Hi everybody, we're happy to announce that patch 42 is now officially out! Here are the full release notes:

• Allowed saved games to be loaded even after removing insurance mods, patients from removed insurance companies will get switched to uninsured
• Fixed objects originally from a closed department but now in a removed room not allowed to be deleted and stuck highlighted in green
• Fixed paramedics from black ambulance stealing hospital stretchers if there is no room to spawn one next to the ambulance, typically if the hospital wall goes all the way to the side of the road
• Fixed patients with symptoms that require life support not automatically transferred from neurology to the ICU
• Fixed parts of the X-Ray machine refunded twice when deleting it
• Fixed possible entity ID conflicts sometimes causing random errors after a few hundreds of ingame days
• Fixed the game starting up with no textures if it was installed to a folder with certain special characters in the path
• Fixed prefab rooms randomly connecting to similar rooms when playing with rotated camera
• Fixed a few typos in English texts (reported by George Chrishams, thanks!)
• Fixed switching employees to radiology was resetting the supervisor of all employees at the department
• Fixed broken description ID of 'closed angle' in most languages causing wrong text to appear
• Fixed a couple of typos in En and Cz texts
• Hotfixed a rare error related to employees stuck with a deleted room as their workspace
• Hotfixed a rare case of nurses stuck moving a removed stretcher
• Hotfixed a couple of cases of patients stuck in wrong hospitalization state
• Hotfixed a patient stuck waiting for a deleted stretcher
• Hotfixed moving stretchers at a random position still assigned to an idle paramedic who left ages ago
• Hotfixed one case of doctors rounds script stuck because of deleted equipment
• Hotfixed an old hotfix of abandoned stretchers could in some cases reset the black ambulance on save/load
• Added more info to log in case of procedures throwing exceptions to help with future bug investigations

[ 2025-04-10 14:28:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, we know some of you have been wondering what the state of Patch 42 is. As more bug reports have been arriving and as we made a few more fixes, we'd like to do one last round of public testing. If you are on the beta-patch-42-test branhc, the game should update for you to version 1.2.23584. Hopefully everything goes smoothly and we'll be able to release the update during the week.
Any issues, please let us know in the discussions or at bugs@oxymoron.games, here are release notes with the recent fixes, plus the original list below. Project Hospital 1.2.23584 - Patch 42 - Release Candidate 2

• Fixed objects originally from a closed department but now in a removed room were not allowed to be deleted and got stuck highlighted in green
• Fixed paramedics from black ambulance stealing hospital stretchers if there is no room to spawn one next to the ambulance, typically if the hospital wall goes all the way to the side of the road
• Hotfixed a couple of cases of patients stuck in wrong hospitalization state
• Added more info to the log file in case of procedures throwing exceptions
• Hotfixed one case of a patient stuck waiting for a deleted stretcher
• Hotfixed moving stretchers at a random position still assigned to an idle paramedic who left ages ago
• Hotfixed one case of doctors rounds script stuck because of deleted equipment
• Hotfixed an older hotfix of abandoned stretchers could in some cases reset the black ambulance during save/load :)

Project Hospital 1.2.23446 - Patch 42 - Fixes and changes from Release Candidate 1

• Fixed patients with symptoms that require life support not automatically transferred from neurology to the ICU
• Fixed parts of the X-Ray machine refunded twice when deleting it
• Fixed possible entity ID conflicts sometimes causing random errors after a few hundreds of ingame days, added checks for wrong entities in entity pointers
• Fixed the game starting up with no textures if it was installed to a folder with certain special characters in the path
• Fixed prefab rooms connecting to random similar rooms when playing with rotated camera
• Fixed a few typos in English texts reported by George Chrishams
• Fixed switching employees to radiology was resetting supervisor of all employees at the department
• Hotfixed a rare error related to employees stuck with a deleted room as their workspace
• Hotfixed a rare case of nurses stuck moving a removed stretcher
• Allowed saved games to be loaded even after removing insurance mods, patients from removed insurance companies will get switched to uninsured

[ 2025-04-07 13:49:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, As every year, we would like to wish all of you Happy Holidays and also give you a bit of an update about how things have been going at Oxymoron Games. The big news is - of course - the release of Silence of the Siren in Early Access and four updates that went live since. The game's soundtrack by Mat irok is now available too! Silence of the Siren has released with amazing reviews, so big thanks to everybody who gave us thumbs up or helped with feedback and testing before release! We also keep supporting Project Hospital and quite a few bugfixes should release with patch #42 in January. The patch is already available on a beta branch if you'd like to try it now. Next, we have a more recent bit of news: Vojtch Nepra has joined the team to fill the role of social media manager/content creator, so you can look forward to more posts, updates and behind the scenes. We also made an account on Bluesky and can already see a lot of activity there. Now, it's time for us to take some time off after a very demanding season, so most of the team will be out of town until January 2nd. If you encounter any issues, dont hesitate to ask our amazing community here on the Steam forum, otherwise we should be able to get back to you at the beginning of January. So, enjoy the Winter Sale and then Merry Holiday and see you in the New Year!

[ 2024-12-20 12:24:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, Good news, we are ready to start the public round of testing of the next patch of Project Hospital! We had a busy summer preparing the Early Access launch of Silence of the Siren at the end of September - and if you like turn-based games or more specifically the HoMM series, this is something you might enjoy too! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2147380/Silence_of_the_Siren/ But, back to Hospital! :) We keep fixing bugs that still get reported from time to time and as usually, we have put the new patch on a beta branch first. So, if you'd like to try this version early and help us with the last round of testing (especially to check different kinds of hardware and setups like the Steam Deck), you can switch to beta-patch-42-test in Properties in your Steam library.
The release notes are listed below as always: Project Hospital 1.2.23446 - Patch 42 - Fixes and changes

• Fixed patients with symptoms that require life support not automatically transferred from neurology to the ICU
• Fixed parts of the X-Ray machine refunded twice when deleting it
• Fixed possible entity ID conflicts sometimes causing random errors after a few hundreds of ingame days, added checks for wrong entities in entity pointers
• Fixed the game starting up with no textures if it was installed to a folder with certain special characters in the path
• Fixed prefab rooms connecting to random similar rooms when playing with rotated camera
• Fixed a few typos in English texts reported by George Chrishams
• Fixed switching employees to radiology was resetting supervisor of all employees at the department
• Hotfixed a rare error related to employees stuck with a deleted room as their workspace
• Hotfixed a rare case of nurses stuck moving a removed stretcher
• Allowed saved games to be loaded even after removing insurance mods, patients from removed insurance companies will get switched to uninsured

[ 2024-10-31 11:57:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, after fixing a few more issues that got reported on the Steam forums since we put the new version on a beta branch, we're happy to announce that patch 41 is now officially out! Thanks a lot for helping us with testing, here are the full release notes: Fixes and changes

• Fixed cloud saves sometimes not available during the first start of the game on a new machine
• Fixed an error in doctor mode patient UI if the player is looking at the last page of the list of doctor's patients and the number of patients (and therefore pages) gets reduced
• Fixed mixed up ureter and urethra terms in shockwave therapy description to match changes we did to the matching symptom description
• Fixed rooms increasing entity ID counts on load, possibly causing some random issues after days of playtime
• Fixed rooms sometimes 'randomly' merging when placing prefab rooms with a rotated camera
• Implemented graying out the new floor confirmation button if limit has been reached, added floor counter to the top of the dialog
• Improved rules for building on the roof, especially related to elevators and added more info to status bar texts when different objects can't be placed on the roof
• Improved a few UI texts (including wrong name of the observation decal in Simplified Chinese localization)
• Added Japanese to the list of 'hospital' translations in loading screens
• Hotfixed one case of a doctor found stuck at mobile workstation
• Hotfixed one case of a radiology examination stuck because of a removed radiologist
• Hotfixed paramedics stuck moving a stretcher to a deleted patient

DLC Traumatology

• Fixed "warning" outdoor floor tiles rotated by 90 degrees with two camera orientations

[ 2024-04-03 13:34:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, While the team has been busy as we aim to release Early Access of Silence of the Siren this year, we still keep fixing any issues in Project Hospital that you report (and that don't turn out to be caused by incompatible mods or local issues with the game install. :) We've been seeing these quite regularly, especially in the last few months). As with previous updates, we have put the new version on a beta branch first. If you'd like to help us with the last round of testing, especially to check different kinds of hardware and setups, you can switch to beta-patch-41-test in Properties in your Steam library, try the patch early and let us know if you run into any issues! The release notes are listed below as always:

Project Hospital 1.2.23270 - Patch 41

• Fixed cloud saves sometimes not available during the first start of the game on a new machine
• Fixed an error in doctor mode patient UI if the player is looking at the last page of the list of doctor's patients and the number of patients (and therefore pages) gets reduced
• Fixed mixed up ureter and urethra terms in shockwave therapy description to match changes we did to the matching symptom description
• Fixed rooms increasing entity ID counts on load, possibly causing some random issues after days of playtime
• Improved a few UI texts
• Added Japanese to the list of 'hospital' translations on loading screens
• Hotfixed one case of a doctor found stuck at a mobile workstation
• Hotfixed paramedics stuck moving a stretcher to a deleted patient

[ 2024-02-21 15:06:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everybody, It looks like it's time to slowly wrap up 2023 and like every year, let us take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Holiday and a Happy New Year! Also, we would like to thank everybody who bought Project Hospital during the last 12 months or participated in the currently running beta test of Silence of the Siren, our upcoming turn based strategy game. Welcome to the community! For us, the year was mostly consumed by Silence of the Siren, as we're getting closer and closer to its planned release in Early Access. We visited several conferences across Europe including Gamescom and EGX and had a great time showing the game to a lot of you. With Project Hospital, we were mostly helping players with the occasional technical issue and some compatibility problems on the Steam Deck. Also thanks for a few very nice messages with feedback and ideas we received during the year! The team will now be mostly off until January 2nd, which means we might not be available on our social channels. If you encounter any issues, dont hesitate to ask our amazing community here on the Steam forum, otherwise we should be able to get back to you at the beginning of January. For now enjoy the holidays and the upcoming Winter Sale!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2147380/Silence_of_the_Siren/

[ 2023-12-21 13:05:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Just like last year, Project Hospital is taking part in SimFest 2023 which will run until 24th of July. It is a huge event which is celebrating many games from the simulation genre. You can buy Project Hospital for just 50% of its price and any DLC with a 20% discount. Also make sure to check all the other great simulation games which are participating in the Steam event with us!

[ 2023-07-21 13:45:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! With the year 2022 almost at the end, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Holiday and a Happy New Year. We know it was a difficult year for many of you and new challenges didnt miss our studio as well. But in the end we are excited about what awaits us in 2023. Even though active development of Project Hospital has ended and no more DLC is planned, we continue to support the game. We added Steam Deck support so you can play the game everywhere. With new patches we tried to improve the game with recent patch 40 being the last one of this year. Our biggest event though was the announcement of Silence of the Siren, a sci-fi turn-based strategy game. For us it is an opportunity to try something new and we hope many of you will join Early Access which we plan to release next year. The team will now need to recharge a little bit and will be taking a holiday until January 2nd, which means we might not be available on our social channels. If you encounter any issues, dont hesitate to ask our amazing community on the Steam forum, if they cant help, we should be able to get back to you at the beginning of January. We hope the start of your Holiday will be more enjoyable with the Steam Winter Sale where Project Hospital will be available with a 50% discount and 20% discount for all DLCs. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[ 2022-12-20 14:49:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, after a few weeks on a Steam beta branch, the next minor patch for Project Hospital with the usual set of bugfixes and UI improvements is now officially out. Enjoy!

Changes

- Closed departments in management mode are rendered with desaturated colors, not completely grayed out - Switched icon in the patients table for patients waiting for an ambulance from 'a waiting patient' to 'an ambulance' - Updated Italian localization with fixes from Mario Raffa

Fixes

- Fixed janitors without matching specialization allowed to be assigned to a gift shop or a management office - Hotfixed a rare case of a patient stuck in the pharmacy because of a deleted pharmacist - Set patients to be only aware of their 'visible' collapse symptoms, so an interview doesn't uncover any new collapse symptom that should be found using special examinations - Fixed patients with iron deficiency anemia stuck when sent to ICU because of its treatment only available at emergency - Fixed zooming in using a keyboard shortcut instead of the mouse or a button on the main panel not progressing the "zoom in step" in tutorial 1 - Fixed a couple of symptoms showing wrong description text - Fixed a rare case of blocked patients when diagnosing them outside of trauma center in tutorial 3 - Fixed a wrong description shown for the 'stiffness of the joints' symptom

[ 2022-12-15 13:22:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're happy to announce that patch 40 for Project Hospital is almost ready to be released - if you'd like to help us with the last round of testing, you can switch to beta-patch-40-test in Properties in your Steam library. The release notes are listed below and as you'd expect at this stage, we're mostly looking at smaller bug fixes and improvements as we haven't been receiving too many reports especially in the second half of the year. Here's the beta branch that you can switch to in properties on Steam:

Project Hospital 1.2.22846 - Patch 40

Changes

- Closed departments in management mode are rendered with desaturated colors, not completely grayed out - Switched icon in the patients table for patients waiting for an ambulance from 'a waiting patient' to 'an ambulance' - Updated Italian localization with fixes from Mario Raffa

Fixes

- Fixed janitors without matching specialization allowed to be assigned to gift shop or management office - Hotfixed a case of a patient stuck in the pharmacy because of a deleted pharmacist - Set patients to be only aware of their 'visible' collapse symptoms, so an interview doesn't uncover any new collapse symptom that should be found using special examinations - Fixed patients with iron deficiency anemia stuck when sent to ICU because of its treatment only available at emergency - Fixed a couple of symptoms showing wrong description text - Fixed a rare case of blocked patients when diagnosing them outside of trauma center in tutorial 3 - Fixed a wrong description shown for the 'stiffness of the joints' symptom

[ 2022-11-21 14:15:52 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, after a few weeks both internal and open beta branch testing patch 39 is officially released. Thanks to everybody who tried it early! Amongst the usual batch of fixes and improvements, patch 39 brings official support for the Steam Deck. It is also worth mentioning some welcome fixes of community translations, and a couple of new shortcuts.

