I didn't know until recently that our own, playable sims could become infected by the virus. My test sim managed to avoid it, but I've seen pictures of other player's sims who were not so lucky. So, I'm curious, what is gameplay like if your sim becomes infected?

Mine went into the spore hallway without suits last night. They were knocked out and then infected temporarily. At that time, the only actions you have are to walk around. Once it wore off after 20-30 sim minutes, my Sims were back to normal. Not sure how that works with the fruit, but I might have to try that next. :D

"kalaksed;c-16975900" wrote:i'm considering making a full thread about just this, but in the meantime, all the info on it i've discovered is posted in this thread (mostly the latest post, but a bit, more spoiler-specific is higher up)https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/956199/spoiler-question-about-strangerville-spoilers-inside#latestI hope you do. : ) I know now I will have to go get infected!!!

If you have two infected sims in the same household, they get special conversation topics with each other (and also with their mystery plant in the backyard). All they can do besides chat is sit, but I was also able to send one to work. It's not a good idea, because his performance there suffered. Oh, and they can also plant new mystery plants on their homelot (no need to have fruit in your inventory).Also I play with free will off, still the one infected attacked another sim on his own accord. They weren't in a conversation, just in the same room. Infected playables also attack other infected, when those are not in possessed mode at that moment.The two sims both ate a mystery fruit (for science, hem, hem) and their possession episodes return randomly lasting 3 hours each time (as opposed to the 30 minutes you get slapped with in the corridor).

"kalaksed;c-16976029" wrote:@EnkiSchmidt your two played infected, do you remember the times they got their possessions? my one played, she was always possessed at 1 in the morning, so i'm trying to see if it's the same across all sims or seems to be randomized per individualFrom my gut feeling they had more than one episode per day and the instances were spaced out across the day. They were not always in sync, but often. Both sims ate the fruit at the same time, but I didn't always have both active at the same time, sometimes I'd take only one to a venue and leave the other at home or at work. For hard data I have one screenshot where it is late afternoon/early evening. Then another one from when the criminal came home from work (2 am?) and another one with both being possessed early in the morning. Then one time I send them to bed, hoping possessing would not occur, but they woke up in the night. I think that was around 1 am, but do not have the exact time.I'll pay more attention to the clock tomorrow and take notes.

Right now I'm only playing with the "infected" wife of the main character and it's fun. Did you know they can still woohoo and try for baby lol? There are other things that have stood out like don't send your possessed sim to garden normal plants... won't spoil it more than that.. but just don't. I haven't seen all the interactions because it's side play but still.Oh and just in case if you have a new born.. not sure if it's a good idea to just have an infected adult in the household as they can't care for the baby. I guess that's a spoiler and frankly for a baby to be taken away in that instance would make sense but I can see people getting upset about it.I'm planning on making a sim that has a "herd" of infected basically a cult leader type also but I'll save that for later. I also want to play on the dark side and go another way for the story end...

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floridameerkat
6 years ago
Does anyone know if pregnant sims can become infected or if a sim can become pregnant if they already have the virus?
floridameerkat
6 years ago
"Hermitgirl;c-16977540" wrote:
"floridameerkat;c-16977528" wrote:
Does anyone know if pregnant sims can become infected or a sim can become pregnant if they already have the virus?

Yes.. You can click on the bed and try for baby with your infected love (the one doing the clicking wasn't possessed when I tried it so not sure that can happen... prob not). They can be actively possessed at that time. My sim found out she was pregnant while not possessed and would become possessed on and off during the pregnancy.
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I wonder if it would affect the kid at all? Would they get a hidden trait or something? Probably not, but that would be cool. Also, I'm surprised this is even possible.
floridameerkat
6 years ago
Once you solve the mystery, is there a way to still have your sim become infected or would I have to reset the whole thing? I'd like to try out playing an infected sim, but I don't want to have to resolve the mystery, as I just completed not that long ago.
BlueBlack007
Seasoned Traveler
6 years ago
Neither one of My 2 sims that I have used got infected yet, But My 2nd one that I am on now died last night, it is a good thing that I had saved her before she went into the Lab, :) , I just can not figure out yet how to use the vaccine a 2nd time when all the townsfolk say they are all cured, I am trying to find some that are infected , but none so far the 2nd time around, i hope I will be able to finish this mission on My 2nd character, :(
alanmichael1
Seasoned Hotshot
6 years ago
There is one important point:

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Possessed Sims can't fight against the mother, even if they are healthy when the combat begins. You have to cure them first. This was a very bad surprise for me at the end of the game!
LoukSharp
5 years ago
"Sofmc9;c-16978805" wrote:
"I wonder if it would affect the kid at all? Would they get a hidden trait or something?"

Ok, I enabled kids to get infected lool. The infected walk and wander animation isn't working though, kids do their normal walk.. every other interaction does work.. standing idles and sitting idles too.

https://i.imgur.com/puVOejB.png

https://i.imgur.com/DoVGpbZ.png

How did you do this? I want to do it to.

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