Close Encounters DLC

Close Encounters is the third DLC expansion for Two Point Hospital.

Released on the 29th August 2019, Close Encounters was announced on the 21st August 2019 alongside an Early Adopter's bonus, which allowed for pre-ordering the game with a 10% discount. This Early Adopter's bonus continued until 5th September, after release.

The Close Encounters DLC adds 3 new Hospitals, 34 new illnesses, 11 being new visual illnesses, 3 new, fully animated cure machines, new gameplay, music, DJ and tannoy lines, plus loads more.

Description
Down in the town of Goldpan, rumours persist of an out of this world encounter. A fireball, witnessed streaking above the sandy climes of Two Point County’s Eastern reaches, is chief suspect after a range of unusual illnesses have caused strife, commotion and general unrest amongst the inhabitants of this oft-forgotten town.

As an all-round medical supremo with a knack for tackling the unreal, your administration has operational access to some key locations in the area… including some areas the public really don’t need to know about. The Two Point Squabbler, the County’s finest journalistic institution, wants to know what’s going on… and you’re their ticket in.

Unlock
As soon as the player returns to the world map after achieving Star Level in Flemington, three hospitals will be unlocked: Smogley, Melt Downs and Underlook Hotel. In addition, a number of Map Pins will have appeared, one of which is a crop circle, in a forest to the east of Tumble. Clicking on this pin will unlock the first level of the Close Encounters DLC (World 8), Goldpan. The pin will advise the player, however, that they will benefit from continuing to play the base game first. In particular, the three levels in this DLC require several treatment rooms, most notably the multi-illness rooms Surgery and DNA Lab, that are unlocked in the three hospitals of World 3, and the first two in World 4. Gaining Star Level in Duckworth-upon-Bilge will cause the map pin to disappear, and Close Encounters will be unlocked naturally.

Hospitals
Take in the unredacted sights of Goldpan, followed by a top security trip to the ever-so-quaint Camouflage Falls, a town that most definitely does exist! Beyond that? Well we’re talking pure conspiracy and pure intrigue. Harrison Wolff, Two Point County’s finest radio DJ, has oft speculated of another hidden location, with late-night meandering ramblings about a place called Chasm 24. Are his fears of robots walking the corridors just baloney? Or is he truly the sanest of us all?

Goldpan
Welcome to Goldpan. The people here live off, and in the shadow of, the "Goldpan Scandal", when it was reported that aliens had crash-landed near their little town in the south of Two Point County. You'll notice that a 'replica' of the crash site has even been built on the edge of town.

After years of being irritated by space-hungry tourists, the townspeople aren't the friendliest to outsiders, but if you can win them over with some impressive medical accomplishments, I'm sure they'll let you expand the hospital into other parts of the town. Although they'll be in disguise and look like regular patients, some of the aliens that landed - yes they really did land - will turn up to the hospital. They're only curious, but they'll cut queues, clog up out systems without paying for treatments, and make a mess if we give them the chance. Look out for their cloaking devices failing, as well as suspicious, alien behaviour, so you can send them home.

Camouflage Falls
Welcome to Camouflage Falls, Two Point County's sweetest little town that doesn't exist. After years of delays and missed deadlines, the best place for the Two Point government to hide a secret base is in a construction site. Clever, right? This facility was built to cure citizens, from all over the County, suffering from the 'space illnesses' that spread as a result of the incident near Goldpan.

We're inside the operation now, so we'll be receiving special tasks to complete whilst we're treating waves of abducted patients. To be successful, and to help the County against the invasion of alien ailments, we'll need to complete any special objectives before the end of their respective waves.

Chasm 24
Welcome to Chasm 24. If you're reading this, it means that you've been given the highest level of security clearance that the County has to offer. This cavern was acquired, years ago, from the mole-people and converted into a top secret research centre by the aliens (that sentence was a lot).

In this severe environment, deep under the County's surface, you'll need to maintain a series of stabilisers to keep the area - you guessed it - stable. They make up an incredibly advanced system, with different stabilisers preventing different problems, that require maintenance by janitors with computer-like brains. Which is exactly what we have: Robo-Janitors. Every type of Robo-Janitor can maintain the stabilisers; however, each model is also programmed in a few, regular janitorial tasks, so make sure to check their qualifications. You'll receive more Robo-Janitors as you expand the hospital, but each new plot will have a stabiliser that needs maintaining.

New Illnesses
34 new illnesses have afflicted the denizens of this area of Two Point County, with some of the most serious of all including:

Items
Of course, it wouldn’t be a new area of Two Point County without a new series of delightful corridor-based accoutrements. Place the finest trappings of inter-planetary society in your hospitals and make them look truly otherworldly.