Not another zombie game achievement

[Serial Killer Lucius]

Who has it and how long did you have to wait for the required pop up? Thanks.

14 hours over the past few days and still no pop up.
Have started in India, evolved saliva 1 + Zoonotic and Bat 1.
Am I doing something wrong or just unlucky?

[Barry]

The popup isn't required, you just have to win without ever evolving or mutating Cytopathic Reanimation. This takes a VERY long time (about 1500-2000 days). Here's one method that's slow but should work:

Genes:
Catalytic Switch
Creationist
Aquacyte
Xerophile

Start a Casual game in Saudi Arabia and take Hyper Salivaiton, Polyphagia, and Gastroenteritis . Next, work on Transmissions: Blood 1, Air 1, Air 2, Saliva 1, Saliva 2, Water 1, Water 2. Next work on Resistances: Cold Resistance 1, Cold Resistance 2, Heat Resistance 1, Drug Resistance 1, Drug Resistance 2. Wait until every country is infected then take , Autophagia, Acute Encephalitis, Insomnia, Fever, Photophobia, Coma and Genetic Hardening. Devolve Delirium, Psychosis and Cannibalism whenever they mutate. This will take a very long time to do, but it will work. If for some reason the cure ever gets to 95%, buy a Genetic Reshuffle. I just retested this method and it took 3694 days to wipe out the world and the cure progress was at 89% (without any reshuffles).

[Serial Killer Lucius]

Great job! Thanks for your reply, much appreciated m8.

[Skyte100]

I was about 3 minutes away from winning and getting the achievement. Then the game pissed me off by evolving it on its own anyway.

[Barry]

Escrito originalmente por skyte100:

I was about 3 minutes away from winning and getting the achievement. Then the game pissed me off by evolving it on its own anyway.

Unfortunately that's the biggest problem with getting the achievement. That's why I like the more conservative method of devolving Delirium, Psychosis and Cannibalism whenever they mutate just to be safe. It will take longer because you won't kill as fast, but it prevents the zombie symptom from being evolved.

[Skyte100]

Escrito originalmente por Barry McCockinner:

Escrito originalmente por skyte100:

I was about 3 minutes away from winning and getting the achievement. Then the game pissed me off by evolving it on its own anyway.

Unfortunately that's the biggest problem with getting the achievement. That's why I like the more conservative method of devolving Delirium, Psychosis and Cannibalism whenever they mutate just to be safe. It will take longer because you won't kill as fast, but it prevents the zombie symptom from being evolved.

It really sucks because I started with Creationist but the game seems to ignore that after awhile.

[Barry]

Escrito originalmente por skyte100:

It really sucks because I started with Creationist but the game seems to ignore that after awhile.

Creationist does help, but it doens't prevent random mutatoins entirely, it just reduces the chance. This is why I like Catalytic Switch: you get plenty of extra DNA from popping research bubbles to cover the cost of devolving the 3 symptoms adjacent to the zombie one. I belive that the random mutation chance is also higher on Casual, but the slower research speed compensates for this.

[Kotli]

Dont I repeat dont buy any symptoms until your disease mutated at lest once possibly twice. Never ever have every symptom but Zombie mode evolved or game will give you zombies.
Note I never seen zombies auto evolve so far if theres none zombie symtoms to pick.
I did it similar to Barry McCockinner but I started in Greenland and didnt buy any right hand symptoms at all.

[SteveScrub]

Followed Barry's guide here, worked like a charm for me after I think two tries, tried the other method over a dozen times and never saw the rabies popup. Many thanks man.

[Aeneas]

Don't you play Ice Apple?