Warhammer: Vermintide 2 News

From now until 23:59 CEST tonight we're tripling all experience gains for all heroes! That's 24 hours of TRIPLE XP! You earned it.

You might have put to rest half a billion pactswarn this past two weeks, but the tide never relents.

Have fun, and see you in the lobbies!

With 5 hours and 30 minutes remaining, you hit the target of 500,000,000! That’s half a billion (and there would be countless more if we included all the failed missions)! There were some worried faces at various points throughout this challenge — concerned that they thought this wouldn’t be toppled, but you prove time and time again that you’re capable of any challenge we throw at you (and then some)!

https://www.vermintide.com/counter

The portrait frame will be distributed in the next patch.

Welcome to another development update.

[h2]Community Challenge News[/h2]
You’re on to the 8th day of the Community Challenge, around 57% through the allotted time, and you’re around 56% through the required kills. When we set out we wanted this to be somewhere between a ‘safe’ and ‘nail-biting’ challenge. Right now, however, we’re out of nails and we’re chewing on fingers.

We’re hoping this bonus length double XP weekend and the promise of a bonus triple XP day for completing the challenge is enough to tip the scales! Now get slaying! (but first, check out the rest of this Developer Update of course!)

[h2]Cosmetic in Concept[/h2]
This week we want to show you a work in progress of a premium cosmetic item we’re working on. One of many, this hat is looking perfect for Huntsman Kruber. This concept is as mentioned a work in progress and can change during development, as well as sometimes work in progress items can be pulled from production for various reasons. But we wanted to share this with you!



We took inspiration for this unique item from an art book called ‘Blood on the Reik’. Tell us what you think? Would you want this in your Kruber wardrobe? Do you have the book and see any other inspirations you’d like us to take? Hit us up in the comments below!

[h2]Community Art[/h2]
Last week we featured some less traditional fan art here in the update, and this week we have seen a huge influx of more traditional creations by some of the hugely talented artists in the community and we’d like to take this opportunity to showcase some of those!

[h3]Eshin Assassin Rat[/h3]
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g64ida/eshin_assassin_rat/
By 'GasMaskSamurai'.


[h3]Butterlord Remastered[/h3]
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g5nqff/butterlord_remastered_liked_how_the_sketch_worked/
By 'Count_Spliffy' - You can see a WIP sketch that led to this great piece here.


[h3]Skaven Ratling Gunner[/h3]
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g6nvcq/skaven_ratling_gunner_some_warpstone_bullets_for/
By 'GasMaskSamurai'.


[h3]Gor[/h3]
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g5s7pf/boyfriend_drew_a_gor_from_my_description_having/
By 'JFK_FORGOT_ZHONYAS' boyfriend'. Drawn without having seen a Gor and entirely from description alone. Not bad, JFK_FORGOT_ZHONYAS' BF!


[h3]'Let them remember only the steely glint of your eyes in the dark. Let them fear your return.'[/h3]
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g5a4x7/let_them_remember_only_the_steely_glint_of_your/
By 'TarNREN'.


[h3]OVER DIS WAEH MAEH-FLOIS ![/h3]
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g44vgn/muh_kerillian_fanart_shade/
By 'Count_Spliffy'.


Thanks all for sharing your art with us! You're all incredibly talented, and it really warms us to see such talent being used to showcase a project we really love being involved in.

[h2]REDDIT CONTEST[/h2]
Last but by no means least, the crew over on the Vermintide sub are hosting a VerminLore Crafting contest!
[h3]Like to write? Like theorycrafting? Then this contest is for you![/h3]
In this Reddit contest, your goal will be to write an as of yet untold bit of flavor for the Vermintide universe.

Have theories on Saltzpyre's life while he was still apprenticing as a blacksmith? Want to theorize on Olyesa's card games? Or maybe you fancy you know exactly who Lohner is and what he's hiding. The Reddit mods want to know! They will be issuing prizes, so why not give your penmanship a go and be in with a chance of winning some sweet prizes!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g4xa07/contest_verminlore_crafting/

At 2pm UTC today we have enabled Double XP for all players, on all platforms, for all games! Now's a great time to stay home, level up, and help us all Play Apart Together.

Don't forget we're also challenging you to slay 500,000,000 Skaven, Norscans or Beastmen (or any combination of flesh you meet, aside from your team mates...) before the end of play on April 30th and earn you and your hero friends a lovely new portrait frame exclusive to this event.

As a bonus, we can also announce that should you beat the Community Challenge we'll also activate 24 hours TRIPLE XP on May 1st!

For all the information this event, check our news post here:

https://www.vermintide.com/news/stay-home-play-together-heroes-unite

The Community Challenge is still ongoing and you can still join - it will be running until April 30th. With this challenge we wish to invite you as a community to come together and help the Reikland.

So far your combined efforts have accumulated a staggering total 155,947,217 enemies defeated! It's horribly impressive.

We just set the Tzeentchian Twins Weekly Event live, which for those who can handle it is a great way to bloat the stats! In this event enemies you dispatch will materialise in to two lesser enemies, and so on, until you're left with chaff to kill. You can find this on the mission screeen in the Keep (press M).


Fill the bar by defeating Skaven, Rotblood, and Beastmen in Warhammer: Vermintide 2 and be rewarded with a new portrait frame.

[h2]Crown of Purity[/h2]We recently updated the event page on our website with news of which charity the proceeds for all sales of the 'Crown of Purity' will be donated to, and you can find out more about that here:

https://www.vermintide.com/news/stay-home-play-together-heroes-unite