Possible bug with Doctor DLC

[EssBee]

As per the title, I seem to have run in to a bug with the second Doctor DLC tutorial. - The one where you create a character to take over the hospital as a successor.

I have created a character, no problems and treated the first five patients which is the first objective.
For the next objective I have to treat eight patients, which should be a breeze considering I treated the first five without any problems whatsoever.
Unfortunately, no matter how many patients I treat the counter never moves off of Zero.

I've tried verifying the files in case that was an issue - everything seemed to be in order.
I've then also started a new game from scratch, but still the counter sits at Zero when the second objective triggers.- having to treat eight patients.
I've even tried running this part across two full days, and also tried creating a second player controlled character and played both at the same time.... Still the counter sits at Zero.

So yeah, kinda stuck on that one really.

Just thought I'd give you a heads up on that one in case it is another little bug that's slipped through the net.

[roman.oxymoron]

Hi, just tryied out on a steam build and everything seems fine ... did you noticed that the second objective with the 8 patients requires "intern mode" difficulty to complete that?

[LeNUTRIE Metanolo]

I guess you are not restricting aids in doctor mode as requested for the objective.

here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1923912889

To count as valid, treatment must happen while a specific mode is active.

[LeNUTRIE Metanolo]

I'll take the canche to talk about my problem: i can't progress on the objective "LifeGoesOn Cure" 6/21 about successfully solve 2 consecutive random events. Problem is random events wont happens at all, and I am not able to understand why. Have a look at the screen:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1923912556
A message talks about my Emergency night clinic not active, which is not true.

EDIT:
Oh wait...my bad! I was not aware that clinics could be open over night and I was mistaking it with hospitalization. As soon as I did open the clinic at night all went good.

[EssBee]

Originally posted by roman.oxymoron:

Hi, just tryied out on a steam build and everything seems fine ... did you noticed that the second objective with the 8 patients requires "intern mode" difficulty to complete that?

I did see the 'Intern Mode' in the objectives list, but couldn't initially find out what that was. I searched the main menu and options for it several times, but as I couldn't see it listed anywhere I just assumed 'Intern Mode' was just 'Doctor Mode'.
I did eventually figure out that you had to click on the top of the Doctor Mode tab to change the difficulty and unlock Intern and Specialist modes (both of which I have now done), but it wasn't obvious at first. (unless I missed something somewhere along the line.)
Maybe a little prompt in the objectives list as to where to find Intern and Specialist modes might help, just in case anyone else runs in to difficulty.
Other than that I'm enjoying it so far.

ps. one other thing that might be a good addition to the game.... When the doctor is diagnosing a patient it might help to narrow down where injuries or pain are.
Surely the patient would be able to tell the doctor if it was their hands or feet that were hurting.
Just being told they have pain without giving any clues as to whether it's the top half or bottom half of the body that hurts is just way too vague in my opinion, and totally unrealistic.

Oh, and the lab worker down in the Accident Department near the Doctors offices keeps going from the ground floor up to the fourth floor and across the other side of the hospital to the Microbiology lab just to use the toilet.
There's one right near the lab and the doctors rooms or also over near the Trauma rooms that are all on the same floor and just a stones throw away from where they are working.
I had to hire more lab workers just to ease the backlog of patients that build up when the lab workers go wandering off all over the hospital just to use the toilet.
That's one other thing that could really use some tweeking, the ability for staff to use the nearest toilet (or also common room / vending machine etc) to where they are working rather than spending half of their day walking around all over the place.

Other than that it's a fun little game! \o/

[LeNUTRIE Metanolo]

Originally posted by Steph:

[...]
I did eventually figure out that you had to click on the top of the Doctor Mode tab to change the difficulty and unlock Intern and Specialist modes (both of which I have now done), but it wasn't obvious at first. (unless I missed something somewhere along the line.)
[...]

The game tells you in the DLC tutorial that doctor mode is made of 3 sub-modes, you probably missed it, and the button to do so is a bit stealthy.

You are right about path finding, it is painful. Characters uses the nearest object and not the shortest route, the DLC hospital is quite an evidence. However when you build the hospital yourself you can still take it into account and avoid long routes.

[Asystole7]

I missed this also. Thanks! I was like what am i doing wrong?!?! I've been waiting for this DLC for a while and now it's broken on me! Confused me as well.

[AndrooUK]

This is so dumb. The tutorials really aren't all that helpful or clear.

Either make it very obvious with the objective, or literally pause the game and walk you through changing it again. It's such a subtle objective requirement, especially when you are first tasked with creating an intern doctor... I thought it only meant using interns.

I forgot all about the other 'modes', even when I'd only done the previous tutorial within a few days prior to this one.