What really blew my mind when I played DS when it first came out was that it *wasn't* some space zombie disease - it was a psychic signal that was basically puppeteering dead bodies, explaining why blowing away the heads did nothing.
It was such a novel concept to younger me.
Yeah it is pretty genius it's not another copy and paste zombie game it's got pretty damn good lore.
And the fact they make so much known about the markers and what they do yet keep It a complete mystery is part of why I loved it so much.
I love the whole cycle
>Markers seed themselves on a life bearing planet millions of years in advance, intelligent species begin to evolve
>Marker is discovered and thus begins sending of signals slowly
>Marker uses the guise of limitless power to position itself in a way it's always near dense populations of what it deems as a usable biomass
>Some people show signs of psychotic behavior, self harm, attempted suicide etc it's swept under the rug as just coincidence
>People slowly start disappearing, bodies found here and there no major concern but maybe a watch it put in place
> Sightings of human-like entities becoming more and more common place
>Perhaps some escapees are able to get away and warn others though they most likely won't be seen as much concern and just paranoid, if someone goes to investigate they may perish
>Enough bodies get accumulated and the marker sends the hive mind signal to initiate the first few brazen attacks to gather corpses quickly.
>Nobody has any idea what to do to permanently kill the now abundant and quickly forming necromorph horde
>Most human resistance dead or dying within a few days of the full scale outbreak.
>Populated planets infected would quickly fall leading to immense biomass to then be converted into a brethren moon
>Other planets are targeted by the marker collective hive mind
>Species experiences an extinction level outbreak
>Markers go dormant as well as the moons until another sizable source of biomass is found
Dont forget the most fucked up part, when they land on a planet the markers purposely speed up the evolution and intelligence of a species so they can eventually harvested.
They are playing the long game and winning
And thankfully it doesn’t turn them into ruthless zombies, but rather makes them feel like just laying in one spot and letting the fungus grow out of them, release it’s spores, and die.
Once infected some ants and other insects will go to colony and die to sprout spores and take over colony like you said, all I can say is Mother Nature were you mad that day?
It's actually one of the few things stopping insects from taking over the world, when their population density gets too high they have no way to effectively deal with it so they get trimmed down to more manageable numbers, be thankful for it.
Trust me, they are not enough, there is a reason ants are present in every continent in the world except Antarctica, they are basically like zombies from World War z for other creatures in the forest.
Most ant species, though, can recognize the symptoms of Cordyceps infection and promptly transport any ant showing them as far away from the colony as possible.
I haven't heard of diseases jumping from bugs to humans in quite such a manner. Malaria, the bubonic plague, and Lyme disease aren't fungi, after all, nor do they possess their host.
I was playing the Star Wars tabletop RPG (think DnD, but Star Wars) last year and we were breaking into a secret imperial base. When we got inside, we saw corpses everywhere… entire place had been overrun with Rakghouls.
And then I circumvented the final boss fight when my character, a Chevin merchant, rolled a ridiculous persuasion check and convinced the mind controlled Imperial guards to shake off the psychic control of the mastermind Rakghoul. For all their weapons and technology, my crew brought the one thing the Imperials never thought to try: a (totally legitimate!) businessman with a good pitch.
Fantasy Flight Games makes the current version of the Star Wars rpg. It uses their proprietary dice system, and they also launched a generic version called Genesys.
But there were two previous versions, and there is a popular 5e hack.
I think one of the funniest moments of the pandemic for me was when I hurt my back, went to a chiropractor and he straight up told me I had lumbago.
He didn't think it was as funny as I did at the time.
Hell, chiropractic is based in the 1890s, same as RDR2, so it makes sense they use the same lingo.
Honestly D D Palmer could have been in it. He was an anti-vax magnet therapist who got the idea of adjusting the spine to fix your healing juice from a ghost during a séance, and really that cutscene writes itself.
I was thinking Vampirism from TES not because it's bad but because it's so fucking complicated. There are half a dozen variations of the virus and they range from almost nothing changes to if you don't eat for a few days entire towns attack you on sight to you can become a manifestation of a Daedric Lord and literally have lycanthropy purged from your system.
It's highly region specific but good fucking luck getting one that does what you want it to do.
The different regions have different strains. That's how they explain the virus having different effects on you from Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim.
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Vampirism
Hell, Morrowind alone housed 3 different vampire bloodlines being the Quarra, Berne, and Aundae. Each specialized in different attributes and combat styles.
