Global Rescue news & patch notes

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The first Global Rescue content update is now live!

We've previously shared what was coming, and we're excited that the update is now available for everyone. Here's a look at some of the highlights you can experience right now.

50 new missions

Thanks to the community’s support, we’ve been able to add 50 new missions to the game, increasing the variety on offer. This update will bring the total number of different missions to over 200. Many thanks to all the players who submitted missions to us!

Emergency corridors

One of the most requested features is finally making its way into the game with this content update! Cars now correctly give way to emergency vehicles and form emergency lanes to ensure they reach their destination safely.

Expanding and deleting bases

We are introducing a new base editing menu. Here, you can delete existing base entrances, expand the base area as desired, and delete old bases. This gives you significantly more options later in the game to enlarge or customise your location, or to completely delete old locations that have been replaced by new bases.

New water tender

A new water tender has been added to the fleet. It is built in the American style and helps to bring large fires under control more quickly.

Improved pathfinding

Emergency vehicles now travel to their destination at higher speeds and more efficiently. To achieve this, they can now make a U-turn immediately, rather than having to drive along long stretches of roads before they can turn around. In addition, pathfinding now takes speed limits into account, so that main roads are prioritised over shorter residential streets with low speed limits. Furthermore, the opposite side of the road is now also accepted as a destination, making unnecessary detours a thing of the past.

Map Update

We are updating the map data to the latest version from June 2026 and correcting some incorrect junctions in the process. If you have noticed any errors in the map data or would like to actively improve it, you can do so at any time on OpenStreetMap. With every map update, your changes will then be reflected directly in the game.

Balancing

Based on your feedback, we have made further improvements to the financial balancing in the late game.

Further performance improvements

We have made fundamental changes to the architecture of our UI system, resulting in a noticeable improvement in performance.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed incorrect junctions and roads

• Fixed a bug where some base entrances for vehicles were never used

• Transport to prison or hospital is no longer necessary if the mission takes place directly there or in the immediate vicinity

• Fines at traffic checks are now displayed in the correct currency

• Fixed a bug where employees were no longer using certain objects in the base

• Fixed fog between tiles

• Minor UI improvements

• Improved balancing when purchasing new vehicles

• Fixed a bug where staff would leisurely walk to the vehicle despite an emergency

• Fixed a bug where multiple vehicles could not be assigned a task simultaneously if they were in the same category but not exactly identical

• Fixed a bug where you could not scroll through the list of bases

• Fixed a bug where missions were triggered on pavements instead of railway tracks

• Fixed a bug where some hint texts remained on screen permanently

• Improved translations

• Ukrainian community translation added (Many thanks to Protsenko Dmytro!)

We’re delighted to see how much you’re enjoying the Content Update!

Hey everyone,

As we previously announced, we are currently working on the first Global Rescue content update! Today we’d like to share the highlights you can look forward to in June.

50 new missions

Thanks to the community’s support, we’ve been able to add 50 new missions to the game, increasing the variety on offer. This update will bring the total number of different missions to over 200. Many thanks to all the players who submitted missions to us!

Emergency corridors

One of the most requested features is finally making its way into the game with this content update! Cars now correctly give way to emergency vehicles and form emergency lanes to ensure they reach their destination safely.

Expanding and deleting bases

We are introducing a new base editing menu. Here, you can delete existing base entrances, expand the base area as desired, and delete old bases. This gives you significantly more options later in the game to enlarge or customise your location, or to completely delete old locations that have been replaced by new bases.

New water tender

A new water tender has been added to the fleet. It is built in the American style and helps to bring large fires under control more quickly.

Improved pathfinding

Emergency vehicles now travel to their destination at higher speeds and more efficiently. To achieve this, they can now make a U-turn immediately, rather than having to drive along long stretches of roads before they can turn around. In addition, pathfinding now takes speed limits into account, so that main roads are prioritised over shorter residential streets with low speed limits. Furthermore, the opposite side of the road is now also accepted as a destination, making unnecessary detours a thing of the past.

Map Update

We are updating the map data to the latest version from June 2026 and correcting some incorrect junctions in the process. If you have noticed any errors in the map data or would like to actively improve it, you can do so at any time on OpenStreetMap. With every map update, your changes will then be reflected directly in the game.

Balancing

Based on your feedback, we have made further improvements to the financial balancing in the late game.

