
You can easily destroy humanity before they find a cure without it, but you will have to manage your strategy on the fly. From our experience though, it’s a largely unnecessary trait in normal.
Symbiosis 1 and 2 can help you go completely undetected, while giving you a small bonus to the infection spread rate. Starting in a hot, poor country will spread it around fastest, but you’ll struggle to penetrate the likes of Greenland later in the game. Spreading the infection is challenging and expensive. We’re going to riff off a few tips that we picked up while strategizing for this type of plague. If you prefer to develop your own strategy rather than follow one, or you simply want further information on what we posted above, this is the section for you.
As the world dies off, spend any excess points on Hemorrhagic Shock, Necrosis, Dysentery, Internal Hemorrhaging, and Systemic Infection in that order of priority. Get Total Organ Failure by following any of the Symptoms traits to the middle. The world is likely to detect the disease before it’s entirely infected Wait until the entire world is infected and pop all of the bubbles in the meantime. Get Symbiosis 1, 2, and 3 – expensive but will help it to spread faster and go undetected. Get Heat Resistance 1 and 2 and Drug Resistance 1 and 2. Start in a central cold country, like Finland. It’s not quite as foolproof, and there is a margin for error, but we’ve managed to beat it following this strategy with relative ease. If going the safe route doesn’t interest you, then we do have a faster alternative strategy to provide instead. If you’re looking for something faster, look below. That is the absolute safest and most foolproof method of beating Parasite on normal difficulty, but it isn’t the only method. Spend the rest of your DNA points on all tiers of Genetic Hardening and Genetic Reshuffle to slow down the cure We prefer going the Insomnia route as it has the biggest impact on productivity, slowing down the cure Get Total Organ Failure by following a Symptoms tree to the middle. When the world is 100% infected, devolve everything except Drug Resistance 1. Pop all bubbles and devolve all mutations immediately while you wait. Wait until the entire world is infected – this can take some time so you’ll have to be patient. Get Cold Resistance 1 and 2 and Drug Resistance 1 and 2. Start in a central country – preferably a cold one but it doesn’t really matter.
That means that your infectivity stays lower than usual until you’ve achieved this. We found during our play throughs that the Parasite type is pretty easy to beat on normal, but is a lot slower than the other types and that’s largely down to its starting Severity, which you have to reduce as first order of business. So you want to beat Parasite on normal but are struggling with its unique characteristics? Well, we can help you with that.