Warhammer: Vermintide 2

Hotfix 6.11.2 - 2nd of June

Features & Tweaks

• Huntsman’s Longbow no longer automatically zooms.

• Huntsman players can now press the Weapon Special button while aiming with a ranged weapon to get an extra zoom, regardless of whether they’re under the effects of their Career Skill or not.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash when an Illusionist monster creates illusions and there is no one to see them.

• Fixed a crash when sending a 500 character essay in a language other than English.

• Fixed a crash that happened when hot-joining an ending adventure game and victory poses hadn't fully synchronized.

• Fixed a bug where Sienna’s Mace L1/L2 burn VFX didn’t use the proper color when playing Necromancer.

• Fixed a bug where Sienna’s Mace L1/L2 weren’t able to trigger the Soul Harvest talent.

• Fixed a minor spelling mistake in the “Aim for the what?!” Okri’s Challenge.

• Fixed a bug with the Axe & Shield H3 not being able to proc "On Charged Hit" Talents.

• Sienna Mace H2/H3: Fix Drop-off curve hitting minimum damage on target 3 onward instead of target 4.

• Removed a false Weapon Special action text on the Moonfire Bow’s weapon card.

• Reverted unintended changes to Axe & Falchion H1/H2 and Sienna Dagger H2.

• Reverted an unintended nerf to Hagbane Charged Shot direct hit stagger.

• Fixed so that Monster Crit Damage on Crowbill H1/H2 was aligned to the lower of the two values from pre-patch instead of the higher.

Hotfix 6.11.3 - 2nd of June

Fixes

• Fixed a crash when trying to join a friend in the main menu instead of the keep.

Hotfix 6.11.1 - 25th of May

Features & Tweaks

• Elven Axe:

• Increased Push Attack damage to the first target.

• Increased minimum targets before minimum damage on Push attack by 1.

• Increased the damage of Warpick Heavy attacks (charged and uncharged) on critical hits against Super Armoured enemies.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash on Steam authentication failure and implemented a feature to retry upon failure.

• This should help with some connection issues.

• Reverted unintended ammo buff to Griffonfoot.

• Fixed a bug that caused War Pick heavies (both charged and uncharged) to deal lower damage to Armoured enemies on critical hits.

• Fixed a crash when a Warrior Priest of Sigmar gets punched 10 times by a Chaos Warrior in the same game. No, really.

• Fixed a bug causing the 1H Axe & Elven Axe not being able to proc "On Charged Attack Hit" talents.

• Fixed a stuck spot in Skittergate, added failsafes for invincibility during the actual Skittergate section.

Dev note: We have seen your concerns regarding the changes to the Longbow. We intend to adress this in a future patch, but we need to do some testing before committing to a solution.

Heroes!

We have a lovely update for you guys! Today’s patch is live now, and brings a bunch of balance changes, mostly aimed at improving the weapons that have been struggling for a while, which hopefully gives you guys a bigger breadth of viable options to play with! Alongside that, there’s some minor tweaks, quality of life changes, and several bug fixes.

Weapon balance update

The intentions of this balance patch is to bring some love to underused or underperforming weapons, mostly focusing on buffs, but some adjustments can be found in relation to the buffs.

Before getting into weapon specifics. We would like to bring to light two major broad focus points of this patch:

First, one-handed weapons’ main boon is their mobility compared to heavier weapons, but it's not quite enough. To amplify this niche even more, you will see buffs across the board to their dodging capabilities and in some cases reduction to movement speed penalties during attacks.

Secondly, Axe-like weapons have always had a niche of being a weapon type that boasts great single target damage and armor penetration, in exchange for a lack of cleave. However the trade off has been too harsh for how Vermintide truly plays, and in some cases even the single target damage has been lacking compared to other weapons.

So across the board you will see changes that allow Axe-like weapons to handle multiple enemies ever so slightly better (without removing it as a weakness) and in some cases having their single target damage bumped up to bridge the gap between them and other great single target weapons of today.

