https://infectus.io/news.xml 2026-10-23T00:00:00Z InfectUs https://infectus.io/news/2026-10-23-patch-0-8-1190 2026-10-23T00:00:00Z

The Health Department sends disinfection waves into your area, outbreaks fly you straight there, and a golden ring shows your way to the next evolution. 🦠

<p><strong>Lab report 🔬</strong> Our virus has mutated again. Here is what changed in this strain:</p> <section> <h2>🧬 New mutations</h2> <ul> <li>🚑 Nee-naw, the Health Department is coming: once your network grows, it sends a disinfection wave into your area, an ambulance drives along the real streets to its spot, spreads foam around itself and sprays your cells.</li> <li>🏆 Fight back and grab the loot: every foam cell you take brings you its share of Befall, and whoever knocks out the ambulance gets the rest. It leaves your hotspots alone, it's announced in advance in your town's chat, and with “Watch” you can follow it on its way.</li> <li>✈️ Fly there: the outbreak report of a place now has a button that takes you straight to it.</li> <li>💍 Your way to the next evolution: a golden ring around your virus up top fills up as your network grows and sweeps forward with every new cell. On your PC your evolution shows as a yellow badge under your name.</li> <li>🧑‍⚕️ 100 health officers instead of 8: almost every place now has its own doctor on its outbreak report, from Dr. Onionsmith to Dr. Atchoumbert.</li> </ul> </section> <section> <h2>💪 Stronger strain</h2> <ul> <li>📖 Dr. Virus explains your evolution right when you need it: try to paint a chain it doesn't allow yet, and he tells you what the next evolution brings.</li> <li>🎬 The little film on how to drag and paint ghost cells now plays in the window of your first evolution with ghost cells, so everyone gets to see it.</li> </ul> </section> <section> <h2>🩹 Bugs in quarantine</h2> <ul> <li>🗺️ Your first move right after zooming in no longer fails with “The map can't be read there right now”: the game waits a moment for the map.</li> <li>💬 Messages do what they say even when a window is open: “Secure first” on your virus card takes you to your account, and the message about a new version opens the patch notes, also on the join screen.</li> <li>🎞️ The drag film, the glowing ring and the two-finger hint stood still in Safari and in the live game. They move again.</li> </ul> </section> <p>Stay contagious! 🦠 Your Mad Scientist 🧑‍🔬</p> https://infectus.io/news/2026-10-21-patch-0-8-1135 2026-10-21T00:00:00Z

You can now spot withering cells at a glance, newcomers always have a next goal, viruses with legs go ice skating, and older phones no longer get stuck at startup. 🦠