Steam Deck

- Added support and control scheme for running on the Steam Deck - Implemented automatic opening of virtual keyboard for all text inputs - Updated save dialog layout so that virtual keyboard doesn't overlap save name - Tweaked automatic UI scale and a few panel positions

Changes

- Enabled cloud save for individual saves by default (the checkbox in save dialog) - Bigger icons and texts in for example examination and treatment sections of patient card, small version of icons and texts isn't used when playing in 768p or 800p, tweakable TWEAKABLE_UI_PANEL_SEGMENT_SIZE_BEHAVIOR can be used to override the behavior) - Building mode: implemented semi-transparent highlighting of original positions of stretchers and wheelchairs currently in use - Added money spent for creating employees in character editor to the 'other' category in budget - Set janitor level in character editor to be always 2 and provide a specialization - Updated FR localization, fixed the same name used for both HDU and ICU. Fixes by Dim., dim-2022 on Steam - Updated NL localization with fixes from Pieter van Dieren - New keyboard shortcuts: implemented switching game modes with tab, opening menu with F10, M for management card, O and P cycle through departments - Implemented closing of text dialogs like naming characters by pressing ESC

Fixes

- Improved a few English texts - Fixed numbing ointment not available at ICU where it can cause patients to be stuck if sent to ICU by hand - Fixed patients not always correctly selecting pharmacy after being released from hospitalization and when they were still remembering previous waiting room - Updated flu season event's English text, fixed one world event text in Russian translation (fix from zodiac a on the forum) - Fixed outdoor prefabs incorrectly reporting they will cost extra for foundations - Fixed status bar text stating not enough funds even in free building mode, fixed room size requirement not shown when placing rooms - Fixed foundations tool allowed on the roof where the results would get overwritten by any updates on the floor below, updated highlighting to red - Fixed roof graphics not updated when switching floors and after making changes to foundations on the floor below - Fixed bookmarked character portrait scale on main panel when playing in different resolution than 1920x1080 - Fixed activating menu via menu icon while moving objects in building mode causing the objects to be lost - Fixed pressing Ctrl+Z showing text on the main panel even outside of building mode

[ 2022-03-30 12:05:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, As we announced a couple of days ago, we're mostly ready to release the next update of Project Hospital which brings official support for the Steam Deck and the usual delivery of fixes and improvements including some welcome fixes of community translations. As this has really helped with the last few releases, we're once again making the version available early on a beta branch so the community and especially modders can try it out and check that everything works on their side. The release notes are listed below, the beta branch you can switch to in Properties in your library is beta-patch-39-test. Let us know if you find any issues and we're very interested to hear any feedback about the controls on the Deck when any of you receive yours - we'll create a pinned thread in the discussions on the community page for that.

Project Hospital 1.2.22641 - Patch 39

Steam Deck

- Added support and control scheme for running on the Steam Deck - Implemented automatic opening of virtual keyboard for all text inputs - Updated save dialog layout so that virtual keyboard doesn't overlap save name - Tweaked automatic UI scale and a few panel positions

Changes

- Enabled cloud save for individual saves by default (the checkbox in save dialog) - Bigger icons and texts in for example examination and treatment sections of patient card, small version of icons and texts isn't used when playing in 768p or 800p, tweakable TWEAKABLE_UI_PANEL_SEGMENT_SIZE_BEHAVIOR can be used to override the behavior) - Building mode: implemented semi-transparent highlighting of original positions of stretchers and wheelchairs currently in use - Added money spent for creating employees in character editor to the 'other' category in budget - Set janitor level in character editor to be always 2 and provide a specialization - Updated FR localization, fixed the same name used for both HDU and ICU. Fixes by Dim., dim-2022 on Steam - Updated NL localization with fixes from Pieter van Dieren - New keyboard shortcuts: implemented switching game modes with tab, opening menu with F10, M for management card, O and P cycle through departments - Implemented closing of text dialogs like naming characters by pressing ESC

Fixes

- Improved a few English texts - Fixed numbing ointment not available at ICU where it can cause patients to be stuck if sent to ICU by hand - Fixed patients not always correctly selecting pharmacy after being released from hospitalization and when they were still remembering previous waiting room - Updated flu season event's English text, fixed one world event text in Russian translation (fix from zodiac a on the forum) - Fixed outdoor prefabs incorrectly reporting they will cost extra for foundations - Fixed status bar text stating not enough funds even in free building mode, fixed room size requirement not shown when placing rooms - Fixed foundations tool allowed on the roof where the results would get overwritten by any updates on the floor below, updated highlighting to red - Fixed roof graphics not updated when switching floors and after making changes to foundations on the floor below - Fixed bookmarked character portrait scale on main panel when playing in different resolution than 1920x1080 - Fixed activating menu via menu icon while moving objects in building mode causing the objects to be lost - Fixed pressing Ctrl+Z showing text on the main panel even outside of building mode

[ 2022-03-03 09:55:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, we have some quite exciting news: after a bit of testing we're pleasantly surprised by how well Project Hospital works on the Steam Deck! As you may know, we never planned a console version because of both controls and performance, but the touchpad on the Deck really makes this possible. We're finishing a version with controls mapped to the Deck's input, properly using the virtual keyboard and including some small tweaks, we plan to make it available for you with the next patch later this week and hopefully we'll get the game verified by Valve soon. In the meantime we'd love to hear your opinions: Do any of you plan to get the Steam Deck or have already preordered it? What are your experiences playing games with a controller using a virtual cursor?

[ 2022-02-28 14:27:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, Once again, the holidays are approaching and we're finding ourselves looking back at the months that have just flown by. 2021 has been another challenging year for everybody, including us at Oxymoron Games, but at the same time a great year for Project Hospital, with so many players joining the community, while the game received a few more patches and more content arrived to the Steam Workshop. The team will now be taking a couple of weeks off, trying to find a bit of peace and quiet and spending time with our loved ones, so if you reach out on the different channels, we'll be mostly able to get back to you on January 3rd. And as usually this time of the year, when this message goes live, the Winter Sale should be on the way and Project Hospital will be joining with a 50% discount. So, everybody who is reading this, have a great holiday and a safe and successful start to the New Year 2022! We're looking forward to seeing you on the forums and hopefully some time next year we'll be able to start sharing more about what's next to come from Oxymoron Games! Cheers, The Oxymoron Games team

[ 2021-12-22 18:04:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, we're happy to make this little announcement before the Holidays: the next patch for Project Hospital is now live! Thanks to everybody who tried it on the beta branch early, we're glad we managed to fix that one little hiccup before releasing the update officially! We've also updated the Thai build (on thai-language-support branch) to patch 38 and added a Mac OSX version as requested! We hope you'll enjoy the little improvements, fixes and the new mix of the main music theme!

Changes

- Switched main menu music to a recently remastered version - Implemented automatic switching from bold to normal texts if running on a Mac to work around issues with fonts present since Catalina - Allowed janitors to come to work to clean very dirty tiles outside of departments even if their department is spotless - Set cash value texts on main panel and in budget panel to use thousand separators ($1 000 instead of $1000), enabled automatic text scale for balance text on main panel - Allowed decals to be placed on outdoor walls on above-the-ground-floors - Added a tweakable that can be used to override the default strict save file name checks (TWEAKABLE_SKIP_STRICT_FILENAME_CHECK in TweakablesPatch38.xml) - Added a button for cancelling level and event scripts to debug tools, this allows to for example continue playing a campaign level after finishing it

Fixes

- Fixed examinations that require patient to talk to be sometimes incorrectly planned after selecting a diagnosis - Fixed broken attachments unnecessarily preventing composite objects from being deleted - Fixed patients stuck at the reception if all receptionists have been sent to training - Fixed 'check save' mechanism for modded games only working in main menu, not when loading from the pause menu - Fixed ambulance ignoring its own stretchers if the area underneath is marked staff only - Fixed patients stuck as bookmarked when released from autopsy table - Fixed wall mounted lamp blocking access to objects on the tile opposite to the wall where it's mounted - Fixed shortest path distance (instead of shortest geometric distance) not used in object queries used for employees needs so they wouldn't always use objects in their own room - Fixed outdated screenshot in loading tip showing how to access staff and patient tables - Hotfixed janitors at home sometimes still reserving operating rooms - Hotfixed second running lab procedure causing controlled patients getting stuck at the doctor's, now it gets automatically completed one hour after the test itself finished - Hotfixed an error in X-Ray script caused by a missing X-Ray machine in procedure scene - Improved a few English texts - [TRAUMATOLOGY DLC] Fixed a rare progression blocker in tutorial 3 triggered by sending the patient to CT and selecting a diagnosis while the patient was out of the Trauma Center

[ 2021-12-16 10:14:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

We are mostly done with testing the next patch for Project Hospital, so we're on a good track to release it before the holidays. Just like with the last patch, we've put it on a beta branch for those of you who would like to try it out early and help us catch any possible rare issues or problems with mod compatibility. The release notes are included below, as you'd expect at this later development stage, it's mostly smaller or very specific bug fixes, improvements and tools. Here's the beta branch that you can switch to in properties on Steam:

Project Hospital 1.2.22496 - Patch 38

Changes

- Implemented automatic switching from bold to normal texts if running on a Mac to work around issues with fonts present since Catalina - Allowed janitors to come to work to clean very dirty tiles outside of departments even if their department is spotless - Set cash value texts on main panel and in budget panel to use thousand separators ($1 000 instead of $1000), enabled automatic text scale for balance text on main panel - Added a tweakable that can be used to override the default strict save file name checks (TWEAKABLE_SKIP_STRICT_FILENAME_CHECK in TweakablesPatch38.xml) - Added a button for cancelling level and event scripts to debug tools, this allows to for example continue playing a campaign level after finishing it

Fixes

- Fixed examinations that require patient to talk to be sometimes incorrectly planned after selecting a diagnosis - Fixed broken attachments unnecessarily preventing composite objects from being deleted - Fixed patients stuck at the reception if all receptionists have been sent to training - Fixed 'check save' mechanism for modded games only working in main menu, not when loading from the pause menu - Fixed ambulance ignoring its own stretchers if the area underneath is marked staff only - Fixed patients stuck as bookmarked when released from autopsy table - Fixed wall mounted lamp blocking access to objects on the tile opposite to the wall where it's mounted - Fixed shortest path distance (instead of shortest geometric distance) not used in object queries used for employees needs so they wouldn't always use objects in their own room - Hotfixed janitors at home sometimes still reserving operating rooms - Hotfixed second running lab procedure causing controlled patients getting stuck at the doctor's, now it gets automatically completed one hour after the test itself finished - Hotfixed an error in X-Ray script caused by a missing X-Ray machine in procedure scene - Improved a couple of English texts - [TRAUMATOLOGY DLC] Fixed a rare progression blocker in tutorial 3 triggered by sending the patient to CT and selecting a diagnosis while the patient was out of the Trauma Center

[ 2021-12-08 12:42:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, we're happy to announce another addition to the list of community translations: Thai language is now available in Project Hospital! We're very happy to see all the Thai players that joined the community recently and while it wasn't straightforward to get the translation working in game as the systems weren't built in a way that supports switching fonts, we now have a special Windows version of the game available for you to try. To switch to it: If you go to Properties -> BETAS, select "thai-laguage-support". The Thai language should then be available in options in game.
Once again big thanks to the translators for their effort and especially for figuring out a way to get the fonts working.

[ 2021-07-21 14:30:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, the next patch for Project Hospital is now officially live! We hope you'll enjoy the quality of life improvements, bugfixes and a couple of improved translations from wonderful community members. :) Thanks to everybody who tried the new version on a beta branch, we're glad no issues popped up there! There's also one more fix that's worth mentioning but isn't part of the patch itself: an issue with cloud saves not updating correctly on certain machines should be now resolved. It turns out the problem wasn't in game code but in our configuration of cloud saves on Steam side.

