Two Point Hospital News

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

Good afternoon, Dear Scrubs,

Right here, right now, we’re announcing a brand spanking new feature that we'll be rolling out in Two Point Hospital. This new mode will see you collaborating with your friends, and with others across the globe, to complete challenges and unlock whole new in-game rewards. It’s called... The Superbug Initiative.


This feature will be available right away if you’ve achieved One Star in Mitton University in the game. In addition, we’re adding a new feature allowing you to add your own music to the game! IKR?! Many of you have been asking for the ability to do this and - in true Two Point Studios style - we've listened. Read on for more details on that at the end of the blog.




In a rush for the lowdown on The Superbug Initiative? You can check out the trailer right here! Else, read on for more juicy details (and if you can guess which team member voices the trailer, you will earn our respect forever more).

https://youtu.be/I91t1fLMf90

As we mentioned, take part in The Superbug Initiative and you’ll be able to get your hands on some rad rewards, which we’ll keep updating in future as we add more challenges to the game. Here’s just one example, The Ectovat!





This high-tech piece of Bungle equipment is designed to function as a repository for the goo of the dead, technically known by all ghost-catching aficionados as “ectoplasm”. Fill the tank up, and staff can tap into it to bolster their energy reserves. Patients too can top up their health! It’s a brilliant way of making the dead do something useful for once.

Here's how one of the group projects looks in action. Here you can see a few of us working together to crack the “Learning Machine Learning” challenge. We’re each performing objectives and are working together to complete nodes, which is nudging us ever-closer to some sumptuous in-game rewards.

As mentioned earlier in the blog, we’re also adding the ability for you to add custom music to the game! You’ll be able to add your own songs and hear them mixed with the dulcet tones of our resident Two Point County DJs.




To access this feature, you simply need to click “Audio” under the Settings menu, then click “Edit” under Music List – you’ll get something that looks like this! Here you can toggle existing tracks but also add you own new ones by clicking the + button.





Enjoy, and be sure to leave us feedback on the Steam Forums and via our brand spanking new Two Point Studios Discord: https://discord.gg/VHMJfN7. We’re just starting out with this channel, so you can be a part of its future today! More updates to come on that soon.

We hope you have a great time and really enjoy this feature as much as we have enjoyed making it. GO CHANGE THE FACE OF HEALTHCARE IN TWO POINT COUNTY, SCRUBS! We believe in you!

Much love

Team Two Point

Ahhhh... everyone's favourite day of the week - Tunesday!


Ben Huskins, Lead Designer:

Matt Berry - Television Themes - Rainbow

Mainly because Lauran won't let me put any Corduroy on this list, and as a little bit of Two Point trivia - did you know Gary Carr worked on Rainbow? True story!



Prem Fatek, Artist:

The Oral Cigarettes - Color Tokyo



Lauren Woodroffe, UI Artistt:

Move - Saint Motel
Talk Too Much - COIN



Rich Brooks, Coder:

Interpol - Pace Is The Trick
Manic Street Preachers - Ocean Spray
Muse - Get Up And Fight



Ben Hymers, Lead Coder:

The Zutons! All 3 albums! On repeat! But I'll pick just one track; You've Got a Friend in Me - creepy lyrics, but lovely tune that just feels nice in my ears :)



Gary Carr, Creative Director:

What about ya boy T-Pain with By U a Drank :)



Jake O'Neill, QA Tester:

Looking Glass - Brandy
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Kansas - Carry on My Wayward Son
The Outfield - Your Love
Toto - Stop Loving You



Mark Smart, Lead Artist:

Sparks - So Tell Me Mrs Lincoln Aside From That How Was The Play

Could have chosen any track of their last album. Chose this because of the title. As a nine year old I was transfixed by the look of the Mael Brothers. Ron with his, lets call it Charlie Chaplin moustache, staring impassively from behind his keyboards, Russel with a great head of curly hair bouncing hyperactively around in the front. Really only recognised for one tune, but they’ve consistently made great music since the early 70’s….er not that I remember.

Johnny Moped – Running Scared

Belter from The lads third album. Three albums in 40 years is hardly prolific. Mind you surprised they made them. Croydon’s proto punks have always been a bit chaotic. (boasting Captain Sensible of the Damned and Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders in previous line ups) About to play one of their biggest gigs, Johnny hadn’t turned up, fifteen minutes before they were due to go on, they found him. Queuing up to get into his own gig.

The Stranglers – Down In The Sewer

Chosen only because I saw them again for the umpteenth time recently, and this is one of my favourites live (it’s a bit prog/punk as well)


We've set up a Two point Radio Specific Spotify Channel now, where you will find our older and brand new playlists. You can find the 2019 playlist here!: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4jycpaF6TYJ38nIXI8kezv

And if you're interested, you can find our 2018 playlist here!:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2q7q4m0bXZT1U1XumCGXDF


Enjoy!

Lauran

Two Point Hospital: Pebberley Island, all new content for Two Point Hospital is Now Available on Steam!

Blaze a sterilised trail through a tropical island for an eccentric millionaire in search of a fabled source of death-defying water

How's that for a slice of fried gold?! We're calling this epic event Two Point Hospital: Open Surgery. Not only is the game TOTALLY FREE TO PLAY from 5pm GMT today, and available at 33% off (our biggest discount yet, btw) but - and this applies to current owners of the game too - you will also be treated to a variety of items honouring our SEGA family once you've arrived in Two Point County!


https://youtu.be/ybAXAyMGz4Y


You'll also be able to find items in game inspired by our friends at Creative Assembly, Sports Interactive and Amplitude! Here's what you can expect to see:





And as you can see, there's one more utterly disturbing addition to honour our friends at Valve. Good luck curing that!

To celebrate this momentously momentous occasion, we will be live streaming ALL DAY tomorrow, handing over to our pals from the above listed SEGA studios to see how their skills as Hospital Administrators fair. We can't wait. Here's our schedule for the day:





And if that wasn't exciting enough, our second DLC - Pebberley Island - will launch on Monday! Phew - what a week! We're glad to have you along for the ride, Scrubs!