Sims 2 Let's Play | BACC - Hard&Harsh S01E05 | Meeting Eli | The Old Abandoned Gas Station
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2023
- In this episode we discover the old abandoned gas station and a surprise awaits our survivors when they go inside. We also visit the corn fields, the third of three lots in the neighborhood where we can go to gather resources.
In this series we do our version of a sims 2 BACC in a post-apocalyptic world, hard & harsh style. 12 survivors, only one cart, a few seeds, a few tools and their last rations to start their settlement with. In an attempt to bring the survival & crafting games to the sims 2, with the help of all of sun & moon mods (link below), the sims will have to survive using farming, fishing, resource gathering and scavenging for useful items.
A huge thanks to all of the custom content creators who's creations were used in this challenge.
Links:
sun & moon's star factory mods: sunmoon-starfactory.tumblr.co...
CreeSims Mod ur Dig: creesims.tumblr.com/post/6155... - Hry
Easily one of the most creative series I've ever seen in The Sims 2. You've put a lot of work and thought into this, and it's fantastic! Always looking forward to the next one.
Oh wow, that is incredibly kind and flattering, thank you! 🥰 It's really nice to hear you are enjoying the series. And the next episode is in the making! 😊
Wow this is hands down my favorite episode (possibly video of yours) so far. The story telling was spectacular - I love the way you weaved Eli and the gas station into the plot and the gameplay mechanics of it too. The new lots you showed are so beautifully decorated and makes the hood feel even more immersive. The Machinima intro section at the gas station was fantastic ⭐ I loved seeing the map, how everything is layed out in hood view. The outing to the barn was so much fun! A shame that the pee anywhere mod didn't end up working well but I think your solution with the chamber pot is really clever too ❤ I can sooo relate to the whole "processing" section after Brenda gets struck by lightning 😂 It can be so hard to regain your wits after something like that happens while recording! Thank you for sharing this incredible video with us ❤ I'll be looking forward to the next one
Aw, thank you Ani! I'm glad you did like it so much. 🥰
You know I'm a big fan of your storytelling and machinima scenes, so that's a big compliment coming from you. ❤️ This was my first attempt on a machinima scene and before making it I already had huge respect for anyone making those scenes, because I could imagine how much work goes into them, catching the right emotion in every frame. But having made even this simple scene, I have even more respect for it! It takes soo much effort to get it exactly to what you want it to be and in my case not everything I wanted to do was achieved, and I mainly used animations from the game itself, but I'm happy with the outcome nonetheless. It captured the essence, I think. And it was soo much fun to do. Not sure I'm going to make it a regular thing, but I do really love playing around with these things and it's good to know at least some of the scenes walking around in my head might be possible to make happen in future videos. 😊
The processing haha, yeah, it's always good for a laugh when I'm editing. In this case I could almost hear my brain crack in the moment I discover what happened and I say "did she pee herself? - Yup". I had moved that chamber pot around like 10 times and they kept having routing issues (I edited that out), so when that finally was resolved and the lightning made her pee herself anyway, my brain threw in the towel. 😂
i am so impressed with how you really make sims 2 feel like a different game with the new rules, the map etc. You really make it feel like a survival game, and I love how you had info come up for Eli on the side of the screen and how there are positive/negatives to making friends with people. So cool! I also love that you and me both have abandoned gas stations in our series lol, such a specific type of lot!
Thank you so much! 🥰 I'm glad it really does feel like a survival game and that you liked the addition of the new ways of sharing info! I felt the spreadsheet in the last episode threw us right back into "normal" sims2 gameplay and I wanted a way to change that and not break the immersion.
The gas station is indeed a very specific type of lot. And as for building it; this was very far out of my comfort zone. 😅 But it turned out very close to what I imagined, so I'm happy about that. Now I'm really curious about your gas station, because I have to admit I haven't seen that yet. Would it give me spoilers if I skipped to that part of the series to take a peek? 👀
@@StoriesNStrategy it's such a cool idea to integrate it into the video how you did rather than the tried and true sims 2 spreadsheet lol! Your gas station looks awesome, I think you def put more thought into it than I did mine. Mine appears for the first time briefly in ep 9 of season 2 at 27:25 and I don't think the shot its in is a spoiler. I haven't shown it in daylight or anything yet so it's a bit hard to see. I'll have to find a reason to film in it again because you are reinspiring me to love abandoned gas stations 😂
@@antisocialbunbun I think your gas station looks awesome too, mine just has more trash in it. 😂 I love it, it'll be really interesting to see where you'll take it, so looking forward to that. 😊
Part of the inspiration was the old gas station in Twin Peaks btw (the front that is, not the side and inside, that was Fallout's Red Rocket). You know, not trying to spark your inspiration or anything... 🙃😄
@@StoriesNStrategy Aw thank you! And I love that big Ed’s gas station from twin peaks was part of the inspo!! I need to study how it looks in the show to compare. I’ve never actually played fallout but I’ve always wanted to!! It’s cool how you are incorporating other influences in your letsplay, can’t wait to see what’s next! 😊
ur system for this challenge is just so unique and creative. from the dice rolls, to all the different lots and mods that really make it feel like a survival game. even the stats on eli are so fucking cool! like having downsides to certain relationships is just such a smart concept
Thank you so much! 🥰 I do really love that it feels like a survival game for you when watching. It's what I hoped could be possible and what inspired this set-up in the first place. Thanks to all the great mods out there, and especially sun & moon mods, it really does feel like a completely different game to play and I find myself looking at all the UI bars and info in a different way too. Like their wants, who needs wants when you don't have water or a bed? 😁
I'm hoping to share a bit more about the dice rolls in either the next video, or the one after that! 😊
Loved the map and the context, slowly peeling back the layers of how much thought went into this is a joy
Aw, thank you Megan. 🥰 So good to hear you like that approach. I plan on peeling back a bit more of those layers in the next videos too. 😊
I just noticed the layout of the your gas station is the same as the red rocket gas station from Fallout 4! Omg! Also, I’ve been obsessed with your videos!! Your creativity is astounding!!
