Warhammer: Vermintide 2 News

• February 9, 2022 – 2-hour shutdown starting at 11:00am PDT (8:00 pm CET)
  
• February 14, 2022 – 4-hour shutdown starting at 11:00am PDT
  
• February 16, 2022 – 6-hour shutdown starting at 11:00am PDT
  
• February 21, 2022 – 24-hour shutdown starting at 11:00am PDT
  
• February 28, 2022 – Permanent shutdown
  

When Epic Games announced its Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) service would be officially supported on the Steam Deck, the company said it was possible to "activate anti-cheat support for Linux via Wine or Proton with just a few clicks". Unfortunately, according to a developer of Warhammer: Vermintide 2, this seemingly isn't the case.

In a Steam discussion thread (via GamingOnLinux), Fatshark staff member Hedge revealed that there are in fact two versions of EAC: EOS (Epic Online Services) and non-EOS. Hedge says this presents a problem for some developers who want their games to run on the Steam Deck, because "most games historically use Non-EOS EAC. It's the one Vermintide 2 uses as well. Epic only added Proton support for the EOS version of EAC. Therefore, in order to implement Proton support for Vermintide 2, a huge amount of reworking of the EAC implementation would be required".

Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive previously alluded to this issue back in October, leading to concerns that it and other popular Steam games may not work on the Steam Deck at launch (if at all). Worse still, BattlEye, another popular third-party anti-cheat service, is also creating issues for games like DayZ, which may not work on the Steam Deck.

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• Introducing a new game mode to bring rouge-lite/like mechanics into Vermintide with the free Chaos Wastes expansion.
• Adding Hedge into the game and letting Kerillian get in touch with the Queen of Athel Loren by releasing her newest career: Sister of the Thorn.
  
• Creating a new event for October’s Geheimnisnacht and beefing up the Chaos Wastes game mode by adding Grudge Marks.
• Letting Saltzpyre extol the virtues of Sigmar even more with his new career: Warrior Priest of Sigmar on PC and Xbox (with Playstation to come in January!).

• More communication! The community team has grown in 2021, which gives us more opportunities to communicate with you and listen to your feedback. We’ll be aiming to provide you with honest, clear, and transparent communication within our limitations on our various platforms (Steam Forums/Fatshark Forums/Reddit/Discord). This is a strategy we are still growing into and finding our voice in as a studio and may take some time, but our end goal is to cultivate a relationship with you all that fosters trust, respect, and open feedback.
  
• Community surveys! We want to make sure you all have ample opportunity to speak to us and reach out to us on concentrated topics directly. So, starting in 2022, you will see surveys on different aspects of the game, content you all want to see, and more. We want to better understand where you all come from, what you expect from us, and how you play; which will help us create a better game for you!
  
• More streams! Streams on the FatsharkGames Twitch will return fortnightly every other Friday starting January 7, where we will host games with the community, fireside chats, community highlight reels, and more. This will be your place to talk to us in real-time, get to know other community members, kick back, and discuss all things Vermintide!
  
• The return of the newsletter! If you signed up for our email newsletter, you’ll see those returning in 2022 as well, which will be your digest to community-created content, in-game events, gameplay tips and tricks, lore tidbits, and much more!
  

• Improved localization.
  
• Fix crash when opening the playerlist while in a deed.
  
• Fixed crash when player hits a dead actor with a melee weapon.
  
• Fixed crash when always blocking boon is picked up or gets disabled while new weapon is loading in.
  
• Fix DLCs not being changed to installed when buying a DLC while in-game for PC.

• Added a public option for build view privacy setting.
  
• Made the privacy option asymmetric: now if you set your build to public others will be able to see it regardless of their setting.
  
• A label should now show for others when another player's build is hidden due to privacy.

• Into the Nest: Fixed an issue where players could get left behind in the Into the Nest when two players pulled the lever at the same time (sometimes resulting in crash at the end of the elevator trip).

• Warrior Priest's Implacable should now work as expected. The delayed damage effect was doing too much damage.
  
• Revives from the Warrior Priest's The Comet's Gift talent now count in the scoreboard.
  
• Ironbreaker's Gromril Armor should now refresh on clients.
  
• Ironbreaker's Vengeance talent should now activate when Gromril Armor is triggered.
  