With that said, let's get into the fun stuff:

Cross-Character Weapons:

**1H Sword: **(Kruber/Sienna)

• Reduced slowdown on Light attacks.

• PA chains into either L3 or H1 instead of only L1

• Increase Dodge Range

Alongside the mobility buffs for 1 Handed weapons, the One-Handed Sword has gotten a change to its attack pattern.

Now the push attack follow up can chain into Light 3 or Heavy 1, allowing you to pick if you want to chain into a multi-target attack or a single target attack depending on the situation.

**1H Axe: **(Bardin/Salzpyre)

• Light Attacks now use a speed up/slow down Movement Speed curve. On average the Movement speed slowdown during attacks has been reduced.

• L1/L2 slightly increased Cleave

• L3 slightly bigger increase to Cleave

• H1/H2 increased Damage to Armored

• H1/H2 increased Damage to Super Armor

• Increase Dodge Range

The 1H axe is meant to be mobile and have great single target damage for its size, but in-comparison to other weapons its damage has been slightly lacking against Armored Targets. In addition to the damage buffs, the light attacks have been given the same style of movement as dual axes / axe & falchion. It will feel slightly different to use than before but will also (on average) be slightly faster while attacking.

**1H Hammer / 1H Mace: **(Kruber/Bardin/Salzpyre)

• Increased Block Radius.

• Increased number of Effective Dodges (aka Dodge Count)

Hammers and Maces have traditionally been more competitive compared to other 1H weapons, but still in today's standard could use something. So to amplify that they are the mobile yet tanky 1 handed option, their dodge count and effective block radius has been slightly buffed.

Kruber:

Blunderbuss:

• Increased Damage to Armored

• Increased Damage to Monsters

Shotguns sometimes don't kill when they feel like they should. So a slight buff into Armored damage and Monster damage should allow them to more often deal with Hookrats and Stormvermins appropriately.

Longbow:

• Reduced wait time before Auto Zoom happens

The Longbow’s Autozoom used to occur when the arrow reached max damage. This timing can be quite disruptive while trying to aim, as such it's been moved much closer to the start of the aiming processes. Zooming is now finished just as the arrow is about to reach max damage.

Bardin:

War Pick:

• Attacks can no longer be interrupted by Damage during wind-up

• New Attack: Heavy 3. Only accessible from L2 → H3 (uncharged)

• Horizontal Sweep

• Same Damage as L1/L2

• Can Cleave a few Armored enemies

• Higher Stagger than L1/L2

• Increased Stagger Duration

• Breaks Shields

• Light Attacks now use a speed up/slow down Movement Speed curve. On average the Movement speed slowdown during attacks has been reduced.

• L1/L2 increased Damage to Armored

• L1/L2 increased Damage to Super Armor

• L1/L2/H3 increased Crit Chance

• H1/H2 (Uncharged) increased Damage to Armored

• H1/H2 (Uncharged) increased Damage to Super Armor

• H1/H2 (Uncharged) increased Base Stagger

• H1/H2 (Charged) increased Damage to Armored

• H1/H2 (Charged) increased Sprint Duration

• H1/H2 (Charged) slightly reduced Sprint Speed

• H1/H2 (Charged) now ignores Shield

• PA slightly increased Cleave

The War Pick is an interesting weapon with its charged heavy, however the uncharged heavy has been nerfed too harshly to amplify the usefulness of the charged heavy. Making the weapon hard to justify as a main hand weapon and mostly brought as secondary for Slayer.

Alongside the overarching axe changes, the single target damage of the uncharged Heavy has been significantly brought up to make it a useful attack in situations where charging the Heavy is not possible.

A new Attack has been added. The intention with the new attack is to give the War Pick a bit of nuance to its attack patterns while disrupting muscle memory as little as possible. Keeping the Light and Heavy spam the same as before, while adding in some new chains between lights and heavies. The new attack should allow for more horde control with the Light 2 → Heavy 3 loop, while also with its increased stagger duration, serve as a way to set up for a follow up single target heavy (Heavy 3 → Heavy 2).