Further performance improvements

We have made fundamental changes to the architecture of our UI system, resulting in a noticeable improvement in performance.

Thank you very much for all the feedback we’ve received so far! We’re delighted to see how much you’re enjoying the game and how many exciting suggestions are being submitted every day. We’ll let you know as soon as the first content update is available.

Whilst we are working on the first content update, we have discovered a few bugs that we would like to fix in advance with this patch.

Changelog:

• Added Portuguese translation

• Added Dutch translation (Many thanks to Jeffrey “Kaakmans” Voeten and Mickey103!)

• Fixed a bug that caused Workshop content to become unavailable after returning to the main menu

• Fixed a bug that prevented vehicles from being updated in the Workshop

• Fixed a bug that could, in rare cases, cause severely overexposed areas indoors

• Fixed a bug that caused map tiles to remain permanently blank after a loading error

• Improved balancing of alcohol controls

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused holes in roofs

• Fixed a bug that caused vehicles to get stuck at junctions near the edge of the map

• Further performance optimisations that resolve micro-stuttering, particularly on weaker hardware

• Fixed further crashes when loading or exiting the game

• Fixed a bug that caused vehicles to sometimes drive extremely slowly at an angle on the road

• Fixed a bug that could cause an incorrect price to be displayed when purchasing a vehicle

• Added further missing community translations

We’ll be announcing more details about the first content update next week 🙂

The update adds new radio voices in multiple languages, expanded audio settings, performance and stability improvements, and various bug fixes including enhancements to modding and vehicles.

Highlights:

• New radio voices in English, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Spanish and Turkish. The radio messages now sound more natural.

• There are now 6 different voices to choose from in the settings for the radio, and the talking speed can be adjusted

• The mission location is now read out over the radio in all languages (when playing in the country’s language)

• Performance improvements

• Crash fixes and stability improvements

• Modding bug fixes

Full changelog:

New features:

• New radio voices in English, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Spanish and Turkish. The radio messages now sound more natural.

• There are now 8 different voices to choose from in the settings for the radio, and the talking speed can be adjusted

• The mission location is now read out over the radio in all languages (when playing in the country’s language)

• Offline cities can now be deleted

Performance and stability:

• Performance improvements when generating radio messages

• Further minor stuttering issues have been resolved (more fixes are already in the pipeline)

• If the radio volume is set to 0, the audio for radio messages is no longer generated at all, to improve performance, particularly on low-spec devices

• Fixed crashes when generating radio messages

• Fixed a crash when spending or receiving research points

• Fixed crashes when expanding the map and connecting the base to roads

• Fixed crashes that could occur particularly in the mornings and evenings when many AI vehicles were spawned or despawned

• Fixed a crash when exiting the game

Modding:

• Skins now work correctly on modded vehicles

• Fixed a bug where modded vehicles were also displayed in the skin preview for subsequent vehicles

• Fixed a bug where the vehicle category was not loading correctly for modded vehicles

• Fixed a bug where Steam Workshop tags were not being set automatically and correctly for modded vehicles

Other:

• Fixed another bug that caused emergency vehicles to get stuck at junctions (due to the complexity of the sheer number of different junctions worldwide, this is an ongoing process and we ask for your understanding if issues still arise at individual junctions)

• Fixed a bug that large vehicles looked through the ceiling in garage parking spaces We will continue to be automatically notified of crashes and will keep an eye on them. Further stability improvements will follow in the future.

This update brings several quality-of-life and gameplay improvements, including UI scaling, fewer major incidents in the late game, multiple bug fixes, and new language support.

Highlights:

• Added UI scaling option

• Missions can now be submitted to us as well as via the Steam Workshop if you would like the mission to be integrated into the game

• Reduced the number of large missions at the same time in the late game

• Fixed a bug where vehicles would sometimes be positioned at an angle in parking spaces

• Fixed a bug where mission markers, vehicle markers and base markers were displaying static text and were no longer clickable • Fixed further bugs where vehicles could get stuck at junctions, at the base, or after spawning after missions

• Added Turkish translation (Big thanks to Şahan Turğa!)

Balancing:

• Reduced the number of large missions at the same time in the late game

We continue to improve balancing in the future, so let us know how you like the latest changes.

