#bachelor route

[briskh]

‘til I drop dead

[transdaniil]

The Beautiful Cinematography of Pathologic 3

[peterstamatin]

we're finally announcing the upcoming release of the next chapter of Pathologic — the Bachelor's version of events. It is scheduled for release in the middle of 2025.

This is a standalone game, comparable in scope to the previous one. Bachelor Dankovsky is not like the Haruspex Burakh: he has a different story, a different mindset, a different status — and therefore different capabilities. The most important of these: the ability to constructively anticipate and recall, and the ability to skilfully analyse and give orders.

Move through time to correct mistakes and make new ones. Examine patients, make diagnoses, prescribe treatment. Manage the city in an epidemic. And don't get burnt to a crisp in the process.

[superurtrashcard]

Next time, he will figure it all out.

Next time, he will figure it all out.

Next time, he will figure it all out.

Next time, he will figure it all out.

Next time, he will figure it all out.❣️

[bachelordaniildankovsky]

PITCH

An adventure game about time traveling combined with medical investigation200s and a city manager simulator elements. Life is Strange meets Papers, Please in a bizarre Art Nouveau setting of the Eurasian Steppe.

GAME LOOP

In general, the player's task looks like this: it is necessary to find out how to fight death. For this purpose, the player has to get answers from the future, which has not come yet. To unlock the future, it is essential to delay the spread of the epidemic.

To do this, you need to create a vaccine against the plague and pass a series of edicts. But you can also go around the city and eliminate the sources of the plague. And you can combine all of these activities in your own unique sequence.

VISUALS

[snapshotsfromgorkhon]

bachelor route: day 11; getting ready for the coronation

[the-linen-individual]

I have just started playing Pathologic (1) and I shall report my findings here for that ~1 person Who Knows. You should know that what I usually do in games is try to check absolutely everything in every location (until I get bored) before continuing on with the story.

Here is the list of my findings from the first session:

The Bachelor can jump on his table and stand there if you try a little. That is very unserious of him.

I have no idea how to leave the first location.

I am actively talking to Daniil. Example: "DANIIIIIL. DANIIIIL I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE SHOULD DOOOO. DANIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL." This will affect my approach to the character.

This is an update to point 2: I did not see the door. I wasted a lot of lamp fuel and ended up sleeping until noon just by trying to do anything.

I ended up pissing off the guys by Eva's residence and running from them at Daniil's unimpressive top speed because I didn't want to attack them. This was accompanied by loudly yelling "DANIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL".

I have now resorted to calling Daniil "the Bachelor" from time to time. While I'm talking to him in Polish, mind you.

I am basically trying to talk to any NPC as long as they don't run the hell away from me. It's around 1pm in-game and I still haven't gone to the Kains' residences.

I had Daniiiiiiiiiil jump on the throne (?) in the cathedral. I wonder if this will have consequences. (Also I have already visited the Kains' residences.)

How does water diminish hunger? Mister Bachelor, you may be deceiving your body here.

I keep being called to do something in real life and forgetting to pause so I'm sure this has great impact on the time mechanic of the game.

I'm not sure if there's a fall damage mechanic in this game, but I'm worried I'll kill Daniil on his first day if I check. I will try to kill him with morphine as fast as possible at some point, but that will not be on my first playthrough.

??? Can I do something about three men (two of them with repeating models) chasing a woman? I tried punching them, but they don't seem to be getting the message.

THIS IS AN UPDATE TO POINT 11: SO I VERY MUCH DIED TO THE FALL DAMAGE MECHANIC. There were barriers at the beginning of the stairs to the Polyhedron and around its base, so I thought they'd be present all over the stairs; I walked up to the ledge, thinking to myself, "I wonder if such world barriers will be addressed in such a self-aware game", just to find that the barriers were not in fact there and I could very much fall to my doom from that spot. And there's no reloads? Oh well, as annoying as that is, I guess I prefer permadeaths in regard to game storytelling...

And with that humbling death I think I'll be finishing this session. I hope there was at least something amusing in my notes, all taken live as I played the game for the first time

*. This is a bonus point: because I've been reading The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, I am now worried I'll find Lovecraft references in this game. An undying man character makes me wary.

[mariamegale]

There are 44 counts on the indictment. Here’s what happened as a result of your actions… ...is that so? Show me how it really was, then.

PATHOLOGIC 3 (2025)

trailer released on 7/10-2024