Virus type Plague on Normal difficulty - Impossible

[Whisky Jr :3]

I've been trying for 3 days, and still, I CAN'T BEAT THE GAME WITH A VIRUS ON NORMAL.
Popping the blue bubbles has no effect, and every time I lose it's either becuase the cure production is complete or because all the hosts die before the entire population is infected.

Help :(

[EspiOne]

I had to cheat, well, not really cheat, but follow a guide...

[Whisky Jr :3]

Originally posted by EspiOne:

I had to cheat, well, not really cheat, but follow a guide...

Can you send me a link for a guide? I searched for one in Google for maybe an hour and couldn't find anything useful...

[Breton]

Popping blue bubles just delays the time for a cure i think

[ScrubLordSupreme]

I check the guides section for you and found this. It's pretty close to what I did as well. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=276462798

[AJ, Lord of Chaos]

Did it first time and was easier than bacteria (4 tries), cure was under 50% done.
Started with transmission and the mutation upgrades. The deadly symptoms came just for free via natural mutation. Maybe just lucky.

[mcsproot]

I find Virus to be one of the easiest to win with personally, but it does require a little luck.

Start in middle east/saudi arabia (the area that connects Africa and Asia), get Air, Water and Cold upgrades. Then pick up insect 1 (due to starting in hot country here) and bird 1 (bird is great for spreading). Pick up drug resistance 1 then get the other vectors.

Then simply wait a bit. Virus has a bonus to mutation and with all of the vectors you pick up, your mutation chance goes up. Once it has infected every country, get all of the virus mutation bonus upgrades. On max speed, you should get a mutation every other day.

Basically, I find the key thing for virus is to not buy any symptoms, except maybe the super deadly ones later on to speed up the death rate. You can up your mutation chance to crazy levels.

This is sufficient for Normal at least.

[Kaptain Tripps]

You could also replay bacteria a couple of times and unlock a few more upgrades. They can make a very real difference.

[Rex]

Honestly, I didn't find it that difficult. Just focus on the climate survivability and the water/air transmission upgrades. When you are spreading fast, THEN buy symptoms that leads to organ failure and other deadly symptoms.

To be quite honest, this pattern works with everything I've tried so far. Use any and all gene upgrades you got. Especially Dwarism (sorry, uneducated so cannot spell. lol)

[Wranderous]

lol

[MedicalBudder]

FYI: Rex, Dont worry man for your information: its Darwinism and Darwin was a great scientist who worked on genetics and how genes came to the son / daughter from mom and dad. No offense or anything just for your information :D

[Bristol Camellia]

Well i would say that to save DNA, evolve birds and sympthoms that are high on infectivity but less severity at the starting like skin lesion and evolve genetic hardening 1 and 2 as fast as possible b4 it was found out and start at Saudi Arabia

[>//The_FALCON]

I just say Necrosis OP

[Aquarius]

Sounds like you are trying to kill to quick..evolve cold 1 & 2 , drugs 1 & 2 (these will speed up the spread alot to rich and cold countries)..then go to everyday symptoms like sneezing, coughing ect ..& air 1 & 2, water 1 & 2 (birds ect will give you fast mutations)..once in all countries and they are infecting well ..go into killing symptoms and fast spreading deady symptoms like dysentery..Wish you the best

[Rex]

Originally posted by MechanicalBudder:

FYI: Rex, Dont worry man for your information: its Darwinism and Darwin was a great scientist who worked on genetics and how genes came to the son / daughter from mom and dad. No offense or anything just for your information :D

I know all about the guy, just didnt know how to spell. :p

[SlaveOfSelf(lucas)]

Clearly not the game for u then. virus is one of the easiest. lay low, infect all then go for the kill. coulndt be easier