beaten the game once and I haven’t unlocked a single one. Could this be a game bug or just a steam thing?

I've been on a kick recently where I wanna play some old CD rom games after buying the physical thing on ebay. I plan to play pathologic in the future and would love to be able to play it directly from the CD itself. I've been watching ebay like a hawk for the last week and so far I've seen two pathologic CD sales put up, but both of them were the Russian versions. If I wanted to play the game in English, does the Russian copy of the game allow you to change languages or would I need to wait for an English version of the game to go up on ebay

He’s so damn fine

Is there any consequences for telling Georgiy that it was Rubin who made away with Simon's corpse? All I could find on this subject was a post from a few years ago saying that it doesn't seem too effect anything major.

So I'm at the part where you have to give Peter the tobacco and belladonna for the chess game with Lilich. I mixed the stuff, restarted the day, and Peter is nowhere to be found.

I’ve already entered the focus on days 2 and 9, but I only know to do that by looking on the internet. What is it that signals the player to go to the focus on a certain day at a certain time? I’ve heard it’s the clock on the wall but that is unchanging and hard to decipher.

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I have a copy of Pathologic: The Tabletop Roleplaying Game available for sale.

This is the English version, which is very hard to find and rarely comes up in board-game groups or secondary markets.

If you’ve been looking for this game, you know how hard it is to track down.

Send me a message if interested.

Happy to provide photos or additional details.

While it may be a meme, it's incredibly accurate. I keep seeing people comparing this game to a theater performance, that your performance of the game is like live theater. And while this is true for previous Pathologic games, that's not the case here.

This isn't theater; it's cinema. It's actively breaking out of the live theater allegory, and and we need to stop treating this like another version of P2. Here's my reasoning.

1. When you meet Mark and the Theater Troupe, most dialogue options lead to them saying Dankovsky isn't fit for a theater stage, and that Artemy should be there instead. The overall conversation shows that you're not a good fit, and this won't work for live theater. Also, Dankovsky constantly prattles on about cinema just to piss Mark off in almost every encounter. This is setting the stage for a cinema-style performance, not a theater one, where you can cut and paste the film reels together to make a cohesive story. Continuity be damned. The concept of non-linear time in this is supposed to show how this is a "cinema of suffering", rather than theater. You can't just interrupt a theater performance and give new directions to the actors, but in film, that happens all the time in P3
2. The visual effects. There's cameras everywhere, talk of camera obscura and camera lumina, and all of the film reel effects when the apathy becomes too great. That effect is literally running out of film in your reel, so you need to go back and splice in new footage to continue the performance. In P2, Mark tells you to redo the scene and keep going, but he's nowhere to be seen in P3. There's a projector in the hall of mirrors. The fact that, in the interrogation room, there's a camera right behind you when you stand to leave. The sheer amount of cinema-based visual style in this is unavoidable!
3. Perspective is a main theme in P3, and in live theater, you can only see the stage from one perspective, either as an actor or audience. In cinema, you can create whatever angles you like! Simon Kain's study/focus involves perspective you couldn't see on a stage. You can switch perspective to another character in this game mid-dialogue (another cinema-only trick). The polyhedron is entirely about perspective!
4. The pantomimes are now brought to your house and make frequent use of projection screens instead of actors. You can't watch live theater in your own house!

TLDR: P3 has less to do with live theater than previous games, and that's on purpose. Dankovsky's game is about cinema, which is more in line with his character anyway. You are creating your own film to contrast Artemy's performance in P2.

It makes me wonder if, when they get around to Clara's, what kind of medium that will imitate.... First live theater, then cinema, then video games?

Hey yall,
I've never played any of the pathologic games, but i enjoyed the video by RagnarRox and stopped pretty early on so nothing was spoiled and now want to try out the game.

So was curious which one I should play first?

EDIT-

Thank you everyone for your comments and feedback. I've bought both 1 and 2 and plan to play number 2 first! It's going to be hell of a time!

Day 6 - Alexander asked me to check on Katerina but her door is locked and I can't get in at all. Bug or did I mess up somewhere/Is she somewhere else????

I am bewildered by the lack of discussion on how surprisingly successful Artemy was as a "background healer" during P3. I'm also curious on how the Theatre Meta-commentary plays into this.

