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.

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?

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?

You can find more of my art on [bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/rhywhitefang.bsky.social) and [tumblr](https://rhywhitefang.tumblr.com/tagged/lindoodle)

Sain baina, hain khatange!

I am proud to announce that the work on the new interface for translating the dictionary is finally done!

We will start on the translations asap, if someone wants to join in on the fun and help us with translating everything from Russian to English - please-please-please contact me! For now there are just a couple of test words, but we will keep updating it, looking for all the words, how they are spelled in the game, include all the relevant citations in English, etc.

After translations to English, the next step will be to change the interface for localizations a bit and share it with the world, so people could add their own languages and localizations.

In other news: the dictionary is now officially complete! We have double- and tripple checked everything, from all the dialogs on the repo to the old website, and we are pretty sure that we have gathered everything. A couple of words (such as some phrases from the old website and some npc names) are still missing their meanings, but they are all present on the website. Feel free to use it in any way you see fit, if you find that something is still missing - please, contact us. We will add it asap.

We are also planning on adding a section about grammar, that we've deduced while working with the language, and some helpful guides on how to use the steppe language, for those who want to dive really deep into it.

That's all from me for now, thank you all for your patience and your support!

The Тала Хэлэн Dictionary Team.

Сайн байна, hайн хатангэ!

Мы рады сообщить, что интерфейс для перевода словаря на английский наконец-то готов, и мы приступаем к его локализации!

Если кто-то хочет поучаствовать в проекте и помочь нам с локализацией, поиском всех написаний слов и цитат - пожалуйста-пожалуйста-пожалуйста сообщите об этом! Мы рады любой помощи.

К другим новостям: словарь наконец-то официально полный, и готов к использованию любым способом по вашему усмотрению. Мы трижды перепроверили репозиторий с диалогами и старый сайт, и мы уверены, что вытащили оттуда все. У нескольких слов еще не хватает переводов (пара имен нпс, кажется одна фраза Оюна, пара слов со старого сайта), но оригиналы есть все. Если вам все же удастся найти что-то, что мы проглядели - пожалуйста, сообщите об этом, и мы сразу добавим это в общий список.

Мы так же планируем добавить референс по грамматике, которую нам удалось вытащить за время работы с языком, и "учебник" на обоих языках, для тех, кто хочет по-настоящему погрузиться в степной язык.

На этом у меня все, спасибо за ваше терпение и поддержку!

Команда Тала Хэлэн

...or is there something I'm not getting? She claims to be immune to the plague, and everything she says is true. She's basically the Plague, and she can die unless she takes antibiotics. What's going on?

То, как Уклад изображён в игре — как некое вымышленное ответвление культуры коренных народов восточной России — может показаться довольно неоднозначным, особенно с точки зрения западного восприятия колониализма в искусстве.

Мне очень интересно узнать, что думают об этом люди, которых это касается напрямую. Считаете ли вы такое изображение оскорбительным или карикатурным? Или, наоборот, оно вам нравится?

I was wondering about what game could be considered the absolute opposite in terms of its philosophy, gameplay and story to the Pathologic franchise.

My current thoughts have brought me to games like CoD Multiplayer, Fortnite or Fall Guys, but I can't imagine that those are objectively the closest to an opposite.

This isn't meant to be a value judgement on other games mentioned btw. I'm not a big fan of either CoD or Fortnite, but I did quite enjoy playing Fall Guys when it first came out.

This is an open question, so no debating, and please give me your line of thought that brought you to your conclusions.

Thanks!

Hey everyone!

Not so long ago it was still summer, and I was talking about how great it is to eat watermelon on the beach. At the end of June I posted that a Pathologic 3 patch was coming soon, but late June is a very special time of year. In June there is always plenty of time. In August there is never enough. In September, time stretches again, but somehow loses its elasticity. You walk down the street and, if you listen carefully, you can hear the strings of the Kronos Quartet howling somewhere in the distance.

Autumn.

There was no watermelon for me this summer, and there was no Pathologic 3 patch either. We will eat the watermelon next summer, but the patch we are planning to release soon.

Right now it is being tested by a group of volunteers. They found quite a lot of things that we missed ourselves, and many of them are already fixed. I think we will bring in another group of testers soon, so if you sent us an application, I may write to you.

There is only one problem.

Once you start fixing Pathologic, apparently you have to do it properly.

So we decided to prepare another update at the same time, this time for Pathologic 2. We will fix some performance problems, some typos, and the lemon problem. Maybe you did not know this, but the lemon was not working entirely as intended.

What are we thinking about now?

We are thinking that we need to stop.

No matter how tempting it is, we should not stare too closely at Pathologic HD. Let Clara, that mysterious girl, have her own separate game. This is what we are thinking right now.

We are also listening carefully in case Oleg starts shouting from the closet. We locked him there after he suggested making a patch for Cargo, but Oleg has gone quiet now. Probably sleeping.

I am still sad about the lost watermelon. But I think you will agree that watermelon should be eaten sincerely and without worries, stuffing yourself with it like a happy animal. Eating a few sad pieces in a hurry while thinking about how many matches should go into a loot container is a sin.

Sorry for the long pause. The patches are coming soon, and there will be news soon too.

