Tornado: Research and Rescue
Steam News 11 February 20263mo ago

Tornado Hunts You + Career Rebalanced + Wind + Truck Reset

Some new things, some bug fixes, and some changes! New features: At random intervals, the tornado will chase you! You will hear a monster-like sound, and the tornado will speed up and move directly towards you for 30 -…

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Full Tornado: Research and Rescue update

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  • Gameplay
  • UI and audio
  • Balance
addedSome new things, some bug fixes, and some changes!
addedNew features:
changedAt random intervals, the tornado will chase you! You will hear a monster-like sound, and the tornado will speed up and move directly towards you for 30 - 90 seconds
changedTo balance out the more difficult career mode, you now earn two types of multiplier bonuses: The first multiplier is per-tornado rating, so for example if you have F2, F3 and F4 samples the multiplier for that data type is 3x. The second is for data diversity: for each rating you get an additional multiplier per data type (Wind, Pressure, Temperature, Dew Point). So in summary: more data types + more F-rating samples = a LOT more money
changedThe tornado damage trails and CAPE overlays are now smoothed instead of having hard boundaries
changedBank balance on data page now updates when you purchase upgrades

Some new things, some bug fixes, and some changes!

New features:

  • At random intervals, the tornado will chase you! You will hear a monster-like sound, and the tornado will speed up and move directly towards you for 30 - 90 seconds

  • The vegetation responds to the tornadic winds, and also the grass responds to the truck now as well (not just the corn)

  • You can now the the escape-menu to return to the main menu

  • If your truck tips over, you can press the 'R' key to reset it right-side-up

  • You can break fences and powerlines and push cows with your truck now

Changes:

  • The camera locks now when you use the tab menu so the camera doesn't keep panning while you use your mouse in the menus etc

  • Career mode is a lot harder: instead of 50 you now need 500 anomalies to unlock professor, prices are 5x to 10x to upgrade

  • To balance out the more difficult career mode, you now earn two types of multiplier bonuses: The first multiplier is per-tornado rating, so for example if you have F2, F3 and F4 samples the multiplier for that data type is 3x. The second is for data diversity: for each rating you get an additional multiplier per data type (Wind, Pressure, Temperature, Dew Point). So in summary: more data types + more F-rating samples = a LOT more money

  • Wall clouds can be closer to the ground

  • An awesome member of the community gave me the equations and logic to have performant and realistic tornado wind fields

  • The tornado damage trails and CAPE overlays are now smoothed instead of having hard boundaries

Bug fixes:

  • Bank balance on data page now updates when you purchase upgrades

Source

Steam News / 11 February 2026

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