Pathologic

Was there even a fighting ring in 2?

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>just beat him to makin the panacea
>but how do i do that

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But is it a remake or the Bachelor route?

Drink it
You did get infected anyway saving Murky right?

AHEM

FUCK STEPPE NIGGERS

My guess is that its paid dlc to help the company and it'll be an expanded version of the alternate-universe shit the demo did.

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oops

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based and polyhedron pilled

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absolutely based large laddie
you fucks better not have let him die

> He can live? What about Young Vlad?

You can save both AND not kill any Kin AND not kill Oyun

How is that possible? Teach me your ways, emshem.

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I was confused when I killed Oyun and it wasn't the ridiculous boss fight
Considering the abattoir was mainly fighting worms

Alright, you've shilled this indie shit enough. Time to stop.

Time waits for no man, emshen. The play must go on.

Talk to the Kin, they want you to bring them Vlad. Go to Vlad, he says fuck no. On your way out of his house, Clara is sitting on the bench. Talk to her to find out it was actually Young Vlad that ordered the lockdown, and that he's planning on turning himself in to the Kin. Turn around and go back to Big Vlad and tattle on his son, he sends out goons to keep him from going. Go back to the Kin, tell them they ain't getting squat, they'll be mad but they won't do anything about it. They'll tell you to kill their dissenters. Tell them to fuck off. Go to Oyun and tell him you're not killing anyone. Proceed as normal until you do the Abattoir quest, jump into the pit, and see the Heart. When you go back, talk to the Kin again and now that you know the big Truth, they'll acknowledge you, no blood, no mess, no deaths.

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How? He was in this pit with the Kin and he told me to make some diversion, I don't know how since I was busy killing the rogue odonghs

Thanks user, that makes my 2nd playthrough that much easier.

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Ah fuck, I'm thanks for the heads up user, I'll save the big bastard on my 2nd playthrough

What I don't get is why Young Vlad kept getting in danger when his old house got infected even after the move unless it's a bug

Did you get that one scene with him in the shop across from the town meeting hall? Gave him a much-needed human side to his character and made him a lot more likeable in my eyes.

He was kind of right about the Kin, too. He treats them like animals because they act like animals, it's the only thing they seem to listen to.

i got that scene, its nice to see him care for something despite how much of a dick he can be.

Yep, I got it, I feel bad for the man, while the music is nice, I told him to get his act together

Yeah. They managed to make all the unlikeable characters from the original more nuanced, if not more likeable, that was a nice touch. Less tempting to say fuck it and leave someone to the plague.

True, I let the stamatin brothers bite the dust, but now I kinda regret it especially when grace moves in with peter

I swear I did this and he died anyway.

I had a weird dream where Taya was my aunt visiting for thanksgiving (I don't even celebrate it, hell I'm not murrican)

Taya has a habit of appearing in dreams. It'll be autumn soon, oynon, make sure to get some extra rest once twyre starts blooming.

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Since the thread is going down I might as well ask, how bad are the "punishments" for dying?

Lose minor chips of max health and max other bars like hunger, thirst, etc. Other stuff starts happening like the rat prophet getting out into the world, and you losing the ability to hug anyone. Eventually you'll be offered a deal (don't take it you dumbass) to remove all those penalties in exchange for an unspecified bad thing happening.

Haven't died enough to see how far it goes, every time you die the "tumor" in front of the theater grows and apparently it can get fucking huge. No idea what its final form is, maybe some suicidal user can enlighten us.

>statmatins
Is this an ad lib, or a flub?

it starts off minor in terms of stat debuffs, some are major non-related stat ones SECOND DEATH MEANS YOU CANT HUG LARA but itll stack up over time if youre not careful user

Minor hits per death to the max capacity of the different survival bars. It's literally fucking nothing, and only losers took the deal.
/ourguy/ SulMatul has a video about the tumor, IIRC

Now I'm curious and want to play an idiot playthrough just to see what happens when I die enough times.

You could probably just start a game and jump off the nearest stairway to heaven a bunch of times. Mark'll give you an earful for being a suicidal idiot, but Mark's also a faggot whose opinions can be disregarded.

So do you think the Bachelor will have multiple endings like Artemy did? Will it just be destroy or not destroy the polyhedron?

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Bachelor alternate ending where you run away from town with Eva before she dies, impregnate her and raise a large healthy family in the capital

But Eva is a slut

That's why it's the bad ending.

threads dead

All performances must end eventually, or otherwise there's no point. Let us just hope that there will be another when more actors are able to participate and not asleep.

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As it should be. Let the slavjank be forgotten. Discuss Smash.

Friendly reminder to any and all backers that you should update us whenever you get news everyone else doesn't.

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THREADLY REMINDER:

DON'T BUY THE BULL
DON'T BUY CANDY WRAPPERS
BUY THE REVOLVER
GIVE LARA THE BARREL
DON'T MAKE DEALS WITH THE PLAGUE
LET YOUR SON BECOME A THIEF
ESCAPE WITH YOUR WIFE WHILE YOU CAN

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>inserting a truth
Very clever.

>LET YOUR SON BECOME A THIEF
If I'm guessing right as to what it's referring to, what bad consequence does this actually end up having? I can't remember anything happening to him after

Nothing that I discovered. That's the truth he added.
You can actually get two toolboxes that way.

Oh, I was thinking that the truth he added was don't make deals with the plague. how do you get the second toolbox with that method?

>DON'T BUY THE BULL
But it TALKS! How could I not buy a talking bull?

Just go in and buy it. When you come back out, Sticky will have somehow stolen one from a parallel dimension.
If you don't make ANY deals with the Plague, Murky dies.

>actually giving the literal Plague the time of day

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>thought the thread was slowing down so I closed the tab to do something else
>it turns out that Mandalore began posting there right after
Fugg.
Well, at least he and IPL seem to be getting a lot of heartfelt support, so that's nice.

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>saw the phoneposting post
>wrote it off as a rando
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
I WANT TO SLOBBER THE E-CELEB KNOB

I must be having godlike RNG on my second playthrough then, because I'm seeing toolkits and sewing kits EVERYWHERE, by the end of day 4 I had already upgraded my inventory to the one before max. First run was a struggle finding both aside from the freebie

Can you eat the bull? That's more than enough food for twelve days right there.

That's awful. How could you even contemplate eating something that can talk?

That'd probably be suicide by Kin if you did.

Who is this manlet? I don't remember him.

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MR DAVIS NOO

The westerners didn't want you killing children in the game, so Dogheads got replaced by midgets

Was that in the very first pathologic? I don't remember midgets in classic HD.

jesus christ, is that in the first western release, not the HD one? transforms the game into surreal spookiness into genuine horror.

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Yep, the 2005 release

Bulls don't talk, you cretin.

No, I got owned by the fucking Odonghs

>getting laid out by waddling retards
Stop dying, jackass.

WORM'D

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You can just run away and let them follow you. It's pretty bugged though I have to load about 5 times. And the time it worked I barely moved away from the warehouses.

Lockpicking them is easier.

There isn't gonna be a part two and nobody cares about random Youtube faggots. It sucks, but that's how it is.

