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Vermintide Community Festival - DAY THREEApr 18, 2021 - Community Announcementshttp://www.twitch.tv/fightthetide {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4601846/b18b7c31f91ca552a14a6a78d3ed91f678994146.jpgVermintide Community Festival - DAY TWOApr 17, 2021 - Community Announcementshttp://www.twitch.tv/fightthetide {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4601846/f06de831ba38cbe946b08ecfa081c09876b0c628.jpgVermintide Community Festival - DAY ONEApr 16, 2021 - Community Announcementshttp://www.twitch.tv/fightthetide {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4601846/fe70ff798638e77d760c77d8dc0dbd0e8e76f925.jpgJoin Us for the Vermintide Community Festival - April 16–18!Apr 9, 2021 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4601846/20b98b4a12c07020532af1fd272f862a3c0cfcd0.jpg HEROES! The turn of a new season brings with it a new community event. Please join us for the inaugural Vermintide Festival April 16–18 streaming on http://www.twitch.tv/fightthetide! This is a three-day celebration celebrating all things Warhammer: Vermintide—The End Times, featuring gameplay and speedrun showcases, developer and voice actor interviews, community member panels, and more! Fatshark has kindly provided a wealth of VT1-themed items for this event, which we’ll be giving away at the end of each day of the festival! Check out the schedule below! (all times shown are EDT/UTC -4) PDF SCHEDULE HANDOUT FOR EASY REFERENCE FRIDAY, APRIL 16 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4601846/fe70ff798638e77d760c77d8dc0dbd0e8e76f925.jpg SATURDAY, APRIL 17 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4601846/f06de831ba38cbe946b08ecfa081c09876b0c628.jpg SUNDAY, APRIL 18 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4601846/b18b7c31f91ca552a14a6a78d3ed91f678994146.jpg Free Weekend - Warhammer: Vermintide 2Nov 21, 2019 - Product ReleasePlay Warhammer: Vermintide 2 for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also pickup Warhammer: Vermintide 2 at 75% off the regular price!* If you already have Steam installed, click here to install or play Warhammer: Vermintide 2. If you don't have Steam, you can download it here. *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time Games Workshop announces Warhammer fantasy will return to The Old WorldNov 16, 2019 - EurogamerGames Workshop has announced Warhammer The Old World, an upcoming return to the Fantasy Battle-era of the tabletop game. We only occasionally dabble in tabletop gaming news here on Eurogamer (if you're after an expert view of the scene - and a lot of fun to boot - check out our friends over at Dicebreaker). But I can't help but view this piece of news through a video game lens. For the uninitiated, back in 2015, Games Workshop destroyed Warhammer's much-loved Old World and replaced the Warhammer: The Game of Fantasy Battles tabletop with the Age of Sigmar. This was a resounding success in tabletop land, and Warhammer hasn't looked back since. Read more Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Winds of Magic sends in the cow men on August 13Aug 6, 2019 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe first expansion for Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Winds of Magic – is launching on August 13th, indie dev Fatshark revealed today. Winds of Magic introduces a new enemy type known as the Beastmen, a faction of cloven-hooved bipedal jerks who, according to Warhammer lore, are intent on destroying civilization and being all around bovine-faced hooligans. After a meteor crashes in the Reikland, the Beastmen rush to its epicenter to claim their sacred Herdstone shrine. The result is a bloody mess of dark cow action, a first-person slash-and-prod in a deep fantasy woodland that is explorable by your collective of heroes. Watch the gameplay trailer after the jump. (more…) Have You Played Warhammer: End Times Vermintide?Jul 3, 2019 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunHave You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. I’ve always thought Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide did a lot for the Skaven’s image. What were once an unconvincing race of miniature rat folk, are now as horrifying as an entire horde of zombies. (more…) Skulls for the Skull Throne 3 - Discounts on Vermintide and all DLCs!May 16, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30503110/68c52bd28dc73a0080b7467cd04cc231d7c8eca9.jpg Heroes, The Skulls for the Skull Throne event is here. The blood lust runs deep and Khorne seeks offerings through violence, destruction, and bloodshed. What better way to offer the above than via some deep discounts on your favourite Skaven Slaying Simulator? You can see all the content and respective discounts right here: