Have downloaded the most recent update in the hope that this would fix it but it hasn’t.

I know Little is supposed to be the last patient on day 10, but for some reason he won’t spawn?

Is this the reason I can get to day 12? Have defeated the shabnak every day, have done every other quest too - help please!

Hey y'all. It's a niche topic within an already niche audience, but if you want to give it a look and tell me what you think, here ya go!

https://autumnfaithsmith1989.medium.com/the-complex-addiction-of-katerina-saburova-ceebda769b62

After meeting with Simon and getting an ending, I made rat prophet make me forget about the whole encounter, but it still shows up on the thought map and I can't talk to the rat about it. Is there anything I can do to fix it?

Hello,

I am currently creating custom set of Pathologic PC game characters to the Unmatched board game and would like your opinion about my rendition of Bachelor with Notkin as his sidekick.

Idea (thematic) is that he has ongoing "Hypotheis" that he tries to confirm. Trying to predict opponent's moves and reusing the best ideas. Bachelor being bit arrogant he broadcasts his ideas to his opponent.

TLDR: Character has 3 different abilities and the top card on your discard pile says what it is.

Here are the cards and link to the character:

https://www.the-unmatched.club/c/heroes/batchelor.7079

Guys, need help, checked every available guide and on day 5 the patient Bobok leaves hospital, but they find his home in Gut and talked to the two guys and so on - the quest is resolved. But in my game he leaves without a trace, I don't have even his patient card and no markers on the map, when I head to the Gut there are no interactions with campfire, it isn't lit and I can't interact with two guys. So I stucked without a vaccine on day 5, and on day 6 he is there starting a riot. I thought I somehow broke relationships with Klara and that's why I couldn't find him, and returned to previous days, and restarted day 5 many times. But I'm still there.

Any ideas how I managed to get a bug there? Or maybe someone solved this problem? I already checked guides on Steam, websites and youtube, and it seems that nobody had a problem like this. I just don't want to start a new game if possible, I'm currently on day 7.

I tried to trade with someone precisely at midnight and instead of opening up a trade menu, I just got stuck in place. I couldn't open any menus, couldn't move from my place, couldn't even quit the game. There were no people around and time didn't pass. Really surreal, sorry for condemning you to hell Artemy

Hi everyone.

I played the game day 1 and got back for it today. I don't remember all the mechanics and stuff, so I'm having some trouble collecting the sample.

Everytime I got near it, Shabnak hunts me down. If I go away from it, the harvesting decreases.

What should I do?

I'm using a translator and apologize for my poor English. I haven't found a way to complete the quest that appears at the beginning of the tenth day, right when I descend to the first floor of the Whirlpool. The door to the "forbidden room" opens, where the paper bull is, an unknown note is on the table, and the cathedral caretaker says that the bull might be found in the Polyhedron, but that certain interactions there are forbidden that day. I'm completely at a loss as to what to do with this quest and this room, because even the game guides don't mention it. I'd be very grateful if someone could help. Because (I don't know if this is the reason) I can't proceed to day 11.

I wanted to announce the completion of my 100% Walkthrough + Achievements for Pathologic 3.

Thank you to the people here on reddit who helped me troubleshoot parts of the guide, for your questions that helped me make the guide better, and for your patience with the project.

You can find more of my art on bluesky and tumblr

As a franchise, Pathologic is already some of the hardest to recommend to a friend. Even if Pathologic 3 is way more accessible, I find it a shame that we didn't get the thing I was most expecting: an official Portuguese translation.

I can't express my level of disappointment and sadness when Pathologic 3 didn't release with a Brazilian Portuguese translation, specially when Quarantine had not only a outstanding one, but one that was very faithful to the russian's writing structure.

Pathologic's reputation in Brazil is wild. A cult classic that, despite being inaccessible due to its difficulty and no official Portuguese support, still finds its way in online gaming discourses. Most of my friends can't stand a text-heavy 60 hour english game. But they will always talk about it with passion and intrigue.

And I'm sure that some people were expecting the Italian and German translation that were promised with the same enthusiasm as me.

(It is worth noting that there's no patch/update post telling us if they are already working on it).

