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- Tornado: Research and Rescue
v0.24.0 - Houses, Sheltering, Improved Sirens & More!
v0.24.0 brings a lot of new features to the game, and improves existing ones: There are now tiles with houses on them and they need to be warned just like trailer parks. You can shelter in a house and you will be fine a…
Announcement8 changesFixGameplay - Tornado: Research and Rescue
v0.23.1 - Improved scenario editor
v0.23.1 brings some minor fixes and improvements to the scenario editor: You can now move individual nodes by default, or use SHIFT+CLICK to move the selected node and all subsequent nodes as one solid block You can ope…
Announcement5 changesFixGameplay - Tornado: Research and Rescue
In-Game Scenario Editor! - v0.23.0
The major update here is the in-game scenario editor (accessible from the main menu). It is a very early prototype, and you will still have to make some edits to the scenario json file yourself (just to add a descriptio…
Announcement1 changeGameplay - Tornado: Research and Rescue
v0.22.0 - Improved Radar & Hook Echoes!
With v0.22.0 the biggest change is to the radar: \ Improved algorithm for generating supercell radar visualisations \ Initial implementation of hook echoes, these are experimental and results may vary, but the game now…
Announcement4 changesGameplayPerformance - Tornado: Research and Rescue
Introducing Tail Clouds v0.21.1
This is just a minor update for v0.21.1 I noticed that tornado funnels were rendering through the wall clouds, so this patches the wall cloud rendering so that hopefully doesn't happen anymore (it will by design for meg…
Announcement2 changesPerformanceGameplay - Tornado: Research and Rescue
v0.21.0 - Chemical Polarisation, Improved Lighting & Wall Clouds
v0.21.0 introduces a few nice changes: Improved lighting and post-processing Improved wall cloud rendering Chemical polarisation: you can polarise chemicals to have the opposite effect to normal, so you can now also wea…
Announcement4 changesGameplayPerformance - Tornado: Research and Rescue
Tornado: Research and Rescue Has Been Completely Rebuilt
Over the past several months, the original 2023 version of Tornado: Research and Rescue has been replaced by a complete rebuild created from scratch in a new Unity project. The rebuilt version has already been available…
Store9 changesGameplayCompatibility - Tornado: Research and Rescue
v0.20.1: Performance Profiles, Improved Vehicle Handling, Minor Annoyances Fixed
The goal for this was to fix minor (and some major) annoyances: The drifting behaviour of the truck has been dialed back to keep it controllable You can now enter your vehicle easily without the probe menu interfering Y…
Announcement4 changesGameplayMaps - Tornado: Research and Rescue
Rain-wrapped monsters, power slides, and more!
v0.20.0 completely changes the feel of storms and tornadoes: they are now even more ominous with procedural and randomised rain-wrapping! I have also slightly reduced the grip on the rear tyres, and made the truck sligh…
Announcement1 changeGameplay - Tornado: Research and Rescue
EAS Warnings - v0.19.0
New features in v0.19.0: You can use the EAS alert button once per tornado to warn all towns on the map Death can be toggled off in sandbox mode How much tornadoes react to chemicals now also depends on the forecast, hi…
Announcement4 changesFixGameplay - Tornado: Research and Rescue
Introducing Death & Vegetation Bug *Finally Fixed* - v0.18.0
v0.18.0 brings some much needed features and bug fixes. Most importantly, the vegetation disappearing bug is finally fixed! It turns out the asset I purchased to render vegetation had a bug in it, which meant that only…
Store4 changesFixPerformance - Tornado: Research and Rescue
v0.17.4 - Improved Vegetation Rendering
I finally upgraded the vegetation rendering engine for v0.17.4 and also upgraded the Unity engine from 6000.0 to 6000.3 Bug fixes: * The vegetation disappearing bug is *mostly* resolved: it happens far less frequently,…
Announcement3 changes1 numericFix - Tornado: Research and Rescue
Visual Chemical Spray - v0.17.3
V0.17.3 brings some changes to last night's update to make the experience more polished: Now the probe emits a visible chemical mist/spray when chemicals are released - the colour of the mist depends on the chemical bei…
Announcement1 changeFixMaps - Tornado: Research and Rescue
Minor fixes/tweaks - v0.17.2
Just a few convenience patches in v0.17.2: Stopped camera panning when minimap is expanded (it still zooms with mouse controls but not with a controller, I'll patch this in the next update) * You can disable all data sa…
Announcement - Tornado: Research and Rescue
v0.17.1 - Multiple-data sampling, Data UI improvements
v0.17.1 has just been released, with some key gameplay changes: You can now choose to sample more than one data type at a time, but the sampling goes round-robin, so if you choose to sample 3 data types, it will take 3…
Announcement3 changesGameplayUI/audio - Tornado: Research and Rescue
Chemical Seeding - v0.17.0
A completely new game mechanic has been added in 0.17.0: Chemical Seeding Enable it simply by toggling the "Use Chemicals" button on the career page. When it's enabled, every 100 samples you collect of a certain data ty…
Announcement4 changesGameplayUI/audio
