Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Hotfix 6.5.4 - 27th of MarchMar 27, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHotfix 6.5.4 - 27th of March Fixes Fixed crash when writing chat messages right as the host closes the lobby. Fixed a rare crash when Tag/Social Wheel and World Marker Only is bound to the same button (that isn't middle mouse button) and the user attempts to tag the sky. I mean, what are the odds? Hotfix 6.5.3Mar 18, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHotfix 6.5.3 - 17th of March Features & Tweaks Bot Improvements: (note, these changes were missed from patch 6.4.0 patch notes) Bots now avoid healing Zealots. Fixes Fixed social wheel messages not working in Versus. Fixed a bug where Weaves was inaccessible for some players. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 celebrates 7 years of rat bashing with a new versus map and double XP for all players, but its hotly anticipated weapon pack 'won't be coming out this year'Mar 9, 2025 - PC GamerIt's preposterous to me that Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is seven years old, when that's so clearly the length of time that has passed since Left4Dead 2 launched. Sadly, Steam, the calendar, and indeed the universe all state that I am wrong, so I suppose I'll just have to go along with Fatshark's celebration of its cooperative Skaven-smasher's seventh birthday... Read more.Warhammer Vermintide 2 celebrates seven years with a new map and double XPMar 6, 2025 - PCGamesNSpace Marine 2 and Darktide are bombastic delights for 40k fans, but for me, Warhammer Vermintide 2 still holds the crown as the best co-op Warhammer game, at least if we're talking about the more fantastical side of the Warhammer world. Astonishingly, Vermintide 2 turns seven years old this coming weekend, and if you're eager to jump back in for the occasion then a new anniversary event is the ideal excuse. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Warhammer Vermintide 2 is about to get a second free map, and it's on sale A new Warhammer Vermintide 2 map arrives soon, and it sounds terrifying Now's the time to play Warhammer Vermintide 2, as PvP helps player counts soar Vermintide 2's 7th Anniversary is live now! + Hotfix 6.5.1 + 6.5.2Mar 6, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHotfix 6.5.2 - 12th of March Fixes Fixed crash when a bot shoots with steampistol Fixed crash when closing down the game during a loading screen with voip enabled Hotfix 6.5.1 - 11th of March Features & Tweaks Bot Improvements: (note, these changes were missed from patch 6.4.0 patch notes) Bots are now better at choosing whether to light or heavy attack against armored targets. More weapons now allow bots to push shielded targets. Bots are now better at predicting whether their target is pushable or if it's a waste of stamina. Bots' block window against enemies with long timed attacks is reduced slightly. Bots now take all nearby attacking enemies into consideration when blocking, rather than just the enemy they target (dodging behavior remains the same). Versus - A Grudge Served Cold: Made it so the 'Close to win' music starts when 2 out of 3 capture zones in the final capture area are done. Versus - A Grudge Served Cold: Added an ammo box to the end event. Versus - A Grudge Served Cold: Improved visualization for Capture Zones in Mad Dog Mines. Fixes Fixed a bug where downed players still took take damage from the Curse of Comradeship mutator. Fixed an issue where items equipped on certain loadouts did not show as equipped. Fixed a bug where the Masterwork Pistol had an extra delay when firing with a controller. Fixed some overlapping text when making a custom Chaos Wastes game. Fixed a crash when joining a friend's Versus Game while in the Adventure scoreboard. Fixed a bug where difficulties appear locked for a few seconds when entering the keep. Fixed the Trollhammer Torpedo's 3D model missing from the Athanor UI. Fixed a bug where the Tag/Social Wheel keybind wouldn't work if bound to the same button as "Place World Marker" Versus - A Grudge Served Cold: Blocked off a shortcut exploit at the bomb cart and fixed various climb points. Heroes! Another year has passed and Vermintide 2 celebrates its 7th anniversary! It’s time to party and go out drinking with our heroes across the ruined streets of Helmgart looking for that one last casket of Bugman’s, and fight whatever nasty Skaven or Rotblood dares to interrupt! The event will last from today until March 16! A Quiet Drink & new Portrait Frame As always, head over to the Weekly Event game mode in the Adventure mission selection menu to enter the event mission, ‘A Quiet Drink’. Completing the event with any difficulty will reward you with a brand-new anniversary portrait frame! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30503110/fc80166e9946e8597ed40b088c8549931c5753cd.png Make sure to check the Event tab in Okri’s Challenges! Double XP For the duration of the anniversary event, all XP gains will be doubled! Time to max out those Heroes, get extra levels, and grind Versus Ranks! New Versus Map - A Grudge Served Cold As mentioned in our previous dev blog, we’ve turned another Adventure into a playable Versus Map: ‘A Grudge Served Cold’! Heroes and Pactsworns alike will get to duke it out in these snowy vistas and throu...Warhammer: Vermintide 2 gets an Easy Anti-Cheat upgrade - finally works properly on LinuxMar 4, 2025 - GamingOnLinuxWarhammer: Vermintide 2 from developer Fatshark just got an upgrade for Easy Anti-Cheat, and this finally makes online play work properly on Linux. Although you still need to opt into a Beta. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/warhammer-vermintide-2-gets-an-easy-anti-cheat-upgrade-finally-works-properly-on-linux/ PC Hotfix 6.4.0 - Easy Anti-Cheat update + Hotfix 6.4.1Mar 3, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHeroes! We’ve just pushed a patch that swaps our old version of Easy Anti-Cheat for the newest version. The previous version is scheduled to shut down on March 4, which would’ve meant no protection to the game from cheats or tampering unless we did this upgrade. A couple of things to note about this change: For normal gameplay, there should be no notable difference. The game will continue to run normally in both Official and Modded realms, and no extra actions need to be taken from you as players to continue playing. Operating Systems that had incompatibility issues with our EAC may find those issues gone with this update. We still can only officially support Windows 10 & 11, but nonetheless there might be one barrier less in that aspect. The system necessary to support Sanctioned Mods is changing. This means that until sanctioned mods are updated by their authors, they might not work in the official realm.We are currently in communication with mod authors to find the swiftest solution to this issue for all sanctioned mods. Sanctioned Mods are now fixed as of Patch 6.4.0 without needing to update the original mods! Connecting to other lobbies might take longer than usual at first. Will go back to normal after some time. Versus Quickplay will be temporarily disabled as we update the servers. We're working to fix the issues with Sanctioned Mods and Versus Quickplay Dedicated Servers as soon as possible, we'll keep you updated. Hotfix 6.3.4 patch notes - 3rd of March Features & Tweaks Replaced the Kamu Easy Anti-Cheat for Epic Online Service Improved error messaging for banned players to show reason & duration. Temporarily disabled Versus Quickplay / Dedicated Servers.Hotfix 6.3.5 patch notes - 4th of March Fixs Fixed an issue where re-installing the game would not re-install EasyAntiCheat correctly. Developer Blog - New Versus Map: A Grudge Served ColdFeb 28, 2025 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30503110/543be07ae542f09609fa3d005a5708c87d3c282e.gif Heroes and Pactsworn! As mentioned in our previous announcement, another Vermintide 2 level has been adapted and added to the pool of playable Versus maps: A Grudge Served Cold! We thought you might be curious about why or how a map is turned into a Versus level, so we interviewed one of our level designers, Pål, who redesigned the level... Why was A Grudge Served Cold picked to be the next Versus map? What features or aspects of it made it seem like a good fit for Versus? “The level was built in a way that converting it to Versus would be quite a fast process, compared to other levels. The layout is open to water on the left-hand side and mountain ranges to the right and it doesn’t have too many empty backfaces or “half-built” structures like many other levels have.” Areas that Heroes never get to look at in normal gameplay often aren’t meant to be looked at, but because the Pactsworn specials can move around all over the place by climbing