Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Dev Tracker

Never one to pass up an opportunity to keep the old war funds flowing, I reckon it's time to take the Emporium of Wonders in a whole new direction, namely shoes, boots, sandals, sabots, and clogs - a festive festonery of footwear. I mean, some folk might say that an army marches on its stomach, but wiser heads know that it's the feet that make the magic happen. Gotta look after them, is what I'm saying ... for the right price. Now, who wants what?


Do you wonder to wander? Searching for the boot for your route? A shoe to break your blue? Dare not to leave your toes bare? Maybe Ladrielle has asked you to step up your footwear game?

Lohner’s Shoe Emporium of Wonders offers those wandering among us (looking at you, Kerillian) a place to keep your toes dry. For the price of a couple of shillings, your Hero can wear the most dashing and daring of sole-fu... Read more

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

Heroes!

The Versus map will be changing back to Righteous Stand from 10:00 CET for the remainder of the Alpha Test. Just a reminder that the Alpha Test ends on 17th March 23:59.

Thank you to all those who have played so far!

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

Heroes!

Thank you for all your incredible feedback on the 'Righteous Stand' map so far, we will now be swapping map to 'Screaming Bell' from 13:30 CET 12th March - 10:00 CET 15th March. We will swap over gradually so it may take some time before you start to queue in to the 'Screaming Bell' map.

For those who played or watched during our Closed Alpha Test here are the changes we have made to 'Screaming Bell' for this test:

• Increased enemy presence (including enemies triggered by certain events)
  
• Reduced pickups / health
  
• Added a Reach objective stage after the Bell event (before the Bridge of Shadows)

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

Hotfix 5.3.5 - 15th of March
Fixes

• Fixed a consistent crash when completing an Essence Weave objective.

Hotfix 5.3.4 - 14th of March
Fixes

• Fixed players being booted to the main menu upon being disconnected, they're now booted to the Keep.
  
• Fixed various crashes related to the chat window.
  
• Fixed a crash when starting a Back to Basics deed while having an Outcast Engineer with the Gromril Plated Shots talent.
  
• (Versus) Fixed the last sub-objectives being counted twice when completed
  
• (Versus) Fixed a softlock when using controllers in Versus.
  
• (Versus) Fixed a bug that allowed firing while in ghost mode as Warpfire Thrower and Ratling Gunner.
  
• (Versus) Fixed a bug that allowed Pactsworn to spawn from ghost mod...

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

Patch notes for the hotfixes after this patch can be found in our Hotfix 5.3.X Megathread

Heroes!
It’s time! The Sixth Anniversary event for Vermintide 2 has started and is now live on all platforms! It will run from today March 7th to March 18th, so make sure to enjoy it while it lasts!

Six years, huh? That’s quite a while! We said this before, but we really wanna hammer it home: We are SO grateful to you guys that this community is still going strong after all this time, having fun and enjoying the shenanigans of the Ubersreik Five. Here’s to many more years, here’s to all of the content coming in the future! There’s still a lot in the works, and not just the Versus Game Mode!

Developer Stream: 16:30 CET / 10:30 EST We’ll be hosting a stream with Joakim our Design Director, and Erik our Pr... Read more

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

Heroes, It’s been six years! You’ve been slaying rats, northlanders, goats, and sometimes each other (More on that later, eh?) and we couldn’t be more grateful that you’re still around, having fun with our game. At the end of the day, this game wouldn’t be worth making if it wasn’t for you guys, so from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being part of this great community!

The 6-year anniversary event will start on all platforms on March 7 and finish on March 17. As always, our heroes will be able to celebrate by having a proper night out in the ‘A Quiet Drink’ map, which will be enabled alongside the event. There’s also a brand-new portrait frame to go along with it, as well as double XP!

But that’s not all! We’re doing something special to go along with this particular celebration…!

Versus Alpha Test, open to all owners of Vermintide 2 on PC! You probably know this if you saw last week’s dev blog, but we’re holding another Alpha Test... Read more

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

Greetings Heroes and Pactsworn alike,
My name is Joakim and I’m the Design Director for Vermintide 2. In this dev blog, I want to look at some findings from the Versus Closed Alpha Test and give you an update on the state of Versus.

To kick this off I want to extend our deepest gratitude to all of you who participated in the Closed Alpha Test. From a developer standpoint, it is always a scary feeling putting things out to you players for initial impressions, but we came out of this with the feeling of overwhelming success. You seemed to have a good time, we got a ton of good feedback, the servers were fairly stable and we did not see any overly alarming crashes or issues preventing play. In short, we couldn’t have hoped for anything more.

Now, on to some stats!

The Closed Alpha Test saw slightly over 3600 players on PC participating in a total of 6056 rounds across 2093 games. The overall majority of those ended up with a clear winner, with 7% en... 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.

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

Heroes! This announcement will catalogue all the hotfixes we have released for patch 5.2.0 that came in with the 2023 Rebalance patch, and will be kept current with the latest hotfix release added to the top of the patch notes.

Hotfix 5.2.3 - February 6th
Balance changes

• Reverted the monster damage nerf to Dual Daggers and instead applied a 15% damage nerf to Shade's career skill, to follow along with the general nerf to monster killers in patch 5.2.0
  
• Increased the base crit chance of Dual Dagger heavy attacks by 10%
  
• Reduced the base crit chance of Sword & Dagger's second heavy attack by 10%.
  
• Outcast Engineer: Increased "Ingenious Ordnance" bomb craft time to 120 seconds.
  
• Outcast En...

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Heroes!
Ready for some mayhem? We're once again ready to go ahead with the previously announced Closed Alpha Test this week! We apologize once again for the previous delay but now we're extra ready!

To reiterate! On February 8th, we will send invites to over 10,000 of you to participate in this alpha; so keep your eyes peeled on your emails (and that pesky pesky spam folder)!

If you weren't selected as part of our alpha test this time, please don't fret; we'll have more opportunities for you all to test in the future!

Join the stream February 7th, 5:15pm CET/11:15am EST/8:15am PST to learn more!
Stay tuned for more details coming this very week, including a stream with Joakim our Design Director, and Erik our Product Owner on February 7th, 5:15pm CET/11:15am EST/8:15am PST! We'll hold a Q&A where we'll be answering many of the questions you've asked throughout these past weeks, alongside questions from the stream and talking about th... Read more

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

Heroes,
Today, we sit down with Vermintide 2 developers—Joakim, our Design Director, and Erik, our Product Owner—about our goals and design philosophy for the closed alpha test for Versus happening in the near future.

Editor’s Note: As of this dev blog, the test has been delayed; but it is still sure to happen, and quite soon. We’ll keep everyone posted on new dates once we iron out this last wrinkle!

What is Versus and how can players expect it to work? We see Versus as a casual asymmetric 4v4 PvP+E game mode that pits the Ubersreik Five against our AI enemies and up to 4 player-controlled Skaven specials (known as the Pactsworn). The gameplay is based off of our adventure mode maps, but split into multiple sections. Heroes progress through a map section, completing objectives as they go. For each objective they get a certain amount of points.

The Pactsworn goal is to stop the Heroes from getting points by killing or disabling them. When... Read more