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*AHEM*

FUCK the Polyhedron and FUCK Daniil Dankovsky

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It's still on GOG's top seller list, rat

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

*quarantines you*

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I thought the faggot odongh was lying or was bugged since it was only one guy and he said he and his buddies would fuck me up. Halfway through fighting the smelly odongh I got suprise buttsex'd by another odongh and then they pummeled me to death. This was also before I figured out lockpicks could be used as a weapon

romance lara possible?

semen mind

How do you feel about your blue scarf?

no but you can hug her assuming you don't die twice and she offers to help you take care of the kids in the ending

its cool and all but why is it blue

Because blue is the color of baka.

>blue scarf
someone explain what blue means to lara cause im dumb.

But unironically what did she mean by this?

The entire game is about love.

Unironically The Dab Lord watches too much anime and she desperately wants to fuck her cub.

Was there a more kino moment centered another character than this in the game? It's moments like this that helped cement Pathologic 2 for me as definitely one of the best written games I've played in a long time.

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best route when?

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>Hurr, me am science man, me am smard!
>Me am cure plague because primitive steppe hick too dumb to cut open corpse herkaderk!
Go away. We don't need you. I don't need you. I'm taking care of everything.

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Possibly never if the game continues not to do well. they're working on a full version of the marble nest, and will likely do the changeling afterward, but who knows.

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i wish there were more games with unique settings like this

Fututus et mori in igni, steppe nigger. They granted me emergency powers and not you for a good reason, you murderous psychopath.

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And the rain... the goddamn rain, does it ever end? Pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring.

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Notkin is a bro at least till the game forgets about him.

You're not outside anymore, Rubin. Time to dry off.

You can save both anyway even if you just kill the worms right?

This game has fuckton of fan art for a niche game that supposedly no one buys.

She helps you raise the kids and acts tsun as fuck so...

Read the touch description for the sewing kit.

Fuck the group that arranged my murder.

The fact that the sweater she gave Artemy was blue didn't mean anything. It's just that she gave it to him and he responded by saying "why'd you make it blue" instead of just thanking her and accepting it because he's a blockhead.

and people think a tard like that can be trusted to save the town

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>Eva knits Bachelor a single sock out of latex and offers it between her teeth
>he doesn't even notice

>he doesn't pretend to not know what the chick who likes him is doing because he finds her acting tsun cute
>He fucks the village bicycle instead

Have you played The Void or Planescape Torment?

Never played Void and I just discovered that Turgor is actually playable in English. I know that there's tons of additional text in this version, but what about the gameplay? I never see people talk about those changes and I wouldn't mind playing a more polished version.

Also, is there a source for the "Dybovsky loves True Love"? I want to believe it but it's too good to be true.

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*falls for Kain bullshit*

>What do you call such a man? A slave, you call him, a slave.

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Based Mandalore. Wish I'd been there.

I backed the game forever ago on KS but hadn't played it yet. I was waiting for October, Halloween. Now that I know the game's in dire straights though, it makes me wanna play it now so I can punch out a review on steam and get all my friends in on this.

> Also, is there a source for the "Dybovsky loves True Love"? I want to believe it but it's too good to be true.
I think it's there: old.ice-pick.com/ore2.htm

Grace

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Would they be interested in it? I think my brother would be if not for performance (even with the fix for the ram it still isn't that great for me) and the fact he only calls during the weekend (and even then not every weekend) so he'd be limited to only playing then and that's not really ideal since I know him and he'd forget about shit

I don't know, and maybe I'm just over-investing in my own sense of "Importance," but if I could write a review that convinced even one person to buy this game I think it'd be worth it.

I'd never played the original, but I played the Void back in the day and loved it, still one of my favorite games, and backed the P2 on the strength of that game. I wanna keep these dudes alive if I can so they can make more weird Russian art house survival horror metaphors.

Cute and funny.
>Haruspex telling her he'll take her in after everything's over
Based steppedad

She seemed happy with Peter, I don't know why she had to go to the Saburovs.

Did Peter die? Is she not happy with the Saburovs? Someone post the Katarina image.

No, everyone survived in my game, even (against all fucking odds, since she got infected like three times and had to be fed shmowders) Anna. Grace was taken away from Peter and ended up with the Saburovs. Well, Aglaya fucking died but I think that always happens.

I think the implication is that Grace will help Katerina get over whatever the fuck problems she has.

Doesn't Grace become a mistress in the kin ending?

I don't know because I'm not a steppe nigger and picked diurnal.

So did I but there's nothing stopping you reloading to see that ending.

Hush you mass of rats
Our champion is an idiot in covered in supportive straps to keep his back from killing him after lifting a couch

Go scurry around little Vlad's well some more, and maybe then develop a real bit of writing for your character other than spooking Changeling

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Bros... I'm starting to have hope again bros, but the last time I had that was cyberpunk...

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>Someone post the Katarina image.

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This game easily had the best intro I've seen for a vidya.

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Don't lose hope user, Mandalore was just a beginning. We'll gonna make it.

Clara has cursed her own game, until she gets her hair back it will not sell millions.

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>Artemy dreams of the prologue to the first game

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Stand up straight you fucking kinigger jesus

>shotgun cane
Thats fucking metal as fuck.

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How much does this gaym cost and can I get it not on steam?

>Start game
>Everything is already fucked and everyone is berating you
>You're allowed to restart before the hard BAD END sets in and it can all be fixed
>You're immediately confronted on a train by Death himself asking if you're a pussy and want to play on Easy
It's so fucking good

>Clara's true miracle is saving Ice Pick Lodge from bankruptcy
k i n o

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cracking open some ______ with the steppe boys

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On GOG and 35 burgers.

>shotgun cane

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>tfw you realize that in P1 when protagonists are walking off the stage only Haruspex is heading towards the exit which means only his solution will truly save the Town

I remember when I played first and the fact that he's supposed to be death flew over my head completely. Then I restarted because I had a few better strats for the first couple days and it clicked immediately, I just wasn't sure if he was the plague or purely death.
>tfw he says that he also wants to visit your father
>coming back after some time and he's worried about how the townsfolk will receive him
cheeky motherfucker

I imagine they'll do something special with Changeling and Bachelor too. If they don't implode first.

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The tutorial for the tinctures was kino as fuck. They really did a great job of making Haruspexs father hitting him hard and making you care for the kids.
>Lara mentions how both of your fathers are dead now
>"Don't mention father. Please, not now."
>That kino as fuck dream with Isidor
>"Facing the future is the way of love. Looking to the past is the way of love."
>"But neither are compatible, and it broke my heart."
>visit infected Sticky
>Says goodbye to you.
>"No... no good byes. We've just met and now you want to say goodbye?"

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The Plague/Sand Pest is probably a better name for him, similar to Clara's sister in the original with how forward it's played

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I wasnt sure if he was death or the plague, but I knew it had to be one of those considering he comes out of a coffin and the things you mentioned about the father and people not receiving him well.

Haruspex... had a hard life.

>tfw pirating right now to see if I can run it proper

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There's a setting you'll need to change so the game doesn't use one GB of fucking ram, can't find the link showing the path to the file or recall it offhand though.

C:/users/"username"/appdata/LocalLow/Ice-Pick Lodge/Pathologic 2/Settings/ExternalOptimizationSettings.xml
Open up .xml with notepad
find
change 1000000000 to amount of ram you want to use (4000000000 for 4gbs)

The song in the opening part is really beautiful.

nice

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Theodor Bastard - Darkness if you don't know the name.

