Fatshark_Hedge

That's a different issue Julia is referring to. I'll need to check if the host/client issue was solved.

This was changed to improve performance on the PS4 version of the game.

The Xbox Series will just run the same version of the game as it is on Xbone, hopefully. It's a hands off process for us. No work needed. But time will tell how that all works. I think the same for PS5. Both have given statements saying everything should work but some stuff just randomly might not as well. :)

We haven't any immediate plans for a new release for the new platforms though.

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Right now the game has parity across the platforms. :) so there will no doubt be updates in the future but nothing immediate / outstanding.

For Darktide we have already discussed this, we're afforded the luxury of screens in-game with that IP, so stuff like this becomes all the more immersive.

There's probably a way, but getting the implementation time might be tricky! The count goes through the same backend service where progression is stored, so we'd just need to increment a figure there and have the game display it in some fashion. I'll dig.

It's fair to think that, and usually (but not this time as it goes) there is a contingency plan. For Vermintide 1, we did a similar event using different telemetry. It was extrapolated from a sample of end of game reports. By all accounts pretty accurate, but not to the dime. We just multiplied the telemetry by 10, since we only captured 1 in 10 games. The same telemetry was used to guestimate what players would finish within the allotted time frame, rounded up usually. I updated that counter manually every few hours. It was exhausting. But the data was legit. We had the option to adjust the multiplier but it wasn't needed and actually came down to the wire, I think the challenge was finished in the final hour. (it was a 4 day event if memory serves)

For V2 though all clients report back their kills to the counter on round end. There's some protections and blacklists that work against people trying to report false data. But the data is 100% from game clients finishing maps....

I honestly thought you'd flunk it! We considered putting the hat up for grabs here but thought it would be a shame to see it lost. We did the math for 500 and thought it would be a squeeze, we had no idea how many would come for the free week(end?), and last minute we added 55,555,555 to be 'on theme' - I thought we might have gone too far, but it was pretty darned close! Gratz!

no trouble! The exit code, if it is a clue, might be hard to decipher so let me know if it's anything but 0x00000000

She could check her launcher log, it might have a clue (depends on various things). It's found in

C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Roaming\Fatshark\Vermintide 2

near the bottom of the log is an Exit Code log item.

10:24:44.917 [Launcher] [Launch Game] [Process Exit] Exit code: 0x00000000

for example.