The following are strategies, tips, and Q&A for the Not Another Zombie Game achievement.
Strategy 1[]
- Author: Bihapove
Things You Should Know[]
- "[Disease Name] is a form of Rabies" is the event that stops cure research, not "No Link to Rabies"
- Winning without neither Rabies event nor Cytopathic Reanimation used to be possible, but a recent update has increased Necroa Virus's Cure Research Speed by 100%, making Rabies events essential.
- Devolving a symptom will trigger another mutation instantly, unless you have Genetic ReShuffle 2.
Genetic Code[]
- Aerocyte
- Creationist
- Urbophile
- No Necroa gene is required
Notes[]
- Necroa Virus has an incredibly low Cure Requirement.
- Cytopathic Reanimation is unusable.
- The only way to deal with the cure is a luck-based event: Rabies
Events[]
- You must be on the main Game gameplay -- Scenarios and Speed Runs are not allowed.
- Throughout the whole run, Cytopathic Reanimation is not allowed.
- The disease must start in India.
- Saliva 1 and Zoonotic Shift must be evolved before Day 53.
- Bat 1 must be evolved before India is fully infected.
- If the previous requirements are fulfilled, there is a chance that Rabies event sequence now begins, producing a news event called "Colony of rabid bats triggers town evacuation".
- Two news pieces, called "WHO starts Rabies Eradication Initiative" and "Film about Rabies epidemic becomes global hit" will pop up after a random time. Your disease must not be detected until both have popped up.
- To proceed, Acute Encephalitis must be evolved and your Severity must be exactly 14. This can be achieved by owning Insomnia, Fever, Photophobia, Coma, Acute Encephalitis and Hyper Salivation.
- If all the previous requirements are fulfilled, there is a (relatively high) chance that a pop-up window called "[Disease name] is a form of Rabies" will appear. This effectively slows cure research long enough for a victory.
- If your Severity is no longer 14, a pop-up window called 'Rabies link false' shows up, reverting research speed back to normal and forcing a retry.
Mutation[]
- Necroa Virus has a horrible passive effect called 'Forced Mutation'.
- If a mutation happens, but the system finds out that you have no symptoms (meaning you have devolved the symptom), it has a significant chance to trigger another mutation instantly.
- Evolving Genetic ReShuffle 2 after the mutation will prevent this from happening.
Steps[]
- Start in India.
- Evolve Saliva 1 and Zoonotic Shift immediately. This must be done before Day 53.
- Evolve Bat 1.
- Evolve Drug Resistance 1, Genetic Hardening and Genetic ReShuffle 1.
- If a mutation happens, devolve it and evolve Genetic ReShuffle 2. Do not turn off the mutation warning screen during this.
- Keep checking the news box to see if Town Evacuation news happens. If it doesn't show up before India is fully infected, restart your game.
- Devolve Bat 1. If on PC, you should save your game here and reload it if anything goes awry. In mobile, it's over and over again.
- If a mutation happens, devolve it.
- Wait until you have 20 DNA points. Then evolve Cold Resistance 1 and save the game.
- Wait until you have 30 DNA points. Then evolve Cold Resistance 2 and save the game.
- Wait until the whole world is infected, all three news events have popped up and you have at least 75 DNA points.
- After collecting at least 75 DNA points, evolve Insomnia, Fever, Photophobia, Coma, Acute Encephalitis and Hyper Salivation at the same time. Then you may save your game.
- Wait for "[Disease name] is a form of Rabies" to pop up. If it doesn't, load your save file.
- Acute Encephalitis has very poor lethality, so finishing off the last humans might take several hundred days, but don't evolve any other symptoms. If any of them mutated, devolve it.
- Congratulations on getting the most difficult achievement ever.
Notes[]
- Tested this on mobile, worked seamlessly even though I didn't utilize the save function. - Anonymous
- When I did this the Rabies link came up as false randomly but I managed to win and get the achievement with cure 93% by getting symptoms like delirium and psychosis which slow cure speed - Skyre6112