Fun story behind that. Back in the day Spiff used regular stock images in his videos, but when youtube started going copywrite crazy all his videos were getting demonotized for the stock photos... To combat this he just bought the rights to the photos, but the viewers felt that the lack of branding on the photos took away from the charm so he created his own branding and stuck that on it. If you watch his older videos they'll have the orginal branding on the stock photos
@@AlwaysBolttheBird No, it was a company properly defending their copyright. He was using other people's copyrighted images without paying for them. He fixed it later on. Good for him, but the original owners of the pictures weren't "abusing" anything.
@@noahwendrich3175 small correction he had paid for the right to use them (stock images) He just choiced to not remove use the version whit out the copyright stripes just because. the next video he uploaded whit out the stripes but people complained becuaes by that time spiffs exploit videos whit the free version stock photos was sort of part of his brand. so he added his own Copyright stripes to the pictures.
3:16 Actually drinking tea prevented thousands of deaths in Medieval England. Cholera, a fatal bacteria spread by drinking dirty water was killed by Englishmen boiling their water to make tea.
@@bigchungus5409 more than a century. The early modern period in England started in 1485. But cholera was a huge problem well into the 19th century (with many major epidemics throughout the century).
the trick to this game even on the hardest difficulty seems to be stay silent but highly infectious until you have a solid foothold in every country like close to 50% or so then roll out the death throws.
not true. Different types of illness (bacteria, virus etc.) requires different strategies. In general it does work, but there are different strategies there.
My record for fastest destruction of humanity is with the virus in 283 days on Mega Brutal and I went all in on the mutation rate (Darwinist...) and invested in two symptoms at the beginning and then just transmissions and abilities. You get more DNA points the higher your severity is.
There are two generally applicable strategies. The one your describing is passive play. It’s more reliable but gets lower scores, and in my opinion is less interesting than the second method: aggressive play. Aggressive play has you abusing the extra red bubble dna from severity to get dramatically higher stats while trying not to get too serious too early before getting at least one infection on each island. It’s harder but a lot more fun IMO! If you haven’t tried an aggressive game then try playing as you normally do but grab coughing, sneezing, and pneumonia (rich, urban, and cold boost for free) then play as normal
Ignore me if you're joking, but that's missing the point and seems u quit the video too early. Only reason why he reduced difficulty was so that he could end the game quicker and get to the exploit which is independent of difficulty.
@@yoboialex As someone that has played plague inc, beating a game on normal is a joke without even genes and using genes really isnt that much of an exploit. (not hating on the video, it was still very entertaining) But when someone whatches a video about exploits, they expect something that will help them beat mega brutal difficulty (which, if you are not familiar with the game, is as the name suggests very hard)
@@ArtisChronicles always keep reservation of DNA to devolve mutations. keep severity as low as possible (while giving you enough DNA to not run out of gas) and don't mass kill until every single country (ESPECIALLY the islands, always get greenland and NZ undetected) has been infected, ideally when nobody left healthy
@@CheesyCore That strategy works for most normal games, but if you ever decide to do brutal or MEGA brutal you will find that you have to kill and infect at the same time. Necrosis is incredibly important because it turns dead bodies into infectivity.
Some advice from a someone who's played Plague Inc. for a long time. I love the first exploit, having been someone who uses it every time a new plague comes out. But, spiff is not right about / doesn't know some of the game's mechanics, to the point where some of that knowledge would allow him to break the game even further. Not that I blame him, since most of this information comes from viewing the disease templates in the scenario editor, which show you what each trait changes, and can show you lots of other stuff like world events, ship routes, airplane routes, etc. 3:44 Investing in Drug Resistance at this point is just, well, unwise. Brazil is a hot country, so he should get Heat Resistance (HR), or at the very least, Insect I (although Insect I & II give less hot effectiveness than HR at a larger price, only making up for it in a bonus to infectivity; Insect I & II give +0.4 hot effectiveness (HE) and 12 infectivity at 29 DNA, whereas HR I & II give +0.9 HE at 33 DNA). Spiff thinks that he needs Drug Resistance because he's not in a poor country, but that just isn't true. Drug Resistance only adds to "Wealthy Country Effectiveness", which the game says "Increases the disease's ability to spread in wealthy countries", meaning it only affects wealthy countries, not countries that are neither wealthy nor poor. 4:42 While it is true that Pneumonia adds cold effectiveness, it only adds 0.05 to it, so don't use it as a substitute for Cold Resistance I, which gives 0.3 cold effectiveness. 5:09 He's forgetting completely about Russia, which sends ships to Greenland, also Sweden doesn't send any ships to Iceland or Greenland. Also, Russia and Norway are the only countries that send ships to Greenland. 7:33 People, including me, tend to think that reshuffles destroy parts of current research. But, from what I can tell, reshuffles only add work to the cure, not get rid of it. No, seriously, if you go into the Scenario Editor and see what a genetic reshuffle does, it will show that has "0.25 change to cure requirement", which means it probably adds 0.25 units of something to the current cure requirement. Genetic Hardening has a "Research Inefficiency Multiplier" of 0.1, which I presume is actually added to the current inefficiency multiplier, so no surprise there. My point is, reshuffles don't actually get rid of cure progress. 12:53 A Spore Burst, for some reason, also adds 10 to airplane, ship, and land transmission. Spore Eruption adds 50 to each. I'll save Spore Hardening for later. 13:05 This is just nitpicking, but it only increases costs by 1 DNA point, so it would be 1, 2, 3, 4, not 1, 2, 4, 6, 8. 13:25 Here is where Spiff could've started really cheesing the system. But first, you have to know something about the red bubbles that not many people know about. The more severity you have, the more DNA you get from these red bubbles. The DNA bonus you get is still random, and I think it has diminishing returns, but most I've been able to get is somewhere around 3-4 points per bubble on average. Usually, with 0 severity, you get 1 DNA point, sometimes maybe 2. He could've spent some points getting Insomnia to boost the DNA bonus from a red bubble, bought a couple spore bursts, then use that extra DNA to get Paranoia, then got the rest of them and raked in a ton of DNA bonuses. 14:29 Actually, Spore Hardening doesn't seem to do what it says it does. It says it releases spores continuously, implying it randomly infects countries with new spores, but it doesn't seem to do that. I even just tested this, I played a game on Fungus, made sure to be so aggressive that New Guinea closed their ports before I infected them, killed most of the world, and just waited with Spore Hardening, and New Guinea never got infected. So, what does it do? Well, it adds 900 to airplane, ship, and land transmission. Yes, that's right, 900, to all of them. This is probably why it seems the disease is infecting random countries, countries which don't border any other infected countries; it's because the land transmission is so high it infects it's borders very quickly. Anyways, I'm gonna stop nitpicking now.
tip: when you start on normal just don't evolve any symptoms but evolve transmission and if you auto evolve a symptom just de evolve it to get dna point so just infect the whole world being undetected because nobody will really get checked up because no symptoms right
Man I just gotta say even before starting the video, I used to love beating the early version game haha. Just infect everyone first and save up a few points to activate multiple symptoms at once. Too easy.