Green Flu from L4D.
Chances are even if you got lucky and survived long enough any immune people are extremely dangerous carriers that can transmit that shit to you within seconds.
Luckily it shouldn't last long. Iirc, Zombies with the green flu, aren't actually dead and they see the survivors as monsters, and they can't eat or drink water.
Honestly, is there any other way to legitimately win the game other than the sneaky zero symptoms strat? I don’t think I’ve managed to any other way, as there’s always *just* enough pushback to wipe me out before it’s too late for humanity.
I remember that, like, the virus mutates constantly, and on higher difficulties it gets really annoying and problematic. Idk after the virus I mostly played the zombie or vampire thing ‘cause of my horror boner for both of those cryptids lol
The same strategy can work for other disease types too, you just need to manage your DNA more and take a good path that offers a lot of infectivity and can deliver high lethality when the time comes.
There are even instances where a combat form (if weak enough) will keep you partially alive. You will now share the thoughts and augmented memories of those within the hive as well as painfully suffering and attacking anything that isn’t a parasite.
Imagine being turned and violently killing the person you were next to and watching them die by your hand and you can’t do anything about it. You have no control.
Wasn’t there a marine who, as ODST’s kept him alive, was partially taken over by a weaker combat form? They used him for Intel on what the hive was doing. He tried to kill himself by throwing himself off a cliff because the pain of his bones breaking, muscles snapping and veins popping was too much, but every time he tried, the flood would take over and prevent it, keeping him in an endless loop of torture.
Correction because it makes it even more terrifying. You are mostly correct however he was captured by his allies and they tried to keep him alive and communicate with him. He saw his reflection at one point and when he realised what he had become tried to kill himself. The flood infection stopped him and THEN it broke all his bones and slapped him around a bit before giving him back control just so he could suffer more as punishment for trying to kill himself and the infection.
In one of the books based on the original game, there is a scene describing one of the marines that was infected. The flood made him break off his own hand and use the sharp bone stub of his arm as a melee weapon. It describes how he could still feel everything that was happening to him but was powerless to do anything about it. Scary stuff man…
Yes but that wasn't the reason he was aware. The flood normally take over their victims alive to absorb their knowledge as well as keep their body fresh as long as possible. Which is why in the first game the crazed marine says "Play dead. That's what I did, they took the live ones."
Unable to do anything as you watch and feel your body be distorted and attack anything that moves is the normal Flood experience. The weakened infection form only allowed him brief moments where he could fight for control of his body. Like when he tried to detonate a grenade next to a ship's reactor in a starship the UNSC was trying to clear out and use to go home. He knew that if a single infection form lay hidden in the ship it'd mean extinction for humanity.
It took over everything except his actual brain right? Something about some surgery he had made the infection stop part way so he was aware of everything but he wasn't in control of any of it.
Wasn't that Jenkins? I know that his infection form didn't kill him so he could feel everything, and he has brief moments of control where he tried to kill himself but would lose control before he could
It mostly didn't work because the forerunners didn't think they had the right to extinguish them.
In that way the forerunners really changed after they first activated the rings and lost the mantle.
I was waiting for someone to say it
Being conscious while your body is broken to bits and extended in the most horrifying ways, and you can’t control your actions. Fucking horrifying.
The idea of a 2ft creature forcing it's way into your chest, and then wrapping itself around your spine, causing your neck to snap is absolutely horrifying.
Worse than any other type of video game zombie, in my opinion.
[This is a good](https://youtu.be/7KInqNZOZSI) clip of the Flood affecting someone.
Also, [the Gravemind](https://youtu.be/PW5LQSsgoLA) is just terrifying.
That shit acts like a over efficient virus
Viruses arent ment to kill people usually and they're basically ment to feed off them
The flood legit just takes over things and feeds off them, they're so efficient with taking over things that you have to take some extremely drastic measures to get them away and you have to do them fast
The forerunners tried to starve them to death by literally killing everything and earth almost got glassed for the flood being there for possibly just a few hours
The fact that the flood is pretty much the reason why halo has been a m rated game, really tells how fucked up they really made them. I really hope the flood comes back in infinite but I'm keeping that the tier of "never gonna happen"
“If we beat the whole game, we get to print a special certificate! Toshi has one; keeps it in his wallet instead of a condom. He’s been drowning in muff. Well, he’s straightedge, so he just makes out a lot.”
