Plague Inc. decides to antagonize its audience.
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isnt the gameplay simply waiting for points to pick new symptoms with the best strat to simply wait for everyone to be infected and then turn on everything at once?
At higher difficulties you'll get discovered before you can get in every country with minimal infection and zero symptoms, and one of the criteria for scoring is how fast you can win so if you want to get max score on the hardest difficulty (which you need to unlock the special plagues without paying) you need to be aggressive. I unlocked everything except the vampire plague when i played this years ago, because the Planet of the Apes scenario is really hard on max difficulty (I hated that one because the point of the movies wasn't to make humanity go extinct, just replace them with apes as the dominant lifeform on Earth)
Yes. You basically start the game, wait until you have enough points to do anything and then just click a few upgrades and wait.
No. I mean, that's a strategy but you use different strats depending on what kind of infection and other potential factors.
I think in the very early days that was basically the entire game. It's grown a huge amount from being basically a flash game.
... yes.
6.47$ CAD for a mediocre DLC to a mediocre game... nice.
I thin it's a great marketing strategy. For a game with a "Shut Down Everything" achievement which existed 4 years before the actual pandemic I think they've been respectful with their timing.
If you're going to do a big attention grab the best way to go about it is to lean into humour. Shame they didn't release it on April 1st though, might have made it more palatable to the sensitive types.
So I take it that this is a totally unwinnable game? After all, a plague cannot spread to gay orgies or liberal protests. It is totally impossible.
I used to play that modded. to win every time, you spread whatever you're spreading with high communicability, and no death rate. Once everyone has it, you increase the death rate. Win.
When covid hit, I had a bit of an oh fuck moment because of how I beat that game.