how infection works

If you are touched by anyone who is infected or otherwise get a dose of the Sand Plague, your Infected meter will go up. How much it goes up depends on how high your Immunity meter is.

If you are prepared and boosted your Immunity beforehand, getting touched by someone who's infected once will not have much effect. You'll get just a tiny sliver of Infection. However, this will also lower your Immunity by quite a bit. If you then get touched again you take a bigger Infection hit and your Immunity drops even more. That's why it was almost empty at the end of the video. Hanging around such a place with an empty Immunity bar is asking for trouble.

It is possible to get out the door without getting infected at this point, but I got stuck and kinda panicked. So now the Bachelor is infected. Not much, just a tiny tiny bit. When I did my screenshots and saved properly, I got infected a lot less, but I still think this is a good time to show off the Immunity/Infection-system.

However, and this is the fun part... Once you are infected, no matter how little, the Sand Plague will grow inside you. It's very slow at the start, but the more you have inside your body, the quicker it will grow.

If you are infected just a little bit, you won't really notice it. You'll get a headache at some points, and slightly blurred vision when you wake up from sleeping. The infection is not enough to harm you, and you don't need to worry about taking medication yet.

If you let the plague grow for a while, or get into a situation where you get a large dose of it, you will start to gradually lose health. The plague will also spread a bit faster inside your body. At this point you will probably feel like shit, but you can still use powerful antibiotics to reduce your infection quite a bit. This will have a serious impact on your health but it's better than dying. However, no known medicine can fully cure you, so you are essentially just buying time.

If your infection meter ever reaches full, the plague has spread so much that it is affecting your brain and causes you to go insane from the pain. If Daniel ever reaches this point, we get a game over.

You are not actually contagious until you reach 'stage 2' of your infection. For us, that means getting to 100% infection, which makes us lose the game. Daniel has access to lots of medicine and knows how to avoid infection (he has a degree!) and still have to be very careful. For a random factory worker, it will probably only take a day or so once you got a big dose of the disease.

When you die, a short scene plays out in the Theater where Daniel is lying dead on the stage and the camera goes all crazy about it. Then you just get kicked back to the main screen. Unfortunately it's the same screen no matter how you die. 


GOON: Do we get a cool little shot of him going batshit beforehand?
GOON 2: We get a game over quickly. The Bachelor dies a horribly slow death, probably involving his blood being forced through his skin. We just don't get to see it.