How cool you recognized that! 😀 Yes, I tried my best to recreate the look and feel of the place as best as I could, using the lay-out inside and that little open space on the right side, while using something completely different as inspiration for the left side and the front. 😊
Thank you so much! It makes me really happy to know you are enjoying these videos! 🥰
I love how organized this is especially with the map
Thank you! ❤️ Glad you liked the overview with this addition of the map. 😊
Another fantastic episode! Poor Eli, he's gonna be a bit of a tough but to crack but hopefully they can get him onside. Both new lots were so beautifully designed and decorated again!! Love it!!
I'm curious if you'd be willing to share how you modded what the Sims can dig up from the ground? That would be really cool to have in my Medieval series haha.
Also speaking of, I have a 90% finished mod that I'd love to share with you if you're interested. It's a reusable bath, where the Sims fill the bath with three buckets of water, and then 3 Sims can take a bath before having to let the water out. It was made for me by a friend, it's not quite done yet (toddlers can't be bathed in it YET) but if you want it for this series it might be handy and I've got permission to share with you 😊 x
Thank you! 🥰 Yes, poor Eli. He's had a rough life, even before the apocalypse. I do think he has a good heart and sort of an innocent side to him, so not all hope is gone. Seeing other people could help him, but could also confuse him even further. We'll have to see. 😊
For the digging for treasure I use a mod by CreeSims called Mod ur Dig (the link to it is in the description) and I use the version where sun & moon objects are incorporated in the mod. I haven't made any changes to it, but you absolutely can, if you want your sims to find more sorts of items, or if you would want to delete some of the items they can find from that list (fridges and stuff that wouldn't be there in medieval times).
The bath sounds like a perfect step between how they use the water buckets now and how I had imagined things will be when they move into their houses later on. And they don't have toddlers yet, so that's totally not an issue for quite some time. And probably even then they could use something else for the toddlers. So yeah, I would love to use that in the series. 😀 How would we do that?
@@StoriesNStrategy are you on Tumblr or Discord? I can't post links in CZcams comments which makes it tricky, otherwise I could just upload it to SimFileShare and put a link here!
@@StoriesNStrategy also thank you! I've seen "mod ur dig" but I didn't know someone had already incorporated the Sun & Moon stuff! I'll have to check that out 👍
@@TeaAddict I am very inactive on anything other than youtube. I will look into it! Will let you know. 😊
i was looking forward to an new episode! your gameplay is amazing :) thank you for your videos
Then I'm glad I managed to get the new video out this weekend after all. 😊 Hope you enjoy!
And thank you! ❤️
Oh, Eli, gives me the vibes of a mysterious NPC that you have to interact with to progress, but can never figure out😁I love the idea of special interactions. Have I got it right that you have a set list of characters like Eli?
Oh, I love that it gave you those vibes! 😊 And I also loved reading all of your comments over the weekend. 😊
That sort of characters is exactly what inspired me to make something like this. Fallout for example and some other zombie games I really love. I do have a set of characters in my head (and in my excel sheet 🤓) that are going to play a role in the future of the challenge. Every chapter will have it's own new character to start it off. Eli was the transition to the second phase. And some of them will maybe get some character development, but I would also like them to stay like this and just be a game mechanic that the survivors can use if they need it.
Whoa! This is so amazing 🤩
Thank you so much! 🥰 I'm really glad you enjoyed it. 😊
The gas station definitely reminds me of Fallout's Red Rocket! Heheh was that intentional?
Very intentional, yes. 😄 The side is inspired by Fallout's Red Rocket (It's also facing the same way, so they would walk in from that side and I contemplated adding a dog too, but I felt it didn't match with Eli) and the front is inspired by something else entirely. Love that you recognised it! 🥰
@@StoriesNStrategy I guess I've played enough Fallout that I recognize the layout lmao