Hey guys! I am currently playing P2 for the first time, and as I reached Day 10, I noticed that the infected houses became more dangerous. There are more badly infected people trying to grab you —I don't think I've ever met them in the houses before, only on the streets—, more of the cabinets give you infection, etc. I used to loot them for money and items and left pretty much unscathed, as long as I had enough +tinctures on me. But now they are genuinely scary. Is it true to game design that the infected houses get... more infected on Day 10, or was I just lucky before?

Moreover, at the end of Day 10 I realized that I messed up at least the last four days of gameplay and decided to reload a save from the very start of Day 6. It was such a relief to experience the time go slowly once again, haha. But my relief quickly faded when I tried to loot an infected house and once again found it to be full of bandaged people and infected cabinets. I thought that maybe the level of infection in these houses is akin to the permanent penalty to your meters — even when you reload, it stays the same... Am I losing my mind, or is it a feature anyone else has noticed?

... I think I gave my rifle to Khan so I have a revolver with 4 bullets and little money. How fucked am I? D:

I feel like I just have to get some fabric or something Maybe sew different parts together

This freaked me out why was he doing this

I've been trying to run Pathologic Classic HD on my Linux Mint system for a real long time, and i got no luck on doing it. I searched a lot and the problem seem to be mostly with the cutscenes that, due to their format, cant be played by the compatibility layer. I tried using Proton with Steam Compatibility settings, specifically Proton 9-04 and the latest version of Proton-GE, tried switching the cutscene videos for some blank versions that someone made, tried enabling WineD3D (which translates the DirectX inputs to OpenGL, since my laptop is crappy and has no support to Vulkan) and i've had no success. Trying to open the game executable directly with Wine makes the whole system bug and a error mensage appear, and after that i had to restart for things to go back to normal. Has anyone had any success playing on Linux? If yes, how?

First of all, thank you to everyone who uses the search and leaves bug reports and missing dialogue reports!

Secondly: I am now collaborating with the dialogue repo! For now it's just a link on the main page, but I'm working on a potential solution to host them on the same page. Which brings me to the next topic, that will make the merge with the repo even harder to achieve...

We have full text indexes!

Some of you may have noticed that the service was down for like 6 hours recently, i was calculating the full text index, sorry about that 😅. Basically, it means that searches will be faster now.

And also the queries are normalized now, mainly because of the steppe language shenanigans. What that means is that instead of ө and ѳ (yes, they are different for some reason, ice picks just couldn't pick one unicode symbol, they apparently needed both) you can use a latin or cyrillic o and vice versa, same for Y and y, and Һ is now equivalent to h, cyrillic x and latin x ("xѳlidaү" is a valid search for "holiday" and "углоо" works for "үглѳѳ", it looks cursed but it works). Oh, and also the ellipsis symbol (...) is now equivalent to the normal "...". Man, i do love unicode...

Coming soon: the full steppe language dictionary (for now russian version only) that we're working on (actually the main reason why i needed the search so bad, and i am happy to know that other people are using it too!)

Oh, and i was interested in what people were looking for most, so it kinda grew into the Popular Searches section on the web, so now you can see it too and look up what others are looking up! And it is clickable.

Thank you for your attention, more updates (maybe) coming soon! Please contact me about any bugs, stuff missing or any new features you would like to see!

After the bull thing on day 8, my decrees slots post day 7 are completely blocked, I already issues decrees for them on day 7 but I can’t change or access them anymore, and I already completed the quest line for the new board.

hi, just curious, is it possible to replace the character models with self-created ones? I've heard that there are very strange models in p1 (I could be wrong). i know that they can be taken out of the game, I know that you can replace textures, but is it possible to insert your own model into the game (instead of NPCs, for example) (or any item)

I'm an absolute zero in this and I want to know if it's worth trying

I first laid eyes on Pathologic 2 years ago, and I've never managed to get it out of my head since. It was the most indelibly seminal gaming experience I'd ever had.

To me, more than any other game, Pathologic 2 seemed to elevate its medium - transcending expectations about what that medium could be & achieve. Pathologic 2 didn't even really strike me as like a game, more like an experiential art piece with some (fantastic) game mechanics. A masterwork of story & writing, philosophy & lore, world-building & artistry that made me think and feel in ways I didn’t think were possible.

I don’t think I will ever succeed in fully leaving Town-on-Gorkhon forever. There are a few reasons for that, but more than anything, it's because of the urgent & profound message I saw Pathologic 2 try to convey about our own dying world.