@@ExhibitAredactedEXPUNGED eh, it does. And even with all the stuff, it's cheaper than the evolved version. I bought it because your not forced too, and after paying .99 cents you can get everything else in the game by simply unlocking it. I payed for it because I loved the game and wanted to support the creator, but otherwise I find it good
The power of bri'ish man exploiting the game creators spend hours being exploited the most unusual ways / the game creators after their game they were doing for year or months suddenly getting exploited the most unstanderd and stupidiest way by some britsh guy : 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Hey Spif, you should do the exploit in Civilization 5 where you can steal tech from other civs even if they haven't researched it, like stealing rocketry from a civ in the Renaissance era. Look it up, I think it would be a fun video!
But people do wash their hands. CO stands for Corona, VI stands for Virus, and D stands for disease. CO VI D, a VIRUS, not a bacteria. 19 is for 2019, when COVID-19 started. So, a bacteria would be closer to "COBA-19". However, it still wouldn't look like a virus.
@@EighmyLupin well if you literally shut down your entire country and force people into their rooms etc it's not surprising they have better numbers than everywhere else.
In game spiff is always "profits are more important than life" "child labor is cheaper" "if they die then you don't need to pay them" etc, but when talking about real life things he's always hosting charities and urging people to stay inside and be nice and stuff.
"Now with all of that happy fun stuff out of the way, its time to get into the desolation of the human race." Possibly the best sentence I've heard all quarantine.
That’s what I was going through the comments to see. I’ve played that game off and on for a little over a year now and I sort of hit a wall in my ability vs. game difficulty in terms of unlocking genes.
I love how ridiculous the transition from infecting to killing is in this game. It goes from completely harmless bacteria to complete bodily shutdown and exploding organs or something in like 3 seconds
Most OP combo: Skin lesion and Anemia can get some pretty infectious combo going. That's how I won with all types on the hardest difficulty. Combine that with extreme bio aerosol and you're good to go!
Elijah Wise I usually wait a bit for necrosis (if I end up using it) because it is pretty severe and sometimes ports will shut down early because of that.
Want to hear a Joke, An coronavirus walks into a bar. The Bartender says, "We don't serve infectious diseases here" The virus replies, "Well, you’re not a very good host.’”
I mean we survived....almost like there was only a .02% of dying unless you were ob....i mean "body positive" or over the age of 65....wild wasnt it that we crippled economies and ruined peoples lives financially
Louis Gunstone well they are both correct Spiff found a way to cheekily unlock all genes way faster than you should be able to Mitten Squad failed to win the game without manually mutating So they’re both right
Most teas will turn out bad and bitter if you boil the water. Only a few like black tea require the water to be that hot for it to turn out well. Most teas are made at lower temperatures, so the water would still be subjective to bacterial contamination.
And while that will handle most bacteria, letting it sit and cool again opens up avenues for other airborne strains to recontaminate the water. Standing water is never completely safe. Basic high school microbiology. Granted that is highly unlikely to pose a threat, but that wasn't my intended point.
Brazil itself isn't poor. There's loads of money in the country and loads of resources. It's just that the majority of the population never gets to see any of it.
@@spwol Well, it's mainly a rural economy and political system, where there is more bovine cattle than human cattle in the country and both serve the same masters focusing on exporting wealth to live in their own bubbles while the bankers and media line up to help. Plus, besides the state capitals most cities are quite small compared to their European counterparts. Not that I agree with the game, just pointing out that the country of gado being rural makes sense as far as the modifier goes, higher infectivity based on cattle.
"We've managed to get to Madagascar" *remembers that one flash game where you had to cross all your fingers and toes that you'd start there or you were doomed* Oh thank TEA.
that was PANDEMIC, i believe, the spiritual predecessor to plague inc and a direct inspiration for it. plague inc is kinda just a better, more polished and featured version of it
Now, at least on harder difficulties, you have to start in Greenland in Plague Inc. or you can end up so screwed. Those of us with 100+ hours have cursed the name of Greenland more times than there are people living there 😂
"Staying home"? Ha! I'm essential, peons! I don't stay home! Essential! I can't stay home, my work needs me! And i need a paycheck... essential... my corporate overlords demand that I work in an environment welcoming 15,000 people in its doors over this past weekend... HELP ME.
@@Tsuyoshi_Kanda Hmmm... My job is Skyrim Essential. I get sick. Pass out. Stagger to feet. Get sick. Pass Out. Stagger to feet. Get sick. Pass out... My job is New Vegas Essential. I get sick. Die. Get replaced by a mildly self aware near clone so the Prophecy of the Universe doesn't collapse. Oh dear.
"At the end of the day its a sacrifice you have to make." Knowing the spiffing brit I cannot tell if the sacrifice is the tea for his health, or the health for his tea.
I assume that was aurocorrect? Because "Corvid" is ravens, crows, etc, the disease is COVID-19, no 'r' (which isn't the name of the virus itself apparently, that's 'SARS-COV-2').
PSA: We've all heard about how washing your hands frequently and well can save lives. What many people fail to mention is that it is EQUALLY important that you replace your towels with clean ones often! Most health centers recommend that you wash your bath towels after 3 - 4 days, and your hand towels much more often. Please spread the word.
Another thing. For gloves. Gloves are great. Truly. But they are useless if you dont change them between tasks and wash hands as well. Common sense doesnt exist.
