Thread 718448095

Why is this game so fucking stressful?
>spend all day running around healing and immunizing people
>minmax trading while running from one errand to the other
>stockpile food and clean water wherever possible
>try to optimize pathing between quests and errands
>nighttime comes
>people still die left and right, people get infected
>barely scraping by and barely managing to stay alive

I dunno. I'm stuck in a loop of starvation and being only one hit away from dying, and the fucking muggers at night always get me. I have no idea what I'm doing when I play doctor either.

Le pain simulator xD

suffering is more engaging than fun

>>718448095 (OP)
During a crisis you can only make bad choices.
That's from the Changeling route.

Stressful?
It's peak comfy once you get the routine down and you walk over the town and watch it decay
>doing the rounds, completing quests while looking through trash cans and refilling water bottles
>visiting the bar to barter away excess herbs
>bartering with kids for food
>cutting open any corpse you find
>trading water bottles for bandages
>healing sick people at the hospital
>visiting your adopted children and Lara
>ignoring all the requests for help from the Bachelor's Bound
>talking long walks in the steppe listening for the voices of the herbs
>coming back to your abandoned factory base to brew some medicine, talk to your bull and crash out for the night
>smiling as Anna gets infected and eventually dies
https://youtu.be/VRb8Ob5W9KE

>>718448095 (OP)
Trying to keep the characters I liked the best from dying when multiple got infected at once was genuinely more impactful than all of the scripted drama in all of the AAA movie games with a ham-fisted orchestral soundtrack ever made.

>>718452323
Everyone who's played this game has a different hustle.
Mine was trading medicine for pemmican.

>>718452813
true, but anyone who played without comfy night-time herb gathering played the game wrong

>>718453327
Anyone who survived the week played the game right in my opinion.

Are there any story/difficulty mods for this game? I'd like to play it again but it'd be good to mix things up a little

>>718454064
Just play the Bachelor route.
You unlocked it by hugging Lara, right?

>>718454243
I actually did complete the game with hugging Lara, it took a few tries. Good suggestion though, it was a fun bonus challenge

Will playing Pathologic 1 first make 2 more enjoyable

>>718448095 (OP)
Because you are fighting to save thousands of lives, why wouldn't it be stressfull? Are you filtered or what?

>>718454605
1 would add a lot of context and make you enjoy a bunch of moments more, but 2 is a far better game in almost every single aspect while 1 is more of an experimental game made by a bunch of drunk russians who had barely played any videogames in their entire life.

>>718454605
Yes, even if Pathologic 2 is a better game for the most part.
Also, the music in 1 is immaculate.

>>718448095 (OP)
Because it's intended to be stressful

>>718448095 (OP)
Tbh the game wasn't that hard once you understood how to trade, children are way too broken and doing hospital tasks gives you enough to survive for a decent time, I only got shafted on the task where you have to stay in the hospital for an extra hour to get the reward. My run pretty lucky all things considered, only came with 4 casualties with all kids surviving, and the only guy I wanted to save that died was Vlad Jr.

Because Pathologic gameplay is based on making the player feel tension. The Void has the same gameplay design.
One of the Pathologic protagonists' best choice was to just sleep all day in between doing the bare necessities of that day. now that's a real depression simulator.

>>718452323
>>cutting open any corpse you find
but the people will know!!!!!!!!!!

>>718456058
It's ok, I'm a doctor.

>>718448513
hearing that rat fuck complain that the rot is growing or whatever hits different after you've died multiple times within 3 minutes of each other

>>718455878
Which one?
I'm guessing the Bachelor because the Haruspex needs to complete the panacea quest before a certain day and the Changeling needs to do the same side quest every day to prevent the entire map from turning into a quarantine zone.

>>718448513
Combine the herbs with water in the first machine to make the tinctures which will tell you what sort of medicine they need.
Combine infected organs with the tinctures you made in the first machine to make medicine, but only the right kind of medicine will save them. You can savescum this part, weirdly, given how hard they went on not letting you savescum death

>>718456058
>but the people will know!!!!!!!!!!
If you lure muggers to the steppe nobody will

>>718448095 (OP)
i gave this shit an honest try and came to the conclusion that the people who made this and the people who shill this are art-house slop enjoyers.
Gameplay is objectively bad and the story is non coherent, heavily relying on vague images because the authors are shit at writing, which is typical for their pretentious types. Iirc it failed in sales which is a good thing.

>>718448095 (OP)
is their game with the naked bitches any good?

>>718458098
You mean The Void? Yeah.

>>718457949
Thanks for reminding me to add shill and slop back to my word filters, faggot.

If you play on the easiest settings, it's actually pretty fun. Unironically feels like you know your shit as a healer and have a chance to keep the town alive in spite of everything. It strangely almost turns into a power trip. I'd recommend it.

>>718458415
you are welcome faggot.
playing this game is the equivalent of smoking weed and watching something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BVqksYJ2yw
imagining yourself a genius
i wont be surprised if the authors are drug addicts too, which is almost always the case in the """art""" circles.

>>718458098
If you like starting over again because you fucked yourself by making some mistakes early on, you can give it a go.
I can only advise you to not spend every bit of color you find early.

>>718452813
For my most recent game I mostly just had a specific town square where I'd kill muggers right outside Var's place. I was completely hated there but loved everywhere else and the cashflow was great

>>718448095 (OP)
>Why is this game so fucking stressful?

Described by its developers as a "stress simulator".

>>718458737
The game is fairly straight forward and simple though, unless you are an absolute imbecile.

>>718448095 (OP)
I edited the game so the days all stayed at the same speed. Went from stressful to comfy, I especially enjoyed the vibes at night.

>>718460706
Bro, time is supposed to go faster...

>>718448095 (OP)
Probably because it's supposed to emulate the feeling of being stressed

>>718460724
Too bad. I wanted to take my time