Plague Inc. Tips | Virus

Using the plague type: Virus. You can effectively infect and kill with this pathogen by following these tips. A little overview of a virus: has the ability to mutate at random. This makes it difficult to control and stay hidden, but if you use strategy you are able to manipulate it's unstable mutations.

For the Three Main Virus Tips Click Here.

10 Tips to using a Virus Pathogen.

1. Do not sell more than 4 total symptoms. You will begin to waste more DNA than you can afford for only staying invisible.

2. Keep an eye on the cure. Even though your Virus will mutate, still watch the cure and keep it below 95%.

3.Never pick a rich starting country with Virus. In some cases, it is smart to cripple rich countries; but to play it safe with this pathogen I recommend either India or China as a starting country. High population density and access to airports.

4.Purchase Transmissions! I see people wondering why their virus is spreading so slow. Invest in a minimum of 4 transmissions, but still keep DNA for lethal symptoms.

5.Kill and infect with the dead. Buy Necrosis symptom so that dead bodies become a vector of transmission. This risks those in labs being exposed, along with higher infection rates.

6.Anemia+Necrosis. Good combo for infection rates. Worth the DNA but remember to only use this in the later stages of your plague.

7.How To Infect Greenland?
The only port into Greenland comes from Norway.

To learn how to infect greenland: Click Here

8.Stay invisible. Remember to devolve at least the first 4 symptoms. This allows the infected to raise less concern and continue the spread of infection.

9.NEVER EVER BUY VIRAL INSTABILITY. Unless you like a very hard challenge, or are very far into the game with DNA to spare.

10. Read our Virus Guide for indepth detail and to learn the strategy behind this pathogen.
You can find it here

Strategic Tips for Anyone | Tips Plague Inc.

Casual Gameplay Tips

Bacteria

1. Bacteria has a special ability: Bacterial Resilience. 

This ability can be used to infect Greenland and

other cold climates.

2. Bacteria can go unnoticed for a long time.

Keep your severity down, and don't become

lethal until you are ready to kill.

3.Click on the "World" button to access

very useful data. To learn more about this,

and how to use this data: Click Here

Virus

1. The Virus pathogen is hard to control.

Sell the first 3-4 mutated traits to stay hidden.

Do not waste points devolving after 4.

2. Starting countries matter. Saudi Arabia has a very 

active airport and has a shipyard.

For more information on starting countries: Click Here

3. Never use Viral Instability. 

It creates a more risky setting for you to control

your disease, which means you will not be able

to stay hidden and a cure will be developed quickly.

Fungus

-The Fungus Pathogen gives even experienced players a run against the cure. As the fungus has very low natural transmission, you need to create the right balance between transmitting and severity throughout the game. For an in-depth guide on how to defeat humanity every time with Fungus, on any difficulty: Click Here.-

1. This is one of the hardest plagues 

for beginners. Be patient and learn strategy.

2. Fungus has trouble with transmission.

Only purchase Spore Burst a maximum of 3 times.

Or you will be wasting DNA you could have bought

a transmission with.

3. Keep away from the cure. 

You need to be patient with this pathogen,

allow it to infect 40% of the population before

you are seen.

For our Fungus Guide: Click Here

Basic Parasite Guide | Plague Inc App

In Plague Inc., you play Parasite on Brutal similar to how you play Fungus on Brutal. It’s a fairly slow spreading plague, but it has an Ability that is just amazing and makes it pretty easy to beat, just time consuming.

The special ability for Parasite is called Symbiosis. Symbiosis helps to keep your plague from being detected, which is key to winning. It doesn’t keep it from being detected completely, but I have figured out exactly how many symptoms you can load up on without being detected.

I have listed my gene setup below. I have all genes unlocked, which just requires winning 25 games. You don’t need to unlock all of the genes to win this one, as most of these are just the third in each category to unlock.

DNA Gene - Cytochrome Surge (Get more DNA from popping orange DNA bubbles – this one is vital for getting DNA points throughout the game)
Travel Gene - Teracyte (Increases the chance of your plague spreading by land)
Evolution Gene - Sympto-Stasis (Symptom costs don’t increase, but easier to cure – the benefits far outweigh the cost though, this is a must for this strategy)
Mutation Gene - Genetic Mimic (Your plague is harder to cure – counterbalances Sympto-Stasis a bit)
Environment Gene - Extremophile (Minor bonus in all environments – I like this one instead of the specific environment bonuses, but it’s not vital)

The main strategy here is to infect the world without them knowing, and then kill them all as fast as possible. This is a longer game since Parasites takes a little while to spread, so you have to be patient.

Your Symbiosis ability is vital for this to work. With all three levels of Symbiosis purchased, you can buy a ton of symptoms to increase infectivity, and you don’t even need a ton of transmissions because of this. Since you’re working with Symptom-Stasis as well, symptoms you purchase will be a lot cheaper than normal as well since they don’t increase in cost.

One very important thing to remember is that you DO NOT want your plague to be detected until everyone in the world is infected. The only way to do this is to keep your severity at zero, which means buying exactly the symptoms I list and no more than that.

You also need to devolve any mutated symptoms that aren’t on the list below immediately. When I say that you need to devolve mutated symptoms immediately, I mean once the notification pops up that a symptom has mutated, do not close the notification first, go immediately to the symptoms list and devolve it, or risk your plague being noticed before you even get a chance to react. If the world detects your plague early, you might as well start over because you probably won’t win.

Ok, let’s get to it then shall we?

Phase 1

• Start in China
• Abilities: Symbiosis 1, 2, and 3 (get these before anything else)
• Symptoms: Cysts, Hyper Sensitivity
• Transmissions: Livestock 1, Water 1

Phase 2

• Symptoms: Anaemia, Haemophilia, Rash, Sweating, Sneezing, Coughing, Pneumonia, Nausea, Vomiting – Devolve anything else that mutates (trust me, they can’t detect your plague with these, but anything else and they will)

Phase 3

• Transmissions: Bird 1, Air 1, Blood 1
• Symptoms: Devolve any symptom mutations immediately
• Abilities: Drug Resistance 1, Cold 1

Phase 4 

• Ride this out and rack up points. You’ll need 59 points to begin killing people everyone off, but you should have more than enough
• Abilities: Genetic Hardening 2 if you have enough extra points at this time, but if you don’t for some reason then let time run a little longer and gather up the points from orange DNA bubbles

Phase 5

• Time to start destruction!
• Symptoms: Once everyone in the world is infected and you have 59 points, purchase Paralysis, Coma, and Total Organ Failure to start killing people off
• The cure will start to rise quickly, but don’t panic.. you’ll be racking up points quickly as well
• Purchase Genetic Reshuffle 1 when you have enough points, spend the rest on deadly symptoms like Internal Hemorrhaging, Hemorrhagic Shock, and Necrosis
• The cure shouldn’t get much higher than 50% with everyone dying so quickly, spend any spare points on other fun symptoms

Congrats, you win!

It’s tough to get a very high score on this one, but at least you beat it.

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