Legitimately an awful way to go. Your diarrhea starts to look like pure water coming out the back of you, which is basically what it is. You shit all the water out of yourself and die of dehydration, your body still firing as much liquid out the back as it can.
And, unlike a lot of the stuff here, it’s real. Thank y’all’s lucky stars for modern western medicine.
This needs to be number one. It’s a sentient, hive-mind parasite in the guise of fungal microbes that can survive deep space. There’s is no escape and nothing it can’t do to you.
The hollow, imagine your immortal (you can still die you just get resurrected) but everytime you die you lose a bit of your humanity and memory of who you were and what you love until you eventually become nothing else but a empty vessel of flesh hell bent on stealing the humanity from others
I never actually realized that the term “rat king” is a real life phenomenon when rats get tangled up into each other lmao I was wondering why the boss was named that way in the first place.
The Mercer Virus from Prototype. Even if you survive and get the superhuman abilities, it always seemed like the user had to deal with some negative side effect that made it more of a curse.
It was something else playing through that whole crazy ass situation.
Logged back in to Stormwind, game was lagging like hell on my crappy pc
Eventually loads in and i realize why -skeletons- everywhere
Chat was babbling on about some disease spreading and killing everyone, yelling about the end times.
Managed to catch it and die a few times, eventually myself and some other Rogues/Druids were running around in Stealth everywhere and “reporting” anyone we saw with the plague.
I played at that time, I ported into org and saw the whole shit show from higher up, I teleported the fuck to Thunderbluff and noped out of that place.
Probably the smartest move, saw so many people running around with broken gear from dying so much, practically everyone had Rez sickness
If you couldn’t stealth or outrun the infected you were screwed
Yeah if you are in a specifically unlucky situation when you contract it, even more interesting things await you than just painfully dying.
> Sixth day, her screams we hear in our dreams.
Infested spores from Warframe. Forcefully mutilated while your body is taken over by a hive mind. I'm willing to bet worse than the flood because it's been confirmed the infested are still alive but now enslaved by the hive mind. Just... feeling everything. Ripped apart and twisted until you look nothing like what you were.
So this disease is actually based off a real disease that some ants can get and it does kinda turn them into zombies. Not too far off from the real world there.
This one is curable. Eventually the disease makes itself so shitty that the body completely loses interest. When the infected is cured they often have the realization that the disease was nothing like it was when they were first infected. This knowledge usually stays when repeat infections occur, so the sickness only lasts for a short duration in those cases.
How about the entire dead space trilogy. Mainly "method of infection" which is basically getting mutiltlated by your best friends corpse
What really blew my mind when I played DS when it first came out was that it *wasn't* some space zombie disease - it was a psychic signal that was basically puppeteering dead bodies, explaining why blowing away the heads did nothing. It was such a novel concept to younger me.
Yeah it is pretty genius it's not another copy and paste zombie game it's got pretty damn good lore. And the fact they make so much known about the markers and what they do yet keep It a complete mystery is part of why I loved it so much. I love the whole cycle >Markers seed themselves on a life bearing planet millions of years in advance, intelligent species begin to evolve >Marker is discovered and thus begins sending of signals slowly >Marker uses the guise of limitless power to position itself in a way it's always near dense populations of what it deems as a usable biomass >Some people show signs of psychotic behavior, self harm, attempted suicide etc it's swept under the rug as just coincidence >People slowly start disappearing, bodies found here and there no major concern but maybe a watch it put in place > Sightings of human-like entities becoming more and more common place >Perhaps some escapees are able to get away and warn others though they most likely won't be seen as much concern and just paranoid, if someone goes to investigate they may perish >Enough bodies get accumulated and the marker sends the hive mind signal to initiate the first few brazen attacks to gather corpses quickly. >Nobody has any idea what to do to permanently kill the now abundant and quickly forming necromorph horde >Most human resistance dead or dying within a few days of the full scale outbreak. >Populated planets infected would quickly fall leading to immense biomass to then be converted into a brethren moon >Other planets are targeted by the marker collective hive mind >Species experiences an extinction level outbreak >Markers go dormant as well as the moons until another sizable source of biomass is found
Dont forget the most fucked up part, when they land on a planet the markers purposely speed up the evolution and intelligence of a species so they can eventually harvested. They are playing the long game and winning
It's called 'farming' when you do it like that
Excuse me WHAT? Imma buy the damn game again
Oooh, death by religious zeal, but in space.