<p><strong>Lab report 🔬</strong> Our virus has mutated again. Here is what changed in this strain:</p> <section> <h2>🧬 New mutations</h2> <ul> <li>☀️ Sunshine like in a diorama: by day the real sun stands over your hotspot and wanders across the sky. Your cells, your hotspot virus and even the capsids cast shadows that turn with the time of day, longer in the morning, shorter at noon. Rather without? Switch off “Shadows” under Settings → Game.</li> <li>🥀 Withering you can see: a cell that withers turns pale and dried up, and at night it only glows faintly.</li> <li>🎯 Always a goal in sight: in your first days the game always shows your next goal, a capsid nearby, the next place in the ranking or the next evolution, with a button that takes you straight there.</li> <li>✂️ Cutting explains itself: the first time one of your veins lurks, the game tells you when it strikes and how to cut it with the scissors.</li> <li>🫙 Full to the brim: when all your cells are full, the game tells you once that your hotspot is working for nothing and that new veins change that.</li> <li>📣 Capsids call out to you: in your first days "Get me!", "Crack me!" or "Tap me!" hovers above them, and a tap cracks them right away.</li> <li>👆 One tap is enough on your phone: tap a free field next to your network and the vein grows straight from your cell beside it. If several of your cells border it, tap the right one first. It works at the end of a ghost chain too: a tap next to it paints it further.</li> <li>🥼 Dr. Virus guides you through your first steps: a little virus in a lab coat and nerdy glasses sits on every hint, blinking and bobbing, and the hints are bigger and easier to read.</li> <li>🚚 Stock moves up: whatever a cell has above its hold mark now travels forward with your supply, the cell furthest back gives first. Everything reaches your front, nothing piles up at the back.</li> <li>🖱️ On your PC just like on your phone: click your cell, then a field next to it, and the vein grows. If only one of your cells borders it, a single click is enough.</li> <li>💡 The game explains itself step by step: the bigger your network gets, the more Dr. Virus shows you, from invasion and “Collect here” to infecting your friends, plus a little film on how to drag. Whatever he means glows golden, and a tick says “got it”.</li> </ul> </section> <section> <h2>💪 Stronger strain</h2> <ul> <li>⛸️ The ice skates now sit on the feet: every virus with legs wears one on each foot, the spider a whole eight.</li> <li>💸 Not enough viruses for a vein? The message now says what it costs and how many your cell has, and the very first learning step names the price.</li> <li>📖 The help now explains where to cut veins and what a vein costs on each terrain.</li> <li>🎓 The first steps explain more: how your cells fill up, where your viruses go while you crack a capsid, what comes after the first steps and why every branch splits the flow.</li> <li>🧬 Evolution is rebalanced: the first stages need a few more cells, the middle ones come sooner.</li> <li>📌 Swarm board: the menu on a member's photo takes you to their hotspot and always fits on the screen.</li> <li>🥇 Your evolution at a glance: it now sits as a golden number on the ghost up top, on your phone too, and the goal to the next one shows length and ghost cells with their signs.</li> </ul> </section> <section> <h2>🩹 Bugs in quarantine</h2> <ul> <li>🐛 On some older phones the graphics crashed at startup. Now the device remembers and starts with simple graphics.</li> <li>🌆 Road numbers are readable at dusk too: no more light text on an almost white box.</li> <li>🔄 When you open the game, a new version now loads by itself right away. Some phones used to keep playing the old one for a while after a restart.</li> <li>🖥️ On some laptop screens the interface broke off after your first vein. Fixed.</li> </ul> </section> <p>Stay contagious! 🦠 Your Mad Scientist 🧑‍🔬</p> https://infectus.io/news/2026-10-16-internal-closed-alpha 2026-10-16T00:00:00Z

The first strain has left the lab: the servers are live, the world is open, and our first test subjects are busy infecting each other. 🧪

<p><strong>Lab report 🔬</strong> This is not a drill! 🚨 The first version of InfectUs has left the lab. The internal closed alpha has begun.</p> <section> <h2>🧬 New mutations</h2> <ul> <li>🚀 First version shipped: InfectUs 0.8.986 runs on our own servers, around the clock.</li> <li>🔌 Connected and live: play.infectus.io is on the net. For now, only invited test subjects get through the airlock.</li> <li>🌍 The whole world is the map: every street, every park, every village can become a breeding ground.</li> <li>🧫 Patient zero is out: the team and a few insiders are infecting each other right now. Nobody is safe.</li> <li>📡 The situation room switches to live: as soon as real outbreaks spread, the panels here show them instead of the drill.</li> </ul> </section> <p>What's next? More test subjects. 🐁 When the outbreak goes public, you'll hear it first on our <a href="https://discord.infectus.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Discord</a>.</p> <p>Stay contagious! 🦠 Your Mad Scientist 🧑‍🔬</p> https://infectus.io/news/2026-10-15-lagezentrum 2026-10-15T00:00:00Z

Due to an imminent outbreak, we have set up a situation room. All is quiet for now. For now.

<p><strong>Official notice.</strong> Due to an imminent outbreak, we have set up a situation room. All is quiet for now. For now.</p> <p>Until the alpha test begins, we are running a drill: the panels show a simulation. After that, it's the real thing.</p> <p>Instructions for the public: Stay home. Wash your hands. Don't infect your neighbors until it officially starts. When that is, you'll hear first on our <a href="https://discord.infectus.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Discord</a>.</p>