Heroes,

Today we are excited to announce that the new advanced career for Bardin Goreksson, The Outcast Engineer, is available on Xbox One. It can be purchased over at the Microsoft Store or in Lohner’s Emporium of Wonders.

Similar to the previously released Grail Knight, the Outcast Engineer is available as one package.

Full list of Patch Notes & FAQ can be found at the bottom of this page.

THE OUTCAST ENGINEER

The Outcast Engineer is a new career for Bardin Goreksson. It contains the new playable career complete with new abilities, new weapon types, a new talent tree, a whole new Engineer skin, a new helmet, new challenges, and new voice lines.

Blast your way through waves of enemies with the grenades from your Utility Belt and the Steam-Assisted Crank Gun (Mk II) .

• Embrace your heritage with an exclusive character skin & voice lines .
• Wield personalized, all-new weapons: Masterwork Pistol and Cog Hammer .
• Enhance your bombs through the Outcast Engineers’ unique talent tree .
• Show your true vocation through the new exclusive Cosmetics.

With the Outcast Engineer, you receive two Hero Skin Color Variation , two Masterwork Pistol Illusion , two Cog Hammer Illusion from the start, and access to unlockable cosmetics for your Outcast Engineer.

COSMETICS UNLOCKABLE THROUGH OKRI’S CHALLENGES:

• 3 New Masterwork Pistol Illusions
• 3 New Cog Hammer Illusions
• 3 New Hero Skin Color Variations
• 2 New Helmets
• 3 New Portrait Frames
• 6 Exclusive Keep Paintings

When purchasing Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Outcast Engineer Career, you will receive 325 Shillings (in-game currency) to spend in the in-game store.

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Patch Notes

Quality of Life

End of Round

• Added ability to speed up rewards popup by pressing “B” while the popup is present.
• Sped up results screen summary and chest upgrade animations by 3x while holding “A”.
• Rewards popup now requires “pressed” event instead of “hold” so player would have a chance to react when receiving level reward chests.

Spoils of War

• Chest selection is now preserved when going back to item grid, unless there are no more instances of the selected type of chest, then it goes back to usual behavior of selecting first chest in current active page.

Gameplay

• Implement automatic blocking when losing control of your character.

Flavour

• While waiting players can now read interesting Lore-Tips that are visible at the bottom of the loading screen.

Animation Changes

New features

• All weapons and items have received new Interactive Inspects (except the Grail Knight ones, which already had it).
• All weapon and items now have a subtle weapon sway to make them feel less static on the screen.

Misc changes

• Bardin’s War Pick idle & movement animations tweaked to take up less screen space.
• Grudge-Raker, Handgun, Blunderbluss have gotten a minor overhaul in animations.
• Repeater Handgun has gotten an animation overhaul. The weapon now also doesn’t force you to shoot all 8 shots while holding aim.
• Dual Swords & Elven spear’s block animation slightly lowered to show the center of the screen.
• Some Shield skins now have adjusted block-animations to not block the center of the screen.
• Sienna’s left hand is now slightly moved so it doesn’t block the Conflagration Staff’s charged attack area.

Minor animation bugs fixed

• Kerillian’s Greatsword sometimes animating oddly after attacks now fixed.
• Throwing Axe Animation Bug.
• Kruber’s hands occasionally do not wrap around the Bretonnian longsword.
• Fixed an animation bug with the Executioners light-attack chain.
• Bardins shield strap positioned incorrectly in 3rd person now fixed.

Levels

Athel Yenlui

• Fixed a broken boss spawn.

Blightreaper

• Fixed an out of bounds exploit.

Blood in the Darkness

• Fixed a bad respawn point.

Convocation of Decay

• End event area now switches environments correctly and resolved issues with event missing sorcerers on the pillars.
• Fixed a hole in the map.
• Fixed an issue where bots did not path down the hole leading to the 2nd Grimoire location.
• Opened up inaccesible area to prevent bosses being unreachable there.

Dark Omens

• End event can now be completed if Wargor is killed prior to raising it’s banner (added 45s timers to spawn another carrier if a flag has not been raised for flag 2 and 3).
• Darkness environment fixed.

Empire in Flames

• Fixed a spot where enemies would climb through a wall.
• Fixed a spot wherre Sienna could get Out of Bounds.
• Added mover blockers to house roofs, improved shape on outer mover blocker, to resolve a location where players could exploit enemy inaction.
• Moved location of a ladder a tiny bit so bots don’t get stuck.

Enchanter’s Lair

• Fixed a location where players could get stuck.
• Fixed an issue with exposure when using the Flamewave Staff in the catacombs environment.
• Fixed darkness & twitch darkness setup.
• Fixed players who joined mid-battle being subsequently blocked behind secret door.
• Players can no longer use Sienna’s firewalk to exploit and kill Nurgloth.

