I liked Pathologic 2 more.
I tried to get into pathologic because i heard it was about cool supernatural mystery stuff but i didn't like the gameplay
Day 11Army massacre quest. I found that one survivor, who says capella is here, I checked the meat and returned to the place of massacre. What do next? Nothing seems to get updated. Checked vlad (no dialogue) and capella wing (nobody there)
>>731074929Me too but I would have like Pathologic 3 less if it was too much like 2.
ziggy game
>>731075589Which one did you play? We now have 3 games, all with different gameplay.
>>731077987Proud Kazakh studio.
>>731077691If the map marker still points to the place where the massacre happened, you may have overlooked something while doing the concentration minigame.
Pathologic is my favourite game that I've never finished
>>731077987Yeah, I can see him fitting into the game.
>>731077987the exact opposite, in fact.
>>731074929You are in charge of being the ideas guy for the Changeling route in Pathologic 4. What gimmicks do you give her?
>>731078573writing shit like this when you know nothing about a conflict, they should've waited a bit more and did their own research before going full retard just to virtue signal to a few ukrainians. they should've stayed out of politics.
>731080152Shoo, zigger.
>>731080206i'd tell you to eat shit but you already are full of propaganda
>>731080152you did not need to know anything about the conflict to know it was unjust. theyve already unjustly meddled in crimea and did the same with ukraine. putin cartoonishly claimed it was to stop nazis which is ludicrous. ukraine was already recognized as an independent state by russia in 1991
Can I play pathologic 1and be satisfied if I don't do the 500 different endings?
>>731080152Here's your (you), now fuck off
>>731080303no you need to know. their retarded apology starts with a false sentence.>we have started hostilitiesnothing after this matters when you are operating on a false premise.
Where is the stolen doghead mask on day 6?
Is this worth getting?It's just $4 difference between the normal edition Also I already got the first game, but haven't played it yet
>>731080408no Im still here, you can fuck off and keep your head in the sand
>>731080470yes, absolutely. the art of the game is a major appeal to begin with so getting that is great, but the best part is marble nest which is a great unique little campaign.
>>731080303Хpюкни
I'm so sorry ratbro...
>>731080305Yes. If you only plan to play it once you should probably play the Bachelor route.But even if you don't finish one route you can always come back after playing the other games.>>731080470>Is this worthIt's a supporter bundle, it's purpose is to let you throw more money at the devs if you want to.>artbookIt's pretty nice, I've got it in physical>soundtrackEh, you can probably find the OST on youtube.>Marble NestPretty cheeky of the devs to sell it as DLC when it used to just be the alpha build preview of the game. But yeah at that price go for it.
>>731078140Pathologic. 1. Should I skip it?
>>731079845a cool twist on changeling could be that she is two twins where you have to manage two characters as one, where you, they player, manage her "conscioussness" when you swap between the characters to control. reason i say that is because many people in the game speculate that there are more than one clara because she appears several places around the town seemingly at once. could also make her have bizarre hallucination gameplay like in The Void where you manage resources like Color in that game.
>>731080152funny that even on a board full of edgy contrarian retards people will only spit in your face. >NAF-*farts on your face*oops, excuse me you were saying, my dear zigger?
>>731080802>>731081032Ok felllas, gonna get the supporter bundle then
>>731081037Did you dislike the survival mechanics in general or just the jankyness of it?2 is still a ressource management game, but the mechanics are a lot better.3 has completely different gameplay.
>>731075119I actually did but I rememeber mostly var, the herb bride and the fight with oyun from the haruspex route. didn't they still know each other from childhood? of course their relationship wasn't as well established as in Pathologic 2.
>>731080989>all he offers if you keep your word is nothing because you already accomplished the relevant goal for a cost of nothingI should do that decree on day 3, just to spite that little nigger.
>>731081828No, idiot. And you clearly didn't play the original.
I miss Eva ;_;
>>731082390Should have dove in, fag.
>>731082151and i would lie about it because...? you little autistic freak?
>>731081828IIRC he knew grief but not the other two, although logically he should know rubin. 2 is much better in making him feel like someone who is actually from the town.
can anyone give a hint as to how to do this quest on day 5? my initial guesses were the catherdral or The Focus, both were incorrect. i cant recall any other notable mechanical clock (to be fair, any mechanical clock can restart time, considering that were using them to move between days)>t. may be retarded
>>731083316Go upstairs in your house (Stillwater) and there's a clock next to Eva
>>731082151NTA, but what do you mean? Rubin was a childhood friend of the Haruspex, and he is, in fact, in Clara’s Bounds.
>>731083443NTA but i use it all the time, for some stupid reason I don't touch any other clocks and the game still annoys me with this quest. I thought that I need to repair the broken amalgam vessel in the (currently closed) catherdal to complete it.
Is the Nina Kain missing statue quest important? I ran out of time before I finished it before so decided I'd come back and do it later. Now it doesn't seem like I can repeat it - I can't find any thought for it, there's no longer a prompt to use a glass shard, and the statue is missing from its place in the cape. Pretty sure it's supposed to be a Day IX quest?
>>731084198Very sure there's nothing left to do with it. Either it's intentionally left like that as a reminder, or it hasn't closed out and it's a bug.
