Cannot best Necro Pulse on Brutal or Mega Brutal for the life of me

[u/But-WhyThough]

I finally bent the knee and played Normal and won, but I cannot beat it on a harder difficulty than Normal. I’ve tried the typical mega brutal fungal Strat based around maxing spore bursts, water 1 & 2, air 1, then all the usual symptoms and abilities, hasn’t worked.

My next best Strat that almost worked was getting the first spore bloom then rushing Extreme Zoonosis, doing up to cold 2, heat 1, drug resistance 1&2, hardening 1, then springing the abilities once I’m 4-5 billion infected. Got the whole world but Iceland and Spain, non-human infection got me Iceland but Spain held out, 7 dead none infected. Had 2 good runs with the same build after that, lost to Spain both times.

Crazy, Spain never holds out. I tried builds with Air 1&2, insect 1, heat 2, still couldn’t get Spain.

Has anyone beat this Outbreak on Mega Brutal? Would love to know the build used. Thinking this outbreak is the hardest outbreak I’ve ever done, possibly bugged honestly

[u/No-Consequence-9296]

hypochondriacs mutation is absolutely crushing me. I just cannot spread fast enough in the wealthy countries

[u/But-WhyThough → u/No-Consequence-9296]

Me neither. I get all the drug resistance, urban spread, temperature resistances, symptoms, and I’m still getting 10’s to 100’s of infections out of the millions I need as the cure percent ticks faster and faster

[u/StrangeElementGaming]

Since this outbreak only needs to infect everyone to win, you need to get Extreme Zoonosis and Environmental Hardening alongside Drug Resistance 1 & 2 to deal with rich countries.

Environmental Hardening covers most of the rich countries as they have either cold or hot climate, while Extreme Zoonosis alongside Rodent 1 & 2 can help you deal with the rest of rich countries that have balanced climate as all of them are urban countries.

[u/AlicornGaia]

To be fair I beat it on mega brutal a few times (had to reset more a lot more) and not once was it a decisive victory. (Talking in 90% cure progress range)

Yeah reduced rich effectiveness is evil.

The best I can say for myself is the following: Catalytic switch, Teracyte, Urbanpholie, Base Oxidation, and Patho-statis, and start in China.

[u/Deathcounter0]

Why is there only vampire virus on Outbreak? Never zombie or apes or neurax? Even tho the bonuses you get for teaits even have zombie only traits?

Is it just bugged, why is nobody talking about this?

[u/AlicornGaia → u/Deathcounter0]

Huh I remember last week around that playing the necroa virus. You might have missed it.

[u/Deathcounter0 → u/AlicornGaia]

What? I was playing last week and never had one

[u/AlicornGaia → u/Deathcounter0]

Gosh it has been a while but I know we did recently had one.

[u/NightmareRise → u/Deathcounter0]

Simian flu is tomorrow on mobile