Festering Ground

• Fixed a patrol that could cause a crash.
• Replaced newly added interactable crate with a non-interactable one.
• Tweaked jump over to the first tome (so bots should be able to reach it better now).

Fortunes of War

• Fixed an Out of Bounds exploit.

Garden of Morr

• Cauldron light should no longer be left visible after destruction.
• Fixed a spot where players can get stuck.

Halescourge

• Fixed some spots where bots got stuck.

Horn of Magnus

• Bosses could become stuck in inaccessible house. Added 2nd layer of default collision to prevent boss from being pushed into building.

Hunger in the Dark

• Fixed issues related to colour banding in start area. Environment tweaked, large fog volume at the start scaled down, light sources in start area tweaked.

Into the Nest

• Respawn camera moved from inside a rock.
• Fixed a hole in map near 3rd Tome.
• Fixed an awkward Globadier spawn.

Old Haunts

• Fixed an issue where bots could enter a hanging state when navigating a specific narrow pathway.
• Fixed an issue where bots may not follow the player down the hole after placing the gargoyle heads.
• Fixed an location where occlusion failed.
• Sometimes the door would not be broken to the church initiating the escape. This has now been solved.

Righteous Stand

• Fixed a spot where enemies could pass through a wall.
• Fixed some wonky respawn points.
• Fixed network syncing so hotjoined players could use the cannon.
• Fixed an issue with AI pathing going awry whilst the canon was in motion.

Screaming Bell

• Fixed a location where occlusion failed.
• Fixed location where Sienna could get stuck.
• Fixed some outlandish bot behaviours, such as them tight-rope walking bell chains and getting stuck in whack places.
• Improved navigation on meshes and rebuilt navmesh to improve bot pathing in specific areas.

Skippergate

• Fixed an out of bounds issue.

The Pit

• Fixed a hole in the map.
• Fixed a host crash in the first town area with the 1st grim.
• Fixed facespawning boss spawn spot.

The War Camp

• Fixed a location where players could get stuck.
• Fixed a spot where it was possible to get out of bounds.
• Fixed an issue where players could get stuck outside the Arena.

Weaves

• Essence on Weave 27, 67, 107 and 147 was too low to complete without trickle enemies, so we upped it.
• Weaves (Life) - Fixed light leaking through speficic walls.

Fixes and Tweaks

• A challenge (Iconic Presence) could trigger completion and not be rewarded. This challenge was cut in production and has been stripped from the game now.
• Adjusted opacity on Sienna’s eye lashes and switched to a double sided shader.
• Barrels can now spawn in Deprivation deeds.
• Bloodfletcher - Fixed an issue where new behaviour was not represented in the tooltip.
• Disabled a debug feature that could be opened by pressing ‘Insert’.
• Fix for Sword/Dagger’s Block loop not looping properly.
• Fixed a crash caused by the Billhook.Fixed a crash when a slot item changes while loadout is syncing the same slot type.
• Fixed a UI crash.
• Fixed a very uncommon softlock if a mission vote was started at the exact same time a player opened the change hero view.
• Fixed an issue where subtitle size and background would reset after restart.
• Fixed charged sweep generating more overcharge than it should when hitting mix of dead and alive enemies.
• Fixed crash when controller gets (de)activated during loading while loading tip is present.
• Fixed persistent scrolling audio in the lobby browser.
• Fixed recoil jerking camera sideways if recoil is applied while dodging or any other animation that rotates camera.
• Fixed skinning issue on Kruber’s neck.
• Fixed skinning issues on Huntsman face.
• Fixed the icons of Power vs Infantry and Power vs Armoured in Weaves being mixed up. (Thanks Fracticality for the heads up.)
• Fixed various other, more miscellaneous crashes.
• Heleborgs Tutelage - No longer gains multiple stacks when shield/blunderbuss bashing into a horde.
• If a ammo-less player replaces a bot that had no ammo, the out of ammo icon won’t be removed. This fixes that. Hopefully.
• Kruber’s (Grail Knight) ‘Virtue of Audacity’ Talent 2nd hit could be interrupted/cancelled by potion expiry. We now save weapon action speed at the start of the action, so any attack speed changed mid way through would not change attack chain timings.
• Made a minor tweak to Sienna’s fireball charge animation.
• Made bots default to tap attack to prevent crash when they are trying to destroy door barricades.
• Swiftbow - Fixed an issue where the crosshair would drift if shooting continuously for an extended time.
• The ‘shortcut’ to Athanor and back to the keep is now activated once you complete part 3 of the WOM tutorial, to avoid breaking the onboarding process.
• The Grail Knight careerskill VFX should no longer light up the character after the VFX goes away.
• When a player is being revived, the prompt would still appear for additional players attempting the revival. This prompt is now suppressed where a player is already reviving.