Brace yourselves,
Galacticare fans:
TODAY'S THE DAY! The new expansion is LIVE, and it's packing more chaos than a flaming Boning Chamber in the middle of an influx of urgent patients with Skeletal Trauma!
We've loaded it up with a ton of wild new features to keep you on your toes, plus a few tweaks and fixes to make sure things don't implode (unless you want them to). The galaxy burns and Galacticare is headed to the frontlines!
The fate of all sentient life is in your hands.
So… scrub in, suit up, and prepare for the most chaotic hospital shift in the history of the universe.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3334930/Galacticare__The_Voice_Beyond/
Here's everything headed your way in Version 1.2!"The Voice Beyond" - The Epic New Paid Expansion
In
Galacticare: The Voice Beyond, saving lives is just the beginning of our monumental struggle. The CABAL has returned, unyielding and relentless, bent upon the utter destruction of all we hold dear. As the indomitable leader of Galacticare, the weight of the galaxy's survival rests upon your shoulders. You must rise to confront not only new and bizarre afflictions, like Perceptual Parapox and Rave Rash, but also the unseen saboteurs within your very hospital who plot to end your efforts from the shadows.
Victory will not be won by force of arms, but by the strength of research, the ingenuity of Medibots, and the unshakable resolve of those who rally to your cause. Will you rise to this challenge, or will all life in the galaxy fall into eternal darkness? The time to act is now!
[h2]Exciting New Content for the DLC[/h2]
- 3 Thrilling, Fully Voiced Story Levels - Continue the adventure beyond the original Galacticare as you dive into new, voice-acted chapters that will test your leadership like never before!
- New Events & Challenges - Brace yourself for an onslaught of new events designed to push your problem-solving and management skills to the limit.
- New Rewards & Objects - Unlock a treasure trove of exciting new rewards, gadgets, and objects to aid in your mission to save the galaxy.
- New Skins for Consultants and Medi - Style meets strategy with fresh new skins for your consultants and, of course, Medi. Because let's face it, everyone loves Medi!
- New Sandbox Events - Enjoy the freedom of new sandbox events that will let you experiment and explore the full potential of your hospital and its resources.
[h2]Out-of-This-World DLC Gameplay Features[/h2]
Prepare for the Ultimate Challenge with Saboteurs!Saboteurs will infiltrate your hospital, masquerading as Tenki patients, and wreak havoc on your operations. These sneaky fiends will destroy your meticulously planned toilet systems, fill your bins to overflowing, and generally make a mess of your well-oiled machines. It's up to you to root them out with ruthless efficiency. No quarter given!
New Tech: Intrusion Sensors & Security HolodronesDefend your hospital with cutting-edge tech! Intrusion Sensors will allow you to detect these vile Saboteurs before they can do too much damage, while Security Holodrones will track them down and neutralize the threat with swift, fiery retribution.
Meet the REBEL ConsultantIntroducing the ultimate wildcard: REBEL! A former CABAL agent with the uncanny ability to mimic the skills of your other consultants. Double the power, double the results! This rogue agent will give your team the edge it needs to outwit the CABAL.
Bonus: New Skins for Your Consultants (and Medi, of course)Because no consultant should feel anything less than battle-ready, we’ve added an array of stylish new skins for your trusty team of experts and iconic characters.
Check out the new expansion for Galacticare TODAY!https://store.steampowered.com/app/3334930/Galacticare__The_Voice_Beyond/
Base Game Free Updates
But fear not, Director - we're also rolling out free updates and patches to the original game. Alongside the thrilling new narrative arc in the DLC, we've continued to fine-tune and improve everything you love about
Galacticare - from the core gameplay to our nefariously hard Challenge Mode.
