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An absent-minded man of mysteries, Franz Lohner relies on his bulging journal to keep track of occurrences, intrigues and arguments around Taal's Horn Keep. Sometimes his notes are even useful, believe it or not. The Franz Lohner Chronicles are extracts from that journal.

Franz Lohner's Chronicle - A Walk in the Woods
Well, I finally did it: I got Kerillian to open up a bit about her past. I mean, not all the way, and she had a funny look in her eye, but it’s a start, right? And it’s not as though her eyes don’t look funny all the time.

Seems Athel Loren’s a bit of a melting pot. Most bloodlines stretch back to the times before the Sundering. You know, before there was dark elves and high elves, and there was just, well, elves. Or as Kerillian puts it, ‘pure’ elves, untainted by that big old civil war the rest of the pointy-ears are always embroiled in. But over the years, the forest’s also become a refuge for outcasts from Ulthuan and Naggaroth, and though the... Read more

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Hotfix 4.1.1

• Fixed a crash that happened when a peer started a mission vote while a shop popup was open.
  
• Reverted experience refactoring for prestige levels
  
• It's once again possible to cancel host migration.

Heroes!
Welcome to Patch 4.1! This updates comes with a slew of fixes and a couple of tweaks.

Critically it also includes additional telemetry capture so we can identify where and how lobbies are being affected by the networking changes that came with the last major update.

For some players, there will have been no notable effect as a result of those networking changes.

However, we do appreciate that for some players, often from more isolated regions (in terms of distance to Steam servers), as well as players who play together from within t... Read more

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An absent-minded man of mysteries, Franz Lohner relies on his bulging journal to keep track of occurrences, intrigues and arguments around Taal's Horn Keep. Sometimes his notes are even useful, believe it or not. The Franz Lohner Chronicles are extracts from that journal.

FRANZ LOHNER'S CHRONICLE - THE FATE OF GRUNGNI'S WHISPER
Still no luck finding Bardin’s daughter, sad to say. It’s depressing, really. Time was, a goblin couldn’t sneeze within the bounds of the Old World without me hearing about it – if I were interested in greenskin nasal discharges, leastways – but nowadays it’s getting harder and harder to lay my hands on solid information. Getting old, that’s the problem. Spying’s a young man’s game.

Recent events don’t exactly help. World’s gone mad, and that’s trouble for those of us who pride ourselves on having a bit of sanity left.

So what do I actually know? Well, I’ve had word from Barak Varr that a Hedda Bardinsdottir took ship – as captai... Read more

An absent-minded man of mysteries, Franz Lohner relies on his bulging journal to keep track of occurrences, intrigues and arguments around Taal's Horn Keep. Sometimes his notes are even useful, believe it or not. The Franz Lohner Chronicles are extracts from that journal.

FRANZ LOHNER’S CHRONICLE – THE WOLVES OF WINTER Well, if the icy wind and brooding skies weren’t enough of a clue, Mondstille’s upon us, and the end of the year close behind. Of course, some say the end of the world’s looming as well, but they always do around this time. Something about being forced to spend more time with their families, I reckon. Never understood it myself.

We’ve had a sizeable pack of wolves take up residence on the mountainside south of the keep. I tell you, I’ve heard a lot and seen more, but their howls still send a shiver along my spine. Right nasty bunch these wolves are too, with a scar-faced leader who looks like he’s got a nasty bit of cleverness hiding in his noggin. One... Read more

Hello, My name is Alina, and I am a Visual Special Effects (VFX) artist at Fatshark.

I have been working at Fatshark for just over a year, and I help create the VFX for Warhammer: Vermintide 2.

What is VFX? It is all of the explosions, sparks, fire, gas clouds... I could go on forever.

When I am not working, I like to cuddle with my dog 'Buffy' and play DnD and video games. Some of my current favorite games are Hollow Knight, Hades, and Psychonauts.

Today I want to talk about the VFX I created for our newest career: the Outcast Engineer. If you don't know about the new career for Bardin Goreksson, I suggest you read more about it here.

The Idea. Before my job started with the VFX, we began talking about the idea that it could be interesting to have a ranged only career, and the new weapons and gameplay mechanics we might use for this career. Now we know that the Outcast Engineer is not a fully ranged career, but that is where we started... Read more

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An absent-minded man of mysteries, Franz Lohner relies on his bulging journal to keep track of occurrences, intrigues and arguments around Taal's Horn Keep. Sometimes his notes are even useful, believe it or not. The Franz Lohner Chronicles are extracts from that journal.

