Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Dev Tracker

The whole game has been remastered, so whilst you do have a lot of the content in your default game, it's not packaged the same way for the Beta, and as such, would be replaced and re-downloaded entirely if you copied it across.

TL:DR nope, it's a whole brand new download that cannot be skipped using the default game data.

Strange. The launcher sounds like it's opening "off screen" so to speak, which can happen with some 4k set ups, so that it happens on your set up is perplexing :3

When the launcher opens, but you cannot see it, make sure you have it selected in your task bar and hit tab 8 times, then hit enter.

This might work - testing the hypothesis on my PC seems to yield results. Are you running in 4K?

Originally posted by PMR:

Originally posted by Fatshark Hedge: It would replace the whole game with this 40gb version. Then you'd only have the beta version of the game, and no access to the live game. It's 40gb. It's not tooo big a deal.

Fairly big when space is a concern, i had to uninstall the base game to have more room for it.

The process of updating the main game with a beta would have resulted in the same thing, but this way for people with lots of space, they can use the l... Read more

Originally posted by PMR:

Originally posted by Fatshark Hedge: It's the whole game + Winds of Magic :P

Then why not just have the beta as an opt in for the original game instead of redownloading the entire thing?

It would replace the whole game with this 40gb version. Then you'd only have the beta version of the game, and no access to the live game. It's 40gb. It's not tooo big a deal.

Originally posted by Burstnok: could we speed up the download by copying over the normal VT2 and letting Steam patch over it?

This is a remastered version of the game so the download manifest is very different from the live game.

Originally posted by PMR:

Originally posted by Fatshark Hedge: Did you download the 40gb update? Until now, you had only installed the Launcher.

a 40 gb update? why so large?

It's the whole game + Winds of Magic :P

Did you receive a beta invitation Dank?

Did you download the 40gb update? Until now, you had only installed the Launcher.