Meteor

Death by Meteor

A meteor ground zero.

See also: Death

Death by meteor is a form of death in The Sims 3: Ambitions and The Sims 4. It is the successor to death by satellite which was seen in The Sims 2.

The Sims 2: Seasons

Using the Weathernaught 57X with low aspiration carries a high chance that meteors will fall from the sky and start fires. Sims in range of the meteors can be set on fire.

The Sims 3

Meteors were initially added in The Sims 3: Ambitions, and later also included with The Sims 3: Seasons and The Sims 3: Into the Future.

Ambitions / Seasons

Whenever a Sim is standing in an open area, there is a very small chance (0.01% for every 60 minutes outdoors; 1-in-10,000) a meteor will fall directly on them.

In Seasons, aliens can summon meteors at will if their Brain Power motive is at least 80% full. The motive will then drop to 0% even it was 81-100% full at the time.

Before impact

Whenever a meteor is about to fall on top of a Sim, a large shadow will appear around them and ominous music will play, and the Sim will have around 30 in-game minutes to get away from the impact. A message will appear stating that the target Sim is wondering why it suddenly got dark. All Sims on the lot will run outside to look up curiously at the sky, and the meteor can be seen if the camera view is in the right position at the exact moment it falls. Also, if the player zooms out at the right time, the meteor can be seen streaking across the sky. Using a telescope outside increases the chances of getting hit by a meteor (0.1%; 1-in-1,000).

Unless gamemods are used, it is almost impossible to be hit by a meteor, so this is a very uncommon form of death. Only one premade Sim, Steward Curious, died from being hit by a meteor.

Meteors never fall directly on children, though they may still get crushed if they stand close enough to the impact zone of a meteor aiming for a larger adult Sim.

If the meteor is about to fall on a residential lot, the game will refuse to enter Buy/Build Mode without cheats.

Upon impact

When a meteor hits, a mushroom cloud appears.

The impact of a meteor often also creates fires and Sims within 14 squares of the impact will get singed (unless the occult state or species make them unable to get singed), including if the Sims are in a rabbithole within that range. The ground will be littered with space rocks. If the impact is on flat terrain, a crater can be shaped by the meteor. If there are any objects near the impact, they will be smashed and turned into scrap (If the objects are in use at the time, they will get scorch marks instead of being smashed).

The ghost color is orange with small hint of black with smoke rising from it and thus different than if the ghost died from fire. The tombstone depicts a meteor.

Incoming meteor

The only types of Sims who cannot die in this way are ghosts (playable or non-playable), babies and toddlers, and aliens.

In Seasons, aliens can summon meteors at will, and if they summon them in crowded places such as schools or festivals, the chances of the meteor hitting multiple Sims is very high.

While meteors are extremely unlikely to kill Sims that are uncontrolled by the player, should the player-controlled Sim be shadowed by a meteor while in close proximity to NPC Sims, the NPC Sims then become impossible to save (without cheating) because they will stand inside the shadow and look up until the meteorite impacts. Multiple NPC Sims can be killed in this manner.

Surviving a Meteor Attack

• Upon receiving the meteor notification pay attention immediately. Do not delay.
• Determine if one of your Sims are at risk. The notification should mention which Sim is at risk.
• Move your Sim out of the meteor shadow immediately. You should move them well away from the shadow.
• If an NPC is at risk, you can try using the resetsim [name] cheat to move them.
• Keep your Sim out of the meteor shadow after moving them.
• Watch out for fires after the meteor attacks.

University Life

Non-damaging meteor storms can be set off with the group science project.

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Into the Future

The Dystopian Future in Oasis Landing is rife with sudden and very frequent (Several times a day) meteor+lightning storms. There is usually no forewarning at all before the first lightning strikes, and if a Sim is close to where the first lightning strike hits, the Sim has mere seconds in real time to run away from the meteor. Direct lethal hits do not seem to occur during such storms, instead leaving the Sim singed.

If both Into the Future and Ambitions are installed, the meteor magnet has a 2.5% chance of initiating an Ambitions-type meteor impact procedure.

Console games

One of the Karma powers on The Sims 3 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 includes the ability to conjure firestorm that will "Drop fireballs onto a location to cause destruction and mayhem."

The Pets version on the consoles also includes a few new karma powers, with one called "Meteor Strike" that summons a meteor to fall from the sky and crash onto the lot.

The Sims 4

Meteorite
My word, how rude of that Sim to stand in the way of this meteorite's smashing performance! It was going to be so spectacular, and had to settle for a slightly less graceful landing, but nonetheless! It demonstrated a high caliber of professionalism. And not a single bit of applause from the audience, just a bunch of wailing crybabies who couldn't identify high quality performance art if it flew down from the heavens and bonked them on the head!
Game	The Sims 4
Buyability	Debug
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Meteors returned to the The Sims 4 in patch 131, this time referred to as meteorites.

Whenever a Sim is using a telescope, there is a very small chance that they will receive a scared moodlet: "IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR ME!" with a +4 effect and a time period of 20 in-game minutes. The player will receive a notification, warning of a meteorite strike and that the Sim is advised to seek shelter. Should the Sim fail to head indoors by the time the moodlet expires, a meteorite will fall onto them and they will die. The impact zone of the meteorite leaves a small, 2x2 crater that goes away when the meteorite is removed.

Meteorites cannot be sold through the in-game inventory; the player must sell them in build mode. Using the bb.showHiddenObjects cheat, players can buy a meteorite in build mode, and it will have a name and description, which is unusual for debug objects. Most items bought using this cheat only have one or two word descriptions and are often simply named **DEBUG**.

Trivia

• While it's exclusive to The Sims 3: Ambitions, this is the only death in the entire series (so far) that can kill multiple Sims at once. Meteorites in The Sims 4 can only kill one Sim at a time.

Gallery

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• The Sims 3 (Others)
• The Sims 4

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A crashlanded meteor and its crater

A female Sim that died by meteor

Male Mummy that died by meteor

The outdoor tombstones of Sims that died by meteor impact.

A frozen Sim about to be crushed by a meteor with many onlookers

The aftermath of a meteor landing, with a crushed Sim underneath it

A Dystopian version of Oasis Landing being pulverized by meteors.

The post-meteor lot challenge.

Eliza Pancakes about to be hit by a meteorite

The meteorite's description in build mode

The crater a meteorite makes on impact