Surgeon Simulator 2 News

It’s the season to be spooky! As if performing experimental surgeries with axes and saws isn’t horrifying enough, we’ve just released a brand new update to Surgeon Simulator 2: Access All Areas for players across all platforms.

Dubbed the Trick and Treat update (y’know, treat because you’re the ones treating Bob), you’ll be able to find a whole host of new Halloween content in-game. This includes multiplayer, spooky-themed levels created by our in-house level designers and a handful of talented community members:

• Bobenstein
  
• Of Trials and Traps
  
• Halloween Games
  
• Giant Spider Boss
  
• The Mysterious House
  
• Moonlight Cave
  
• Room Service
  

All the above levels are multiplayer and can be found in the terminal. All levels also take advantage of the new Halloween props and textures which have arrived as part of the Trick and Treat update; with 18 new pieces available in the level creation tool.

The new props and textures include cauldrons, witch legs, skeleton doggos, spiders, hanging corpses and ghosts, pumpkins, candles, tombstones and spooky trees. All the basics required to build a completely terrifying in-game level.

On top of new levels, props and textures, we’ve also added a selection of Halloween costumes and masks. Browse through your Halloween fits using the mirror in the lobby, with new full-body costumes and eight Halloween masks.



The Trick and Treat update is completely free for everyone who owns Surgeon Simulator 2: Access All Areas, simply update your game and scrub-in for some spooky surgeries.

We've just pushed out hotfix 1.3.7 to make a minor change to the way the friends list functionality works.

• Adding a friend in Steam now adds the friend in-game. Removing a friend needs to happen both in-game and in your Steam friends list, for full flexibility.
  

Just for clarity, the friends list now works as follows:

Adding a friend in-game does not add the friend in Steam
Adding a friend in Steam does add the friend in-game
Removing a friend in-game does not remove the friend in Steam
Removing a friend in Steam does not remove the friend in-game

Please update to version 1.3.6. which includes the following fixes:

• We've listened to your feedback and will no longer automatically add friends to your Steam friends list when adding them in the game. Be aware that removing a friend from your Steam friends list will also remove them from your in-game friends list
• Fixed player names displaying incorrectly at the end of a level

We're continuing to look in to some of the remaining connectivity issues - if you are having problems inviting/joining friends or any other problems, please contact our support team so that we can gather more information - https://bossastudios.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Surgeon Simulator 2: Access All Areas is a-live across Steam, Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, Epic Game Store and the Microsoft Store. Since launching on Thursday 2nd, we’ve seen thousands of aspiring surgeons jumping into the game to fix, or worsen, Bob’s ailments.

Launching a live game often comes with a few teething problems, and whilst we’ve seen plenty of funny streams, screenshots and videos of people enjoying Surgeon Simulator 2: Access All Areas, we’re also aware of some issues a portion of players are facing.

We’ve logged all reported bugs and technical issues safely stored in our backlog but, for transparency, we wanted to list out the game issues that are being prioritised by the development team for the remainder of this week. These issues require a bit more work and attention than simply pushing out hotfixes, but here’s what we’re currently working on:

• Long loading screens, authentication issues, black screen issues

Most of these issues are related to our server capacity, which has been consistently overwhelmed since the game’s launch on Thursday due to high player demand. It’s our first Game Pass launch as a studio, and it’s been a learning curve for us.

As soon as the server issues were identified, we began upscaling our capacity and are continuing to make improvements each day. Specific server improvements have been made to allow more players into the game, and we’re monitoring this on a regular basis.

• Multiplayer issues, party disconnections and friends appearing offline

Surgery is best enjoyed with friends, but a portion of players aren’t actually able to team up with their friends to play Surgeon Simulator 2: Access All Areas. This is tied to the server issues mentioned above, but the developers are looking into multiplayer specific solutions to get this resolved across all platforms ASAP.

• Error pop-ups, voice / multiplayer ban messages

Don’t worry, we haven’t actually banned you. We’re aware of players across the Windows Store experiencing pop-up messages saying that they’re banned from multiplayer or communicating with other players. This is not the case and is in fact another known issue that we’re continuing to investigate.

Error messages cropping up during gameplay can usually be ignored, or dealt with by restarting the game, however as this has continued persisting it requires some developer time to get a solution.

• Progression problems, missing cosmetics

You may find that your game progress hasn’t been updated in-game, or that when you visit the mirror in the lobby you don’t have the right cosmetics or the cosmetics that you’re owed (for example, Plague Doctor). This issue is impacting a small number of players, but we’re looking into the progress reset issues as a matter of urgency.

On top of reported bugs, there has also been plenty of community feedback, whether that’s around difficulties with controllers or general pieces of feedback. We have gathered all of this, and once we deal with the prioritised technical issues, we’ll move on to reviewing the feedback that’s been presented.

If you’re experienced any of the above problems whilst trying to enjoy Surgeon Simulator 2: Access All Areas, we’re sorry, and we’re super grateful for your patience.

You can get more frequent updates on the official Discord server here.

Welcome to patch 1.3.5.0,

This update includes fixes for:

• Stuck in black screen in specific conditions during level transition.
  
• Player names displaying fetching for long periods in certain transition menus.
  
• Player views Lobby in Edit Mode after entering Play Mode of a co-owned Created level in a Party created in same session.
  
• Skipping Compete level while matchmaking boots players back to the lobby and creates a new party.
  
• UI displayed when a Story level is failed will be overlapped by the delimiting bars for multiplayer.
  
• Fix for host being able to kick other players from a party in Compete.