Camp Osprey Doctor explaining to player about Blood Plague.
Blood Plague is a new deadly disease featured in State of Decay 2 as a blood-borne disease that turns people into Plague Zombies.
Blood Plague is extremely contagious, it is a mutated strain of the original pathogen and normally carried by plague zombies and Plague Hearts, its primary vectors. Destroying the latter will kill any plague zombies around it, but the hearts could also summon stronger zombies, such as freaks.
In State of Decay 2: Heartland, it is revealed that the Blood Plague has heavily mutated in Trumbull Valley, infesting the region with plague walls. All zombies, including freaks, now carry the plague.
Cure[]
One year into the outbreak, military scientists managed to develop a cure for Blood Plague by using infected tissue samples to counteract the effects of the disease. Crafting the cure requires 5 plague samples and 2 medicine, and can only be crafted at an Infirmary.
Strategy[]
When attacked by plague zombies, a bar will appear on your character's screen with a thermometer symbol. The bar will fill up with every additional attack from plague zombies. If your survivor is successfully kept in the base after exposure for a period of time before infection, the meter will reset. However, if it fills up completely, your survivor will contract Blood Plague, and a timer will begin to count down. Once the timer reaches zero, the survivor will die and reanimate into a plague zombie. Further attacks from plague zombies will speed up the timer, which can mean certain death for an unwary survivor surrounded by plague carriers.
A survivor with blood plague can be checked into an infirmary to be stabilized. This will temporarily stop the timer and keep the infection from progressing, at the cost of 2 medicine per day. From here, the player has three options: cure, exile, or euthanize. The cure for blood plague requires 2 medicine and 5 plague samples, which can be obtained by killing plague zombies and destroying plague hearts. Alternatively, the player can exile the survivor or put them out of their misery. Executing the survivor will incur a morale penalty.
Similar to how normal Zombies can carry Blood Plague, Freaks in Heartland can also be carriers of the disease. This causes a major change in their appearance, and even mutates them further to make them much more dangerous than they normally were. Plague freaks can also spawn on higher difficulties of the game. Plague juggernauts for instance begin spawning on dread difficulty.
Trivia[]
- The sounds that Blood Plague Zombies make compared to regular zombies sound more distorted, barely sounding human anymore.
- Zombies carrying Blood Plague act and move more aggressively compared to regular zombies, and will always sprint to attack survivors.