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Hi Guys, I've been one of the lucky ones to receive an Early Access code via the EA Game Changers program (Thanks so much EA for the opportunity) Instead of doing a review or video (which I tota...
Pictures of the world and surroundings can be found here: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/956008/theophil-binzs-early-access-picture-thread-crinrict-is-possessed-atm
There's a few related to the military career and you can buy stuff at the curio shop that's unrelated to the story. Other than that. Haven't really pursued that gameplay so .. could be .. but tending towards no.
CAS & Buy/Build
There’s tons of info on CAS & Buy Build from other GC. You might wanna refer to them for details. See this thread for an overview who of my fellow GC might have a complete list: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/955763/strangeville-early-access-videos-and-reviews#latest
Hope I didn’t miss anything. Some items appear in more than one categories so don’t just add the items. If I counted correctly there’s 71 items in buy mode.
2 Comfort, 6 Surface (1 display case for plants and maybe other stuff), 1 Plumbing, 6 activities and skills (1 bar, 1 special item, 2 variants of sparring object, 2 variants of object with special functionality for military/story), 42 deco items, 2 kids (both also in deco), 9 lamps( including 5 variants of the same lamp (cooool lamp), 10 Lamp), 10 electronics (2 variants of laptop - identical mesh, some items already appeared in other categories), 2 appliances (both more deco, already appeared in deco), 1 Storage
4 new rooms 6 roof sculptures, 3 gates, 4 fences, 2 floor patterns. 2 wall patterns, 1 railing, 2 columns, 2 spandrels 50 buy debugs items (some variants of the same object included, also another variant of the same laptop)
Is that cool colander hat with christmas lights (seen in trailer about 28 seconds in) in CAS or is it earned? If it is earned how is it earned?
Paranoid as a CAS trait and there’s several for the story itself. One you can see on the trait list when you play the others are hidden to help trace the story
Career
What are the two branches of the military career and what is the difference in play and perks?
Going to give this a loud and clear Jein (Yes/No put together in german). There aren’t bunkers as such but there’s something that I don’t want to spoil at all. It doesn’t have anything to do with the military career (it’s probably more of a no though)
It was said the military career is like the gardening one. Will our sims still get to work and socialize with other troops? It’s like all those careers where you have daily task. You get asked if you want to go to work (rabbithole), work at home or do PTO every time you’re supposed to go to work. There’s usually just one task you need to do each day and it’s easy to accomplish. You got plenty of time.
World/Lots
How prominent is the story element if you have sims who just want to visit for a change of scene?
https://crinrict.com/images/strangerVille/premade.jpg Eclectic Arts Household: The Eclectic Arts Household consists of three friends who have decided to cut ties with the modern world in order to explore their inner creativity. They received a large sum of money from their parents, and are using it to explore their creative dreams in a less hectic town. Roswell: The Roswell's are the oldest residents in StrangerVille. Ted Roswell has since become the mayor and has been aggressively pushing to get StrangerVille to be more technologically advanced. He has made some shady deals, but his crowning achievement has been the construction of the Crater Base and Secret Lab. Ted's wife, Meredith, has been noticing Ted acting very strange at night. It might have something to do with his frequent visits to the Secret Lab to try and cover things up. Cahill: George Cahill was a retired pilot who enjoyed taking his beloved plane Penelope for long flights across the world. After passing over StrangerVille there was a large flash of light causing his plane to short circuit and crash. George has since set up camp in the cargo bay of Old Penelope, and has lived on the outskirts of StrangerVille ever since. Although he has grown skeptical of the residents of StrangerVille he means no harm and mostly keeps to himself. Sigworth: The Sigworth family is rather new in town. Jess, the mom, had to transfer to the StrangerVille National Base. After spending a few days on the base Dylan has started to notice something is a bit off about his wife. Although Dylan is doing all he can to reassure their daughter that everything is okay. Christie is starting to catch on and it is only a matter of time until she realizes what is going on.
Yes there are. You'll need TwistedMexis cheat fix mod to unlock them. Major spoilers in this post: https://sims-online.com/sims-4-strangerville-cheats-complete-storyline/#skipstoryline
Are the dangerous plants a way to die, get weird illness or just a collectible plant ?
There’s different way to do the get the info you need but the story is the same each time
If you do the story far enough to make the town really strange and then stop doing the story. Is your Sim immune to the strange or will they become infected?
You decided if you want to inflict your Sim. I’m unsure if played Sims you don’t currently play get inflicted but I think the amount of affected Sims is set at the beginning of each ‘chapter. It’s basically not spreading unless you decided to do so. I do need to check into this further though
There’s one successful and one not so successful although I wouldn’t call the not successful one an ending :D. I think it’s up to you how to tell the story after that. You have several options how to continue from there.
Can children help solve the mystery or is it only for adults?
It doesn't look like it. I tried with mine and they didn't get the necessary interactions. Teens do get them, so I assume they can do the whole story. Children will also not get infected. Teens do.
There’s one fishing spot and very few collectible spawning points. Haven’t found any other plants growing but that can potentially change when you’re done with the story.
Snow doesn’t settle in the world if you use the weather machine. I did get snow with mystery weather that didn't settle.
You can spar with the training bot or with another Sim
There’s also an option to practice ordering around on the training bot (gives charisma)
The story consists of multiple chapters. The strangeness grows with each chapter.
You can redo the story with every Sim you like. You can reset the world to being strange after you finished with one Sim.
You can do the story with multiple Sims at the same time. The game keeps track of the progress through the stuff in your inventory. I didn’t try how the world behaves though if you play rotationally and do the story with multiple families at the same time.
Looks like there’s only a few infected Sims around town all the time if you don’t engage in the story as well as plants but that’s about it.
Depending on which branch of the military career you choose, you might need to travel to StrangeVille on occasion to fulfill your duties even if you play another town.
You can use audio-recordings to blackmail your fellow Sims.
Opinion Questions
Did you enjoy the story (mystery) ? I did, majorly. I love the hood, I love this pack but I was intrigued by it the first time I heard about it. I love mysteries and adventures. I’m actually not much of a sandbox player ;).
