EMERGENCY 20 for Mac is now also out on Steam. For the 20th anniversary of EMERGENCY, Mac-Users can now enjoy EMERGENCY on Steam for the first time.
Three content-packed campaigns from EMERGENCY 5, EMERGENCY 2016 and EMERGENCY 2017, ten historical missions in new technology, developer videos, Multiplayer and Freeplay are waiting for you in the new Mac version on Steam. Of course, all the improvements and fixes of the PC versions are included.
In Multiplayer the PC variant and Mac variant of EMERGENCY 20 are compatible. So you can protect Cologne, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg together with your friends, even if one of you is commanding his units on a PC and one on Mac.
Patch 4.1.0 is now available
Patch 4.1.0 has just been released and brings new improvements and some bugfixes. As always it will be downloaded and installed automatically here on Steam.
As many of you already noticed Steam trading cards have been online for some time now. And we have added some EMERGENCY 20 themed wallpapers to our website.
Thank you for your feedback and your help in finding and identifying issues!
Patchnotes:
Gameplay:
EMERGENCY 5
Hamburg flood, one car would sometimes not spawn after repeating the mission
EMERGENCY 2016
Supermarket robbery, the robbers now take much longer to escape
EMERGENCY 20
Tornado, fixed the collision of a fence
Train Crash, fixed that one person could be placed inside a train after being freed
Fixed the door of a taxi in the mass collision event
Tires will now always be towed with cars in the mass collision event
Nuclear disaster, evacuation vehicle now always has just 6 seats
Improved visualization of towing rotated cars
Improved behaviour of the weather when repeating missions
The rescue dog team now no longer can be unresponsive after getting into and out of their car
The supervisor will stop giving tips after the mission has already failed
Command icons in the help screen will now properly switch when switching between units pages
A purely decorative pier in Munich can no longer be used to get units onto the water
Fixed a rare instance where firemen ran to the edge of the map, when ordered to cut open a vehicle
Multiplayer:
Improved performance for clients
Backstage-videos:
Added new functions to the video player
Steam:
Improved synchronization with the WORLD of EMERGENCY accounts for achievements earned on Steam
Modding:
Expanded Code to make modding for multiplayer easier and added a sample plugin to the SDK
„Custom“ light animations now properly use animation speeds
Animations for vehicles are now moddable (turntable ladder, heavy tow truck, tow truck, motor boat transport)
EMERGENCY 20 now available
10 classic missions celebrating our anniversary
For the 20th anniversary of EMERGENCY we prepared a special game: In EMERGENCY 20 you can experience 10 of the best missions out of 20 years of EMERGENCY, in the newest technology. Newcomers and long-term players alike can now prove their skills as incident commanders in the gorgeously re-imagined missions. It’s your task to manage the exciting challenges with your firemen, doctors, policemen, engineers and many units more.
Each of the 10 missions has three levels of difficulty, making sure that even experienceid incident commanders will have their hands full.
Featuring all three campaigns of EMERGENCY 5, EMERGENCY 2016 and EMERGENCY 2017 and their four huge freeplay and multiplayer maps, EMERGENCY 20 contains many hours of tried and true EMERGENCY gameplay.
EMERGENCY 20 is available on Steam now.
Hotfix 4.0.2 released
Fixed an issue that reset some sound levels to zero when starting a game
Vehicles are less jittery on inclines
Fixed a potential disconnect issue when calling units in multiplayer mode
Patch 4.0.1 out now
New Patch just before the release of EMERGENCY 20
While we are celebrating the anniversary of the EMERGENCY series with the upcoming EMERGENCY 20, we have also developed a new Patch. Patch 4.0.1 contains numerous improvements and bugfixes for EMERGENCY 5, EMERGENCY 2016 and EMERGENCY 2017. The update will be delivered via Steam automatically.
