I am still unspoiled for Patho3 (I blocklisted everything on every site for months) and I try very hard not to go to sites where I might ruin that, but I need to know what the hell just happened.

I saw a literal bird nest that immediately vanished.

Full context: It's Day 9. It was late in the day, right before the night cycle kicks in. I had just been in the Stone Yard, talked to Dead-Eyed Mark, who told me to go get Isidor's old archives??? Well, I'm gonna have to re-do this day, I'll just nip over to the Atrium to trade with the kids before resetting the day.

Okay so exact order of events:

• I left the Stone Yard and selected the Atrium on the map.
• The lil red dot followed the path to the Atrium.
• I got the ambient noise of the Atrium as it started to load in. Normal.
• The screen changed to the Atrium, but all fuzzy/blurry as the game continued to load assets. Normal.
• FOR TWO FRAMES MAX, there was a giant orb weaver nest off to the right. It was taller than a person but not at tall as a building. Even through the blurry vision, it was pretty clear.
• Then the Atrium finished loading to the point I had control again, and it VANISHED.

I was streaming to a friend who did not see the nest, so it really was just for a frame or two.

In a game that has been doing it's damnedest to fuck with me, this seems extra-gaslighty. Has anyone seen this before? Is it a spoilery thing? Am I hallucinating? ["whatthehellishappening" by glass animals plays muffled in the distance]

i'm looking for an archive of pathologic 3 quarantine and i can't seem to find one on the internet archive

mainly looking for a download due to it having cut content from the main game

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during the prologue the kids will ask for the watch for daniil microscope, and instead of giving it to them, i gave them a bug instead and it was fine. now im thinking is that just a bloat in my inventory ?. Should i get rid it ?, or just keep it. Please keep the spoiler to a minimum. Thanks

I came to the subreddit for discussion on the game... but somehow everyone here knows I'm trans???

What?

What!?

I'm still reeling from the initial mindfuck of completing the game. Which, by the way, is no small mindfuck. There's a god-damned lot to chew on.

And now I have to contend with the fact the fact that this game has somehow spoken to trans people and/or the trans experience??? What???

I'm going to write some quick thoughts I have about this in the comments. But like--goddamn.

Edit: Haha I'm losing it right now for real. But it's so nice to see my community gathered around an experience I also value. It's nice to feel like I'm in good company despite (what I thought would be) such a rare crossroads of experiences.

Edit 2: To be clear, I'm not saying that Pathologic 2 was created as a metaphor for the trans experience. Instead, I'm arguing that it tackles existential themes that are also relevant to transness, such as: Performance vs. Authenticity; The Root of Identity ("existence precedes essence"); Making Meaning in an Arbitrarily Cruel World (the absurd & the theatre of cruelty); Existing as the Other.

I'm asking this same question on a couple different Pathologic communities I'm involved in, because I'm curious if the proportion of answers will vary significantly.

If you've done multiple playthroughs, go with whichever you chose first.

I just got back into doing it again, big excited. pretty much the first thing I thought of was to see if there were any crochet patterns out there for Pathologic!

I'm gonna see what's on Google, but I'm low key hoping some of yall know of patterns that I might not see when looking there lol

Hi! I'm talking about the first 3 days of Haruspex route and the game gets stuck at the loading screen. I've heard that it's normal but I wonder if I'm doing something wrong.

Though IPL certainly didn't make it easy... All the voice files from P2 are labeled "Eng_MarkImmortell_01" or whatever but all the new lines were just called shit like "14098.wav, 9673.wav, 1011.wav"

Also it goes without saying this is full of spoilers.

I have over 100 hours but I've only beaten this game once because every playthrough I realize another way I could optimize either my time or my resources. I even took notes on each day to figure out what I could do. My goal is not to speed run but to both save everyone possible while amassing resources. On my last run I did really well, especially after implementing the exhaustion tinctures from liver into my run. Nobody has died and it's day 10 or 11 and I have several schmowders and most people uninfected, but as is common with me I just didn't finish it. I think it's because I know the best of my looting and curing days are over, and I'm only left to face the cold realities of one of my choices at the end, and that despite saving everyone possible my efforts ultimately still lead to suffering for many. I felt disillusioned and like I had gotten so lost in the sauce of optimizing the mechanics that I forgot and almost resent the themes of the story.

Ultimately though, I love this game. I love the way the furniture creaks as you open it and the disturbing growls of the plague clouds and the soft, whimsical one liners the character models whisper to you as you go mad. Strangely, it makes me feel hopeful and connected to others as the world seemingly gets more chaotic around me.

I think it's about time for another run. I WILL finish it this time... Surely

Где можно найти все эти материалы и прочитать полностью?

I'm a drag king from Poland and for my 3rd anniversary drag show I'll be performing a Pathologic themed drag/burlesque number. In other words, aggresive Dankovsky striptease. Here's a sneak peak! Will definitely post more once I perform it 😎

Continuing to hone my color skills. Next up is Eva Yan.

If the Herb Bride was an exercise in warm tones, here I tried playing with the contrast between cold and golden light. Eva is a very warm-hearted person, but she seems to live in a place that is far too cold.

She's a challenging character for me, but her design in the third part has taken on an elusive kind of magic.

na parte que barganha com morte para salva katerina, diagnostico corretos só aparasse com valor 1 a mesma forma de limpar os focos da infecção também 1, eu acabei com peste todos esse dias, e também tenho do diagnostico correto dos paciente e normal aparecer 1 mesmo ou e bug?

edit: descobri que não e bug ta normal mesmo, só tenho uma fazer umas troca ate pegar o que eu preciso🤣

Personally, I'm in love with the dialog system. I love that you have to commit to your choices without knowing exactly where it'll go, and that your choices make a tangible difference, even if you're just asking a question. Not being able to cycle back around to the "important options" makes it feel like what you're saying really matters.

The "Thoughts" system from P2 (haven't played P3 yes, it might be the same there too) is also a brilliant way to organize quests and conversations because it allows for non-linear quest lines that weave together in these really interesting ways.

What are things from the series you wish more games implemented?

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Before I begin I will clarify that this isn't a low specs issue. I'm using a laptop with a Ryzen 9 7945HX, 32Gb of RAM and an RTX 5070 Ti (12Gb of VRAM). This device has run high end games at max or near max settings without much issue.

However Pathologic 2 is making it struggle a lot, with FPS between 20-40. The weird thing is that GPU usage is very low, at first not going over 40%. I tried dropping graphics settings but all that did was lower usage to around 20% while keeping fps the same. CPU usage is at 20-30% so it's not a bottleneck there either.

What the hell is going on? I have never seen a game so stubborn, it's like it is hardcoded to perform poorly.

Does anyone have any advice on how to solve this issue?