I only played the original

I still don't understand if the new one is just a remake or if it has some real differences in the story

Wake up, see this, what do?

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Broad strokes are the same

Details differ A LOT

give him some broken ampoules or some other trash I found in a random neighborhood cupboard in exchange for army rations and miracle-heal powders, of course

>That bit with Aspity while the music gets quiet
>"Heed my advice. You think she loves you? Think she's a friend and he's a foe because he brought in cannons?"
>"Don't talk to her first. Talk to him."
>"Bayarlaa Sabha. And now I need to go."
>Music kicks back in as a walk past
>Starts singing what sounds like "Now I see my way, I should just go"
>Flash of light
>Look back
>Aspity on the ground dead
This game just oozes kino.

thanks mandy

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more bad photoshops for alive game

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I don't know if I prefer the Excutor design from classic or 2 more.

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Both are icons. I do like 2 more though, the blend of shamanistic motifs with what we know as a plague doctor suit is kino

>Mandalore was lying in bed under a comfy blanket for a month
>meanwhile Pathologic failed without his review and IPL is on a brink of bankrupsy
Haha based e-celeb xD

R-Robert?

Nigga is fucking spinal fluid was leaking

I'm sure all fired IPL devs feel for him.

There are some pretty major differences in the story. Characters are quite different, entire plotlines new or distinct, new themes and setpieces. The broadest story is still largely the same: there still is the plague, the city, the centtal dillema, but A LOT of the actual elements and finer details, including the absolutely vital characters, are very much changed from the ground up.

I'm sure they'll blame tinybuild for doing such a shit job at marketing the game or fags like Forsen shitting on it rather then him.

requesting robert at the dead item shop

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I'm pretty sure nobody got fired, and nobody is blaming anyone. Angst is so damn dear to you western cunts, but in countries like Russia, and among actually clever and passionate people like the IPL staff, somewhat less resentful attitudes tend to prevail.

K. My point was more why the fuck would they blame Mandalore because he couldn't finish the video due to injuries despite giving it a glowing recommendation instead of people who shit on it or didn't give it a chance like streamers.

sure, i just need a pic of the dead item shop guy tho

Playing this game for the first time today, just left Rubin's place after meeting the Bachelor and some kids asked me for help.
I have absolutely no fucking idea what's happening around me but this game was made for me. It's got so much raw appeal, just the right amount of atmosphere and intrigue.
Thanks Yea Forums. You bunch of faggots.

Hey faggot, if you are still at those kids, go back inside and talk to Bachelor again for a achievement. Also show repay the kindness shown to you the next day for a rep boost and another achievement.

It finally happened bros, Mandalore saved Pat-
Did people really expect the game to sell well just because some no-name eceleb shills it? Same happened with Darkwood, Acid Wizard devs didn't notice any major influx of money after review was released.

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Thanks again.

DONT BUY THE BULL

buy the bull

>100 people jump in concurrent players overnight

That's 3000 dollarydoos, nice

>go back to the Bachelor
>he says he's not interested in saving mutts
Oh that's good.

>he wants his childhood friend to get BVLL'D
disgusting, this is what the steppe does to your brain

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How many people work at IPL?

>repay the kindness shown to you the next day for a rep boost and another achievement.
Huh?

~20

On day 2 Go back to the kid at Notkins place who offers food with some toast and milk and offer it to her, she'll get really happy, saying how some of the kids weren't convinced but she knew she wouldn't have to say anything for you to get the hint, calls you a good person and asks to hug you. You get a rep boost in the nearby districts and a achievement. Theres another involving the kin and Vlad.

>asks to hug you

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it's not his job to make the game sell well you fucking retard

>this man might’ve worsened his condition and die trying to save IPL
Pottery

i know this probably sounds gay as fuck but i had to take a break from this game because its atmosphere is kind of all-encompassing.

its weird how my love for it just returns very easily after picking it back up after a month.

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Yesterday it was bouncing between the top 8th/9th best seller on GOG and now it’s moved up to 7. Most people are buying it through there because fuck steam.

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>mime mask with visible eye
No!

After finishing this game in few days after the release I was so mentally and physically drained that I fell ill and spent whole week in the bed

>day 8
>want to restart just for the sake of it
>already did it once at the same day
help

It’s crazy how replayable this game is

Where's the bachelor Dybowski?

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how immersive is the game? are all the playable characters alredy in the game?

>what about the gameplay
More menial work, if you want. Some things are done automatically in The Void, but it takes some gameplay opportunities from you, too. Also, the idea of giving a part of yourself to do anything is better realised because there are sigils even for communication, as many as 3 of them, in fact.

It'll be a tweaked version of Marble Nest. No way is it going to be the full player route.

Only one character is out, Haruspex. Iirc they got fucked by the economic crisis in Russia, so they decided to release him first and then the others. Idea was to release them for free or charge for them depending on sales, now due to them goin quiet after a few patches of the game people are worried they aren't doing any at all. And it's atmospheric and immersive as fuck.

Fuck off back to your Smash thread[s].

>Bachelor...
>heterosexual

user... I...

It's already been released. With a little luck you'll get to play as the Changeling.

Wait, that's in the game?

>The Cold was a multi-million-dollar game they were supposed to make for Atari West before crisis of 2008 hit.

ice-pick-lodge.wikidot.com/commoni:holod

The LxR's quote isn't about the Cold tho, it's about Aurora - it was supposed to be a walking sim similar to Tale of Tales """""games"""""

Moved interview link: old.ice-pick.com/ore3.htm
>ctrl + f хoлoд

Also, from my memory
>The Sun died
>Humanity goes underground to survive the cold
>The story spans across several generations
>we can see how societal institutes deteriorate and return to Dark Age and beyond over time
>the 2 main characters are children of the 2 ruling families
>they are in political marriage to end feud between their clans

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Same. At least I think I did all that. Maybe I just did it too late.

cool im gonna wait till they release the other characters before i buy the game

No one knows if that’ll happen

>implying you won't play them in bits and pieces anyway since every character takes 30 hours to beat

Your call. Just be aware that there's been barely any word from them since, so some are worried Bachelor and Changeling will never come out.

Dybovsky slipped up on NDA during a vidya conference and said the game sold so badly, the other 2 routes might not happen at all. Hopefully, the situation will get better now, but even your few dollary doos would be nice for them right now.

Sounds awesome. Reminds me of the Night Lands which I love as a setting.

>some are worried Bachelor and Changeling will never come out.
You mean, everyone knows they're not coming.

>you live in the timeline where you missed IPL Arx Fatalis

Never played classic. What’s the difference between gameplay in the characters?

Mandy said TinyBuild has no clue how to advertise the game last thread.
What if we took the game... and went to academia with it? Not game-designer one, they are all plebs, but literary one, especially Russian literature, or theatrical one - for obvious reasons.

There was one user who said Pathologic helped him to advance his academical career - if you are reading this, do you have any idea how can we patch up IPL with your professors?

And, finally,
>2008.youngart.ru/programma/kalendar/1/game_art/
-Turgor got to be on expo in the Moscow Museum of Contemporary art, that's something.

I feel that academical connections might be just that one thing that would allow them to be known in the West without retarded publisher shitting up PR campaigns.

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You're drunk, actor.

That’s way too far of a stretch. Even if it worked and was accepted it wouldn’t make it a commercial success.

It's already out, very much past the advertising stage.