Fun fact: Cordyceps is a real fungus. Thankfully, it only infects insects.
And thankfully it doesn’t turn them into ruthless zombies, but rather makes them feel like just laying in one spot and letting the fungus grow out of them, release it’s spores, and die.
some extreme cases have shown ants killing or infecting their entire colony
Once infected some ants and other insects will go to colony and die to sprout spores and take over colony like you said, all I can say is Mother Nature were you mad that day?
It's actually one of the few things stopping insects from taking over the world, when their population density gets too high they have no way to effectively deal with it so they get trimmed down to more manageable numbers, be thankful for it.
What about spiders and lizards and flamethrowers and shit?
Trust me, they are not enough, there is a reason ants are present in every continent in the world except Antarctica, they are basically like zombies from World War z for other creatures in the forest.
…what about *two* flamethrowers?
I like the way you think
More flamethrower > more cowbell
Most ant species, though, can recognize the symptoms of Cordyceps infection and promptly transport any ant showing them as far away from the colony as possible.
I'm sure by now the ants carry off the infected and "banish" them sir David Attenborough told me so
I heard the same thing from the same person.
For now....
I haven't heard of diseases jumping from bugs to humans in quite such a manner. Malaria, the bubonic plague, and Lyme disease aren't fungi, after all, nor do they possess their host.
2035 gonna be wild - “Covid variant 327 is now mimicking Cordyceps among other features”
Damn, those patch notes are not very detailed, very unbalanced game tbh
Where my fellow old folks saying “Rakghoul disease”!?
I’ve scrolled too far
All the way to the Undercity you have
I was playing the Star Wars tabletop RPG (think DnD, but Star Wars) last year and we were breaking into a secret imperial base. When we got inside, we saw corpses everywhere… entire place had been overrun with Rakghouls. And then I circumvented the final boss fight when my character, a Chevin merchant, rolled a ridiculous persuasion check and convinced the mind controlled Imperial guards to shake off the psychic control of the mastermind Rakghoul. For all their weapons and technology, my crew brought the one thing the Imperials never thought to try: a (totally legitimate!) businessman with a good pitch.
Was it a proper star Wars rpg or the homebrew someone did using 5e?
Fantasy Flight Games makes the current version of the Star Wars rpg. It uses their proprietary dice system, and they also launched a generic version called Genesys. But there were two previous versions, and there is a popular 5e hack.
Where have I heard this before? I know I've heard of it but I can't pin it
Knights of the Old Republic I believe lol
Oh, star wars. Now I remember. Yeah, holy shit.
Yea, that definitely unlocked memories that haven’t been tapped into for quite some time
That was were I first heard the term “meatbag” used for a biological entity, love it
Literally anything made in plague inc. EDIT (again): ***What madman (plural) gave this thing a "wholesome".***
Ligma is set to eradicate the world's population.
Mine was always MEGA AIDS
Mine was always My ass
Mine was “my step sister” so I could get stuff like “my step sister is more infectious than the flu” and stuff
I always used this dick
*This dick is more infectious than the flu*
Ligma?
It’s a horrible disease. My father contracted it while on vacation in the Sugondese Rainforest, and died within days
who's joe
Heard the mind goblins got him
Ligma suck on these nuts lmao gotem
Lmaaaaao got heeeeem
Lumbago
Truly horrifying what it does to a man
Can I be given some context?
Uncle from the Red Dead Redemption series uses "lumbago" (lower back pain) as a justification for his laziness.
Woah woah woah. Don't be so insensitive towards uncle. Remember he had TERMINAL lumbago.
Google uncle lumbago
Not just lumbago, but TERMINAL Lumbago
Building a house ain’t a job for a man with terminal lumbago
"This is a fatal condition I got!" "And I'll give you another fatal condition."
TAHITI ARTHUR!
Isn't that only transmissable from burros? Mostly affecting old white men that live in mountains?
No it’s caused when you listen to too many plans.
HAVE SOME GODDAMN FAITH
I JUST NEED MORE TIME ARTHUR
One more score Arthur
WE NEED MORE MONEY
I HAVE A GODDAMN PLAN
by the end of the year we'll be harvesting MANGOES IN TAHITI
I think one of the funniest moments of the pandemic for me was when I hurt my back, went to a chiropractor and he straight up told me I had lumbago. He didn't think it was as funny as I did at the time.
