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Heat Resistance 1
Pathogen evolves to withstand hot temperatures and climates
Heat Resistance 2
Pathogen avoids cellular breakdown in high temperatures. Increased effectiveness in hot climates
Heat Tolerance
Each lair built in a hot country will help the Shadow Plague increase its effectiveness in hot countries
Historic Reassortment
Gives ability to access the genetic sequence expressed in the 1918 flu. Highly lethal strain.
Horde Instinct
Active ability lets Zombies form hordes to travel across land and water and attack new lands
Horde Mentality
Zombies more likely to follow others. Zombie horde size increases into the thousands
Horde Pheromones
Horde leaders produce pheromones to attract zombies to them. Zombie hordes can be millions strong
Horde Vocalisation
Horde leaders attract nearby zombies with distinctive moans. Hordes can have hundreds of thousands of zombies
Horseback Riding
Apes able to train and ride horses, significantly increasing movement speed over land
Human Cross-infection
Radical folds of amino acid allow prion to be transmitted between humans. Unlocks new symptoms.
Ice Resistance
Pathogen able to survive and spread in crystalline sea water when ice melts. Increases infectivity by sea, and is harder to cure
Kill Switch Stasis
Partial hack of Kill Switch source code significantly reduces future Cure Broadcast effectiveness.
Lair
Vampire creates a hiding place where it can heal. DNA Points gained from infected population.
Lair Healing 1
Increases the speed at which vampires can heal when in their lair
Lair Healing 2
Increases the speed at which vampires can heal when in their lair
Liquefactive Necrosis
Reanimated zombies have partially liquefied internal organs which rupture easily. Reanimated zombies get combat advantage
Liquefactive Resistance
Virus denatures hydrolytic enzymes, slowing liquefactive necrosis and decomposition of the corpse
Logistics
Understanding of logistics lets large groups of apes travel rapidly and efficiently over large distances
Neural Atrophy
Neural Atrophy is an exclusive ability of the standard plague, Prion. It causes neural breakdown, making complex tasks harder, which results in decreasing future research speed.
Night Wraith
Vampire adapts to the modern world and is able to feed much more stealthily as well as concealing their presence. Makes it harder for humans to detect vampire.
Organised Travel
Apes able to plan and co-ordinate travel together - allowing movement of ape groups over long distances
Plant Dissemination
Adjustments to protein folding give Prion the ability to infect new plant life. Unlocks new transmissions.
Pneumonic plague
Gain ability to infect respiratory system and develop pneumonic form of plague. Airborne and virulent.
Present Parachute
Gift planes are use parachutes to deliver presents to people from a great height. More presents can be delivered at once