I've always just messed around on this game and just played casual, so no idea if it would work on harder difficulties. But I just start my disease in Greenland or Morocco, depending on which has been more persistent lately lol.
@@joelhadfield5205 Issue with higher difficulties is that weather matters more. Setting your starting nation in extreme environments makes it much harder to survive in the opposite extreme as it has a - modifier. Greenland is cold 2. Equator is hot 2. Everything else is a range. The Base nation sets your base modifier. The genes just add. If you choose greenland your starting resistance is cold:+2 heat:-2 Add genes and your at Cold:+4 heat:0 You wanna try and be +2 all across otherwise you end up with a lopsided infective rate that wastes time and risks a loss.
My good fellow here consistently takes "save scumming" to an artistry level henceforth unseen. Jolly good show and congratulations, you've made a recognisable and enjoyable game out of cheating in games. Impressive.
@@mexa_t6534 Out of all of the deadly pathogens we've aquired from animals, only two of them come from China including nCoV. Europeans gave us the cold, Slavics gave us the flu, and Americans gave everyone stupidity. Most of the pathogens we deal with in life originated from animals, even that last one.
Psilocybe Cubensis the Spanish flu was American, actually. And I’m not talking about the diseases that have come from China, I’m talking about the ones that will come, because there’ll be more. Of course that also means there will be more diseases coming from all over the world too.
I should go back and play more plague inc. I used to prevent it from developing symptoms until the whole world was infected and then immediately went for coma, total organ failure, etc. So this video is bringing back pleasant memories lol
Look, we need to rename the "British Isles" because... reasons. Hows about the WISE Isles: Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England. It has a very nice ring to it, plus we have owls :) Pass it on to queenie next time you see her.
I used to be in the top 3 on the leaderboards for this game for a long while after it came out. None of the top players use genetic hardening or reshuffle, you can kill the entire world well before they research a cure, the general strategy is pick up a few transmissions, then start upgrading your symptoms, prioritising symptoms that are none lethal and increase infection, devolve any traits that are lethal at this point. When about 1/2 to 3/4 of the world is infected, start increasing lethality but don't make it extremely lethal as it still needs to spread, when the entire world is infected you can then devolve all the transmissions to pick up more points for lethal symptoms. This basically works because as soon as they start dying their ability to create a cure diminishes to nothing, so it's better to spend the points on infecting and killing rather than actively trying to prevent a cure.
fun concept for anti piracy measures in this game: -only available pathogen type is pirate -the game starts normally but no matter how hard you try, you can’t infect anyone else or try to kill the host -the game gives notices such as the country picking up on you not paying to play -a cure to your heinous deed starts developing as the world collectively tries and fails to raise 20 dollars for you -you lose after cure efforts fail and the game asks you to buy a legitimate copy
Imagine the scientist saying that it isn't harmful then they check it again and it comes up with total organ failure
“Don’t worry it’s not fatal!”
*5 minutes later*
“So that’s why my heart just stopped beating.”
Scientist : it's not harmfull *kalm*
*20s later*
*Panik*
This happened. But with radiation.
As the scientist I can confirm it was very shocking like so shocking my organs failed
@@CzarYe and carbon monoxide. cannot be easily identified as it is odorless and colorless.
I feel he could put a picture of himself in within the stock photos and no one will ever know
He did
@@connorhughes8291 you get my attention now
He was in a video before, but it was a yogscast one but now i camf find it
Hmmm...
@@sam-9078 He's been in multiple videos with them in person.
"We're going to start our brand new disease right here in China"
Spicy.
I think you should know that the CL4P-TP General Purpose Robot is designed to be completely immune to outrageous bluffing.
Fun fact: China banned this game about.. 2 months ago. Dunno why.
@@eatablekolas7506
Ah, a true intellectual.
De-monetisation time...
All joking aside it's actually one of the better countries to start in the game
the casual difficulty is how it is in real life.
Damm karens bringing our difficulty down
No one uses masks or alchool
@@portuguisianbralizian3293 I have used a lot of alcohol during the pandamic!
@@Igiveashitofaname gud name tho
Do you guys mean drinking alcohol cause drinking wont work
“nice, fun, relaxing, casual game.”
*Annihilates humanity*
*Annihilates humanity in a fun, relaxing, casual way**
*smokes a rolled up liver*
Jack Mudger look at the like count now.
The game is supposed to teach you about pathogens also this isn't and online game so the devs dont care
"Even though Brazil started working on a cure it will still take 144 years to get it".
As a brazillian scientist I find this sadly realistic.
As a brazillian i also agree!!!!
Monk lol anybody who knows Brazil well will agree with it hahah
Brazil probably has a thriving and genius scientific community that will........
What kind of scientist are you?
@@KarmasAB123 I am an Agronomic Engineer currently working with Hops and its edaphology, but I also have friends in the medical research field.
I still like naming my disease "I know what" so the game tells me "I know what has destroyed the world" but never explains itself.
Absoloute genius...
I think my only successful bacteria was named Minecraft.
clever
no one us a better name
or nothing
As a kid, my strategy was to start in Greenland so I wouldn’t have to worry about getting it latter
good luck getting out of greenland
@@shafkatctg Greenland leaves pretty early, the problem is that no one goes there
@@Oh...1tsSeven cold, low infection rate.
Same
And then Madagascar is the problem
This man is not Spiffing Brit.
The Spiffing Brit that we all know and love would never, under any circumstance, give up Yorkshire Tea.
fax
In fact, Yorkshire tea purifys all water and cleanses the body of all ailments. The only side effect is increased charisma.
I think when he said "a sacrifice I'm willing to make" he meant he was willing to get a horrible disease if it meant he could still drink tea
quarantine drives everyone crazy after a certain time.
But what a way to go out!
World: Tries to cure disease
Disease: *So you have chosen death*
Greenland:pathetic
Absolutely loving these epicly creative and original covid jokes, totally creased at every 'noises' and any other generic UA-cam comment memes.
@@sabribeser2268 The North Pole: Amateurs.
@@gram. sussy baka amogus 😳😳😳
UA-cam: Try not to mention the deadly viru-
Spiff: *This is a story all about how...*
I’d like to take a minute.
@@NoxaUwU just sit right there
@@nikkimitchable This the story of a disease that could spread through the air.