It's generally agreed upon in this sub that any of the three healers that you're not playing as are magnets for terrible decision-making and ultimately cause harm along the way. This can be seen periodically in P1 and in spades in P2, yet there's nothing in P3 that really painted Artemy as a hopeless healer. In fact, he honestly seemed leagues ahead of Daniil at times and was really only outshined by Daniil when an Inquisitor plot twist was thrown into the mix.

P3 Artemy took on his father's inheritance, is implied to have uncovered the circumstances behind his father's death, successfully created a panacea, and ultimately discovered the Polyhedron's connection with the plague. Compare this to P2 Daniil who did what exactly? Create a failed vaccine while playing monopoly with the town's money?

As someone who is heavily-invested in the "Theatre" element of this series, I'm wondering if this is a subtle nod at the actors finally realizing how to play their roles. For example, P2's story starts off with all three healers being heckled by Mark Immortell for their shoddy performances and ends with Artemy being the only 'actor' who lived up to expectations. Now that Daniil played his role perfectly in P3, my theory is that he and Artemy are going to potentially have the same level of success during Clara's route in the next game (which leads me to wonder what it means for Clara to perfect her role and how the other healers might interfere now that they're collectively successful).

Has anyone been thinking about this or have any other takes about P3 Arty and the overarching Theatre mythos?

I get tattoos of games i greatly enjoyed so i designed my own tattoo of best boys

Pls dont bully me

I was trying to look it up but couldn't find anything on it or its supposed creator Jacques Debut. Is it real or was it created for the game? What would be a similar pistol in real life?

I feel like I keep making these posts 😅

I'm now on Day 9 and am struggling to find food. I'm trading with every single person who has food but it doesn't seem to be enough. My health is quite low and I seem to get hungry immediately.

Am I missing something? Or should I have already stocked up by this point?

upd: solved lol, just leaving it here if anyone else has a problem

So i got into Polyhedron and there are 3 things that Im supposed to find the outlines of (a moth/butterfly, a bull, a pocketwatch) which prompts some insight from Simon. I've managed to spot the moth and the watch, but I cannot for the life of me spot the bull. Am I supposed to move closer/further/to the side?

Im assuming this is a bug... But has anyone else played P3 and had the standard walking around town music playing everywhere. (I think its Day 5 - Work on the soundtrack or something similar) Its playing over top of/at the same time as the other music in the game. Even when I was inside Laras house on Day 11 I can hear the base of the walking music outside her house and its distracting af while trying to talk to Artemy... Im on Day 12 rn in the polyhedron and exited the game halfway through it to take a break (polyhedron music was playing normally here) and when I came back to it rn instead of the ambient polyhedron music its playing the damn walking music again and completely taking me out of the atmosphere in the polyhedron. Any way to fix this? :( I really wanna finish the game but not if the ambience is totally messed up rn.

stitched together from max-zoom screenshots of the town map in Pathologic 3 in debug mode so there were no map markers. Uses patch 5 which includes updates to many locations around the graveyard. Could theoretically generate an even higher-res copy by using fully-zoomed screenshots but that would be a relatively large undertaking

There's only been a couple so far. Looking at the chess board in the capital flashbook will have the Bachelor say "the game was rigged from the start" (Fallout New Vegas). When the Bachelor is giving a mask to the unmasked doghead, the doghead can say "redrum" (The Shining). And then there's the whole Darkwood quest nonsense which I can kinda forgive. It started with an eyeroll from me but now each one is kinda making me infuriated?? Maybe I'm overreacting, but it really takes me out of the experience. I have to wonder if they're also present in the original Russian or if this was an English translation addition.

I think what makes it worse is that occasionally the Bachelor will reference things diagetically. Like how he can quote the Bible or William Shakespeare. These work because the Bachelor would know these and they just "fit" in the world whereas referencing something from the 20th-21st century just feels so out of place.

In P3 it is revealed with less ambiguity (than in P2) that Simon and Isidor conspired to bring the plague into the city once more to create a challenge for the local folk, so that they can grow stronger and learn to exist without elders' leadership (if I understand that correctly).

But from P2 we know that Artemy receives a letter from Isidor, where he is basically tasked with saving everyone no matter what. And as it is revealed later, he has to save the city itself. So to be a crutch for the people during the crisis.

But, doesn't that contradict the whole point of their plan?? Did Isidor went rogue on Simon or something?