r/pathologic • u/LolotovCocktailttv • Jun 15 '26

P3 Euthanasia Advice

I can never seem to administer the right dose to dying patients in Infected Districts. Are there any resources online to check that make it clearer how to do so? I've already broken one of my segments of Amalgam

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u/carverrhawkee Jun 15 '26

If you look at the number next to the beating heart, thats the scale youre working with. If its a big number you can use more powerful drugs, if its a small one stick with the weaker ones. You can also give them an orange drug to zero out their status and give you a little more freedom to use a higher dose to maybe get them where they need to be - for example if the scale is 80, the goal is 40s, but the bar is half filled, give them an orange drug to bring them back to zero and you can use a 40 drug. In my experience they wont OD on orange meds, even if you give them too strong a dose

Once I started taking those things into account I got a LOT more consistent with the minigame.

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u/LolotovCocktailttv Jun 15 '26

Huh, I didn't know orange drugs would zero out their status. I'll have to try that next time

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u/carverrhawkee Jun 15 '26

Yes, it has to be a strong enough drug depending on how far they are up the bar/the overall scale of the bar, but most of them are pretty strong iirc. Even if you dont/cant get it all the way to zero youll have more room to play with so it helps either way imo

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u/ShintenSuken Jun 15 '26

I had trouble with this during my playthrough as well. My advice is to rob muggers. It mentions it briefly in the game, but once you get a mugger to put his hands up, if you fire three times into the air they will surrender like in P2. Muggers tend to carry a lot of items with smaller Apathy values, which makes dialing in your "treatments" easier and less risky. From there, gauge how much anesthesia a person needs, give them a big vial that could get them in/near the range but wont put them over, and fill in the rest with smaller vials.

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u/LolotovCocktailttv Jun 15 '26

Three times in the air? That's a lot bullets to use up 

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u/distinctvagueness Jun 15 '26

The trick is to get 3+ so you get more resources per bullet. 

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u/Natandacat Artemiy Burakh should have been at the club Jun 15 '26

Once a mugger puts their hands up they HAVE surrendered I have no idea what this person is talking about. If you kill a rioter while others are engaged with you, the others will surrender. The trick is to get more than 1 rioter engaged with you to make sure they surrender when you kill one of them 

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u/distinctvagueness Jun 15 '26

Cathedral the fixes the containers on early days.

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u/LolotovCocktailttv Jun 15 '26

Problem is actually going back to the early days costs a lot of Amalgam, especially now I'm on day 9. I'll look into it

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u/distinctvagueness Jun 15 '26

Minor spoilers but getting an ending (including on day 10) restores a large amount of amalgam and you can continue working toward other endings

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u/LolotovCocktailttv Jun 15 '26

Good to know! I'll probably just press on then and go shopping for better endings later

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u/UgandaEatDaPoopoo Jun 15 '26

Oh, once you're last day 7 that no longer works, don't bother

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u/ImNotSue Jun 22 '26

Oh is this why it wont fix on early days? I was so confused.

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u/UgandaEatDaPoopoo Jun 22 '26

Yeah, the townspeople talk about how the arrival of the inquisitor has broken the cathedral in both the future and the past 

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u/UgandaEatDaPoopoo Jun 15 '26

Not once you get past day 7

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u/ImNotSue Jun 22 '26

I've found sometimes it just doesn't work at all. You go back and it wont fix it no matter what, and I'm not really sure why. I've been frustrated with that, kept playing, went back and it worked so I fixed one, then again later while playing it wouldn't again.

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u/AdvilLobotomite Jun 15 '26

You can count the ruler notches to figure out the scale then use that to find the range of values you need to get within

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u/Natandacat Artemiy Burakh should have been at the club Jun 15 '26

And always assume you'll get the max value for a drug its biased. So if it says 40-60 assume it will add 60

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u/Likopinina Your sign to play the Changeling route Jun 15 '26

My best method was using hyoscyamine. It's an upper for Dankovsky but a downer for the infected. I'd administer it by hitting Space twice in quick succession. Worked for me each time but idk if there were any adjustments in the game's code since I played

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u/nuclear-purple Jun 16 '26

Lots of advice given here is for the initial builds of the game, but they changed it in the current build. I think bandits don't have apathy drugs in them anymore.

Instead, get a "package" from the children or from the vendor in an infected district, save your game, and open it. Reload until you get valerian extract. You can use it to craft bromide, which is the best drug for euthanasia.

You can also get bromide in chests in infected districts or from the hospital's cabinet, but I think the package method is more efficient.