At this point everyone who liked the original has already bought it, and it's so niche that they can't attract many more sales than this.

Bachelor: has The Plague Scope™ which helps you see plague clouds from the distance, it's pretty useless
Haruspex: can harvest herbs and make different things with them like panacea
Changeling: can harvest herbs for some reason, but can only sell it in the pub; overall she's combat oriented character - even though she can only use one shitty revolver, she can kill (or heal) people with her hands with unlimited ammo, also her reputation always goes down and the rate of the decrease goes up each day

They might have a better clue now. He did say that that conversation with hem about marketing was back last December.

Academia sucks, go beg some merchants if you want quick marketing bux, you only need to sell your soul with signed blood on the parchment made out of human skin.

You mean nobody knows shit and fan only speculate and doompost.

I wouldn't be surprised if the intended to make Bachelor using blood samples to create immunity boosters, like the ones Rubin gives you.

IPL stopped production on pathologic and are going to make a roguelite

That's just stupid enough for me to believe it.

CARGO 2

>roguelite
Is that a beer?

Well, before Knock Knock they had ideas for 3 games: Cold, Pathologic Remake and fucking MMO based on Cargo

Is that from marble nest? When does that happen in pathologic? I read on the internet he should appear at Lara's house with a bunch of strangers but I only saw the generic npcs telling me she left to cockblock mr block.

It's 11 day, chasing couriers

That's what I thought the whole last day glitched for me and I watched day 11 on multiple youtube videos.

>tfw got so in to Mandalore's review on the first game that I finished it up to the game's ending. The review got me interested in it at first, but I spoiled my self on the game's ending that I lost interest.

Sauce

Spoilers literally spoil things?

Day 11, the homo kills a courier to save his butt plug.

I decided to test death out to see all the dialogue options and after 25 deaths the Tumour is complete and looks like a orderly skeleton, the Director stops punishing you so when you die after that there's no penalty

I didn't really have an interest at the game at first and just wanted to watch some random vids, but Mandalore's review was pretty good in highlighting the game. If I only knew that I was going to consider playing it, I wouldn't have finished the vid.

I noticed there's also small change in the Diurnal ending - next to Rat Prophet there's an Executor but he has nothing to say

BUT WHY

How do you escape a death loop?

>lara has a blue scarf
>Sticky has a blue shirt
>Murky has a blue scarf
>Artemy has a blue sweater
cute

мимoslavbro here

Some weeks after release the guy in charge of soundtrack spilled the beans on Leprosorium (think russian elitist SA with invite only account registration) that sales figures didn't meet even the humblest expectations. Take it as you will.

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Do you have a screenshot or any proof?

I believe it. There’s been no contradicting good word about sales from anywhere.

>there are no news one way or another
>so let's assume doomsaying is truth

>tfw met a girl sometimes in early spring who was supposedly doing 3d models for IPL
Fug bros, I wanted to ask her so much, but the situation didn't allow for that

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Director said at a small games convention in Russia that it didn’t sell well.

There is a world of difference between "didn't sell well" and "literally beneath the shittiest expectations they had"

What Theodor Bastard album is like the Pathologic 2 game music?

I want to hold hands with ravel so bad bros. The things I would do to the palm of her hand, the digits of her fingers, my reputation in every district would plummet if they knew what degenerate things I would do to her

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Even if it didn't sell well they still managed to shit out one route - more than enough for a niche title

>How do you escape a death loop?
What death loop?

Pathologic 2 both got significantly worse scores and sold worse than Pathologic 1 HD in first week. As fucking as absurd and depressing as that is, there is not much of a way around that.

It's a magic bull

The way he holds his waistband.

Bane?

Utopia

Tapachula is pretty folk/tribal as well

"Pathologic 2", in everything, which isn't a direct quote or a trivial reshuffle (either in words or tropes) of the original "Pathologic" or "Marble Nest", is ESSENTIALLY "The Sinking Island" spliced with problematics/artistry of "Everybody's Gone to Rapture".

Since those two (far from the only) sources of inspiration were released after the original Pathologic, Pathologic 2 is anything but "what Pathologic was initially meant to be".

Since those two sources of inspiration have essentially nothing to do with each other, Pathologic 2 has jack shit of integrity and internal consistency past the most superficial level.

It's a professional con job at producing a forgery, a semblance of Le Worke of Le Highe Arte. It's one thing to produce a derivative fanfic. It is a wholly different thing to produce a mutant designed specifically to fool your audience.

This game doesn't deserve words. It deserves spit.

>AND not kill any Kin
How?

But it also means the industry just murdered one of the best and most remakrable titles of the decade. That is fucking depressing.

Just a fair warning:
>474673527
Is a mental case that has been plaguing IPL threads for some two years now. Please don't fucking feed him attention.

You're late to the party, Gauharanon. Got a new line of bullshit, I see.

From IPLcord, they’re getting a fuckton of sales

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That's just your opinion man, sure the game is artsy and 2deep4u, but maybe next time the devs will set more realistic goals when making vidya.

mandalore chad saving based devs

Thanks senpai.

BASED

It can still happen now

I know nothing about game dev. What do teams have to do when sales go up? Is there actually stuff to manage?

Marble nest adding a cripple using a shotgun as a cane complaining about fluid leaking out when?

Is Daniil a thanatosexual?

Might be key generating issues since nobody expected the game to start selling well after launch.

There's excitement to manage

Not to mention that if the game really undersold...I assume there are bills to pay

Good point. They might generate more before a sale but this was out of the blue.

Probably deal with customer queries, key generations, payment processing from their retailer, etc.

I remember Starsector's purchasing site went down for a while after Sseeth made that Starsector video.

Sseth should make a video on it as well, his meme videos clear 1 mil easily after some time and people do buy games after he recommends them.

Fuck yes

>Leprosorium
Wait, that shit's still kicking? Eщё cкaжи, чтo eщё ecть yпячкa

This is great, and it does give me a little hope.

But I still feel like this whole case illustrates an issue that runs a lot deeper. It's great to see the studio getting a little boost of both confidence and money to pay out some bonuses and shit.
But this whole situation should have never arised in the first place. Patho's 2 commercial and critical failure should have not happened in the first fucking place. It's an issue of entire basic feedback loop of the industry and basic, rudimentary level of critical environment.

get out fujos ree

IF WE OURSELVES ARE TO SUFFER DECEPTION...

I have conveyed what I have meant to. Now I have other ways to occupy myself.

A lot went wrong.
>game is mostly unknown in the west
>what little is known is that the previous game was tedious and near unbearable to play
>publisher doesn't know how to market it, doesn't communicate much with fans, and barely puts out any trailers/gameplay videos or any other modern hype generators
>publisher than sends it out to the press with little time to play it, most say "too hard" toss it out and give it mediocre scores to the point other publications like IGN don't waste their time even giving it a review
>the few niches fans it has buy it at release, some curious onlookers do too, but most of them also leave bad reviews
>game starts choking quietly

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Not really.
The game already had a cult-like following. HD remake sold well over 100k in weeks after release. What is known is "that game that is probably amazing except it's inaccessible as hell". Publisher had no way to market it, it's an indie publisher. Look up how that fucking works. And user reviews were, for the most part, glaring.
The only things that went wrong pre-release was the idiotic naming decision and the fact that they underestimated just how dumb people are and did not write with MASSIVE GLOWING LETTERS that game contains only one episode. But judging from the amount of negative to positive user reviews, that hardly impacted anything.

