Tornado: Research and Rescue
Steam News 26 March 20261mo ago

Destructible Houses, Impact Penalties & More!

It's been a while since the last update, lots of changes with this one! Visual changes: Debris clouds now have more of a dirt-brown colour that is randomised (sometimes darker, sometimes lighter) rather than always bein…

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Full Tornado: Research and Rescue update

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Extracted changes

1 fix2 additions4 changes0 removals
  • Gameplay
  • Maps
  • Fixes
addedDebris clouds now have more of a dirt-brown colour that is randomised (sometimes darker, sometimes lighter) rather than always being black
addedThere are now field of view settings (I think 70° looks best!) and there is a slight panini projection added
changedSubvortices are rendered a bit differently on the map now, making them more apparent
changedGameplay changes:
changedThe upgrade and ranking difficulty curves have been adjusted to be more balanced
changedYou can customise how long it takes for tornadoes and cells to spawn, choose slower for more realism, faster for more action!

It's been a while since the last update, lots of changes with this one!

Visual changes:

  • Debris clouds now have more of a dirt-brown colour that is randomised (sometimes darker, sometimes lighter) rather than always being black

  • The rotation rate of the tornado funnel now matches the actual wind speed of the tornado, visually it looks a lot more realistic

  • There are now field of view settings (I think 70° looks best!) and there is a slight panini projection added

  • Shadows from the cell and tornado have been softened

  • Camera shakes when outside of the vehicle and tornado is close

  • Subvortices are rendered a bit differently on the map now, making them more apparent

  • Tornadoes can be thinner so not every tornado is automatically a wedge

  • The rain is more transparent now so the image is less noisy

Gameplay changes:

  • The biggest one is you are now penalised for every impact your vehicle experiences - larger impacts result in higher penalties. You will lose some percentage of your samples, or some percentage of your money, chosen at random per impact.

  • There is now a VHS camera you can use both inside and outside of the vehicle, simply right click and use the mouse wheel to zoom in/out. Left click to take a screenshot, it will be saved in [c]%USERPROFILE%AppData\\LocalLow\\DefaultCompany\\Tornado Research and Rescue\\Screenshots[/c]

  • There are now houses and mobile homes that will break apart (especially the mobile home)

  • The upgrade and ranking difficulty curves have been adjusted to be more balanced

  • You can customise how long it takes for tornadoes and cells to spawn, choose slower for more realism, faster for more action!

  • When the tornado hunts you, it will now take between 15 - 45 seconds to get up to full "hunting speed", previously it was 3 seconds, so if you were off-road next to the tornado you had no hope of escaping, now there's a chance

  • The two-wheel glitch is fixed: you could bypass the speed restrictions by driving with two wheels on a paved surface and two wheels off-road

Enjoy! :)

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Steam News / 26 March 2026

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