Map:

• Fixed a road bug between two tiles when expanding the operation area (further fixes are already in progress)

• Fixed a bug where there were too many one-way streets in some locations

• AI cars no longer drive into short dead-end streets to prevent traffic jams

• Fixed a bug that could cause white fog to appear between tiles

Vehicles:

• Fixed a bug where vehicles would sometimes be positioned at an angle in parking spaces

• Fixed further bugs where vehicles could get stuck at junctions, at the base, or after spawning after missions

• Fixed a bug where the fuel gauge was incorrect

• For bases with multiple entrances and exits, only those accessible from the parking spot are now used, so vehicles no longer drive across the grass or through walls

• Fixed a bug that could cause vehicles to be stuck outside the base after loading

• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented vehicles from entering the base

• Fixed a bug that could cause vehicles or staff to be missing after the game loaded

UI:

• Added UI scaling option

• Fixed a bug where vehicles sometimes could no longer be clicked on

• Fixed a bug where the Escape menu would no longer open

• Fixed a bug where mission markers, vehicle markers and base markers were displaying static text and were no longer clickable

Performance:

• General performance optimizations that should also fix more cases of micro stuttering

• More rendering optimizations to lower GPU usage

• Fixed performance issues after opening the modding menu

Mission Editor:

• Missions can now be submitted to us as well as via the Steam Workshop if you would like the mission to be integrated into the game

• Added tooltips to the Mission Editor

Other:

• Added Turkish translation (Big thanks to Şahan Turğa!)

• Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed research to be performed even when you didn’t have enough research points

• Fixed a bug that prevented the button to jump to a mission with the camera from working when a vehicle was selected

• Fixed a bug that could cause a save file to fail to load in rare cases

Our next focus will be on one more patch to further improve stability and performance, as well as fixing some more bugs. After that, we will start with the first content update so that you also get some new features. If you haven't already, you can vote for your favourite features in the main menu or at pedepe.de/globalrescue :)

If you're happy about the development of Global Rescue so far or some of your reported issues have been solved, we're always happy about an updated or new Steam review ❤️

Today’s patch focuses on bug fixes and improvements based on your reports and feedback!

You can find the entire changelog below:

Balancing:

• We have further reduced the number of simultaneous missions in Relaxed Mode, and in normal game mode there are fewer large-scale missions occurring at the same time in the late game • Improved checks to determine whether a road can be used to be connected to the base

Vehicles:

• When purchasing a vehicle, you can now set the default skin for that vehicle type, so it no longer needs to be changed for vehicles purchased in future • Skins from the Steam Workshop now work correctly • Fixed a bug where vehicles would get stuck at junctions or at the base entrance and would no longer move • Fixed a bug where vehicles would get permanently stuck when assigned to another base • Fixed a bug where vehicles sometimes could no longer be cleaned • Fixed incorrect display of the number of vehicles at bases

Game world:

• Fixed a bug where, in rare cases, the loaded tiles contained only trees • Wind turbines are now visually displayed

Performance / Stability:

• Fixed a bug where the game could freeze whilst loading or expanding maps • Fixed a bug that could cause the game to freeze or crash during missions with many tasks • Various performance optimisations designed specifically to fix micro-stuttering • Performance optimisations lowering the GPU usage

Missions:

• Fixed a bug where, in rare cases, calls would stop coming in after a while • Fixed a bug where missions in the forest, at the airport and at wind turbines were not triggered; as a result, several new missions have now been added • Fixed a bug where prisoners were sometimes not taken to prison

Miscellaneous:

• Fixed a bug where the UI occasionally became unclickable • Fixed a bug where, in rare cases, an old base could be deleted when building a new one • Further minor bug fixes

Thanks for all your feedback and this amazing launch!

We've now released the first patch publicly, which should resolve the most frequently reported issue. 

• Traffic no longer gets stuck at intersections, causing long traffic jams.

• First small performance improvements (we will optimise this further in the future).

• The number of calls in relaxed mode has been lowered. 

• The bug that prevented new missions from appearing should now be fixed. If this issue persists, please report it again. As a workaround, you can restart the game. 

• When you buy a new vehicle you can now see the required parking space size

• Fixed a bug that caused units to do nothing during missions if vehicles were still missing

We would also like to thank the modding community! The first mods are already available in the workshop. Check them out here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2873660/workshop/. 