https://store.steampowered.com/dlc/235540/Warhammer_End_Times__Vermintide/#browseVermintide 2 returning to Ubersreik in next DLCNov 12, 2018 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun The next DLC for Warhammer: Vermintide 2 will call back to the first game, revisiting and reworking three of the cooperative FPS’s most popular levels. Back To Ubersreik is its name, and making three old levels “Bigger, better, and crazier!” is its game, according to developers Fatshark. They’ve only confirmed one level so far, the game-opening Horn Of Magnus where our four ratsmashers have to blow a big ol’ horn to warn everyone: rats, oh god rats. (more…) 50% Discount on all Vermintide 1 DLCSep 17, 2018 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4601846/079996c1e91d43afd10e12438041782dca4c6171.png Holy Sigmar, bless this ravaged sale! Have you been itching to pick up those last few Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide DLC on your list but never gotten around to it? Well, here’s your chance! We’re hosting the steepest sale ever with 50% off on all Vermintide 1 DLC titles. The Vermintide Completionist Sale starts on September 17 and ends September 23 on Steam. Return to Übersreik and beyond in this unique chance to complete your Vermintide 1 collection. There are 10 DLC in total, containing a range of varying content such as additional maps and cosmetics. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4601846/02cf6a2bf1dfc90f7d1243f2b344275c49a1b3eb.png https://store.steampowered.com/app/437070/Warhammer_End_Times__Vermintide_Schluesselschloss Schluesselschloss unlocks The Fall, a new map for the The Last Stand game mode. Set outside Ubersreik, the fortress of Schluesselschloss guards the city and is perched on top of the roaring waters of the Teufel river. If it wasn’t for the oncoming hordes of Skaven, it would seem like an idyllic destination. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4601846/02cf6a2bf1dfc90f7d1243f2b344275c49a1b3eb.png https://store.steampowered.com/app/453280/Warhammer_End_Times__Vermintide_Drachenfels Explore 3 new adventure maps in this DLC for Vermintide, where you travel outside of Ubersreik’s walls to the Grey Mountains. Fight your way through the halls and chambers of Castle Drachenfels, adorned with the bones of victims long gone. Make your way through The Dungeons, sections of which are so dark, a torch is required to illuminate the trap riddled passages. Quell the Skaven reinforcement efforts by destroying the ancient portals on Summoner’s Peak. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4601846/02cf6a2bf1dfc90f7d1243f2b344275c49a1b3eb.png https://store.steampowered.com/app/463791/Warhammer_End_Times__Vermintide_Karak_Azgaraz The Skaven have invaded the Dwarfen fortress of Karak Azgaraz! Fight your way through 3 new levels in this DLC for Vermintide, set among the snow covered peaks of the Grey Mountains. Battle the Skaven in the ancient halls of the Dwarfen Khazid Kro, made of cold stone and old technology. Explore the mountains in search of The Cursed Rune. Finally, make your way to the top of the mountain to light the first beacon and trigger the Chain of Fire. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4601846/02cf6a2bf1dfc90f7d1243f2b344275c49a1b3eb.png https://store.steampowered.com/app/463795/Warhammer_End_Times__Vermintide_Stromdorf Make your way across the roaming hills outside of Stromdorf in The Courier, in search of the missing courier and the information he carries. Continue your journey in Reaching Out by venturing in to Stromdorf, a city with a history of fantastically brewed beer and never...Warhammer: Vermintide 2 s first DLC, Shadows Over B genhafen, is out nowAug 28, 2018 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe bad rats are back again – no, not those ones. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 was a lot of grimdark, co-op hack n’ slash fun, but some folks have already picked every last scrap of diseased meat from its bones already. Today, it got its first bit of paid DLC – Shadows Over B genhafen – adding another two missions to the mix, plus a massive patch for all. In this DLC, everyone’s favourite plague god Nurgle is up to no good (again), so it’s time to call our band of continually bickering heroes to come clean up, and maybe bop some rats while they’re at it. (more…) What happens when online games go down for maintenanceJun 4, 2018 - PC GamerThe studio goes into lockdown. The lights dim. Programmers frantically type code and run between clusters of desks. Silent warning lights pulse in the bright server room as coveralled engineers slide out slabs of silicon and perform delicate operations on them, wiping beads of sweat from their brows. Then, with seconds to go, everyone finally completes their tasks, and the Chief Engineer pushes a large lever back to the ONLINE position. The lights