#Pathologic

[peterstamatin]

"Quarantine is a free prelude to the Bachelor’s story, giving you a taste of what’s to come before the full game’s release. It’s sort of like a demo but not quite. Here, we’ll showcase fragments of gameplay mechanics and introduce the main storyline. Plus, we’ll unveil a part of the game’s world you’ve never seen before: for the first time in the series, you’ll get to explore the Capital (home of the Bachelor’s beleaguered laboratory) with your own eyes. (Also, Telman is a rat.)"

[alkaseltzerpm]

I present, to you, three perfectly viable Pathologic 3 speedrun strategies using the power of timed travel:

1) Have Peter build two Polyhedrons

2) Just tell Artemy everything to make the panacea right when he gets off the train (bonus points if you infodump about his dad releasing the Sand Plague)

3) Take Isidor out before he releases the Sand Plague, thus deleting Pathologic from existance

[meirimerens]

thus they found multiple of you and everytime you were buried, and everytime you were reborn, and everytime there was a new altar or a new tomb.

jewelry based on "helen's jewels" from "priam's treasure", discovered in 1873 in Hissarlık (historically Troy) by Heinrich Schliemann. he proceeded to steal the findings and ship them out of the country. this treasure has actually no link to Priam, as it predates him (and the historical date for the Troyan War) by centuries, which i'd argue is even cooler. many more things were part of this treasure, including rings, shields, blades, vases, diadems, buttons...

first picture shows schliemann's wife Sofia wearing some of these "jewels of helen"(!)

[240vo]

who's excited for marble nest... 2: the quarantine

[napoleonicanimus]

Why would Cuno know what the fuck an Udurgh is? Cuno’s fucking twelve!

Pathologic AU where everything is the same but Sticky is replaced with Cuno.

Inspired by me accidentally picturing Cuno every time someone mentions Sticky.

[mariamegale]

Alexey Luchin, former Ice Pick Lodge employee, has commented to support the allegations against Dybowski, giving more insight and making additional accusations regarding grooming, physical and emotional abuse.

One of the most noteworthy things is his claims about Dybowski's current relationship with IPL. According to Luchin, Dybowski has not cut any ties with IPL or vice versa, and is only claiming that to avoid alimony payments:

Nikolay formally removed himself from the company (IPL) in a legal sense, in order to avoid paying adequate alimony. The payments on the screenshots are as low as 100$, which isn't nearly enough. [...] He's still working, the maneur [sic] is only to avoid alimony. Though I must say, these days the team is "carrying" him mostly. New Ice-Pick Lodge is great, there are lots of motivated people who gre up on old Ice-Pick games and are doing their very best!

Full comment thread here.

I will also post his comments below, for those who may not have or wish to visit Reddit. Special thanks to user Winterlings for asking follow-up questions, and of course a massive applause to Luchin for being willing to share this under his own name.

As a former colleague (I worked on Pathologic 1, The Void, Cargo, and a bit of uncredited work on Pathologic 2), I am sad to confirm, that this is most likely true. There is a link to follow the ongoing court considering the child alimony payments, and it looks like there will be another one, considering recent occusations. (As link to Russian websites are banned, see original source in the mod comment. You will need a VPN to go further down the first link in the post to see the court progress, or use google translate on that link to bypass the need for VPNs) I know Nikolay well, from at least 2006, and unfortunatelly his "misbehaviours" have been an open secret for a long time, on which I didn't comment for two reasons. One - he is not the studio, and isn't involved much in development since The Void - do NOT take out your anger on the talanted and good people working of Pathologic 3. Second - I've been kind of a coward, until I've learnt in 2018 or so, that a girlfriend of mine was also groomed by him, while we were still dating, and since then I broke all ties with Nikolay. He has been a raging, violent and erratic alcoholic, a sociopath and a pathological liar all these years. I personally know at least 10 people who he harmed directly in relation to public accusations (but it's their stories to tell, not mine). He is a manipulative sociopath, that is very good with words, another reason why these stories only surfaced now. The reason I'm speaking up right now is because I figured that after the last ephebophilia and grooming accusations, that cost him his job as a univercity teacher, and danger of going to court, he would change his ways. But things have gotten worse and more rotten since then. There isn't a reliable "reputation institution" in Russian gamedev, but it must start at some point. I believe the best path for Nikolay would be to leave Ice-Pick Lodge to not tarnish their reputation with his own fuckups, and leave the current studio to work as is - they're doing a great job on Pathologic 3, and they once again should NOT be harrassed for a single person's misdeeds.

When asked about identity verification:

I'm easily googlable by my handle, my name is Alexey "The LxR" Luchin. Though my work is uncredited on both Pathologics ironically, but also I'm falsely credited on Knock-Knock, which I haven't worked on. Anyhow, it'll be easy to find me in the credits for The Void and Cargo and by traces of my active participation in building the early game communities on the forums. :) Also possibly another colleague of mine in this thread may verify that it is indeed me, though I'd understand if they wish to remain anonymous.

Whether or not we as a community should hold IPL as a company responsible for this in some way, or go through with a financial boycott, I am leaning more and more towards at the very least requiring some kind of statement. Not only because of what Dybowski has done in his personal life, although that's more than bad enough, but because this crosses the line into actively having an impact on the dev team, the games, and in turn the community. I want to be able to know that this is something they take seriously and that Dybowski is gone, before I give them more money. But that is just my stance, and any nuanced take is of course welcome.

[termitnik]

canon to me

[shmowder]

Major W for Peter lovers

Seems like we're getting a free prologue to the P3 story, in the style of the Marbles nest.

The announcement tweet:

And here's the steam page link:

All the new screenshots added from P3 Quarantine:

[tomatomagica]

starting tomorrow!! first time playing Pathologic Classic HD

since i'm russian and the plot takes place in fictional russian town, i'll be playing in english with russian VO

[oysterspearl]

time & time again

locket - moss icon / disco elysium / pathologic / demise automation - vein.fm / true detective / nine while nine - the sisters of mercy / “blue nights” by joan didion / the terror

[thanatika]

patient Hardman, my new ally and closest friend.

also, it's interesting to note that time seems to progress in dialogue now? a pretty stark change, but probably a good one if they're relying on time management as the biggest axis of punishment. new disco elysiumlike i suppose.

[notcouses]

“Look at my hands. “It's okay if they're ugly. Just look at them.”

[goddidntdothis]

a harmless memory

[marielism]

daniil gives me insaaaane “has a little sister” vibes

[awerzo]

Daniil squeezed him in an embrace. Trying to prompt an equal exchange. Artemy’s arms burned. There was nothing more than he wanted than to wrap his arms around Daniil and beg him to stay, to keep having what they had. Life was good. Shoulders ached as Daniil waited for something more from his stupid form turned stiff. Artemy wanted to cry, but he didn’t. He couldn’t. He couldn’t beg like he wanted to.

Most recent chapter of Rot of Stars by PlaguedBoar on AO3 made me insane. Here's an illustration of the last scene. Imma go scream now