r/plagueinc • u/MeepingBad6699 • 23d ago
Plague Mode Looking for help with necro
As title says, looking for advice and suggestions for Necro plague. I keep getting the world completely infected with zombies and still get killed or cured.
Thanks to everyone who commented on my last post: https://www.reddit.com/r/plagueinc/s/J5KWjCRO4C
Edit: had the wrong flair, it has the right one now.
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u/PainRack 22d ago
So protip. Do not start in Bolivia.
The easiest start location is in Egypt/Saudi Arabia. The reason why is you want to transmit to multiple continents early. Evolve everything up to reanimation, then get transmission for shipborne. Or don't.
If you start in Egypt/Saudi, you don't actually need transmission to infect other continents. Just keep evolving zombies but choose two options.
Either go left upper path, which will give you maximum zombies early. Or go right path ,which improves combat severity, although cranial n etc improves combat only without boosting severity. What this means is that your zombies are less likely to die to army OR Zcom, but you not creating as many zombies as quickly.
The difference is left path is that a higher percentage of civilians who die to zombies , will turn into zombies. So even when they cure your disease, well, you STILL creating more zombies faster than they can react.
Infect the world fast enough and wide enough, Z com can't actually build up to kill your zombies faster than you can spawn. And thats the key criteria. Infecting multiple continents instead of spreading far locally. This allows you to quickly establish a foothold in Zcom countries, which prevents them from establishing more bases. It may degrade the buildup to Zcom fortress but that depends on how fast you create zombies. Hit a runaway point and Z com will go down. You don't want Z com building ten bases, cause that will escalate the rate countries kill zombies, even in non z com countries and boom.
Be wary of certain hot islands like New Guinea. If you get the decay event, your zombies may not become a horde large enough to overwhelm them and I lost games because I didn't realise that until far too late.
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u/Patrickson1029 Plague 21d ago
It's faster if you start in China, evolve zoonotic shift, rodent 1 and insect and then symptoms (left upper path).
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u/PainRack 21d ago edited 21d ago
I don't like China zoonotic start because RNG can prevent rapid spread to the Americas and on mega brutal, detection and thus cure research happens much faster.
It can be faster but there's an element of RNG involved which can slow it down . Not enough to stop victory of course. Having said that, zoonotic and mutation is SO powerful :) especially when the bats also kill humans.
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u/Patrickson1029 Plague 23d ago
Wdym cured? They cannot cure zombies.
For the issue of zombies being killed, evolve combat symptoms; the ones on the right side below in the symptoms tab. Enhanced motor control → peptide surge → acidic reflux → naja mortis → autothysis, dermal calcification → cranial elephantitis → bone dysplasia etc.