These games were never good and never will be, another case of overhyped trash by /v/ermin slavs.
>>731085052revolutionary input. thanks guy
Return to day 2, where are polyhedron plans buried? I arrived at that location I have marked, but nothing is happening, instinct shows nothing. Please dont tell me ita another bug.
>>731084820Not really. It gets mentioned later on but I don't it matters if you did anything for that quest or not.
>>731085518Just look around, it should be behind the rock.
>>731085518It's just to the south of the crowstone.
>>731085593Fair - I did find the thought now, just says where there were two statues there is now one.I'd dropped it before because I couldn't see the trail it told me had been left - it doesn't give me any prompt for that now and seemingly there's no way to reset.
>>731074929the characters saying lines directly from the original game and being referred to with the different names from the original translation on day 1 was genuinely one of the coolest 4th wall breaks i've seen in any video game
>>731074929Why is the fandom so gay with so much fan art of the doctor and the shaman being gay for each other?
I'm afraid to drink Isidor's cum vial on my dresser. Will there be an obvious moment to finally use it?
>>731086328Stop going to Reddit and Tumblr.
>>731086554I didn't drink it myself but I'm pretty sure all it does is filling up your amalgam vessels, the game doesn't make it clear enough but I imagine there's no point in using it unless you run out of time.
>>731086328shitty translations led to 2deep4u dialogues in original pathologic. that mixed with the game being an artsy playable book led to tumblr loving the series and creating a lot of gay romance fantasies between burakh and dankovsky.
Is the deal with the Rat Prophet regarding Lara still broken?
>>731086678I've seen the gay art on steam>>731086813women were the real plague all along
>>731087003let them have their fun. one of the key devs is a tranny too, birds of a feather I guess.
>>731087003>I've seen the gay art on steamWhen I looked it was all Russian memes I don't understand. This is obviously nikocado but it does have moon runes
>>731080303>putin cartoonishly claimed it was to stop nazis which is ludicrous.that wasn't the initial reason at allI understand zoomers not remembering this, but I remember US state policy on expanding NATO into Ukraine being "yeah no Russia is fucking serious about invading the moment we do that, we're not doing that, do NOT do that" for decades. Seriously google it and I don't doubt you'll find a clip of every president up to probably Obama reaffirming this.They weren't bluffing, they said they weren't bluffing, we knew they weren't bluffing, everyone understood it was a rubicon for like half a century. >but what if...Then we did and they did and they SAID that's why they did and everyone's fucking pikachu face about it and pretending there was some other reason. They're just meanies or something.
Okay okay politics retards you can fuck off now.
>>731087618I don't remember Ukraine joining NATO before Russia invaded
>>731086924Yep.
>>731087717Niggers actually can't help themselves. We've had about 5 threads to bump limit with every political bait post getting zero replies.
those fucking steppeniggers ate my bull
>>731086760It actually tells you exactly what it does before you drink it - but that relies on you pressing the drink it button first and then it gives you the option to save it for later
>didn't give a corpse away 30 hours ago>can't get an achievementFuuuuuuuuu-
>>731088269The button says Concentrate though.
>>731077921oh no, not the 05 shoes
is the original game really so bad that it requires 2 entire games to not even remake the whole thing
>>731087529Translation> Teacher: No food in the classroom!> Students in the back:
>>731088982it was really cool conceptually but also heavily flawed. the remakes aren't perfect but as a lover of classic lit i come in my pants while playing them. I wish that the traversal wasn't so shit.
>>731088982your post doesnt even make sensealso, following your logic original ff7 was beyond terrible
Do you agree with the criticism going around of the female characters being written weakly with misogyny?
>>731088315Did you at least euthanize yourself when you had the chance?
>>731090074>criticism going aroundWherever it is you see those criticisms, either stop going there or stay there for good.
>heh I can just dig him upNot falling for that shit
>>731088376Yeah, you press that, then have to press drink it, then it tells you what it does and gives you the option not to
some quests are greyed out, but still have the red aura around them, what the hell do i do with those?i talked to eva about the bvll, issued the food decree, but i still have the bvll quest marker on the mapi did the yulia quest some time ago, but i cant talk to her now.
>>731090074just redditors being buttmad about their gay fantasies not being confirmed tumblr is the worst thing that happened to the internet, worse than facebook, instagram and tiktok combined
>>731090669Just important quests for you to keep in mind if you'll decide to change their outcome later on.
anons, do the threads on the zoomed out mind map mean a quest has tasks on that particular day? For example having threads to day 7 and 3? thanks for help. t. retard
>>731090074can you post examples? always thought pathologic has one of best written female characters in gayming
>>731092539>t. retardagreedthe threads mean they connect to stuff, tasks or consequenceszoom in to those days and you will see the external bubbles floating at the periphery so you can follow the threads to their specific connections on that dayfrom there it's up to you to figure out how to untangle the multi-day impact if it's something you want to change (and if you've seen all the effects it has yet--but if it's someone dead for example the effects down the line may never have a chance to show up)
>>731092539Maybe, it can just mean that things are related too.
