Breaking the Shackles - Tips and Tricks for Pathologic 2

so do [Music] so so you've completed your first round of pathologic two you spent the game hungry thirsty exhausted your wards were picked off by the plague one after the other and you got used to regular conversations with market mortal well if you like i have some suggestions for your second attempt just a couple of tips to help you overcome the game's survival demands and some tips on keeping your fellow townsfolk alive this video by its very nature assumes that you've played the game before if you have not the level of spoilers may be extreme and i would recommend buying the game and trying it before carrying on past this point so on with the rest of the video early in the game water is in copious abundance available on almost literally every street corner however as of day three this quickly changes with almost all pumps being broken on the strokes of midnight the barrels are all that remains up until day seven or eight these should provide enough water the hair respects between them to supply your needs beyond this they too are unavailable some water is available in your factory home each day enough to fill three bottles of water or slake a stronger thirst if you wish to use it for urine thirst i would recommend filling bottles and drinking from them as it is significantly more efficient it is very possible to stockpile enough water for the whole run within a few days with efficient use of tinctures and if you avoid selling water bottles to drunks for tourniquets or bandages however i would recommend fixing a pump once a day for the last few days fixing a single pump and making the most of it by filling at least 10 to 20 bottles will make things considerably easier as you'll continue to find empty bottles throughout your run and it can be tricky to rely entirely on your early water stockpile to fix a pump you need one chisel one metal strap and one spring as long as you're not using guns and are trading for the metal strap which is the rarest three you should be able to stockpile four of each by day seven after the fixing the alembic and maybe a possible upgrade if you aren't keeping track of it later in the game food can become a potential source of deaths however it is fairly easy to stockpile enough food in the first five to six days to last for a remaining five days without significant foraging to stop part in the early days of the game you have several suppliers of grub children on the street that will commonly have eggs about their persons and step adults which will sometimes have pemmican if you've been raiding the children's stashes as we'll get into later then you should have the means to collect enough eggs to make a really big omelet within a couple of days you should of course collect the food from lara's cabinet days one and three after speaking with her in the hospital and the meat from sacrificing the bull on day six trading with healthy people infected districts is a quick way to obtain valuables such as rings watches and bracelets which can be traded in groceries for food as well good foods to purchase if the options are available include lemons bread milk and cured meat lemons restore exhaustion without causing any side effects bread is filling and doesn't increase thirst much milk crystals thirst and hunger by a reasonable amount and cured meat is filling while also increasing thirst significantly though to be honest any food is good if you have spare diagnostic supplies and antibiotics you can cure the people lying on the ground in infected districts this will provide a significant boost to the thunder award for the following day a maxed out thunder award provides enough food for pretty much an entire day it's really good and i would highly recommend it every character that does not catch the plague saves you a shmelda or panacea so after keeping yourselves alive with food and drink your next goal is to maximize the immunity of your endangered wards and minimise the number of infected districts wherever possible there are three opportunities to prevent infection in a single district the most accessible one of these is the house of death side quest doing this one prevents an area with a single character as pity from being infected however if you don't do it then khan will not leave the polyhedron and can't be infected thus potentially saving on schmeldas in the long run day four if you do not give a water barrel to lara this prevents the infection from reaching the area in which she lives on day five speak with sticky to find out about a chemist embalming bodies this side quest leads to chalking doors to show houses with bodies in them if you complete this correctly you'll prevent the west of the town from being infected the first time which protects multiple characters from a round of rolls next up is the prophylaxis the prophylaxis prevents named characters from catching the plague on the midnight takeovers you should always use the highest quality tinctures to treat any at-risk person the easiest way to obtain these fingers is to go into the step anywhere twire grows and listen for the chiming sound swevery sweatery is your life and your savior and it will keep everyone in the town alive so every and any colored wire produces the medrel plus green tincture so every is the easiest herb to find that produces the improved tinctures and i would recommend stockpiling it wherever possible the immunity abuse is much stronger than that from normal tinctures or immunity boosters player-produced antibiotics are not improved by the quality of the starting tincture only its color so normal metro tinctures should be used for producing antibiotics finally it's also recommended that you do not speak with yulia lurachaeva if that's how you pronounce it on day two at the lump as this introduces her as a character which results in her potentially catching the sand pest earlier than she might otherwise she's not spoken to she is not introduced until day six which keeps us safe until then to keep everyone alive it is necessary to protect both vlad or gimski's to do this do not speak to vlad the younger about the termitary instead speak to the senior vlad then to clara who's sat in the lobby of his house and then speak to the senior vlad again he'll send people to retrieve his son keeping the both of them alive there is no penalty to this with the steppe people in the termitary you tried your hardest with the prophylaxis but somebody still got infected or the game decided as it sometimes does to just infect people anyway this is where schmelda comes