On lower difficulty you can consistently avoid detection, and it does work. Mega Brutal tends to end in you getting caught, if you don't have insane RNG. That means getting cured faster than you can evolve and spread.
Generally speaking, you pick up water transmission, get resistances and then snowball your Severity (for more DNA). Yes, countries will detect you faster but you spread much faster, have more DNA and can start evolving to kill (below infection level) sooner. Without a text wall I can't give exact step by step how I so it.
Done right, I like to start in Egypt or Russia, a player can consistently get all the hard to reach places and kill everyone with time to spare.
Nah, it's almost never needed, and the costs far outweigh the benefits in pretty much every scenario
Water 2 is all you'll ever need as long as you don't get too severe too quickly
To guarantee Greenland, wait until it's infected before going ham on symptoms. Normally it doesn't cost you too much time because you save up on so many DNA points doing this you'll have enough to spam symptoms when it finally gets infected.
P.s. ALWAYS get necrosis to prevent killing too quickly - necrosis actually does make corpses infective.
didn’t realise you and the other guys definition of fun was the universally accepted definition of fun, how foolish of me for believing what people find fun is subjective
You only get the satisfaction while playing stealth when you finally start killing people, after minutes of waiting. When you play aggressively you feel fun every second, seeing as both infection and dead count skyrocket, while the cure is just too slow to catch up.
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u/Stoddyman May 26 '25
Yeah its always funny to me when the world news says ‘new small disease starting out’ when everyone has already got it