@crinrictas if it's "Solved for him"? 🙂 I just want to make sure it won't get overlooked by the developers because of this mark.
@crinrictyou mean, "only 2 peoples marked it as a problem in this topic in this forum" 🙂 I am sure it is widespread, just not everyone, including myself, realize it's a bug and it shouldn't be like this.
But now I know 🙂
Well, that's three now with me ! I played with a new game recently, and the clouds didn't go after killing the mother plant.
I removed my mod, repaired the game, back up an old save before I kill the mother plant, revived her and kill her again… nothing worked.
I guess it is a recent bug. I killed the mother plant in a different game when StrangerVille was released. I didn't had this issue before.
Having the same issue. Even tried the narrative.start_narrative narrative_strangetown_act4 cheat, which didn't work.
Hey @crinrict, how rude of you to say like that!
Now you can find 3 more witnesses that has the same issue.
Tested with recent version (1.59.73.1020) and bug still there.
Removed all mods and cache, yes with totally new game and new family.
What a mess XD
I'm curious why EA is not recognising it.
+ I canceled my `Accepted Solution` because it is not solved in the game.
+ Another bug report via The Sims Forum.
Check out this link -> https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/969814/strangerville
This is weird, isn't it?
+ Reported the bug to EA via EA Help. Looking forward to EA fixing it.
I tried some cheating skills using TwistedMexi's All Cheat Code, and finally made a clean Strangerville.
For using this method, you have to start your family outside of Strangerville.
I started at Willow Creek, and without moving to any other lot, I pressed the ctrl + shift + c key and typed this:
testingcheats.true
narrative.start_narrative narrative_Strangetown_Act4
And then I moved to the science lab and the popup message said Strangerville turned normal.
I checked the other lot such as the airplane crash lot, and the richer lot. There was no strange cloud or plants at the non-playable area.
So maybe you must not visit any Strangerville neighbourhood and pass the narrative part by cheat code,
or you have to see those clouds in your visited Strangerville neighbourhood forever.
Ummmm... What kind of a game is this? A cheat finding game?
+ Ok so EA community manager is deleting useful links. impressed lol
I have the same bug too.
It's probably due to one of the updates, EA should really stop creating new problems with already existing packs.
They have to fix it asap though, cause otherwise strangeville isn't really playable (for normal game play, I want the cloud and plants out of my save).
I have the same issue too. I didn't even know ALL the weird alien plants disappear?! I thought the ones outside access map remain either way.
I'm having this issue as well. The first time I played through StrangerVille, which was only a few weeks after the pack dropped, everything went fine and StrangerVille was all good after the Mother was defeated.
I then had another Sim of mine resurrect the Mother in September, requesting maximum weirdness. After requesting normalcy again, the clouds and off-bounds plants as others described, remained. I simply thought this was an issue with the resurrect/requesting weirdness/normalcy thing and honestly also thought it looked kind of pretty so I didn't report it.
I then had my Sims actually go and defeat the Mother again, made up this whole storyline around the initial glitch where the clouds/plants hadn't fully disappeared because the Mother wasn't actually defeated, and it really honestly just worked well for me. However, after actually defeating the Mother around May this year, the clouds and off-bounds plants STILL remain.
Honestly feel this randomly affects games/save files, therefore making it hard to reproduce, but it most definitely IS occurring so I do agree with those frustrated Simmers in this thread who don't feel like they are heard because of comments made earlier about it being unreproduceable and "only very few reports of it." Glad to see the "Me Too" responses starting to accumulate now, though.
Will also say though, that it is genuinely quite pretty, because the lighting/weather will be the normal game's lighting which can look real pretty on those clouds that shouldn't be there, LOL (see images). However, it does frustrate me now because as per my storyline/lore, the Mother ought to be fully defeated now and it's kind of hard for me to be telling that tale when them clouds still looming ominously behind my Sims in every screenshot I take. 😅 I decided to just make up a storyline about the damage done to StrangerVille being now irreversible as my Sims have admittedly been messing with this poor town a whole lot.
Have also heard of the same kinds of issues with Sulani backdrops being stuck in certain states, which appears to be random as well, which ultimately does make me a little concerned for all the new effects added with EL that I'm now afraid might randomly get stuck as the StrangerVille/Sulani ones have been shown to.
I have finished the story in Strangerville too and all the purple plants and cloud are still there. Am a bit disappointed because I like the world a lot just not the purple plants and cloud.