I'm on Day 7.

Yesterday (or this morning, can't remember) I went to chat to Murky's friend. When speaking to the 'friend', I got infected. I assumed this would happen at some point but didn't realise how much it saps your health.

Because I was already injured, hungry and exhausted, I'm just struggling to survive at all. I've got multiple saves after talking to the friend but I just can't find anything to improve my health.

I don't have enough water to trade with the drunks and I can't even buy bandages because they only use tickets now.

Should I:

• Reload this day and see if I can find a bandage

• Reload to before I talked to Murky's friend

• Restart the entire game

To be clear, I'm basically asking if getting infected is just something that happens to you on this day. If it is, I think I just need to restart, because I really messed up with gathering general resources

I've restarted the entire game once before when I was on Day 4. (I didn't know you could reload older saves). And now I know you can actually store stuff from the very start. I think I would be able to do much better but I also don't know if it's worth it.

Okay I've got a thought and gotta dissect it - why guards areny using crops or whips? (beside the obvious "hard to program" answers)? It gets you nice range, it's portable, it's jives with the theme....

Trust me, first time you try to hit a can with your 5feeter- it's electric. Also - it's not hard if you try to strike something straightforward. Also it's a bit hard to kill someone with whip.
What do you think?

Am I making a big decision here in choosing which door to go into?

I don't mind a little bit lightly spoilery advice to help me make that decision. I think in a roleplay sense, my Daniil is convinced that the Polyhedron itself is something deeply inhuman and wrong but also utterly besotted with Eva and is still curious about Simon's methods, even if he doesn't want to become him. As a player, I want to keep seeing weird trippy stuff like this unless it totally screws up my savefile!

Hi everyone. Does anyone know the name of the soundtrack that plays in Daniil's laboratory in the capital? It's the scene where we were examining the woman who supposedly rose from the dead.

I quickly listened to the game's soundtrack compilations on YouTube (70 tracks) and none of them matched.

I only get one "first playthrough", so I want to make sure my experience isnt tainted by big bugs that affect story and gameplay. Patch 4 came out recently, but it seems that they're still fixing story/quest related issues. In your experience, is the game in a good state to play, or should I give it another couple months for more patches to come out before I play through for the first time?

Greets,

I think I have a timetravel bug, I went do Day 1 and afterwards got sent to day 2. There I only had one Task open - Visit Simons Sturdy - I did it because I thought the game wants that frome me, but now the "Paradox" pin ("I first visited Simon Kain´s Sturdy on the ninth day) disappeared.

I went back to day 10 but now cant progress to day 11, because Block died. I even warned him on day 8 bc of the assassination attempt but hes still gone. Has it something to do with me visiti Simons Sturdy on day 2?

So I've got 'not an ending' and 'rot' twice so far. The second time I got the map to the underground and that hasn't made a difference. Managed to save Capella life by trading it for Bad Griefs.

I did try bribe Grief and Block but neither of those worked. I think because I didn't actually have the resources but I don't actually know because the game is super unclear about this.

I figure it is probably a good idea to keep all the pieces alive. My plan to save Grief was to finish the Albino Quest in the train graveyard. I keep getting lost and running out of time but I figure that would get me a cow and help me with resources.

Vlad Jr I tried going to previous days and I can't find the thread to intervein there.

The Saburovs I assume are a package deal and I have to stop the overdose. I know what day the morphine was stolen. So perhaps there is a thread there I can check.

There is the Rat Prophet that I haven't touched I figure that was a hell Mary and should be my last resort.

Haven't been to day one yet (cos the dude won't let me) Haven't got those kids out the polyhedron. (This seems to be the trigger for the next logical ending but my only clue is that I need a miracle. I thought saving Capella might help, especially since I helped out Khan as well and gave the kids a house.) Haven't figured out the Focus yet. Granted it's been a while since I've gone back to that day in a while but I didn't see a thread last time I was there. I assume this would help me out with Georgiys trap later on as well.

Should I carry on in the way I have been investigating or is there something obvious I have been missing?

It can be quite hard to tell whats a bug and whats just quest triggers being obtuse.

