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Hello firefighters,

• Fixes a hole in the attic of the burning roof in the "Through The Roof" mission, which caused the player to fall through it and land on the top of the wardrobe, blocking the player model with no option to escape
• Fixed NPCs endlessly trying to go through a stone and getting stuck
• Fixed an area that caused the player to get stuck in the "Outback Warehouse" mission
• Fixed an issue that caused the NPCs to not follow after connecting the attack line with the nozzle

• Removed a faulty interaction point from the Viper ladder, which teleported the player to the end of the ladder with the wrong animations
• The player character of a client in a multiplayer session can no longer spin around when climbing a ladder.
• Fixed: Client and Server could enter the Viper ladder at the same time, which resulted in strange behavior
• Fixed a ladder climbing bug on the Viper truck.
• Fixed: The ladder could clip through a wall and allow the player to walk on it through the wall in the “Industrial Maze Ablaze“ mission.
• Fixed a stuck position in the “Baptism Of Fire” mission
• Fixed: The player wasn’t taking damage when standing on top of the wreckage car in the "Behind The Fast Food" mission
• Fixed a stuck position in the “Outback Warehouse“ mission where the character could get trapped between collapsed shelving units
• Fixed the gap in the location borders in the “Outback Warehouse” mission
• Fixed a stuck spot can be encountered after the user walks over the boxes in the "Explosive Load" mission
• Fixed a stuck spot can be encountered after the user walks over the pallets in "Two Stories Troubles" mission
• Fixed a point where the character can get stuck in the mission "Hot Food Truck Parking"
• Fixed a problem where the player is unable to get back into the basket after getting out of it when using a ladder truck
• Addressed a placement problem where a victim may spawn clipped into a couch in the mission "Office Burn-Out", preventing the AI from carrying it to safety
• Fixed: The fire couldn’t be extinguished in a particular spot in the “Industrial Maze Ablaze” mission.
• Fixed: Changing the camera sensitivity for the gamepad snapped the setting to 0, resulting in the inability to rotate the camera in-game.
• Fixed the setup in “The Red-Hot Party!” mission. “Turning Off The Electricity” is now indicated with the right notification.
• Fixed: Objectives weren’t shown correctly in the mission “Inflaming Of A Dumpster”
• Fixed: ICM pin color for the missions of Mission Update #1 didn’t show the random mission color

• Hide Objective Indicators: Enable this setting to add an extra challenge as you will only see the indicators when being in close interaction range to the objectives.
• Hide Victim Indicators: Where are the victims? Well, you gotta find out the hard way as their locations will be hidden and thus you must search for them more actively. But be aware: You also won't see the number of victims to be rescued anymore...
• Establish Supply Line by Yourself: Prevent the AI firefighters from establishing a supply line at the beginning of a mission automatically - that's your job now…at least until you command the AI to do so.
• Refill Empty Extinguisher: Your extinguisher went empty and you need a refill? Enable this setting to make them vanish once you have put them down as soon as they run dry - and head back to the truck where a newly prepared set is waiting just for you (with a respawn time of 3 minutes).

• Fixed an issue that made it possible to place the victim next to the stretcher (looked funny, though)
• Fixed an issue that caused the character to not zoom out at times
• Fixed an issue that blocked the mission from restarting after the character was incapacitated from fire damage while dropping a tool
• Fixed an issue that made it possible to run while carrying a victim after having swapped a tool or hose with AI

• ”Baptism Of Fire” (Intro Mission): Fixed an issue that caused the character to get stuck in the garage
• “The Office Burn-Out”: Fixed a wrong collider at the outdoor stairs
• “Unstable Rooftop”: Fixed a fire that continued to burn after it was already extinguished
• “Behind the Fast Food”: Fixed a stuck spot at a bush after the player walks over it
• “Office Moving Day”: Fixed a stuck spot at a bush after the player walks over it
• “The Sound of Flames”: Fixed an issue that caused the fire location border to be partially missing
• “Explosive Hot Dogs”: Fixed an issue that caused the trash bin to change its texture after the fire was quenched
• ”Inflaming of a Dumpster”: Fixed an invisible collision
• ”Burning News”: Fixed a tree that was hovering above the ground
• ”Wildfire Park”: Fixed an issue that caused the character to get stuck after hitting a trunk with the axe several times

• Changed AI to ensure they can’t trigger a chemical explosion. They now only try to avoid quenching these fire sources (which should hopefully make your lives much less dangerous...)

