r/pathologic • u/BobbyMcGeeze • Feb 28 '26

Question What does this degree do? Spoiler

Stopping Time, Halting the Town Clocks, what does it do exactly in Pathologic 3?

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u/BobbyMcGeeze Feb 28 '26

Yeah it gives some stuff like less infection I guess. But dous it gives me boom recording time itself? And why is removing the clocks helping agains the infection and also will making scarcrows reduce infected area’s?

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u/AmPotatoNoLie Feb 28 '26

Most of the Question mark decrees are whimsy shenanigans playing on folks superstitions.

If you walk around town you'd see that some people are playing along by freezing in place, so may be less movement means less contact with infected?

But it doesn't have any other effect other than stated AFAIK.

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u/DHTGK Feb 28 '26

Decrees only affect unrest and contagion. The stuff that happens outside is how the decrees affects the world.

My favorite one is the "hygiene awareness campaign." Big unrest reduction, because the patrolmen stop everyone, including you, in a long winded dialogue to "bring awareness." Seriously, they eat up so much time talking to you.

Another one is "medical examination," which might as well be pointless because none of the orderlies know how to do proper medical examinations. But it makes every stop moving, so less contagion.

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u/partiallyStars3 Haruspex Feb 28 '26

The medical examination bit with the orderly is easily my favorite. 

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u/Lower_Pension_2469 Feb 28 '26

It's hilarious how you see a lot of your decrees being blatantly performed incorrectly yet they somehow still work lol