Patchnotes:
Gameplay & GUI
Fixed buildings in Cologne and Hamburg that were difficult for Firemen to enter
Fixed rare issue with disappearing mouse cursor after curscene in the Oktoberfest event
Improved interactions between diver and boat
Collapsed buildings are now marked on the minimap
Many small improvements to usability to make units more responsive
Graphics
Wind turbines now turn the right way
Fixed animation issues with the police dog handler
Fixed off-center text in some loading screens
Multiplayer
Compatibility with EMERGENCY 20 established
Missing persons are now displayed better for clients
Improved lighting of vehicles for clients
Fixed rare issue where no treatment was possible after decontamination
Improved stability of multiplayer server
Fixed overlapping windows in the ending screens
World Builder <*>New Feature „Morph Component“: e.g. morphs „Mesh“ into „Tintable Mesh“
<*>New dialogue to set map size when creating an empty map
<*>Asset Browser
Added searchable tags
Added search function to the project section
<*>Navigation Map Generator Tool
Fixed crash when deleting a navigation-map in the Navigation Map Generator Tool
Improved usability
<*>Maps in write-protected projects can now be opened, but the user gets notified
<*>Added warning in the log if there are holes in the ground map
<*>Mesh Assets now support BGR-Colourst
<*>„Save as Prefab“ can now overwrite files not in the EMERGENCY 5 project
<*>Various smaller fixes and improvements
Online Editor
Improved project management
Fixed disconnects when importing a project
It is no longer possible to open maps of currently inactive projects, since this could lead to terrain display problems
When opening maps in write-protected projects we cut the connection tot he server for security reasons
When opening write-protected maps or logging into an admin account the menu will appear red and a tool tip has been added
Fixed issue where sometimes a new project would not show up in the clients project lists until the server was rebooted
Expanded project management
Newly created project will be visible only to the user who created it
Added "OwnerUserLogin", "RestrictedUserAccess", "ReadOnlyUserLogins" and "ReadWriteUserLogins" to manage project access for users
New map dialogue
You can now create a new map based on the copy of an existing one in the online editor
Added information to the dialogue when cloning a map
Improvements to asset management
Asset modification dates internally saved in UTC will now be displayed correctly in local time
Map assets can now be renamed by administrators
Terrain assets are now handled by the online editor server
Terrain source assets are now compressed
Improved GUI when deleting assets
Modding <*>„getLinks()“-problem solved
<*>Patchable Mods: Mods can now be overwritten with newer versions
Patch 4.0.1 for EMERGENCY 5, 2016 and 2017 coming October 27th 2017
Various Bugfixes and improvements to the editor
While we are working on our anniversary EMERGENCY 20 years edition, we are also making a new update for EMERGENCY 5, 2016 and 2017. Besides some bugfixes for the campaigns we are also working on some improvements for multiplayer.
For modders we are working on many improvements to the Editor and Online Editor.
As always we will be releasing the complete Patch Notes as soon as the Patch is available for download.
Thank you to anyone who helped us by giving all kinds of feedback!
EMERGENCY 20 releases October 2017 for PC
10 missions from 20 years of EMERGENCY with the newest technology
In July 2018 it will be 20 years since the first release of EMERGENCY: Fighters for Life. We will be celebrating this anniversary with a special new game: EMERGENCY 20! EMERGENCY 20 will be available as the boxed version on October 27th 2017, the steam version will release on the 31st. For EMERGENCY 20 we have remade 10 of the most exciting and difficult missions out of all the installments of the EMERGENCY-series with the latest technology and re-invigorated the gameplay. The cherry on top: EMERGENCY-creator Ralph Stock offers insights into the development of the classic missions and the history and design of EMERGENCY in a videoclip for each of the 10 missions.
In every mission you can choose between three difficulty settings. Only those who can keep calm in chaotic situations will be able to master these missions on the highest difficulty!
EMERGENCY 20 will be available for Windows PCs on DVD and on Steam.
Patch 3.0.2
General
Gameplay
Bug fixes
GUI
Miscellaneous
Graphics
Steam
EMERGENCY 2017 content
Changes
Bug fixes
Miscellaneous
Announcement: Patch 3.0.2 is in progress!
We want to thank all players who helped us find bugs in the games EMERGENCY 5, EMERGENCY 2016 and EMERGENCY 2017.
Through your posts on Steam, Facebook, the Emergency-Forum and support-email we were able to fix many bugs and problems.
We would like to thank all of you.
We are currently working on a patch that will solve the reported problems. The patch will be released within the next few days.