or even leaping, patching up all of those views is important. “We also wanted to have another art style, where both snow/winter mixed with the Dwarfen environment made it feel fresh." {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30503110/ca6d147d9a3289e530de19a112ea41c93dcb927c.png "It also features a nice mix between tight passages or “corridors” and open spaces, and it also provides quite a lot of verticality.” What, overall, makes for a good & fun Versus level? “Definitely a mix between open spaces, verticality, chokes, interiors, and exteriors.” “Levels that are “geometrically complicated” in their set-up are also hard to convert to Versus (‘Tower of Treachery’ would probably be quite hard to do, for example). Maps with too many long chokepoints and tight passages are also not fun (‘Hunger in the Dark’, as an example)” “Maps that have some built-in events that make sense in the world already (such as the gate you blow up in Screaming Bell to pass through the plaza) are great, but levels that offer opportunities for new Versus specific events to be added are also good.” “We wanted the “portfolio” of levels to offer everything that makes Vermintide 2 fun, and the levels are better if they allow a lot of new areas to be added for Skaven, so the players see some new parts and experience what the world looks like from different perspectives (such as standing on a high cliff and looking down at the Heroes).” {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30503110/e3aaebd2302edf4d67e0660c1f6a2a7d18c2ff75.png For ‘A Grudge Served Cold’, are there any highlights of new or changed places, objectives, pacing, etc.? “‘A Grudge Served Cold’ was a bit too long and had to be cut at the beginning. We also added some interiors such as caves and safe rooms inside the Dwarf interiors.” “The main events are still as they are in Adventure mode, but we added a few capture zones, and a payload to reduce the endless running and allow the pact-sworn to break the Heroes’ dash.” “It was supposed to be only 2 round...Onslaught Series: Community run Charity Tournament event for Anniversary!Feb 21, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHeroes! The Onslaught Series will be hosting a Charity Tournament in the name of APOPO ( https://apopo.org/ ). APOPO is a social enterprise that researches, develops and implements detection rats technology for humanitarian purposes such as Mine Action and Tuberculosis detection. APOPO is a Belgian NGO, with headquarters in Tanzania and operations in Mozambique, Thailand, Angola and Cambodia. The sign ups are open NOW for the Tiers: Tier 1 - C1DWONS and LEGEND DWONS Tier 2 - C3DWONS Tier 3 - C3DWONS+ Tier 4 - C3DWUTCH The event itself consists of two tournament days: 8th March 2025 Teams in Tier 1 and Tier 2 9th March 2025 Teams in Tier 3 and Tier 4 Be quick, because there are only so many teams that can be shown live and the first to sign up and play live on tournament time will be the ones to be featured in the big event stream on the Fight The Tide Twitch Channel ( https://www.twitch.tv/fightthetide ). Sign ups are open NOW until 6th March, 2025 4PM CET! All players regardless of when they play in the week from the 3rd March 2025 - 9th March 2025 will be listed for everyone to check out! Sign ups You can sign up to participate in the event through the Onslaught Discord, link here: https://discord.gg/MS4vWSQrEh The charity event is open for everyone, if you donate something you will be granted a digital gift. The rewards are set up in multiple categories: 01 - 05$US: A new frame in Vermintide 2 05 - 10$US: Crown of Purity, a Zealot hat skin for Vermintide 2 More than 10$US: A digital vermintide 2 magazine with stories, pictures and articles about the gameNote that a higher category will include all the rewards of the lower categories as well. All players in the tournament itself will be rewarded with the rewards of category 2. You can find information on how to donate to the charity in the Onslaught Discord, link above. Expect digital gifts to be sent out by Fatshark by the end of March. The Fanzine PDFs will be distributed by the Onslaught team the day after the tournament ends. The Onslaught Team would like to extend a big thank you APOPO for this opportunity! Let's have a great ratty party with APOPO and 7 amazing years of Vermintide 2. If you have any questions you can read their FAQ here Or ask them directly in the