Changes

- Optimized texture usage of system RAM, this should help improve performance on machines with minimum specs - Added missing localized texts for the 'no assistant surgeon' notification - Improved a couple of texts in tutorials or tooltips - Updated Italian community translations with a new version by neoxes - Updated Traditional Chinese translations with a new version by Alex Chen - Set input text of save game name in the save dialog to be active when the dialog opens - Added more info to log about the steam integration startup (to help troubleshoot issues with cloud saves) - Updated UI scale sliders in options to show default scale value when automatic UI scale is enabled

Fixes

- Hotfixed broken room data blocking the save process, this could eliminate a rare error where half of a save file would be missing - Fixed corrupted save zip files (especially if it was the latest save) causing missing files in the load dialog - Fixed insurance condition 'finish events of type' resetting counters for all types when there are multiple conditions checking multiple events active - Fixed 'black floor' set up with same pathfinding cost as road so people were avoiding it and taking longer paths - Fixed bacteremia (a symptom that requires hospitalization) present in campylobacteriosis which is marked for clinic - Fixed double fever in hemolytic uremic syndrome - Fixed Bartonella Henselae showing wrong description in its tooltip - Fixed player-assigned doctors reset when the player changes a patient's doctor while the patient is already walking to a doctor's office and then returns to a waiting room - Fixed diagnosis tooltip showing wrong insurance payment value without prestige and world event modifiers counted in - Fixed patients allowed to use outdoors/planned only waiting rooms - Fixed a rare case of employees with invalid room at their workspace stuck at home - Fixed broken ambulance parking in one of the campaign levels - Fixed a hotfix detecting abandoned stretchers causing also stretchers waiting with a patient next to an ambulance to disappear after load - Fixed patients waiting for ambulance for a very long time popping up the 'clinic patient is about to leave' message - Fixed one specific case of a paramedic stuck next to their ambulance because of a deleted stretcher - Fixed queue machines reporting 0 patients in management mode for waiting rooms at radiology - Fixed a white line sometimes blinking around the bottom side of popup panel in low resolutions

[ 2021-07-14 12:24:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, The next major patch with the usual round of fixes and improvements is now ready and while we're doing an extra round of testing, we thought why not make it available to those of you that would like to try it straight away. After the issues we encountered with the last patch launch we're trying to be extra careful so any help with testing would be welcome, especially from members of the modding community so we catch any possible compatibility issues (although we're not expecting any problems with mods). Here's the beta branch that you can switch to in properties on Steam:
Thanks in advance and have fun! :)

Project Hospital 1.2.22340 - Patch 37

Changes

- Optimized texture usage of system RAM, this should help improve performance on machines with minimum specs - Added missing localized texts for the 'no assistant surgeon' notification - Improved a couple of texts in tutorials or tooltips - Updated Italian community translations - Set input text of save game name in the save dialog to be active when the dialog opens - Added more info to log about the steam integration startup (to help troubleshoot issues with cloud saves) - Updated UI scale sliders in options to show default scale value when automatic UI scale is enabled

Fixes

- Hotfixed broken room data blocking the save process, this could eliminate a rare error where half of a save file would be missing - Fixed corrupted save zip files (especially if it was the latest save) causing missing files in the load dialog - Fixed insurance condition 'finish events of type' resetting counters for all types when there are multiple conditions checking multiple events active - Fixed 'black floor' set up with same pathfinding cost as road so people were avoiding it and taking longer paths - Fixed bacteremia (a symptom that requires hospitalization) present in campylobacteriosis which is marked for clinic - Fixed double fever in hemolytic uremic syndrome - Fixed Bartonella Henselae showing wrong description in its tooltip - Fixed player-assigned doctors reset when the player changes a patient's doctor while the patient is already walking to a doctor's office and then returns to a waiting room - Fixed diagnosis tooltip showing wrong insurance payment value without prestige and world event modifiers counted in - Fixed patients allowed to use outdoors/planned only waiting rooms - Fixed a rare case of employees with invalid room at their workspace stuck at home - Fixed broken ambulance parking in one of the campaign levels - Fixed a hotfix detecting abandoned stretchers causing also stretchers waiting with a patient next to an ambulance to disappear after load - Fixed patients waiting for ambulance for a very long time popping up the 'clinic patient is about to leave' message - Fixed one specific case of a paramedic stuck next to their ambulance because of a deleted stretcher - Fixed queue machines reporting 0 patients in management mode for waiting rooms at radiology

[ 2021-06-30 13:24:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Complete retagging of the Project Hospital Steam workshop is finished! Departments, decorations, equipment, gameplay tweaks, and scenarios now clearly organized. More than 300 items ready to refine your gaming experience. Explore Project Hospital workshop now!

[ 2021-05-14 12:23:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi guys, today we would like to share something a bit different - a video mapping the whole development process of Project Hospital! Jan (one of the two team members who started developing Project Hospital in 2016) has been working on this for quite a while and it's finally ready. Let's have a look at the four-years-long journey from a humble concept to a finished game with 4 DLCs and a worldwide player community, all packed in five minutes on screen. It has been quite a ride and we are most grateful you rode with us! [previewyoutube=jUtr-idUoK8;full][/previewyoutube]

[ 2021-04-28 13:54:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi, you've probably noticed that we rolled the game back to the previous version soon after the release patch 36. After quite a busy week of investigating the issues and extra testing after fixing the root cause, our fingers are crossed for today's re-release. We'd also like to thank everybody who sent us their saves, it really helped us figure out what exactly went wrong and verify that everything works reliably in a much wider selection of hospitals than our usual test levels. We hope you'll enjoy the improvements that come in this version! Original release notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/868360/view/3014568991981558677

[ 2021-03-10 14:28:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello, a new patch 36 was just released. Amongst a fair portion of fixes, it brings improved pathfinding related to limited access areas and tuned examination.

Changes

- Improved pathfinding in the case of areas with different access rights and paths partially blocked by objects - Allowed patients that need to go to a toilet to take urine sample to use biohazard toilets after waiting for a while for a standard toilet to become available

Fixes

- Fixed a few rare symptoms that weren't discoverable by any examination other than interview and which shy patients wouldn't mention - Fixed a few symptoms that could lead to a collapse not correctly marked as critical - Fixed cold compression wraps not available at cardiology and neurology, updated tooltips - Fixed rooms on the roof impossible to delete after adding a new floor - Fixed a couple of untranslated texts in Brazilian Portuguese in the third tutorial level - Fixed helicopter broken after landing on a helipad marked as staff only - Hotfixed one case of patients stuck on stretchers when being taken away - Hotfixed a case of overlapping stretchers spawned next to an ambulance, tanking performance - Hotfixed a case of black ambulance stuck on trying to take away an already deleted patient

[ 2021-03-04 13:19:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi, we've just released a new patch with a few fixes, mostly trying to fix the mysterious issue with headless patients that has recently started to pop up quite frequently.

Changes

- Reduced spacing between ambulances in ambulance panel in management window so it fits on screen more easily

Fixes

- Hotfixed a couple of cases of headless patients (beds with wrong graphics after a patient has left them) - Fixed patients with a planned surgery and a clear but not yet selected diagnosis not showing up in surgery table - Fixed janitors sometimes stuck still referencing a deleted cart - Fixed ground textures not updated after undo - Fixed cbc not allowed in inpatient office at traumatology - Fixed missing temperature measurement in kidney stones diagnosis - Fixed tooltip for pancreas laceration showing wrong text

[ 2021-01-07 14:08:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, With only a couple of days left until holidays, let us once again take the opportunity to have a quick look at the year behind us. It has definitely been a 'proper 2020' for us as well, but apart from the time spent in lockdown and sometimes struggling with work from home, there have been some highlights too, including two development babies :). We managed to keep working on the game and your continuous support allowed us to add a lot of new content and features in updates and the three DLCs released this year, so this is also a humble thank you to everybody who bought any of the expansions, contributed to mods or translations, supported other players or helped us catch remaining issues in the game. The team will be now taking a couple of weeks off after a very demanding season, so we'll be only able to reply on the different channels occasionally and we'll be mostly able to get back to you on January 4th. And last but not least, enjoy the Winter Sale, Project Hospital will be available with a 50% discount for the duration of the sale. :) Have a good one!

[ 2020-12-22 18:40:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

For everyone who wants to jump straight to the hustle and bustle of a fully staffed hospital, we added an optimized version of one of the big hospitals, with all departments and employees already prepared for your guidance. And for those who want to carefully select every member of their team, there is another fully optimized hospital with all departments and equipment, ready to be staffed. Note: Both scenarios require all DLCs that introduce new departments (Hospital Services, Traumatology, Infectious Diseases). https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2324955475 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2324957538

[ 2020-12-18 14:18:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello there! Just a few weeks left till Holidays and sleepy vibes are starting to crawl into everybody's mind. But Project Hospital team keeps resisting the approaching drowsiness :-)! We just released a new patch bringing a lot of small features and little improvements smoothing your gameplay experience. Furthermore, you'll find a fair share of most-anticipated fixes and for the DLC owners, there is a little present in the form of brand new insurance companies

Features and content

- [TRAUMATOLOGY] Added a new insurance company with challenging goals including completing accident events and performing complex surgeries - [INFECTIOUS DISEASES] Added a new insurance company focused on pandemic management - Added 6 new loading tips for new DLC features - Implemented optional automatic takeover of patients delivered by ambulances or helicopters, can be enabled using a button in the ambulance panel - Implemented notification for autosaving so it's clear why the game pauses for a bit at 8 am and 8 pm - Improved shift changes so employees from the next shift arrive earlier - Implemented fast transport of all patients that have code blue set by the player - Disabled 'exposed to outdoors' triggered in outdoor corridors - Allowed dragging of all windows also partially off the top edge of the screen - Added distinct icon over portrait of patients from events - Added a more specific message to examination tooltips in the case of having no technologists in the lab for either hospitalized or clinic patients - Added a more specific status text for doctors 'on standby for critical patients' - Allowed technologists in specialized units to perform more examinations on the same patient in a row - Added a few more sounds to employees eating in the cafeteria - [MOD SUPPORT] the new insurance company goals available are PERFORM_SURGERY_AT_DEPARTMENT and SUCCESSFUL_EVENTS_IN_ROW_OF_TYPE

Fixes

- [INFECTIOUS DISEASES] Fixed DLC level starting at day 0 instead of day 1, causing minor issues with prestige tracking between days - [TRAUMATOLOGY] Fixed patients delivered by helicopter not transported to the closest TC in some cases - [TRAUMATOLOGY] Fixed a mismatch between the position of the wound and the matching bandage on patient's arm - Fixed abdominal palpation and a couple of other examinations/treatments not available at different departments - Rolled back fix that disabled deleting doors by placing other doors, the door will now also be replaced immediately, saving one extra click - Fixed keyboard layout button that stopped working after one of the previous patches - Fixed night music not playing when there was an event running during the night - Fixed janitors sometimes showing up cleaning the road for a second before going to their workspace - Fixed workload balancing for labs handling samples of patients from the clinic - Fixed patients keeping their original clothes if they collapsed their way through TC and ICU to an OR - Fixed doctors standing behind hospitalized patient's head when performing blood analysis - ICU) - Fixed placing fences deleting fences on the other edges of the same tile - Fixed some patients counted in the numbers of waiting and hospitalized patient incorrectly - Fixed scrolling in surgery table - Fixed patients sometimes not mentioning the disuria symptom during interview as it's the only examination that can uncover it - Fixed settings sometimes not saved when immediately quitting the game from options in main menu - Fixed operating table clipping through patients hands in some cases - Fixed room placement tool not cancelled when switching departments, allowing to place rooms from an incorrect department - Fixed a couple of typos

(From hotfix)

- Fixed invalid patients spawned when there's a helicopter but no department to provide patients for it - Hotfixed load of saves affected by the issue above - [MOD SUPPORT] Added more info to log for problems with loading custom icons

[ 2020-12-09 14:09:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all, here's what we've been busy with the last few weeks - Patch 33 is now live with a bunch of improvements and small features. Features and content - Added Swedish translations of infectious diseases - Updated Italian translations - Optimized floor rendering, possibly a 2-3% overall CPU performance improvement - Added scrolling indicators to all tables - Added an icon over portrait to easily distinguish patients from events - Added more dress code colors - Added tooltips for notification setting in options that show the whole text of each notification - [INFECTIOUS DISEASES] Added hematology lab that can be built directly at the department, added matching prefabs - [INFECTIOUS DISEASES] Implemented outbreaks also at trauma centers and observation wards - [MOD SUPPORT] Implemented scrolling in insurance panel - [MOD SUPPORT] Implemented support for custom icons of modded departments under prefabs in building mode - [MOD SUPPORT] Added tweakable for forcing some percentage of patients to be generated with diagnoses from departments not available in the hospital Fixes - Implemented release of a part of hospitalization doctors for need filling even from on call rooms of departments with critical patients - Implemented cancellation of collapses already triggered and waiting for something while all critical symptoms have been treated in the meantime - Fixed disabled diagnoses shown on the list when running with 'no hints in diagnostics' manifesting as some diagnoses shown twice - Fixed ambiguous patients sent home counted as untreated twice - Fixed a few typos in Czech translation - Fixed planned lab tests cancelling after any department switch (code was from the ancient times before individual lab department) - Fixed page panel for walls shown unnecessarily even if all walls fit in the panel - Fixed overflow of insurance reward texts in insurance management - Fixed thorax surgery requiring overqualified staff - Tweaked big printer use offset so characters do not go outside when printer is placed next to a wall - Fixed a couple of symptoms possibly causing collapses that were not counted as critical - Fixed a few treatments not automatically cancelled when the patient got transferred to ICU - Fixed dead patients not deleting from pathologist's card when sent to funeral services - [TRAUMATOLOGY] Fixed opthalmoscopy's broken description with traumatology installed - [INFECTIOUS DISEASES] Fixed Hepatitis A main treatment not applied first

[ 2020-11-11 14:20:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

For new players that would like to join the Project Hospital community or are considering giving Project Hospital as a gift. If you'd like to buy Project Hospital with all the DLCs that add new departments, there's a new bundle available that will allow you to get the content at once and will add a nice little 12% discount even when the game or DLCs are on sale at the moment. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16668/Project_Hospital_Collection/

