The Superbug Initiative

''Collaborate with your friends, and the entire medical community, on cutting-edge research to discover unique in-game rewards. Head to the Superbug Network to get started.''

The Superbug Initiative is the main multiplayer element of Two Point Hospital, being made available upon reaching Star Level in Mitton University. Collaborative in nature, it involves players completing tasks in their hospital in order to unlock unique rewards.

Invitation
Dear Hospital Administrator,

Your organisation shows great promise, and, as a result, has been chosen to take part in the Bungle Superbug Initiative. Congratulations.

The Superbug Initiative was founded with the intention of connecting the finest minds in the County in order to tackle our most pressing medical concerns. Since then, Superbug has transformed into the premier interface for all forms of research and technology.

You have been given access to the Superbug Network, when you're ready, dive headfirst into the exciting world of collaborative research. Thank you Sophie Nova CEO, Bungle Technologies

Superbug Network
One global project and up to three local projects can be active at one time on the Superbug Network screen.

Each project will consist of a branching set of nodes, each of which is associated with a certain task, such as watering plants and upgrading machines. The aim is for the requisite number of players to complete each node, and continue together along the branching paths in order to reach the victory nodes, which, upon completion, will result in rewards for all participants.

Local Superbug Projects
The five local projects are hosted by players themselves, and are unlocked sequentially upon completion. The host may send an invitation to any players in their friends list on their respective platform.

Victory nodes are each marked with a gold star, with the goal being for all of them to be completed by the requisite number of players. At this time, the project is marked as completed and all rewards are issued. This will be the case for all players, host and participant alike.

The nodes list below specifies the kinds of tasks the player may expect to encounter, but, since the research trees for local projects are randomly generated each time, it cannot be predicted which will appear, so players are advised to be sure they can complete all the listed tasks.

Global Projects
Global Projects work slightly differently to Local Projects. They are not hosted by players, instead being presented to the entire community; and as such, several thousand players are sometimes required to complete the later nodes. The research tree is fixed, and the victory nodes, when completed, will immediately result in the corresponding reward being made available to claim.

Each project is regarded as complete when all of the victory nodes have been completed, at which point the rewards are made available to players to claim whether or not they participated in the Global Project. This will remain in place until the next Global Project begins.

Research & Victory Nodes
There are many different research nodes, with all varying degrees of rarity. All research trees build from the pool of research nodes available. Listed below are the collection of research nodes, what they require to complete.

Victory nodes mark the end of a research branch, completing an aspect of the research overall. Sometimes branches of the trees will lead to a dead end, which means that this line of research didn't yield any useful results.

Curing Nodes= Timed Nodes= Staffing Nodes= Miscellaneous Nodes=

Superbug Items
Exclusive new items can be gained from completing both Local and Global Projects. Below is a list of items so far and from which project they were available.

Global Superbug Projects
The item rewards from the Global Projects have been reissued to players through the Hospital Pass, and the rewards from A Project of Ice & Fire can also be claimed from the Superbug menu itself.

Achievements
These are the various achievements that can be unlocked while playing The Superbug Initiative