THE OLD BARON OF BLUCHENDORF Well, the nights are drawing in, and the days are sure as stone getting colder. Why, I’ve had to send some of the lads down the mountain to gather more timber for the watchfires to save them icing right to the ground. Much to my surprise, Saltzpyre went with ‘em. Then again, I suppose if anyone has an eye for good kindling, it’s a witch hunter.

Puts me in mind of a time from my mercenary days, back over in Bluchendorf. Coldest winter on record. Priest froze to his pulpit, and if there was an hour’s worth of light in the sky before the storms closed in, you were doing well. On top of that, we started getting reports of ghastly spirits on the road, attacking those few trav... Read more

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Heroes!
Patch 4.0.1 & 4.0.2 are live which fix mostly crashes. For players who experienced a higher ping than usual since 3.4 are encouraged to try out the Steam BETA app as Valve have pushed some changes[forums.fatsharkgames.com] there which may alleviate the issue - do feedback if this helped (or not) so we can adjust accordingly going forward.

Patch 4.0.2

• Fixed a crash when Kruber's handgun appears in a chest/inventory/the athanor.

Patch 4.0.1

• Fixed a crash when finishing a game with some mutators activated.
  
• Fixed an inst...

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Last time we had a bit of a natter, you were asking me about the refurbishment of this here keep, I believe?

How do you feel about it now it’s bedding in, by the way? I reckon it’s practical to put the armoury and the forge next to one another. Although now I come to think of it, maybe storing black powder bombs next to open flames wasn’t the best idea I’ve ever had. Still, it’ll be a night to remember, if nothing else. And it’s not like any of us are clumsy old sods, is it?

Well, it’s not like all of us are clumsy old sods, anyway. Maybe we ought to lock that bomb cabinet up? And keep the key well hidden.

Anyhow, about the closed-off sections of the keep. That’s a bit of a necessity, I’m afraid. My mate Rosalinde – who as I’m sure you’ll recall, what with you all taking eager notes and trying to second guess ... Read more

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Heroes,
Welcome to Season 4 for Winds of Magic on PC. Together with Winds of Magic Season 4 we are also bringing some fixes to Vermintide 2 on PC. Full patch notes can be found below.

Winds of Magic - Season 4 on PC
The new Season for Winds of Magic is now live. The leaderboards have been reset, and new portrait frames can be unlocked by clearing Weave 40, 80, 120 and 160. Good luck!

If you finish a quick play Weave you will also be rewarded with a new portrait frame. The Weaves have of course been reshuffled in a new order.

• Fixed various unspecified crashes.
  
• Fixed a sound issue on jumping/landing with the Masterwork Pistol and Kerillian's Spear & Shield.
  
• Fixed engineer Bombardment challenge being rewarded randomly to players.
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Taal’s Horn Keep has recently seen a bit of a change. Seems we have to once more turn to Lohner to get the full story… Or parts of it.

So, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve made a few changes around the keep.

Why? Well, leaving aside the fact that variety’s the spice of life, this place was never meant for long-term habitation (that’s ‘living’ to you and me, Kruber), let alone being any kind of military outpost … which the way things are going, we’ll end up being sooner rather than later. And then there’s the fact that Olesya keeps taking up ever more room, Catrinne needs more space to store her works of art. It’s getting a mite crowded.

Then there’s this other business Saltzpyre keeps muttering about. Might need some extra space for that and all. ​And ​ there’s my stockroom to con... Read more

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Heroes!
Welcome to patch 3.4.2 on PC.

This update brings you some fixes to issues that were introduced in patch 3.4 as well as some additional tweaks.

• Bots should now step out of the line of fire when Outcast Engineer readies his Crank Gun.
  
• Bots should now drop Grimoires if instructed to.
  
• It should once again be possible to pass off an incendiary bomb with 'E'.
  
• When using console HUD and swapping between KBM and controller, weapon prompts should no longer be visible.
  
• Tweaked the size of the ability bar fill texture a bit for the gamepad HUD.
  
• Fix the "spark" VFX getting stuck in view if swapping weapon from the Crank Gun whilst cranking it.
  
• Bardin's wonderful beard should no longer freak out at sub 30 FPS.
  
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