Warhammer: Vermintide 2 News

Thanks for stopping by! This week, Vermintide turns two, and to celebrate we enabled the event special map ‘A Quiet Drink’ so the heroes can get some reprieve! Maybe. Probably not.

With Queen Kerillian out on the town alongside Steam Tank driver wannabe Victor, there’s some notable downtime for Lohner back in the keep. He’s been looking at some of your submitted artworks and creations, and we thought we would share a bunch of those this week!

This anniversary celebration is not so much about us, or Vermintide, as it is a celebration of everyone who’s been a part of this special journey with us. We might make the game, but it would be nothing without all of you lot joining the fray! So we want to take a moment to celebrate all of you and your wonderful creations.

/Fatshark

Due to limitations in Steam embedding, take a look at the new post linked below to view the gallery of cool stuff you lot have made

https://www.vermintide.com/news/developer-update-march-6

It is time to celebrate once more! Another year has passed by and Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is celebrating its 2-Year Anniversary on PC. Between March 5 and March 12 you can enjoy the anniversary in game. The mission ‘A Quiet Drink’ makes a return and of course, the Fatshark Stream on March 6th!

FOLLOW THE HEROES OUT ON THE TOWN
The Ubersreik 5 are heading out to try relax in peace and quiet… Hopefully.


CASQUE-AID
Earn the Anniversary exclusive portrait frame by following the Ubersreik 5 out on town!



During the 2-year anniversary of Vermintide 2’s release on PC it is not only us here at Fatshark that will be streaming. Click the link to find out more about the different Content Creators and when they will be live to celebrate, and we have made sure they are armed with giveaways.

https://www.vermintide.com/news/2-year-anniversary

Thanks for stopping by this brief update! This week saw the experimental PC Beastman-taming-beta come offline and the changes, along with some additional fixes, put out to the live version of the game. Hopefully, you’re finding a better balance of bad guys in your adventures. Thanks to those of you who tested the beta and provided feedback! You rock!


With March 8th approaching, we’re looking forward to celebrating the two year anniversary since Vermintide 2 was released on Steam! We’ve only have you all to thank for the success of Vermintide 2, of course having joined us on the journey so far, or part of it perhaps, yet here reading this post all the same. So again, thank you for being here and we hope you enjoy what we have in store for you for 2020 and Year 3, or ~ 2524 IC!

To celebrate the anniversary we’ll be letting the heroes loose on the streets of Helmgart to have A Quiet Drink (hopefully) and relax a little. They’ve earned it! The special adventure map will be available between the 5th and 12th of March and will be partnered with a limited time Quest reward to mark the occasion.

We’ll also be hosting a Fatshark Stream on the 6th of March where we’ll grab some devs, do some Show & Tells, check out some mods and play some games with you all.

We’ve also partnered with a bunch of Streamers you’ll no doubt know, they’ll be celebrating along with us and all of you over on Twitch where we’ve armed them with some Swag to distribute as they see fit! We’ll get a schedule up and announced next week, but in the meantime chuck them a follow and you’ll be informed when they come online!

FUPLAAYZ
https://www.twitch.tv/fuplaayz

WARWITCH TV
https://twitch.tv/warwitchtv

GOOFGUY
https://www.twitch.tv/goofguy

HELLOFLOWER
https://twitch.tv/helloflower

ISHKA TV
https://www.twitch.tv/ishkatv

MOOPSHARK
https://www.twitch.tv/moopshark

WALKERTRIPS
https://www.twitch.tv/walkertrips



Yesterday we pushed out a bunch of fixes for the console versions of Vermintide 2. With a bunch of crashes fixed, players should also experience much better connection stability with other players and be dropped far less frequently from matches where the host as unfortunately crashed out. Thanks for reporting these issues to us and bearing with us as we get these things patched up!

