Happy Thanksgiving, Doctors!
We’ve just shipped a fresh batch of fixes, optimizations, and quality-of-life upgrades to keep your night shifts smoother, your zombies upright, and your patients (mostly) cooperative.
🧠 Core Gameplay
Fixed patients not going to the checkout desk.
No more sitting zombies. They stand. They roam. They menace—professionally.
Once a zombie attack starts, people will not arrive at the area of the hospital until the zombies are dealt with.
Fixed a bug with people walking around town and getting stuck.
Removed “sitting zombies.” Worth stating twice because… yeah, you saw them.
General polish and stability improvements.
Fixed a bug that causes zombie information to appear in end-of-shift screen before the epidemic starts.
🏥 Hospital Systems & Interactions
Fixed a hospital level upgrade exploit.
Added a visual indication when a bandage is applied.
Added cleaning bed particle effects for extra cleanliness satisfaction.
Fixed chair assignment status showing as available when it wasn’t.
Fixed starting decongestant type always defaulting incorrectly.
Fixed healing particles not disappearing when the healing timer runs out.
📦 Physics, Objects & Performance
Major optimization to physics behavior when many physics actors are interacting (goodbye low FPS when everyone dumps boxes).
Synced box spawning properly when a client loads in—no more out-of-sync clutter.
📺 Graphics, Display & Settings
Resolution options fixed for windowed mode.
Motion Blur and Bloom are now off by default (for clearer visuals and fewer “why is everything glowing?” moments).
FPS capped to 60 by default for smoother, more consistent performance.
Fullscreen scaling to lower resolutions still in progress.
📡 Twitch Integration
!zombie viewer command now only triggers once zombies are actually possible in-game.
Switched Twitch connection window to an external browser to enable Google/Facebook/3rd-party logins.
Improved server-side Twitch alert stability.
Fixed gifted subscription alerts.
Fixed alert queue visibility issues.
Thanks for all the bug reports, videos, screenshots, and chaos you’ve been sending our way.
Every update—big or small—pushes Mercy Station closer to the ER experience you deserve. 💙
Stay safe, stay sharp, and remember: patients first… unless there’s a zombie.