Game Systems & Balance
[h2]New Features[/h2]
New Ongoing Research ProjectsNew Ongoing Research Projects are available in the Research Lab, providing passive bonuses for each doctor assigned to them
[h2]Balance[/h2]
Adjusted spawner behaviour in Sandbox Mode
- Patients with conditions that utilise rooms that were not available in the level's story mode will not appear
- The player can override this behaviour by placing such rooms, this will cause patients to spawn that are relevant to those rooms
This behaviour is overridden if the player builds rooms
- Balanced the rate of initial wave of patients spawning in train levels and elevator levels
- Randomized the entrance that mutation patients come in from
- Made changes to no longer allow the same event to play twice
- Xil species desire mood values update to compensate for the fact that Xil don't actually have the tidyness/mess thoughts anymore
Challenge Mode Balance Adjustments:
- Increased the average time between mutation events by 100%
- Health Decay at Danger Level 3 reduced by 2.8%
- Health Decay for Mutated Conditions reduced by 18.8%
Rebalanced Hospital Ratings:
- Species Desires reduced by 20% on average
- Treatment Rate requirements reduced by 10%
- Patient Health & Treatment Quality requirements reduced by 6%
- Finance requirements reduced by ~14.5%
- Throughput requirements reduced by ~14.5%
- Several rating requirements now scale throughout the campaign, peaking in later levels
Campaign
[h2]Chapters[/h2]
Fixed issues with Chapter 8 of the original Galacticare base game
Visuals
[h2]Visual Improvements[/h2]
Updated Xil & Dyonai accessories
[h2]Visual Fixes[/h2]
- Fixed fish tank prop causing transparency sorting issues
- Fixed several missing elements in Chapter 11's cutscenes
- Ultra's teleport now has no weird blue streaks when given to patients
- Fixed Tenki special repair gun shooting VFX out of bum instead of gun
- Fixed Xil patients missing their condition VFX
- Fixed broken toilets VFX
- Fixed oddly coloured Tenki Loam Dome patients
- Fixed Metal head VFX not appearing
- Fixed Tenki always having fixing VFX and tool in their hand
- Fixed Dyonai missing noses
- Fixed female humans missing Bowel Borer textures
- Fixed a single particle floating above the Xtra Ray
- Fixed a broken prop notification appearing above character's head
- Fixed Traumatology red printer blobs flying all over sometimes. Maybe.
- Fixed issues with Divergence condition
- Fixed patients going missing in the Xtra Ray
User Interface
[h2]UI Improvements[/h2]
- Performance improvements in patient/staff overview panels
- Added new element to Research room panel showing how many doctors are researching the room's current target
- Can now open/close pause menu in galaxy view using Escape/Gamepad-Start buttons
[h2]UI Bug Fixes[/h2]
- Fixed gamepad prompts to avoid buttons getting stuck
- Fixed in-game tooltips going out of screen in some resolutions
- Fixed doctors working in research labs that appeared as unassigned in the Staff Overview
- Fixed consultant hero portraits showing as locked in Chapter 11
- Fixed thoughts being duplicated in some cases in all panels
- Fixed a tooltip flickering issue
- Fixed an issue with room creation stopping players from exiting when tiles are placed
- Fixed a bug stopping players from dismissing consultants
- Fixed a placeholder icon showing in a floating box
- Fixed room-theme props being wrongly categorised
- Fixed casualty status of room not getting cleared in UI
- Demolish Room button's tooltip now correctly includes props' cost in total refund value
- Fixed Brother Gumbo's "No Salary" trait not working at all, including UI representation of it
- Fixed Challenge Mode's loss block being visible when hovered even when invisible
- Fixed Challenge Mode death timer not clearing when switching levels
- Fixed tooltip updates when recruiting consultants
- Fixed a reverse check on consultant panel
- Fixed Laser Burns not showing correctly in portraits
- Certain dialogue skips now have an explicit "ongoing process please wait" on skip button click
- Fixed Medi having thoughts when using mood lens
- Updated Missing icons in tasks
- Fixed overlapping panels
- Fixed assignment button states for doctors on their way to a training bed
Other
[h2]Other Changes[/h2]
- Research rooms now target a new set of research when the original has fully completed
- Removed powered drive through for sandbox events
- Clicking Hallow Soul or Twiggy Pop will no longer trigger click reaction audio
- Changed mouse panning going super slow
[h2]Additional Bug Fixes[/h2]
- Fixed pest & critters not spawning
- Fixed an issue with patients not sitting down
- Fixed an issue that caused incidents (Meteor Strikes, Pest Invasions) to occur less frequently than intended when the hospital is small
- Fixed Xil characters having messy/tidy area thoughts
- Fixed research progress not increasing
- Fixed a crash when dealing with research projects
- The finances rating in Chapter 1: Orientation now correctly scales to expected treatment rate
- Fixed some console build issues
- Fixed audio issues
- Fixed an issue where patients would not spawn with the correct condition in certain scenarios
- Fixed floor decals not being available after purchase in Loamium shop
- Fixed room lighting not working in all rooms
- Fixed timing on when rewards are given to properly line up with animations
- Fixed an issue where only 1 cannon was able to play the fire & load SFX
- Reduced the Earl Prince's Effective XP gain from Chitters to intended levels
- Added safeguard to not allow canister conditions to be chosen for mutation
- Fixed a case that could prevent achievements from unlocking when achieving 5-stars in a given level in normal or challenge modes