[ 2020-10-27 16:12:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Traumatology Department is ready to save lives of the most severely injured patients! This expansion of Project Hospital brings 35 new diagnoses, helicopters, new equipment and events. Most critical cases will now arrive in a helicopter, new equipment includes wheelchairs for transport of patients with lighter wounds, special equipment and new decorations. The DLC also introduces new graphics and animations for injured patients, including visible wounds, you'll see patients leaving with bandages or walking with crutches. Note: wounds can be hidden in options using the 'Show blood' checkbox. New challenging events focused on the department let you deal with the consequences of different disasters, accidents or crime. We also took this opportunity and smuggled in a few fixes and one little improvement ;-). - Fixed broken buttons in building catalogue if the first thing you do in the game is click ambulances, then click prefabs - Fixed dress code colors not switched immediately for employees at home or commuting - Fixed order of prefab rooms of DLC departments not matching other departments - Added buttons to take over all event patients to event popups https://store.steampowered.com/app/1423900/Project_Hospital__Traumatology_Department/

[ 2020-10-20 15:00:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, while we're fine-tuning the upcoming Traumatology DLC, we're still working on fixes and improvements, so here's the latest collection. Big thanks especially for the new and improved community translations! - Implemented code support for traumatology features - [MOD SUPPORT] Maximum number of floors can be now set up to 12 and high numbers won't cause graphical artifacts - [MOD SUPPORT] Added support for prefab rooms in departments added in mods - Updated Italian and Polish community translations - Added Swedish community translations for base game, doctor mode and hospital services - Disabled counting of critical patients that are currently going through a treatment procedure as critical at their department to allow staff to fill their needs in the meantime - Fixed palette for walls and floors in building mode not hidden for floor and wall types that don't support different colors - Implemented automatic resizing of floor catalogue in building mode according to resolution - Implemented cancelling of clinic only examinations (well, basic visual test) when hospitalizing patients - Fixed anesthesiologists not counted in hiring card for internal medicine and infectious diseases department - Fixed neurological testing examination not available for patients that can't talk - Fixed patients allowed to be manually assigned to lab department - Fixed event patients never allowed at normal hospitalization, always sent to HDU - Fixed sometimes confusing 'long wait for treatment' popups right before the treatment starts - Fixed food income counted twice in budget and causing sums in budget panel not adding up - Fixed [Shift] not selecting center objects when using the delete tool - Fixed 'forbidden action' sound played when coloring floors - Fixed clone tool keyboard shortcuts working outside of building mode - Fixed door placement deleting existing doors even if the new door is not allowed to be placed - Fixed highlighting of area covered by a prefab not matching validation text on main panel - Fixed ambulances not blocking other ambulance placement on their parking spot after load - Hotfixed popup about paramedics with no workspace popping up after replacing rooms over ambulance drop off zone (where they're standing although hidden) - [HOSPITAL SERVICES] Fixed patient satisfaction shown in statistics at pathology - [HOSPITAL SERVICES] Fixed missing localization text when a patient is dead, without hospital services dlc installed - [HOSPITAL SERVICES] Fixed a rare case of training not started because of a hidden error - [INFECTIOUS DISEASES] Added more variety to diagnoses from events, not mostly rabies

[ 2020-10-12 14:13:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

You can look foward to 42 new diagnoses, new equipment and events. Most critical cases will arrive in a helicopter, new equipment includes wheelchairs to transport patients with lighter wounds, special equipment and decorations. The DLC also introduces new graphics and animations for injured patients, including visible wounds, bandages, walking with crutches. New challenging events focused on the department let you deal with the consequences of different disasters, accidents or crime. Traumatology Department DLC is scheduled to release in October for 5.99 USD/EUR/your regional equivalent and we hope that new content will be a fine addition to your gaming experience. Check out the store page and don't forget to add it to your wishlist so you don't miss the release ;-)! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1423900/Project_Hospital__Traumatology_Department

[ 2020-09-22 13:37:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all, while the release of the Department of Infectious Diseases DLC went surprisingly smoothly, we still found and fixed a few minor issues plus a few more reported on Steam and on the official forum. Here are the release notes:

Changes

- [DID] Changed outbreak popup heading to mention outbreak instead of 'daily news' - [DID] The new chartboard object can now be used by doctors when doing differential diagnosis - [DID] Switched biohazard areas marked by the player to work as accessible to patients to allow 'biohazard waiting rooms' etc. - [DID] Implemented same rules for patients with only infectious possible diagnoses as for patients with an infectious final diagnosis - [DID] Implemented triggering of outbreaks also by infectious patients at HDU outside of DID (not only at normal priority wards) - Implemented showing of addons used in workshop scenarios in new game menu mostly to warn about possible compatibility problems - Implemented lunch/needs scripts only in correctly tagged rooms, so for example toilets won't work in corridors (allowed a few exceptions we know from player's saves like toilets at wards) - Improved epidemic outbreak En text - Exhaustion (symptom) doesn't force patients to go to HDU anymore

Fixes

- [DID] Enabled object reservation in blue rooms overridden by a biohazard zone by the player, was causing examinations not starting at ICU and isolation not accepting patients - Fixed patient's bed clipping through exam tables when lying there - Fixed technologists only earning skill points when giving results to patients (so not when running tests for hospitalized patients), added a new tweakable - Fixed patients triggering reception examination while the receptionists were still walking back to reception, causing weird behavior - Fixed problem with game load when an already deleted character is still in history (list of portraits in character card) - Fixed a rare case of patients activating a collapse symptom when already on their way to a doctor at the clinic, causing a confusing popup about unavailable treatment - Fixed a rare case of patient stuck trying to start a wrong hospitalization after selecting a different one in their card - Fixed switching to game mode or management by clicking the main buttons not cancelling object or area move action in building mode - Fixed green send home icon sometimes still shown for collapsing patients - Fixed unnecessary cleanup of all planned procedures when switching to controlled doctor and the patient is already controlled (so the procedures were already planned by the player most likely) - Fixed events unlocked in some sandbox levels - Fixed a few En texts in Cz translation (regression in patch 30) - Fixed broken formatting causing a weird text with xml tags shown for the broken room message in Potruguese - (Everybody's favorite category) [CAMERA ROTATION] Fixed tiles cleaned by janitors not immediately updated in other camera orientation than the default one

[ 2020-08-27 13:01:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

From exotic diseases to world-wide pandemics, find and treat the most dangerous cases at a new department! Project Hospital - Department of Infectious Diseases contains 65 different diagnoses and comes with all the specialized equipment needed to treat them. Transfer your patients to an isolation ward and make sure you prevent a potential outbreak. You can control in which areas of the hospital your staff will need to wear masks and infectious patients will be even transported on special stretchers. New events focused on the department bring some extra challenge, for example a big wave of COVID-19 patients. The DLC also comes with more content including a new ambulance and a new sandbox level. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368210/Project_Hospital__Department_of_Infectious_Diseases/

[ 2020-08-18 13:00:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all, as we're approaching the release of the Department of Infectious Diseases DLC, here's one more patch with a few fixes.

Changes

- Finalized support for features coming in the Department of Infectious Diseases DLC - Added specific state description in technologist's card for taking samples from a patient or giving back results - Reduced the rate of how quickly dirt accumulates in the hospital, it's now also a tweakable

Fixes

- Fixed some role buttons in employee card not working in a couple cases after switching specializations, for example surgery to anesthesiology - Fixed popup with no treatment showing problem with main treatment of the diagnosis even if the problem is with a treatment of a critical side symptom - Fixed a few cases of wrong bed reservation not correctly showing patient portraits above their beds - Fixed unnecessary transport between trauma beds in collapse script - Fixed internal medicine with missing outpatient staff not causing its icon on main panel to blink - Fixed a few cases of lying patients clipping through stretchers or CT/MRI - Fixed ambulances overshooting parking entrance at highest game speed and very low frame rates - Fixed black screen shown instead of main menu after accidentally setting UI scale to less than the minimum value

[ 2020-08-14 13:08:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, a new patch is out with mostly smaller improvements and fixes, but there's one change we should give you more details about - a system for handling incompatible mods we introduce with this version. We've noticed that there are a few mods that are still widely installed, but haven't been updated in a very long time and are causing problems, typically untreatable patients at Internal Medicine. We can now mark these as incompatible not only on the workshop, but also directly in game, so they won't get loaded and you'll see a warning in main menu. This shouldn't be causing any problems with loading saved games, also there should be alternatives for most of the affected mods already available on the workshop. If you're an author of one of the mods, please get in touch, we'll be happy to give you all the info about what needs to be updated, so we can re-enable the mod. Moreover, the list is accessible in the Twakables.xml file, so if you really love one of these mods and don't mind the side effects, it's possible to re-activate it there (TWEAKABLE_INCOMPATIBLE_WORKSHOP_MODS). Changes - Rolled back Unity version for Mac and Linux back to 2018.2.7f1 to hopefully fix a regression with text rendered in bold for certain languages, Windows version needs to stay on 2018.2.17f1 because of Citrix, but we'll also try to put a build with the previous version on a new branch (bold-text-fix). - Implemented mod compatibility system - Implemented re-roll of available doctors to ensure getting some interns for hire after getting the 'great interns' reward - Implemented sending patients to hospitalization from waiting rooms - Implemented prioritized selection of technologists in the same room if a patient has just finished an examination at radiology - Blocked building foundations over parking road, allowed only certain surface types, fixed visualization not colored red - Added ingame 10 min delay to lab procedures before they can be selected by technologists so equipment cabinets with samples can't get reserved by technologists between multiple samplings of one patient - Increased maximum manual UI scale for 4k resolution by ~25% - Allowed diagnosed patients to choose a new doctor when waiting (not always returning to the doctor who diagnosed them) - Disabled counting of planned only rooms in department workload statistics and daily workload statistics - Implemented opening of matching departments surgery table for ICU patients Fixes - [Hospital Services] Fixed waiting time still counting when buying medicine - Fixed technologist easily stolen by another patient if their patient has more examinations scheduled that the can perform - Fixed doors not placeable if a wall is right next to a locked area, for example next to the road - Fixed receptionists performing triage only showing 'reserved' as status in their card - Fixed patient waiting on a tile and department is switched, he does not find a chair on the next department - Fixed patients from failed events sometimes deleted over midnight prematurely - Fixed sliders needed to be clicked too far right to get the maximum value - Fixed possible triggering of both needs scripts and getting called on the same frame - Fixed distances between two points on the same floor but in disconnected areas not correctly counted in pathfinding - Fixed doctors that are going to interview lying patients going to a random spot in the room unnecessarily - Fixed wrong sound for deleting doors (and undo not allowed) - Fixed ambulance parking allowed on above the ground floors - Fixed switching main building categories not cancelling prefab move action - Fixed patients that are both waiting for transport to a procedure and a collapse causing reservation text to flicker in their doctors card - Fixed patients at trauma centers too eager to get covered - Fixed characters walking through tables when there's no path clear of objects by setting higher path cost to blocking center objects than blocking wall-attached wall objects like eye test - Fixed validation icon in management not showing for internal medicine - Fixed patients with critcal symptoms not switched to other department when treatments cant be prescribed at their current one - Fixed missing wc door in Challenge 2 level - Fixed patients not transferred to their beds when returning for procedure back to their room, fixed patient not getting covered after some procedures - Fixed patients threatening to leave even when already at the pharmacy - Fixed wrong distance reported when selecting closest objects and the distances have already been pre-calculated - Fixed an event being unlocked after previous resave (challenge 3) - Disabled other actions for patients waiting to deliver a sample or get lab results and have no exm or trt planned - Implemented automatic switch to next state for lab procedures that never got delivered to labs - Hotfixed hidden but contracted insurance companies - Disabled send home button for characters already on their way out - Fixed interview after lunch teleporting doctors because of accessing use component with other object still reserved - Fixed switching janitor's workspaces interrupting them during needs and free time without actually cancelling the script - Fixed surgery table always showing surgery for the diagnosis even if the patient is waiting for another surgery of a symptom - Hotfixed objects reserved by employees at home (also for janitors, was already in place for other professions) - Fixed undo not correctly working for all prefab rooms

[ 2020-07-16 13:32:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're happy to confirm that Department of Infectious Diseases, the second expansion for Project Hospital is on its way to infect your game! The DLC will come with 65 diagnoses from exotic diseases to world-wide pandemics, it will also bring new events, outbreaks and equipment to handle them: transfer your patients to an isolation ward, control in which areas of the hospital your staff will need to wear masks and transport infectious patients on special stretchers. We aim to release Department of Infectious Diseases in August for 5.99 USD/EUR/your regional equivalent and we hope you'll enjoy all the new content! Find out more: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368210/Project_Hospital__Department_of_Infectious_Diseases/

[ 2020-07-13 11:17:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello there! A new patch #28 is out now. Apart from other fixes let me mention especially the migration to Unity 2018.2.21 which should take care of the issues with Citrix incompatibility without having to use other workarounds. As always, thanks for all the reports and suggestions! Fixes - Migrated Unity to 2018.2.21 to work around the Citrix issues (2018.4 tested previously caused other issues) - Fixed a hidden error when resetting a player-assigned doctor - Fixed patients with critical symptoms at the clinic sometimes not correctly treated - Fixed controlled patients stuck at radiologists when player plans treatments there - Fixed player-assigned doctors reset for patients with no examinations planned in waiting rooms - Fixed patients sometimes going for lab results and starting a radiology examination at the same time - Fixed prefab save panel showing sorting buttons and sorting by date by default instead of by name - Hotfixed characters sitting on deleted chairs, possibly side effect of the duplicated ghostly objects in departments related to the undo system - Enabled lab specialists working on samples in their room even if the patient doesn't match their roles anymore, like after being released from observation - Fixed selecting prefab rooms and categories not cancelling current action like area move Included in hotfix from 05.06.2020 (1.2.20271) - Hotfixed new doors in build too early, implemented automatic replacement - Fixed send home popup showing when releasing treated hospitalized patient - Fixed code blue causing patients to be never considered treated - Fixed objects remain in department after deleting via undo - Fixed code blue causing patients to be not allows to be sent home

