Is the zombie infection world wide?

[Solaire]

I'm just curious since it only says the state of Kentucky was quarantined and contained but i'm wondering if the disease became world wide? Surely if it was just one state infected then the military could come in and take care of the infected.

[Grishnerf]

i think it starts somewhere in kentucky, thougt to be contained in louisville, big mistake.
in the end its worldwide for sure. or at least the american continent.

but i have no clue.

[Shurenai]

It's worldwide. Here's a previous post of mine where I covered the approximate progression of spread.

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Initially the virus was fluid transmission only- Blood and saliva. However, after a bout 2~ weeks, The virus abruptly mutated and began spreading via air transmission.

It then swept across the world with a horrifying rapidity that imo made human spread vectors like air/train/vehicle travel unlikely to be the reason, especially since all flights and were grounded- Some few rare people proved immune to this airborne spread, like our player character, but are still vulnerable to fluid transmission.


And by "swept across the world with horrifying rapidity", I mean that on the 14th day, the virus was still contained solely within kentucky. Later that day cases of an unknown virus are being reported in England and Africa.

Edit: For clarification, the 'day' values listed below are the GAME day these reports come up on the radio- Gameplay begins approximately 7 days after the initial infection was discovered and contained. So Day 7 game day is day 14 of the infection, day 8 game day is day 15, etc.

By morning of day 8, Cases are reported in:
Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio.
Norfolk, England. London, England.
Newcastle, England.
Mogadishu, Somalia - in Africa.
Seoul, South Korea.
Okinawa, Japan.

By night of day 8: suspicious cases are reported in New York and Chicago and confirmation that the above reports have been verified and confirmed to be the knox virus.

By morning of day 9, Cases in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Berlin, Tokyo. Much of this is from NNR news in game- Other radio stations report other cities; And in the majority of these cases unlike the fluid transmission vector, people are just turning- It's mass chaos and panic already. NNR is calling the end of the world here on day 9 basically.

Edit: Here's the day 9 transcript:
This is NNR
The Knox Event infection is confirmed in the following locations:
Louisville and surrounding area, Kentucky.
New Orleans.
New York.
<bzzt>
Los Angeles, Cali <fzzt>
<bzzt>
Berlin.
<bzzt>
Tokyo.
<fzzt>
<bzzt>
God save us all.


In the span of less than 3 days, The virus spreads from being contained in Kentucky to the four corners of the world.

So...With all that said, No, I don't think any country would be safe. Even if there was one, somewhere, They've got billions of hungering dead coming after them- And being so remote and isolated, it's unlikely they have the tools to fend them away for long- And all it would take is a single zombie to ferry the airborne virus near enough to the location for the majority of it's populace to be infected and turn on the few who proved immune.

TL;DR: Whether it was man made or a freak accident of nature, The Knox Virus is basically game over- The death knell for humanity.

[Greb]

Zombies probably completely destroyed the modern globalist empire as we know it, with most major cities and trade + travel hubs overran completely.

There's likely places in the world zombies didn't reach, but those same places are likely the ones that rely on regular imports to survive such as Antarctica, so that might not be the solace it sounds like.

But the radio system mentions most of the worlds capital cities are destroyed by the infection within two weeks, so...for the most part the world is screwed yeah.

Just probably pockets of survivors in rural areas. Realistically though the zombies would rot away within a year or so, probably. Humanity can reclaim the planet! Think of all that free real estate

[Bash Arkin]

Originally posted by Greb:

Just probably pockets of survivors in rural areas. Realistically though the zombies would rot away within a year or so, probably. Humanity can reclaim the planet! Think of all that free real estate

I think i read a theory everywhere that its like the Wildfire virus, where everyone is infected but it triggers on death, Bites just being super deadly for whatever reason.

[Solaire]

Originally posted by Bash Arkin:

Originally posted by Greb:

Just probably pockets of survivors in rural areas. Realistically though the zombies would rot away within a year or so, probably. Humanity can reclaim the planet! Think of all that free real estate

I think i read a theory everywhere that its like the Wildfire virus, where everyone is infected but it triggers on death, Bites just being super deadly for whatever reason.

The disease reminds me of The Walking Dead virus where if you get bit your done for but you can survive depending on if the bite is on one of your limbs but if it’s anywhere else like the torso or head then your dead.

[Bash Arkin]

Originally posted by Captain Korx:

Originally posted by Bash Arkin:

I think i read a theory everywhere that its like the Wildfire virus, where everyone is infected but it triggers on death, Bites just being super deadly for whatever reason.

