There's more to overcome than just hunger, exhaustion, and disease in Pathologic 2, as the game actively works against you in a variety of ways. Most notably, the game only auto saves during the insane fever dream of an intro. It's probably in case people jettison early but then later decide maybe they are willing to go a little further down this bizarre rabbit hole.

After that point, there are no more auto saves. You have to manually save your game during the 12-day rush to stop the plague — but you can't do it from the menu like in any other modern title!

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Pathologic 2 sticks to its roots and wants to make this experience as difficult as possible. In keeping with the limited-time theme, while playing as the Haruspex, you can only save your game at a limited number of standing wooden clocks found in specific buildings.

Sap bo file system destination. First, make the host file entry on the BO server for the host name and IP address of the machine where you want to save that file. Second, you would need to use the shared path in the directory field of destination.

Pathologic 2 Save Clock Locations

Clock locations for saving your game during the 12 day plague battle

This old-school save design is made more difficult by the fact that many of these buildings aren't accessible at all times or on every day. Quite a few of them can't be entered until after completing the first day or going through various quests, and some of them actually get closed off on later days as the plague progresses.

Be sure to keep note of where to find them, because you don't want to lose a whole day's progress before shutting down! All the save clock locations are marked with yellow stars in the map above, while the table below lists the specific names of the buildings to look for in each district.

Note that in some cases, there are multiple clocks in what appears to be a single building, but they can only be reached by entering that building from different sides, like with the Olgimsky's mansion called The Lump.

The ticking clock of time moving ever forward is quite literal in this game

During the first day, your best bet to save your game is to head into the Warehouse section at the southern end of the city and enter the area where Bad Grief holds up shop, or head up to the north side and enter The Shelter where Lara Ravel lives.

Because of your quest to find allies among your old friends, both of those locations will be open and available to you and are clearly marked on your map.

If you've talked to the kid gangs and found their lair, the Soul And A Half Fortress is another great place to save because you aren't likely to get mugged and you can trade for items with the kids in the warehouse.

Have you found any other save clock locations that we missed, or are you having trouble getting into any of these buildings? Drop us a note in the comments below and we'll help you figure out who to talk to or what quest to complete to access the area on any given day!

Valve’s Source Engine is one of the mostversatile engines in the world, used by the company for its widely successfulHalf-Life games, Counter Strike and even the ever popular and extremelyentertaining Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress series. With Garry’s Mod,you can do take advantage of the engine and come up with as many crazyscenarios as you like. On starting a new game you will get a massive sandboxwith thousands of options and models coming from the many source-engine gamesand a wide list of community assets, all there for you to play with, manipulateand build your own little games.

While it started as a mod for Half-Life 2,it’s now a full-blown game that can be acquired on Steam for $10. But in thisarticle we’ll teach you how to get GMod for free step-by-step.

Getting it is easier than you might expectand there isn’t anything shady involved, you won’t have to download some randomtorrent from a site and risk getting copyright notices from your ISP. Thereason for this is that once upon a time Garry’s Mod was free. Then in 2006,Valve decided to add a price tag to it. You might be confused right now andasking yourself, “If that’s true, then is GMod free?” Current versions of GModaren’t free, but the version released before the move to a paid one is. Garry’sMod version 9.0.4 is still free, as are all the previous version of the mod,though to be honest there isn’t any reason to get a version older than 9 atthis point.

Knowing how to get GMod for free is theeasy bit, it’s just a simple download. The hard part is making it all work.Below you’ll find a detailed guide on all the steps you need to take in orderto not only download Garry’s Mod for free but also properly install it:

1.Go to http://www.steampowered.com, the SteamStore website.

2.Download the Steam Client.Don’t worry it’s free.

3.Launch the client and create aSteam account. You could also create the account directly on the site.

4.Launch the client and log ontoyour account.

5.Download Garry’s Mod for free(version 9.0.4 as we previously mentioned) and install it. You can click herefor the download link. Don’t be alarmed if you see it being a very shortdownload as what you’ll get is a download/installation client. This saves youfrom failed downloads in case of an internet outage.

6.You will see it will default toyour Steam installation folder. Leave it there or it won’t show up on yourgames Library in the client.

7.After installation, a pop-upwindow will open and you will receive a message saying you need Half-Life 2,Half-Life or Counter-Strike installed in order to run your free GMod. But don’tworry, there’s a workaround for this that makes it so you don’t need any game installed,which might be the case if you’ve never used Steam before and are followingthis guide to the letter!

8.In the Steam client, hover yourcursor over Library and go into Tools. Scroll down to “Source SDK Base 2006,”right click and install it. It’s a simple 2.5GB download that includes allworking files for the 2006 version of the Source-Engine, the same files presentin Half-Life 2.

9.Now go to the installationfolder for Garry’s Mod. Usually it’ll be “SteamAppssourcemodsgmod9”

10.Open the Gameinfo.txt

11.Change the SteamAppId value to215, save and close the file.

12.Launch the mod and enjoy.

There are some caveats of course. If youget GMod for free, you won’t be able to install any addons and you won’t beable to play multiplayer games. It’s a small sacrifice for being able to dowhatever you want in Garry’s Mod. If you would like to have access to thesefeatures and the large catalogue of player-created content, then you might wantto consider investing in the game.

Hope you’ve found this guide on how to getGMod for free useful and if you have any doubts or concerns be sure to contactme and I’ll help you sort it all out!