Pandemic 2 - New Online Strategy Game Walk Through - Guide

First off,

You must choose your style of play, and the difficulties you wish to deal with. You can choose between building a virus, bacteria, or parasite. The virus allows you to build up evolution points the fastest, but you must dedicate a good portion of those to increasing your resistances (moisture, cold, heat, drug) otherwise the disease will not spread very well to the entire world. The bacteria has an average rate of evolution point buildups, and is the more even of the three ways to go as it doesn't really have any perks but no major cons either. The parasite is less visible than the bacteria or virus which is definitely a plus, but it also gains evolution points the slowest out of the three.

Alright now that you have chosen your style of disease, you must begin spreading it to the entire world and infecting everyone you possibly can.

First things first, where ever you start off (this is random) you cannot just start making your disease lethal and contagious and expect it to spread. You must FIRST start by increasing the resistances to drug/cold/heat/moisture up to level two. At this point any of the three styles should be able to survive everywhere. Next, you must add to the methods of transmission at your disposal (rodents, insects, waterborne, and airborne). Preferably, go for waterborne and airborne as your first priorities that way it will travel through the airports and seaports. This is your most effective method of traveling around the world.

Once your transmissions and resistances are up to par, you must begin adding to your symptoms. You MUST keep your visibility low, otherwise it will eventually alert the government where you've started out to it. You need this to happen as late as possible therefore it can spread as much as possible first, before the world begins creating a vaccine for your disease. So for starters, ALWAYS pick fever, its not very noticeable and combined with other symptoms can be deadly (for later on). By the way, if you start on sneeze or cough, sell that symptom as soon as you can. You don't want something like that increasing your visibility, it isn't worth the contagious factor. Begin using your evolution points to continue increasing your lethality and always keep the visibility on the down low as much as possible. Use the descriptions of each symptom to decide whether they are worth it or not. If they practically say in the symptom description that they are blatantly obvious and stand out in crowds, DO NOT get them. By the fourth tier of symptoms, it doesn't really matter what you pick, they are all extremely deadly and quite interesting, but I found necrosis the most interesting personally. :)

At this point, You are well on your way to successfully killing everyone on earth! Congrats!

P.S. - It might take a few tries with each of the styles to find which one you like most, but this general procedure will bring you extremely close, if not winning every time you play the game (on realistic mode).

Pandemic 2 Strategy Game Walk through/guide by: Ryan Messick

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