Santa's Little Helper
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"The world is dark and gloomy. Boring governments worldwide have banned holidays, laughter, and celebrations. Humanity has forgotten how to have fun - people dress in gray and spend all their time working. Luckily, the Neurax Worm has teamed up with Santa and is determined to infect the whole world with joy and happiness. Can Santa's little helper make a miracle happen?" — Plague Inc., Santa's Little Helper introduction paragraph. |
Santa's Little Helper is a Christmas-themed scenario that was added in Mutation 1.10.[1]
Scenario
- This scenario was created exclusively for the 2014 holiday season.
- The scenario begins with every country having closed airports, ports and land borders. As the player begins to infect, they should evolve certain transmissions, symptoms, and abilities to make all these outlets open up.
- Severity is replaced with "Happiness", which has similar effects to Severity but will also encourage infected people to spread the infection further and hinder the progress of the cure.
- Once a country is fully infected and if certain symptoms are already active, it becomes "eternally happy" and will open its airports, ports, and borders if it has not already done so. Additionally, they cease contributing to the cure effort.
- The win condition of this scenario requires full infection before cure, similar to a Transcendence victory.
Transmissions
Heat:
Cold:
Arid:
Humid:
General:
Symptoms
Abilities
After Festive Tendrils:
Advantages
- Unlike normal Neurax Worm, in order to make a country 'eternally happy', one doesn't have to evolve an expensive symptom like Transcendence to severely cripple the cure effort and making the humans to submit to happiness. In fact, there is no such symptom on this scenario. Instead, you need only evolve Festive Tendrils and fully infect a country, plus a few symptoms that boosts happiness.
- The Gift Planes also have a stronger effect than the normal Neurax Worm's Trojan Planes, able to infect millions upon arrival in target country.
Disadvantages
- Closed ports and land borders means spreading disease naturally prove to be more challenging, which can be countered using the Digital Elf symptom and the symptoms after it, or the gene Suppression which gets it around land borders.
- The lack of anti-cure traits makes it much harder to slow down the cure progress. Aridity will also be a serious problem if you don't evolve at least the Cracker Cocoon transmission.
Achievements
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Achievement Name: | Complete Santa's Little Helper | ||||
| Achievement Description: | Score 3 biohazards in the Santa's Little Helper scenario | |||||
| Value: | Difficulty: | Any | ||||
Trivia
- The most noticeable difference between this scenario and normal Neurax Worm gameplay is that there are no natural disasters, no lethal symptoms, and no parallel to the Trojan Destroyer, meaning that there are no deaths in this scenario.
- A noticeable trait of the Santa's Little Helper scenario is that if all symptoms are evolved, they form a shape resembling a typical six-point snowflake, another reference to the theme.
- This is the only official scenario where the Neurax Worm has a fixed ending.
- The Lethality meter is kept, though it never increases.
- The hat-wearing Neurax Worm has become somewhat of an icon for the company. Ndemic's Twitter often uses an ornament of it in their pictures, given the name "Neurie".
- The country cam still resembles the one from normal play. When achieving eternal happiness, it resembles that of being close to anarchy.
Gallery
Symptoms
"Neurie".
References
- ↑ "Mutation 1.10 is out now - The Santa's Little Helper Update!" (December 17, 2014). Ndemic Creations Retrieved on August 15, 2021.