To not completely remove the option of a Single target hit after Light 2, you can still charge past the new attack and chain into Heavy 1 Charged.

As the War Pick is intended to be a powerful but slow and immobile weapon, it really shines when combining it with Attack Speed buffs, which is why it is commonly better in the hands of Slayer than other Bardin careers. To bridge the gap between the careers, Light 1/2 & Heavy 3 now have increased crit chance to allow for more uptime when using Swift Slaying weapon trait. This should narrow the gap between Slayer and other Bardin Careers as Slayer could already have the Swift Slaying buff up most of the time.

The War Pick has always been able to break shields, however we could lean into this identity even more. The fully charged Heavies 1/2 now ignores shields while the new Heavy 3 can break multiple wooden shields with its horizontal sweep.

Axe & Shield:

• L1/L2/PA slight Cleave increase

• L1/L2/L3 reduced Movement Speed slowdown

• L3/H3 increased Headshot Damage

• H3 increased Damage to Armored

• H3 increased Damage to Super Armor

• Push attack now has 20% increased Crit

To allow the Axe part of the weapon to shine through more, the single target attacks (Light 3 / Heavy 3) are now similar to or mirror the 1H axe’s damage. As these attacks are not spammable the weapon won’t have the same damage output as the 1H axe, but should now be capable of handling some tougher enemies on its own.

The Light Attack chain had a much steeper movement speed slowdown compared to the Heavy attack chain, as such the slow during the Light attack chain has been reduced to make it more in line with the Heavy attack chain.

Grudge Raker:

• Increased Damage to Armored

• Increased Damage to Monsters

• Increased Max Carry Ammo

Shotguns sometimes don't kill when they feel like they should. So a slight buff into Armored damage and Monster damage should allow them to more often deal with Hookrats and Stormvermins appropriately.

Throwing Axes:

• Slayer Passive “Trophy Hunter” no longer works on Ranged Weapons

• Reduced Wait Time before first Reload occurs

• Reduced Movement Speed Slow while Reloading

• Increased Damage to Berzerker

• Increased Damage to Monsters

• Increased Headshot Damage

• Increased Base Max Ammo

• Charged Throw: Now reaches further before Damage drop-off starts

Slayers Passive “Trophy Hunter” has been changed to only work with Melee weapons. (This change only excludes throwing axes). The intention here is to streamline Throwing Axe’s damage between careers, making it usable on both Ranger Veteran and Slayer.

To make up for the loss in damage from Slayer’s Passive, the weapon has got a substantial increase to headshot damage and some extra Berzerker & Monster damage to improve efficiency on higher difficulties.

“Reloading” throwing axes should be a window of vulnerability, but the slowdown has been a bit too punishing for Ranger Veteran. Alongside this weapon also technically being a 1H weapon, the wait time and movement speed slowdown has both been reduced slightly.

Base Max Ammo has been increased to an even number as without headshots most enemies take two hits to kill, thus making it line up better with ammo count.

To give Charged Throw a place other than slightly increasing Cleave. Now, when charged, the axe reaches further before damage drop-off starts. This allows the increased projectile speed and smoother trajectory of the charge throw to have more of a meaning as it can now kill on longer ranges. This is intended as a fun change, but also a change that will reward mastery of the weapon, allowing players to go for difficult long range shots.

Drakefire Pistols:

• Single Shot: Now applies 2 Ticks of Burn instead of 1

• Single Shot: Slight Increase to Base Damage

• Single Shot: Slight Damage reduction to Monsters

Drakefire Pistols has been lacking in its single target DPS against Elites and Specials.

So to play into its burning identity, the burn duration on regular shots has been increased allowing the weapon to stack more burns on its target. However to avoid this weapon going too overboard with boss damage, the base damage towards monsters has been slightly reduced.