@@jackbennett6902 and makes you poo in your underwear.
@@jackbennett6902 from a bat
caught in wuhan
was born and raised
through contact
Is how i go place to place.
Spiff is the only person we would accept an egg from in these trying times
What about Danny Devito?
Tho,He would probably find some way to make us pay for it 100+ times
I don’t get it?
@@danielbattle7620🥚
i just realized he created HIS OWN STOCK PHOTOS with logo, brand name and everything. the dedication of the craft is commendable
They always have that man
Fun story behind that. Back in the day Spiff used regular stock images in his videos, but when youtube started going copywrite crazy all his videos were getting demonotized for the stock photos... To combat this he just bought the rights to the photos, but the viewers felt that the lack of branding on the photos took away from the charm so he created his own branding and stuck that on it. If you watch his older videos they'll have the orginal branding on the stock photos
@@noahwendrich3175 just remember that technically UA-cam didn't do anything. It was another company abusing the copyright system
@@AlwaysBolttheBird No, it was a company properly defending their copyright. He was using other people's copyrighted images without paying for them. He fixed it later on. Good for him, but the original owners of the pictures weren't "abusing" anything.
@@noahwendrich3175 small correction he had paid for the right to use them (stock images)
He just choiced to not remove use the version whit out the copyright stripes just because.
the next video he uploaded whit out the stripes but people complained becuaes by that time spiffs exploit videos whit the free version stock photos was sort of part of his brand.
so he added his own Copyright stripes to the pictures.
Greenland is infected in Plague Inc : *"Yes, finally! We won!"*
_Greenland is infected in real life : _*_"Oh no, we're doomed"_*
Don't forget Madagascar
@@ThePhoneix999 or iceland
@@Azaghal1988 NO
But greenland will start bombing the infected cities so we are fine
Greenland: “I’ve won, but at what cost?”
3:16 Actually drinking tea prevented thousands of deaths in Medieval England. Cholera, a fatal bacteria spread by drinking dirty water was killed by Englishmen boiling their water to make tea.
Tea didn't arrive in Britain until the 17th century. That's Modern, not Medieval.
Sokar Rostau Guess I’m a century behind.
@@bigchungus5409 more than a century. The early modern period in England started in 1485. But cholera was a huge problem well into the 19th century (with many major epidemics throughout the century).
What type of savage let's their water boil when making tea?!
Preposterous.
@@tomasgoes bruh imagine liking tea, that shit tastes as boring as hot water, I'm a ride and die coffee gang for life
the trick to this game even on the hardest difficulty seems to be stay silent but highly infectious until you have a solid foothold in every country like close to 50% or so then roll out the death throws.
not true. Different types of illness (bacteria, virus etc.) requires different strategies. In general it does work, but there are different strategies there.
100% for me lol
My record for fastest destruction of humanity is with the virus in 283 days on Mega Brutal and I went all in on the mutation rate (Darwinist...) and invested in two symptoms at the beginning and then just transmissions and abilities. You get more DNA points the higher your severity is.
There are two generally applicable strategies. The one your describing is passive play. It’s more reliable but gets lower scores, and in my opinion is less interesting than the second method: aggressive play. Aggressive play has you abusing the extra red bubble dna from severity to get dramatically higher stats while trying not to get too serious too early before getting at least one infection on each island. It’s harder but a lot more fun IMO! If you haven’t tried an aggressive game then try playing as you normally do but grab coughing, sneezing, and pneumonia (rich, urban, and cold boost for free) then play as normal
you cant do this strategy on mega brutal, your disease will always get detected when your starting country is almost fully infected
"the end of humani-tea as we know it"
lol
U smart guy
That’s comedy
@@bizi-e3v sure is
Me: How do i beat the game?
Spiff: Turn down difficulity.
Ignore me if you're joking, but that's missing the point and seems u quit the video too early. Only reason why he reduced difficulty was so that he could end the game quicker and get to the exploit which is independent of difficulty.
@@theamici I really wanna r/woooosh rn
@@yoboialex nah, he realized it could be a joke but gave advice just in case.
@@DracoVictorious I know that's why I said I wanted to but I didn't because he admitted that it could have been a joke
@@yoboialex As someone that has played plague inc, beating a game on normal is a joke without even genes and using genes really isnt that much of an exploit. (not hating on the video, it was still very entertaining) But when someone whatches a video about exploits, they expect something that will help them beat mega brutal difficulty (which, if you are not familiar with the game, is as the name suggests very hard)
Prion: *Causes cough*
Infected: Hrm I don't think I'm sick
Prion: *Kills*
How to Win Plague: Never be found in the first place.
Well until you get total organ failure...
That's how I lost. People died to fast and the disease stopped being spread.
nano bots wanna have a say about that
@@ArtisChronicles always keep reservation of DNA to devolve mutations. keep severity as low as possible (while giving you enough DNA to not run out of gas) and don't mass kill until every single country (ESPECIALLY the islands, always get greenland and NZ undetected) has been infected, ideally when nobody left healthy
@@CheesyCore That strategy works for most normal games, but if you ever decide to do brutal or MEGA brutal you will find that you have to kill and infect at the same time. Necrosis is incredibly important because it turns dead bodies into infectivity.
Some advice from a someone who's played Plague Inc. for a long time. I love the first exploit, having been someone who uses it every time a new plague comes out. But, spiff is not right about / doesn't know some of the game's mechanics, to the point where some of that knowledge would allow him to break the game even further. Not that I blame him, since most of this information comes from viewing the disease templates in the scenario editor, which show you what each trait changes, and can show you lots of other stuff like world events, ship routes, airplane routes, etc.
3:44 Investing in Drug Resistance at this point is just, well, unwise. Brazil is a hot country, so he should get Heat Resistance (HR), or at the very least, Insect I (although Insect I & II give less hot effectiveness than HR at a larger price, only making up for it in a bonus to infectivity; Insect I & II give +0.4 hot effectiveness (HE) and 12 infectivity at 29 DNA, whereas HR I & II give +0.9 HE at 33 DNA). Spiff thinks that he needs Drug Resistance because he's not in a poor country, but that just isn't true. Drug Resistance only adds to "Wealthy Country Effectiveness", which the game says "Increases the disease's ability to spread in wealthy countries", meaning it only affects wealthy countries, not countries that are neither wealthy nor poor.