The REAL, essential failure was, from start to finish, on the side of game jounalists. More specifically, that the quality of gaming journalism and review standards has dropped SEVERAL LEVELS since the HD game released. The fact that gaming journalists today are basically criminally incompetent, if not straight up malicious. That is all. That is what killed the game. And god knows how many other titles and talents are being destroyed every day due to this.

Gaming journalism has utterly and absolutely failed to preform, and has became one of the biggest detriments of the industry all together. And this game and its fate stands as a living proof.

So can anyone give me a quick rundown on how it relates to pathologic 1? I played the original but only the bachelor route so I was wondering if I should just continue there or if the remake is really just a retread.

According to Mandalore, Sseth didn't care all that much about the game

It's pretty much a remake of the original, in this game you play as the Haruspex so you are in a good spot to continue playing on Pathologic 2

Fucking RPS dropped the ball in ways beyond the ken of mortal men. That review killed P2, I'm convinced. The game journos often work like a hivemind, if one big name place says it's good the rest often follow suit, and vice versa. If they'd only gotten someone competent without their head up their ass maybe the others would've seen it in a different light.

The follow-up reviews the RPS guy did were somehow even worse. An entire review about the train-summoning bit that seemed to exist purely because the writer got shamed by the comment section telling him (in relatively polite terms for once) he was a tasteless faggot, so he pads out this giant article about a cool but ultimately minor and meaningless event. And then the one after the difficulty slider patch release, in which he reveals AFTER TURNING DOWN ALL THE SLIDERS he still died so many times he took the fucking deal, and then got mad he didn't get a proper ending.

aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAA

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Didn't know he was a 2nd-amendment-bro. +respect

>And then the one after the difficulty slider patch release, in which he reveals AFTER TURNING DOWN ALL THE SLIDERS he still died so many times he took the fucking deal, and then got mad he didn't get a proper ending.
No fucking way

As it tends to be with IPL games, the relationship is kinda complicated, but to keep it simple:
It's functionally a remake of the second route from Pathologic 1 (Haruspex): keeping the same broad story beats and themes, but re-writing a lot of the finer details, and completely remaking the gameplay. There is virtually no reason to play Pathologic 1's Haruspex route now, other than out of interest in comparison, as Pathologic 2 retells it for the most part better: characters are improved, storylines have more depth (in most ways), and gameplay is actually kinda good this time around, actually enhancing the narrative experience instead of hindering it.

There is no need to play Pathologic 1 to enjoy the second, the only unquestionable advantage P1 has over the second one is the fact that it contains all three of the storylines.

I'd recommend playing Pathologic 2 now. And if you are really curious, you can go back and play Pathologic 1's Clara route, or even Haruspex later if you really want, but I doubt you'll will.

He also got infected on Day 3.

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He also let Sticky die, which puts him on the level somewhere between "grossly incompetent" and "deliberately letting everything burn".

You know I never thought of it this way.

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Does anyone have scans/photos of Pathologic 2 review from Polish magazine CD-Action? I heard it's pretty good, the reviewer gave it 9+/10 and was saying how today's industry doesn't deserve games like this.

HOW
IS A SINGLE DISTRICT EVEN INFECTED THEN

Just one or two, I think.

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Didn't RPS have one of the best (if not still the best) reviews of Pathologic 1 at some point?

To be fair I also did this, that one single house you visit to see the guy about getting your dad's house back is infected and if you spend an hour rummaging through every single cupboard like a retard (read: me) it's really easy to get infected.

Yes, it's was even few years before Classic HD with proper translation was released. But the guy who wrote it doesn't work for them anymore.

YES which is why it's so fucking infuriating that they do a complete 180. The guy who wrote the original review is long since gone, and clearly the site's general attitude towards games has changed massively. If it's a 2 hour long genderfluid dating sim featuring people of color it's a guaranteed 10/10 would recommend but god forbid someone give them an actual good game.

Kurwa nie mów mi że ta cipa 9kier jebnęła tego recenzję. Co by nie mówić to Pathologic jest na tyle pretensjonalny żeby się jej spodobało.

Yes, "Butchering of Pathologic" by Quentin Smith, the review that both singlehandledly placed Pathologic on western map, and simultaneously catapulted RPS into the front as one of the best niche-aware gaming mags out there.

Mandy is conscious again and continuing to generate good press from people who can help save it

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The funny thing is, if you go back and reread the review after playing the game, he got some pretty major plot points outright wrong, as well as missed some other really big parts of the story due to having only played Haruspex. It's still well written and conveys the feel of what you're getting into perfectly, so I'm very much willing to overlook that, but it's kind of funny how it's both iconic and, well, wrong.

Nie, to chyba był Berlin czy jak mu tam. Ostatni raz CD-Action czytałem z 10 lat temu.

Wasn't RPS the ones who made a article on classic in the first place that helped westerners learn about the games in the first place?
I don't think the article ever states if he had taken the deal before or after the pat h but considering he got infected on day 3 I wouldn't put it past him.

Tbh from what I've seen of sseth it doesn't seem like his kind of thing. He is more well known then mandalore though so if he released a video it would certainly help.

How much more will playing the first Pathologic make me enjoy 2?

His audience wouldn't grab onto it as much. Forsen does live "reactions" (they're shit) of sseth videos but he dropped Pathologic 2 as a shit game when he saw you had to read a paragraph

>publisher doesn't know how to market it
How would you market it anyway? It's not really a game I can imagine a normalfag caring about.

>spend 12 days marveling the polyhedron
>you can't even enter it

I just want to know how it looks inside even though just children can see the true shape of it

Playing Bachelor's path will improve it a shit ton, I would say. His is a good introduction to the town and its themes and people without delving too deeply into the steppe lore and mysticism stuff, so that when you play 2 and they dump you directly in the deep end of all that, it adds that extra layer of recognition to the foreign-ness. Plus getting to see the different sides of all of the characters, and what they were willing to tell you as one protagonist versus what they were willing to tell the other. You *will* be lied to, and often.

To be fair I could see it happening because it took me a second to realise if the drawer or door on the thing your about to loot is dirty and grimy then it'll drop your immunity, and you might not realise this and try and loot the house of that guy you visit to get your fathers house back. The only areas infected are the spots were Anna and Peter live. There's also the death house with Khan and Notkin.

Not much, I think. I'd go for Pathologic 2 first, then go back to Pathologic 1 if you still feel like it. After all, you'd be replaying the (somewhat) same thing twice otherwise. P2 isn't exactly made with primary focus on veteran players, and I think exploring the town for the first time in it's P2-tier beauty is the best introduction to the games. There are some neat little nudges and nods to veteran P1 players, but not anything to justify subjecting yourself to P1's many, many problems.

Maybe it's due to the old translation? I heard Haruspex and Clara routes were abysmal.

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At least you can climb it if you save it
It makes sense to save most of that for the Bachelor playthrough so it gives a better perspective on why he'd want to save it over the town

>VG247
Aren't they game journos?

Haruspex route rustled up my paternal instincts like no game has before. By the end of the game I really wanted nothing more than a large health family to take care of irl

>let me do muh science or ill shoot you kek
Bachelor is a fucking nigger

Yes. It's a popular game news/review website.

