Heroes,

Welcome to the 5-Year Anniversary of Vermintide. 5 years ago we were nervously staring at the button to get the first game in this amazing series live. The moments directly after pressing the button were filled with joy, pride, nervousness, excitement and with a slight aftertaste of panic. What if you did not like our little rat-smashing simulator? We were in for a surprise, you loved it! Together we ventured through Stormdorf, slayed rats in Karak Azgaraz, and fell through the floor in Drachenfels.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 was our next adventure, and we would be lying if we said that we were not equally nervous about releasing Vermintide 2 as back when we first released Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide. The development team back then was smaller, but all emotions were there once more.

The years have flown by. We are humbled, grateful, overjoyed and thankful to each and everyone of our players. Thank you for everything, and here’s to the coming years!

In order to celebrate 5-Years of the Ubersreik 5’s rat extermination we are inviting you to 5 days filled with activities. Between October 21 - 25 you can join the celebrations inside and outside of the Vermintide universe, on all platforms!

You’ve got us hooked

The Obese Megalodon hat is available on all platforms between October 21 - 25. Jump into Vermintide 2 and complete one mission in order to catch this smashing look for all heroes.

Slay Rats, Be rewarded

Play Vermintide 2 during the 5-Year Anniversary and all of your kills will fill up the counter. Reach the milestones and all players will be rewarded!

A Quiet Drink returns

Follow the heroes out on town! The special anniversary mission ‘A Quiet Drink’ will be available on all platforms during the 5-Year Anniversary.

Join the Anniversary Stream

On October 23 at roughly 4pm CET you can tune in to the Fatshark Stream where CEO Martin and Narrative Director Mårten will look down memory lane - and possibly share something new!

www.twitch.tv/fatsharkgames

5-Year Anniversary Discounts

The anniversary would not be complete without some extra special discounts during this week of celebrations. The Unhinged Heroes, Hearth & Home, and Wanderlust Anniversary Hat Bundles will be available for PC players to purchase for a special price only during the Anniversary.

5th year of Vermintide as a series, not of vermintide 2.

I’m pretty happy about this event, when’s the last time we got a hat during one of these? I don’t think there’s any need to go crazy over it or the announcement or anything, but it’s a nice gift and a good occasion to celebrate the game’s success.
Also, A Quiet Drink! Neat!

I’m still hoping we get a Geheimnisnacht after this, too!

I totally agree about the unhealthy cramming. The timer idea sounds real nice, especially for people who may be busy on the weekend. Might be less stressful for some people too because they don’t feel they have to be available in a two day period to take advantage of that.

I’m not excusing it, per se, but one reason for the lack of something bigger might be all the big projects they’re working on right now. At any rate, it’s nice to see hats on sale. I liked the Waystalker one because it actually showed some hair. I never bought any because I didn’t want to spend upwards of $5 on a hat and I was disappointed by no new armors. Among other reasons.

Players in some regions aren’t able to get these bundles at the moment. Steam has a rule that the average price of an item after discount in a bundle must be above a certain $ threshold when re-converted back from the regional currency. Some regional prices result in the average price per item in these bundles not meeting that threshold and as such they are unavailable in those regions. We’re checking if we can somehow fix this.

In order to get those items in bundles in regions with lower regional pricing we did have to increase their base price, so they fell within the Valve required ‘average price per item’ index they use. Sucks

I will point out when we have offered frames in the past, we have been met with “omg a frame so lazy” so Adelion isn’t far off the mark. Everyone wants a bit of something different from the next, and sometimes they want it all. It’s hard to get it right every time