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Happy Haunting!

It goes without saying, the Lifeless Estate is normally as silent as the grave! However, signs of undead life have interrupted the usual eerie silence. The new lodgers are restless spirits, big on wailing and generous with the ectoplasm. Haunted by unwelcome and undead spirits, the estate needs a new lease on the afterlife. The last heir to the estate, Lady Lifeless herself, has enlisted you to create a new boo-tique campus, fit for enrolling free spirits and budding investigators alike!

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[h3]NEW LOCATION [/h3]
Welcome to the Lifeless Estate!



The lawn may be lacklustre, and the surfaces strangely gooey, but all of the problems come back to the ghosts.

Lady Lifeless had hoped to spend her after-years catching up with her reading and floating tastefully around the garden. Instead, her rest is routinely ruined by rude spirits with even worse table manners. Tackle the paranormal pest problem, and learn what it means to be dead to help the estate rest peacefully.

[h3]NEW COURSES [/h3]

Paranormal Detection

For a number of years, the County was happy to dabble in the occasional debate surrounding the existence of ghosts. Unfortunately, it seems the evidence is now far too ghastly to ignore, and thanks to some added science, that debate is now long finished: ghosts are a real and genuine nuisance.

Paranormal Detection students will use all the advanced tools at their disposal (mostly their eyes and ears…) to contact and uncover ghosts across Campus. Then they’ll practice all the best ghost-removal skills to bottle up the Estate’s unruly residents.

School Spirits

Being dead isn't as easy as everyone makes it seem. It's hard to rest in peace with a life & death's worth of questions on your mind. "Where am I?", "Why did I say that one thing when I was 24?", "Did I leave the oven on?" etc. Fortunately, you can learn anything in Two Point County, even how to be dead.

Enrolling Free Spirits learn from a great prospectus, covering everything needed to be a modern-day spirit. Whether they’re studying to understand their current regrets and what it means to be dead, or they need a hand being brought up to speed on the old news they missed whilst living on the other side, Free Spirits graduate with ALL the paranormal tricks a good spirit should know.

[h3]ALSO![/h3]

Expulsion Ceremonies

Lifeless Estate has been harbouring evil spirits for some time, and unfortunately, these unwanted tenants have a truly evil grudge against your best efforts at revitalising the place.

Luckily, you’ve a whole bunch of paranormal investigators in training at your disposal! Before new campus construction can take place, Paranormal Detection students will jump at the opportunity to take part in an Expulsion Ceremony! (just don’t tell them the risks…). Even better still, the evil spirits aren’t immortal, find their weaknesses to give your students a better chance at expulsion (of the ghosts! not them!).

Hauntings

The ghastly inhabitants of the Estate aren’t always the most subtle, some ghosts may reside in a specific room, possessing the place to share their anguish with your students. Depending on the flavour of ghost, your students will suffer from a range of effects, and (spoilers) none are good.

Not only will your students feel a chill in the air, but your visitors from the other side will also mess with the room (rude!). If you catch these signs early you can send over a trusty janitor trained in Ghost Capture to prevent the haunt from progressing! If given long enough, however, the ghosts will set off lights, send items dancing, and produce a weird, strange fog, how eerie.

New Challenge Mode - Gradeyard Shift

In this brand new Challenge Mode level Lady Lifeless has given up hope on her Estate, leaving her home in search of, well, literally anything else.

The place is an utter nightmare of unwanted ghostly guests, and it just so happens the Janitors' Union has been itching for a chance to mop up the paranormal pest problem. With their funding, train up a fleet of janitors to de-haunt and capture as many ghosts as possible.



[h3]WHAT’S INCLUDED [/h3]

• New Campus location
  
• 2 new courses, including two new fully animated classrooms
  
• 2 new student archetypes
  
• New Challenge Mode level
  
• and lots of new items!

Two Point Campus: School Spirits releases on 15th March 2023, for £5.49/$5.99/€5.99. You can pre-purchase now for a 10% discount!

