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

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/

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

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


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

- 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

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! :)

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

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:

- 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

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

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

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!