We will immediately start working on the second patch now :)

If you haven't done so already, we would still be extremely grateful if you could rate Global Rescue on Steam to support the future development of the Early Access! Thank you very much for your support, and we hope you continue to enjoy Global Rescue!

We're still overwhelmed by all your feedback and how well the launch went! We're so grateful to have the best community! ❤️

We've now finished the first beta patch, which should resolve the most frequently reported issue. 

- Traffic no longer gets stuck at intersections, causing long traffic jams.

- First small performance improvements (we will optimise this further in the future).

- The number of calls in relaxed mode has been lowered. 

• The bug that prevented new missions from appearing should now be fixed. If this issue persists, please report it again. As a workaround, you can restart the game.  - When you buy a new vehicle you can now see the required parking space size

To try the new patch, go to the Beta branch in Steam. Right-click on 'Global Rescue' and select 'Properties', then select the 'Beta' branch. The game will then download the latest beta version. Please note that there may always be new bugs or game-breaking issues in the beta version. 

We would also like to thank the modding community! The first mods are already available in the workshop. Check them out here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2873660/workshop/. 

We're going to get some sleep now and will be back tomorrow. If everything works fine in the beta version, we will release it for everyone tomorrow. Then we will move on to the next fixes. 

If you haven't done so already, we would still be extremely grateful if you could rate Global Rescue on Steam to support the future development of the Early Access! Thank you very much for your support, and we hope you continue to enjoy Global Rescue!

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Build your own base and take command of firefighting, police, EMS, and SWAT operations.

Thanks to real map data, you can play right in your hometown - or anywhere in the world! Manage your fleet, hire staff, and take on a variety of authentic operations.

In which city are you taking command?

Even before the release of Global Rescue, we want to give you the opportunity to actively take part in the development process! Just like with City Bus Manager, there will be content updates where you can help decide what gets added.

Based on your previous wishes and feedback, we’ve put together a list of possible content for future updates. Now it’s your turn: Vote via the link and help decide which ideas should be implemented!

Vote here!

Thank you very much for all your entries in the Modding Contest! ❤

We never expected such a huge number of participants! 🔥

To make the voting possible, we’ve already selected our 70 favourites, which have also made it into the main game. We’d still like to thank everyone else for taking part, though.

Anyone who submitted a skin that is included in the voting is welcome to send us their username via Discord DM, and we will of course add you to the game credits as a thank you.

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📮 Voting procedure

In the modding-contest-voting channel, you can mark your favourite skins with a heart.

The creators of the five most popular skins will receive a free Steam key for Global Rescue in time for the release on Monday. Each creator will receive a maximum of one key, even if multiple skins by the same person win. In this case, the runner-up will receive a key.

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In Global Rescue, you take command of your own emergency response base — anywhere in the world:

🌍 Build and expand your base 🚑 Coordinate exciting missions 👨‍🚒 Manage personnel & vehicles 🚓 Experience the daily life of fire services, police, EMS & SWAT After a successful demo, the time has finally come: 🔥 Starting April 27, you can play Global Rescue in Early Access on Steam!

With the new demo update, you can now create your own vehicle skins directly in the game!

To go along with it, the first-ever Global Rescue Modding Contest kicks off today. This is your chance to shape the game — and win a free key while you're at it!

How to enter:

Thank you for over 90% positive reviews – your feedback means a lot to us, and we’re excited to hear what you think about the new update! 🙌

With this update, the demo has been significantly expanded: the map now feels much more alive with new details, textures, sidewalks, and parked cars. At the same time, you can take on over 100 new missions, made even more immersive with visible elements like fires and people.

Gameplay has also been deepened: injured and arrested individuals now need to be transported to newly added hospitals and prisons. In addition, new rooms, objects, and a finance menu give you more options when managing your base.

And that’s not all – there are many more improvements included in this update.

Here are the key updates!