• Grail Knight, Outcast Engineer, Sister of the Thorn and Warrior Priest of Sigmar have a chance to do mission briefings when loading into a map.
  
• Fixed curse resistance not affecting Twitch mode curses.
  
• Corrected rarity for one of the nonruned Choas Wastes weapons.
  
• Fixed an animation in 1h Spear and Shield.
  
• The gamma setting no longer affects text rendering.
  
• Chaos Wastes: Corrected rarities of weapon illusions.

• Victor Saltzpyre's new career: Warrior Priest of Sigmar, is available now!
  
• Daily Login Rewards: Daily login rewards are now available in Lohner's Emporium of Wonders. Earn more shillings by visiting him daily!
• Added AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution (FSR) to help boost performance from lower resolutions.

• Fixed various unspecifiable crashes.
  
• Fixed various localisation issues.
  
• Fixed crash when selecting an item to salvage with gamepad in the crafting menu.

• The Chaos Spawn will now deal less damage on grabbing a player, and more consistently deal damage when chewing or slamming a player. The Chaos Spawn will also now only either chew, or slam a player as opposed to both back to back.
  
• Stormvermin Commanders can now be cleaved through as expected after having mass modifiers added.
  
• Maulers no longer have an attack deadzone, where they would stand in an idle pose due to having a gap between attack-type distance requirements.

• Chaos Spawn and Minotaur can no longer be marked with 'Shield Shatter'.
  
• Chaos Trolls can no longer be marked with 'Invulnerable'.
  
• Reduced chance of getting 'Invulnerable' along with 'Regenerating'.
  
• 'Crippling' and 'Shield Shatter' will no longer appear together.
  
• Reduced chance of getting 'Illusionist' along with 'Shadow-Step' OR 'Invincible'

• Empire in Flames: Fixed a location where players could get stuck.
  
• Fort Brendanfrasier: Fixed a location at the end event where bots could get stuck.
  
• Garden of Morr: Fixed a soft lock that could prevent the level from being completed.
  
• Horn of Magnus: Replaced a low poly vista house with one that looks more in-line with the neighbouring properties.
  
• Chaos Wastes: Players can now switch away from bombs while under the "Endless Bombs" potion.
  
• Chaos Wastes: The Chest of Trials can now spawn Minotaurs when playing a Skaven/Beastmen flavoured location.
  
• Chaos Wastes: Fixed some cases where the Chest of Trials failsafe would trigger too soon.

• Fixed game mode not showing correctly for Weaves and Chaos Wastes in Steam Rich Presence.
  
• The standard lobby browser's text should no longer get messed up while viewing a lobby in a Citadel expedition.
  
• Twitch Mode voting UI should now appropriately "ding" both hosts and clients when counting down in both Adventure and Chaos Wastes game modes.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the Athanor interface to glow an ominous red.
  
• When multiple monsters are in play, the HP bar shown will prioritize the monster that you either pinged, dealt damage to, or took damage from last (ping and dealing damage having a higher priority), and will display the closest monster's HP as a fallback.
  
• Chaos Wastes: Fixed an issue where Bile Troll HP bars would display incorrectly.
  
• Added an option for `Equipment & talents privacy` to control who can see your equipped items and talents in the new playerlist menu. The relationship is symmetrical: if you're not sharing your talents with someone you won't be able to see theirs either.

• Outcast Engineer's 'Field Trials' Okri's Challenge can now be completed if the player has selected the 'Gromril-Plated Shot' talent.
  
• Outcast Engineer's 'Engineer's Resolve' Talent multiplier has restored back to 1 from an unintentional change to 0.5.
  
• The Conflagration Staff casting location should now be visible to all players.
  
• 'Resourceful Combatant' should now appropriately proc on melee attacks.
  
• Bots should more reliably 'reload' Throwing Axes and Javelins.
  
• Ironbreaker Bardin's index finger should no longer have a strange marking on certain settings/configurations.
  
• Pinging a downed player should once again work as expected.

A Warrior Priest of Sigmar fights evil in all its forms, engaging in close combat with holy purpose. As a Warrior Priest, Saltzpyre draws upon faith to empower his blows and shield himself from harm. Wielding trusty hammers or combining them with a tome or shield, he calls upon divine might to inspire comrades and strike fear into his foes.