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more options later in the game to enlarge or customise your location, or to completely delete old locations that have been replaced by new bases.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 🙂