[ 2020-06-12 11:58:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, a new patch is out with fixes for most of the recently reported issues and a few new features and tweaks. Surprisingly, it looks like there have been no new camera rotation issues discovered this time. :)

Changes

- Implemented clinic and hospitalized roles for lab procedures (these previously only worked for radiologists/technologists in specialized units) - Implemented doctors assigned by the player not automatically switched when balancing doctor's workload at the clinic - Added confirmation window for sending patients home, not for dead patients - Changed treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome to TRT_DOCTOR'S_RECOMMENDATIONS, changed also in proper sequence - Switched default sorting of saved games to latest first following a survey we did on social media - Added edge scrolling as an option, added tweakables for fine-tuning - Updated internal medicine departments in sandbox and campaign levels (operating theatres replaced by special procedures units) - Lowered the number of required doctors at internal medicine from 3 to 1 - [MOD SUPPORT] implemented moddable 'difficulty settings' tweakables for payments, collapse timers and 'always showing all diagnoses' - [MOD SUPPORT] resized door texture to have twice as many slots

Fixes

- Fixed pharmacists incorrectly called pharmacologists :) - Fixed neurology not available to be selected for technologists - Fixing characters preferring indoor paths even when coming from the outside - Fixed satisfaction modifiers like exposed to weather not reset for night shift staff - Fixed room access rights not always correctly applied when selecting objects - Fixed unplugged delete prefab button - Fixed extending of rooms not allowed for rooms with overall limit like service office - Fixed unnecessary undo snapshot created every frame when placing prefabs causing extra allocations causing stuttering - Fixed ambulance parking showing red area when dragging foundations on floors above it - Fixed drawing a room over a part of another room stealing all objects for the active department - Fixed new colored floor lines not connecting to existing ones after load - Fixed cost in one of the parts of angiography machine causing double refund - Fixed only one visitors lounge used at each department - Fixed dead patients still getting negative satisfaction modifiers when sent away - Fixed dead patients shown forever in untreated patients table - Fixed characters stuck/not going to common room when their room is destroyed - Fixed level up message about janitors mentioning first specialization while it's not added (there's no skill to be selected without hospital services dlc) - Fixed popup about no workspace not correctly popping up since undo was introduced - Fixed supervisor not updating when switching character department, updated janitor chief selection - Fixed rounding errors causing 1% skill lower level shown for characters after training - Fixed three locked tiles left behind after moving parking - Fixed one wrong animation set in the sequence for MIEP - Fixed workshop scenarios disappearing after loading a game, returning to main menu and reopening new game dialog - Fixed only one special procedures unit at internal medicine used, the first one was always selected regardless of whether it was free - Fixed free technologists at radiology not selected for a patient if technologists at their department exist but are busy or only at another shift - Fixed janitors getting their workspace reset when leaving a closed department - Fixed tables ending out of bounds and displaying incorrect data when switching for example to a different department after scrolling down - Fixed patients that still have critical symptoms considered treated if the diagnosis has been treated - Fixed planned surgeries at ICU blocking night shift staff at a department that can't perform surgeries over night - Fixed waiting rooms with more invalidity flags allowed to be selected as closest valid room to a unit, for example when both inaccessible and not on foundations - Fixed overflowing text in some languages in popups - Fixed an error when deleting giftshop with visitors still coming in - Fixed office chairs allowed to be used as sofas - Fixed positioning of a couple of decorative objects when placed on another objects - Hotfixed beds left reserved by dead patients (seen once) - Fixed bacteremia in campylobacteriosis - added exm and trt - Fixed wrong lab test assigned to Campylobacteriosis - Added general surgery spec & room tag for trt_bronchodilators - Removed home treatment from asbestosis diagnosis - Fixed wrong tag preventing trauma center from giving leg casts - Removed treatment for hemoptysis (was nsaids), also removed nsaids from respective sequences - Allowed urgent blood analysis at radiology cardio unit - Fixed symptom stiffness in the neck - added neurology spec to prescribe list - it will be prescribed at neurology and executed at orthopaedy - Set pulmonary hypertension due blood clots to require hospitalization - Fixed a few typos in English texts - Updated minimum number of nurses in nurses station description - Updated character state description for dead patients (removed Dead, dead) - Changed tutorial texts for character card to mention 8 last selected characters instead of 6 - Fixed size in waiting room prefab description - Updated description for pleural effusion symptom - Fixed non-localized level label in hiring card - Disabled replacing special characters by underscores in naming panels in character card

Included in hotfix from 13.05.2020

- Fixed bulding a new floor after an undo-able action breaking rooms - Fixed cleaning carts sometimes stuck not reserved but not deletable - [Hospital Services] Fixed a couple of cases of characters or chairs stuck after training - [Hospital Services] Fixed pharmacy or gift shop getting stuck after a few ingame days - [Hospital Services] Fixed gift shop stuck if there isn't enough shelves - [Hospital Services] Fixed only one gift shop vendor serving customers

[ 2020-06-04 14:44:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, let us take this opportunity to thank all the new players that joined us this weekend, we're amazed by the interest in both Project Hospital and the newly released Hospital Services DLC! Here's one more patch fixing recently discovered issues, thanks again to everybody who took their time to send us a bug report! Changes - Enabled shortest path distance for selecting employees to tend to collapsed patients - Enabled undo for 'add perimeter walls' button - Enabled undo for moving rooms - Implemented automatic panel UI scale rules for resolutions around 1680 x 1050 to fix overlapping icons Fixes - Fixed a recently introduced performance issue related to memory allocations (causing frequent microstuttering) - Fixed pharmacy and gift shop sometimes stuck reserved by a patient who has left - Fixed training stuck if employee's trained skill gets removed by the player (possibly by assigning the employee to a different department) - Fixed training script stuck with multiple projectors - Fixed training - projector activity without a projector - Fixed stuck training scripts still reserving chairs - Fixed staff at pathology not filling needs because of patients with critical symptoms - Hotfixed bucket carts stuck reserved after janitors pick another cart (probably after deleting their room) - Hotfixed broken attachments on broken composite objects - Fixed generation technologist without specialization in character editor - Fixed compression wraps not starting for hospitalized patients at specialized departments - Fixed ice wrap not allowed at internal medicine department - Fixed peritoneal fluid analysis sampling not allowed at ICU - Fixed incorrect cafeteria minimum size detection - Fixed wrong observation and regular ward decal name - Fixed diagnoses percentage showing different values in diagnosis table - Fixed text overlap in department statistics panel - Fixed a typo in cz, 'parto' instead of 'patro' - [CAMERA ROTATION] Fixed ambulance parking not correctly highlighted when placing foundations with rotated camera - [CAMERA ROTATION] Fixed undo misplacing objects when undoing a delete action with rotated camera

[ 2020-05-06 15:19:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, a new patch is out, mostly with fixes related to Hospital Services and new features from patch 24. Thanks again for reporting the problems, it really helps us fix them as quickly as possible! Fixes - Fixed active department applied to all objects on the active floor during undo, breaking workspace assignment (included in hotfix from 25th April) - Hotfixed an error in logistics UI caused by characters with workspaces but no home room - Fixed janitors still reserving workspaces after their room gets deleted - Fixed resetting workspace after discarding undo - Fixed duplicate cardiology skill in skill selector - Fixed radiologists sometimes escaping their patients (added patient check to radiologist during lunch time) - Fixed LOC_ID errors in names of objects from Doctor Mode when Doctor Mode isn't installed - Fixed wrong icon shown in hiring card for gift shop vendor - Fixed blocked hiring of second gift shop vendor - Unlocked new deparmtents in challenge levels - Fixed pharmacy desk graphics - Fixed a typo in Essential thrombocythemia LOC - Fixed don't cross barrier set to blocking - Changed EMG in study room prefab to PC - [CAMERA ROTATION] Fixed go to button in popups not correctly centering rotated camera on patientsg rotated camera on patients

[ 2020-04-27 14:40:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Breathe life into your hospitals with two new departments, more activities for staff and with visitors coming to improve your patients' mood! Administrative department brings pharmacy, cafeteria, staff training and advanced janitor management. If you build a visitors lounge at any department, friends and family will start visiting your patients, even bringing them presents bought in a gift shop. In the meantime, different events happening in the area bring more variety to the daily routine. If everything goes wrong, pathology allows you to figure out if mistakes were made and resolve any medical mystery. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1282550/Project_Hospital__Hospital_Services/

[ 2020-04-24 14:17:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, while we're approaching the release of Hospital Services DLC, here's one more big update with improvements, fixes and an overhauled Internal Medicine department. Yes, Project Hospital now has UNDO in building mode! Seriously though, this was one of the most complicated features to implement, so we'll appreciate if you let us know if it breaks in any specific circumstances. And it wouldn't be a Project Hospital update without a few camera rotation fixes. :) Features & changes - Internal medicine - updated diagnoses at internal medicine department, it will be now more challenging and more profitable (and more focused on pulmonary diseases) - Internal medicine - removed surgical procedures, added new specialized room with unique equipment and new procedures - Improved efficiency of Radiology by smarter examination planning by the AI doctors and by making the radiologists more patient at their workspace :) - Implemented UNDO in building mode - Implemented automatic taking away of ambulance patients when emergency is closed - [MOD SUPPORT] Implemented check of procedures during load to catch files broken by uninstalled mods earlier (stable) - [MOD SUPPORT] Hotfixed collapse symptoms that don't lead to a procedure causing stuck characters, probably broken in one of the mods (or a combination of mods) out in the wild - [MOD SUPPORT] Implemented automatic return to menu with reporting of errors if the game fails to load a save (changed but still installed mods breaking diagnoses for example), added check for diagnoses to the main save game check - [DOCTOR MODE] updated prices of doctor mode objects - Improved automatic UI scale for main panel in 1280 x 800 resolution - Implemented automatic cancellation of a few examinations when moving patient to ICU or trauma when there are faster alternatives available there (ECG, echo, USG) - Increased extended employee limit to 600 Fixes - Fixed replacing of a room with the same type of room but from a different department - Fixed rooms not always correctly marked as working after reopening closed departments - Fixed incorrectly reserved sofa in the 'inefficient' campaign level - Fixed missing head lamp in one of the examination animations - Fixed using dynamite/foundations over parking lots - Fixed events triggered right before midnight spawning patients stuck on impossible visit time - Fixed treatments planned by the player when a patient is coming to radiology breaking the radiology examination and getting technologists stuck - Fixed AI doctors sometimes unnecessarily planning two examinations both used to detect the same symptom (like USG and FAST) - Fixed nurses showing their own portrait on the patient list in their employee card while performing patient checkup - Fixed characters rotated during object use clipping through stuff, their orientation was used to determine whether they should be rendered in front or behind an object, using the object orientation instead - Fixed moving of objects with attachments not checking attachment placement and if it allow objects above, this could lead to the attachment being lost - Fixed event objective button causing insurance to open instead of event patients in some cases when loading first save after booting up the game - Set font family for Russian on mac to normal for all texts, bold is not really bold in the default font and is hard to read - Fixed CBC not available at the ICU - Fixed un-reservation of patient's bed when they are transported away (when they were not in their room their bed got stuck) - Implemented automatic cleanup of tmp files left among maps after unzipping - Fixed hospitalized patients performing 'free time' activities too often even when waiting for an examination - [CAMERA ROTATION] Fixed stat lab and waiting room info panels showing at correct position only with default camera orientation - [CAMERA ROTATION] Fixed objects selected for delete left highlighted after rotating the camera view - Fixed 'waiting for player' not popping up after transferring controlled patient with no planned procedures between departments - Implemented automatic switching of active department when clicking surgery table button in patient card so the surgery table opens for patient's department - Fixed disabled hiring for night shift when there's doctor assigned at day shift at the same workspace even if the day shift is not working completely - Fixed characters sometimes getting stuck when trying to switch to his/her workplace trough assign workplace button - Implemented reset of wrong diagnosis after an hour of blocking patient's doctor instead of returning to a waiting room Included in hotfix from 24.03.2020 - Fixed dead characters with surgery priority set by the player blocking other surgeries - Fixed cloud saves not always correctly deleted from server - Fixed stuck characters caused by not selecting objects in a given room when on the same floor but when their path goes via the ground floor - Fixed hospitalized and released patients coming back by ambulance after being treated and released when they still have some lab tests running at midnight Included in hotfix from 19.03.2020 - Fixed black ambulance stretcher positioning breaking the ambulance when unloading area is placed at the furthermost point - Fixed lying free time actions like asking for books using nurses without patient care role - Fixed missing bookcase in building mode catalogue for wards - Fixed radiologists from wrong shift could be selected for usg when offloaded to radiology - Fixed names for cardio and sono at radiology in all languages - Fixed negative modifiers from critical needs not reset - Fixed mandatory equipment set as recommended for cardio & sono at radiology - Fixed scrubbing sink not tagged as normal sink and not used outside of ORs - Fixed doctors sometimes stuck reserved with other doctor's patient - this could happen when multiple doctors are serving way past their shift and one of them gets released from doctor mode, then the doctor who belongs on the current shift will return and take back their patients - and if one of the patients is still around waiting for another player-controlled doctor, the patient could get stolen - Fixed characters without workspace sent to 0, 0 after commuting to work, no workspace pop up pops up instead - Fixed shortcuts from management to prefabs not working when clicking the icons - Fixed 'exposed to weather' modifier applied to characters walking over planned rooms outside - Improved arm/leg cast/orthosis cz description - Hotfixed interview stuck on a deleted reserved object - Hotfixed transports of patients on deleted stretchers - [DOCTOR MODE] fixed doctor mode blinking red when some of the critical patients are only spawned