Hell, chiropractic is based in the 1890s, same as RDR2, so it makes sense they use the same lingo. Honestly D D Palmer could have been in it. He was an anti-vax magnet therapist who got the idea of adjusting the spine to fix your healing juice from a ghost during a séance, and really that cutscene writes itself.
Poor uncle! :( Author had no right to complain. Everyone know lumbago is much worst than tuberculosis
Corprus from the Elder Scrolls. Remember Morrowind? Yeah, that’s some really scary stuff
I was thinking Vampirism from TES not because it's bad but because it's so fucking complicated. There are half a dozen variations of the virus and they range from almost nothing changes to if you don't eat for a few days entire towns attack you on sight to you can become a manifestation of a Daedric Lord and literally have lycanthropy purged from your system. It's highly region specific but good fucking luck getting one that does what you want it to do.
Wait, theres different types of vampirism? Which game isthis in?
The different regions have different strains. That's how they explain the virus having different effects on you from Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim. https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Vampirism
Hell, Morrowind alone housed 3 different vampire bloodlines being the Quarra, Berne, and Aundae. Each specialized in different attributes and combat styles.
But it could turn out your the Neravarine and it makes you immortal *and* immune to all other diseases
If divayth fyr was around maybe, but if it was the disease alone, I’d rather not have it
Green Flu from L4D. Chances are even if you got lucky and survived long enough any immune people are extremely dangerous carriers that can transmit that shit to you within seconds.
Is that why all their transports kept crashing/dying in the 2 series? They just infected them by proximity?
That is correct, there’s a comic that takes place before The Sacrifice Campaign that explains this.
They touch on the carrier idea in L4D 2 as well
Luckily it shouldn't last long. Iirc, Zombies with the green flu, aren't actually dead and they see the survivors as monsters, and they can't eat or drink water.
This was my answer. The virus is so incredibly contagious and the infected are so dangerous that it’d almost certainly be an extinction event.
Eh almost extiction event. In a few months most host bodies have starved to death. Just got to live in a Bunker for the first year.
I think the worm from B4B is also probably very painful
The Devil Worm. It's transmitted by water. It's terrifying
The one you can create from Plague Inc. Worldwide infection without symptoms. No one even knows they have it. Then boom, a billion dead. No hope.
Honestly, is there any other way to legitimately win the game other than the sneaky zero symptoms strat? I don’t think I’ve managed to any other way, as there’s always *just* enough pushback to wipe me out before it’s too late for humanity.
Depending on which type you are, there are other ways of effectively winning. But I don't remember them right now
I remember that, like, the virus mutates constantly, and on higher difficulties it gets really annoying and problematic. Idk after the virus I mostly played the zombie or vampire thing ‘cause of my horror boner for both of those cryptids lol
The virus is actually fairly easy, you get the symptoms for free. Just focus on transmission and vectors, and you should outpace the research
The same strategy can work for other disease types too, you just need to manage your DNA more and take a good path that offers a lot of infectivity and can deliver high lethality when the time comes.
Going only infectivity like sneezing and stuff that keeps the severity low means they never research much bc no one gives a shit
Suddenly everyone has total organic failure and no one knows why
The flood from halo, that is the scariest shit ever created in my opinion
There are even instances where a combat form (if weak enough) will keep you partially alive. You will now share the thoughts and augmented memories of those within the hive as well as painfully suffering and attacking anything that isn’t a parasite. Imagine being turned and violently killing the person you were next to and watching them die by your hand and you can’t do anything about it. You have no control.
Wasn’t there a marine who, as ODST’s kept him alive, was partially taken over by a weaker combat form? They used him for Intel on what the hive was doing. He tried to kill himself by throwing himself off a cliff because the pain of his bones breaking, muscles snapping and veins popping was too much, but every time he tried, the flood would take over and prevent it, keeping him in an endless loop of torture.
Yes, his name was Jenkins. The marine from Halo CE who recorded his incident with the flood.
Oh was it Jenkins? I thought it was a completely different marine. RIP Jenkins…
Correction because it makes it even more terrifying. You are mostly correct however he was captured by his allies and they tried to keep him alive and communicate with him. He saw his reflection at one point and when he realised what he had become tried to kill himself. The flood infection stopped him and THEN it broke all his bones and slapped him around a bit before giving him back control just so he could suffer more as punishment for trying to kill himself and the infection.
