Greetings, fellow parasites!
We have a Christmas gift for you! It's been two weeks and you know the drill: time for a biweekly update. This week we are bringing in a whole new playstyle – summoning. Tired of getting outnumbered all the time? With the new weapon and organelles, you can become the swarm yourself.
New Weapon and Organelles
This batch of new toys features an array of auto-attacking tools - let your minions do all the fighting for you!
Weapon
Nidublast: Throw an army at your problems with this new gun that spawns minion
Internal Organelles
Swarm Nidus: Spawns weak and fast shooting minions to overwhelm with numbers
Apex Nidus: Spawns one strong melee minion – quality over quantity
Galvanic Weave: A net of lightning! Attacks connect to each other with an electric arc
Toxisome: Chemical warfare with your attacks leaving behind a toxic trail.
Necrolytic Igniter: Triggers explosions with enemy gibs. Even dead enemies can be useful!
Galvanic Infuser: Electricfy your attacks and make them arc towards nearby enemies.
Sinoatrial Node: Do you like rhythm games? Boost your damage when hitting on the beat of the music.
Elusive Mitochondrion: provides overcharge as you dodge and weave through enemy projectiles
Metabolic Mitochondrion: picking up loot doesn’t just give your resources – it gives you overcharge too!
Vacuole: Stores overcharge so you can save it for later. Activate to release the charges, when you need a little extra oomph
Specialized Skill Trees
We want you to have even more flexibility in your gameplay, so we gave each type of pathogen their own plasmid skill tree. You can now customize your playstyles specific to the pathogen of your choice!
Holiday Bonus
Christmas is coming and the human host is celebrating. Even the immune cells are feeling festive with their new hats! (We're crashing their party though.)
Teaser
Before we go into the patch notes, here’s a little teaser of what Roberto, Pathogenic’s amazing artist, has been working on. He's been the mastermind behind the art of Pathogenic's levels, organelles and all organisms, and there’s so much he has in store for you all.
A sneak peek at the intestine, a labyrinth of danger awaiting your pathogen’s arrival.
The editor looking a little different, doesn’t it?
Full Patch Notes
Aside from the new content, this patch also introduces a myriad of rebalancing, UI adjustments and visual improvements. See the full details below:
Content
Weapon
Nidublast
Organelle
Swarm Nidus
Apex Nidus
Sinoatrial Node
Galvanic Weave
Elusive Mitochondrion
Metabolic Mitochondrion
Vacuole
Necrolytic Igniter
Galvanic Infuser
Toxisome
Metaprogression
New plasmid skill trees for the Helminth and the Fungal Spore
Moved specialized plasmids for Bacteria to the sides of the tree
Gameplay
Make cursed chest payouts chances for better rewards higher
Remove recuperative mitochondria from starting pool
Shops now sometimes have a reroll machine
Range and overcharge strength upgrades are now additive instead of multiplicative
Improve beam thickness scaling with damage
Improve lightning beam homing
Very slightly buff the rock and the wall boss
Fix broken chronosome overcharge that didn't do anything before
Balance
Increase scaling of DNA needed to level up to 3
Increase Golgi Apparatus base damage from -30% to -10%
Golgi Apparatus now also triggers on missed hits
Increase Sentry Polyp's i-frames from 0.8s to 1.2s
Reduce sympathetic detonator base damage from 120% to 100%
Reworked Toxic Flagellum to deal damage every 0.5 seconds
UI
Updated DNA bar
Moved UI to the bottom left
Actives can now be bound to the secondary fire button
Added UI hint for aiming with the controller
Visuals
Added glowing veins and other props to most rooms
Lashes now have colors based on rarity
Updated image for Cnidocyst, Galvanic Conduit, Resilinoplast bubble
Added Santa hats
Music
Cleanup stomach fight music
And that wraps up the third and final biweekly update of this year. Hope you all like the new toys and have fun with it during the holidays. Also, thank you for making 2025 such an amazing year for us – we can't ask for a better community and demo launch. It's been a great pleasure seeing everyone enjoying the game. If you have any new ideas and feedback for us, join us on Discord and let us know what you think! We'll be back with more updates in 2026. In the mean while, merry Christmas and have a happy New Year!