Necroa Virus

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The Necroa Virus, is a Special Plague added on March 3, 2013, in the Mutation 1.5 update for Plague Inc. It can be purchased for $1.99 USD in Plague Inc., while it is available from start in Plague Inc: Evolved.

The Necroa Virus is a special plague type that has aggressive metabolic demands, and "extreme regenerative capabilities." Notably, it has the ability to create mindless, hostile zombies from deceased hosts.

The plague can be unlocked by purchasing it for $1.99 USD, by beating the Neurax Worm on Brutal or higher in Plague Inc., or by beating the Prion disease on Normal or higher in Plague Inc: Evolved.

Game overview

The Necroa Virus itself is very easy to cure in general due to lacking certain countermeasures and with its relatively lower cure requirement. This is countered by Cytopathic Reanimation, which causes any dead infected person thereafter to have the chance to reanimate as a zombie. Zombies cannot be cured, but are able to continue the fight directly by killing the remaining population, possibly converting them into even more zombies. This symptom leads to various abilities and symptoms that will increase the effectiveness, or severity of the zombies, improving the odds of victory even with cure completion. It is useful to evolve this at before 85%, as more time means more zombies avaliable.

Z Com will initially establish a base will be installed in a random country. As time elapses, Z Com bases become stronger and will even expand their influence with more bases around the globe, leaving them a prominent and constant threat.

Zombies in a destroyed country starve and die quickly, so Zombie Horde should be used to move them. This is indicated by a zombie bubble. To ensure they can take on a base and overwhelm it without losing too much DNA, it is advisable to at least have a sizable amount of zombie strength symptoms and every possible horde size upgrade at this point. Once Z Com is eliminated, and all humans are either killed or turned into zombies, the game ends and the player wins.

There are also hidden in-game origin stories of the Necroa Virus.

If Egypt is infected first, a popup can appear saying that explorers are going deeper into the newly-discovered tombs of Giza (the player must evolve Saliva 1 and Heat Resistance 1 within the first 70 days). The hieroglyphics will warn the explorers of an ancient plague capable of destroying humanity. The mummy excavated will have "strange bite marks." When zombies infect the world, a news headline will pop up saying that the Necroa Virus may have come from the Pyramid of Giza, indicating that the Necroa Virus is much older than Patient Zero.
If the USA is infected first, a popup can appear saying that DarkWater (a private military company) is missing a scientist, meaning that Patient Zero could be this scientist (the player must evolve Saliva 1 and Drug Resistance 1 within the first 70 days). Later on, other popups will say that DarkWater has created the Necroa Virus as a biological weapon, and another one saying that they are planning to make a kind of "zombie pacifier."
If a player infects the UK first, it can say that PfiGlax (a pharmaceutical company) made the Necroa Virus as a means to cure AIDS (the player must evolve Saliva 1 and Segmented Genome within the first 70 days).
Lastly, if the Plague is started in Ukraine, a popup can appear saying that a Chernobyl tourist was attacked by an unknown animal, implying that Patient Zero is the tourist. Later on, theories will begin circulating that the Necroa Virus was created by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The player must evolve Saliva 1 and Zoonotic Shift within the first 70 days in order to trigger this series of events.

Each of the storylines will have three achievements for completing it.

Traits

Music

Track Name	Audio
Adverse Reactions
Z Com Falls

Achievements

Achievement Name:	Necroa Master
Achievement Description:	Beat Necroa Virus disease type on mega-brutal difficulty
Value:	Difficulty:	Mega Brutal

Gallery

The Necroa Virus flag in the main menu
WARNING : Necroa Virus identified (popup)
Z Com fort in Plague Inc: Evolved
Destroyed Z Com fort in Plague Inc: Evolved
An active Z Com fort
A destroyed Z Com fort
Z Com plane in Plague Inc: Evolved
A Z Com plane
The Active Abilities sidebar in Plague Inc: Evolved
Horde Ability
Reanimation Ability
Target Ability (unused icon)
Zombie Magnet Ability (unused)
Zombie Bubble (a new type of bubble that signals a destroyed country and it also gives you DNA Points)
Horde Bonus (from the horde ability, you control where it goes)
A horde targeting a country after using the horde bonus ability (mobile. In Evolved, it manifests as a swath of black fumes.)
Destroyed city (popup)
Z Com fort destroyed or breached (popup)
Z Com (popup)
DarkWater (popup)
Horde (popup)
The Infected bar becomes the Zombies bar, upon evolving to Cytopathic Reanimation
A screenshot of the Necroa Virus in Plague Inc: Evolved^[2]
Description of Necroa Virus game mode on mobile version