• Major map improvements (more details, textures, sidewalks, parked cars, bridges over water) • Correct lane markings & one-way streets with improved pathfinding • Simple visual mission details added (fires, people, vehicle wrecks) • New vehicles • Over 100 new missions • Hospitals and prisons added to the map – injured/arrested must be transported there • Base can now be connected with an access road • Staff details added, with optional manual task assignments in the base • New rooms: gym, shower, hallway, lounge • New furniture & objects • Building system improvements • Finance menu and loans added • Improved day/night cycle • New enhanced radio voices for English, Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish • Fixed parking spaces can now be assigned • Emergency vehicles can now be followed with the camera and their route is shown • Improved city selection for more precise deployment areas • UI redesigns • Hundreds of bug fixes • AI placeholder graphics removed – the project now contains no AI-generated art at all

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Global Rescue lives on variety, excitement, and authentic missions. To achieve the greatest possible diversity, we want to give selected players the opportunity to create their own missions using our official mission editor before the release. The best community missions will be included in the main game.

No studio can develop as many different ideas as a dedicated community. You bring different perspectives and surprise us with ideas that we would never have thought of ourselves. We want to equip Global Rescue with diverse, high-quality missions right from the start and actively involve you in the process.

We are looking for a small group of dedicated players who

• have played the demo

• want to familiarize themselves with the mission editor

• can express themselves precisely

• are interested in designing missions that will be included in the main game

If you are interested, please apply using our form and actively participate in shaping Global Rescue. Starting next week, we will gradually select a small number of participants. They will receive access to an internal version of the mission editor and further information about the process.

We look forward to your ideas!

In order to be able to play anywhere in the world, the game worlds in Global Rescue are procedurally generated using map data. One of the most common pieces of feedback we received was that more detail was desired, so we completely reworked the generation process and added many details and improvements. Today, we would like to show you what has been happening over the last few months.

We no longer use a single source for map data, but combine data from over 5 different sources in order to use the best freely available data currently available in all locations. This gives us a total of almost 2TB of data for the entire world. But don't worry, we have organised and structured the data well. When you start a new game in your home town, only the data required for your game world is downloaded.

We are using Berlin in Germany to demonstrate the new features. Our map system is dynamically structured, allowing us to easily exchange textures and objects for other countries.

Buildings

A lot has changed in the buildings to achieve a higher level of detail:

• Dormer windows and balconies have been added.

• Gabled roofs have been added as a new roof shape, which is particularly beneficial for terraced houses.

• Roofs protrude slightly beyond the walls, so they no longer look like simple blocks.

• Depth effect has been added for windows and doors.

• Modular texture system, which will allow us to easily add significantly more different window, door and wall textures in the future.

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Roads and intersections

We have completely redesigned the road system and added countless details, so that the new version is no longer comparable to the demo version. All new features are generated as realistically as possible using real map data:

• Correct number of lanes

• At intersections, turning lanes are marked on the ground in a realistic manner and are also used by traffic

• Pavements added

• Street lights added

• One-way streets added

• Roundabouts are now used correctly

• Traffic signs for speed limits and one-way streets added

• Parked cars added to the roadside

• Street corners are now rounded

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Parking spaces and construction sites

Parking spaces are now generated dynamically. In the demo, streets were displayed in a parking grid instead of parking spaces. In addition, details such as cranes and construction debris are now displayed on construction sites.

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Bridges over water

Bridges are now generated over water so that roads no longer float above the water.

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Pointless roads

In the demo version, the road network had many pointless roads that led nowhere. We have now removed these and ensured that only roads that actually exist and are used are displayed. The tracks that do not exist in real life have also been removed.

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Miscellaneous

These many new details also create a much more coherent picture in the overall view. In addition to the points mentioned, we have added the following:

• Lighting and post-processing revised

• Traffic volume now depends on the time of day and size of the city

• Wind turbines added

• Cemeteries added

• Some small objects such as rubbish bins, telephone boxes, parcel stations, etc. are now displayed

• Various car colours

• Train Platforms added

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Fun Fact

It has been a long journey to get to today's game world. We have been working on the procedural generation of the game world for about two years now. It all started with the 2D map from City Bus Manager, our most successful game to date.

We have selected a few old images from the development process to show you how it has progressed. Here you can see the evolution from the early stages of the map, which CBM fans among you will surely recognise, to its current state.

We hope that the new game world meets your expectations. If you have any feedback, please let us know in the comments :)

- Niklas

The development of the mission editor is now almost complete, and we would like to give you an insight into how easy it will be to create and share your own missions.

Configuration

You can create both emergencies and additional tasks (which must be completed within a certain period of time) in the editor.