Onslaught Series Discord server: https://discord.gg/MS4vWSQrEhUpcoming Event: Vermintide’s 7th anniversary!Feb 20, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHeroes! Another year has gone by and it’s another year to celebrate the launch of Vermintide 2, with much merry, drinking, and rat slaying! Join us from March 6 to March 16 for our Seventh anniversary as we open the floodgates of the anniversary map ‘A Quiet Drink’ once more! A Quiet Drink Celebrate with our Heroes by taking them on a bar crawl across what’s left of Helmgart in this returning, limited-time mission! There will also be challenges related to completing the mission and rewards, including a brand-new portrait frame! In addition, Lohner’s Emporium of Wonders will once again open the Event section for the duration of the event, allowing you to purchase old rewards from previous anniversaries for shillings in case you missed them! Double XP For the duration of the event, all experience earned while playing Vermintide will be doubled! Time to finish leveling up those Heroes, or getting a chunky boost in Versus ranks! New Versus map And as an additional celebration, we can let you guys in on a little secret! The update will see the addition of yet another map to the pool of playable Versus maps! We can’t spoil which one it is yet, but we’re excited to show you! Fatshark Livestream today - 17:30 CET {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30503110/b6936d8e706f64e0fa2c7a8637e1128edd2df60d.png Finally, while we have you here, we wanted to mention that we actually have a livestream later today for both Vermintide and Darktide! Our Art Directors will go through your submitted fanart to celebrate and pass judgement! The best pieces will net a reward, so make sure to submit your best! If you haven't already, make sure to find one of our Social Media posts about the contest and submit your piece as a comment! Tune in later today on our twitch.Vermintide 2's still getting free maps added to it, with the latest being an elven temple and a warpstone nuke factoryJan 25, 2025 - PC GamerWhile the big Vermintide 2 news last year was the addition of PVP in Versus mode, the PVE side of things is still being catered for. Its latest addition is Verminous Dreams, a campaign of linked maps that pits the Ubersreik Five against their old enemies the skaven once again... Read more.FREE new map: Devious Delvings is out now! Patch 6.3.0 + Hotfix 6.3.2 + 6.3.3Jan 23, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHotfix 6.3.3 - 11th of February Solved 3 crashes Hotfix 6.3.2 - 6th of February Features & Tweaks (Versus) Added Custom Game Settings for: Toggling Hero Rescue points. Setting the round time limit. (Versus) Turned the Pactsworn Health settings in Custom Games into a slider. Also, redesigned how the Custom Settings sliders look. Sound cooldown when pinging the same target or placing a new world marker increased from 0.5 seconds to 2 seconds. Sound cooldown when pinging unique targets increased from 0.5 seconds to 0.7 seconds. Fixes Tower of Treachery - Fixed a guaranteed crash when leaving the library. Fixed bots getting stuck in the tower of the third tome spot in Halescourge. For real for real this time! On Sigmar! Fixed a bug where Rat Ogres weren't properly playing footstep SFX in non-Versus game modes. Fixed a crash when joining into an ongoing Weave level with already completed capture point objectives. Fixed a bug where the Iron Breaker talent "Rune-Etched Shield" and the Handmaiden talent "Asrai Alacrity" were only working for the host. Fixed a bug where Saltzpyre would get confused and respond with a Kruber voice line when Sienna kills a troll. Fixed an issue where clicking on the pose cosmetic icon you ended up in the wrong subscreen, resulting in players being able to equip forbidden weapons. Fixed a pose crash when no default pose is present in the inventory. Fixed a rare crash when a player sends a message during a very specific moment during host migration. Fixed an issue where recently purchased weapon poses wouldn't show up right after purchasing them. Devious Delvings bug fixes: Fixed the 'No Time like the Present' Okri's Challenge not completing on clients. Fixed an overzealous hang ledge next to a ladder. Fixed a bug where healthbars for objectives sometimes didn't show properly. Fixed bug a where the boss fight never ended if the Twins modifier was active. Fixed the