Pathologic Classic HD - Pathologic: Relapse v.1.0 - Game mod - Download

Pathologic: Relapse is a mod for Pathologic Classic HD , created by Sloth and Kralich Enterprises.

Description:

Return once more to the lands of Bos Turokh in Pathologic: Relapse, an overhaul mod of the remastered cult-classic survival horror, Pathologic Classic HD! Featuring visual improvements of key assets, sound overhauls for weapons and other events, modified game mechanics and more!

FEATURES:

Visuals - Weapons

In deciding where to put time sprucing up visuals, the firearms in the game seemed like the obvious choice. They're some of the most notable items obtained and getting them felt as if it could be more rewarding to the player. All weapons therefore received a visual upgrade, as well as muzzeflashes for the main three weapons.

-The revolver has had a reskin, doubling the resolution and adding in lots of updated details sourced directly from the real life weapon (a Webley-Fosbery)

-The rifle has been reskined with double the resolution, AI-upscaled textures, and revised details with real reference from the real-life weapon (a Berdan No.2 Carbine)

-The shotgun (in Relapse, we've nicknamed it the Samopal after the files in the game as it has no real-life counterpart) has had revised textures - AI upscaled, with added engraving and shotgun shells retextured from real-life 16 gauge shells. Also, added detail overlays to enhance the detail on the texture!

-The double-barrelled pistol (a Remington Model 95) has been retextured, with AI upscaled textures and improved details from reference images of the real-life equivalent

-The revolver, rifle, and shotgun have all had their muzzleflashes updated to better fit the graphics of the game, as well as the rifle receiving its own unique muzzleflash since it previously shared the revolver's

Visuals - Misc

Besides the weapons, a few backend visuals have been changed in some way.

-New logo for the project!

-Modified main menu screen with new logo

-Added a unique loading screen tip to each of the seven loading screens - helping instruct new players and remind more experienced players of parts of the game

Sounds - Weapons

Along with a visual upgrade, all weapons also received new sounds! These were designed to make their firing sounds and reload sounds more satisfying. The weapons are incredibly rare anyway, so they may as well be satisfying to use.

Sounds - Events

Besides weapon sounds, a few other event-based sounds were modified. Taking cues from Fallout 3 and 4, the Reputation sounds have been replaced with musical cues instead of the stock-sound effect babies - a sour note from the Andrei Kabak track is used for reputation loss, whilst a positive note from the Changeling's ending is used for reputation gain

Also Replaced the butcher death sound with a new take by a voice actor since this death sound was reused for another enemy type

Gameplay - Speed

After some testing, game speed has been increased by 20% and clock speed slowed down by 20%. In effect this allows the player (and other NPCs) to move a bit quicker and pursue their objectives with the same amount of time they had before. This is in response to opinions that the walking speed - and the game - is far too slow. Perhaps the strongest criticism of Pathologic is that moving from one location to another is a chore. Moreover, the need to travel across town sometimes multiple times in one day can be frustrating for newer players. Pathologic is, of course, a challenging game - but I felt there was a difference between challenging and frustrating. You can always modify these commands in the init.cfg if you'd prefer to play with the rest of the changes in this mod without the speed increase. Weapon reload sounds have had to be manually sped up by 20% to account for this so they still play in time.

Gameplay - Text

Pathologic's English translation was famously obtuse. Classic HD's is considerably better, but many awkward phrases and difficult lines of dialogue are still present in the game's files. Moreover, the weapons could do with updated details to make them fit better into the world.

Misc - Backend

Included two save files - one is the Haruspex with his three firearms, and one is the Changeling with her Derringer, both with ammo, for testing purposes. Simply delete these if you want a fresh game without these saves included.

Instructions:

Extract the archive and copy the „Data” and „Saves” folder to game’s main direktory.

• Last update: Monday, March 8, 2021
• Genre: Adventure
• File size: 17.3 MB