Plague Inc. Unknown Origin: Fungus Mega-Brutal(3 Biohazard) Guide

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Once again, I am back to a plague type that I don't really feel comfortable playing in, Fungus. To be honest, I'd rather play scenarios like Black Death over and over again than play 10 games of Fungus. I don't really hate this plague type, but the randomness of spore bursts and the fact that this plague type has a hard time infecting through ships and planes makes everything harder than it already is at mega-brutal difficulty.

One advantage it has, though, is the fact that it has no problems starting in any country--even rich ones. This is mainly because of the Fungus' unique ability, Spore bursts and eruptions. Even if you're unlucky enough to start in cold & rich country like Canada, you'll still be able to recover by evolving spore bursts and infecting poor & hot countries--India is always a great country to be infected at a very early stage.

Although spore burst is, in fact, a great ability, it's still completely random where your spores end up. There are even cases where every spore burst you evolve seem to infect rich countries--needless to say, you do not want that to happen.

List of Guides:

Luckily, some amazing people(including myself) have already made guides for the Fungus plague type. Some made particularly for this scenario, and some made for a normal mega-brutal difficulty game. Don't worry about guides made for normal games, the great thing about Fungus is that you don't really need to start in a good plague-friendly country.

• Unknown Scenario: Fungus Guide by Dr. Bulgaria
• Spicy's Fungus mega-brutal Guide
• The link above also contains a featured comment of a strategy made by bulacan. Check it out, too.

Spicy's Strategy

I have only won three times out of 6 games using this strategy. The losses were mainly because of bad infection orders from spore bursts and eruptions. 

If you're using this strategy for a normal Fungus game, pick India as a starting country. The hot climate of India will give you a bonus in infectivity.

Here's the stats of the last 3 wins I had with this strategy

Gene Setup

• ATP Boost
• Aquacyte
• Patho-Stasis
• Genetic Mimic
• Extremophile

1.) Starting country does not matter. If you're using this guide for a normal game of Fungus, start in India. Pop the very first red bubble then immediately evolve 6 Spore Bursts and a Spore Eruption. 

2.) If you're lucky enough to get India and China in the very first set of spore abilities, you will have a good game. Continue by evolving the following in this order:

• Rash
• Sweating
• Skin Lesions
• Bird 1
• Water 1
• Bird 2
• Water 2
• Cold Resistance 1
• Drug Resistance 1
• Cold Resistance 2
• Drug Resistance 2
• Necrosis

3,) The early mutation of Necrosis isn't really a bad thing, neither is the mutation of anything else. You can choose to devolve 2 mutated symptoms, though, it'll give you a little DNA(Only devolve twice, the third time won't give you any DNA and the succeeding ones will cost you DNA). Continue by evolving these abilities:

• Heat Resistance 1 & 2
• Environmental Hardening

4.) At this point, you'll need to periodically check your infection summary spread(World tab-Data) and wait until every country is infected. Once the very last country you need is infected, evolve these lethal symptoms in this order:

• Hemorrhagic Shock
• Internal Hemorrhaging
• Tumours
• Systemic Infection
• Coma
• Total Organ Failure

5.) The symptoms above will be enough to kill people quickly. Remaining DNA is best put towards evolving Genetic Re-Shuffles to slow down the cure progression. 

That's it. I hope this strategy has helped you get those 3 golden biohazards for Fungus in the Unknown Origin scenario.

End of Spicy's Strategy

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