New Features

• Support for the official Russian edition of Theme Hospital has been added
  (Soft Club edition)
• 2x and 3x UI Scaling is finally available, no more tiny text on 4k screens!
• Accessibility improvements added, such as subtitles for the announcer, and
  ability to turn off screen shake
• Initial support for blocking off areas in the hospital has been added.
  Currently this is limited to within rooms only
• Support added for midi devices
• Added automatic detection for music folders in CorsixTH's own directories
  (game and config)
• Added unicode font support out of the box for Windows users (for real this
  time)
• Falling is now enabled for everyone
• Multiple new cheats added
• Newspaper headlines now in lose movies
• Movies can now be paused with 'P'
• Research Policy window now plays its background sound effect
• You can now view adviser message history. This can be opened from the charts
  menu or with a hotkey (default Ctrl + H)

Improvements

• Improved performance for large hospitals
• Screenshots are now in png format and timestamped. Bye bye bitmap!
• The staff management window can now be ordered by attribute
• Windows can be removed during a room's build phase using right click
• Active graph is now remembered in the graph window
• Windows installer is now DPI aware, and ensures Start Menu and Desktop icons
  show for all users
• Missing hover sounds have been added
• Improved machine menu
• Improved finding player name
• Improved rejection calculations for patient overcharging
• Improved rat holes
• Improved dying
• Added ability to cancel an accidentally grabbed object with Escape. Selling
  a grabbed item also now has a hotkey (default Delete)

Changes

• Added shadow for truetype fonts
• Machine menu button added to the bottom panel and machine dialogs
• Patients will get up less often when changing queue position
• The way doctors are trained has been overhauled
• Some window layouts, texts, and behaviours in the settings menus have been
  adjusted
• Unavailable resolutions when UI scaled will be greyed out
• Dropdowns lists now have scrollbars where appropriate
• Autosave frequency can now be adjusted
• After the win movie plays, the player will be returned to the main menu
• Better aspect ratio for some movies
• Disease start cure price is now properly applied from the level config
• Last selected disease in the casebook is now remembered
• Minimum threshold for average calculations adjusted
• Suppress mood icons for VIP and Inspector
• Ignored VIP requests now automatically invite them instead of refuse
• Adjusted margins on the text area of the fax
• Changed message drawer so only one fax of each type will populate it
• User actions are now always prevented in some 'fullscreen' windows e.g. fax
• Patients can now be vaccinated in epidemics without activating vaccination
  mode
• Players are no longer warned of empty action queues
• Reworked nearby object calculations
• Stopped emergency patients from drinking, vomiting, or using the toilet
• Machine usage count no longer increases during earthquakes

Translations

• Japanese announcement audio will now be used if available when playing in that
  language
• Spanish translation updated. Thanks @sraaronrock and @ShiroAka
• Italian translation updated. Thanks @dodero4
• French translation updated. Thanks @PierreRic
• Czech translation updated. Thanks @jansakos

Bug Fixes

• Better error handling for non-existent languages
• Fixed some non-capitalised text in dialogs
• Fixed some bugs with music playback
• Fixed bug in diagnosis termination
• Patients no longer try to enter a room if staff member is going to rest
• Adjusted happiness impacts when staff are resting
• Minimised disruption to rooms during change of staff
• Fixed doctors being unable to return to training room
• Fixed patients not leaving a bench when they die
• Fixed a crash with exploded rooms and picked up staff
• Game will no longer crash when hovering on an exploded room
• Prevented patients visiting incorrect/same diagnosis room more than once
• Undressing patients no longer crash game when editing a room
• Machine repair icon is now shown when a handyman is sent to repair
• Smoking positions for machines have been fixed
• Handymen can no longer repair a machine while simultaneously still accepting
  patients
• Stopped multiple handyman taking the same task to repair a machine
• Dead handymen no longer hold onto unfinished tasks
• Fixed handyman tasks being orphaned when they were picked up
• Fixed error with adviser message priority
• The adviser no longer informs you of low prices if you have not lowered them
• Fixed a decimal output issue with cured counts on the adviser
• Fixed backslash not showing file/folder paths
• Fixed crash on macOS regarding level completion
• Reworked code used to handle the configuration file
• Fixed some issues with incorrect colour presentation
• Fixed instance of objects being placeable on a humanoid occupied tile
• Fixed potential crash in Map Editor
• Fixed heat maps in town map
• Tiredness bar is now properly aligned to the right
• Fixed inability to open faxes tied to a humanoid but not visible in the
  drawer
• Prevented some 'fullscreen' windows from being unpaused while present
  e.g. fax
• Fixed certtain faxes being accidentally dismissed, such as the win level fax

Packager Notes

• Lua 5.5 is now supported. Lua 5.2 - 5.3 are deprecated
• C++ version bumped to 17
• Big endian systems are now supported
• A cmake option WITH_MIDI_DEVICE has been added to allow support for midi
  synthesisers, using RtMidi
• A cmake option FETCH_UNICODE_FONT has been added that can be used to bundle
  the default CorsixTH unicode font (GoNoto Sans Kurrent Regular). Do not use this
  alongside the WITH_FONT cmake option
• A cmake option WITH_TRACY has been added for Tracy profiling (requires Tracy
  0.13.1). This should always be off unless you are specifically debugging
  performance

New Contributors

• @PierreRic made their first contribution in #3019
• @marcassin92 made their first contribution in #3060
• @sraaronrock made their first contribution in #3103
• @jur4jmiklo5 made their first contribution in #3112
• @goodusername123 made their first contribution in #3144
• @Fraggenard made their first contribution in #3180
• @ManoloMC2002 made their first contribution in #3238

Full Changelog: v0.69.2...v0.70.0-beta1