flicker and everyone catches their breath, waiting for the server’s computerised voice to confirm maintenance has been successful. Then everyone cheers. The May update is complete. Well done, everybody. In theory, the number of things that could go catastrophically wrong is rather terrifying. Glen Miner, Digital Extremes That’s the scene I imagine when a game goes into maintenance. I suppose I need to feel there’s the kind of high stakes drama going on in some distant office or server farm that justifies the fact I can’t play the game I want to. And obviously, it’s not what really happens. Keeping online services for big games running is a slick and controlled business, honed through years of experience and best practices, and necessitated by the expectations of thousands or millions of players and millions of dollars of investment.  "In theory, the number of things that could go catastrophically wrong is rather terrifying," says Glen Miner, technical director of Warframe. But in the face of all that threat, developers work hard to minimise it. "The last update we deployed only took 26 seconds." Warframe is subjected to regular weekly updates, but new features and fixes are added as soon as they’re completed, so overall, the game is updated several times a week, and sometimes several times a day, in a process that’s honed so sharply that it’s almost always completed within two minutes. "The most common thing we do is upgrade the server software to match updates to the game," says Miner. "This involves pushing server code, restarting scripts that keep the world alive, and enabling new content." Digital Extremes aims to give players new stuff as soon as possible, so the bulk of its maintenance is about doing little changes as soon as they’re tested and ready.  Less frequently, maintenance is about hardware. "Particularly SSDs," says Miner. "A few years ago we had server problems right before Christmas that we traced back to an SSD that had become exhausted by the firehose we had been blasting it with. We had to perform some emergency upgrades while the holiday load got heavier and heavier which was extremely stressful." Warframe For Worlds Adrift, Bossa Studios’ physics sandbox MMO in which players sail airships and swing around on grapple hooks, maintenance is carried out daily, and it’s all about preventing the world from getting out of control.  Most ...Why it feels great to hit things in Vermintide 2May 23, 2018 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThis is The Mechanic, where Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the difficult journeys they ve taken to make their games. This time, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 . In designing Vermintide II s melee combat, Mats Andersson ran through the same preset level 50 times a day for two years. This hodgepodge of the game s most distinctive areas, enemies and swarms makes no sense and it looks terrible, but playing it about 100,000 times was what it took to ensure face-to-face brawling would be rich in heft and detail. Andersson knew how fast he could clear that level, how much damage he should take, how many kills he should be getting; yardsticks by which he could measure each run, and it s how clicking to swing your hammer feels like it s caving a skull in, and why your sword feels like it can split a rat s stringy carcass in two. It s very much home to me, he says. (more…) Here's what modders are planning for Vermintide 2Mar 29, 2018 - PC GamerI played Vermintide for a couple of years without mods and liked it plenty, but when I finally installed a few (via this modpack) they immediately became essential. With better bots and the ability to drop the HUD at the press of a button, I can turn it Vermintide into a game about photographing the Old World. A squad of competent AIs protects me while I wander around setting up perfect angles on Tudor houses and twin moons, something no human players would ever put up with. At the other end of the spectrum are mods like the Stormvermin Mutation, which upgrades enemies so that what would have been slaverats become clanrats, clanrats become armored stormvermin, and every special is replaced by a rat ogre. The first time I tried that I wound up facing two ogres and a pack of stormvermin simultaneously on a narrow bridge. It didn't last long.  And there are plenty of other mods available for the original game, many in the same collection. There's another difficulty increase called Onslaught, sound replacers, UI tweaks, cosmetic changes, and even a separate mod that adds a playable chess set. Because why not? Image via mod creator IamLupo on Steam. Official mod support was planned for the original Vermintide but is yet to appear—it's still there, grayed-out and "Coming Soon!" on the launcher's menu. Fatshark's technical director Robin Hagblom tells me it's still coming, "but Vermintide 2 is top priority at the moment. Hopefully we'll open both workshops simultaneously, but no promises." It ended with John Cena's theme music playing when an ogre showed up Aussiemon The initial lack of official support didn't dissuade modders, of course. According to Grimalackt, who maintains the Quality of Life modpack, it began with cheats. "Modding in vermintide 1 started as a DLL injection," he says. "Its first uses were very clear-cut cheats. 