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Hotfix 5.4.2 - 17th of April As a heads up, the patch size for this hotfix is unfortunately 25GB. We're still investigating what's causing some of our patches to have this issue to be able to avoid this in the future.

Features & Tweaks

• Added new sound effects for when the Chaos Warrior with Shield blocks a ranged attack.
  Slightly increased the likelihood of hero conversations starting in A Parting of the Waves.
  Tweaked some objective markers in A Parting of the Waves to avoid confusion.
  Added an idle animation for the 5th Hero in A Parting of the Waves.

Fixes

• Fixed the missing dialogue for Saltzpyre when he's the last man standing and when someone wastes healing. Ohhh he's gonna let 'em have it now...!
  
• Fixed a visual bug in the first person view of a particular fireball staff illusion, which was missing its proper glow.
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Heroes!
A free new update is coming to PC on April 11, containing a new map: the conclusion of the Karak Azgaraz storyline! This fourth, final map is not a remaster of a Vermintide 1 mission, but a brand new, stormy mission!

A Parting of the Waves Those who have followed Lohner’s Chronicles recently might already know, but our Heroes are not on the best of terms right now. After Sienna picked up Necromancy and started raising the dead to fight the onslaught of Skaven and Chaos better, things have been… tense. Distrust slowly surged amongst our heroes. Today, the Ubersreik Five are on the verge of falling apart.

That’s when jolly ol’ Kruber had a fantastic idea! The Five should group up and set sail, chasing after the Skaven ships fleeing after being routed in Khazukan Kazakit-Ha!
Slayi... Read more

Never one to pass up an opportunity to keep the old war funds flowing, I reckon it's time to take the Emporium of Wonders in a whole new direction, namely shoes, boots, sandals, sabots, and clogs - a festive festonery of footwear. I mean, some folk might say that an army marches on its stomach, but wiser heads know that it's the feet that make the magic happen. Gotta look after them, is what I'm saying ... for the right price. Now, who wants what?


Do you wonder to wander? Searching for the boot for your route? A shoe to break your blue? Dare not to leave your toes bare? Maybe Ladrielle has asked you to step up your footwear game?

Lohner’s Shoe Emporium of Wonders offers those wandering among us (looking at you, Kerillian) a place to keep your toes dry. For the price of a couple of shillings, your Hero can wear the most dashing and daring of sole-fu... Read more

Hotfix 5.3.5 - 15th of March
Fixes

• Fixed a consistent crash when completing an Essence Weave objective.

Hotfix 5.3.4 - 14th of March
Fixes

• Fixed players being booted to the main menu upon being disconnected, they're now booted to the Keep.
  
• Fixed various crashes related to the chat window.
  
• Fixed a crash when starting a Back to Basics deed while having an Outcast Engineer with the Gromril Plated Shots talent.
  
• (Versus) Fixed the last sub-objectives being counted twice when completed
  
• (Versus) Fixed a softlock when using controllers in Versus.
  
• (Versus) Fixed a bug that allowed firing while in ghost mode as Warpfire Thrower and Ratling Gunner.
  
• (Versus) Fixed a bug that allowed Pactsworn to spawn from ghost mod...

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Patch notes for the hotfixes after this patch can be found in our Hotfix 5.3.X Megathread

Heroes!
It’s time! The Sixth Anniversary event for Vermintide 2 has started and is now live on all platforms! It will run from today March 7th to March 18th, so make sure to enjoy it while it lasts!

Six years, huh? That’s quite a while! We said this before, but we really wanna hammer it home: We are SO grateful to you guys that this community is still going strong after all this time, having fun and enjoying the shenanigans of the Ubersreik Five. Here’s to many more years, here’s to all of the content coming in the future! There’s still a lot in the works, and not just the Versus Game Mode!

Developer Stream: 16:30 CET / 10:30 EST We’ll be hosting a stream with Joakim our Design Director, and Erik our Pr... Read more

Heroes, It’s been six years! You’ve been slaying rats, northlanders, goats, and sometimes each other (More on that later, eh?) and we couldn’t be more grateful that you’re still around, having fun with our game. At the end of the day, this game wouldn’t be worth making if it wasn’t for you guys, so from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being part of this great community!

The 6-year anniversary event will start on all platforms on March 7 and finish on March 17. As always, our heroes will be able to celebrate by having a proper night out in the ‘A Quiet Drink’ map, which will be enabled alongside the event. There’s also a brand-new portrait frame to go along with it, as well as double XP!

But that’s not all! We’re doing something special to go along with this particular celebration…!

Versus Alpha Test, open to all owners of Vermintide 2 on PC! You probably know this if you saw last week’s dev blog, but we’re holding another Alpha Test... Read more

Greetings Heroes and Pactsworn alike,
My name is Joakim and I’m the Design Director for Vermintide 2. In this dev blog, I want to look at some findings from the Versus Closed Alpha Test and give you an update on the state of Versus.

To kick this off I want to extend our deepest gratitude to all of you who participated in the Closed Alpha Test. From a developer standpoint, it is always a scary feeling putting things out to you players for initial impressions, but we came out of this with the feeling of overwhelming success. You seemed to have a good time, we got a ton of good feedback, the servers were fairly stable and we did not see any overly alarming crashes or issues preventing play. In short, we couldn’t have hoped for anything more.

Now, on to some stats!

The Closed Alpha Test saw slightly over 3600 players on PC participating in a total of 6056 rounds across 2093 games. The overall majority of those ended up with a clear winner, with 7% en... Read more