Pandemic Game Mode
World responses and city weather
As whole continents fall, the world itself responds, and those responses apply to every Pandemic run. Ten cities also bring their own weather, which changes how you see, move and shoot.
The world's first answer, once any continent has fallen.
The immune system ramping up the longer the infection lasts.
Fun fact: Moving through an organ quickly keeps every fight a little easier.
Immune Alert in the Codex
Once three continents have fallen, doubt about medicine helps the virus.
When an infection makes someone sick enough, they see a doctor: antivirals, vaccines and immune-boosting drugs all help the body clear a virus.
Fun fact: Most viral infections have no cure; treatment usually helps the immune system win or slows the virus down while it does.
Medical Treatment in the Codex
Once five continents have fallen, the world vaccinates.
A yearly shot that trains the immune system to recognise that season's hemagglutinin, so antibodies are ready before infection.
Fun fact: The strains in each year's vaccine are chosen months ahead by the WHO, based on worldwide surveillance.
Influenza Vaccine in the Codex
Rainy-Season Gatherings in Vancouver (its 50% tier) bring rain to every run there.
In 2003 SARS reached Canada. Vancouver isolated its first patient within hours and stopped the virus, while Toronto, a few days slower, suffered a large hospital outbreak.
Fun fact: Canada · population 2.6 million · North America
Vancouver in the Codex
Desert Heat in Cairo (its 25% tier).
In 1947 cholera spread through Egypt, killing about 10,000 people before mass vaccination and quarantine brought it under control.
Fun fact: Egypt · population 22 million · Africa
Cairo in the Codex
−89 °C Record Cold at Vostok Station (its 25% tier).
In 1983 Vostok Station recorded −89.2 °C, the coldest natural temperature ever measured on Earth, above a lake sealed under the ice for millions of years.
Fun fact: Research base · population 13 · Antarctica
Vostok Station in the Codex
Bitter Winter in Moscow (its 25% tier).
During the plague of 1771 tens of thousands died in Moscow, and the Plague Riot broke out when the authorities tried to stop crowds gathering at a holy icon.
Fun fact: Russia · population 13 million · Europe
Moscow in the Codex
Late-Night Terraces, Madrid's social response.
In May 1918 influenza swept Madrid and even the king fell ill. Spain's press, free of wartime censorship, reported it openly, so the world called it the 'Spanish flu'.
Fun fact: Spain · population 6.8 million · Europe
Madrid in the Codex
Six Months of Night at the South Pole (its 25% tier).
In 1999 the South Pole Station's only doctor, Jerri Nielsen, found a lump in her breast and treated herself with chemotherapy drugs airdropped in the dark of winter.
Fun fact: Research base · population 150 · Antarctica
South Pole Station in the Codex
Sea Fog in Nuuk (its 25% tier).
In 1951 measles swept through Greenland's west-coast settlements. With almost no one immune, nearly everybody in some villages caught it at once.
Fun fact: Greenland · population 19,000 · North America
Nuuk in the Codex
Wildfire Smoke Season, what Los Angeles becomes once it falls.
In 1924 pneumonic plague broke out in a Mexican-American neighbourhood of Los Angeles, killing about 30 people: the last airborne plague outbreak in the United States.
Fun fact: United States · population 12.9 million · North America
Los Angeles in the Codex
Cape Doctor Winds in Cape Town (its 75% tier).
In 1901 bubonic plague arrived in Cape Town on ships supplying the Boer War, and the authorities used it as a reason for forced removals to Ndabeni.
Fun fact: South Africa · population 4.8 million · Africa
Cape Town in the Codex
Monsoon Floods, what Mumbai becomes once it falls.
Plague reached Bombay in 1896 and killed tens of thousands. In 1897 Waldemar Haffkine developed the first plague vaccine in the city and tested it on himself.
Fun fact: India · population 21 million · Asia
Mumbai in the Codex