• Fixed a missing collision on the front bumper of the Rosenbauer Walk-In Rescue
• Fixed an issue that caused the TP3 to not synchronize with the client in rare cases and to not move until the truck arrived on scene
• Fixed an issue that caused the Viper & T-Rex Ladder to receive burn marks when overlapping with burned objects

• Fixed an issue that caused the saw to be inaudible for other players in multiplayer games
• Fixed an issue that made the compartment unusable if two players opened it at nearly the same time
• Fixed an issue that caused the flashlight sometimes not working for clients

• Fixed some nightly sky textures
• Fixed an issue that caused graphical anomalies over water while driving to the fire scene at Lakeview Park
• Fixed an issue that caused the victim's jacket to flicker when the flashlight is activated
• Improved cutscene transition for a smoother experience
• Fixed an issue that caused the intro cutscene to play in slow-motion when the player opens the command wheel

• Fixed an issue that caused the player to stop when using the command wheel with a gamepad

• Made the player invincible in every training mission
• Fixed an issue that caused the instructions within the 'Squad command' training to be over put

• Updated Unreal Engine to version 4.27
• Reduced overall storage size by using Oodle Compression Texture Compression
• Changed global illumination solution from LPV (Light Propagation Volumes) to SSGI (Screen Space Global Illumination)
• Improved the mission loading times for a bunch of missions
• Extended fire connector to tweak fire spreading through doors: Now, fire spreads also along walls through doors and not only along burnable floors
• Rewrote custom navigation modifier to fix an infinite loading screen issue
• Adjusted font setup to better support all languages (while also fixing a few localization issues)
• Improved performance by exchanging opacity material with masked material

• Fixed an issue in the Intro Mission “Baptism Of Fire” that only displayed the option to go back in the pause menu after already having finished it successfully at least once
• Changed the icon for new unlocked trucks
• Fixed an issue that caused the objective GUI to be invisible when using "Start at location"
• Fixed an issue that caused the Rescue Victim Icon to sometimes not disappear after the victim is rescued
• Fixed an issue that made the pause menu to sometimes be accessible in the main menu
• Fixed an issue that caused the remaining distance to be displayed in kilometers instead of miles – the player can now decide whether they want to see the remaining distance in kilometers or miles
• Fixed an issue that displayed the wrong distance while driving
• Fixed an issue that caused the blur to not vanish after a notification disappears

• Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred in multiplayer mode when a player character goes down while the command wheel is open
• Fixed a crash that occurred when attempting to restart the 'Establishing Hoses' training after blacking out due to a fire (it was actually never intended to die in these trainings, so we kinda fixed that, too...)

• New: Steam Trading Cards: You can now collect a nice set of Steam Trading Cards while playing the game.

• Misc: Christmas decorations have been removed.

• Misc: Minor localization fixes.

• New: New option to start a mission directly at mission location. (The option gets unlocked for all missions the host successfully completed at least once.)
• Bug Fix: Multiplayer synchronization adjustments

• New: UI / Missions: New option to disable the visual objective markers.
• Balancing tweaks: Missions: The driving & mission times are tweaked on the basis of our community's feedback.

• Adjustements: Trucks: Some smaller visual adjustments on the Rosenbauer truck exteriors
• New: Christmas: Added some Christmas decorations to the gameworld. :)

• Bug Fix: - Localization: Several localization bugfixes

• New: Controls: New options within the settings to adjust controller sensitivity and inverting the Y-axis
• New: Controls: Button assignment for Showing Objectives is now freely selectable
• New: UI / Localization: Added more tooltips to the settings menu
• New: Created a separate section for experimental features like Global Illumination (Note: New features that are in an experimental stage will be added in this section)
• Bug Fix: UI / Localization: Several adjustments and bugfixes within the settings menu

• New: UI: Message added to inform the player why he couldn’t join a Multiplayer session
• New: Auto Refresh Multiplayer Session option
• New: Show number of players that have already joined a multiplayer session in the session browser
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where some players were trapped in an infinite connection screen while joining a session that wasn’t available anymore
• Bug Fix: Multiplayer: Synchronization bug fixed, so that the clients can now hear the horn sound of other players too
• Bug Fix: Missions: Introduction mission “Baptism of Fire” and the “Training Facility” are no longer accidentally selectable in Multiplayer

• New: UI: Explanatory map legend and icons added to the mission map “ICM” (Interactive City Map)
• Bug Fix: UI: The preview images of locked missions are no longer accidentally selectable via controller.
• Bug Fix: Stability / Savegames: Fixed a crash that was caused by corrupted save games for some players when starting the game.
• New: UI / Savegames: Added a warning message that informs the player in case of corrupted save game data.
• Bug Fix: Localization: Font fix for Korean language, so that more Korean characters are displayed correctly now.
• Bug Fix: Training: Fixed the overlapping music tracks problems.
• Bug Fix: Fixed an achievement bug that affected some players.

• Performance: AI fixes to improve performance and solve lag issues.
• Language: Some smaller improvements for Korean language settings.

• General: Fixed the “disappearing mouse cursor”-bug in the main menu that appeared for some players when using additional input devices (e.g. controller, steering wheels...)
• Input / UI: Extended the controller support for in-game menus
• Performance: Smaller performance improvements for some PC configurations by disabling Nvidia Ansel
• Mission Lobby: Single Player is now selected as default mode (instead of Multiplayer)
• Graphics Settings: Screen Resolution is hidden if in Borderless View Mode (It was confusing because Borderless uses the native screen resolution.
• Progression: The mention of a XP reward in the Intro mission has been removed, since the Intro mission isn’t meant to give XP.
• UI: Session Browser now updates automatically after opening it (instead of having to refresh the browser manually)
• Mission Lobby: Private parties are fixed now and back as option "Steam Invite Only" in the Mission Lobby.
• Localization: Fixed several font problems for Korean language. Further improvements will follow.