Strangerville Blocked Progress

@Vaughanieee 

Couple of questions.

Is this the first time you have played the story?  The story plays a little different if you have completed it once in a single save as it does not completely reset for some things.

If you have played it through at least once, did you revive the mother plant and reset the weirdness level?

At what point in the story are you blocked?  

This is the first time playing the story fully, and I’ve been blocked after the first chapter.

I’ve got the hazard suit completed and can unlock the second security door but after that point all hallway’s are blocked by a door.

Not sure what I’ve done, haven’t opened any other saved games or downloaded anything from the gallery?

@Vaughanieee  Ok.  If you've unlocked the second security door, you need to go down the stairs to the 3rd basement level and unlock the door to the mother plant's room. When that door unlocks and you can see the mother plant, then the milestone to proceed to the lowest level should complete and you can proceed with the story.

The third basement is where I meet the problem, instead of being able to walk through the lab with the several plants it to the 3rd door the corridor leading up to it is blocked by a door that can’t be opened.

I’m pretty sure there’s no way to reverse this as I’ve tried starting the story again with the same sim but all doorways are replaced with ones that can’t be opened still.

@Vaughanieee  Don't you get the Use Keycard option when you click on the door? 

Down the stairs and through the room with the plants in display cabinets.  Also a laptop that you can use is on one end.  Near where you enter the room is a chemistry analyzer.  At one end there is a corridor with a security door that should give you an option to the use the keycard.  That is one where the mother plant is behind.

I will have to start my game to check but I don't recall any other doors on the 3rd level.

It’s not a key card door, it’s a base game door that’s placed where the arches normally are. I wish I had a screenshot to show you.

You can’t interact with the doors at all

@Vaughanieee  Give me a while to get back to you.  Probably be a few hours.   I'm going into my game to take a close look at what is there.  I usually play with walls down in the lab so I may not have seen what is supposed to be there.  Atm, I am playing a household that is working through the SV aspiration and will be sending them through the lab in a game day or so.  

As far as I know, that lot is not editable at all even with the normal cheat (I tried before) so I really wonder what has happened in your game if the game has replaced an arch with a door.  

So give me a bit and I will get back to you on what I find.

@Vaughanieee  Ok.  I went to the lab and left the walls up.  There are 2 double glass paned doors on that level at each end of the corridor between the stairs and the lab room.  I never noticed them before since you can't see them with the walls dropped.  

You get no options on clicking on them.  But you can see the lab with the plant displays, chemistry analyzer and the laptop.  And most importantly, you can see the security doors to the mother plant room.

Clicking on the security door gives you the Use Keycard option.  Clicking on the laptop gives you Hack.  Clicking on the floor anywhere gets you the Go There option.  I forgot to click on the chemistry lab but if memory serves me correctly, all you get at this point in the story are greyed out options.  Didn't click on the plant displays either but I don't remember if that gives you any options.  View maybe.

But to proceed in the story, you need to click on the security doors to the mother plant room and get the "Use Keycard" option and for the other sims, I used the group "Go Here Together" option to keep all the sims together for the next part of the story.  My sims just ignored the base game doors and walked right in just like they would if they weren't there.  

Hope this helps.