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[h3]Welcome, Pointians, to our Seasonal Creativity Competition[/h3]

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I hate the colour pink,
I hope you don't too

The County takes Valentine's VERY seriously, especially seeing as the big man himself (Cupid) is touring the county and rewarding the bestest, most romantic locations. It's no surprise that the Campus deans want in on the Valentine's buzz.



With students coming out of their January exams, there's time for them to enjoy the small joys of writing cheesy cards and sharing chocolate boxes, so get to trimming roses if you're to be the talk of the County!



Across the next week, we want all of our winter blues forgotten about as you dazzle us with love-heart lights and floral arrangements alike. Build a beautiful, romantic campus, and you could be the winner of some of our coveted Two Point swag, alongside a physical copy of the game!

To enter, post a photo of your build using #CupidTPCampus, you can post on Twitter, Facebook, Discord or Instagram!

[h3]To enter:[/h3]

• Submit your best campus build with all the romantic ambience you can muster to our competition hashtag #CupidTPCampus, on Twitter, Facebook, Discord or Instagram.
  
  • This can be a full campus, or just a small section of one. As long as your lecture theatres are pretty and pink!
• The competition starts now! Monday 13th Feb, and runs until Tuesday 21st Feb, 10am GMT.
  
• Then you, your friends, and anyone you can persuade can vote for the winning submission on our forums.
  
• You'll need to enroll to vote in the shortlist, so if you haven't already, signup for our community at Two Point County (once signed up you can even redeem a golden toilet for your efforts).
  
• We'll announce the winner on our social channels after the vote closes!
  
• T&Cs - https://www.sega.co.uk/sega_prize_draw_terms_and_conditions_nps

Hey Pointians!

Love is (literally) in the air as you join us in our latest Community Challenge mode! This time, you'll be tackling The L-Bomb! Have no idea what we're on about? Check out our blog here detailing all the pretty 'n pink changes our free Valentine Update has to offer!



Cupid's bow-and-arrow approach really isn't cut out for spreading love in the modern age. Instead, he's come up with a new-fangled contraption designed to spread romantic ambience. Cupid has only a limited supply to spread as much love as possible (what a sweetheart!) so you'll have to impress him to earn them! He's on the lookout for Campuses with the most romantic potential, travelling the County to find the best of the best. Only by creating such harmonious conditions on your campuses will you catch his eye!



Cupid's shiny new gadgets will fall from the sky, ready for action to create the perfect romantic atmosphere. Once you're gifted one from Cupid himself, you'll choose where to let it off, releasing a mist of romantic ambience. Now lovestruck, students will be drawn to cultivate romances (much easier than the old bow-and-arrow!). All the student romances you create will go toward increasing an incredibly romantic community total.



If there's enough love around the County by the end of Valentine's, we'll unlock a very special, seasonal item.

We're challenging you as a community to collect ONE MILLION Love Points. Now Cupid isn't sticking around for long, you'll have until the big day itself! The romantic total will be taken at midnight, Tuesday, 14th February, so get your rose petals flying and bunting at the ready, now!

We are sure you've got this, make sure to dodge rose thorns and share your top tips for impressing Cupid over on our socials!



TL;DR

• We're challenging you, the community, to collect one million Love Points collectively in our new L-Bomb Challenge Mode.
  
• We'll be tracking student romances from NOW until midnight, Tuesday 14th February.
  
• No matter your score, medal or none, your points contribute to the total. Every little helps!
  
• You can play the challenge as many times as you'd like to keep contributing.
  
• If the goal is met, a brand new Valentine-themed item will land in the game!
  

Whilst an A+ would be nice, they do say all you need is love! It's a good job then that something is in the air in Two Point County, you won't be needing your rose-tinted glasses for this one! So try not to swoon as we check out everything Cupid's quiver has to offer:

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We hope pink is your favourite colour as we're smitten by the hamper of heart-shaped decor, including the cutest of new costumes, an infatuation of red balloons, and SO many roses, there are so many... too many...

