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About Virus
The Virus Plague is the second plague that you have access to in Plague Inc.
It is unlocked after beating Bacteria on Casual, Normal or Brutal.
Virus is a rapidly mutating pathogen which is extremely hard to control.
This can be a positive (on casual) or negative trait (on brutal).
1. Starting Out (1/10)
Virus can be a little rough at first. Not being able to control your mutations can lead to cure efforts being too strong or death rates too high.
The trick is to focus on infectivity in the beginning and keep your symptoms under control but let hell break loose in the end.
Virus comes with Virus Instability:
Good:
Gives you free symptoms
Bad:
Lethal symptoms become unlocked too soon
- Starting Country
Start in:
China
Saudi Arabia
or
Iceland
China is the most effective country to start in as it is home to almost 1/4 of the worlds population.
China gives you a quick start and a lot of DNA points early on in the game.
Buy Abilities:
Drug Resistance 1
Viral Instability 1
Buy Transmission:
Air 1
Water 1
2. Lethal Symptom Watch
Do not let any lethal systems stay. Sell them as soon as you can. Causing death too early in the game will make your plague more noticeable but also will alert countries to start more cure funding.
Devolve any lethal symptoms such as:
Fever
Tumors
Diarrhea
Inflammation
Paralysis
Ect.
Let your virus mutate to or buy:
Rash
Sweating
3. Keep Spreading, Not Killing
Continue to devolve lethal symptoms.
Buy the following transmissions to increase infectivity:
Air 2
Water 2
Extreme Bioaerosol
Now, buy the following symptoms:
Coughing
Sneezing
Skin Lesions -
be careful. Narcosis can evolve after the purchase of Skin Lesions. It is lethal and will make your disease very noticeable if the game is too early. If you have over half of the world infected, let it just evolve but if not sell as soon as you can.
4. 1.2 Billion Infected, Cure
Now buy:
Viral Instability 2
Genetic Hardening 1
When China reaches 1.2B infected cure research will start to take off. (usually around 1.2B)
Buy Abilities:
Viral Instability 3
Genetic Hardening 2
Buy symptoms:
Cysts
Hypersensitivity
Devolve:
Lethal Symptoms
5. Viral Instability and Billions More Infected
Buy transmissions:
Bird 1
Livestock 1
Blood 1
Insect 1
Now save 30-40 points while still devolving lethal symptoms.
6. Most Countries Infected
By now your virus should have infected most of the world; around 4 Billion people and most of the countries.
If having trouble with the following countries buy the following listed under the country name.
Greenland & Iceland
Cold Resistance 1
Cold Resistance 2
Madagascar, Indonesia & Caribbean
Heat Resistance 1
Insect 2
Now, buy the following:
Immune Suppression
Paralysis
Coma
Bird 1
Bird 2
Only devolve severely lethal symptoms like Organ Failure.
7. Infectivily Boost
If not already bought buy the following to help infectivity of those still not infected:
Heat 1
Cold 1
Cold 2
Livestock 1
Livestock 2
Rat 1
If cure gets past 90%:
Genetic Reshuffle 1
Genetic Reshuffle 2
8. All Countries Infected
All countries should now be infected.
If cure reaches over 95%:
Genetic Reshuffle 1 or 2
Genetic Reshuffle 3
Now to help infect the healthy people and to kill the infected evolve the following:
Necrosis
Hemorrhagic Shock
Internal Hemorrhaging
Total Organ Failure
If you have extra points:
Rat 2
Heat 2
Cold 2
Even more extra points:
Blood 2
9. There Are No Healthy People Left
When you get this message, you are on your way to successfully destroying the human race.
Evolve genetic reshuffles if cure gets over 95%
and evolve any lethal symptoms that you can.
10. Success!
You have killed everyone on earth! Congratulations on unlocking Parasite!