[ 2020-04-22 14:05:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

The DLC contains two new departments and brings more life to the hospitals with visitors coming to see your patients and a lot more activities for your staff. Let us name a few new features: pharmacy, staff training, cafeteria, janitor management, visitor's lounge and gift shop for your lobbies. On the other end of the spectrum, there's Pathology as an individual department where you can perform autopsies and find out more about what went wrong. If you're interested, please add the DLC to your wishlist so you don't miss the release - and it also helps us as developers! If not, there are still more features coming to the base game, so stay tuned! Hospital Services will be available before the end of April for 7.99 USD/EUR/your regional equivalent and we hope the features are very much in line with what a lot of you wished for! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1282550/Project_Hospital__Hospital_Services/

[ 2020-04-03 15:42:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all, while we keep working on and teasing new content on social media, here's an update with all the requested features and fixes we managed to implement in the meantime. We hope you find some useful tools these and it should be now easier to make your hospitals as efficient as possible. Thanks for your continued support and thanks to everybody who is still reporting the issues you come accross! Features & changes - Added surgery priority table - Editable ambulance parking lot and drop-off zone - Cloud save support - Improved pathfinding (object selection using closest path distance, some optimizations) - Added a few sound effects for ICU, surgeries, defibrillation, improved a few animations - Clone tool in building mode for floors, walls and objects - Added simplified sonography and cardiography units to radiology to work as an alternative to having the units at individual departments - Allowed anesthesiologists from ICU to participate in surgeries at different departments - Keyboard shortcuts in building mode for selecting individual objects on a single tile - Implemented cleanup of examinations and treatments that can't be performed at a specific department when switching patients between departments - Implemented resizable employee selector panel, fixed gaps between portraits when the list has been filtered by workspace - Implemented waiting for receptionists at closest free 3x3 tile area (similar to patients overflowing from waiting rooms) - Implemented alternating colors to highlight objects that are both reserved by someone and blocked or missing a required attachment - Added a new notification for broken hospitalization when 'assist at surgery' role gets disabled for all doctors - Added three new loading tips - Added new label for doctors waiting for the next patient that's on his/her way (employee card says "Next patient is coming" instead of "Idle") - Small loading time and save size improvements - Updated Korean translation - Capped event rewards - Changed prestige bonus display in prestige tooltip to percentages - [MOD SUPPORT] enabled overriding character textures - [MOD SUPPORT] improved save check for content from uninstalled mods - [MOD SUPPORT] improved game-side detection of errors in mods when starting up Fixes - Disabled "complicated diagnosis" popup when there's only one available examination left - Fixed door graphics not updated when a door gets deleted - Fixed employees not correctly showing reservation when performing first aid - Fixed collapses not started when there's no hospitalization at emergency department - Fixed patients sent away by closing a department still waiting for clinic doctors - Fixed UI stuck after clicking a room in logistics with one of the cards with name panel open - Fixed events available even without hospitalization at emergency department - Fixed mod validation text in load panel stuck red after selecting files - Fixed free building not allowing to build with negative bank balance - Fixed costs shown as floating text with free building - Fixed paying for prefab doors twice - Fixed dragging over ui cancelling current action in building mode plus missing change from free building fix - Fixed inconsistent behavior in building mode when switching wall tools - Fixed random rotation of moved objects with attachments - Fixed operating table not able to attach to anesthesiology machine on trauma center if the anesthesiology machine was placed first - Fixed one half of stretchers causing objects placed next to it reporting they would block it - Fixed character editor sometimes causing UI to get stuck when the name/age panels didn't get closed - Fixed character editor sometimes generating characters with glasses even if not selected by the player - Fixed schedule panel overlapping main panel when playing with modified UI scale - Fixed moving stretchers not correctly lit - Fixed spawned characters appearing in the table of controlled patients - Fixed changing departments allowed in a few cases where it made no sense - Fixed wrong animation assigned to 'speech listening' examination - Hotfixed surgeons stuck reserved by hospitalized patients, possibly after changing roles - Hotfixed stretchers stuck behind black ambulance - possibly only happening with old maps where the black ambulance got originally spawned at a position overlapping the stretcher spawn position - Hotfixed lab specialists sometimes stuck at the last equipment they used after finishing tests for a hospitalized patient - [CAMERA ROTATION] Fixed ambulance lens flare positions

[ 2020-03-10 17:13:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

First patch of the 2020's! :) A couple new features for modders and fixes of the recently discovered issues as usually.

Project Hospital 1.1.17901

Features & changes

- [MOD SUPPORT] Implemented support for diagnoses only affecting one gender (new tag ) - [MOD SUPPORT] Implemented support for departments with no hospitalization (new tag ) - Implemented sorting in tables - Enabled planning of examinations looking for medium hazard symptoms after a diagnosis gets confirmed only for medium and high certainty

Fixes

- Fixed an error triggered when moving lab shelves/cabinets and CTs and MRIs - Fixed composite object preview leaving behind ghostly attachments if a composite object gets deleted during move, fixed switching between building mode categories causing currently moved object to be deleted - Fixed sorting in load game panel causing immediate load if the same file is on the first position both when sorted alphabetically and according to date - Fixed a few French texts for object placement - Fixed maximal zoom-out in building mode resulting in visible stripe on the side of the screen in certain resolutions - Fixed early bird perk - Fixed objects graphics not positioned correctly for coffee machine, diploma, whiteboard - Fixed a typo in migraine symptom description id causing missing loc - Hotfixed deleted characters in bookmarked character list causing a hidden error - Fixed angiography panel not showing positioning hing for angiography screen (it only worked one way round) - Fixed a few procedures not available at ICU or Emergency (gastroscopy, gonioscopy, cbc sampling) - [CAMERA ROTATION] fixed object graphics not correctly updated when placing prefabs with rotated camera

[ 2020-01-14 15:08:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everybody, With the holidays right behind the corner, let us take this opportunity to have a quick look back at 2019 - what a year for Oxymoron Games and Project Hospital! After the successful release in October 2018 which mostly ensured our survival as an indie studio, we continued working full time on numerous patches and content updates addressing both our own ideas and suggestions from you, leading to the free Doctor Mode DLC released in November. We're very happy to see our efforts have paid off, judging by discussions on the forums or by Steam reviews. The game is now pretty close to our original vision and we still have some more ideas in the bag for early 2020. So, we'd like to thank you all for the continuous support, wish everybody great holidays and all the best in the New Year! The team will be heading to a long awaited vacation, so we'll be only able to reply on the different channels occasionally. Btw - the Ho- Ho- Ho-spital will be discounted at 40% for the duration of the Winter Sale, in case any of you consider - for example - gifting the game to a friend! ;) See you all in 2020! :)

[ 2019-12-20 15:18:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all, here's a quick patch that should fix most of the problems we've discovered after the Doctor Mode DLC release, including (surprisingly) some very old bugs. Thanks to everybody who took their time to report the issues and helped us quickly track these down! Project Hospital 1.1.17661 - Fixed a hidden error that was causing weird behavior or stuck characters in a few different cases - Fixed missing examinations that uncover surgery complications in the unfiltered list of examinations (when playing with hidden diagnostic hints) - Fixed patients not automatically taken over after reception triage when the department is set to assign patients to the player automatically - Fixed patients sometimes not automatically taken over after being brought in in an ambulance when emergency is set to assign patients to the player automatically - Fixed a few treatments that would get stuck when performed at emergency with an ICU-qualified doctor - Fixed active department switching when typing age in character editor (when not using numpad to enter the age) - Fixed wrong tooltip for employee occupations in character editor - Fixed text overflow in hardcore difficulty panel in doctor mode - Fixed a couple of typos and one missing LOC text - Fixed moving beds possibly causing a false detection of a finished room in Tutorial 3 and blocking progress through the level - Fixed staff ignoring WCs/food from other departments if it's not marked staff only

[ 2019-12-03 14:34:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're happy to announce that Doctor Mode, the first DLC for Project Hospital is now out! - A new game mode: take over your doctors and oversee their cases - New handy visualizations of your patient's conditions and activities - Character editor to create your own employees - New equipment and decorations for (not only) doctor's offices - New insurance company and objectives - Three new customizable difficulty options - Quick tutorial - Big campaign level focused on doctor and hospital progress - Code blue function for assigning high priority to any patient - 8 new achievements! The DLC comes with an updated version of the game with quite a few fixes and improvements - here are the release notes:

Project Hospital 1.1.16717

- Implemented better support for DLCs - Implemented automatic takeover of all patients which can be enabled for individual departments (new icon in management!) - Implemented three levels of notifications: popup/log/completely off - Implemented specific tooltips for hospitalization room statistics in departments statistics in hospital management card (different for emergency, ICU and specialized departments) - More variety in character portraits - Disabled payments for ambulances that have been disabled the whole day - [CAMERA ROTATION] Fixed lights not working correctly for objects in a few specific cases - [CAMERA ROTATION] Fixed bulldozer tool leaving behind one tile of the far side of walls (not visible until rotating the view) - Fixed employees sometimes showing no info about what they're reserved for - Fixed nurses sometimes stuck reserved forever - Fixed inconsistency in foundation edge price (it was possible to save a bit by building the edge first) - Fixed diagnosis in patient tooltip not showing 'none' if a patient has no diagnosis yet - Fixed overlap between select skill panel and statistics segment in doctor card - Fixed a few cases of overflowing texts in the UI

[ 2019-11-26 15:09:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Project Hospital 1.1.19 - The Halloween patch

While we're finishing last features for Doctor Mode, we're still working on improvements and fixes based on feedback from the community - here's the latest batch with a few spooky surprises. :) Features - [Mod support] changed linking of rooms and procedures to tags so new departments can be added more easily - [Mod support] implemented support for custom icons for departments, skills and procedures - Updated all translations with latest fixes from community translators (thanks!) - Implemented portrait bubbles showing object reservation - Implemented a system that distributes hospitalized patient between exam units more evenly - Implemented better handling of priority of non-critical surgeries - Implemented doctor's rating and simple statistics in doctor's card - Balanced leveling of employees between different departments - Balanced employee and skill leveling - Enabled unlimited number of controlled patients - Some small UI improvements, mostly making three-state buttons more consistent - Enabled washing hands during bladder script also in kitchen sinks - useful for WCs in wards - Enabled stabilization procedure to start with only a doctor, waiting for a free nurse often looked like staff were neglecting patients - Enabled all examinations that don't need any equipment to be done directly at wards - Implemented a few configurable keyboard shortcuts (available in the launcher) - Implemented range of probabilities for surgery complications - Added a slot for future DLC levels to main menu - Added a few Halloween decorations - Zombies! Fixes - Fixed a bug causing one of the ambulances to spawn in broken state on certain maps when playing with rotated camera - Fixed XP and payment texts rendered at incorrect positions when playing with rotated camera - Fixed a problem with parking areas that were created using prefabs sometimes breaking parking area detection - Fixed collapse in bed requiring diagnostics and patient care roles (and not starting at trauma center when staff look idle) - Fixed nurses getting books to hospitalized lying patients chosen from random departments - Fixed surgeries easily broken by sending a patient to ICU while being operated on - Fixed an error in elevator lookup in case elevators got deleted while an employee with a stretcher was already on their way - Fixed a few more hidden errors

[ 2019-10-30 15:05:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all, while we continue working on new features, here's a quick minor patch that fixes some of the recently reported problems with gameplay or camera rotation. Project Hospital 1.1.17007 - added a specific rule for setting automatic UI scale in 1440 x 900 resolution - optimized GC memory access in a few game systems (should improve occassional micro-stuttering) - fixed positions of elevators not saved correctly for different camera directions so elevators on new floors could appear in wrong positions - fixed newly created prefabs starting with different orientation than expected when playing with a rotated camera - fixed collapsed patients on the floor not positioned correctly when playing with a rotated camera - fixed doctor's reservation incorrectly reset when a doctor from a clinic resuscitates a collapsed hospitalized patient - fixed 'writing reports' stuck active while the doctor is already going home - fixed a popup about janitor workspaces incorrectly popping up at radiology - fixed blood sometimes still rendered even if a stretcher was placed on top of it (which should clean the tile) - fixed mod data not correctly loaded when overriding certain original values in the database (like the list of rooms in examinations) - fixed broken ambulance parking in one community scenario by disabling required access to parking marker objects - [Steam] implemented re-reporting of achievements that failed to be sent to Steam the first time they got unlocked

[ 2019-09-12 13:05:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're happy to announce that the first major DLC for Project Hospital is on its way - and it's going to be available for free! You can look forward to new features and content like: - Taking over doctors and taking care of all their patients - Character editor for new employees - Different highlight modes - Hardcore mode to make diagnostics more challenging - Some new clothes and faces More details and screenshots coming soon!