in the goal of any run to maximize survivors will involve near continuous hunting for shrouders in this section we will discuss finding the shmounders and maximizing the panacea that can be obtained from the abbott commanders are few and far between in the game and are at the same time incredibly necessary they are found in some side quests which are guaranteed they are also found randomly in children's stashes and from trading with the teensy model of character other than the side quests they are not guaranteed and are quite rare these quests are hide and seek at the table yard just to the west of the theater on day three as long as the player brings one nut with them they have enough material to buy the schmelder any children in the game value the nuts they possess at value 1 and yours 2 so you can repeatedly trade with them to obtain all of their nuts bar 1. the schmalter can be traded with one of the children for a value of 5. you can trade the leash obtained from dealing with leica to a dog head in the nutshell on day 4. two more can be found in caches on day 10 after having received a letter players should search every cache location every day other than during act two when the caches don't refresh it is currently unknown whether playing the game is intended putting things back in the caches actually contributes to what the children put in but it certainly doesn't seem as important as the game would have you believe in terms of trading some teensies will have a shrouder for a value of 35 they value walnuts at a 5 and are also partial to chalk at a 3 and other nuts for slightly less as such you should always carry walnuts with you buying them from any grocery you pass by and any chalk from any clothes shops once caches have been checked for a day you should consider going to uninfected and not burnt out areas to trade with any of the children there in case one has a schmod and remember it is still very random so you made it to the abattoir in my opinion this is where good runs go to die i strongly recommend using strong punch tanks to stun the worms followed up by quick strikes to minimize your stamina drain as the strong attacks take a lot of stamina after the first worm is fought the menku's finger can be obtained to make later fights much easier at that point quick stripes are best to finish them quickly before damage can be taken don't run in this area in case of a surprise worm as far as i'm aware it's only possible to obtain five bottles of the living blood despite there being six fountains as such you can drink from the first fountain in this area to replenish your health stamina and thirst before carrying on this provides the majority of panacea necessary to protect all of the children when death comes for them the following day when the plague is taken in murky's stead it is possible to remove it through cleansing by fire as i've shown here twice because i accidentally got infected twice if the infection has been kept as low as possible and your health is high the play can run through fire which kills the infection while remaining alive yourself if schmound is unavailable for a character then you better pray to the god of dice only use the best version of antibiotics that you have available homebrewed antibiotics brewed with infected brains are the strongest and may keep your wards alive just one more day but the plus versions that can be bought in stores or traded with children are nearly as good okay there's so many other things i could talk about but i've got a quick rundown of some of them remember that when you go to named characters houses there's often quite a lot of stuff that you can loot if you just look around uh you can loot stuff from rubens anna's the stomatans vlads and uh sabarova i think that's i think that's about it anna in particular has a lot of really nice stuff just behind where she stands in her house you can store spare stuff in vlad's closet before you have access to your own home as it doesn't get reset later in the game as far as i'm aware soap is an excellent trading commodity for clothing repair items it stacks up to five and you can buy it from loads of the kids for two fingernails are good for making trips north to the south and the town quicker but they're not quite as good for west east and for the first half of the game you only need one per journey you can get two fingernails for cheek from the girl in nothing's hideout each day but if you're regularly checking the caches you probably won't need to the menkes finger is the most powerful knife in the game as well as being a good surgical tool so consider using it in combat if you don't have access to the monkey's finger you should absolutely get hold of a knife as early as possible you can get one from lara's on day one but it's badly damaged if you do manage to keep a hold of it though it's much cheaper to repair than it is to buy a whole new one don't be afraid to go into the infected districts to loot stuff each house can be quickly popped into in any obvious drawers and cupboard saluted before anything has a chance to reach you you can scan a whole district super quick without any real danger this way keep in mind when you are accessing cupboards any cupboard or drawer that appears to be dirty will drain your immunity upon opening or taking items from but ones that appear clean do not drain your immunity there are multiple outdoor storages that can be looted in the city that will replace every midnight there's one behind the nutshell and there's two in the circle of houses near the broken heart and they can contain some really nice stuff including bracelets that can be sold for example yeah there's also a wardrobe in the center of the earth area that's the same but i always find it a bit tougher to find okay i think that's just about everything you can take a look at making more tips or being a little bit more specific about the order in which you should do things on each day especially on the days after the army's arrived but for now that ought to be enough to significantly improve your second run just definitely keep the stash positions map open and which districts will get caught next in mind so that you can plan when you will be trading with kids and where you will be going okay that's all for me thank you very much for watching i hope you have an enjoyable time good day you

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Keywords: pathologic2, tips, schmowder

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Length: 14min 0sec (840 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 14 2021