>>731092825thanks man. I'm only on day 7 and I'm sort of overwhelmed what to do exactly to save the stamatins, burakh et al, and I get that I have to return to earlier days but I'm kinda at a loss. Maybe I'll just do another day and see how it plays out.
>>731090074Sounds like the opinion of someone who played the first 10 minutes of Pathologic and only ever interacted with Eva.
>>731074929No amount of diplomas will give you a soul. Simple as.
>>731093043next few days will give you many reasons to replay previous ones.
>>731093043
Shabnak-adyg... the golem of steppy legends...
Is the game playable yet? I heard there are a lot of bugs, specially towards the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DBIIs7L04Y
>>731095036Big steppy
>>731090074i fail to see that. im not even trying to inject any /pol/ack retardation as i want pathologic threads to be the one threads on this godforsaken board filled with actual substantive discussion, but i really think this might be from newer audiences introduced to pathologic from hbomberguy who are weird and overly sensitive and reactionary regarding this kind of stuff.
>>731095080It's playable, but honestly you're probably better off waiting until they roll out a couple more patches. Some quests and achievements are just broken right now.
i miss the OG soundtrack, bros...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uibccvhRkV4
>>731095036It's afraid of fire and salt? HAHAHAHA!
onion
Bros...
>>731095080I'm on day 6 and plan to live my life a bit until the patches roll out and fix the late game bugs, then lock myself and finish the game. i love it so fucking much bros, it's january but im sure that it will be my personal goty.
When will I be able to issue more than one decree?
>>731095823I'm at day 9 and haven't noticed anything wrong, besides random audio and visual glitches. Are the bugs really that bad?
>>731097316I don't know honestly, wherever I go I see people bitching about the game being really buggy after day 8 I think. Maybe you were lucky or they are exaggerating. One way or the other I'll still use it as an excuse to give myself a break since I was literally glued to my pc throughout the weekend, shit is not healthy for me.
>>731097208when you have more than one degree
>>731097316I haven't had any serious ones so far. I'm usually pretty lucky with it though.
>>731097208I was able to as soon as I had access to the board.
Bull bros, we getting eaten good tonight
>Yakov
>>731102091The true hero.
>>731102091
>>731088207They did you a favor.
>>731088207Those fucking bullniggers ate my paper
>>731078573well no wonder, vatniks, chuds and extremist people in general are incapable of creating anything substantial
>>731080989Why the fuck are you simping for the wreaker of save files? This bitch can rot for his crimes in P2 alone.
>>731096806 Do you ever get to kiss her?
>>731105047I don't remember La Rata Alada wrecking my saves in 2.
>>731105328>>All of the poor unfortunate newbies who took the deal.>>731087179Part of the American staff? There's no way they would allow that in mother Russia. (based)
How do i lure the real shabnak out? Every time i get one into the bonfire it turns out to be the fake one
>>731105531Isn't it the rag-and-bone man, Death, that offers the deal?
>>731105780Might be best to do the vaccine if you haven't. Get the number of infected districts down.
>>731106432I only have 1 infected district currently
>>731105047The rat prophet wouldn't do that. He's my friend
>>731105780Go look for her while the other is distracted. Why are you such a retard? Do you even have a degree?
>>731106729i already wasted like 10 matches running around the district doing that
>>731106729A degree in what? Made up steppe bullshit?
>>731105780re-enter the district and try again. if the fire only lights up the fake one then the fake one is the one chasing you, and it doesn't matter how many fires you start. but catching the one running away fucking sucks ass
Fuck that gay tower.
>>731110135BLOW IT UP! BLOW IT UP! BLOW IT UP!Kids must have had a field day in their gay little train graveyard. BIG fireball!
>>731105780I just shot the first shabnak I saw and save scummed it if it was wrong one lmao
>>731074929the nortubel of pathologic
>>731074929Do you ever get to romance Serafima?
>>731081485>/v/ersionmore like reddit version
>>731110262Unfortunately not.
how do I identity the solder in day 8?
>>731110492lol
what's even the point of performing euthanasia, it barely gives more amalgam than breaking a mirror and you risk fucking up and having a shard crack/break
>>731111259Pretty much nothing. Once they're done fixing bugs, I hope they consider rebalancing the game.
>>731111259I'm convinced all the game's systems were designed with the intention that all time travel, even resetting the day, would cost amalgam, and they made the decision late into development to remove that. It's the only way it makes sense.>euthanasia is pointless>there's no downside to incorrectly diagnosing a patient>you never need microscope reagents>barter values are wacky>there's tons of free shit everywhere>crafting is less efficient than bartering>there's usually more quests than can actually be done in a single iteration of a day
>>731111259One day you will run out of mirrors and you'll still end up cracking your shards.
>>731110262I think he says early on that he'd run away with her. Might be from quarantine actually
>new broken heart theme is basically EPIC ROCK COVER shit on youtubeI can understand OST being closer to P2 than to P1, but that shit is fucking inexcusable.
add sex to the next pathologic
>>731095359This is not a new ""criticism"", strictly speaking, in the same way that the games always had a tumblr following due to being artsy and fujo-friendly. But the level of gender communism you have to be on is way too high for any sane person to tolerate. There are pretty girls in the game, and the powerful women are very much of the "soft power" variety, big surprise, so the brain-damaged get mad over that. Compare with Dune, where a literal witch coven is of massive importance both in plot and in setting and in superpowers, but they exercise their influence as wives and courtesans and such.