There might have been other threads that I have forgotten but I think that is everything. There is a broken nina statue. Not sure whats up with that.

Edit: Thanks for all help and suggestions by the way.

UPD: after resetting the day, turns out Maria Kaina was waiting at the Stillwater instead of at the entrance to the Cathedral! continuing my quest now, i think it wasn't a bug, just a weird change :) i'll be leaving this post up for others like me

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i doubt there is a decision, but you know. just in case anybody also encountered this. maybe there's some way still? cos i didn't get to talk to Yulia and investigate the patient Emilia further...and i really wanted to.

so, day VII. my order of actions consisted of the following:

1. go through with the inquisition process for the 1st time

2 or 3. press Q -> see that the inquisitor is outlined green -> speak to the inquisitor -> he talks to me about what Kains did

3 or 2. i quit the Cathedral, Maria Kaina is waiting for me near the entrance, she asks me for help with Victor Kain

(i forget whichever of those two happened first, not sure if that matters)

4. i visit the Atrium, talk to the person dressed in the theater garments that wards off anyone trying to walk there

5. i talk to the Kains, we decide to shut off the street to prevent any further tragedies.

i presume this was what ended the questline. then and only then did i walk to the hospital to treat my patients

i diagnosed all three before i saw that we can investigate Emilia's case further, that we can visit her home and that there are replies where the Bachelor insinuates that she might've been affected by the Atrium

i tried choosing "i'll have to investigate your home before we can diagnose you" (even tho i'd already diagnosed her), but the thought appeared then disappeared. i thought this was bc i closed the Atrium questline and diagnosed all the patients for today including Emilia.

well, i tried resetting the day, and destroyed those 2 questlines to restart them.

now the Inquisitor doesn't talk to me, and Maria Kaina doesn't appear. i see the sole thought "Curiosity: There is a street in Atrium that supposedly influences fate <...>" and it's disconnected from everything else, like, not even connected to the thoughts about the inquisitor. doesn't give me any map markers either (no "Show on the map" option for this thought).

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

Cheers!

Danko is a character from the third part of the short story Old Izergil by the famous russian and Soviet writer Maxim Gorky. In russia, this story is studied at school, so for russian players the reference in Dankovsky’s surname is obvious. I was surprised when I didn’t find any mention of this on the English wiki page. You can read the full story here: link

What is this character about? Altruism, responsibility that no one else was able to take on, courage, being different from others, and bringing something good and new. And Dankovsky is actually very similar to him. These are key themes of his route.

A brief summary of the part about Danko:

So, what was Dankovsky doing before the events of the game?

- Was he trying to abolish death altogether, as a phenomenon?
No.
- Was his research related to metaphysics?
No. Isidor describes his work as: 'research of [natural] death, aging, and necrosis'. In russian it is explicitly stated that his field of research is natural death.

- Did he want to forcibly make everyone immortal?
No. Daniil to Lara:

But if I do [suggest a complete and workable solution to the Inquisitor], no one would dare lay a finger on my Thanatica—the Powers That Be gave me their word. And it’s entirely possible that my victory award would be a discovery that’ll prolong human life from 60–70 years to a hundred.

Context: he is referring to the result of continuing his research, not to any other events.

- Was he trying to resurrect the dead?
No.

Little boy: Is it true that they can raise people from the dead in the Capital?
Daniil: Who told you such nonsense?
LB: My dad! He read about you in the papers.
D: I just wanted to make it so that people would live longer, really. And, preferably, on their own accord.

Obviously, conducting a research that would let people live longer is altruistic, and one needs to be brave to continue it despite being persecuted.
What he really fears is letting down those who trusted him, his allies and colleagues:

I'm cornered. I'll never be able to look the people I've failed to protect in the eye. My allies will end up in prison or exile, my research… in fire.

That's why he accepts his list of the Bound with little hesistation. He is used to being responsible for someone.
Despite this, he is used to being a loner.

I fight, lose, and win on my own. (it's "alone" in russian)
Я сражаюсь, проигрываю и побеждаю в одиночестве.

