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Steam: 1.16

Hello everyone!

It’s been almost a year since Two Point Hospital released and we’ve been blown away with our community support. So, you guessed it, we’re nowhere near done with updating it yet!

With Gamescom just around the corner, we thought now would be an opportune time to share update 1.16 with you.

We’ve got loads of exciting plans for Two Point Hospital (a very busy roadmap of great stuff, in fact!) and we can’t wait to share more with you very soon.

Make sure you stay turned to our social channels for more on that.

Until then, however, we have a cool update for you here which brings some nice tweaks to the staff menu UI. We’re also enabling text search in the items list to make it easier to find items you own, and ones you’ve downloaded from Workshop.

There are a few other minor fixes, too.

Full list here:

    Update to the staff menu UI
    Allow text search in the items menu to make it easier to find items
    Bug fixes for 1.15
    Fix timezone-related crash on startup, which affected some machines with Eastern locales (e.g. Korean, Chinese)
    Fix random crash on some machines caused by use of a previously-experimental graphics multithreading setting
    Fix other very rare instances of crashes in Unity engine
    Reduce framerate spikes when creating new characters and parts of GUI during gameplay


As always, thanks for all your support :)

Two Point Studios

Steam: 1.12

Hi everyone,

We have just released our latest update (1.12) which fixes some bugs from the Interior Design release (1.11) last week.

We are loving seeing all of your creations in Workshop! There are 1900 items in total so far, and they are all brilliant! If you have any feedback on the feature, or if there is anything else that you'd like to see in Workshop than let us know in the comments below.

Change log:

    Fixed preview images larger than 1MB causing failure to upload to Steam Workshop - images are automatically downscaled
    Fixed issue with UGC (User-generated content) room items not being unlocked in sandbox when "All Unlocked" option is turned on
    Fixed issue with selection area rotation in UGC image picker
    Fixed issue with Workshop sandbox saves not updating level Kudosh
    Fixed issue with incorrect message dialogues appearing when loading UGC sandbox saves
    Fixed issue causing black textures when deleting local UGC
    Fixed issue where downloaded hospital items were not getting updated on workshop items update notifications
    Added support for line breaks in UGC description field
    Added tab key toggling between input fields on UGC screen
    Added filter to item filters list for each UGC bundle
    Improved item icons for e.g. long rugs. For any existing items you will need to update the item for the new icon to be regenerated.
    Tweaked display of names of missing UGC items


We also have a wiki for Workshop with some tutorials on it, which you can find it here: https://wiki.twopointstudios.com/Main_Page

Let us know if you have any problems with the update and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Thank you so much for the support :)

Steam: 1.11

Update v1.11 Interior Designer (with Workshop functionality!)
Hi everyone,

Our latest update "Interior Designer" is now live! This is our first release that uses Steam Workshop functionality. You can now create your own decorative paintings, pictures, canvases, rugs, walls and floors to customise your hospital however you want. You can then publish these to Workshop to share with the world! We have also added the ability to publish your Sandbox levels. We are really excited to see all your creations :)

We have made a Wiki with some documentation and our guess at some FAQ - we will continue to update this based on your feedback. Here's the link: https://wiki.twopointstudios.com/Main_Page


Change Log:

    Ability to customise walls and floors within the game, and share via Workshop.
    Ability to create pictures and rugs, and share via Workshop.
    New Rug shapes and sizes.
    Ability to share your Sandbox saves via Workshop. You can do this in the Sandbox menu in the "My hospitals" tab by clicking on "Share".
    Fix for some instances of becoming unable to place items in corridors.
    Various crash + bug fixes.



** Updated to fix broken Workshop items caused by using a preview image larger than 1 mb (CL 26263)**

** Updated to fix an occasional crash on Linux and a bug that happens when receiving workshop item updates whilst not in sandbox mode, after having entered sandbox mode. The effect was that no more workshop item updates would be received (CL 26305)

Let us know in the comments below if you have any problems or questions, and we will get back to you.

Have fun!

Thanks,
Jo

Steam: 1.10

Update v1.10 LIVE Bug fixes!
Hi everyone,

Our final update of the year is available now! In this update (v.1.10) we have added the Bigfoot DLC illnesses to Sandbox if you own the DLC and fixed various bugs.