>>731113502But the next Pathologic will be the Changeling's game...
Are there any psychos who play the days out of order?
>>731113502>>731113725>Clara helps the Saburovs conceive by guiding Alexander into correctly fucking his wife (he thought oral + swallow is how babies are made)My body is ready.
>Katerina's titties are covered even with nudity onwtf ipl?
>>731095564https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4iaNetWaNUKino
Where do I get all the items for the surgery on day 9? I only have 16 out of 17 points.
>>731113991Alexander is there to protect her modesty.I was also disappointed.>>731114060Hunt the shabnak more.
>>731113991Even if they didn't it would just be the same nude model as every other female character.
>>731111407some balancing decisions are still dogshit even then>kids and criminals and labworm all have (almost) the same barter values and never change them>100% mania does not cause a heart attack, does not prevent all dialogues, and speeds you up massively (offset by the cheapest medicine that doesn't lose its effectiveness)>balanced state is way too small and there isn't even any benefit to staying sane>50% apathy slows you to a crawl and already sends you into a suicidal doom spiral>no amalgam-spending options to weigh up against rewind like bringing items over because you should never stay apathetic for long
>>731074929The capella quest for day 9 (Where she becomes a girlboss) has disappeared entirely from my thoughts, except for lil' Vlads death. Is this intentional? If it's not, is it a quest where the outcome can actually be changed?
>>731077987Whoever made this was certainly doped out of their minds like Bowie, so you are somewhat right.
>>731074929I'm more of a "The Void" guy to be honest.Would love a remake. A well-made one with lots more places to explore and see. Maybe a "creative mode" where I can grow those pretty trees without danger would be nice too.
>>731113991The main manifestation of her mistress power is the ability to cover her tits and protect them from leering doctors. >>731095359I'm almost certain that the post is bait from the same retard posting the same one sentence question posts every thread.
>>731115297It's not a remake but is the steam version remastered? Screenshots look way better than I remember and the release date is 2016.
>>731090074I don't see that at all, the only case that might be argued is Eva and even then she is clearly meant to be a sort of comically ditsy woman.
>>731115365is duh whole game just kids pwaying pwetend???
>>731080152The absolute state of vatniggers when someone thinks war isn't actually that cool.
Is shabnak-hunting a daily affair? Does she always hang out in the same "root of the infection" distinct as the bloom? Is there a better way of discovering it than just minimizing the town-wide infection and seeing which district is still infected?
>>731115772>first questionBro, the tutorial AND the decree board tell you this.>secondShabnak's in every district a bloom can hypothetically spawn.>thirdNope.
>>731115189It's never reset for me by itself so that's probably a bug. Capella always becomes the leader though so it might not matter. Vlad the Younger becomes a Mariafag after you save his life so she always becomes the successor.
>>731115581>tumblrfag homo art>IPL are Putin's strongest soldiers>etcThe war talk seems to have gotten the most engagement so I assume it's going there will be a post every hour or so to try and reignite it. Still, this is one of the only threads I've seen in years that didn't bait every bait dangled out in front of it, no matter how shitty.
>>731115646jej
>>731115816Guess I was too MANIC in my explorations, could find neither shabnak nor the bloom the day after the hunt.
>>731113701I was looking for some Clara info from P1 and found a reddit thread with a likely title from shortly after the wife beating incident. They were bitching about how the game was ruined because Artemy sounds like a creepy rapist in the Russian script (don't know if this is true but I doubt it) and they came to believe that he's a 1 to 1 self insert for Dybowski and thus couldn't stand playing the game anymore. Long way to say that they are in fact crazy and will incorporate tons of shit that's not actually part of the game into their opinion of it. Those types of people just need to be ignored and segregated into their own ghettos.
>>731116363requiescat in pace...
why are there so many bulls. where are the cows
>>731074929The lack of immersion you get with Pathologic 3 is pretty glaring compared to 2. You really lived and breathed the town in 2. Had to eat, sleep, drink, overall it made you care more about the characters, because it was a bitch just to survive yourself.The time shenanigans are really cool from a story perspective, but it really hampers the town itself. I don't like it. Doesn't help that the difficulty isn't really there.
>>731116537ahh yes, carthago delenda est
>>731116557in the termitary getting railed all day by the gigachad stock bulls.Only the incels walk the plains. Big Vlad Wanted it this way.
>>731116326 The funniest part is how they’ll simultaneously call Artemy a power fantasy for Dybowski while ignoring that the man spends the whole game getting the shit kicked out of him by everyone from kids to plague clouds. Like yeah, real self-insert behavior, totally aspirational. Reddit always projects their neuroses onto media and then acts surprised when nobody else sees the imaginary sins they stitched together from broken translations and contextless screenshots.