The process on consoles is much more complex than the relative freedoms we have on Steam to push updates more frequently, so we genuinely feel for you during times of instability. It’s never our goal for you to feel alienated or left behind and we do appreciate it can feel that way. We just want you to know it’s neither malice or lack of care, just things (processes mostly), are very different on these platforms.

Thanks for checking out the experimental beta this past weekend and giving us your thoughts and feedback on the changes.

Overall the changes were received well and as such we're putting those changes live, including the reintroduction of the unintended mechanic which allows for some customisation of Heroic Deeds. The full patch notes for this release are below.

• Changed how enemy faction populations are determined in the missions. Skaven and Chaos now have a higher chance of appearing in a mission compared to Beastmen. Should mean less Beastmentide across the board.
  
• Beastmen can no longer spawn in Blood in the Darkness. They don't like being inside spooky castles.
  
• Polished Ungor and Gor attack damage triggers. Should now feel more fair with the attack animation.
  
• Added an exploit that allows players to customise their Deed difficulties and map choices.
  
• Fixed a crash in the dialogue system when a client joins an on-going game.

Added since Experimental Beta closed

• Added VFX to the end event fight in Blood in the Darkness.
  
• Fixed some broken ledges before the end event on Blood in the Darkness where bots with weak knees kept faling off from.
  
• Fixed an issue with being able to lock out teammates in the first event on Blood in the Darkness.
  
• Fixed enemies not being able to path to players through the door during the end event on Blood in the Darkness.
  
• Fixed an issue with not being able to join or matchmake in to a Weave lobby queued for ranked play.
  
• Fixed a crash that could happen during Lord fights.

Hope you've had a groovy week. We've not got it all right have we. But hats off to you for letting us know where we misstep. We genuinely appreciate it.

Today we're putting an Experimental Beta out to Steam, available for all owners of Vermintide 2, but with particular emphasis on the Beastmen available for Winds of Magic enabled lobbies.

[BETA ACCESS DETAILS ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST]

You've fed back to us that there seems to be a disproportionate amount of Beastmen in your Vermintide. For some time now we've been fettling with Beastman presence throughout the game on an internal version, and are ready to bring those changes in to a beta for your feedback. There's also changes to Ungor and Gor attacks damage triggers, we're hoping these are more in line with their animations so there's less chance of them getting off cheap shots.

We also heard that we really shouldn't be fixing the Heroic Deed exploit that some folks used to spice up their Deeds before we have improved the Deed system for players. And yep, we agree that removing that was tone deaf (feel free to blame Hedge!). In the meantime, we've reintroduced that to the game.

• Changed how enemy faction populations are determined in the missions. Skaven and Chaos now have a higher chance of appearing in a mission compared to Beastmen. Should mean less Beastmentide across the board.
  
• Beastmen can no longer spawn in Blood in the Darkness. They don't like being inside spooky castles.
  
• Polished Ungor and Gor attack damage triggers. Should now feel more fair with the attack animation.
  
• Added an exploit that allows players to customise their Deed difficulties and map choices.
  
• Fixed a crash in the dialogue system when a client joins an on-going game.

To install the 2.2.1 Experimental beta, please:

• Right-click Vermintide 2 in your Steam library sidebar 
  
• Select 'Properties' 
  
• Select the 'Betas' tab
  
• Expand the dropdown and select:
  2.2.1_experimental

A 12mb download for the patch Experimental branch should then start downloading. If the download does not start automatically, please restart the Steam client. It's also around 12mb to switch back to the LIVE version.

PROGRESS WILL BE PERSISTENT BETWEEN THE TEST AND LIVE GAME

If you're playing the experimental beta and wish to provide feedback or report a bug, please do submit those to the dedicated categories on our official forums:

https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/c/V2-Exp/EXP-feedback/60
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/c/V2-Exp/EXP-Bugs/61



Join Tim, Tom and Tuva over on Twitch today at 13:30 UTC where they’ll be talking about the Experimental Beta.

https://www.twitch.tv/fatsharkgames