The disease reminds me of The Walking Dead virus where if you get bit your done for but you can survive depending on if the bite is on one of your limbs but if it’s anywhere else like the torso or head then your dead.

Yee thats what i was referring too, the walking dead's virus is called Wildfire Virus.

[Animalman]

It not known whether it’s local or world wide. By default heli event doesn’t repeat. But the weather broadcast does. The weather broadcast is obviously controlled by somebody, a meteorologist who looks at the data and then sends out the broadcast on the emergency frequency. Forever additional commentary can be heard implying the zone is being watched. And described as a sector. This never ends. You can get ETA the guy is looking at data 5 days ahead sometimes. This isn’t a robot. This is an emergency service that is keeping as close a watch as is possible for them to do safely. So you can probably imagine it is a large contained quarantine likely breaching and spreading across the nation getting worse! But it doesn’t effect the emergency broadcast.
The day or year the emergency broadcast dies the game would get alot harder. You will then get caught out in heavy cloud and storms all the time and never know the length or severity of it. At that point you can assume the entire country has succumb to the plague.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Animalman:

It not known whether it’s local or world wide. By default heli event doesn’t repeat. But the weather broadcast does. The weather broadcast is obviously controlled by somebody, a meteorologist who looks at the data and then sends out the broadcast on the emergency frequency. Forever additional commentary can be heard implying the zone is being watched. And described as a sector. This never ends. You can get ETA the guy is looking at data 5 days ahead sometimes. This isn’t a robot. This is an emergency service that is keeping as close a watch as is possible for them to do safely. So you can probably imagine it is a large contained quarantine likely breaching and spreading across the nation getting worse! But it doesn’t effect the emergency broadcast.
The day or year the emergency broadcast dies the game would get alot harder. You will then get caught out in heavy cloud and storms all the time and never know the length or severity of it. At that point you can assume the entire country has succumb to the plague.

The emergency broadcast is explicitly titled as Automated; And there is plenty of news coverage in game demonstrating how the Knox Infection spread from kentucky throughout the entire world- To the UK, africa, japan, korea, and several other places besides.

The mutated virus also spreads airborne from person to person with maybe one in a million being immune to that spread vector- Still vulnerable to bites, though. Just getting NEAR a zombie or infected individual is enough to infect most people.

Whatever the case, though, The virus is absolutely a worldwide problem after about 20 days in game. Society in most places has collapsed at that point because 99+% of their population has become zombies via the mutated airborne variant.

[Animalman]

You’re right it is automated.

But irl you can’t get automated info like that. Maybe it’s a text to speech automated delivery. But somebody gotta give it text to speak. Satellite sends info back sure. Images. But the detail of that broadcast is too detailed to have been AI of the era. Imo

[Solaire]

Originally posted by Animalman:

You’re right it is automated.

But irl you can’t get automated info like that. Maybe it’s a text to speech automated delivery. But somebody gotta give it text to speak. Satellite sends info back sure. Images. But the detail of that broadcast is too detailed to have been AI of the era. Imo

What are you on about?

[Animalman]

Well it’s automated emergency broadcast

Like the update comes in and repeats all day long. So it repeats the update all day and then gets a new update. So the automation is referring to the hour it repeats. So yeah somebody is alive out there writing the broadcast. And that broadcast automatically repeat every hour that day. So the whole world isn’t dead until that emergency broadcast dies

[CasperTheRamKnight]

simple explanation, its probably some project made by the government or some escaped disease, that somebody got their hands on and is prob spreading

[IEATDIRT]

Originally posted by Gorx Ba Dorx:

Originally posted by Animalman:

You’re right it is automated.

But irl you can’t get automated info like that. Maybe it’s a text to speech automated delivery. But somebody gotta give it text to speak. Satellite sends info back sure. Images. But the detail of that broadcast is too detailed to have been AI of the era. Imo

What are you on about?

It is called "AEBS" being "Automated Emergency Broadcast System", emphasis on the "Automated"
Even though 1993 technology as far as we know wouldn't ever be able to do something so advanced, I think you could chock it up as "military grade computing" or maybe even just a gigantic server farm, in default settings, the zombies don't break structures unless they see a person to chase, so potentially it could be a massive solar powered server farm that processes all of the weather data using 1993 technology,

[KapitanSWAT]

AEBS is definitely 1993 technology because it predicts snowfall in July lmao

[Silverlight]

If Plague INC is any indicator then maybe Madagascar or Greenland made it.