Oh yeah, definitely. I played a few days of Bachelor's route with the old translation and while it's got that jank charm, it's incomprehensible if you're trying to take it seriously and figure out where to go and what's happening. And it was by far the best translated route.

Can I get a quick rundown on the major differences between Haruspex's routes in 1 and 2? The only one I know of is the foreman is more of a cunt and you have a shitty boss fight with him. Do the kids get much development? Like how different is your relationship with Sticky and Murky since those two are the ones you hang around with the most in 2 of all the children?

Polyhedron was always more Bachelors deal then Haruspex, so makes sense he doesn't get much with it.

Here's a Classic HD key if anyone wants. I don't think I ever used it.

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You could enter it in Bachelor route in P1 if you haven't played it, but I'm hoping they remake the inside significantly for Bachelor route in P2 (if it comes).
Would be cool if this time around the part of the polyhedron inside that we can see isn't just a big, vertical room with a staircase and instead some weird MC Escher type non-euclidean mindfuck of a maze, maybe rewrite events a bit so that going inside is a half day event for bachelor where you spend time exploring it in awe and then trying to find your way out

God bless you Mandalore.
In this industry? Wound up being a perfect storm of bad match-ups.

It's a weird art game, for starters, which is already going to alienate a lot of normies who just wanna kill things and feel cool, but it's also punishing and difficult, which is a hard sell for huge swathes of the "Art" crowd, due to the increasingly common but deeply mistaken belief that all art should be accommodating, and pretty much every gaming journalist (even the few good ones) since they have to burn through so many games by such a deadline they have no patience for anything that doesn't immediately "Get to the good stuff," and if you're not prepared to accept the suffering as the good stuff then it's all downhill.

We're living in an industry where game journalists don't even finish the games they LIKE, where GB named the Witcher 3 one of their games of the year despite literally nobody on staff progressing past the Bloody Baron quest, which is like calling something your favorite book when you've read two chapters of ten.

in 1 Sticky gives you some sidequests
Murky just has 1(one) sidequest worth of dialogue in the entire route about looking for her lost doll(which looks like a doll version fo the Haruspex)

Also
>At least you can climb it if you save it
You can actually climb it even if you don't save it, as early as day 8 iirc. some point between day 8 and the last day the entrance will be unguarded, climbing up to the top will give you a pretty unique event

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The one I heard of was that they do a better job of building Haruspex and the Inquisitors relationship in Classic but they handle her knowing it's just a game bro better in 2.

The kids get almost zero development in 1, Murky especially. I think you talk to her all of once or twice. Sticky's barely there too. Lara, Rubin, and Grief aren't your childhood friends and none of that banter exists. Aspity is considerably more important and they play up her big crushie on Haruspex. The relationship with Haruspex and the Inquisitor is better fleshed out, but there's no option to skip the town and that entire part doesn't exist. The foreman (Oyun) straight up killed your dad instead. Khan gets more screentime and you actually get to visit him in the Polyhedron, but mostly you're just running errands for him.

The biggest difference is indeed:
1) Foreman is a cunt in P1 and you do indeed have a shitty bossfight with him.
2) Kin are FAR less developed in P1: they basically remain a completely inhuman mass of mute monsters. The whole theme of cultural conflict is virtually non-existent in P1.
3) The relationship with the kids is MUCH less developed. There is nothing that would compare to relationship you develop with Sticky and Murky. The kids are essentially distant means to an end to you, with one notable exception. You really do not get to "know" them too much.
4) The relationship between Artemy-Lara-Rubin-Grief does not exist at all.
5) Vlad is more of a treatcherous cunt, and will actively try to hinder you in P1, including throwing you into a prison at one point.
6) You do not really have the options to affect Rubins life as much.
7) Capella is the only one of the kids that gets more development in P1 than P2: she is far more friendly, and more involved in general.
8) The relationship between Algaya and Artemy feels somewhat smoother and more fleshed out in P1.
9) Bloch gets more screen time in P1 as well.
10) There is nothing that would compare to the Big Chamber moment in P1. The steppe lore is far more explained, and a lot less shown in P1 compared to P2.

Who does he spend most of his time with then? Big Vlad since he bails you out?

Aspity, I'd say. But to be honest, the biggest problem with Haruspex in P1 is that he kinda does a whole lot of... nothing. Like entire days worth of basically waiting for the plot to move on. P1's Haruspex route was so much less involved than P2's one it's not even funny.
Later on, he hangs out a lot of with Algaya and a fair bit more with Victoria. And also, you have entire trial days which are just bullshit.

Sounds overall a lot more unfinished and bad to pathologic 2's Haruspex.

>the trial days
That was the most filler bullshit in the game. More so than even changeling's missions.

>they handle her knowing it's just a game bro better in 2.
That's not true though, in 1 she explains that she knows about the meta factor because she was a toy of the mother of the god children and she brought Aglaya with her to bed
Also during Day 12 she gets a lengthy conversation where (You) can talk with her directly as the player

>Vlad is more of a treatcherous cunt, and will actively try to hinder you in P1, including throwing you into a prison at one point.
Wasn't that Saburov's doing?
Also in 1 the steppe lore is way better explained, in 2 they don't even bring up the creation myths and Suok is barely mentioned, which is a big deal since the sand pest being Suok was an angle

Aspity since most of the route was figuring out who Isidor wanted to protect, most days had the main quest of talking to children and asking her about the Urdurgh rune
Capella was the second most recurring character, and after that Vlad and Notkin got a decent amount of importance too

>day 10
>only just realised I could have gotten the extra backer content like a free Shmowder based on their design from 1 and another that I'm not sure what the reward is
Fuck.

>How would you market it anyway?
I'd probably start by not slapping a 2 on it despite being closer to a soft reboot. Now your average person casually checking it on steam has no idea if they need to play the first one beforehand.

Since you mentioned them, how bad is changeling? I'm on day 10 and did Bachelor in classic, and thinking about going back and doing her route in classic at some point after.

The main missions for the day are typically "go to x did they start the plague" and report back. There are some interesting elements but the loop is even more repetitive than Pathologic already is.

>kurwa
>cipa
>jebać
>Pathologic jest pretensjonalny
tfw when jedyny polski post w wątku to ściek dumnie spływający do Wisły. Chamstwo ma wielką przyszłość, piękną karierę można zrobić.

I only saw the review on vt. The quality is pretty low tho. Too bad they didn't mirror it on Metacritic this time.
youtu.be/lAQpIlJtAuo?t=225

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Really cool for the first half, you find out everyone's juicy dark secrets that they were hiding from the other two characters.

Really shitty for the second half, there's nothing to do but play hide and seek with your sister in infected districts every day, and that means combing through individual infected houses and getting all manner of fart clouds up in your shit.

somethingold
herekittykitty

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I know the codes now but it's too late to use them, I won't get anything now. I'll just do them next playthrough. By the way, what does the other one get you? As I said I know one gives you a shmowder but not what the other gives.

It's something like a drink which you can find in your warehouse and acts like 3x twirine.

REMINDER: Leaving positive reviews on GOG/Steam also helps it to get promoted in recommended games and other charts on stores.

