Is dlc's any good ?

[Jo.]

I love this game right now and i want to know if the dlcs of this game are really good and needed for the best experience possible ? Ty

[Kunovega]

The 3 big ones add 3 more hospitals each and a few more diseases and decorations, it's more variety without changing anything major about the gameplay. Basically if you consider the first 6 hospitals as training hospitals the base game has 9 challenging hospitals (15 in total, but the first 6 are easy), the 3 big DLC together basically double that with 9 more challenging ones (in total)

The retro pack is just some extra decorations.

It's pretty straight forward if you just read the DLC pages

[JVC]

All three are good, but I prefer Pebberley Island or Bigfoot. Pebberley Island has a very nice map where the hospital isn't limited by outer walls, and a very over powered replacement for A/C units.

Bigfoot has some extra winter items and a very nice third map set in a haunted castle with a huge amount of space to build on.

[OldGamer]

Yes.
You don't need them to get the best experience, however, it does enrich your experience of the game.
Certainly in Pebberley and Close Encounters where new features and game mechanics are introduced but my preferences are:
1. Bigfoot, i like this due to the look and feel of the DLC. It adds no new mechanisms but has unique illnesses, 3 new maps that are winter based and have cool unique items to play around with along with new cosmetic ones.
2. Pebberley Island - has a cool new mechanisms to 2 hospitals (out of again 3 new ones you get). One is an ever expanding hospital through doing tasks and another is a wave based challenge.
3. Close Encounters - only last as I think I have got tired of the new mechanisms, but you may differ with opinion. In this you have aliens which block your normal paying customers, 3 new maps, a wave map again this time with different tasks of varying difficulty and robojanitors.

They are very much worth to get even at full price, it's a shame you missed the recent sale though as that was a steal.

[Jippen Faddoul]

The DLCs are all good, but they're intended to be endgame content. So, definitely get them, but don't rush in if you're still early.

[lukeh_ro]

Does having the dlcs change something on the original hospitals? ie. can you build the new rooms from there on the original map, but not only build it in vain but eventually have them used cause specific diseases appear there too or something

[OldGamer]

Originally posted by lukeh_ro:

Does having the dlcs change something on the original hospitals? ie. can you build the new rooms from there on the original map, but not only build it in vain but eventually have them used cause specific diseases appear there too or something

No, as a short answer. The main game illnesses and DLC ones won't co-exist with eachother. Although you can build any items the DLC have given to use in the original main game.

The only way to do all illnesses across all DLCs and main game is to play sandbox I think.

[lukeh_ro]

Originally posted by OldGamer:

The only way to do all illnesses across all DLCs and main game is to play sandbox I think.

Is that certain, or you just think? I'd buy some dlc maybe but only if I can somehow make a hospital with all the stuff from main and dlcs together and that would be enough if so.

[Mazey]

There is no "s" added when you are talking about more than one piece of DLC. It is just DLC, never DLCs.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Mazey:

There is no "s" added when you are talking about more than one piece of DLC. It is just DLC, never DLCs.

Content and contents are both real words, nothing wrong with using DLCs to make it clear you were talking about multiple content options.

I mean if you are going to argue grammar we can go argue with the Oxford dictionary which listed contents as the plural of content.

One DLC is a single purchase of downloaded content, multiple would be the contents (DLCs) of several. This is kinda obvious to anyone with access to a dictionary.

[lukeh_ro]

Anyway, if you have 2 of them or more, content from both would be available in sandbox at same time, including diseases?

[Mazey]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Originally posted by Mazey:

There is no "s" added when you are talking about more than one piece of DLC. It is just DLC, never DLCs.

Content and contents are both real words,

Yes, but "contents" does not make sense in this context, as you know full well.
People can say PIN number if they want and its clear what they mean. Doesn't make it right.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Mazey:

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Content and contents are both real words,

Yes, but "contents" does not make sense in this context, as you know full well.
People can say PIN number if they want and its clear what they mean. Doesn't make it right.

Is English not your primary language? Because, it actually makes plenty of sense. He's not asking about a single content release, he's asking about the contents of several.

Google "DLCs" and you will find this has been standard use for.more than a decade in journalism to differentiate Downloadable Content (singular pack) versus Downloadable Contents (multiple packages) this is no different than expansion (singular) to expansions (plural) you are simply wrong and unwilling to grasp why.

Now, if you wanted to be rude and nitpicky you could make the semantics argument that using the ' symbol was technically incorrect. It's DLCs just like it's "contents" for plural, no need to use the punctuation mark.

But you are still wrong telling people not to use the s for plural, expansions, contents, packs, all add an s for plural and everyone uses the abbreviation DLCs the same way, you can find game news articles dating back over a a decade to prove it, just like the word contents is in the dictionary.

