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[wildlyminiaturesandwich]

Lyndsay on Twitter

“https://t.co/wrr9aU9JGI”

Finally, an official statement.

It doesn’t change what happened but hopefully it’s a step in the right direction to making sure it doesn’t ever happen again.

Stay safe everyone 💜

[wildlyminiaturesandwich]

So when the story is finished, you don't get anymore of those weird zombie people?

I can’t speak for everyone else, but for me and my save, once the story was complete and things went back to normal there were not more possessed sims wandering around at all 😊

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Hey :D what is it like being an EA game changer and getting packs early? I probably will never be one so I'm just asking. <3333 love u

Hello! It’s actually not that much different than not being one most of the time lol Really the only difference is if you’re given early access when a pack is coming and then it’s just a lot of internally shrieking with excitement and not being able to say anything about it until embargo lifts and hoping you have enough time to get some content together before then😂

Thank god for the other Tumblr Game Changers @storylegacysims, @calisimgirl, @alwaysimming, and @jennisloud, without them I’d have no one to freak out with about new things and the fact that I procrastinated too long and haven’t gotten anything done until 2 hours before embargo lifts 🤣

[wildlyminiaturesandwich]

A question about Strangerville: Can your pets get infected? :P

Ooh good question! I honestly have no idea because I didn’t even touch pets in my playthrough lol But I would say probably not.

Got a question about Strangerville? Feel free to drop an ask in my inbox, anon will be on right up until the release 👽

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This isn't much of a question but I really appreciate you playing the game and being honest about it. While this pack isn't for me (really wish I could just turn the infection off), I still find it enertaining to watch others and see things from anothers perspective.

Of course, I will always be honest about my opinions on packs. Despite what people think, EA don’t force us to give only positive reviews; we’re actually encouraged to give our honest opinions on new packs no matter how good or bad they are.

I can absolutely understand this pack not being something some people are interested in, it’s a very specific theme/niche and not everyone is going to like the very structured aspect of the story. But I also feel like the Sims team knew that when they decided to go with this pack though, and took the gamble because it’s also something a lot of people wanted too 😊

[wildlyminiaturesandwich]

does being possessed change the gameplay in any way or just the walkstyle and that creepy face lol? thank you!!

Kind of? It’s not really in a drastic way but you lose the ability to do most things (like cook, sleep, pee, shower, etc) but that doesn’t really matter because being possessed completely maxes out your sim’s needs. When it comes to interacting with other sims, you can only do… totally human things 😂

Oh and you can also plant a bizarre fruit anywhere in the world, even if you don’t have one in your inventory lol

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wait I thought the gurus said we can turn off the “strange stuff”??? so we can’t play it like a normal world?? D:

There’s no way to turn it off like with the fame system in Get Famous, like there’s no option in the settings menu. The only way to “turn it off” is to actually play through the story and then once you figure out the mystery the world goes back to normal. You can also just not start the story, provided you don’t mind just ignoring the randomly infected sims walking around the time and the little purple plants everywhere. But other than that, there’s no real way to turn it off completely without solving the mystery.

[wildlyminiaturesandwich]

Hiya Becca. Does your sim have to an Young Adult or older to do the strangerville story? Or could a gang of meddling teen sims and their pesky dog also join the party?

G’day! From what I can tell from the very brief test that I did, teens can solve the mystery, which makes sense because the new Strangerville Mystery trait is available for them too.

Got a question about Strangerville? Feel free to drop an ask in my inbox, anon will be on right up until the release 👽

[wildlyminiaturesandwich]

What’s the sitch with collectibles? Is there a new category, or are they under the old ones?

As far as I know (I didn’t really look into it too much) there is only one new collectable, which is the bizarre fruit added to the gardening collectables. There’s no new category or anything added. There are some things that you can buy from the Curio Shack like posters, lava lamps and little decorative things, but they’re all also available in buy mode without cheats so I don’t think they’re classed as collectables.

Got a question about Strangerville? Feel free to drop an ask in my inbox, anon will be on right up until the release 👽

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Is there any way to use the bugs to find out if your sims bf/gf is cheating? I play in rotation and one of my sims is a player and I wanted my other sim to catch them in the act but without walking in on them

Nah, the bugs are specifically for the storyline. They don’t serve any other purpose and I don’t think they can be used outside of solving the mystery.