Changelog:

    Added the Bigfoot DLC illnesses and cure rooms to Sandbox mode for people who own the DLC
    Fixed a bug where guest trainers were not available after they have left the hospital
    Various crash fixes and bug fixes
    Speculative fixes for some load failures


Let us know in the comments below if you have any issues or questions about the update, and we will get back to you.

We have lots of exciting things planned for Two Point Hospital in the new year and we will share what we are up to with you as soon as we can. Thank you so much for all of the support this year, it's been amazing!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Steam: 1.09

Update v1.09 DLC, German and Chinese voice over, new policy screen + more!
Hi everyone,

We have been super busy working on our new DLC Bigfoot! For more information on that see here:

We really hope you love it :)

We have also released a free update available for everyone which contains:

1.9.24525 (5th December)

    German and Chinese voice over for tannoy, DJ and opening video.
    New Policy screen! This can be accessed via a tab in the Overview Menu and allows you to:
        Set Diagnosis Threshold for Treatment
        Set Queue Warning Length
        Fast-Track Treatment Decision
        Toggle Staff Leave Rooms when Idle
        Toggle Staff Training Messages
        Toggle Promote Staff Automatically 
    New Items that can be unlocked with Kudosh, including rugs, pictures and decorative items.
    You can now give everyone a pay rise in the Pay Review screen with a single click!
    Fixed bug where you were unable to move a patient from one queue to another if they were the only patient in the queue.
    New music tracks, tannoy lines and DJ shows.
    Added heartbeat monitor effects.
    Various bug fixes and optimisations.


1.9.24567 (7th December)

    Fix bug where If you have more than 18 Sandbox saves the Sandbox UI stops functioning correctly.
    Fix bug where quick load was not working in Sandbox


1.9.24604 (10th December)

    Fixed bug where 'Now Even Cheesier' achievement was not achievable. 


1.9.24620 (11th December)

    Fix for load failure 


Let us know in the comments below if you have any questions or problems, and we will get back to you.

Thanks,
Jo

Steam: 1.08

Update v1.08 Sandbox Mode (...and bug fixes+more!)
Hi everyone,

We have been working on Sandbox mode, and we are really excited to share the first version! We wanted to get it out to you as soon as we could, and we will continue to update and improve it. So please us know of any feedback that you have :) You can now also choose if rooms are for diagnosis or treatment, and a few other bits and bobs (see below for details!)

You can read a bit more about sandbox mode in Lauran's blog post here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/1735468693696177534/

    Sandbox: Freeplay will unlock after getting 1 star in Flottering. If you've already got 1 star in Flottering then load your career and Sandbox will become available. You can then access it from the main menu.
    Ability to specify diagnosis or treatment for rooms that can handle both (Ward, Psychiatry and DNA). To do this select the room, and on the room UI you will now see 'Diagnosis' and 'Treatment' buttons. These allow you to toggle the options.
    Added visual effect for projector in Training Room
    All staff and any patients who are leaving the hospital are not initially infected by Epidemics
    Fixed issue with staff resigning after already having been fired
    Fix issue where key bindings were not always being saved
    Various bug fixes and optimisations


**Updated to remove Halloween theme**

Let us know in the comments below if you have any questions or problems, and we will get back to you.

Thanks,
Jo

Steam: 1.07

Update v1.07 Halloween!
Hi everyone,

Introducing...Two Point Hospital: Spoooooky Mode!

Spooooooky Mode includes cases of Frightheadedness, a spooooooky soundtrack and more :)

If you have any problems or questions then comment in the thread below and we will get back to you!

Happy Halloween!!