>>731078285Kek, I’m working on it but I’ve been working on it for like 2 years so I get what you mean
>>731087618Ukraine joining NATO wouldn't be an issue if they didn't already have a pretense of invading it, retard
>>731116757I'm only a few hours into Pathologic 3, but I can agree. Some of my favorite moments of 2 was just walking the streets, listening to the leaves rustle in the wind while checking trashcans for supplies. All while towns people walked around and the kids played. A strange sense of serenity despite people fucking dying of sand pest just across the bridge.I get Daniil isn't from the town and yes, the fast travel does make backtracking feel less like a slog. But it still makes me feel disconnected from everything. Which again, I know kind of works for his character but as a player who loved 2, it's a bit disappointing.
>rioting districts are red (unlike grey ones full of looters before)>infected districts are now grey (unlike red ones before)>districts you put on your travel path are a very similar greyliterally why? just to mess with older players? even if red is too much of an angry color, better fitting for a riot, infected districts should have been toxic green or jaundiced yellow
>>731085052do you mind if I save this picture?I really really like it
>>731105780Go to another district
I walked the streetDespite reaching the Polyhedron's core. I blasted the Polyhedron to pieces. Probably the best ending since Daniil now has MIRACLES and SCIENCE in him and it's frame as really sweet.
>>731077921If he solves death and aging being 92 won't be much different from 28 so it will all work out in the end anyways.
>>731096806>>731105190I'm replaying 1 and almost every day she begs you to stay in and fuck instead of doing your job. Except the one time she asks you to go find some twyrine to share before you fuck.I don't have a button for that but I'm ending every day by sleeping in her bed so I'll assume she's pushing hers.>>731097208Yeah the squares go vertically, click the ones underneath. This seems obvious but anons in previous threads have missed it.Eventually you can do up to 4 a day, even.>>731111407Euthanasia is pointless in the original unmodded game too so it's at least on-brand.I think you're basically right in that a lot of the design decisions were clearly made to serve the time-travel mechanic, but with the double duty of sidestepping the backlash they got from casuals over P2. So it's understandable that they were tweaking the balance of those two factors right up until release. I'm sure they'll keep tweaking them.>you never need microscope reagentsYeah it's clearly just a fall-back option for retards.>there's tons of free shit everywhereI've done some testing and I think empty containers may even respawn eventually (at a low rate) and mirrors reset relative to your amalgam level (at a super high rate even when you have less than one vessel).So this seems deliberate at least but I think the high end (when you don't need anything) could be tuned way down. But I'm not sure how you'd achieve that, even if the bartering/economy were perfect, given that you're (initially) constantly jumping to fresh days which always comes with a massive resource spike. Design around that and players will eventually hit a resource wall after 20 hours or whatever of the game teaching them not to worry about it.
>>731116557Shut up and drink the tan.
>>731113991All the gross older patients are like this afaik.Only the cuties where it makes sense for them to have perky titties are uncovered.Devs fucking based apart from never letting us examine Grace.
>>731074929is it wrong if i write suka?
>>731118148>can still give a fond farewell to his colleaguesYou literally got the best ending.
>>731117262Feel free to debate this with Putin. The point is that this was an explicit "if A, then B" scenario for decades. I don't know what you think NATO is, but Russia was not ambiguous about enforcing a buffer zone when it comes to the anti-Russia alliance and everybody knew they weren't kidding.I don't care whether you think violating that understanding counts as NATO or Russian aggression, this is a Pathologic thread. A great place to discuss this with like-minded individuals might be Reddit.
>>731118663>farewellIdk about you but in mine Daniil convinced Serafina and the others that the creation of Thanica is stillborn/dead end and that they can move to the next. I wonder if Yulia being there helps
>>731119116>Yulia being thereNANI THE FUCK?!
>>731119207You can convince her to not give up anon. That it's not a dead end. Granted you have to sympathize with her
>>731077921very good
>>731105190What do I need to do to have proper day 12Sexy Artemy told me about bulls blood under the town (he should be more buff tho) What else, just entering the focus on day 9?
>>731074929I don't buy ruSSkie software, fuck off. Glory to Ukraine!
>>731124429Fun fact: IPL actually almost immediately and very publicly denounced the war in Ukraine, despite the fact that at that point doing so was already punishable by law, and have since changed their offical company registration location to Kazakhstan.
Can someone explain to me why I can't loot people I kill Murder is surprisingly soothing tho
>>731125439I only shot like two dudes in the whole game, but don't they vanish like you hallucinated it?I think you can loot anyone nearby who surrenders though (unless I was standing on an invisible corpse, idk).
>>731125439You can't loot the person you kill. You need to have two or more looters near each other and kill one so that the rest surrender.
>>731125203And the console ports of both (real) games are still botched. They're spiritually putinist devs. Just take a look at the silky smooth Stalker 2 framerate.
>>731125627Pro tip: just Aim at them thrice then aim at the sky. They'll act like you shot a bullet
My friend has a pretty shit taste and says that Vampyr is quite good and also similiar to Pathologic. Is that true or should I not bother with Vampyr?
>>731127482I liked Vampyr but it's a whole different beast besides that "en epidemic fucked up the town".
>>731127482The closest game to Pathologic is unsurprisingly The Void.
where to find the engineer?
>>731128483what engineer and what day you're on?