'Win game' buttons. Adding all the items to your inventory, god mode, etc."  As he explains, they were designed to mess with the code in the middle of a game. "The possibilities given by that are obviously beyond game-breaking, especially since a lot of the game was at first coded with the assumption that the other clients were running exactly the same code as you were." He gives examples of potential malicious uses like kicking hosts out of their own games, impersonating other players in chat, or crashing someone else's game without even being in the same lobby as them. The mods that became popular weren't the ones that let you cheat or troll other players, however. "I think the biggest reception was to the various sound replacers I made," says modder Aussiemon. "This was one of the types of mods made possible with Fatshark's assistance, as nothing like it had ever been done before. I wrote a script to play the 'headshot' sound from Unreal Tournament 2k whenever a specia...Vermintide: taking the torch of Left 4 Dead from its cold, undead handsMar 27, 2018 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunI d wager most folk around these parts devoured Left 4 Dead back in the day, just as I did. Valve s 28 Days Later with your friends infected my life for a good year, and a bigger, better sequel one year later only strengthened the disease. But as Valve haven t really been in the business of making games for a good few years – hopefully, that s about to change – and while it felt like Left 4 Dead was going to change the world back in (oh no) 2008, for a long time nothing filled the rotten hole where my heart used to be. That is, until Fatshark s rowdy rat-smash, Vermintide. The four vs the world setup and the UI were highly reminiscent of Left 4 Dead, and what are Gutter Runners and Pack Masters if not reskinned Hunters and Smokers? But there was much more to that game than swapping out zombies for skaven. With both series now/still on their second games, let s look at how Vermintide ran with the legacy of Left 4 Dead, while managing to forge its own identity. (more…) Wot I Think Warhammer: Vermintide 2Mar 14, 2018 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunI don’t tend to think about how many things I murder in a murder-related videogame. I just remove whatever obstacles are in the way and move on, in the time-honoured tradition of solving problems in action games. In co-op online stabber-shooter Warhammer: Vermintide 2, I’m unusually conscious of the body count. It is, if you’ll forgive a little early-90s melodrama, extreme. That’s just one reason why Vermintide 2 successfully escapes the shadow of ‘it’s just Left 4 Dead but with Games Workshop’ faint-praise damning that its predecessor stood within. (more…) Warhammer: Vermintide 2 scurries into closed betaFeb 22, 2018 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunRat season has officially begun. Following directly on from Vermintide 1’s bombastic finale-as-free-DLC earlier this week, the sequel – due for launch early next month – is letting players in for their first taste of next-gen first-person Skaven-squishing starting today and continuing over the course of the weekend. Closed beta access is primarily for those who pre-ordered Warhammer: Vermintide 2, but those who picked up the Humble Jingle Jam charity bundle are being granted access as well, plus folks who snag beta keys at PAX South recently. (more…) Warhammer: Vermintide downs one more for the roadFeb 20, 2018 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunWe may be just two weeks from the release of Warhammer: Vermintide 2, but studio Fatshark are supporting the original game right up until the bitter end. In fact, the latest update for the game adds that bitter end for you to experience first-hand. Released as part of a free update, yesterday’s Patch 1.11 adds one final mission to the game, entitled Waylaid, which sets things up for the sequel in surprisingly dramatic fashion. Lohnar has a job for you, so it’s back to the Red Moon Inn for one last round. (more…) Patch 1.11.1 - 'Death on the Reik' Returns for Vermintide 2 Pre-Orders!Feb 20, 2018 - Community AnnouncementsHeroes We're sorry for the trouble with Patch 1.11 removing access to 'Death on the Reik' for Vermintide 2 Pre-Orders. This has now been resolved. And if you missed it, Lohner has a new task for you back in Ubersreik...