Thanks,
Jo

Steam: 1.06

Update v1.06 LIVE NOW (bug fixes, customisation and more)
Hi everyone,

The new update is available! It has some AI and stability fixes as well as a few nice little extras, including character customisation :)

Here is a list of what is in this patch;

    Character customisation - you can now change the colour of outfits for nurses, assistants, janitors and doctors. To do this select a character and click on the clothes hanger icon on their UI.
    Ability to change the name of all staff, patients and rooms. To do this select a character or room and click on its name to edit.
    Ability to set priority for adviser pop up messages in the settings screen. You can also turn the adviser off.
    You can now drag and drop patients from the room queue list to other rooms of the same type.
    AI: Patient and staff needs, queues and janitor improvements. We are still working on this.
        Patient and staff needs increase at a slightly slower rate
        Use interaction start position when calculating queue distances as character position may be off the nav mesh.
        Reduced urgent need search distance for boredom, litter and food/drink. Reduction based on queue position
        Fixed fire extinguishers not being initialised correctly and Janitors behaving a bit strange with fires in corridors.
        Fixed Janitors not properly completing fire jobs.
        Interaction scoring is now additive, based on distance plus penalties for queue length, and interaction already in use or reserved. Should help with things like: picking a changing booth in the ward, etc.
        Toilet Behavior: Don't bother drying hands if no hand dryers are free
        Fixed a few potential time issues that could cause characters to 'hang around' longer than they should.
        Various fixes to improve patient needs and behaviors
        Fix for Janitors continuing to look for extinguishers after the machine has exploded.
        Characters leave the hospital as soon as they're ready to depart instead of when they've completed their departure sequence i.e. using a subway.
        Queue Bumping: Use path distance rather than straight-line distance for queue-bumping decisions.
        Patients sit on bench for longer before looking for a nicer place to sit 
    Saved training sessions are correctly cancelled so Guest Trainers are sent out of the hospital.
    Further fixes to training and guest trainers
    Fixed some money exploits
    Optimisations
    Retina support is enabled but resolution is limited to 1800 vertical res (due to performance issues). There is also a command line option to disable the limit --disable-mac-resolution-limit
    If you hold down Ctrl+Shift+U the HUD will be disabled. This is an experimental feature for screenshots or video capture. The game will pause if an event happens and you will need to re enable the HUD to continue.
    Fixed bug where player was charged for automatically added hospital windows when editing a room
    Fixed a bug with moving rooms


If you have any problems or questions then comment in the thread below and we will get back to you!

Thanks,
Jo

Steam: 1.05

Update v1.05 *UPDATE* live now (Bug Fixes)
Hi everyone,

There is a new patch with some bug fixes and improvements.

Here is a list of what is in this patch;

    Fix for patients and guest trainers sometimes not going home when they should be
    Fix some online leaderboards accidentally being split across English and non-English locales
    Fix for some broken guest trainers
    Fix various softlocks and errors
    Fix for saves failing to load if the saved state is for the wrong behavior
    Fixed various issues which were causing characters to occasionally teleport out of rooms
    Display [...] as a status icon above the head of patients who are being called in to a room 


**Updated to add some additional error messaging and a crash fix (CL 21696)**

Let us know in the comments if you have any problems and we'll get back to you soon :)

Thanks,
Jo

Steam: 1.04

Update v1.04 LIVE NOW! Copy and Paste + more
Hey everyone,

In today's update we bring you... COPY AND PASTE ROOMS (...and other bugs fixes and improvements)

Here is a list of what is in this patch;

    Copy and paste rooms
    Fix corrupt saves due to light headedness patients in a certain state
    Fix corrupt saves due to broken guest trainers that were already in a vehicle
    Fix corrupt saves due to characters interacting with broken items
    Make some parts of game friendlier to anti-virus (fixes some random hard crashes)
    Fix graphical issues on OSX 10.10 (Yosemite)
    Fix various instances of room building getting broken
    Fix various instances of characters getting stuck
    Improved queuing situation with various bug fixes and balance tweaks (We are still working on this!)
    Cafe is a bit more sensible in terms of desirability compared to vending machines (if you have a cafe in an already built hospital you will need to edit it and rebuild for the change to take effect)
    Fix queue positions in selection UI not updating
    Fix staff getting tired, hungry etc before being placed in the hospital
    Fix finance not working after loading last save after going bankrupt
    Fix ghosts broken after loading save
    Fix machine upgrades being carried across if you copy and pasted a room while an upgrade was in progress
    Fix bug with recruitment marketing campaigns after loading from a save


Let us know any comments or problems in the comments below and we'll get back to you :)

Thanks,
Jo

Steam: 1.03

Hotfix v1.03 - LIVE NOW Ward Fix + more
Hiya Scrubs! Happy Friday :)

We’ve been hard at work improving the game and we’re ready to release a patch for a few issues that have cropped up. We’ll be adding it to a beta branch first before migrating it over to the default branch.