>>731128528sorry, i thought that this was a tf2 thread
>>731128528day 7For the escape
>>731128817Oh, can't help you here. I didn't even bother with escape quests. I intend to stay.
>>731128817boulder? he's in the steppe villagei don't know who's meant to tell you, i guess someone you have to talk to anyway since i thought you got that marker immediately
>>731129110Can't find him there
Will quarreling with the Kains fuck me over in the long term? Should I go back while I have amalgam?
i've been enjoying 3 and i'm glad its not more of the same. but i always liked at least the concept of artemy and clara more, even in 1 HD where their routes were just worse. i think daniil works much better as an npc, definitely more so than the other 2 protags. but then again i am an anti-intellectual schizophrenic with zealous religious and supernatural beliefs, so.
>>731129878he's the giant one wearing the engineer's capreal answer: well yeah you probably need someone to point you there.I forget who, like I said. In P1 the quest involves eva, bad grief, and the stamatins, so you could try them, (I doubt it's a stamatin though since you couldn't even talk to them on this day prior to hotfix 5).Haruspex knows steppe dudes and he's in the bar, maybe him.otherwise idk man, i'm sure the mind map tells you who to ask, read it.
>>731130093Yeah, can't interact with him at all.No white/green thingy
Will playing Pathologic 1 first enhance or lessen my experience with Pathologic 2?
>>731129893for most things I'd say don't worry about it until you have a good reason to go back.in this case I'd say yeah do it because you have to talk to them a lot, so it's possible it'll interfere with lots of little steps in various quests, and there's little mini-convos with georgie on every other day that you might as well get out of the way as you go>>731130154yeah because you don't know who he is yetdespite the fact that he's wearing the incredibly obvious hatfind someone who knows him first
>>7311302202 is just modernised 1 in many waysit plays more like my fond memories of 1 than the way 1 actually isyou can skip 1 entirely unless you're a particular fan of classic slavjank/retro gameplayyou won't miss anythingthere's no particular memberberry easter eggs or deep lore they didn't include, it's basically a remake, so i wouldn't say it enhances it eitherit's also slower and easier so it isn't the more hardcore option evenif you're me I'd say play 1, but I wouldn't be asking. for 99% of people i'd strongly recommend just starting with 2
>>731130220I wouldn't recommended a full playthrough of 1, maybe play a day or two and then jump into 2
how hard is the void? people act like it's the extreme version of pathologic and you won't get far without save scumming.
Robbing bandits has literally no drawback, you get your bullet back and the apathy doesn't matter if you are always on psychovsky mode
I wonder how someone who jumped into the series sees Burakh. If you played 2, you will just say "Artemy, you son of a bitch" and do everything you can to work together unless you roleplay as edgy emo who graduated top of his class. But I can see someone who doesn't know he's a previous protagonist think he is some schizo who talks nonsense.
>>731080152>LEAVE THE HEKKIN PUTININO ALONE!
>>731118985>but Russia was not ambiguous about enforcing a buffer zone when it comes to the anti-Russia alliancehow is the border with finland looking?
>>731130154You're told by the shepherd on Day 3 while you're looking for Peter if I remember correctly.
>>731130957most of the difficulty is in mechanics you don't understand until later, when your run is bricked. One or two of the runes you need to draw are bugged/finnicky to use. One of the releases of the game was accidentally made harder than intended iirc (either original slav or western localize, I don't recall). It's not that bad, but you might lose a run or two before you beat it.
>>731130957the thing with The Void's difficulty is that consequences of your fuck ups may reveal themselves hours later and there's no popup that informs you that you've done something bad or poorly optimized your resources
>>731131558I was wondering the same thing. Personally, I never played Clara's route in the original and every time I interact with her in 2 or 3 I'm inclined to always dismiss her as a charlatan and a fraud or to generally not take her too seriously, I wonder if I'd be treating her differently had I played her route.
>>731131746do I have to redo the whole searching then?.damn
>>731110270But it was made during a Pathologic 3 thread here.
>luv pathologic>completely filtered by the void and knock-knockbros... how do i accept the fact that i'm a fraud?
>>731132669knock-knck is fun but nothing special and for void there are mods that make it easierworth it just to hang out in gardens
>>731133421>>731132669did anyone play know by heart? the concept sounds ok but it looks like some life is strange type of game.
>fail to save Katerina>get all my resources taken awaynow what?
>>731133741same thing you'd do irl i guesskill yourself and wake up tomorrow thinking it was all a dream
>>731128085I find the closest to (this specific iteration of) Pathologic is Outer Wilds.
>>731134610Already tried everything. Wrtiting a bug report to them.
>>731133704i only know it was just a passion project for one less important IPL member
>>731133704I did. Not a lot in terms of gameplay. Even by IPL standarts, pretty much a walking sim/p&c adventure with a couple of simplistic puzzles. Hits hard in the feels but artdirection is rather boring.Overall it's okay but I shan't be replyaing it.
>>731135820>one less important IPL memberAyrat Zakirov, and he's by no means less important, just less known since Nikolai was the public face of the studio.But Ayrat is one of the studio's cofounders, the lead Dev, and now that Nikolay is gone I guess he's in charge along with Peter Potapov.