4:42 While it is true that Pneumonia adds cold effectiveness, it only adds 0.05 to it, so don't use it as a substitute for Cold Resistance I, which gives 0.3 cold effectiveness.
5:09 He's forgetting completely about Russia, which sends ships to Greenland, also Sweden doesn't send any ships to Iceland or Greenland. Also, Russia and Norway are the only countries that send ships to Greenland.
7:33 People, including me, tend to think that reshuffles destroy parts of current research. But, from what I can tell, reshuffles only add work to the cure, not get rid of it. No, seriously, if you go into the Scenario Editor and see what a genetic reshuffle does, it will show that has "0.25 change to cure requirement", which means it probably adds 0.25 units of something to the current cure requirement. Genetic Hardening has a "Research Inefficiency Multiplier" of 0.1, which I presume is actually added to the current inefficiency multiplier, so no surprise there. My point is, reshuffles don't actually get rid of cure progress.
12:53 A Spore Burst, for some reason, also adds 10 to airplane, ship, and land transmission. Spore Eruption adds 50 to each. I'll save Spore Hardening for later.
13:05 This is just nitpicking, but it only increases costs by 1 DNA point, so it would be 1, 2, 3, 4, not 1, 2, 4, 6, 8.
13:25 Here is where Spiff could've started really cheesing the system. But first, you have to know something about the red bubbles that not many people know about. The more severity you have, the more DNA you get from these red bubbles. The DNA bonus you get is still random, and I think it has diminishing returns, but most I've been able to get is somewhere around 3-4 points per bubble on average. Usually, with 0 severity, you get 1 DNA point, sometimes maybe 2. He could've spent some points getting Insomnia to boost the DNA bonus from a red bubble, bought a couple spore bursts, then use that extra DNA to get Paranoia, then got the rest of them and raked in a ton of DNA bonuses.
14:29 Actually, Spore Hardening doesn't seem to do what it says it does. It says it releases spores continuously, implying it randomly infects countries with new spores, but it doesn't seem to do that. I even just tested this, I played a game on Fungus, made sure to be so aggressive that New Guinea closed their ports before I infected them, killed most of the world, and just waited with Spore Hardening, and New Guinea never got infected. So, what does it do? Well, it adds 900 to airplane, ship, and land transmission. Yes, that's right, 900, to all of them. This is probably why it seems the disease is infecting random countries, countries which don't border any other infected countries; it's because the land transmission is so high it infects it's borders very quickly.
Anyways, I'm gonna stop nitpicking now.
Buy yourself an hamster
Touch some grass
That's a lot of useful information, thanks for commenting.
Want some carpal tunnel syntome cream?
Thanks! I always wondered why spore hardening never seemed to work, so I guess now I know.
Actually if a disease were to be transmitted by water, tea would be one of the safest things to drink!
very true
Boi.....
That's why historically we always drank ale
I was looking for this comment. Water transmited diseases are pretty common, pretty much the reason why you shouldn't drink unfiltered river water.
Simon WoodburyForget id have thought the bacteria would have died when the water was boiled
"I strongly recommend coughing because it is very good along with pneumonia"
*Sweats nervously while reading Corona virus symptoms
Ohhh jeez. Cv19 just got the sweating symptom... Your infected!!!
uhm, somebody just evolved breaking the brain barrier...
>Plague Inc gains more attention during a pandemic
Coincidence? I think not
Somehow I've managed to find you in almost every video I watched :/
impressive
You are one of the comment gods of UA-cam
@@midievalcat7770 you're not wrong :l
Why do I see you on every plague inc video on UA-cam
Game company engineered a virus to boost game sales.
tip: when you start on normal just don't evolve any symptoms but evolve transmission and if you auto evolve a symptom just de evolve it to get dna point so just infect the whole world being undetected because nobody will really get checked up because no symptoms right
When you play it this way, you risk losing through cure on higher difficulties
This strategy also doesnt work very well with the diseases that cost dna points to devolve rather than refund.
"The UK includes all of Ireland". Incorrect my good man, the simple fact is that Ireland now includes all of the UK.
I like this idea
Nice another fellow NRA
@@connoreng6237 I think you want an I where that n is
The game incorporated Paraguay and Uruguay as a piece of Brazil !!!
Germany also includes Austria and the Netherlands...sounds oddly familiar...
"Ireland is part of the UK"
Controversial comments incoming
"Sweden, Norway or DENMARK"
*Angry german ranting*
None of the United Kingdom are United, and we're not looking so Great in Britain these days either
@ so Denmark is a fake country now buddy?
@@slimretro2659 A vast conspiracy of cartographers.
@@rasmuskppler2859 It also counts Belgium as France for some reason
Also why tf things like middle east and central europe are freakin countries? 😂
No one does dare to play this game
Spiff: only caring about the controversial topic of Ireland and the UK
actually... i've played the game more recently. even played the corona campaign in order to wipe out humanity. it was...awesome :)
DemonicWolf Northern Ireland is the Republic of Ireland isn’t
I actually have a lot of videos regarding this game.
@@callumwright7459 worry not, 26+6 still equals 1
@@2Fat2Furi0us shameless plug
Man I just gotta say even before starting the video, I used to love beating the early version game haha. Just infect everyone first and save up a few points to activate multiple symptoms at once. Too easy.
They changed it now. Even on casual you get detected after reaching critical mass. Even with zero severity. Which, I find much more interesting.
Thank God they made it harder
@@Caseyy04 it is a lot more fun. Sadly the free version does not allow all scenarios and mega brutal. Which is rather unfortunate.
@@ExhibitAredactedEXPUNGED eh, it does. And even with all the stuff, it's cheaper than the evolved version.
I bought it because your not forced too, and after paying .99 cents you can get everything else in the game by simply unlocking it. I payed for it because I loved the game and wanted to support the creator, but otherwise I find it good
@@Caseyy04 it does not, you just stated you paid for it. :/
Gen options should include "charisma", representing the number of people willing to infect themselves even when told to quarentine.
So like the rioters in America?
@@rickymcgowen6776 'so like the idiots in America?' You mean? Not just protesters outside.