Recruit and Veteran versions of the Okri's Challenges having swapped icons. Versus bug fixes: Fixed a bug where enemy Heroes would use the same portrait frame as your bot loadouts, instead of their own. Fixed a bug in custom games where a leap animation was played on all Rat Ogres if one of them performed a leap attack. No more auto-synchronized dances, you'll have to time those yourselves! Fixed a bug where two Packmasters could hook the same target, leading to one of the Packmasters becoming stuck in place. Fixed a bug where Rat Ogre gets stuck in leap animation if using the leap ability while inspecting the character (with X) Fixed a bug where Heroes could be unkillable on certain values for the Hero Damage Amount setting. Fixed a bug where players in a Versus Custom Game character selection were not able to pick the character that the host and their party members played as in the versus keep before the match. Fixed a controller input bug for Versus Custom Game settings where the slider would not go all the way to the bottom when selecting the first option. Hotfi...Warhammer Vermintide 2 is about to get a second free map, and it's on saleJan 21, 2025 - PCGamesNAs we approach its seventh anniversary, Warhammer Vermintide 2 keeps getting bigger. The brutal co-op action game is an ideal follow-up for Left 4 Dead enjoyers, and the rat-like Skaven are the perfect cannon fodder. With an all-new Versus mode in 2024, this year is also looking busy with the second in a trilogy of brand new, free maps set to drop soon. Not only that, but you can grab Vermintide 2 for dirt cheap on Steam right now. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: A new Warhammer Vermintide 2 map arrives soon, and it sounds terrifying Now's the time to play Warhammer Vermintide 2, as PvP helps player counts soar Warhammer Vermintide 2 Versus mode is here, and it's 95% off if you're quick Devious Delvings: FREE New Map coming January 23rdJan 20, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHeroes! We hope you enjoyed the Holidays and are itching for more Vermintide! In early December last year, we released a brand new map ‘The Forsaken Temple’, and it’s already time for another. ‘Devious Delvings’ is the second installment of the Verminous Dreams campaign and picks up where the last mission left off. Our Heroes have successfully infiltrated the ruined Elven temple that Skaven has taken over; it’s now time to investigate what they’re up to. This new map will arrive on January 23rd, FREE for all owners of Vermintide 2! You can now leap across levels as a Rat Ogre in Warhammer: Vermintide 2Dec 18, 2024 - PC GamerIt's kind of amazing how Vermintide 2, Fatshark's medieval-fantasy pest control sim from 2018, continues to be neck-and-neck in popularity with its far more recent 40k successor Darktide. A big part of that is that there just seems to be a lot more scope within its design for super-fun updates. .. Read more.Versus Update - New playable monster: Rat Ogre! Patch 6.2.0 + Hotfix 6.2.1Dec 17, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsHotfix 6.2.1 - 18th of December Fixes Fixed a crash and other potential issues when the game reaches the main menu on startup before all necessary resources are loaded. Patched up issues with screen effects in the Neuter Ult Effects mod from our end. (Offical realm only) Fixed a lobby browser crash when using the deprecated old menu layout. Fixed edge case crash in Weaves related to Versus custom games Fixed a crash when claiming Gift of the Wolf Father reward if the game failed to fetch steam inventory when starting up. Fixed a crash if someone in the party starts a game vote while the player is claiming Gift of the Wolf Father rewards. (Versus) Rat Ogre fixes Fixed the Rat Ogre's animation getting stuck when not having a valid postion to jump to. Added support for when not having a valid position to jump to because it's too close. Fixed a crash when ending a game or loading out of a map while leaping. (Versus) Fixed an issue where bosses could be immune to stagger while crouching. (Versus) Fix versus crashing at end of game in modded realm. Heroes and Pactsworn! This update brings a new dangerous toy for the Pactsworn side in Versus: A new playable monster, the Rat Ogre! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d00ba0c96365b000104ac5f/2dc0740c-942f-4cda-bbc0-b6b44aa8e773/Rat_Ogre_169.png?format=1000w When the time comes for a Monster to spawn in a Versus match, Pactsworn players can choose between the Bile Troll and the Rat Ogre. While both are monsters, their way of assaulting the Hero team is very different, and so it is up to the players to choose the right tool for the job (or just the most fun!) The Rat Ogre’s specialty is scrambling the Hero team through a frenzied assault. It excels at separating the Heroes and taking advantage of the chaos to chase after stragglers, pummeling away with wild, ferocious attacks that don’t give the defender room to breathe. How to play the Rat Ogre Similar to the Bile Troll and the Heroes, you’ve got light attacks and heavy attacks. Tapping your attack button (Default Keybind: Left Mouse Click) results in a series of fast but powerful attacks. Holding down the attack button results in a Heavy Attack, a downward slam with both fists that deals massive damage but is tricky to pull off! Holding the secondary attack button (Default Keybind: Right Mouse Click) allows the Rat Ogre to prepare to Leap! Charge the leap for a short while and then aim. Once charged, you can release the button to launch yourself through the air, knocking any Heroes you land upon away and sending them flying all over. Perfect for making a dramatic entrance and throwing those pesky Heroes into disarray. You can also find this information in the in-game Handbook! What’s next? We’re super excited about the release of Versus, it was a massive milestone for a project that we love and we’re glad that it’s been overall a fun time and well-received by the community! But what’s next for Versus? Beyond the Rat Ogre, we’re looking to add mo...Versus Spotlight - Bardin Goreksson & Warpfire ThrowerDec 12, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsHeroes and Pactsworn! Welcome to the last out of five weekends of the Versus Spotlight events. Every week, we’ll take a closer look at one of the Ubersreik 5 and one of the Pactsworn Specials. Unlock unique time-limited rewards, learn more about the spotlight Hero and Skaven, and do it all while having fun. This week's spotlight will be on the hearty Bardin and the nasty Warpfire Thrower! Previous Spotlight's Rewards As said in the the previous post, we changed the end date for the event from Sunday to Wednesday, which was more than enough to reach and beat the new ambitious target of 250K kills! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30503110/416bf23cd4e304f304252b63875723aac82853f0.png The rewards for the previous spotlight were delivered yesterday, so check your inventory! As a note, the Hero Pose might take a few restarts before it applies properly to your account. Sorry about that! Congrats to everyone for your continued hard work! Now just the final stretch! This Week's Rewards There are unique rewards to unlock weekly, all earned by the community as a whole through completion of the Kill-Counter. There are currency rewards, portrait frames, skins, and weapon poses to be earned. Bardin Goreksson & Warpfire Thrower Spotlight rewards will be earnable between December 12 - December 18. All rewards will be granted after the end of the spotlight. Kill-Counter Rally together as community to eliminate Heroes in Versus to complete the Kill-counter. If the community completes the counter, you will all unlock: An exclusive skin for the Warpfire Thrower! 120 shillings. 100 Helmgart Sellsword Marks. A brand new Portrait frame. A Hero Pose for Bardin! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30503110/a781e4c46cde9c74da545037248884a1429b3d3c.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30503110/214b4f4b445b197bd3f636e2f464888b7e325464.png Bardin Goreksson {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30503110/38c89e690a980e66d78e96e544ae622a393a619f.png Bardin Goreksson introduced himself to the world as an unstoppable avalanche on the battlefield, an ale-swigging hurricane at the inn, and a steadfast friend by the campfire. A bulwark of comradeliness and good cheer, Bardin became the glue binding our unlikely band of heroes. Learn more about Bardin Goreksson here! The Warpfire Thrower {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30503110/3a96fad476c7d4cdcdcc32596076eca8d71dcdbd.pngThe The Warpfire Thrower is whispered of in many quarters – chiefly for the horrors it has wrought in the cramped confines of dwarfen holds. With the smouldering projector aimed, the simple flip of a switch births roiling clouds of warpfire that scours all from the gunner’s path. Learn more about the Warpfire Thrower here!The Forsaken Temple is out now! Patch 6.1.0Dec 9, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsHeroes! Today we bring you a brand new mission: The Forsaken Temple! This FREE mission is the first of three maps in the brand new ‘Verminous Dreams’ campaign. