby becomes a teenage (no thirst for children, but hunger instead), but still will keep the pale skin and glowing eyes.
Teenage Vampires still cannot turn other Sims into vampires but will be able to do that once they reach young adult stage.

Vampire Babies will occasionally bite their teddies while playing. The only power little vampires still own is the double speed gain for skill advancement during nighttime.

Search and loot

Vampires can loot the hospital and the grocery store for plasma juice. They can steal up to three plasma packs but be careful not to get caught by police!

There are very funny popup messages during loots.

• At supermarket
  • A local looked up while browsing for produce. Funny – browsing for produce is exactly why I'm here!
  • Beep! Beep! Beep! Bar code scanners are fun. Beep!
  • Hmmmm….Whole Plasma Pack or Skim Plasma Pack? Or 2% perhaps?
  • If only the Vampire Council would approve plasma-flavored tofu, I wouldn't have to resort to such measures!
  • Look at the sheep, fleeing before me! Mmm….sheep sounds good.
  • Bah! This plasma fruit is all bruised. I should check the organic section.
  • Wheeee! I love riding in the shopping cart! Especially at vampiric speeds!
  • Don't you stare at me! Silly baby in a shopping cart...
  • I bet this plasma would pair nicely with a good brie. Or perhaps a gouda?
  • I hope that clerk doesn't call the cops. I hate getting arrested!
  • I hope they have self-checkout.'

• At Hospital
  • That nurse sure looks delicious.
  • Pathology…pediatrics….psychiatry…ah, there it is, Plasma!
  • For having so much education, doctors sure are aloof when it comes to predators lurking through the halls.
  • I wonder if the defibrillators can shock hard enough to bring me back to life?
  • This hospital is full of delicious plasma. I should get the gang here for a vampire sleepover!
  • Having super strength doesn't help much when I'm limited to only two hands worth of plasma packs.
  • Doctor! Is there a doctor in here?
  • I bet that nurse has lovely plasma. Yowza!
  • Oops! Wrong turn. There is definitely no plasma in the morgue.

Cure for vampirism

Vampires can buy the cure for Vampirism (the well-known Vamporocillin) at the Science Lab. It will cost 3.000§.

Interaction at the Lab

Bring Vampires to other Towns

In order to bring vampires to other towns, such as Sunset Valley or Riverview you must do the following:

• Save a Vampire family from Bridgeport in the Repository and move it to your town.

• Create and set a Vampire Lounge in your town. After a while the some new vampires will appear on town, just be patient. You can force a Sim to know all people in the town (and Vampire too, if the game has already generated one) by using testingcheatsenabled true and press SHIFT while clicking on the mailbox. Select Know all. Then search for a vampire on the relationship panel.

Fun facts

Vampire-Ghost died by thirst

• Differently from The Sims 2 Nightlife, The Sims 3 Late Night Vampires DO own their reflection in mirrors.

• Vampires can enter Vampire Lounges, such as the Plasma 501, without being necessarily a celebrity.

• The ghost of a vampire died by thirst is dark red, complete with a bloody shader and its heart beating.

• It’s not yet known if the gem Eye of the Vampire is related to vampires in any way (similar to Ambitions’ Woohooium). It’s bloody red though with a moving shader.

• Plasma fruits are heart-shaped, crimson and beating just like a heart. Even its seed is beating, so it’s easily recognizable. After biting a Sim, the Vampire will lick his lips with approval.

• The mark appearing on a newborn Vampire is always on the neck (even if the bite was given on the wrist) and is shaped like a “V”, not the usual two teeth spots. It looks more like a tattoo

• Even drinks and nectar made with plasma fruits fulfill vampires thirst.

• If a sim (vampire or not) is near a vampire with the Too much sun moodlet, he will feel disgusted.

Vampire related moodlet

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	Unusual Blemish	A painless blemish that resembles two circular points is on your skin. Perhaps this is the reason you feel so...odd? (From Spider Bite?) (From Mosquito Bite?)	-	-

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	Vampiric Vigor	The night fills you with energy as you're invigorated by the moon beams and starlit night. Such power!	+15	-

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	Hunted	It is always best to befriend a vampire as they can emerge at anytime...such as now...and are too powerful to confront. (From Unfriendly Vampire)	-10	-

Energy

Icona	Nome	Descrizione	Umore	Durata
	Slow	Even the mighty Vampire must sleep from time to time. Seek out a comfortable bed for restful slumber.	-	3 hour

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	Drained	At this level of energy a Vampire is powerless, worse than a normal Sim.	-50	variabile

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	Lethargic	When Vampires grow too tired, their powers are nonexistent and their mood grows sour.	-40	variabile

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	Slept Like The Dead	Vampires enjoy sleeping deeply, which is a fair tradeoff for the lack of a pulse.	+30	10 hour

Sun

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	Heating up	The sun is oppressive and ruinous for Vampires. The daylight will scorch a Vampire's lovely skin and neutralize their powers. (from the Sun)	-25	3 hour

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	Too much sun	Vampires cannot long endure the pulsing beams of the sun. Alas, the warnings of legend and time were ignored! Now, scarred and vastly weakened, the vampire must struggle forth.	-50	2 days

Thirst

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	Thirsty'	Vampires must quench their thirst by Drinking from other Sims, growing fresh Plasma Fruit, or settling for a Plasma Juice.	-	2 hour

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	Very Thirsty	Very few things can topple a Vampire's near immortal reign. One of them is leaving one's Thirst unquenched.	-40	2 hour

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	Madly Thirsty	Vampires with a manic thirst are no longer able to think clearly. Dangerous and near death, Madly Thirsty Vampires are closer to animals than Sims.	-80	variabile

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	Sanguine Snack	Sated beyond the needs of mere nourishment, Vampires sometimes consume a real delicacy to truly satisfy their thirst. (for Plasma fruit - perfect) (From Receiving Scrumptious Nutrients)	+50	8 hour

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	Sated	The Thirst has been kept at bay...for now. It always returns! (for Plasma fruit - very nice) (From Receiving Scrumptious Nutrients)	+30	8 houre

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	Weakened	Donating a little hemoglobin for the nourishment of those afflicted with Vampirism is a worthy cause. (From Providing a Vampire With Nutrients)	-20	16 hour

Vampire and celebrity

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	Publicy Disgraced	You can't hide your bad actions any more. The public has scrutinized your inappropriate behavior all over town. How shameful! (From Biting a Sim in Public)	-20	3 days