Plague Inc. Call PETA Achievement Guide & Walkthrough

This achievement can only be unlocked by reacting to certain events in the Nipah Virus scenario. You'll have to wait for a random news banner to appear in order to start, a very short, chain of events that lead to the death of a celebrity's dog. Thus making the celebrity cry. As I've already stated, the news banner appears at random, so you might have to keep trying until it shows itself.

UPDATE(May 16,2014): This achievement can not be unlocked if a cheat mode is activated. The only reason I chose to keep this guide posted is to let people know which pop-ups and news banners they should look out for. I'll update this guide as soon as I find a way to get this achievement without cheat modes.

I was only able to unlock this achievement on mega-brutal difficulty in the Nipah Virus Plague. I was able to unlock it without any cheats activated, but when I tried again, I couldn't repeat it. Having a cheat mode activated helps out a lot in unlocking this achievement, though. In this guide, we'll make use of a cheat mode to make things quicker. If you are unable to unlock the achievement with a cheat mode activated, please notify me right away. I'll make adjustments to this guide if it doesn't work on cheat mode.

I recommend attempting to unlock this achievement in Mega-Brutal difficulty with the Unlimited Strain cheat mode activated, because, in my experience, things work out well(most of the time) in this difficulty. Once again, this achievement can only be unlocked in the Nipah Virus scenario.

These are my recommended genes to make things a little bit easier

• Metabolic Hijack
• Aquacyte
• Trans-Stasis
• Genetic Mimic
• Extremophile

Reminder: Unlimited Strain cheat mode must be activated.

1.) Immediately after starting, evolve Hendra Traits and Horse 1

2.) Keep an eye on the news and wait until this news banner shows up:

Kim Shardakian buys new 'Pugapoo' dog

Tip: The appearance of this news reel is completely random. It might appear right away or halfway through infecting India. If India becomes completely infected and this news has not appeared yet, it'd be best to just restart the game and try again.

3.) After seeing the news banner above, evolve every transmission, abilities, and symptoms possible, with the exception of Respiratory Shift, Encephalitic Shift and Genetic Re-Shuffles

4.) Wait until you see the pop-up below. If the cure progression reaches 75% while you wait, immediately use all three Genetic Re-Shuffles to buy more time.

Nipah kills Kim Shardakian's dog

The pop-up above signifies that you've unlocked the "Call PETA" achievement. Congratulations!

There were times in a few of my games that this pop-up failed to appear. If that happens, just repeat the game. 

If you've finished everything stated in this guide and the achievement is still locked, please notify me. This guide uses a cheat mode, and I'm not sure whether or not it is possible to unlock this achievement with a cheat activated. I was able to unlock this achievement without a cheat active, but as I said above, I wasn't able to replicate the strategy I used.

Submitted Guides/Alternate Strategies:

Guide by: Joacim Skoglund

Hi i was trying to get the achievement by my self, and i got it to work. I did it on Brutal and it worked fine, I did this 10 times and 4/10 I got the dog killed

Genes:Catalytic switch
Aquacyte
Trans-statsis
Genetic Mimic
Extremophile
The first thing i did was getting: Hendra traits+Horse 1
(as you cant get them as the same time i got them as soon as i could.)
i waited until the pop-up came and then i started to spread it more.
I started with drug 1 , then bat2+swine 2 after that go to abilities and buy cold 1+ heat 1 then back to transmissions dog, horse 2 and swine 3, after swine 3 i went to abilities and got Genetic hardening1 and drug 2, then cold 2+ heat 2 after that Genetic hardening 2, go back to transmissions and buy every transmissions that you can buy. Go back to Abilities and buy Environmental Hardening and Cedar traits go back to transmissions and buy  formites 1+2 then water 1+2 and air 1 after you done that buy all Symptoms that ain't mutated. Then Genetic reshuffle (all)
buy everything as soon as you can. my cure only went to 65% 1 time and i did not buy any Genetic reshuffles.

Guide by Anna

Genes - cytochrome surge, aquacyte, translesion, genetic mimic, extremophile.

1. Evolve hendra, then horse 1. Wait, devolving any symptoms, until you get the first pop-up. This can take a long time - out of 5 runs it only popped while India was partially infected one time. The longest was at over 3 billion infected.
1.5 Stop devolving symptoms. Allow symptoms evolve gradually - do not buy any.
2. Evolve dog, and swine 1, 2, and 3. No other transmissions will be evolved.
3. Evolve both drug resistances, both genetic hardenings, and cold 1 and 2. Order makes no difference.
4. Wait, keeping an eye on days until cure. When days until cure hits 160 or lower, evolve genetic shuffles. I popped the accomplishment 5/5 times in a row with this strategy, and needed the shuffles three times.
Theory - I believe that in order to trigger this accomplishment you need to keep the US reasonably calm, and be very patient. I suspect that the country being too disrupted is the limiting factor. By allowing symptoms to evolve instead of buying them, the disease progression is slower and less disruptive. Limiting transmissions I believe is also helpful reducing disruption, since it avoids triggering horse slaughtering and fruit burning actions.
5/5 successes getting the achievement on casual difficulty, on the android mobile app.

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