Hello. I wanted to make a pathologic thread.
[SFX: barking dog, trash lid slamming]
I’ve been playing the bachelor campaign in the first game. This trip-hop track that plays at night makes me feel positively steppe-goth.
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the part in the wee morning hours of day 5 really makes you wish the game had better combat and fewer penalties for death!!
i do frantically avoid literally all combat and assumed that’s what everybody did
until you can’t
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I can’t remember the morning of day 5… but I know that if I replayed Patho 2 again, I would run from every fight that I could because it’s so risky and, honestly, janky at times.
well i just played up through noon day 6 and i sure haven’t fought anybody yet
did you protect your brother’s experiments overnight?
the brawl against the three worms/odongh who are looking for Rubin? I tried to, but after killing one of them I decided I couldn’t risk taking on the others.
I had enough bullets for three
I hope Stakh appreciates what you’ve gone through for him.
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oh i frantically avoided them, for sure
also this game is good as hell for all the obvious reasons but also this resource management web is absolutely savage, makes it seem like nobody else has ever really tried
lol just remembered i was complaining about looting houses earlier, those were the days
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I completely agree. Playing the original is actually stressing this point, because it is simply (so far) so less stressful and demanding. Merely adding sprint, and subsequently the need to drink water, totally reconfigures the economy of meters and resources you are juggling in Pathologic 2. And it is so finely balanced, everything is painfully at the verge of falling apart and it is so invigorating all the while lol.
Edit: Gah, I can’t stop thinking about sprint and admiring it. It is such a pivotal addition to Pathologic 2. Not only is something that cuts down on the tedium of walking around the town, it also enables you to make bad decisions quicker.
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ok, though, boy howdy, being infected is rough shit
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This game really tries very hard to not insult you too much for choosing a lower difficulty and it just ends up extremely passive agressive
I highly recommend trying lowering the difficulty just to see the many ways the game will tell you you’re wrong
My favorite is
« Stamina Drain when running
Gameplay impact: high
You’ll be able to run longer without taking a breath. This might be comfortable.
However, please keep in mind that this is not the intended pacing. If this parameter is tweaked too heavily, one has a chance to get ahead of the script and fall from the stage. »
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vs the chad rusty razor blade collecting child
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Wrote a little bit about my experience playing Pathologic Classic HD and the idea of “in/authentic” ways of playing. https://vodselbt.tumblr.com/post/613318152027340800/not-subject-to-pathologic-classic-hd
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I started playing Pathologic 2 tonight on PS4. (It’s discounted right now.) I was tempted to change the difficulty before I had even seen what the game is like, but I convinced myself to try it on the original/intended difficulty.
After exploring for a while, hunger had drained most of my life. I figured I was simply going to starve because eating the peanuts and things that I had made little difference, but then I decided to try using the ferry system to get close to the home of one of the protagonist’s childhood friends. She said she had something to eat and a place to sleep (not to mention a save point), and I thought I’d be able to correct all of my meters.
But the little food she had didn’t reduce hunger very much, sleeping for several hours didn’t seem to reduce exhaustion, and neither restored any health. I slept a little more and a rat in a dream told me that I shouldn’t sleep too much.
Then I discovered that trading with kids is a much better deal than trading with merchants, and that might just help me survive.
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did you check the cabinets that are to your right when you enter her house? i thought i remembered her feeding you pretty good at that point
game rules
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