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Strangerville Help?
vintagesaturday
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Hi everyone! There are some spoilers here but I'm trying to be vague.
I feel a bit crazy, because all the comments I keep seeing about Strangerville imply the playthrough was super easy and took a few hours. I've been playing for weeks and can't seem to finish, I find it hard.
So basically I have been playing cheat free, so in saving up money to *buy* required items and all the pausing to take care of needs and the time required for work etc it's taking me some time - don't know if that's the case for others or not. Beyond that getting all the required ingredients has been brutally slow. When I finally accomplished that and all the vaccines were administered they turned down my offer to help (I got 1/3). No big deal they 'thanks for hanging out but I have to leave' and I planned to keep building relationship and ask again. However a sim day or two later after all needs addressed... I can't ask them to fight the mother, they aren't recently vaccinated. I want to scream at the idea of gathering ingredients again and making more and then trying again, especially with load times visiting the lab etc. I feel like an idiot that I'm not accomplishing what is so easy for everyone else, so I decided to look for help after scouring online and not finding others with my same issue (if I missed a similar post, apologies for the duplication).
My questions are:
1) Has anyone else had trouble completing the story?
2) Does anyone know how *long* you have until the request help to fight option disappears?
3) Does anyone know how to gather spores faster?
4) Does anyone know a way to enter a cheat to get people to have the option to 'request help' if not recently vaccinated? (I'm so annoyed I'm abandoning my no cheats idea ha)
Any other tips/tricks would be appreciated. Again, aware of how stupid I must sound, but figured worth a shot!
Thanks in advance!
I feel a bit crazy, because all the comments I keep seeing about Strangerville imply the playthrough was super easy and took a few hours. I've been playing for weeks and can't seem to finish, I find it hard.
So basically I have been playing cheat free, so in saving up money to *buy* required items and all the pausing to take care of needs and the time required for work etc it's taking me some time - don't know if that's the case for others or not. Beyond that getting all the required ingredients has been brutally slow. When I finally accomplished that and all the vaccines were administered they turned down my offer to help (I got 1/3). No big deal they 'thanks for hanging out but I have to leave' and I planned to keep building relationship and ask again. However a sim day or two later after all needs addressed... I can't ask them to fight the mother, they aren't recently vaccinated. I want to scream at the idea of gathering ingredients again and making more and then trying again, especially with load times visiting the lab etc. I feel like an idiot that I'm not accomplishing what is so easy for everyone else, so I decided to look for help after scouring online and not finding others with my same issue (if I missed a similar post, apologies for the duplication).
My questions are:
1) Has anyone else had trouble completing the story?
2) Does anyone know how *long* you have until the request help to fight option disappears?
3) Does anyone know how to gather spores faster?
4) Does anyone know a way to enter a cheat to get people to have the option to 'request help' if not recently vaccinated? (I'm so annoyed I'm abandoning my no cheats idea ha)
Any other tips/tricks would be appreciated. Again, aware of how stupid I must sound, but figured worth a shot!
Thanks in advance!
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Otherwise, I would suggest moving a few sims in with you that you would like to fight with so you have them nearby when you're ready. Gather more materials than you need so if you run out of vaccines it will take less time to make them again.
2) I didn’t even know there was a time limit until reading this thread. I literally vaccinated, cheated the friendship, then invited everyone to the lab. I found them all around the bar.
3) If you use the scanner at the lab all around the outside are huge clusters of them. I stood in the same spot and scanned back to back to back and got enough. You literally find like 5 at a time each time you scan there versus finding maybe 2 anywhere else in the world.
4) Just do the cheat to up your relationship or make sure to vaccinate people you’re friends with. One thing I did notice was you can vaccinate people who are not even sick and because they’re vaccinated you can then ask for their help. So I ended up doing that for 1 of my people because the first townie I went to ran away before I could ask for her help.
These are wonderful tips. I was either getting 0 or 1 spores previously. And my scanner had to recharge SO. MUCH. I'll try scanning there and cheating relationships. I like just buying the vaccine too.
I too made the mistake of vaccinating randoms and not knowing you had to be close or I might have been more cautious in who I cured xD
Thank you both again for helping me save a shred of sanity this time around!
No prob! Oh forgot to mention I have a mod that makes it so the scanner battery is always full lol
At the time, I did not realise that you can only have a maximum of three sims to help you fight, so I wasted time and resources trying to build up a bigger team. Basically, all you need are three sims with whom your sim has a friendly relationship of 50% or more, vaccinate them, recruit them and take your team straight to the lab.
Incidentally, something else I only found out the hard way, is that when you fight, you are supposed to direct how the fighting is done. I don't want to give too much away here, but don't just start the fight and hope for the best - that way you are likely to lose. My sims fought and lost four times, before I realised there was an option to direct their actions. Then they won easily.
Also, make extra vaccines as you can throw them at the Mother and command teammates to throw vaccines at her as well, which does extra damage!
Just wanted to say aren't alone .... it took awhile for me to realize where to gather the spores most efficiently. It helps too if you go in with a preplayed sim that has charisma or athletic skills or just the money to buy some sims off (for the scanner).
I think they left some things for us to find out on our own and that's good.. but it's also good that we have so many others that can help.
I still haven't fought the mother myself and am glad for all the advise I've seen so I'll go in prepared when I decide to battle her.
Now go in and kick some butt!
Make sure your sim has a big supply of vaccines when you go fight the mother and have them wear their protective suit.
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Congrats! I took my time playing through without cheats, but it was part of my sim's story to play it out that way and I had an absolute blast playing through it! (trial and error and ALL!)
It's definitely one of my favorite additions to the game. LOVE Strangerville!