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cozycorg
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6 years ago

Strangerville Help?

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!
  • You need to be friends with a sim in order for them to agree to help you fight the Mother. As for the spores, pretty sure you can get them in debug like vaccines. Also ou can search inside the lab, there are plenty of spores everywhere, don't hesitate to scan several parts of a room.

    Make sure your sim has a big supply of vaccines when you go fight the mother and have them wear their protective suit.
  • The request help option should appear as soon as soon as you lose to the for the first time. I personally had 2 of my S.I.M.S. agents solve the mystery from a trailer turned monitoring station and once they had to actually fight the thing, i called like 4 of their Co workers to join in the fight. Some of the Co-Workers i invited in to help me were friends of the characters, others they barely knew.
  • "vintagesaturday;c-17019388" wrote:
    Update: I did it!! Failed three times then finally beat the mother! Woooo! Thanks all.


    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!