EDIT: Ok so I went back and tested the device in my game after having finished the story. You can still use it after the story, you can purchase bugs and plant them on sims and then listen to them BUT it doesn’t really serve any purpose. All that happens, besides increasing your logic, is some flavour text pop ups that depending on the sim could be funny (Death for example has some interesting ones). You definitely can’t use it to catch sims out doing things they shouldn’t be though.

Here’s some examples:

Got a question about Strangerville? Feel free to drop an ask in my inbox, anon will be on right up until the release 👽

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Not sure if you answered this already, or not. If you did I'm sorry. But if you are playing a 1 sim household and they get 'infected' is it like game over? Or can you continue as infected?

Nope not at all. As you can see from my gameplay Dane was the only one in the household at the time and she was possessed. The possession only lasts for a few hours 😊

Got a question about Strangerville? Feel free to drop an ask in my inbox, anon will be on right up until the release 👽

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Is your copy of the Strangerville GP a “test” version or is it just an early release?

It’s technically called a Press Review copy but I think that just means it’s an early release copy, not a test version

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Hi, how are you :D I had questions about the pack : what are the best and worst things about the pack ? Do you think it would work fine for someone who has a lot of cc ?

Ooohh best and worst hmmm…

Ok so the best for me is without a doubt the Naruto run that infected sims do as they “wander” through town. Omg that made me laugh so hard LOL Apart from that, the world for sure.

The worst would be probably the fact that we can’t opt out of the storyline and just play in the world normally.

As for CC, it shouldn’t be any different than any other pack. We all know the townies can show up with some… interesting outfits lol It’s the same with this pack, I don’t think that’s gonna be fixed any time soon tbh 😕

Got a question about Strangerville? Feel free to drop an ask in my inbox, anon will be on right up until the release 👽

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Do game changers get new packs for free or do you have to pay still, you just get it a bit earlier?

We do, however there’s no guarantee that we’ll be given new packs. It’s not like once you get invited you always have early access, it’s entirely up to EA to decide who gets codes 😊

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Hi, can we edit the lab once with complete the story? ❤

I only tested in the middle of the story but I’d say probably not. There is a way to reset the story after you’ve finished and the lab is fundamental to the story so I doubt we’ll be able to edit it at any time unfortunately.

Got a question about Strangerville? Feel free to drop an ask in my inbox, anon will be on right up until the release 👽

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Are you EVER going to finish the EA hairs or can other creators do them without you getting offended by it. Most creators resolve not to do maxis hairs because you do them all and they feel like you'll be upset if they do it. This means that most of us are missing a lot of hairs in-game. They don't take long but you keep putting it off and more packs are released.

Ok, I’m trying really hard not to take offensive to this message because it’s clearly meant to be. I will finished the rest of the EA hairs, when I get time. I do have a life and other things going on you know? I can’t just sit here and recolour hairs all day nor do I want to. I don’t think you realise how long it takes to recolour ALL the hairs, not just the hairs but the accessories as well, in 75 swatches each.

As for “most creators” not doing them because they think it will upset me, I call bullshit. Plenty of people have used my palettes to recolour EA hairs. It doesn’t upset me at all, what upsets me is stupid messages like this. People are welcome to do whatever they want with my palettes, that’s why I made them available for everyone to use. However, that doesn’t mean I’m not still going to do them myself if other people do them. It’s nothing against the people who have already done them, it’s just I have set myself a a goal and I’m going to get to the end of it eventually. In my own time. If that’s not ok with you, you’re welcome to do your own recolours by all means.

Listen, I would LOVE to be able to just smash out all the recolours as quickly as possible but I’m a human being, not a CC making machine. I have things to do that aren’t sims-related at all. I have a life away from my computer. I have RSI in both my wrists which makes it hard to do repetitive movements for hours on end, which is what recolouring is.I have a family.  I have other hobbies.I deal with severe mental health issues on a daily basis. Excuse me if I don’t prioritise recolouring over all of that but that is never going to happen, and I don’t feel like I need to apologise for that.

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The trailer shows a van driving down a street. Are vehicles actually in the game now or was that just for the trailer?

As I said in this post, there are no cars or any other vehicles added to this pack. The vans that can be seen in the trailer ARE in the game, but they’re purely a kind of decorative part of the story. They occasionally zoom down the road or tear up to a house to conduct some “surveillance” like this:

Got a question about Strangerville? Feel free to drop an ask in my inbox, anon will be on right up until the release 👽