>>731136469Even though their games are notoriously buggy and have terrible performance I have immense respect for that dude for developing his own engine for P1, The Void and Cargo.
Is it ok to skip 1, or so you just miss too much context to properly appreciate 2 & 3 if you do so ?
>>731136676Especially since he learned how to do it on the fly>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1535515364/pathologic/posts/986368>Thankfully we were smart enough to change our plans and made the game in 3D—although it did take time and resources. We had to learn the basics of game development from the ground up: study Direct3D, export assets from 3D editors, lightmap the environment, write our own scripting system and AI, program environment streaming, the editor, the UI, and so on… We did all that for the first time ever, and we did it blindly. (I would love to thank our engine programmer Alexey here, but he doesn’t like publicity.)>Rookies can’t do everything right, of course. Everyone makes mistakes—that’s how the process of learning goes. The physics of the playable character, for example, worked as though he was a blind person, tapping on everything around him with a stick, looking for a patch of solid ground to put his foot on. But it did work! During the development we were in permanent awe. Here are the player’s hands, oh my god, they’re working, they’re moving, they're even capable of holding a knife! Yes, the models are crude, their animations twitchy, but they’re alive! They are walking, talking, breathing! They’re making their way through the clumsy routines! We could watch the water reflections or the fire particles for hours.
>>731133704>>731135976What I'd like to know, has ANYONE at all played Franz?
>>731136945It's worth it to at least try the Bachelor's route in 1. If you bounce off it and skip to 2 you'll miss some things but nothing ruinous. If you're a buyfag its still on sale for about a dollar.
>>731132138>differently had I played her route.I played her router and enjoyed it and I still do the same. She's fucking annoying and a nag.
>>731133704Description makes it sounds like a lame and gay version of Artemy's story.
>>731140061oh yeah, that's no way that's not pozzed as fuck. Why would you even consider that bulshit? Just find a VN.
>>731140061>>731141917It's extremely blackpilled.
I am missing one point for the surgery in Day 9I already have the blood donor, Rubin and Burakh, the correct analysisWhat else am I missing? The mindmap gave no hints
>>731142171fight shabnak more
>>731142367Do you need a certain number of kills, or do you have to 100% the hunts up until then?
>>731141917>>731140061There's nothing pozzed about it. It's rather depressing.Here's the plot:>mc is stuck on a shitty job in a rural town>dreams of leaving it but has no courage>his parents are divorced>meets with his childhood friends who are much more successful and are actually living their lives and follow their dreams>one of them is a girl who is also his crush>they recall their childhood adventures and teenage years>she actually shows some interest in the protag>they're getting closer and closer>an epidemic of a strange virus that erases people's memories happens all across the world>mc loses his friends, his crush and even his parents, no one recognizes him and treats him harshly when he tries to explain everything>in the end with nothing left he finally moves on with his life and leaves the town>his parents get together after our guy's attempts even though they don't remember being in a relationship but find each other attractive
>>731142367ntais there a dialogue for this?
>>731142367Damn it I have been ignoring them since someone told me the hunting shabnak thing aren'y necessaryDo I really need to waste all the amalgam for this
>>731142620>I'M HERE TO DEFEAT DEATH AND CHEW BUBBLEGUM, AND I'M AL->hey, is that a woman with an ovarian cyst?>I'll do everything I c- AAAAHHHH>her survival depends on bartering with Death Itself!What do you think?
>>731142702By lame and gay I just meant there's no epic plague, but even that was wrong. Bravo IPL.
>>731142620i think a certain number, because if i remember correctly i didn't have one or two up to that point, but i don't know how high
I heard 3 has bugs and softlocks, is it now more playable after the patch they released?
>>731144928still needs more patching but it's better now
>>731086328Dybovsky knew his audience and adjusted accordingly. Alphyna, who's the lead writer now, was also a big fujo for the pathologic fandom as rumours went
>>731145914>that postureI can sense that he never sealed the deal with Lara
>>731145914>rumorsDibbles confirmed he hired her because of her yaoi fanfics.
>>731146324he has a harem of herb brideswhy do you think Lara is so keen on killing herself?
>>731146324They all had her.
>>731146414Well hopefully the ever looming threat of a Dybowski beatdown keeps her from going too far. I saw a post from one of the tumblr fujoshis one time where they said that Artemy and Lara had no chemistry and that there was obvious sexual tension between Artemy and Grief. That is, to me, undisputable proof that they're simply incapable of understanding the male mindset.>man shows any admiration or affection towards another>it's homolust>beautiful and kind childhood friend? Mutliple conversations bemoaning the time they've been apart?>no chemistry
>>731147031>>man shows any admiration or affection towards anotherModern culture recognizes male friendship only as "bros making fun of each other and being jerks for shit and giggles". Everything else is gay.
>>731145914>>731146414I keep hearing it, but has anyone ever read her fanfics? Do they have any plot or are they just gay porn?
>meet Simon in the Polyhedron>call him a fag to his face and leave>sign off on the demolition of his gay origami project>disband Thanatica>refuse to elaborateMiracle-seeker is the Chadelor ending.