[ 2019-09-05 13:20:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

Project Hospital 1.1.16587 Camera rotation - Implemented camera rotation in normal game mode, building mode and management mode - Updated all campaign and sandbox levels so they look the part from all camera angles :)
Localization - Korean translation is now included in the game - Updated translations to latest versions from github Gameplay - [CHANGE] Two surgery nurses are now required at each department to have more control over surgical teams - [CHANGE] Implemented trauma stabilization role for nurses - Implemented more even distribution of patients between clinic doctors (prioritized by room workload) - Implemented free time and lunch for janitors, allowed janitors to have the hard working perk - Implemented immediate switch of dress code colors when switching employee's department - Implemented a rule that marks a room inaccessible for patients also if all tiles are inaccessible, not only if some of the equipment is - Enabled releasing patients from trauma regardless of time of day - Implemented a restriction so the hardworking perk can't be combined with the scholar perk - Added chief doctors for employees on radiology and lab department to be taken from emergency - Implemented bonus from studying also for technologists - Implemented inaccessibility evaluation for blue rooms if accidentally marked in red - Implemented cap of the number of reports that doctors write at the end of the day (max 10) - Implemented a notification about inaccessible elevators - Implemented a notification about patients who are about to leave the clinic - Enabled level up notifications for all (not only bookmarked) characters UI - [OPTIONS] Added daylight to building mode - [OPTIONS] Implemented separate UI scale for main panel - Added scrolling arrows to lists of examinations/treatments in patient card when there's more than one page (for players without a mouse wheel) - Implemented sorting of save files by name or date - Enabled all hospitalizations to be always listed in treatment list (was based on symptom hazard and somewhat restrictive) - Implemented third state of transparency button: transparent objects; updated tooltip Fixes - Fixed 'unlock all departments' not applied when playing custom scenarios - Fixed event notification not popping up after declining random event - Fixed normal bed on ICU only needing live support - Fixed a hidden error when deleting an event message - Fixed elevator foundations only placed on the ground floor - Fixed broken doors in elevators (saved with old versions of the game) breaking bulldozer tool - Fixed a rare case of two doctors stuck waiting for each other to finish commuting - Fixed a hidden error in patients without a doctor with both exm and trt planed, going to a radiologist - Fixed patients leaving the hospital from the loo with no payment - Fixed employee selection (employee list activated via the button on the side) for a workspace in an office that's already taken - Fixed janitors selecting inaccessible dirty tiles (a rare but possible situation) and getting stuck - Fixed global script manager not reset on exit to menu (scripts could survive until some global events get fired in the next map) - Fixed elevator selection not taking in account elevator accessibility on destination floor when staring on the ground floor - Fixed bed panels in logistics not sorted from back to front - Fixed stroke not detectable on emergency - Fixed popup about finished hospitalization popping up forever on observation if a patient has some procedures planned - Fixed doctors stuck reserved by deleted patients (after moving rooms, the doctors were reserved for a collapsed patient) - Fixed missing validation of patient accessibility after placing rooms

[ 2019-07-31 10:57:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're happy to announce that starting today you'll be able to collect the following items while playing Project Hospital: 5 trading cards, 5 profile backgrounds, 5 + 1 badges and 5 emoticons. Enjoy! :)

[ 2019-07-16 14:52:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

No rest for the wicked! :) Here's a few more small improvements and fixes of recently discovered bugs. Thanks to everybody who still took their time to report issues and send suggestions! Project Hospital 1.1.16350 - Enabled free building in tutorial levels as it was possible to run out of money when building recklessly - Disabled shortcuts for switching departments in tutorials, it was possible to get stuck using these - Disallowed placement of PCs on the wrong side of the second work desk - Set all tables (patients, staff, symptoms) to only expand downwards - Implemented floor rendering automatically taking in account extra floors, so tall workshop scenarios work in unmodded game - Increased the maximum number of floating texts in the scene (sometimes XPs weren't shown for all characters in huge hospitals) - Fixed USG and cardio technologist shown in management UI for night shift at a couple of departments that don't need them - Fixed broken UI of the load game panel when opened before saving any games - Fixed random events silently erroring out if there's no night shift at the clinic - Fixed ambulances sometimes stuck with patient that's transported away but doesn't exist anymore - Fixed check of patient's department failing when patient's room gets deleted - Fixed skill points not awarded during angiography procedure - Fixed a rare case of stuck events - Fixed hospitalization locked in big hospital scenarios in sandbox

[ 2019-06-20 07:43:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi, we've added basic categories and tags to Project Hospital workshop, so you can mark your content as either scenarios (and further as empty or equipped) or mods. The tags are already set for the existing items, please just check that everything matches. And if you have any suggestions how to categorize the content further, let us know! :)

[ 2019-06-07 14:18:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

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[ 2019-06-05 17:04:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all, we're happy and relieved to see that the release of 1.1 went smoothly, but there were still a few issues we wanted to address as soon as possible, especially the problem with language selection not loaded correctly on startup. So, thanks for all the feedback and bug reports, here's a small patch to address the recent issues. Also, the workshop page has started to fill with new scenarios and mods, make sure to check them out! :) Project Hospital 1.1.16229 - Fixed a regression: [Steam only] language settings not correctly loaded - Fixed sandbox options not applied when playing a scenario - Fixed radiologists available for hire always regenerated during load - Fixed queue in a waiting room stuck on reserved info TV when deleting waiting rooms while patients are being called - Fixed operating rooms from different department used when the one from patients department is free but on a different floor - Fixed patients (rarely) released from observation with a reserved technologist - Fixed lab delivery script (rarely) stuck on fired and later deleted technologists - Fixed duplicate insurance company reward in "uninsured"

[ 2019-06-05 14:30:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're happy to announce Project Hospital 1.1, a major update with some of the most requested features, user experience improvements and Workshop support! This update contains roughly four months of work, already in production during the last two patches - because of the nature of the new features and content it made sense to test and balance everything together. We really hope you enjoy the new version and we're looking forward to what you come up with for the workshop! So, thanks for your patience, let's move to the release notes :)

Project Hospital 1.1.16207

Custom content support update - Improved mod support for creating graphical assets - Creating scenarios in game - [Steam Workshop] Sharing mods - [Steam Workshop] Sharing scenarios "First impressions" update - Improved menus - Loading tips - Preview screenshots and more info about saved games - Video background in main menu - Custom UI scale now works also in main menu (title screen)
UI - New workspace panels in management - Updated management interface with new shared rooms category - New hiring UI with more categories (**don't forget to click on individual workspaces to open hiring card!**), indication of required specializations for all professions - Department statistics with room workloads, prestige, patient details and procedure info - Polished hospital statistics, added yesterday's statistics panel - Tooltips for symptoms in table of diagnoses - More keyboard shortcuts (departments mapped to 1-9, DEL for bulldozer tool, ...) - Cleaned up buttons in tool panels in building mode - Notifications have configurable colors - A couple of new notifications on the main panel for trying to hire characters to a room they're not allowed - More info about why an ambulance can't be placed (for example on an above-the ground floor, this was surprisingly easy to miss) - Exam units show patient portraits when a procedure is running there - Added info about required hospitalization to surgery tooltips - (Plus a lot of small quality-of-life improvements in the UI)

Gameplay - New insurance company objectives and rewards (more varied and hopefully more fun, more challenging in the late game - for example performing surgeries, saving patients after collapses) - New laboratories department shared between other departments (Hematology, Histology and Microbiology labs with some new equipment) - Sharing more rooms, for example sharing common rooms between departments for free time and staff lunch - Added maximum number of insurance companies contracted at once, balanced to send similar numbers of patients as the original insurance companies - Smooth ranges of patient numbers sent by insurance companies according to prestige - Random events - Improved rules for making events available after unlocking, all departments are no more needed - Added detection that patient's doctor doesn't have diagnostics role allowed - Night clinic - Patients leave after not being seen for too long, not only when clinic closes - Implemented moving patients waiting at reception to a waiting room if shifts have changed and there's no receptionist - Releasing patients from observation back to clinic if they're not at risk anymore, added a couple of notifications - Receptionist is a proper employee role now - Improved rules for which roles are available where (anesthesiology, reception) - Staff limit can be increased to 400 in options (only attempt this if you have at least the recommended hardware) - Staff counter on main panel blinks when trying to hire an employee and the employee limit has been reached - Improved visual side of characters entering/exiting elevators (timing, fade in, fixed overlapping) - Improved handling of priorities on Trauma and Observation - Implemented specific detection of procedures not available to be prescribed at a certain department (not only when a specific doctor doesn't have the required skill) - New notification for not enough stretchers to transport all patients at a department - Idle characters without workspace now show it as their status in their card - Updated tutorials and dependency tree visualization to match updated mechanics - Disabled releasing patients during the night, they'll wait for the morning - Implemented leveling up anesthesiology also by resuscitating collapsed patients - If a patient dies, this counts in statistics of the department where their diagnosis belongs, not ICU where they usually end up after a collapse - Disabled department change to radiology for nurses and doctors
Building - Rooms in management mode can be used as a planning tool (before constructing foundations) - Move room tool (available under prefabs) - Automatically hiding objects when building/deleting walls - When placing a prefab that will add foundations underneath, the visualization is now consistent with using the foundations tool - A new notification on the main panel for 'out of funds' - More colors for doors Fixes - Fixed planned procedures not cancelled if one of the reserved employees gets fired - Fixed few issues with closing departments (for example janitors currently in a bathroom wouldn't return their carts) - Fixed missing department state update when switching certain roles - Fixed janitor's portraits sometimes incorrectly showing up in management mode in rooms they're cleaning - Fixed broken layout of symptoms panel in patient's card in case there's more than 16 symptoms - Fixed dirty environment satisfaction modifier applied to characters way too late - Fixed portraits of patients shown above lab equipment rendered also on incorrect floors - Fixed wrong floor type applied when destroying foundations on above-the-ground floors - Fixed radiologist's too impatient behavior when idle - Fixed patients going to their department's waiting room even if another department's lab is processing their sample - Fixed patients without planned examinations slowing down waiting rooms by waiting for their original doctor - Fixed table of employees stuck with wrong filter in a couple of cases - Fixed lab procedures sometimes stuck in the 'sampling finished' state for hospitalized patients - Fixed a couple of treatments not available at ICU - Fixed bladder not kept reset for immobile HDU patients - Fixed a couple of hidden errors in specific procedures - Fixed collapse script sometimes selecting doctors according to incorrect hospitalization type - Fixed tables errorong out on invalid data when opened while another save was being loaded - Fixed url on the bug reporting button in main menu (was using the wrong top level domain after changes on forumotion's side) - Fixed 'no workspace' notification popping up for fired employees - Fixed automatic switch to new automatically created departments (this would affect old saves where the lab department gets automatically created) - Fixed sinks allowed to be placed on bins but then immediately deleted - Fixed popups blinking when pressing escape - Fixed total satisfaction not recalculated when patients respawn for their second visit, fixed satisfaction not always updated when modifiers get reset - Fixed reserved tiles allowed to be selected to be cleaned by janitors (so they don't wipe collapsed patients) - Fixed examination availability not updated when AI switches (hospitalized) patient's department - Fixed an error if a patient is sent away while the paramedic who originally brought them is still walking through the hospital - Fixed rotation of multiple rooms in prefabs - Fixed examination list in patient card not updated if a department that provides some of the procedures gets closed - Fixed radiologists not showing patient and examination in their card when running examinations on clinic patients - Fixed bladder/food scripts cancelled when cancelling planned treatments when patient is filling needs - Fixed popups previously moved by the player appearing on top of ingame menu, fixed menu not opened by escape if a popup is active

[ 2019-05-30 12:22:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Despite a small medical crisis among our tech team, bugs are still being fixed :) Patch 14 - Project Hospital 1.0.15420 - Fixed a regression: staff not using objects in green/blue rooms when there's a designated staff-only area (this was affecting water dispensers or washing hands) - Fixed a regression: surgeries sometimes stuck reserved by a lower-priority patient - Fixed objects allowed to be picked up from the areas outside of hospital property - Fixed one case of procedure reservation state not correctly displayed for hospitalized patients - Fixed doctors walking to wrong position if they started an examination while still in the examination room with previous patient and the next patient was being delivered there - Fixed a rare internal error after deleting rooms where a procedure was currently being performed - Fixed a rare internal error after deleting beds while a nurse was performing the patient care procedure - Fixed a rare internal error after deleting anesthesiology machine while a patient was on the way to trauma center to be stabilized - Fixed a rare case of medicine delivery stuck running the whole afternoon - Fixed a rare case of patients stuck in 'being checked by a nurse' while the nurse has been freed already - Fixed eye test patient animation (gloves were automatically added to all examination animations, but this one is not played by a doctor) - Fixed a couple of procedures not allowed in specific situations (liver medication on ICU, chest auscultation for patients hospitalized at general surgery) - Fixed 'couldn't wash hands' modifier reset too late - Fixed objects assigned as night shift workspaces not allowed to be deleted in closed departments - Increased time technologists spend idle at their desk before running to common room

[ 2019-03-14 13:15:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

And we were expecting this patch to be just a few quick fixes. :) Patch 13 - Project Hospital 1.0.15215 - Added new translations: Polish and Hungarian, made the language list in options scrollable - Implemented skipping of procedures that have been waiting for a long time, added specific info about what a procedure is waiting for - Improved workload tracking, implemented room workload display as text, implemented workload tracking for labs - Added a summary of workload shown after every shift - Improved priorities of surgeries between patients - Implemented smooth fadeout of patients on stretchers in elevators - Implemented automatic hiding of objects when placing walls - Implemented a notification about employees without any allowed roles - Implemented specific handling and notifications about patients in broken beds (for example with a deleted bedside cabinet) - Implemented reset of roles and a switch of clothing style when assigning employees to workspaces in a different type of room - Implemented deleting saved games from the load game dialog - Patient portraits are also shown on reserved operating tables in management - Staff prefer staff-only rooms if available (like wc) - Characters with stretchers strongly prefer indoor routes even when the route is longer - Increased default staff limit to 250 (we'll need to update the recommended hardware requirements to match, but no major change) - Increased overall sound volume - A few small UI improvements - Fixed a regression: deletion of user-created prefabs wasn't working - Fixed scrolling not working on certain touchpads - Fixed bulldozing objects sometimes leaving one half behind - Fixed interns allowed in on-call rooms - Fixed patients not hidden when reserving an ambulance - Fixed first treatment in treatment sequence shown in diagnosis table instead of main symptom treatment - Fixed chief doctor UI incorrectly shown at radiology - Fixed neurologist (technologist) not correctly shown in the management UI - Fixed defibrillation sometimes running for too long - Fixed certain characters not reacting immediately to being assigned to a different department - Fixed first ambulance patients sometimes spawning one day too late - Fixed patients in a deleted waiting room sometimes stuck standing up and sitting down for a while - Fixed one more case of technologists in lab stuck - Fixed re-setup of patients coming back after wrong diagnosis but by an ambulance - Fixed floor material not automatically added to the floor above when adding foundations on ground floor of a multi-floor building - Fixed a bug in rendering when blood was turned off - Fixed decals not accessible when building mode was activated for the first time by clicking rooms in management - Fixed radiology examinations not planned to discover surgery complication symptoms - Fixed a couple of database issues (treatments at ICU etc.)