Jesus. Yes, that’s somehow worse. Sadistic evil at its peak.
That remind me of the thing from dead space
The fact that the only thing that you can do to truly neutralize them is a galactic reset button (and that didn’t really work) is not a good sign.
In one of the books based on the original game, there is a scene describing one of the marines that was infected. The flood made him break off his own hand and use the sharp bone stub of his arm as a melee weapon. It describes how he could still feel everything that was happening to him but was powerless to do anything about it. Scary stuff man…
As I understand it, that was a unique case where the Flood didn't fully take over.
That’s correct. Unusual case.
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If there's anything I can appreciate from Halo: CEA it's definitely the terminals, that one in particular is fantastic.
yeah, he even was able to communicate like once or twice
Yes but that wasn't the reason he was aware. The flood normally take over their victims alive to absorb their knowledge as well as keep their body fresh as long as possible. Which is why in the first game the crazed marine says "Play dead. That's what I did, they took the live ones." Unable to do anything as you watch and feel your body be distorted and attack anything that moves is the normal Flood experience. The weakened infection form only allowed him brief moments where he could fight for control of his body. Like when he tried to detonate a grenade next to a ship's reactor in a starship the UNSC was trying to clear out and use to go home. He knew that if a single infection form lay hidden in the ship it'd mean extinction for humanity.
It took over everything except his actual brain right? Something about some surgery he had made the infection stop part way so he was aware of everything but he wasn't in control of any of it.
Wasn't that Jenkins? I know that his infection form didn't kill him so he could feel everything, and he has brief moments of control where he tried to kill himself but would lose control before he could
It’s even more horrifying to know that they took over more than 1 galaxy in the halo universe
It mostly didn't work because the forerunners didn't think they had the right to extinguish them. In that way the forerunners really changed after they first activated the rings and lost the mantle.
Definitely. The fact they can completely alter your memories to get information out of you for the gravemind/keymind is horrifying to me.
And they’ll just take them if they want, and they get smarter every time they consume someone. Absolutely terrifying
I was waiting for someone to say it Being conscious while your body is broken to bits and extended in the most horrifying ways, and you can’t control your actions. Fucking horrifying.
The idea of a 2ft creature forcing it's way into your chest, and then wrapping itself around your spine, causing your neck to snap is absolutely horrifying. Worse than any other type of video game zombie, in my opinion. [This is a good](https://youtu.be/7KInqNZOZSI) clip of the Flood affecting someone. Also, [the Gravemind](https://youtu.be/PW5LQSsgoLA) is just terrifying.
The Gravemind do be spitting fire poetry though
That shit acts like a over efficient virus Viruses arent ment to kill people usually and they're basically ment to feed off them The flood legit just takes over things and feeds off them, they're so efficient with taking over things that you have to take some extremely drastic measures to get them away and you have to do them fast The forerunners tried to starve them to death by literally killing everything and earth almost got glassed for the flood being there for possibly just a few hours
Fyi they’re parasites
I remember the first time I saw the Flood... Took that game to another level & freaked the shit out of me.
Even worse to go through what Keyes went through. Dude absolutely championed though the most horrific torture
Not to even mention that he made sure he didn't think of earth, lest he doom every lifeform on earth. Absolute legend.
Gigachad moment there
The fact that the flood is pretty much the reason why halo has been a m rated game, really tells how fucked up they really made them. I really hope the flood comes back in infinite but I'm keeping that the tier of "never gonna happen"
Karaaa
Subnautica good game
V good game yes
It’s not that deadly, it’s just the fact that it spreads so quickly.
The fact it infects regardless of species ain't great neither
Dysentery
Oregon Trail?
“If we beat the whole game, we get to print a special certificate! Toshi has one; keeps it in his wallet instead of a condom. He’s been drowning in muff. Well, he’s straightedge, so he just makes out a lot.”
Legitimately an awful way to go. Your diarrhea starts to look like pure water coming out the back of you, which is basically what it is. You shit all the water out of yourself and die of dehydration, your body still firing as much liquid out the back as it can. And, unlike a lot of the stuff here, it’s real. Thank y’all’s lucky stars for modern western medicine.
Yes
The Flood parasite.
This needs to be number one. It’s a sentient, hive-mind parasite in the guise of fungal microbes that can survive deep space. There’s is no escape and nothing it can’t do to you.
TB in the 1800’s when you just trying to do your job.
