The Prion plague type is slow and by this I mean that the abilities, transmissions, or symptoms you evolve take quite awhile to take effect. Similar to every other plague type it has its own unique abilities. Prion's unique ability is Neural Atrophy. Its description says that it "makes complex tasks harder", this basically means it slows down the progress of the cure being made to stop your plague. Neural Atrophy can be evolved three times, the effects slightly better than the previous one but they do stack. In Prion's description it also states that this plague type is subtle and extremely complex, meaning it won't easily be detected by having a few symptoms.
In my experience experimenting with this plague type, it starts out slow at infecting people and moderately increases its infectivity based on the transmissions or symptoms you evolve. I think it also has a hard time spreading in hot regions.
This guide was made without the use of genes, so experiment with them if you want to get a much better score. Since this guide is based on brutal difficulty, it can also be used on the lower difficulties with much more ease.
Anyway, let's start this guide.
Start in China
- High population, an airport, and a harbor. Ideal place to start a brain-hidden plague.
Evolve the following in this order:
- Air and Water transmission to level 2
- Heat and Cold resistance
- Drug Resistance 2
Wait for the whole world to be infected. Devolve any mutated symptoms that pop-up and stop once it starts costing DNA to devolve.
(You can choose to devolve one mutated symptom if you haven't been able to infect the entire world yet. It's worth it since it'll only cost one DNA)
Once the whole world is infected start evolving symptoms. I recommend evolving these symptoms in this order since they have high enough lethality to eradicate humanity before the cure completion even reaches 25%.
- Cysts
- Abscesses
- Systemic Infection
- Coma
- Total Organ Failure
- Tumours
- Internal Hemorrhaging
- Hemorrhagic Shock
- Necrosis
Once you get Total Organ Failure you can opt to slow down the cure instead of focusing on your plague's lethality. I just prefer killing people faster.
Here are my stats on the two games I did with Prion on brutal difficulty.
1st Game - 856 days| 17% Cure Completion| 4/5 Biohazards
2nd Game- 987 days| 23% Cure Completion| 4/5 Biohazards
Update:
Here's a better strategy than the one posted above
Gene Setup:
Cytochrome Surge
Aquacyte
Sympto-Stasis
Genetic Mimic
Extremophile
Update:
Here's a better strategy than the one posted above
Gene Setup:
Cytochrome Surge
Aquacyte
Sympto-Stasis
Genetic Mimic
Extremophile
- Start in India
- Evolve Coughing
- Evolve Air and Water 2 then Extreme Bioaerosol
- Cold and Drug Resistance 1 then evolve Cold and Drug Resistance 2
- Wait for the whole world to be infected while devolving any mutated symptom.
- Evolve the following this this order: Sneezing, Immune Suppression, Total Organ Failure, Coma, Systemic Infection, Tumours, Internal Hemorrhaging, Fever, Hemorrhagic Shock, Necrosis, Paralysis, Inflammation, Seizures, then Insanity.
TIP: Evolve the following as soon as you have the DNA to do so.
These are the stats I had when I used this strategy
608 days
11% Cure Completion
5/5 Biohazards
So there you go, have fun with experimenting with gene setups and getting a higher score. If you guys have any tips or strategies that are better, post them at the comments below and I'll check them out. I'll include the good ones in this guide. Have fun ending humanity!