@@theteutonking3306 When you start burning shit down, you at that point, cece to be a protester.
@@rickymcgowen6776 and not everyone is doing that
@@theteutonking3306 But the news is calling the ones that are burning shit down, Protesters. They're not. They are rioters.
You know you are a pro exploiter when you watch the spiffing brit and know exactly what he is gonna do.
Shame it doesn't work on Mobile. Ahh well.
The power of bri'ish man exploiting the game creators spend hours being exploited the most unusual ways / the game creators after their game they were doing for year or months suddenly getting exploited the most unstanderd and stupidiest way by some britsh guy : 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@RL_Happy sure man
Hey Spif, you should do the exploit in Civilization 5 where you can steal tech from other civs even if they haven't researched it, like stealing rocketry from a civ in the Renaissance era. Look it up, I think it would be a fun video!
"Nobody washed their hands"
"Sick people given hugs"
Why didn't you just name it Covid???
Copyright
@Cue ball covid-19 gone.
YAY
pax-12 is killing people.
AWW
Ultimate Destroyer a virus name can’t be copyrighted you would just get demonized
@@mr_breadloaf3012 wouldn't the creator of Corona virus use him?
But people do wash their hands. CO stands for Corona, VI stands for Virus, and D stands for disease. CO VI D, a VIRUS, not a bacteria. 19 is for 2019, when COVID-19 started.
So, a bacteria would be closer to "COBA-19". However, it still wouldn't look like a virus.
"First death in Argentina"
Shows Angola
Illusion 100
Everywhere that begins with "A" where something bad happens is Argentina by default.
@@GenericInternetter Argentinian here, can confirm.
@@GenericInternetterAmérica*
@@maximodubs4189 oof, that hit me right in the bald eagle.
"We're going to start our brand new disease right here in China" - Spiff
O.O
@conan263 Wait you don't believe they went from millions of infected to none in a matter of days? That sounds super racist of you. /s
@Rtu Barmen The dude was making a joke you troglodyte.
Well, tea IS from China after all!
@@EighmyLupin well if you literally shut down your entire country and force people into their rooms etc it's not surprising they have better numbers than everywhere else.
@@TinPrince well if you kill the people first before they die from the disease then the number will always be zero.
Lets just hope that guy that made Corona doesnt know this Exploit.
Oof
Well he has to kill everyone before he can use this. . .
Which corona
Horsedoover excuse me but, Which? WHEN WAS THERE A SECOND ONE?
Quite sure he was asking whether he was referring to the beer or virus.
In game spiff is always "profits are more important than life" "child labor is cheaper" "if they die then you don't need to pay them" etc, but when talking about real life things he's always hosting charities and urging people to stay inside and be nice and stuff.
Every professional plague inc. Player be like: BRUH HE INVESTED IN SYMPTOMS TOO EARLY
*every noob plague inc player.
It is better to go with symptoms because they give you a lot of infectivity
@@tewu8257 well...it depends
I have top speedruns were I start with symptoms on mega brutal. No sure what you're on about
SAM X23 if your playing easy then sure you can do it, but there’s no way that works on mega brutal
@@TobeyBlomfield Yes, you can. It's actually the best way of doing it. Thanks. Git gud.
Ireland is a part of the UK
**VERY Angry car noises**
*A N G E R Y I R I S H N O I S E S*
*ANGER INTENSIFIES*
@@lordyharim1141 A N G E R Y
@Patrick yes, username checks out, I too am named Patrick.
H A P P Y B R I T I S H N O I S E S
“Laughs in Britannia”
If you randomly hid yourself amongst the stock photos you would tell us, right spiff?
Pretty sure he said he did years ago.
Some of them so have a spiffco water mark soooo...
@Benjamin Finger Imagine what?
@@goofygoober779 He meant to say image, quit being a smartass
@Benjamin Finger Imagine Dragons?
Me, a Portuguese person: *sees Portugal is put as part of Spain* A N G E R Y
Angery para crlh mm
As it should be xd
Spain with Catholic Kings be like
I mean, they added Alaska as part of Canada too...
Irritante pra crl
"Now with all of that happy fun stuff out of the way, its time to get into the desolation of the human race." Possibly the best sentence I've heard all quarantine.
Sadly, this exploit doesn't work on the mobile version.
Unfortunately
Aww man.
Well you saved me the time of trying.
Well, that answers my question. Cheers.
That’s what I was going through the comments to see. I’ve played that game off and on for a little over a year now and I sort of hit a wall in my ability vs. game difficulty in terms of unlocking genes.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
fucking hilarious "we are going to start our new disease in china "
"we have already infected most of the known world and its only a few months in"
* laughs in covid *
@@szymciogaming9712 I think you mean *cough*
Often mistaken
@@liamdegnian2854 who are you, a Karen?
Of course i'm not mistaken
@@liamdegnian2854 have you not heard of covid? are you buried under 83 large rocks?
edit: I understand now, you meant * coughs in covid *
@@szymciogaming9712 🤦♀️
I love how ridiculous the transition from infecting to killing is in this game. It goes from completely harmless bacteria to complete bodily shutdown and exploding organs or something in like 3 seconds
Most OP combo: Skin lesion and Anemia can get some pretty infectious combo going. That's how I won with all types on the hardest difficulty. Combine that with extreme bio aerosol and you're good to go!
IrontMesdent add necrosis and you’re all set
Elijah Wise I usually wait a bit for necrosis (if I end up using it) because it is pretty severe and sometimes ports will shut down early because of that.
SPEAK ENGLISH
(Didnt understand any single word you said)
Rishi Sharma bruh
@@truesquare5564 Non, le roi de France exige que je limite votre compréhension puique vous n'êtes que des barbare qui vivent sur une île mouillée.
"We are going to start our brand new disease in china."
Oh no spiff what have you done???
Spiff is so powerful hes actually controlling the real world!
Can confirm this is true
I like the phrase 'exploits that the developers have no way of addressing'
Spiff: An Exploit that the devs have no way of controlling
God in 2020: :0
God: “whelp, I’ve f**ked this one up”
Remember, God has to actually succeed first. THEN the exploit works.
"more heat resistant than most"
Insert picture of a black man...
Spiff?
