We just released a small update for Firefighting Simulator – The Squad. This includes some smaller fixes and introduces Steam Trading Cards for the game. We wish you a good time playing and collecting and completing your card sets. :-)
Patchnotes: Mini-Update (Feb 03, 2021)
Steam Trading Cards
New: Steam Trading Cards: You can now collect a nice set of Steam Trading Cards while playing the game.
Gameworld
Misc: Christmas decorations have been removed.
General
Misc: Minor localization fixes.
Your Firefighting Simulator squad
Christmas Sale
Attention, firefighters: This year's Christmas Sale is now underway! Here on Steam Firefighting Simulator – The Squad is now available with a huge discount of 15 percent!
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Patch #2 available for download!
We just released our second patch for Firefighting Simulator – The Squad. This update includes some general game improvements and bug fixes and introduces some nice Christmas decorations. We hope you will enjoy it!
Patchnotes: Patch #2 (Dec 21, 2020)
Multiplayer
New: New option to start a mission directly at mission location. (The option gets unlocked for all missions the host successfully completed at least once.)
Bug Fix: Multiplayer synchronization adjustments
UI / Missions
New: UI / Missions: New option to disable the visual objective markers.
Balancing tweaks: Missions: The driving & mission times are tweaked on the basis of our community's feedback.
Gameworld
Adjustements: Trucks: Some smaller visual adjustments on the Rosenbauer truck exteriors
New: Christmas: Added some Christmas decorations to the gameworld. :)
General
Bug Fix: - Localization: Several localization bugfixes
Note: In addition to further game improvements we are working on some additional missions for the game which will follow as soon as possible!
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Your Firefighting Simulator team
Firefighting Simulator - The Squad | Community Tournament
Our great Firefighting Simulator community has planned a multiplayer tournament for the coming weekend. In fact: This sounds like a lot of fun! If you also want to participate with your squad, please follow these steps:
1 - Join the Firefighting Simulator Community Discord: https://discord.gg/cZCywrR74Z
2 - On the Discord choose "#role-assignment", accept the server rules ande choose your language.
3 - Go to "Official Tournaments" and follow the instructions.
We wish you a lot of fun!
Patch #1 available for download!
After the latest hotfixes, we just released our first bigger patch for Firefighting Simulator – The Squad. The update introduces the option to adjust the game controller sensitivity settings, an option to invert the Y-axis, and a number of additional fixes as well as multiplayer and general game improvements.
Patchnotes: Patch #1
Settings
New: Controls: New options within the settings to adjust controller sensitivity and inverting the Y-axis
New: Controls: Button assignment for Showing Objectives is now freely selectable
New: UI / Localization: Added more tooltips to the settings menu
New: Created a separate section for experimental features like Global Illumination (Note: New features that are in an experimental stage will be added in this section)
Bug Fix: UI / Localization: Several adjustments and bugfixes within the settings menu
Multiplayer
New: UI: Message added to inform the player why he couldn’t join a Multiplayer session
New: Auto Refresh Multiplayer Session option
New: Show number of players that have already joined a multiplayer session in the session browser
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where some players were trapped in an infinite connection screen while joining a session that wasn’t available anymore
Bug Fix: Multiplayer: Synchronization bug fixed, so that the clients can now hear the horn sound of other players too
Bug Fix: Missions: Introduction mission “Baptism of Fire” and the “Training Facility” are no longer accidentally selectable in Multiplayer
General
New: UI: Explanatory map legend and icons added to the mission map “ICM” (Interactive City Map)
Bug Fix: UI: The preview images of locked missions are no longer accidentally selectable via controller.
Bug Fix: Stability / Savegames: Fixed a crash that was caused by corrupted save games for some players when starting the game.
New: UI / Savegames: Added a warning message that informs the player in case of corrupted save game data.
Bug Fix: Localization: Font fix for Korean language, so that more Korean characters are displayed correctly now.
Bug Fix: Training: Fixed the overlapping music tracks problems.
Bug Fix: Fixed an achievement bug that affected some players.
Performance tip: The game’s “Global Illumination” graphics setting is an experimental feature and is meant for high-performance PCs. It lowers the FPS rate drastically. So only use it, if your PC is offering enough performance to handle it.
Hotfix #3 available for download!
We just released the next hotfix for Firefighting Simulator – The Squad. It includes some fixes for the AI teammates which caused FPS drops during the missions for a number of players.
Patchnotes: Hotfix #3
Performance: AI fixes to improve performance and solve lag issues.
Language: Some smaller improvements for Korean language settings.
Performance tip: The game’s “Global Illumination” graphics setting is an experimental feature and is meant for high-performance PCs. It lowers the FPS rate drastically. So only use it, if your PC is offering enough performance to handle it.
Hotfix #2 available for download
We just released our latest update for Firefighting Simulator – The Squad. This update includes a fix for the issues some players experienced in the main menu while a game controller or steering wheel was plugged-in as well as some other fixes and improvements.
Patchnotes: Hotfix #2
General: Fixed the “disappearing mouse cursor”-bug in the main menu that appeared for some players when using additional input devices (e.g. controller, steering wheels...)
Input / UI: Extended the controller support for in-game menus
Performance: Smaller performance improvements for some PC configurations by disabling Nvidia Ansel
Mission Lobby: Single Player is now selected as default mode (instead of Multiplayer)
Graphics Settings: Screen Resolution is hidden if in Borderless View Mode (It was confusing because Borderless uses the native screen resolution.
Progression: The mention of a XP reward in the Intro mission has been removed, since the Intro mission isn’t meant to give XP.
UI: Session Browser now updates automatically after opening it (instead of having to refresh the browser manually)
Mission Lobby: Private parties are fixed now and back as option "Steam Invite Only" in the Mission Lobby.
Localization: Fixed several font problems for Korean language. Further improvements will follow.
Performance tip: The game’s “Global Illumination” graphics setting is meant for high-performance PCs. It lowers the FPS rate drastically. So only use it, if your PC is offering enough performance to handle it.
Firefighting Simulator - The Squad - Now available with a red-hot start discount
According to the motto "UNITED AGAINST FIRE“, we are happy to announce the official release of our exciting simulation game Firefighting Simulator – The Squad today. The game is now available as a digital download here on Steam - during the release week with a whopping red-hot start discount of 20 percent!
Good news! We are happy to announce the release date of our exciting simulation game Firefighting Simulator – The Squad today. The game will come out in form of a digital download on Steam on November 17th, 2020. In Firefighting Simulator – The Squad you will get the opportunity to form a team of firefighters with up to 3 other players or AI colleagues and cooperate to fight different kinds of realistic fires in a large US city.
We hope you are looking forward to them, as much as we do!