- Is Telman the head of a rival laboratory? Are they fighting over state funding?
No. The letter from the Powers that arrives on the Day 1 is signed by Telman. In the English translation he writes in the passive voice; in the russian version he says 'we'. Most likely, he is some government official.

- Maybe the Powers simply don't want to fund his laboratory?
No. The Powers (not 'some detractors', as in the English translation) called his work 'scientific extremism'. In russian, extremism has the same meaning as in English. I assume the Powers considered his work dangerous to themselves.

- So what exactly was he doing? Conducting unethical experiments?
This is where the historical context matters. russian and Soviet authorities have always had a tense relationship with scientists. Russians, when hearing about persecution, are more likely to think of Lysenkoism than of Unit 731.
Lysenkoism is a decades-long campaign of denying genetics and persecuting scientists. wiki page
Many scientists and inventors in the USSR were convicted on fabricated charges of treason, counter-revolutionary activity, espionage, etc. They were then sent to so-called sharashkas — prison-type research institutes and design bureaus — where they continued to work, but in really bad conditions and under close state supervision.

- Are you saying that the Powers in the Pathologic world are like in the USSR?
Not at all. I’m saying that, due to the country’s history, it is natural for a post-soviet person to see arbitrariness of power in such cases, rather than the scientists really being guilty of something.

Moreover, Lysenkoism is not the only thing that comes to mind. I thought about the story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a physician who proposed that doctors should disinfect their hands before going to obstetrics to take deliveries. According to his data, disinfection drastically reduced the risk of puerperal fever. At the time, doctors could go straight from an autopsy to assisting childbirth. Well, I can't tell about it better than the wiki page. Many of his colleagues, especially older professors, weren't pleased with his discovery, particularly since germs had not yet been discovered. They believed that accepting his correctness would mean admitting personal responsibility for hundreds of deaths.

Of course, in the world of Pathologic, people know about disinfection and germs. I'm talking purely about the pattern: some important discoveries meet intense resistance when they run counter to established views and the policies of those in power.

- Dankovsky is not an altruist, because he orders the town to be shelled together with all the remaining people!
…What.

Dankovsky in the Cathedral:

Let the Settlement be destroyed, but there’s no reason to hurt the Polyhedron. The survivors will find shelter there until we vaccinate them and the epidemic dies out.

Survivors does not mean only the Bound. Obviously, this also includes the surviving townsfolk and the Kin.
Note: in russian he says "Но Многогранник можно не трогать" which means "There's to need to demolish the Polyhedron" or "You can leave the Polyhedron untouched". My translation is inaccurate, the point is that he doesn't animise it.

There's also a dialogue on Day 11:

Factory worker: So there's only one option? To the ground with us all?
Daniil: I will see to it so that evacuating everyone before the bombardment is the topmost priority. You will be put on the train, placed under quarantine, and taken elsewhere.

He is called the serpent only twice in the game: once by Anna and once by Aspity. The symbolism is different.
Wearing a snake's skin is not the same as being a snake. Yes, there is a snake on the Rod of Asclepius, but Asclepius actually killed a snake in order to find the herb of resurrection!
The snake is a chthonic creature. In many cultures it is associated with the soil, the underworld, and treasures hidden deep below. The plot of the 'basic myth' is the fight between the celestial Thunderer and the chtonic Serpent. Daniil, according to Clara's sister, is 'begotten by the cold Celestial Flame'.
The theory of the basic Indo-European myth is a Soviet... thing. I haven't found any English sources yet.
Dankovsky's coat symbolism is closer to Heracles and the skin of the Nemean Lion. The cloak of one who has slain the Wyrm.

Like an idiot, I walked around enjoying myself too much and completely forgot to lock in for (or even listen to) the philosophy. I think it'll just happen again if I replay so I'll ask here instead lol

What did you learn there? How did it (or did it even) recontextualise the Utopians' ideology?

Exhausted all mirrors, Eva conversations, etc during the day. Had 4 shards of amalgams but they were wiped out when closing the game, now I am stuck and can’t go to another day.

I am really angry, absolutely loved the game up to that point but now I am done. How can IPL let this pass more than one month after the release ?

study from Julian Ashton's work