You can configure exactly where the mission is triggered: residential area, industrial area, street, intersection, at one of the countless POI types (Point of interest, e.g., school, supermarket, gas station, bus stop, etc.) or at precisely defined coordinates on the globe. You can also restrict whether a mission should only be triggered during the day or only at night. For random events, you can specify whether the probability of this mission being triggered should increase (e.g., more accidents when the roads are slippery).

Sequence

There are countless possibilities for specifying how a mission should proceed. The editor displays each task as a node in a mission tree. For each task, you can specify a title and description (which is communicated by radio), as well as the urgency (which affects the time limit) and which resources are required to successfully complete the task. You can specify exactly what should happen when the task is successfully completed or fails. The task does not have to be linear: you can draw as many connections to other nodes as you like and specify exactly what is likely to happen. This means that the course of the missions can differ each time they occur.

Decisions

You can also include decisions that the player must make in your missions. In this case, only one of the related tasks can be completed and fulfilled. How good the decision was and what can happen after success or failure can also be precisely determined here with the desired probabilities.

Translations

It is possible to translate the mission into other languages directly in the editor. Which languages you want to translate your missions into is, of course, entirely up to you. Every text that may appear in the mission is automatically identified, and the corresponding translation simply needs to be entered into the text field.

Testing and publishing

Before you can publish your mission, it will be checked for any errors or inconsistencies in your configuration that could cause problems (e.g., missing descriptions, resources, or connections). All problems will be listed, and by clicking on them, you can jump directly to the relevant point and solve the problem. Once everything is correct, you can test your mission in one of your game saves to see if everything works as you intended.

When testing, your created mission will be triggered immediately and you will have an unlimited number of vehicles available for testing. After completing the mission, you will return to the editor where you can save and publish the mission. Every valid and saved mission can now be triggered in the normal game. You can also share your missions with other players via the Steam Workshop.

The possibilities are endless, and we are sure that you will develop numerous exciting missions that will make the game even more varied and long-lasting. We are very much looking forward to your creations!

- Phillip

Today we're giving you a first glimpse into the current state of development of Global Rescue. Until the release, we will be publishing regular dev blogs in which we will introduce you to the most exciting new features and revisions.

Today's dev blog focuses on a topic that has been requested particularly often in feedback: connecting the road to the base so that vehicles are no longer teleported onto the road when they deploy.

How it works

After placing your base on the map, you can now select where you want the entrance to be located at the edge of the base. You can then place the road wherever you want and select a connection to the road:

A new intersection will now be created at the desired location, or existing intersections will be extended:

Once everything is set up and you have confirmed the construction of the base with the connection, you now have the option in build mode to place the exact roads for the base. Players of City Bus Manager may already be familiar with this system :)

It is also possible to build multiple exits to connect different roads and improve the infrastructure. When departing, the vehicles select the best exit in order to get to the scene as quickly as possible.

The vehicles now drive smoothly out of the base and also return realistically:

Fun fact

Originally, the base was completely separate from the 3D map, similar to City Bus Manager. At that time, you could switch between the base and the map with the camera, and the base was surrounded by fog. We therefore surrounded the base with a road so that the vehicles could leave the base straight ahead and then spawn on the map:

However, we were not satisfied with this solution as it took away a lot of immersion and caused some technical problems. Two weeks before the final recordings for the reveal trailer had to be completed, we therefore completely redesigned the system. Thanks to many night shifts, we managed to place the bases directly on the map in time and were able to announce it in the trailer. This is also the reason why the road connection did not yet work in the demo.

Outlook

Of course, we have been working on many other topics and will see you next year in the upcoming DevBlogs. Feel free to write us in the comments which topic interests you most in the next DevBlog or if you have specific questions about development.

We are now taking a break for Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas, relaxing holidays and a Happy New Year!

- Niklas

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First of all: Thank you!

We’ve now received over 7,000 detailed feedback submissions from you – and we’ve taken every single one seriously. Your feedback has shown us exactly where we can improve and expand the game. To properly implement these improvements, we’ve decided to postpone the release until next year. We know that many of you are eagerly waiting for the launch, but we don’t want to release something half-finished. Our goal is to deliver a game that meets both your expectations and ours.

