Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Dev Tracker

Hello there, my name is Karl and I'm one of the designers on the v2 team. My task is to follow up our glorious leader's post on general necromancer production with some insight into some of the challenges and decisions we made on the gameplay level.

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Creating a career starts with a fantasy plucked from the Warhammer universe that we want to translate into our game. Usually the fantasy gives you a hunch about what tools the career possesses, how it is going to play and what role it will fill. The Necromancer deviated slightly from this. We knew that she was going to summon skeletons and throw death magic around. How exactly she was going to play and what role she would fill was a bit more of a uncertainty as player minions as a concept was completely new.

Raised skeletons in Warhammer lore ar... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

My name is Joakim and I'm the design director on Warhammer: Vermintide 2. I've been a part of Fatshark even longer than Lohner and for 15 years I've been working mainly with level creation and design in pretty much all of our games. Earlier this spring I took on the role of leading the design vision and direction of Vermintide 2 - like being the resident mission giver.

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Hello darlings,
Now that the long-awaited career for Sienna - the Necromancer - is just around the proverbial Ranaldstrasse corner, I want to look back at the journey leading up to this point and show you some behind the scenes production footage in this dev blog.

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

The Ubersreik Five have been through some stuff haven’t they? Confounding the evil machinations of the Skaven at Ubersreik (even if they couldn’t quite save the city in the process). Then thwarting the Pactsworn alliance in the depths of Helmgart (again, a bit late to actually save the city, but who’s quibbling?). Little did they know that these weren’t isolated invasions of the kind the Empire has endured since its founding, but harbingers of a new and terrible age: the End Times, when the laughter of the dark gods finally swallows the world.

The Five have known for a while that something isn’t right, of course. Tzeentch, the Chaos God of Change, has been dabbling away with the causality of the mortal world, tangling fate and destiny into new designs for no other reason than because he can.

Divine Inte... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Heroes!
We’ve seen some questions regarding Sienna’s arsenal with the launch of Necromancer so we’ve gone ahead and prepared this graphic for you all to reference at a glance!




The new weapons coming with the Necromancer career are the Ensorcelled Reaper, a slow but powerful scythe weapon, and the Soulstealer Staff, which seeks out lives to snuff as it lives up to its name…

While these spooky weapons perfectly fit the withered hands of any Necromancer, this is still our Sienna! As a Necromancer, she will still have access to all of her existing staves and melee weapons, with the exception of the Flamestorm Staff.

Additionally, of her new weapons, the Ensorcelled Reaper will also be available to her previous careers, while the vile magicks of the Soulstealer Staff are exclusive to the Necromancer career.... Read more

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Heroes!

Is this real? ... Is it a dream? ... A nightmare? Or perhaps ... it's truth.

We're excited to announce Sienna's fourth career, the Necromancer, will release on Steam, Xbox One, and Playstation 4 on October 19!

Sienna’s Necromancer career is born from a fight with her twin sister, Sofia, granting her new powers and abilities that allow her to command the dead. How, exactly, these powers were obtained by the once Bright Wizard have yet to be revealed.

We know it's been a long time coming, and we can't wait to see you all try your hand at this new forbidden magic! Stay tuned as we get closer to her launch date for more information on her talents, abilities, and gameplay.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Heroes!
We've just put out patch 5.0.2, a collection of fixes, a few tweaks, and an update to the Collector's Edition Soundtrack to include soundtrack versions of the Chaos Wastes OST.

Bonus Content (~300 MB)

• The Collector's Edition has been updated to include the soundtrack for Chaos Wastes.

Hotfix 5.0.2 (~100 MB)

• The Crimson Greatsword (Executioner Sword) illusion now has the appropriate icon.
  
• Fixed various localisation issues.
  
• Twitch mode: Changed Spawn Size setting widget from a stepper to a slider, allowing setting values like 199% from in-game. Also bumped up the maximum allowable value from 200% up to 300%. Happy Twitching!
  
• Twitch mode: Added a failsafe against setting the minimum vote time and time between votes externally to prevent crashing.
  
• Fixed the "Weapon Trail VFX" setting not affecting flail skins (Dressad's...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hotfix 5.0.1 - June 14th at 13:00 CEST

• We're switching the rewards for Recruit and Cataclysm 'Karak Azgaraz' mission completion Okri's Challenges, where now the Recruit challenges will offer the Keep paintings, and the Cataclysm challenges will offer Shillings.
  
• Fix for valve door sounds being triggered on 'Mission of Mercy' level load.
  
• Fixed a crash on Mission of Mercy when more than one person activates the elevator.
  
• Fixed a crash when shooting at Sister of the Thorn's wall on Recruit or Veteran difficulty.
  
• Fixed a crash happening when client picks up the key to the Grimoire chest.
  
• Fixed a crash when client picks up potion at the same time as someone else hands them a new one.
  
• Fixed a crash when using Life Staff lift attack on a dummy in the Keep.
  
• Fixed a crash with the 'Blessings of Valaya' challenge should a play...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Skulls Discounts During the Skulls event until June 1st, avail of mega discounts across all Vermintide 2 DLCs, and even deeper discounts on the game itself if you need to recruit some friends to the cause!

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Heroes!
In-case you missed it during the Skulls Showcase, we announced the next free DLC coming to Vermintide 2, as well as a small note from our favourite Witch!





Karak Azgaraz is a free new content update coming on June 13th to PC, containing three fan-favorite maps, newly remastered and updated for Warhammer: Vermintide 2.

That's right, Lohner is sending you back to Khazid Kro to help a struggling dwarf war party sabotage the Skaven army. You're going to have to traverse through the Dwarfen stronghold once more and turn the tide in your favour by collapsing the invasion tunnels. Once done, light the beacons and signal Karak Azgaraz to mount their counterattack and foil the Pactsw... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.