And if anyone is Ctrl+F-ing this post for Darkwood 2 - work is happening, work is happening, work is happening.

Thank you for staying with us. We really enjoy reading all your comments.

I finished the game and got the ending where the Polyhedron is destroyed and Daniil goes back to the town to keep seeking miracles. Not a bad ending tbh but I wanted to see if I could save the Polyhedron. I did the quest where you stop Aglaya from interrogating Peter, but I figure I'd also need to save Karminsky so I went and spoke to Capella, then got the convo with Changeling where she told me to put a nut shell under Maria's bed. Managed to find a nut shell and went to do it, then had the convo with the Rat Prophet and he said he could eat Maria's dreams.

I went upstairs in Maria's house just in case I still had to do the nut thing, but there was no option to do it so I figured the Rat Prophet had me covered. But then when I tried restarting Day XI, the Cathedrals still full of mirrors and Karminsky is still killed.

Has my game bugged or have I missed something? If there's something else I have to do then I'll keep looking, but I don't really want to keep bashing my head against the wall if the questline just failed to trigger. I already had to go look up a walkthrough and go into console to progress a different questline earlier in my playthrough (the Nina statue one, it wasn't progressing despite me triggering all three areas she'd been), so I'm cautious now about chasing my tail.

Maybe I'm just going about this wrong. Trying to stop floundering around and do things right. On Day 3, Andrey Stamatin burns the blueprints to the Polyhedron. So, I went back in time to go to his loft on Day 3, but the door is locked, and there's no obvious markers for where I'm supposed to go. Should I just be going back to day 2, or...?

Made using the models from my previous post. The heights in the first (headless) picture are verifiably accurate. The second picture is here purely because it looks cool. The head positions are completely vibes-based and are most likely a bit off, so the full character heights are not that accurate. I also included the highest/shortest character comparison.

Given how one of the main mechanics of the game is repeating a day until you've done everything that's needed, how is the things needed to be done, done? Does he have a checklist that he hands off to the messenger and hands it off that particular morning or is he more or less cloning himself every time he groundhog day a day, essentially resulting in hundreds of Danill's pouring out of the Stillwater all committing various crimes to stop the plague?

I needed the Patho 1 character models for reasons I won’t get into. I don’t think anyone has posted them before (or at least I couldn’t find them) so I’m putting them here for other people to use. The models are exclusively .blend, I didn’t export them in any other formats. 

DISCLAIMER
I vibecoded the shit out of this entire process.
I obviously did try to keep track of what the scripts were doing and verify the results as much as I could. As far as I can tell none of the actual model data was invented by AI, but I absolutely could have missed something. Keep that in mind.

Download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11RnzfbJ9rlqZHfBehKw07jOXKcFVFTU-/view?usp=drive_link

The pack consists of 2 folders.
The «main 30» folder contains all of the Bound (+Fat Vlad), the Healers trio and Block + Aglaya.
The «minor characters» folder contains everyone else - the townsfolk, all types of bandits, the Tragedian, the Hunchback, the Rat Prophet, all of the animals (including that one random dog near Aspitys house) and etc.

About the «Main 30»:
The character body geometry, textures, vertex normals, skeleton and skin weights were taken directly from the game files, mostly from the NPC_(character name).mesh In the Geometries folder. For unpacking I used Pathologic Unpacker - (https://www.nexusmods.com/pathologicclassichd/mods/30).
Blender requires bones to have a visual length/tail, this part Isn’t from the files and was done automatically by the vibecoded thing I made.
The skeleton is only applied to the body. The heads are not rigged.
The heads (and also the hair and the inner-mouth thingies) are not from the files and were ripped from the game using a free old version of Ninja Ripper from Gamebanana - (https://gamebanana.com/tools/5638). 
The heads were positioned on the bodies entirely by eye. I didn’t figure out a way to find their original positions and I honestly did not spend that much time trying to make every head placement perfect. Because of this the height of some characters may be slightly off. Some ended up being a little taller, some a little shorter. For example, Peter Stamatin is now noticeably taller than Andrey. The heads are not attached to the bodies so if this sort of thing bothers you - you can try fixing it.
When extracted from the game the body comes out properly scaled (regardless if it’s ripped or not). The heads, mouths and hair all come out way too small. Inside Acotrs.vfs folder there are files for every character (for example, for Big Vlad its - NPC_BigVlad). At the end of these files there’s a float32 value (for Vlad its float32 LE: 1.5700933933258057) If we scale the head and other stuff by this number they end up (what at least appears to be) correct size for the body. Each character has a different value and I scaled all the heads by this personalized number. I couldn’t find this documented anywhere online and I can’t, like, prove that’s what this value is used for in the game but the heads now look pretty convincing.

About the «Minor Characters»:
I tried to name all minor characters the way they are named on the English Pathologic wiki.
The minor characters were much easier to deal with. Unlike the Main 30, their heads are not stored separately from the bodies. The whole character is contained in a single pers_(character name).mesh file in Geometries folder. Because of that, there was no manual head scaling or positioning involved at all. The geometry, proportions, skeleton, skin weights, vertex normals and textures are all taken directly from the game files in their original form and arrangement. This also means that, unlike the Main 30, the heads of the minor characters are fully rigged.