If you’d like to test out the new patch, you can download it by following these steps:

1. Right-click Two Point Hospital in your game library and select Properties.
2. Select the BETAS tab.
3. Choose twopointhospital_patch_beta from the drop-down menu.
4. The build will start downloading.

Here's what the patch will fix:

• Fix most cases of career save disappearing
• Fix people getting stuck in wards and fracture wards
• Fix many cases of patients getting stuck after loading old saves
• Fix zombie guest trainers that were broken in old saves
• Fix up part-created rooms that were broken in old saves
• Fix rage quitting patients staying in hospital
• Fix some cases of staff not starting training when dropped into training room
• Improve cases of challenge patients arriving too late
• Fix mouse issues on gaming mice
• Speed up saving game - much faster for career-only saves
• Fix visualisation modes getting stuck
• Fix spurious errors in log on shutting down
• Updated beta patch branch to fix a load error caused by broken safety check
• Various minor art fixes
**hotfix to fix an error caused by animal magnetism distance culling**


Thanks!

Lauran

Steam: 1.02

Two Point Hospital - hotfix v1.02! LIVE NOW!
Hi Scrubs,

We're 6 days into Two Point Hospital being out in the world and we find ourselves constantly blown away by your love and support for what we’re doing. So THANK YOU so much, from all of us here at the Studio.

Not ones to rest on our laurels, we’ve been hard at work improving the game and we’re ready to release a hotfix for a few issues that have cropped up in the last couple of days. We’ll be adding it to a beta branch first before migrating it over to the default branch.

You can expect this hotfix to solve the following:

Crashes

• Fixed crash on boot, caused by machines reporting that they don't support 720p
• Fixed crash on boot caused by invalid timezone
• Added logging to help track down further crashes

Saves

• Fixed majority of load fails (These were mostly caused by guest trainer or room building. The issue was most commonly seen in Mitten University)
• Fixed various cases of bad data getting in to save files
• Fall backs for characters that were saved in a bad state so that they can pick up what they were doing

AI

• Fixed some issues to do with characters getting the nav fail icon over their head for seemingly no reason
• Fixed characters sometimes switching between behaviors too often
• Fixed doctors behaving weirdly when being interrupted in operating theater
• Fixed characters sometimes teleporting out of rooms
• Fixed VIPs that slide around after loading a save
• Fixed Recurvery machine upgrade causing invalid interaction points, which could cause the room to become broken

Other

• Fixed item placement breaking when you have a clock over a fire extinguisher
• Fixed a occasional problem caused by items being moved to a blueprint
• Fixed localisation error in Settings screen (for German, Chinese and Polish)
• Replaced Denuvo anti-tamper with Steam DRM


If you have any problems with this hotfix, do let us know in the replies below. We are experiencing a high level of communication in general, but rest assured that we have eyes on the Steam forums and we’re here for you guys!

Thanks 😊

Steam: 1.01

Two Point Hospital – hotfix v1.01!
**UPDATE 31 AUGUST - Hotfix V1.01 is now live on the main branch! Thank you for your continued support and keep letting us know if you have any issues**

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ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

Hi all,

Thank you all so much for joining us at Two Point Hospital. It’s amazing to see so many people enjoying the game and sharing their experiences everywhere.

We’ve been hard at work improving the game and we’re ready to release a hotfix for a few minor issues that have cropped up. We’ll be adding it to a beta branch first before migrating it over to the default branch.

If you’d like to test out the new hotfix, you can download it by following these steps:

1. Right-click Two Point Hospital in your game library and select Properties.
2. Select the BETAS tab.
3. Choose twopointhospital_patch_beta from the drop-down menu.
4. The build will start downloading.


Here’s what the hotfix, well, fixes:

- Fix for crash on start up caused by unrecognised timezone.
- Fix for not being able to exit the end credits screen.
- Fix for save failure caused by ResearchProjectComponent saving invalid data
- Fix for crash caused by room visuals

If you have any problems with this hotfix, please let us know in the replies below. We’ll keep an eye on the thread.

Best
SEGA Dev