You've made a pointless and incorrect argument over something you haven't even researched enough to know about. It's your opinion that you don't like the look of the plural DLCs, too bad for you it's been acceptable use pretty much since the second DLC pack was was labeled as DLC.

What's next, you want to debate the merits of categorizing packs and expansions under the same broad category heading?

I think we're off topic enough, if you have nothing further to add on topic, don't bother correcting spelling or grammar errors, especially when you can't be bothered to get it right yourself.

Even your example is invalid. "PIN number" is wrong because PIN already includes "number" in the acronym. PINs is still valid as the plural, standing for "personal identification numbers" if you are discussing multiple at once.

You very likely have many PINs for a variety of reasons, unless you use a single PIN for everything.

[Mazey]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Originally posted by Mazey:

Yes, but "contents" does not make sense in this context, as you know full well.
People can say PIN number if they want and its clear what they mean. Doesn't make it right.

Is English not your primary language? Because, it actually makes plenty of sense. He's not asking about a single content release, he's asking about the contents of several.

Google "DLCs" and you will find this has been standard use for.more than a decade in journalism to differentiate Downloadable Content (singular pack) versus Downloadable Contents (multiple packages) this is no different than expansion (singular) to expansions (plural) you are simply wrong and unwilling to grasp why.

Now, if you wanted to be rude and nitpicky you could make the semantics argument that using the ' symbol was technically incorrect. It's DLCs just like it's "contents" for plural, no need to use the punctuation mark.

But you are still wrong telling people not to use the s for plural, expansions, contents, packs, all add an s for plural and everyone uses the abbreviation DLCs the same way, you can find game news articles dating back over a a decade to prove it, just like the word contents is in the dictionary.

You've made a pointless and incorrect argument over something you haven't even researched enough to know about. It's your opinion that you don't like the look of the plural DLCs, too bad for you it's been acceptable use pretty much since the second DLC pack was was labeled as DLC.

What's next, you want to debate the merits of categorizing packs and expansions under the same broad category heading?

I think we're off topic enough, if you have nothing further to add on topic, don't bother correcting spelling or grammar errors, especially when you can't be bothered to get it right yourself.

Even your example is invalid. "PIN number" is wrong because PIN already includes "number" in the acronym. PINs is still valid as the plural, standing for "personal identification numbers" if you are discussing multiple at once.

You very likely have many PINs for a variety of reasons, unless you use a single PIN for everything.

Wow, why are you so angry about this?
I was literally trying to help people.

As for PIN number, I know that PINs is perfectly correct, which is why I didn't use it as my example. I used PIN number as my example because is show how just because something my be common use doesn't make it correct.

As for content vs. contents. I am not wrong.
Contents is not the plural of content. Content is a mass noun and therefore has no plural.

The contents of a game are the specific things that are in the game. For example a board game might very well contain 20 plastic pieces, a board and a deck of cards. That would be the contents of the game.

Alternatively the content of the game is the more general ideas of the game. For example it might be war game or a strategy game. That is the game's content.

Notice how neither of the plural of the other.

The contents of a sock draw are its socks. Even if you only have one sock in there, that's still the contents and not a content.

The content of a book might be violent. The contents of a book are its chapter names. Completely different things, not the plural of the other.

If you have a book series the content of that might be violent as well. The violence doesn't become "contents" just because there are multiple books.

Now there are ways to rewrite most of those sentences to use the word "contents" instead, but the point is that contents is not the plural of content. They are two different words with similar but distinct meanings.

[Kunovega]

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/contents?s=t

noun
Usually contents.

DLC singular (as in a downloadable content pack)

DLCs plural (as in the contents of several packs)

The content of a single DLC versus the contents of several (DLCs)

Used numerous times since the creation of the acronym, here's a thousand examples in this link, I'll quote just a few relevent ones below
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS752US752&sxsrf=ACYBGNQ8kCKd-TFgQxZvCIusw0_-47OhRg%3A1581281947820&ei=m3JAXp_WMdfWtQaP8aqgCA&q=dlcs&oq=dlcs&gs_l=psy-ab.3..35i39l2j0j0i20i263j0l3j0i20i263j0j0i10.1540.1667..1899...0.2..0.97.186.2......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71.vYX_hBwGuNY&ved=0ahUKEwjfj6imrsXnAhVXa80KHY-4CoQQ4dUDCAs&uact=5

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This standardization is industry wide by journalists and players alike. Go argue with a freaking dictionary, you're still wrong.

I can give you 1000 more examples that prove you wrong, all you can do is repeat your invalid opinion.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

I will kindly ask people to drop the grammar classes and stick to the topic at hand or take it to private correspondence.