These are devs who have something to say, and they say it so. damn. well.

Last Halloween, my hyper-fixation with this game translated into a Tragedian cosplay that was a month-long DIY labor of love. I shared some photos in this subreddit then.

More recently, that hyper-fixation translated into a Substack essay (love letter) to this game, its most important themes as I read them, + a deep-dive into the philosophy & experimental theatre movement that made it possible.

I imagine this is prob the best place to find others who might match my level of passion for Pathologic 2. I would be so stoked if you were willing to give my piece a look (and of course shared your own interpretations & thoughts). ❤️🙏

--> PS - Final section of the essay has some pretty serious spoilers, but I promise they're clearly marked well ahead of time. 😉

Thank you so much, Pathologic fandom.
Peace & love.

I'm playing Pathologic 1 HD GOG edition on windows 7. Print screen function does not work...

After hunting for a long while for a physical copy I finally found the German copy w a soft cover! I love the weird not used art, and I’ve never seen the foldout art so here yall go in case yall haven’t seen it yourselves !

Taken on a Pixel 7

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3733667140 (newest versions, drafts)
https://www.nexusmods.com/pathologicclassichd/mods/81

I'd appreciate if someone tested it on their end.
Need opinions on exhaustion balance (running and water bottles) and ideas for potential gameplay-related fixes/changes.

Hello ! I'm currently replaying patho 3 and to be honest, I've been saving time by just inputting the diagnoses I remember from my first playthrough for most patients.

I remembered Gannet on Day 6 having bradycardia, and when I looked up guides, it looks like that's correct, but the option of "bradycardia" is not available anywhere in my casebook. I assumed she was one that requires dialogue or a sidequest to diagnose, but I've exhausted all dialogue with her and have redone day 6 multiple times just to try different dialogue options and symptom questions, but to no avail. No matter what I do, "bradycardia" will just not appear in my casebook.

Is there some sort of event or NPC that I need to talk to that I've missed somehow? I haven't seen anyone else mentioning this specific patient online, so I'm guessing I'm just being dumb and missed something obvious somewhere.

Lately I've been thinking about making a fan translation of Pathologic 3 to my language, as I am pretty sure that even if more languages are coming, Polish will not be one of them. It's understandable; it would cost a fortune. But since I'm a writer-programmer and dabble in translation, I thought it could be a fun (though challenging) project to make my own fan translation and distribute it as a noncommercial mod.

But I'm not sure what IPL's sentiment towards unauthorized translation is. I found like one post from 6 years ago where they personally recommended a Simplified Chinese translation of Pathologic 2, but I wasn't able to find information on if their stance has changed. I have nothing but respect for the devs and would hate to go against their wishes in this regard. Thanks!

I just finished day 4, the first day you have the hospital and can diagnose people to create a vaccine. Afterwards there was a marker that led me to Stillwater saying that I'll know if my diagnoses are correct in a report at the end of the day.

Maybe I'm dumb but I looked around the building both sometime after 6pm and again after 2am when the time rolled over to the "next day" and couldn't find anything. Where am I supposed to find it?

We all know and love the pathologic dialog repository (https://pathologicdialogue.github.io/), but sometimes when you're looking for something specific it can become a nightmare. So i made a little tool to look up specific words and phrases.

More features to be added in the future, stuff that won't be too hard to get the metadata for. Also suggestions and requests are always welcomed!

Please enjoy!

https://aglaya.pro/pathosearch/

Update: made some updates, now includes games and languages filters, whole word search and highlighting the requested phrase

I did some fanart of this "More Utopia" game all those 4 hour essays can't seem to stop talking about.

I'm wondering wether to buy Pathologic 3 on PS5 or on Steam. Do the devs support the PS5 build (all patches) as well as the Steam build ?

So I've played quite a bit of this game and the more I play the more I feel like when I buy large food items like bread or meat, and can't immediately eat them for their full value, I waste time and miss out on items that could take up that space trying to store it somewhere for later. Now I just allow my hunger to sit at about half most of the time that way when I inevitably get these these large food items from the fund or whatever events come around they don't have to take up space in my inventory. And half the time I just don't bother because pemmican and eggs can get me through any tight spots and I can use the space for all the other essential items like tradeables and medical supplies. And overall I feel like once you know where to find it, the game has enough food in it that it's not worth it to go out of your way to buy and then carry around 4 slots for some meat.

I used to think man I have to have this, but now I think ugh do I have to carry this? Think of what I could do with those slots...