Engorged Quadriceps

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Engorged Quadriceps is a special ability in the Necroa Virus. With it, nutrients are stripped from other parts of the zombie and are added to the leg muscles, thus improving horde speeds. Evolving this alongside the symptom Enhanced Motor Control unlocks the Runner achievement.

This ability along with other similar ones such as Dyskinetic Movement can help increase the capacity of zombies to reach a distant healthy country in a short time before being decomposed.[2]

Notes

  1. In the game files, this ability has a cost of 4, the variable it determines is
    cost:
    , but due to several factors such as Genetic Drift in addition to the fact that it is one of the traits of Necroa Virus that is necessary to evolve previous abilities in order to obtain it, the cost of DNA points will increase relatively as other traits are evolved.[1]
  2. The variable that determines this is called
    horde_speed_multiplier
    within the game code.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Necroa Virus Trait Stats - Game Files (See necroa.txt)
  2. CABBAGE_MEDAL (2021-08-20). "How to Necroa Lava God". Steam Guides Retrieved on May 19, 2024. Quote: “Begin, moving twoards (sic) evolving Engorged Quadriceps by gettng Structured Travel, Dyskinetic Movement and Echopraxia respectively. The more zombies are moving the faster transmission takes place. This comes at the risk of depleting zombies in any given country however, so caution must be taken when moving zombies. At first 30-ish zombies is enough to move if initial zombification is slow, but this must go up to about 2 to 3 hundred to prevent depletion.”