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3283440/Warhammer_Vermintide_2__Verminous_Dreams/ Tipped off by an otherworldly visit, Lohner’s investigations have led to the discovery of Skaven around the ruins of an ancient elven temple, possibly one that was rumored to not even exist. What could the Pactsworn be looking for in these mythical ruins? Better stop them regardless, Heroes! Can’t be anything good. Gifts of the Wolf Father And of course, this December will also mark the return of the Gifts of the Wolf Father! He’s got an exciting bag of goodies to share with you all this year! How it works: Starting today and until January 3rd, every day you jump on Vermintide 2, you can access Lohner’s Emporium to claim that day’s Gift*. There’ll be cosmetics, illusions, coins, frames, and all sorts of goodies! There might even be a very, very special hat that makes its long-awaited, fishy return! Today’s gift, you might ask? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30503110/8fd537bc296a295054fda902804c238cef7471bc.png *: You may also claim the gifts from two days prior, as a small buffer to make things a bit more flexible. Upcoming playable monster: Rat Ogre - December 17 We also wanted to give you guys a taste of what’s coming next for Versus! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d00ba0c96365b000104ac5f/2dc0740c-942f-4cda-bbc0-b6b44aa8e773/Rat_Ogre_169.png?format=1000w Coming December 17th, the Pactsworn are going to get another fun toy to torment the Hero team: The Rat Ogre will be a playable monster before the end of the year! New Premium Cosmetics: The Mythic Masquerade Can’t just let you guys go on a brand new Adventure without some brand new swagger to show off, ey? This bundle of Premium Cosmetics, purchasable directly from Lohner’s Emporium, has a fantastic set of new cosmetics inspired by iconic characters from Warhammer Fantasy! Gotrek Gurnisson Our dear Bardin gets to look even more fierce than usual with this intimidating outfit fashioned after the most deadly of all slayers: Gotrek Gurnisson. Available only to Bardin’s Slayer career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d00ba0c96365b000104ac5f/83511b6b-b8a2-43b7-92c1-b8aebf9fe476/Gotrek+Gurnisson.png?format=2500w Felix Jaeger Of course, we can’t have Gotrek without Felix! Kruber gets to accompany his best buddy in with this dashing outfit inspired by Gotrek’s faithful companion, Felix Jaeger! Available only to Markus’ Mercenary career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d00ba0c96365b000104ac5f/0befe44e-522b-4452-8d4d-159dbee2f253/Felix+Jaeger.png?format=2500w Count Boris Todbringer Proving that he ALSO can sport a magnificent beard, the imposing Count Boris Todbringer-inspired hero skin is equipable by Saltzpyre’s Bounty Hunter career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d00ba0c96365b000104ac5f/6b1e65d6-b88f-4e6b-9c75-d7...A new Warhammer Vermintide 2 map arrives soon, and it sounds terrifyingDec 6, 2024 - PCGamesNAnother stage in need of rodent extermination has arrived, and this one could be one of the most troublesome yet. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is about to get a free update, introducing a new map full of Skaven. This one's an Elven temple, so expect plenty of secrets. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Now's the time to play Warhammer Vermintide 2, as PvP helps player counts soar Warhammer Vermintide 2 Versus mode is here, and it's 95% off if you're quick Warhammer Vermintide 2 is trimming the grind with a big progression redesign The Forsaken Temple: FREE New Map releasing next week!Dec 6, 2024 - Community Announcements"I don't know what they want with it, but if even half the stories of Athel Lithri are true, you better go up there and stop them." Heroes! We've been teasing it for a while now, but it's finally time to reveal the next step in the Ubersreik 5's adventure! The first of three missions in the new Verminous Dreams campaign, 'The Forsaken Temple' is coming out next week, free on all platforms! The