I think the image was used because of the pose he's taking like he's literally warm/doing a sexy pose (that sort of heat)
@@Penumant nah that's just his go to "nice" pic
Hey hey people, Sspiff here
@@Penumant It's just a "racist" joke. It's perfectly fine.
@Masturbation Toothbrush local man doesn't understand melanin
Insert overused coronavirus joke here
haha
underused
A man in Africa sneezes, madagascar shuts down EVERYTHING
Lol XD LMFAO
Want to hear a Joke,
An coronavirus walks into a bar.
The Bartender says, "We don't serve infectious diseases here"
The virus replies, "Well, you’re not a very good host.’”
Spiff: It’s a very spiffing thing to do to help those in need
also spiff: time to enslave the world
When the pop-up said “Think what would happen in real life” it hurt...
*Spiff:* Well done for staying indoors that deserves a cup of tea!
*Me:* The almighty one has granted me a gift!
Spiff's advice of the moment: "I strongly recommend coughing"
Oh my god. We're living in the easy mode world option in plague inc.
2 years later. I wonder what difficulty it is.
@@PretzelSageidk maybe brutal or normal
@@bogdan_ostaficiuc idk, I feel like on normal everyone would be dead by now
I mean we survived....almost like there was only a .02% of dying unless you were ob....i mean "body positive" or over the age of 65....wild wasnt it that we crippled economies and ruined peoples lives financially
Mitten squad has been proven incorrect, the game is indeed, "perfectly" balanced
Louis Gunstone well they are both correct
Spiff found a way to cheekily unlock all genes way faster than you should be able to
Mitten Squad failed to win the game without manually mutating
So they’re both right
Tea is made of boiled water, so depending on the disease, tea would be safe.
Most teas will turn out bad and bitter if you boil the water. Only a few like black tea require the water to be that hot for it to turn out well. Most teas are made at lower temperatures, so the water would still be subjective to bacterial contamination.
Prince Dragonix you do realize you can boil the water, let it cool to the temp appropriate for your tea and then brew it? It’s not difficult...
And while that will handle most bacteria, letting it sit and cool again opens up avenues for other airborne strains to recontaminate the water. Standing water is never completely safe. Basic high school microbiology. Granted that is highly unlikely to pose a threat, but that wasn't my intended point.
@@SmackcrackIV But what if the contaminants aren't in the water, but in the tea?
Note to everyone here.
Spores can survive boiling and UV lamps. Auto clave will save you.
"We're not technically in a poor country"
- Spiff on brazil
He is techinically right, but Brazil isn't a rural country like the game says it is
Brazil itself isn't poor. There's loads of money in the country and loads of resources. It's just that the majority of the population never gets to see any of it.
It was the 6th world economy until ~2015 so no, it's not a poor country.
@@spwol
Well, it's mainly a rural economy and political system, where there is more bovine cattle than human cattle in the country and both serve the same masters focusing on exporting wealth to live in their own bubbles while the bankers and media line up to help. Plus, besides the state capitals most cities are quite small compared to their European counterparts. Not that I agree with the game, just pointing out that the country of gado being rural makes sense as far as the modifier goes, higher infectivity based on cattle.
Brazil does have a large economy, but it is very unequally distribuited.
The fact it started to become lethal was in 2021 scares me about the future.
I mean Covid is already lethal so worry not for humanity shall meet its end sooner than expected
@@redretribution1789 and instead of reacting more to the virus over time humanity has kind of gained a level of apathy towards it instead.
oh no
@@PaterKeris or if you're old person young kid have any kind of lung problem ex asma or have problems with any other organs
@@killersparky4044 no young kids are practically immune
A desease transferable by water...
Colera: but of course I know him, he's me
"We've managed to get to Madagascar" *remembers that one flash game where you had to cross all your fingers and toes that you'd start there or you were doomed* Oh thank TEA.
that was PANDEMIC, i believe, the spiritual predecessor to plague inc and a direct inspiration for it. plague inc is kinda just a better, more polished and featured version of it
Now, at least on harder difficulties, you have to start in Greenland in Plague Inc. or you can end up so screwed. Those of us with 100+ hours have cursed the name of Greenland more times than there are people living there 😂
As a Brazilian fan I'm not even mad, just disappointed with how accurate that video actually is.
Acontece.
Sim :(
air planes are legit for spreading
Verdade kkkkkkkk
"We can all get through this easily " made me laugh.
"Norway, Sweden or Denmark"
Plague Inc really out here merging Denmark with Germany huh
also it made a new Austro-Hungarian Empire
yeah and it pisses me of a tiny bit
atleast he didn't merge sweeden and norway.... I don't get to say that often
@@vandread behold, the new Kalmar union!
We need a mod that just renames every location to what they'd be based on the ingame borders.
"Staying home"? Ha! I'm essential, peons! I don't stay home!
Essential! I can't stay home, my work needs me! And i need a paycheck...
essential... my corporate overlords demand that I work in an environment welcoming 15,000 people in its doors over this past weekend...
HELP ME.
Too bad you don't live in Skyrim or the various Wastelands of the post-nuclear world, where 'essential' means you cannot die, period.
@@MCOmegaX123 I liked new vegas and morrowind better for the reason that no one is essential
theres pandemic international laws that you can base your lawsuit on.
@@Tsuyoshi_Kanda Hmmm...
My job is Skyrim Essential. I get sick. Pass out. Stagger to feet. Get sick. Pass Out. Stagger to feet. Get sick. Pass out...
My job is New Vegas Essential. I get sick. Die. Get replaced by a mildly self aware near clone so the Prophecy of the Universe doesn't collapse.
Oh dear.
@@mudcrab3420 Who gets replaced? you can literally kill everyone and the "prophecy" doesnt collapse
We'd be fine with our tea - boiling the water kills any bugs in it.
Omfg, when you singled out greenland, I felt that in my SOUL
The person controlling the coronavirus seeing this exploit: "Write that down! Write that down!”
The bacteria should have been named : "Coffee"
Yes
Very spiffy, but in all actuality, you’re videos are really cool spiff, and you always make me laugh
"So, how do you normally unlock jeans?"
- The Spiffing Brit 2020 2:06
“Write that down! Write that down!”
Me in plauge inc: has infected the world and killed 1 billion people.