Thanks to your feedback, we’re currently working on:

🌆 Graphics

• Extensive further development of the map: more details, textures, sidewalks and parked cars

• Correct road lanes & one-way streets with improved pathfinding

• Removal of all AI-based graphics

• Simple graphical details at incidents (e.g. fires)

🎮 Gameplay

• Build your own roads as access to the base - Vehicles no longer teleport when leaving the base

• Different difficulty levels

• Options to reduce micromanagement

• Build multiple fully customisable bases and decide yourself which units are stationed there

📜 Content

• Play in every city worldwide thanks to real map data

• Modding support for vehicles, paint jobs, and missions

• Additional and more extensive missions

• Mission editor

• More vehicles

We’ll soon be launching a Global Rescue DevBlog series to keep you regularly updated on the current state of development and what we’re working on. Staying close to the community and maintaining open communication has always been important to us – and we want to continue that with Global Rescue. At the same time, it allows us to gather valuable feedback from you that directly shapes the ongoing development.

Thank you for your patience, your feedback, and your support. We’re continuing to work eagerly on Global Rescue with full dedication.

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Thank you to everyone who played our Global Rescue demo during the Steam Next Fest!

Your feedback has been incredibly valuable and showed us what’s working well — and where we still need to improve. In this video, we’ll talk about:

• The most important feedback from the community

• What we’ve already adjusted or improved

• Which features, changes, and optimizations are coming next

Thank you very much for your overwhelming interest in the demo! We are thrilled and grateful for all the feedback we have received over the past few days. It is very helpful in planning the next steps for Global Rescue and setting the right priorities.

Many of your requests are already on our to-do list, but will take some time to implement. However, we have already been able to address some frequently mentioned issues and suggestions – so a new update of the demo is now available.

Changelog:

• For a better overview, you can now zoom out much further on the map

• AI placeholders for callers have been replaced with custom images

• The control center reminds you via radio of the assignment of units that have arrived at the scene. Both the mission name and the vehicle name are mentioned, and the vehicle name can be renamed as desired

• Click on a mission in the to-do list to jump directly to the location with the camera

• Added button to jump directly to the relevant mission during calls

• Missions are now triggered in a more varied manner (in some cases, almost only police missions were coming in)

• No more buildings on the water

• The rolling doors now open correctly

• Prices are now displayed correctly in the construction menu in all currencies

• Fixed a bug that caused vehicles to drive to the next mission with only one employee after maintenance tasks

• Fixed a bug that prevented the navigation bar from being clicked while the research menu was open

• Fixed a bug that caused the language setting in the settings menu to be empty when the game was first started

• Checking smoke detectors now only requires firefighters, no longer a specific fire truck

• Parking spaces are no longer deleted while building rooms

• Fixed a bug where lights in buildings were no longer turned on at night

• Fixed a bug where it was incorrectly displayed for a short time that an employee could not find a way

• Fixed a bug where vehicles did not turn on their lights at night

Thanks for all your feedback so far! We've just released a first patch which addressed the most reported issues:

- New button to move the camera to the base

- Fixed a bug that caused vehicles to get stuck at the map border in fog

- Employees go to bed to rest before they are extremely exhausted

- For incoming calls that cannot be answered, it is now displayed that a free emergency dispatcher must be available

- Help is now displayed a little earlier to show which vehicles and units are still missing for missions

- Vehicles no longer get dirty quite as quickly

If you liked the demo and would like to support us, we would also be happy about a Steam review :)

Starting today, you can play the brand-new Global Rescue Demo as part of the Steam Next Fest!

Choose Berlin or Orlando as the location of your base, take command of its construction, organization, and operations – and experience the exciting day-to-day work of modern first responders, including firefighters and police.

What to expect in the demo

In the three-day demo, you start by selecting police or firefighter emergency units – with an additional organization unlocking over the next days.

Set up your base in Berlin or Orlando with offices, staff rooms, parking spaces, wash bays, fuel stations, and everything else needed to keep your team and vehicles ready.

Take on a variety of emergency missions that happen in a big city – from shoplifting and traffic accidents to fires.

Now it’s your turn

If you enjoy the demo and want to support us, we would greatly appreciate a positive review – your feedback helps us make Global Rescue even better!

Have fun testing the demo, and we can’t wait to hear what you think!

🚨 The Global Rescue Demo drops on Sunday, Oct 12th — and you can play it all through Steam Next Fest!

Berlin or Orlando - In which city will you take command?

We can’t wait to hear your thoughts once you jump in. 💬

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