First playthrough going, just met Lara for the first time and managed save myself from dying from exhaustion. I was attacked three times on the way to her house and barely survived. I was hungry and as soon as I got in her house I rummaged through cupboards and gulped down fish and bread like I was saved by Jesus Christ. As soon as I went to sleep and had a fucked up dream she wakes me up and tells me there's an intruder upstairs. Going up there with a kitchen knife as my only weapon and my health less than a fifth of the maximum was pretty intense.
So yeah. Is good game.

TINYBUILD MARKETING BUDGET WOKE UP
AND BY THAT I MEAN THEY JUST POSTED MANDALORE'S VIDEO BECAUSE THEY GAVE UP TRYING THEMSELVES

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holy shit this is pathetic

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hahahaha

I mean this is a good thing, but wow talk about 0 effort

HELLO NEIGHBOR 2 WHEN

>My Pathologic 2 review is a remake and sequel of my video on the notorious survival game Pathologic Classic HD. Now that's meta!
Cheeky

>Wasn't that Saburov's doing?
Nope, that was fat Vlad, who got scared that Artemy is snooping a little too much around Termitary.

And no, Steppe lore is not explained better in the first game. Ignoring the fact that we are facing FIRST chapter of a three chapter story, and comparing it to second one, so it makes a lot more sense to hold back on some of the details, P1 dumped tons of exposition on you, where as P2 provided a lot of visual hints and generally woved the subject into the narrative more naturally. All of the subjects are brought up, they are just not exposed to death and the game lets you actually connect the dots a lot more.

As for your assessment of Algaya, you are hillariously wrong. In P2, it is actually explained WHY she knows what she knows. Where as in P1, it kinda feels like the developer got bored and just forced the meta-narrative into the game without much rhyme or reason.

Is Pathologic 1/2 a survival game or are survival mechanics just important
What happens if you let days pass without completing anything

>What happens if you let days pass without completing anything
You doom the town. Also you still need to find a way to get food and drink even if you want to be a NEET and ignore it all.

>What happens if you let days pass without completing anything
you miss out on rewards
parts of the town get infected
you starve to death
other characters get infected/die
you cause the bad end

So does this game have multiple endings? Is curing the plague your main goal or do characters have ulterior motives

It does have multiple endings. You choose how things go.

>Is curing the plague your main goal or do characters have ulterior motives
Both of these are correct.

>Is Pathologic 1/2 a survival game or are survival mechanics just important
P2: Yes.
P1: kinda.

In the first game, the survival mechanics are important, but they are rather shallow and mostly VERY easy to break. Most of the game is killing time, with just a small fraction dedicated to making sure you won't die.

In the second game, the survival mechanics are the heart of the experience, and very, very challenging and actually somewhat fun, and relevant to the narrative.

As for what happens:
IN P1, you need to complete the main quest on day 1, otherwise you'll get a game over. After that, as long as you stay alive, you can basically ignore everything, and the story will progress on it's own (albeit with largely undesirable consequences for you story-wise). If you ignore too many tasks, too many vital characters will die, and you may be eventually locked into bad ending.

P2 follows largely the same logic, except without the first day bullshit and some small neat twists that I don't want to spoil too much.

But in both games, the logic is that the story will develop even if you don't intervene: it's just that you'll have logical and natural reasons to try and have at least SOME control over how things are developing.

>sorry we couldn't explain this game to you guys with our marketing, so here's some e celeb who managed to do it for us in 27 minutes!
Jesus fucking christ.

Is Pathologic the best written video game of all time?

I'll never forgive IPL the lack of rats in the remake, especially when they were a thing in Marble Nest.

yes

Yeah. In the tutorial.

It's certainly one of them.

There were rat enemies in Marble Nest? I hated those fuckers.

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Bachelor
Kill urself my man

As embarrassing as this is, I think IPL mentioned that the low-effort marketing was part of the deal.

>THEY DIDN'T PUT IT ON SALE
WHAT THE FFFFFUUUUCK

It's weird. I thought publishers intend to sell as many copies of games they publish as they can.

They want money though

They clearly believed everything would outsell this, but now it's getting some momentum behind it and they're scrambling as showed

>huge interest in game
>lots of new sales
>knock it down by 25% to get people who were on the fence

Thanks for the nutshell mate. I like the idea of a game where the events dont need your attention and that youre just another prop

I know I'm late to the party but just saw this review
opnoobs.com /reviews/adventure/pathologic-2

and holy fuck, is there a way to get the reviewer fired for being so fucking incompetent?

Guys a half naked woman came up to me and asked if I would take her, is she a childhood friend I forgot I promised to marry?

Well user, you need to ask yourself. Her or the bull

Prop is pushing it. Unless you deliberately avoid talking to people, the player character is the most important in the story.
But the overall feeling of powerlessness is here. Unless you invoke the RNG gods there is no way you will save most people. Even staying alive is challenging since you have some kind of solitary worm that forces you to eat 5 fishes and three whole breads per day when you only have the money/barter to get a bottle a milk.

I'm not buying the bull

Pleb

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>I'm not buying the bull
Oh no no no, look at this butcher.

Based roleplayer committed to a low intelligence run.

Why, yes, I would love to buy the bull.

twitch.tv/forsen/clip/EagerFrozenWolfPrimeMe

pls no

>literally wall of text
>3 sentences
>3 answers

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Why is Mandalore using a shotgun as a cane instead of having a crutch?

>wall of text
>like 3-4 sentences

I really hate that for a while this faggots reactions to Sseth's videos were more recommended to me than Sseth's own fucking videos. Youtube is such cancer.

Because he can.

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>EagerFrozenWolfPrimeMe

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But why though? Him scaring the shit out of Shammy with it was great though.

He only said in the post that "he doesn't own a cane".

I think he had nothing else to use as a cane.

Even worse that his "reactions" are him blankly staring at the videos or getting mad when Sseth says something that might get him banned on twitch. Fuck this nerd.

The hospital not give him a crutch or something?

Yeah, that is a very, very important part of Pathologic, both the first one and the second one, although I would argue the second one does better job of it. In fact, the idea is that you kinda CAN'T do everything. And at times, doing nothing may in fact BE THE RIGHT CHOICE.

The massive, massive impact on the whole experience is that the narrative feels strangely far more involving and immersive than otherwise. The game makes you painfully aware that you are not the artifical pivot of the whole story, that you are just one of people trying to weather it. It makes you, to use its own nomenclature, just one of the actors. It is rather fascinating.
But, as the reception proves, it's a bit too much to swallow for most people. The lack of gratification and reassurance makes people angry, almost insulted, or at least massively confused and dismissive about it.

He lives in the USA :^)
I don't know, you'll have to ask him, maybe he'll post again here.

Judging from his Patreon post he was able to mostly walk around at first when he was getting professional medical help but it degraded to a point where he couldn't stand moving in a vehicle anymore so it's just what he had.

Kinda. She is certainly someone you are supposed to get very close to.

>Ends it with "Not my kind of game at least"
I mean, he could of just said that instead of bitching about a paragraph being a wall of text while Bachelor explained why one of the Haruspex's childhood friends wanted him dead and shitting on the game with "This might be a Russian classic because your computers couldn't handle anything but text but this is not good" Does he think one was entirely text or something?

America lol

based desu
shame how they lose their rights
but lets not devolve this thread to politics, ok?

>look him up
>Some swede streamer mainly known for hearthstone and starcraft 2
I get those recommended to me as well as well as that fag WoW "Home..."fags go on about reacting to sseth.

Why would anyone want to watch someone watch Sseth instead of just watching him themselves?