Plauge inc: placed on who watchlist.
I love how casual his voice is no matter what game he’s playing
His voice sounds amazing
And with his British accent, it’s multiplied 10 fold
12:02
*slowly opens mouth to allow tea to drip back into the mug*
Ryan Totten you gonna finish that?
"At the end of the day its a sacrifice you have to make." Knowing the spiffing brit I cannot tell if the sacrifice is the tea for his health, or the health for his tea.
* imagine if a disease was transmitted via water*
Cholera be like
“And we can get through all this quickly” yes 10 months later and we really did get through it quickly
We're still in it. Most of the world doesn't have access to the vaccines & the countries that do, there are people who don't want to take it.
Corvid 19 was engineered by Plarium Games to get people to play Raid: Shadow Legends.
I assume that was aurocorrect? Because "Corvid" is ravens, crows, etc, the disease is COVID-19, no 'r' (which isn't the name of the virus itself apparently, that's 'SARS-COV-2').
I think everyone knows it’s auto correct
I actually forgot this was a "Balanced" video, spiff is just that generally entertaining
ive watched six of these in a row. Its the accent for sure
PSA: We've all heard about how washing your hands frequently and well can save lives.
What many people fail to mention is that it is EQUALLY important that you replace your towels with clean ones often!
Most health centers recommend that you wash your bath towels after 3 - 4 days, and your hand towels much more often.
Please spread the word.
Another thing. For gloves. Gloves are great. Truly. But they are useless if you dont change them between tasks and wash hands as well. Common sense doesnt exist.
Who uses the same towel more than once without washing!? Gross.
@@arthurpotter9092 billions of people. Hence the psa
@@cmseff ewwww
"let's pick up 'Necrosis' cause that's lovely" - Spiff
Watching the intro while sipping tea already as I work from home.
Me, with my highly contagious disease: You can't stop me
Greenland: I know, but he can
Madagascar: *poses menacingly*
I don't know why but for me morocco always give problem
Is tHaT a joJo rEferEnCe
I've always just messed around on this game and just played casual, so no idea if it would work on harder difficulties. But I just start my disease in Greenland or Morocco, depending on which has been more persistent lately lol.
Carabiean though really gave me lots of trouble
@@joelhadfield5205 Issue with higher difficulties is that weather matters more. Setting your starting nation in extreme environments makes it much harder to survive in the opposite extreme as it has a - modifier. Greenland is cold 2. Equator is hot 2. Everything else is a range. The Base nation sets your base modifier. The genes just add.
If you choose greenland your starting resistance is
cold:+2
heat:-2
Add genes and your at
Cold:+4
heat:0
You wanna try and be +2 all across otherwise you end up with a lopsided infective rate that wastes time and risks a loss.
I love the subtle animosity towards Argentina from a Brit.
My good fellow here consistently takes "save scumming" to an artistry level henceforth unseen. Jolly good show and congratulations, you've made a recognisable and enjoyable game out of cheating in games. Impressive.
"We're gonna start our brand new disease right here in China."
Uhoh.
You laugh but they’ve reopened wet markets in China. We’re gonna have a ton of these pandemics if they don’t get their shit together
@@mexa_t6534 Out of all of the deadly pathogens we've aquired from animals, only two of them come from China including nCoV. Europeans gave us the cold, Slavics gave us the flu, and Americans gave everyone stupidity. Most of the pathogens we deal with in life originated from animals, even that last one.
Psilocybe Cubensis the Spanish flu was American, actually. And I’m not talking about the diseases that have come from China, I’m talking about the ones that will come, because there’ll be more. Of course that also means there will be more diseases coming from all over the world too.
The guy who’s playing plague inc in the Area 51 computer after watching this video:
*Interesting.*
I should go back and play more plague inc. I used to prevent it from developing symptoms until the whole world was infected and then immediately went for coma, total organ failure, etc. So this video is bringing back pleasant memories lol
“This calls for a celebration, a refreshing cup of Yorkshire Tea, today brought to you by the end of humanity as we know it.”😂
this is the most fun looking game ive ever seen and i want to play it right now
Look, we need to rename the "British Isles" because... reasons.
Hows about the WISE Isles: Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England. It has a very nice ring to it, plus we have owls :)
Pass it on to queenie next time you see her.
Hmm actually that is a good idea
I used to be in the top 3 on the leaderboards for this game for a long while after it came out. None of the top players use genetic hardening or reshuffle, you can kill the entire world well before they research a cure, the general strategy is pick up a few transmissions, then start upgrading your symptoms, prioritising symptoms that are none lethal and increase infection, devolve any traits that are lethal at this point. When about 1/2 to 3/4 of the world is infected, start increasing lethality but don't make it extremely lethal as it still needs to spread, when the entire world is infected you can then devolve all the transmissions to pick up more points for lethal symptoms. This basically works because as soon as they start dying their ability to create a cure diminishes to nothing, so it's better to spend the points on infecting and killing rather than actively trying to prevent a cure.
I love that you brought out a plague video during COVID. That's exactly the British thing to do
And gave no credit to the guy that showcased the fungus glitch. So cool.
@@ExhibitAredactedEXPUNGED he colonised the fungus glitch
Everyone: Close the borders!!!
Sweden: Do you even plague inc lol
*Vi stänger inte våra gränser eftersom att Danskarna stänger sina.*
@@Izzybelled Så snak dog så man kan forstå dig!
@@maggen5 I dont know wtf are you guys saying, all I can say is
vi sitter här i venten och spelar lite Dota
@@rodrijopo All I can say is:
Nu är vi här med Caramelldansen
or
Jag talar lite Svenska, men min Svenska är inte bra
@@Izzybelled Didn't stop the Germans from making extra sure.
Mitten Squad: I genuinely think this game has no exploits.
Spiffing Brit: Challenge Accepted.
fun concept for anti piracy measures in this game:
-only available pathogen type is pirate
-the game starts normally but no matter how hard you try, you can’t infect anyone else or try to kill the host
-the game gives notices such as the country picking up on you not paying to play
-a cure to your heinous deed starts developing as the world collectively tries and fails to raise 20 dollars for you
-you lose after cure efforts fail and the game asks you to buy a legitimate copy
yes.
no, nothing more, just *yes.*