'Two Point Campus' new DLC adds some 'Two Point Hospital' to the school management game
It looks like Two Point Campus is due for a healthy injection of Two Point Hospital. Mashable can exclusively reveal that the university management game's new downloadable content (DLC) will add a medical school, letting you train up Two Point County's next generation of healthcare professionals.
The games' fourth paid DLC, Two Point Campus: Medical School, will contain two new courses, three new levels, and over 60 new items, all the better to diagnose your ailing case studies with. Aspiring doctors enrolled in Medical School and budding nurses in Nursery School will be entrusted with treating real patients suffering from real illnesses — well, real in the context of Two Point County.
Medical School debuts new ailments for your students to puzzle out
Medical School will introduce a selection of familiar Two Point Hospital ailments to Two Point Campus, such as Lightheadedness, Mock Star, and Boneless Thighs, as well as debut some brand new medical issues for your students to puzzle out. It will be your protégés doing the work too, working alongside their teachers to treat patients rather than strictly observing.
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"Whilst students do require a qualified teacher in the room to supervise them, they will often be the ones actually treating the patients," Two Point Studios' design director Ben Huskins told Mashable via email. "In some rooms, they will observe as the teacher shows them the ropes."
So it's essentially up to Two Point Campus' inexperienced students to deliver life-saving medical care in between partying it up in the Student Lounge and enjoying the communal campus sex bed.
Medical School boasts six new treatment rooms
Fortunately, your patients' survival rate won't entirely depend on your students' underdeveloped skills.
"There are a number of factors in the successful treatment of a patient," said Huskins. "The teacher’s skill is absolutely critical — and having the best qualified teachers is still important. The quality of the room and having well maintained and the best equipment is another factor, and then of course the skills of the students present will have an impact on the outcome. Later in the game you’ll also discover more advanced medical research opportunities to provide further boosts to treatment effectiveness."
Medical School students will be able to learn on the job by seeing patients in six new treatment rooms: the Psychiatry, Head Clinic, and Surgery for doctors, and the Ward, Injection Room, and Thumping Therapy for nurses. There will also be the occasional medical emergency to deal with, which means you'll need to build a helipad so patients can be flown in.
You'd think Two Point Hospital would be the better choice when it comes to dealing with such patients, but I suppose you can't be too picky in an emergency.
Ghosts, pirates, and Reptile Dysfunction
Of course, the students in Two Point Campus are still learning, and mistakes will happen. Just as in Two Point Hospital, patients can die if adequate medical care isn't supplied in a timely manner. These dead patients will then haunt the school's halls, so Janitors need to be trained in Ghost Capture to properly clean up your students' failings.
This isn't the first time ghosts have roamed the campus' halls. Two Point Campus' previous downloadable content School Spirits demonstrated that not even death is an acceptable excuse for being absent at this university. However, Medical School marks the first time that people can straight up die on campus.
Two Point Campus: Medical School also introduces three new levels: Lake Tumble, which will be familiar to fans of Two Point Hospital; Molten Rock, a volcanic setting featuring pirates; and Pointy Peak, where snowstorms can make your students sick.
Fortunately, students will only be impacted by basic illnesses that can already be handled by the school's Medical Office. Patients' maladies aren't contagious, so neither your students nor staff need to worry about suddenly dying while they're in the middle of accidentally killing someone.
"[T]he patients visiting your medical school have the more exotic illnesses that are useful for training up medical students, not your everyday student sniffles," said Huskins. "These are the illnesses that require specialist equipment to treat."
As such, the school Medical Office doesn't factor into the new Medical School content, which is just as well. Students would probably avoid getting their embarrassing Reptile Dysfunction checked out if they thought a cute medical student might be the one treating them.
Two Point Campus and Hospital are still their own games
Despite the clear crossover, Two Point Campus and Two Point Hospital still remain entirely separate games. You can't train up a doctor in Campus and then hire them in Hospital, for example. However, Huskins didn't rule out further integration between the games in the future.
"Ever since we started making the Two Point games we imagined a place where exactly that could happen — your favorite Medical, or best Ghost Busting student from Two Point Campus is available to hire in Two Point Hospital, or your top doctors from TPH can come to lecture at one of your Campuses! As Edwyn Collins would say, 'The possibilities are endless'!"
Power over life and death may seem like a lot of responsibility for Two Point Campus: Medical School to thrust upon students. But if these patients wanted more experienced care, they should have gone to Two Point Hospital.
Two Point Campus: Medical School arrives Aug. 17 for $9.99 across all platforms.
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