>it's night
>already visited the bar
>got nothing else on the map so I guess I'll go to the theater
What the fuck is Mark's problem? Anyway this will be it for today. Had a good time. Will play more tomorrow.

zoomers

People who watch streamers are already used to watching someone watch something else, so it comes naturally to them and is likely their primary source of entertainment.

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Do you need good specs to run this?

Zoomers who care about what their favourite e-celeb thinks about it.
Get some rest Oynon.

You need decent specs, if you can run most games made in the past 4 years you can play this

I don't think so, but check out the recommended specs on steam and GOG just to be safe.

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They actually used to be a somewhat common thing back when Europen countries allowed conceal and open carry and gun safety wasn't really a thing.

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What specs do you have now?

>pathologic 1 and 2 need to physically fight

but who would win?

That's neat but not what he was using.
He had an actual shotgun as a cane.

I know, one of my posts is in the screenshot.

What are they competing in?

>Clara spawns next to you while you play, but if you pause the game she disappears.
What do?

8gb ram

i5

a knuckle sandwich exchange

>there are 3 Claras, 2 in the game and one in my apartment

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Another big difference between P1 and P2 is that each ending had their own implication and a player character standing behind it, Artemy for example was always for the steppe people and wanted to fuck up the Polyhedron, Bachelor protect it, etc.

I'm really interested in how this would change for Bachelor and Changeling endings in P2, especially since the latter was kinda added in a hurry and they couldn't flesh her out fully. I mean, I doubt it would just be diurnal/nocturnal again, or at least I doubt they'd be the same.

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1 wins because he's not gonna lag out in the exchange, but 2 could easily outrun him if he ever senses danger.

Alright, thanks for the shotgun cane pic anyway, I didn't know about it, I was aware of the ones with some sort of sword within them, but not guns.

P1 has pic rel and bandits who throw homing knives so it wins by default

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Nah, just a regular fag.

It begins as the original game ends [with a worst case scenario though]. From that point on there are divergences in what takes place, but it is essentially a second attempt at fighting the plague.

That would be because they are infested with utter faggots.

>no knife throwers in 2
Relieved

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for now

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It won't.

The original game had a special atmosphere, but was awkward as fuck to actually play.

I went through the original release and Classic HD, the only reason to go back to playing the original game now, are if you want to be miserable [though having some interesting moments as the Haruspex], or if you're a raging faggot that is desperate to play the Bachelor.

I didn't play 2 yet. Can you still troll random pedestrians?

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Haruspex was doable. Devotress/Changeling was put through babble fish.

Fuck knows how I finished that game with that translation.

Someone just committed a thought crime in current year.

This can be "forgiven" if you get Sticky to cut his cock off and dance on a table of Andrey though.

Kind of, you can definitely troll little kids though

You play as Artemy so you don't really have as many opportunities to be a dick as the latin-spewing chad Thanatica Lab owner and Eva Yan pussy slayer - the Bachelor.

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There was a huge trend up until the 1930s or so of people having walking canes with all kind of stuff in them; sword sticks and dagger sticks, sure, but also shotguns, air rifles, whisky flasks, shooting poles, pencils, etc. Gadget canes are pretty fascinating stuff

That's sick we should bring that back

>budget skyrim
>soulsian
kill me

What was the spookiest moment in the game for you?

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The plague clouds that jumped out of corpses

>run away from group of looters in abandoned district
>enter house
>loot nearby container while I'm at it
>silence
>open door
>it's empty
>loot room
>go back
>open another door
>empty
>loot it
>lockpick last door
>enter it
>loot it
>first floor is 100% empty now, still silence
>start going up the stairs
>THERE HE IS
>look behind me
>looter comes out of nowhere and kills me in 2 seconds

Did anyone actually expect he would make a noticeable difference? At most he was gonna sell a few hundred copies

See
It's getting tons of sales from GOG.

>sell a few hundred copies
Most Russians are living off only a few hundred dollars a month. Even only a hundred copies is funding a lot of the team wages for weeks and they seem to be moving significantly more.

The one tragedian in the steppe at midnight who attacks you with a knife

He has 260k subs and Sseth and a few others shared the video, if you took 1% of his subs alone and assumed they would by it, that'd be 2600 copies.

Hard to say since we don't know the figures but it could well be a few thousand rather than a few hundred.

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He only loves the tower

Wait what?

Gather round Yea Forums, I am about to begin my first act for tonight.
Death by starvation!

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I want to play as a fucking Bachelor, buy the game niggers

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You first.

Would a fat man even stop the kids from being run over, it's like thinking a fat body could stop a bullet from passing through.

>why is the sweater blue though
jesus christ, Autismpex, learn to take a hint

But the fact that the question is a provocation is a point. I understand the dilemma the scenario is presenting of sacrificing one life in order to save many, but it's presented in a very morbid way and easy way., you don't off yourself to save the kids but sacrifice another person, which weights the dilemma much more in favor of the many since your own life isn't at stake.

I wouldn't worry about it

Why was blue a mark of "bad"

It's not about the colour, she was upset that when presented with a handmade gift, the steppe retard instead of expressing gratitude, or affection, goes
>duuuuurr why is it blue though? me dumb steppe man
so she tells the idiot in question that the colour is reserved for morons.

This is kindergarten stuff Burakh

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NO

if they wont make other characters, you think they will make some other new IP?

>getting to be a bro with Daniil
Yessss

If they do make another IP, they'll likely make something more normie-accessible so that their company doesn't collapse and they don't have to lay off their workers.

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I'm not sure if there's much future for the company if they can't even finish the stuff that's mostly done.

>likely make something more normie-accessible
Just re-release Pathologic 2 without the gameplay elements under another name and market it as a deep walking sim for people that think games are an art form.

It can happen

Are IPL at gamescom?

burakh is stupid, didn't even attend college

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dumb bachelor

he didnt finish, but he did attend it

Is there Artemy in beak getup?

Why can’t I find this on PlayStation store?

They promised this to be cross-platform, but I guess they chose to release all 3 campaigns on PC first, then go to consoles. Maybe the game would've been selling better if they did the other way around.

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It isn't there.

Really dicked themselves there didn’t they

Why would he hide that glorious jawline?

It'll be when all characters are out

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So never then

>collaboration never ever

I'd rather have them and Arcane team up to make The Cold in the vein of Arx Fatalis, but infinitely better in every way..

Taro is just an edgy teenager compared to IPL desu

They're both good

Wouldn't get that without Bethesda/Zenimax being involved.

4th bump limit pls

Ubisoft almost published it

>Ubisofted Pathologic
The Nightmare.

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>tfw I bought Pathologic HD remake and the Void because of threads on Yea Forums
>didn't finish both because 2hard4me
>making the same mistake now and buying Pathologic 2
wish me luck bois
I do love the background and the atmosphere in those games, but I'm just too bad at them it seems

Then savescum, bitch.

seems like that's really my only way though, as bad as it sounds

Il gonna buy this game

I'm doing my part gamers

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IPL admitted it's intended way though, that's the reason why every save is a separate file.

>Climb that tower, Burakh! It's the only way to save the town!

>climb the tower
>executors peck your limbs out

500 get

4th in a row now

then why do they give punishments over all files?

Too bad we probably won't see 5th one with all that gamescom shit going on

Reese's in pieces, actors

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