>>731147767I'd assume the characterization was decent if she was hired because of it. It's not like you need to be good at describing scenes in a video game.
>>731147840I mean it's based but it's ending with Bachelor fucking off to looking for other shitty magical towns.Staying in capital and doing academical work on epidemics seems better.
>>731147840>>731148357You are both right.
>>731145914Ngl Rubin having a fit about Lara being in love with Artemy calling him tall, handsome, noble, and strong while self deprecating that he's a bald fuck was hilarious.
>>731148637you know, for a sad, depressing russian game about doom, plagues and bizzare philosophy, the game is funny sometimes
>>731148637
>>731148637>Danil, come back in a few days>I promise I wont die every single morning leading up to it
>>731149796Bachelor's game is borderline comedy thanks to his dialogue options.I straight up laughed out loud at some interactions.
>>731148637This game is relentless about height.
>secrets left on map>buy glass shards>go to marker>secret is a dialogue explaining the glass shards and giving me one for free>no more secrets on map
>>731150227Just like twyrine in P2. Sometimes it's a quest, sometimes it's a conversation about the game's world.
>>731150048I'm just glad they didn't pussy out and still made him have just straight up asshole dialogue. Even his kinder lines are like>I mean you were kinda retarded for doing that, but>Play dolls instead of acting like an adult you retarded childare just fun to read
here's a shitty maymay I made intending to use as an oppic for one of the threads
>>731151010It is indeed a shitty maymay.
>>731151010what is the font youve used btw?
>>731151104Yu Gothic UI>>731151097thanks
>>731151010jej
>>731151010>romanes eunt domus
I need an advice. I want to get the bull but I don't want that smug fuck Vlad to get the satisfaction. Daniil mentioned asking Haruspex for a bull in dialogue. Can I actually get the bull from someone else or do I have to fellate Big Vlad?
>>731151808You'll have to make a deal with Big Vlad but the price will be refunded since the Kin will bring their own bull to you in hopes to help you.
>>731147840Same ending I got on my first attempt.The only regret I have is that it seems like while Yulia followed me to the capital, she didn't seem that keen on following me on my travels.
Has Path 3 solidified Dr Daniil D Dankovsky mD as the mightiest doctor in medical history?Artemy lets the plague rip through the town and kill pretty much everyone other than his mates, Clara just fucks around waving her hands at people and having an identity crisis.Bachelor fucking goes hand to hand with the metaphysical manifestation of the plague, micromanages all aspects of the town, unites all three protagonists, essentially reduces the plague to a zero threat throughout the entire 12 day period, oversees the discovery of the plague's mechanics, and has a degree.He makes Simon Kain look like a pathetic virgin and gets to go to the capital and fuck Eva and Yulia while Artemy is left with a canonically dead Lara and Clara just goes back to being dead.
>>731152459>tfw no spinoff about Daniil and Yulia investigating reports of miracles with a Mulder/Scully dynamic
3 in general seems like it loses a lot of the weird writing style of 2 and it probably has to do with the dev guy being cancelled and fired
>>731153057the game was almost finished when it happened but nice try. the whole game is more casualized but I don't care, it's still probably the best pathologic to date.
>>731153057Not really, you just spend less time with the Kin. Kains still provide a lot of schizo dialogue.
>>731153057He wrote the script though.And even in P1 Bachelor's campaign was the most grounded one hence why many recommend it as an entry point. In fact they greatly expanded on the weird aspect in P3 compared to P1.
>>731152462still a manlet
>>731152462He wins just by having Eva available for booty calls 24/7.
>>731153161>the whole game is more casualizedI really don't think I agree - yes, you don't have to manage so many punishing bars throughout the game, but the time travel and thought mechanics are deep enough that you have to put a lot more thought into how you do things than you did in 2 imo.Yes, it's less easy to completely fuck up and fail so arguably easier, but I really don't think it's casualised at all, in fact, it's probably the opposite because the systems and how they interact with each other are generally far more complex in 2.I also found 2 generally holds your hand more than 3, which just throws you in the deep end and you have to do a lot more piecing together of how the different arcs overlap.
>>731154279How far are you? Because the game sort of breaks near the end if you actually work towards combating plagues and riots. I just started day 10 and they are both basically at a minimum on the chart and I don't think I even managed my town resources well.Plus the game give you a full heal of Amalgam
>>731154093Love this image, is there more?
>>731154914I've just finished going back through days II-X and completing everything, now just about to do I-XI-XII.I'm not really talking about the plague fighting mechanics because they're more just a spreadsheet manager in the background. The core of the gameplay is making decisions on how you approach dealing with different characters on different days and the consequences those have and how they overlap.The plague management stuff is just a sideshow, but arguably still not really any more basic than it was in 2 - just not so easy to fuck everything up, but takes more investment to piece everything together than I'd argue 2 did.
The game is bugging out pretty badly as I try to polish my last three days. Stuff isn't saving as completed or updating properly, characters are coming back to life despite being confirmed dead.I'll let this get patched a bit before continuing.
can someone tell me if decrees impact the day after or not? i don't understand
>>731156687Decrees impact the current day directly.Decrees impact the following day by setting the floor for contagion/unrest.
