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Objectively I think it's an important mechanic because it creates new map challenges and a mix of disasters with competing ways to protect from them.

My biggest complaint is there is no tutorial to walk you through how to prepare for a Badtide and you have to figure it out on your own. I got absolutely walloped by my first one with no protection in place, lost all my crops and trees and by the time I pulled out of the ensuing famine had 11 beavers left to rebuild with. So uh, it's a very effective disaster. I had one water source and managed to dam some of it, and then the Badtide flowed in and contaminated all of.

There's a few things I should have done:

Drained the reservoir of clean water so I could capture the Badwater until the Badtide is over. Let the clean water flush the rest (when it comes) so it gets diluted and quickly flows through three rest of the system. It's now critical to get the floodgates and not just use dams. Badwater can get trapped behind dams and you have to remove them to flush the system.

Research Badwater pumps and fluid dumps to remove the accumulating Badwater, store it in tanks, and use a fluidpump to dump it into a safe channel. This will probably be an all hands on deck thing during a disaster.

Honestly it was pretty demoralizing having my existing skills and methods used against me by this new disaster. But I think that's ultimately going to be good because it turns sure bets into something you really have to manage. If we're talking about an environmental disaster management game, this makes a lot of sense and adds another dimension of realism. It does make the game a lot harder, but once I learn I think I'll be able to manage it okay.

Pathologic Classic is a game that requires forsight to play well, and for you to use the time given to you to accumulate as much as possible so you can sufficiently survive without having to worry. Here are some tips to get you started, note that there are quests that will give you rewards but they will not be mentioned here.

Warning for very minor spoilers for the first few days.

Utilise the storage that's given to you - Each character is given their own 'home' which will have a storage container with unlimited space for you to store excess items, for the Bachelor it's the cabinet next to his bed, the Haruspex a large chest in his lair, and the Changeling, a cabinet upstairs similar to the Bachelor's in Saburov's house. As the Haruspex especially you will have a lot of excess items, so use the storage liberally, items dropped on the ground will despawn once the day ends, the storage is permanent

Search every bin you come across - Bins are the primary way of finding tradeable items such as needlies, razors, watches, and empty bottles, hoard these items as much as possible, they will be your primary currency for important items. Search previously searched bins after exiting buildings too, something might be there that wasn't before

Try to interact and trade with as many kids and carousers as possible - Kids can have medicine and ammo on them. Ammo can fetch a good price after Day 1 and due to prices soaring you won't be able to afford medicine to boost immunity and curb infection until you've accumulated A LOT of money (see this post for getting money fast). Carousers can have bandages and tourniquets on them for 5 water bottle each which will be your primary health healing items outside of Pain Killers (which increase exhaustion and health on use but restores health during sleep)

Save often, use quicksaves, and don't be afraid to reload - Try and get into the habit of saving frequently and when doing certain things: save before AND after talking to characters (before in case you screw up dialogue), save before entering and before exiting a building (mainly in case of hostiles), and save (or quicksave) before hostile engagements (in case you die). You can have as many regular saves as you like but you only have two quicksave slots (F5 to quicksave, F8 to reload quicksave). If you screw something up don't be afraid to reload as far back as needed, Pathologic takes a long time to play and its good to have multiple saves to fall back on. Bear in mind that having a lot of saves might slow down your game slightly, if you've gotten far and don't think you'll need your earlier saves you can delete them in-game or from the game files

Focus on maintaining stats rather than trying to reduce them completely - Outside of health and reputation you have four stat bars: hunger, immunity, exhaustion, and infection. Hunger and exhaustion constantly increase over time and are curbed with food and sleep/lemons, respectively. Immunity will always fill/reduce to half over time if it's been changed, and if you get infected, you will slowly become more infected at a speed relative to your immunity (higher immunity slower infection increase). When hunger and/or exhaustion are maxed out you, and when you are infected AT ALL, your health will begin to slowly drain. Food becomes scarce and it can be hard to sleep enough some days so your focus should be preventing the bars from maxing out rather than trying to reduce them completely. As for infection, ideally you should try not to get infected but this isn't always possible, so you should try and curb the infection down whenever possible using pills (or gruel as the haruspex). Some days all you can try to do is live by healing yourself constantly as it reduces due to your other stats, as long as you don't die from stats maxing out you're doing well

If possible for that day try and complete the main quest before anything else - Every day you will have a new main quest as indicated in your journal (Q) that will always start with you receiving a letter (L) from a certain character asking you to see them. If there are no time constraints you should focus on that quest first, or try to do multiple things that are in the same place at the same time for efficiency. You won't be able to do every quest, but completing the main quest will ensure that none of your Bound become ill so you can get the ending for that character. A quest will be complete when the last entry starts with **

Until last night...

I was playing the Siva Heroic playlist and ended up getting stuck with two other Titans on different Strikes a few times. And I gotta say, these people are IDIOTS. 

“Why yes, it is sound strategy to run straight up to the boss to melee. Both of you. Well done. And considering I just used my super to keep myself alive whilst rezzing you both, I’d say doubly so on the grand idea front.”

This went on and on. I was Defender subclass, and every other Titan I got matched with would be either that as well, or Sunbreaker. And none of them knew how to play their class at all. Nvm their subclass. Gah!

I tend to play for longer range. I use scout rifles as my primary, for good distance and damage, with little recoil. Secondary doesn’t tend to get much use, but generally a sniper rifle for high accuracy distance shots. Fusion rifles are straight out. Useless bloody things. And then for Heavy, varies depending on the mission, either a sword or rocket launcher. And armour will vary depending on necessity, as well. Same with Subclass build. And I do the same on both Hunter and Warlock. Basic gamer strategy.

So here's some musings from my recent pathologic streams (which you can watch here)

I wanted to test some stuff out as I've been trying to figure out how certain aspects of the game works in order to make doing something like a challenge run viable

As most people know, shmowder is one of the rare items that can completely cure you of the plague, along with panacea. Panacea is only widely accessible in the haruspex route due to being able to make it eventually, whereas shmowder is bought from the 'Teensy' child NPC as seen below, they have a vlaue of 10 and very rarely appear as a tradeable item. They also appear in infected houses but my findings are for trading specifically.

I found that trading NPCs that wonder about the town (such as the children and carousers) will have set inventories upon talking to them that don't change for as long as you can see and interact with them, i.e. if you talk to a carouser who has nothing on him, then that specific carouser will still have nothing till he despawns out of view or you go into a building. In addition, multiple of the same NPCs occupying a space will have different inventories that will, again, be static until they despawn.

When you exit a building any NPCs that spawn in the area will have their inventories pre-rolled before talking to them, and re-entering the building and exiting will usually cause all current NPCs in the area to despawn, so they won't be there upon exiting. However, something I found is that every time an area is loaded after going through a door, the NPCs inventories will re-roll, this means that if you saved before exiting a building and a trading NPC spawned outside when you exited, every time you reload that save and exit, that trading NPC will have a different inventory, you can use this to your advantage!