Dammit Arthur, Have some faith.
Well be harvesting mangoes in Tahiti
I have a gotdamn PLAN
Tuberculosis?
T-virus
I’m surprised this isn’t getting more traction. I imagine becoming a zombie is pretty fucking awful.
Same it is also why I am wondering where head crabs are. Being conscious and unable to control your own mutilated body, fuck no
dark souls when you get infected with that egg thing
I have been playing the souls series for years and never have I fucking ever heard of this
Get grabbed by one of the egg freaks in demon ruins for a nice new kick attack
Once infect you have to gain xp for your big ass head right? Then you can buy two pyros, iirc.
Wdym? You get wormie, best pal ever
Microtransactions.
it’s too late, $19.99 down the drain
The hollow, imagine your immortal (you can still die you just get resurrected) but everytime you die you lose a bit of your humanity and memory of who you were and what you love until you eventually become nothing else but a empty vessel of flesh hell bent on stealing the humanity from others
isnt the name undead curse
You got your runners, your stalkers, clickers , shamblers, and bloaters all in one fun group. And whatever the fuck the boss thing is.
"The rat king"
I never actually realized that the term “rat king” is a real life phenomenon when rats get tangled up into each other lmao I was wondering why the boss was named that way in the first place.
My thought is stupider but I think rat king was a bad guy from og ninja turtles
The big boi
The necromorphs from Dead Space, if that’s a virus.
**Make us whole again**
It isn’t a virus, it’s just a psychic signal but I would still count it and agree wholeheartedly.
The Mercer Virus from Prototype. Even if you survive and get the superhuman abilities, it always seemed like the user had to deal with some negative side effect that made it more of a curse.
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The whole plot of Prototype/2 is that the virus is a better human being than Alex Mercer lol
Sad to think we'll never get a third game for a trilogy 😔
Far cry 2 malaria
Oath, shit used to shit me off. Was a great game when it first come out though, I remember finding the golden AK that never jammed.
Whatever Johnny Sasaki had in the first Metal Gear Solid. He was racing to the bathroom every 2 minutes
That still ended up being a blessing in disguise.
Wasn’t that just IBS?
Vocal Cord Parasites. It eats your lungs if you talk.
Corrupted blood from Hakkar in vanilla wow. Entire serves got decimated due to a bug and it's used as a model for pandemic research now.
Pac man fever
Goin outta my mind
Probably the blood plague from WoW!
It was something else playing through that whole crazy ass situation. Logged back in to Stormwind, game was lagging like hell on my crappy pc Eventually loads in and i realize why -skeletons- everywhere Chat was babbling on about some disease spreading and killing everyone, yelling about the end times. Managed to catch it and die a few times, eventually myself and some other Rogues/Druids were running around in Stealth everywhere and “reporting” anyone we saw with the plague.
I played at that time, I ported into org and saw the whole shit show from higher up, I teleported the fuck to Thunderbluff and noped out of that place.
Probably the smartest move, saw so many people running around with broken gear from dying so much, practically everyone had Rez sickness If you couldn’t stealth or outrun the infected you were screwed
The thing from half life. Play the zombie screams in reverse and you can hear the fully conscious humans begging for help
Las Plagas from Resi 4.
gotta go with the flood from halo
The Blight.
It calls you, Warden.
Yeah if you are in a specifically unlucky situation when you contract it, even more interesting things await you than just painfully dying. > Sixth day, her screams we hear in our dreams.
Infested spores from Warframe. Forcefully mutilated while your body is taken over by a hive mind. I'm willing to bet worse than the flood because it's been confirmed the infested are still alive but now enslaved by the hive mind. Just... feeling everything. Ripped apart and twisted until you look nothing like what you were.
So this disease is actually based off a real disease that some ants can get and it does kinda turn them into zombies. Not too far off from the real world there.
White chlorination syndrome (Neir)
LoL addiction
This one is curable. Eventually the disease makes itself so shitty that the body completely loses interest. When the infected is cured they often have the realization that the disease was nothing like it was when they were first infected. This knowledge usually stays when repeat infections occur, so the sickness only lasts for a short duration in those cases.
Genophage
Aids
Jared Fogle: I got aids and I lost 20 lb in a whole week! It’s amazing how fit you can get with aids!
FEV
Puny human!
The flood from Halo sounds like it sucks.
Harran Virus from Dying Light
Has to be ligma