[ 2019-02-14 12:03:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all, while we're working on some bigger UI improvements (we'll be soon sending new texts to translators so we can get everything ready in as many languages as possible), we're of course also paying attention to the reported issues, so here are a few fixes as usually. Patch 12 - Project Hospital 1.0.14958 - Updated all translations to the latest version from github - Disabled locking of areas on above the ground floors (building above ambulance parking lot is now possible) - Disabled 'good boss' perk for other occupations than doctors - Implemented receptionist perks affecting patients - Improved workload tracking for radiology rooms and examination units - Allowed examinations that discover surgery complications to be planned in patient's card even when already done previously - Allowed nurses with stretchers to ignore objects if they get stuck - Fixed events not available in campaign levels - Fixed janitors ignoring blood when cleaning areas of other departments - Fixed patients on ICU sometimes re-transported to their own bed for examination - Fixed moved objects in building mode disappearing when switching to different categories while already moving an object - Fixed preview of attachment object stuck on when placing composite objects in case the previous object with attachment was deleted during move - Fixed a rare case of nurses stuck going to stretcher - Fixed changing of department possible when it shouldn't be allowed (in case player opened the department selection panel already, for example right before patient transport) - Fixed dead and misdiagnosed patients counted only in department statistics, not overall hospital statistics - Fixed various issues in the medical database (skill for ethanol doses, rooms for chelation therapy, bacteremia discovery, too hardcore collapse timers on cardiac arrest symptoms, unstable blood pressure moved to high hazard, a few treatments were not allowed on ICU, ...) - Fixed a couple of cases of broken stretchers stuck in the scene - Fixed a couple of hidden errors - Fixed a few typos in tooltips

[ 2019-01-25 09:54:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all, before jumping straight to the usual release notes - happy new year everybody and big thanks to all the new players that joined us during the winter sale and especially to everybody who still took their time to send us bug reports, it really helps, especially when trying to catch some of the rare issues! Patch 11 - Project Hospital 1.0.14826 - Fixed a regression: hidden error in doctors with no workspace causing patients of a specific department to keep waiting forever - Fixed characters from events sometimes allowed to despawn over midnight while the event is still running - Fixed ambulances sometimes stuck on despawned patients - Fixed an error causing patients to get stuck when leaving an examination with technologists while they don't have a doctor - Fixed doctors in rare cases stuck reserved by a patient who has already left - Fixed a hidden error in case of switching doctor's skills during surgery - Fixed nurses stuck with stretcher when their patient got despawned (race condition with paramedics?) - Fixed nurse stuck in an animation when reserved right after delivering food - Fixed exam tables with blocked stretcher access point not causing the room to be unusable - Fixed wrong price evaluation when building walls over walls in nw-se direction - Fixed a rare case of patients getting up from ambulance stretcher on arrival - Fixed janitors leaving carts behind when their department gets closed - Fixed patients not transported away from closed departments in a couple of specific cases (like waiting for a bed, still physically at another department) - Fixed a couple of procedures not available in some situations (plasmapheresis, antidiarrheals) - Fixed a few typos in texts - Added another fallback pass to pathfinding - stuck patients will ignore access rights instead of getting completely stuck

[ 2019-01-08 16:18:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

One more patch before the holidays! :) Patch 10 - Project Hospital 1.0.14766 - New translations: Dutch and Japanese! - Fixed info about running procedures not displayed for clinic doctors - Fixed a hidden error preventing assigning employees between departments - Fixed examination availability in patient's card sometimes not updated when switching departments - Fixed anesthesiologists possibly sitting on a wrong stool in the OR if there are multiple stools - Fixed a rare error during a couple of treatments - Fixed a regression: doctors from on call room could be assigned to certain clinic patients - Fixed a regression: prefab preview flickering since the update to Unity 2018 - Hotfixed objects stuck reserved by employees who are at home (on load and every hour)

[ 2018-12-18 12:12:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

A quick patch mostly to quickly address the ambulance placement issue in a few scenarios that got introduced in patch 8. Patch 9 - Project Hospital 1.0.14725 - Fixed regression bug preventing ambulances to be placed in certain levels - Fixed cancelling of objects move would place the object back on incorrect floor - Fixed a rare hidden error in events - Optimized janitor behavior and room selection

[ 2018-12-11 16:24:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch 8 - Project Hospital 1.0.14691 - New translations: Italian and Chinese (Simplified) - Increased manual UI scale range - Implemented zoom in/out using numpad [+] and [-] - Implemented run in background, added to options - Added maximum number of floors to tweakables.xml - Added zoom range to tweakables.xml - Optimized update after placing items in building mode - Fixed texture quality settings not saved - Fixed a rare bug with decals button in building mode switching to ambulances - Fixed tooltips displayed close to the right edge of the screen flickering in certain resolutions - Fixed objects stuck reserved after scheduling treatments on patients with an examination already reserved - Fixed patients stuck in a waiting room when all doctors in nearby offices are fired - Fixed elevators broken by deleting their doors - Fixed toilets outside of rooms considered usable - Fixed PCs moved with tables leaving behind another workspace - Fixed a couple of treatments not available everywhere where needed - Fixed a rare error causing an infinite popup about ambiguous diagnosis - Fixed patients from events sometimes assigned to a disabled insurance company - Fixed manual selection of ICU allowed for patients without a diagnosis - Fixed blood ignored by janitors in rooms only one tile wide - Fixed cardiography unit prefab for Internal Medicine department - Fixed a couple more internal errors - Attempted a blind fix for broken portrait rendering on Mac - Attempted a blind fix for a rare green screen in main menu

[ 2018-12-06 16:30:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch 7 - Project Hospital 1.0.14611 - More translations are now included: Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian - Implemented moving of tables with equipment on top, [CTRL] can be used to pick up individual objects like before - Added more info to reserved staff and staff performing examinations and treatments - Added room name to status bar when hovering over rooms in management mode - Split messages about patients waiting for examination/treatment into 'waiting for bed' and 'waiting for transport' - Switched autosave to only alternate between two files - Disabled reset of employee roles if their room/office got deleted - Disabled display of daily schedule items related to hospitalization when there's only clinic - Allowed staff without a workspace to go home after a while instead of spending the whole shift in common room - Switched second half of tutorial 3 to a simplified version - Fixed nurses and technologists not getting a specialization when leveling up - Fixed janitors sometimes blocking equipment in exam rooms by leaving their carts right next to an object - Fixed placement of objects allowed even if a required slot on a neighboring tile wasn't accessible (for example exam table and dialysis machine) - Fixed a couple of specific cases of characters stuck (collapses, fired staff, deleted rooms) - Fixed missing lab analyzer in general surgery unit prefab - Fixed ICU not triggered correctly during collapse if the player has also prescribed it - Fixed a few issues with examinations and treatments (vasolidators and bandage not available at the ICU, palpitations not discoverable at the ICU; treatments for injury to he chest, injury to the collarbone, mandibular injury) - More minor UI/hidden error fixes

[ 2018-11-23 13:58:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch 6 - Project Hospital 1.0.14523 - Selecting ICU treatment automatically switches patient's department to ICU - Doctors prescribe more treatments for symptoms causing discomfort - Implemented new music track for events and critical situations - Implemented immediate transport by the same ambulance when sending away patients who just arrived and are waiting for a free trauma center - Simplified some steps in tutorial 3, fixed undesired collapses during the tutorial - Improved a lot of text boxes and tooltips to better support localization and longer texts - Removed unused message types from options - Fixed main treatment for a diagnosis sometimes not applied for patients with wrong diagnosis - Fixed looping sounds sometimes not paused with the game (for example when popups pause the game) - Fixed hidden patients shown in patient's table with some filters - Fixed shifts not shown for janitors in table of employees - Fixed sofas stuck reserved when deleting doors while a character is already walking to the sofa - Fixed a few specific errors causing characters getting stuck while deleting rooms during collapses or medicine and food delivery - Fixed patients stuck when their room got deleted right when they were about to be released - Fixed a couple more hidden errors (Next week) - More languages including Russian are expected to be included in next week's patch

[ 2018-11-15 15:51:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all, once again big thanks to everybody who keeps reporting issues, it really helps! We seem to be on a good track when it comes to catching the most critical ones - and hopefully, starting with the next patch, we'll be able to start including more and more of the planned or requested improvements. Patch 5 - Project Hospital 1.0.14398 - Upgraded engine to Unity 2018.2 to bring proper retina display support on Mac and hopefully fix a few crashes/green screen issues related to Unity - Added automatic cancelling of procedures that a doctor can't prescribe when the player manually switches a patient's doctor - Updated cost of radiology prefabs - Improved efficiency of radiology waiting rooms in case there's one shared waiting room for the whole department - Improved the 'couldn't sit' satisfaction modifier, it's not applied at the reception anymore - Fixed one case of stuck paramedics - Fixed characters sometimes stuck during defibrillation when there was only one available defibrillator - Fixed one more rare case of broken stretchers blocking patient transfers - Fixed elevators not working correctly if there was more than 16 of them - Fixed examination list not immediately updated after switching a patient's department by hand - Fixed a hidden error in patients waiting for player but with no finished procedures - Fixed a hidden error when cancelling hospitalization on a patient walking to bed - Fixed load button in main menu starting loading even with no map selected :) - Fixed 'buy ambulance' objective sometimes requiring two ambulances to be placed - Fixed nurses allowed to do free time activities but not fill their needs at departments with patients who require care - Minor fixes in the UI (wrong tooltips, text truncation etc.) - Minor fixes in texts (medical accuracy, missing information in a few tooltips)

[ 2018-11-09 14:04:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch 4 - Project Hospital 1.0.14331 - Feature: much improved highlighting of rooms with problems - Feature: added warnings about department problems to main panel - Fixed two cases of broken stretchers causing patients to get stuck waiting in bed - Fixed radiologists sometimes ignoring patients for the rest of the day after taking a break - Fixed an error causing patients to get stuck waiting for a fired doctor - Fixed required room sizes of diagnostic units - Fixed number of technologists not shown on the hospitalization panel in management mode - Fixed collapse system not safe against deleting defibrillators - Fixed a few symptom/diagnosis issues - Fixed the (maybe not bug, but still annoying) problem with patients with planned urine sampling stuck at the doctor's waiting for a free toilet on the same floor :) - Small fixes in texts - Updated translations for the included languages (more are on the way, like Italian, Russian or Korean, big thanks to our hard working volunteer translators!)

[ 2018-11-05 17:27:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch 3 - Project Hospital 1.0.14303 - Fixed some values in options not saved (most importantly UI scale) - Fixed one case of pathfinding stuck trying to use an inaccessible elevator - Fixed a rare case of ambulances stuck in fastest time scale - Fixed a rare case of patients stuck in a fired doctor's office - Fixed technologists in lab on occasion stuck using sink forever - Fixed a few min room sizes - Fixed antidepressants not allowed to be prescribed for patients on observation - Fixed MRI and CT allowed right next to a wall - Fixed MRI price - A few small changes to decrease difficulty in tutorial 3 - Small fixes in texts

[ 2018-11-02 18:30:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch 2 - Project Hospital 1.0.14276 - Fixed an error in saved games preventing load (related to rooms) - Fixed an error in saved games preventing load (related to objects outside of map) - Fixed inconsistent highlighting of elevator placement - Enabled elevator placement outside (automatically builds foundations below) - Fixed popup for 'department not able to diagnose a patient' popping up when laboratory test are still running - Small fixes in texts - A Mac version built using Unity 2018 is available on beta branch, this should fix missing support for retina displays/resolutions

[ 2018-11-02 09:38:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all! First, big thanks to everybody playing the game and especially to all of you who reported issues. It's really appreciated, as we're trying to fix as many of them as soon as possible. Here are release notes for our first patch: Patch 1 - Project Hospital 1.0.14263 - Attempted fix for controller input breaking camera controls - Fixed a rare error occurring when exiting to menu - Fixed automatic UI scale for 1440x900 - Fixed doctors stuck when switching doctor of a patient by hand - Fixed characters forced to walk on grass in big sandbox - Fixed controls stuck when closing hospital management card while naming the hospital - Set music to always loop - Small fixes in medical database and texts

[ 2018-10-31 17:13:29 CET ] [ Original post ]