[h2]New Challenge Mode​[/h2]
Cupid is VERY busy this Valentine's, scouting out the best romantic locations across the County, looking to spread love and happiness to all (what a sweetheart), and if he’s suitably impressed with your Campus he’ll even leave you a few of his Love Bombs for you to create your very own romances. Get your students all loved up to score points and win hearts in our latest challenge mode!



Cupid's bow-and-arrow approach really wasn't cut out for spreading love in the modern age. Instead, he's come up with some new-fangled contraptions, but, there's only a limited number to spread as much love as possible! Only through impressing Cupid by creating the most promising romantic locations can you earn some of his coveted supply.

Cupid is travelling the County to find the best of the best! Only once you've enamoured Cupid with absolute pink pandemonium on your campus, alongside all-round student happiness, AND ensuring you don't fall out of love with your grades, will you be guaranteed to catch his eye! Now impressed, he'll reward your romantic potential.

Love Bombs will fall from the sky, ready for action, to create the perfect romantic atmosphere. Once you're gifted one from Cupid himself, you'll choose where to let it off, releasing a mist of romantic ambience. Now lovestruck, students are drawn to cultivate romances (isn't that much easier than the old bow-and-arrow?).



[h2]New Items & Outfit[/h2]
Celebrate all things lovely with the love-filled new items in-game. Whether you're partial to a vase full of roses, or bringing out every Goth student's worse enemy: PINK! If you can think of it, there's a heart-shaped version of it ready to bring joy (or vertigo) to all your lovely students.

Show your romantic flare by rolling out the new heart-shaped rug, bunting, and pink balloons, or bring a loving touch to some existing items, like using the new wallpapers or duvet set. And if that's not enough, then why not go all out with a Tunnel of Love? Nothing says romance quite like a giant mechanical swan.



The whole county is under Cupid's love spell, so expect heartwarming in-game changes, with heart-print duvets, wallpaper, and pink ambience absolutely everywhere! As the busy Cupid can't be everywhere at once, your staff and students alike can experience a touch of the divine by stepping into Cupid's (striking) oh-so-romantic character outfit.

[h2]New Things[/h2]

• New Challenge: The L-Bomb
  
• New Outfit: Cupid
  
• New, temporary Valentine's Day theme on the Main Menu
  
• Free Valentine's items:
  • Tunnel of Love
    
  • Love Balloons
    
  • Heart Rug
    
  • Concentric Hearts
    
  • Stacked Hearts
    
  • Rose Bouquet
    
  • Rose Vase
    

[h3]Bug Fixes:[/h3]

• Added a number of stability improvements to optimise memory usage
  
• Fixed an issue where janitors were not efficiently cleaning up the campus
  
• Fixed an issue where selecting the Items List from the Room Inspector would close the Room Inspector UI
  
• Dorm templates or copies no longer get flagged for invalid items when rotated
  
• Wall items from rooms that have been picked up will no longer remain in their original place
  
• Fixed an area on Pebberley Ruins where items can be placed but are not reachable
  
• Fixed NPCs getting stuck on the Rocket Pad area in the first Space Academy level
  
• Status icons in the student list now give correct information on what the student is doing
  
• Fixed a problem with Moles spawning, players should have no trouble getting them to spawn now
  
• Minor fix for the newsfeed on Main Menu not displaying some events
  
• "Strange Meteors" advisor now shows the correct character
  
• Fixed a bug where earthquakes in certain levels were causing the game to crash.

As always, if you'd prefer your campus NOT to be pretty in pink, there's an option for you! Head to the settings menu and scroll down to find the Seasonal Content toggle to control the seasons (didn't realise you trained in Dark Arts?!).

Parting is such sweet sorrow... No need to be mournful for long, as once Valentine's is over, all newly added items (including the new costume and challenge mode) will remain in the game! So you'll be able to enjoy the content in your own time, all we'll do is collect up all the balloons and pink theming from the meta-map and main menu.

We can't wait for you to experience the lovely aura across campus, it's truly captivating! Update 4.0 is available now!