Forsaken Temple Devoted readers of Lohner's Chronicles (spying on someone's personal journal is very rude, by the way) would know that dear Franz was recently visited by an Elf of the Divine persuasion, who gave him a cryptic warning of things to come. While he never spoke a word about this to our Heroes, his investigations nonetheless led him to uncover hints of Skaven presence in the ruins of what could be an ancient and even mythical Elven temple: Athel Lithri. Whatever it is that the Pactsworn plan to do with that temple, it can't be anything good. Time for our Heroes to take a peek and hopefully put a swift end to any verminous schemes going on there. New upcoming Premium Hero Cosmetics: The Mythical Masquerade Just in time for the new adventure, Lohner got a glorious shipment of new outfits and hats, all inspired by some of the most iconic characters from Warhammer Fantasy! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30503110/a4da60a97b53fbeb2f5abef42d72b992ad60d651.png Bardin and Kruber get to pair up as an iconic duo, wearing vestments inspired by Gotrek Gurnisson and Felix Jaeger! These hero skins and hats are equipable on Bardin’s Slayer career and Kruber’s Mercenary career, respectively. Proving that he ALSO can sport a magnificent beard, the imposing Count Boris Todbringer-inspired hero skin and hat are equipable by Saltzpyre’s Bounty Hunter career. Delving into mysticism, Kerillian has access to an outfit inspired by Naieth the Prophetess, equipable on all of Kerillian’s careers. With a sudden propensity for walking around with a cup of wine (at least, we think it’s wine!), Sienna gets a new regal look with this armour inspired by Isabella Von Carstein. This hero skin and hat are equipable on her Pyromancer and Necromancer careers. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Debuts at #4 on Steam with Almost Three Times the Players of the OriginalMar 14, 2018 - GitHypWith a new Warhammer game being released every other month, 2015’s Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide flew under most gamers’ radars. But that hasn’t been the case with Vermintide 2, which just debuted as Steam’s #4 most played game this week.
Warhammer: Vermintide 2’s launch set a new record for the series with an impressive peak of 73k players on Sunday. Stacking up almost three times the players, the ultra-violent sequel slaughtered End Times’ peak of 25k players that placed the original at #47 on Steam almost three years ago.
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Warhammer: Vermintide 2's Concurrent Players on Steam via GitHyp[/caption]
Aside from all the improvements made by developers, the sequel’s success has also been due in large part to its growth in viewership on Twitch. The devs themselves took to the popular streaming service to promote the game’s launch and other popular broadcasters helped push Vermintide 2 to #3 on Twitch. And so far, the sequel has already been viewed 4.09 million times on Twitch compared to the original’s total of 1.62 million views.
Interest on Twitch has already begun to significantly die down, so it’ll be interesting to see how Vermintide 2 fares in its second week on Steam. The sequel isn’t likely to see its player base explode in growth much more than it already has, but still, for a franchise that most gamers have never heard of, debuting at #4 is a huge victory for the team at Fatshark Games and a sign of even bigger things to come.
Warhammer: Vermintide 2's Concurrent Players on Steam via GitHyp[/caption]
Aside from all the improvements made by developers, the sequel’s success has also been due in large part to its growth in viewership on Twitch. The devs themselves took to the popular streaming service to promote the game’s launch and other popular broadcasters helped push Vermintide 2 to #3 on Twitch. And so far, the sequel has already been viewed 4.09 million times on Twitch compared to the original’s total of 1.62 million views.
Interest on Twitch has already begun to significantly die down, so it’ll be interesting to see how Vermintide 2 fares in its second week on Steam. The sequel isn’t likely to see its player base explode in growth much more than it already has, but still, for a franchise that most gamers have never heard of, debuting at #4 is a huge victory for the team at Fatshark Games and a sign of even bigger things to come.
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