Biweekly Update 02 - High Voltage

Welcome back everyone!

It’s been two weeks, so time for a shocking update! We’re back with a fresh batch of brand-new content, as well as a plethora of changes to gameplay, balancing and UI.

New Weapons and Organelles

This update contains both new weapons and new internal organelles. Check out all the new toys!

Weapons

• Galvanic Conduit: Zap foes with electric discharge (UNLIMITED POWERRRR!! ... actually, limited by your stamina)

• Conductive Cnidocyst: Sharing is caring. Bind your enemies together and make them share all damage taken.

Internal Organelles

• Galvanic Sac: Automatically discharges energy to nearby enemies

• Sentry Polyp: Spawns turrets for more firepower (and perhaps meat shields too

• Golgi Apparatus: Transfers connected melee attacks to connected projectile attacks (essentially, your projectiles can deliver melee strikes)

• Dorasal Lysosome: Become an assassin with the backstab damage boost

• Crytobiotic Core: An explosive second chance for your pathogen to fight on

• Resilinoplast: Reflect projectiles with your own attacks

Loot Changes

You can now find Cursed Chests floating around different organs. They contain random rewards, for a price. Do you feel lucky today?

Special rooms now also require an upfront payment before opening their doors. Gone are the days of walking straight in and looting everything clean. Be careful with how much you spend – You don’t know when you’ll need some spare “cash”!

Organelle Visuals Rework

We want your parasite to appear more visually distinct as it takes on different organelles to really show off the unique evolution progress. That’s why in this patch, we’ve reworked the backgrounds of the internal organelles so they can influence the look of your pathogen even more.

Music

Pathogenic’s soundtracks have always been integral to the combat experience. In this patch we’ve made them cleaner, longer, and now your cellular combat action is ever more hyped. It's a pity we can't put audio files in this blog, so do load up the demo and listen to the music yourself!

UI Updates

We’ve received requests from many players who want to take a closer look at their parasites. So here’s the Photo Mode, where you can pause the game and zoom in on your pathogen.

Great news for speedrunners: Pathogenic now has a page on speedrun.com! And to help you time your runs, a new Speedrun Timer has been added to gameplay settings.

Patch Notes

Aside from what was mentioned above, the update also contains a myriad of other changes in gameplay, optimizations and visuals. See below for the full details:

New Organelles

Weapons

• Galvanic Conduit

• Conductive Cnidocyst

Internal Organelles

• Golgi Apparatus

• Sentry Polyp

• Galvanic Sac

• Dorasal Lysosome

• Cryptobiotic Core

• Resilinoplast

Gameplay

• Cursed chests appear

• Special rooms now require payment to access them

• DNA now drops after killing enemies instead of finishing a room

• Improved Cnidocyst jankiness

• Toxic flagellum no longer deals damage to unangered shopkeeper

• Overcharge indicator showing the accumulated energy on some organelles

Balance

(Unless otherwise mentioned, all stats refer to organelles' basic rarity)

• Rework on how the organelle chaining works. Now cycles of organelles can no longer repeat and apply at most once. Sounds like a small change but some cycle builds that went out of control before are now significantly nerfed. Also these cycles should no longer crash your game

Buffs

• Magnetosome: attracted projectiles now pierce enemies and lifetime extended

• Vengeful Mitochondria: Overcharge time extended (5 seconds -> 7 seconds)

Nerfs

• Recuperative Mitochondria: Now only gets charged from connected attacks. Provides 50% less charge

• AdjustedSympathetic DetonatorReduced splash damage (150% -> 120%)
• AdjustedPressurized SpiculeReduced damage (60 dps -> 56 dps)
• AdjustedRotary ExtruderReduced damage (225 dps -> 200 dps)

Visuals

• Added Environment Quality: Mid and Postprocessing Quality: Mid level for a good balance between performance and looks

• Internal organelle visuals rework with backgrounds to influence the look of your parasite more

Audio

• Updated music for skin and stomach, tracks cleaned up and extended

UI

• Photo mode on P to get your perfect screenshot

• Setting to hide damage numbers and disable pausing on lost focus

• Speedrunning timer added

Optimizations

• Better detection of borked physics state that previously led to crashes