Kerillian:

One-handed Sword:

• H2 changed from a Single target → Multi-target attack

• Heavy 1/2/3 reduced minimum charge time

• Increase Dodge Range

A requested change has been to revert the Heavy 2 attack back to a multi-target attack from a single target attack. So now you can once again chain Heavy 2 into Light 1 (looping) to deal with hordes.

Kerillian’s one-handed sword is meant to be a versatile, nimble weapon that doesn’t pack as much of a punch as dedicated single-target weapons. However, its heavy attacks were a bit too slow for the low damage. To improve them without sacrificing the identity, the heavy attacks were also sped up slightly.

Greatsword:

• Reduced time between H1 → H1 attack chain

• H1 Movement slowdown on is now gradual instead of instant

• H2 changed from Heavy Single Target Attack → Heavy Multi-target Attack

The Elven 2H sword has always been a unique weapon but kind of awkward to use optimally.

To make the experience smoother overall, the Heavy 1 chain has been sped up to make QQ/Block canceling not mandatory anymore and the movement speed slowdown gradual instead of an instant drop to 20%.

The 2nd Heavy attack has been reworked, it used to be a horizontal attack boasting high single target headshot damage with little to no cleave. As you can chain Heavy 1 into itself indefinitely, this type of follow up is not what the weapon chain needs. So it has been transformed into a cleaving multi-target attack that can stagger hordes and armored enemies alike.

Elven Axe:

• L1/L2/PA slightly increased cleave.

• L1/L2 Reduced slowdown during attack

• L3/L4/PA added slight lunge movement.

• L3/L4 increased Damage to Armored

• L3/L4 increased Damage to Super Armor

• H1/H2 increased Damage to Armored

• H1/H2 increased Damage to Super Armor

• H1/H2 increased Damage to Monster

• PA removed additional crit

• Increase Dodge Range

In addition to amplifying the movement and damage of the elven axe, it has been given some new movement curves for its Light 3, Light 4 and push follow up attack.

With the addition of cleave on the push attack, it is no longer a single target damage move and the angle isn't steep enough to lock the attack out from headshotting. As such the crit chance boost has been removed.

Elven Spear:

• L1/L2/L4/H2 adjusted hit window & hitbox

These changes should make landing headshots when aiming at the head with stab attacks more consistent. But keep in mind as the attacks are slightly slimmer, it’s also easier to miss completely.

Hagbane Shortbow:

• Charged shot: Poison explosion now applies poison to Armored targets in the AoE.

• Increased Max Ammo

Hagbane’s niche is dealing with hordes, but it could only poison armored targets on direct hit. Now the explosion will also poison armored enemies, making it better in mixed horde situations.

As the Hagbane tends to need quite a few arrows to do its job, it got a buff to its Max Ammo to allow careers that lack ammo increasing talents/perks to use the weapon as well.

Swiftbow:

• Hipfire: Increased Cleave

• Charged Shot: Increased Cleave

• Charged Shot: Increased Headshot Damage

• Increased Max Ammo

The Swiftbow does accelerate in its speed, but is lacking a bit too much in the damage department, this buff should make it both better at horde clearing and sniping specials.

Same as Hagbane, as the Swiftbow tends to need quite a few arrows to do its job, it got a buff to its Max Ammo to allow careers that lack ammo increasing talents/perks to use the weapon.

Volley Crossbow: (Shade)

• Single shot: Now uses same bullet spread as Saltzpyre's Volley Crossbow

• Burst shot: Now has an even spread between each bolt

• Burst shot: Total spread between bolts has been reduced

• Single shot: Increased Base Damage

• Burst shot: Increased Base Damage

Some adjustments have been done to the “bullet” spread on the volley crossbow.

The Hipfire “bullet” spread could randomly shoot quite far to the sides, making a perfectly aimed shot by the player miss quite substantially. As such it now shares the more accurate bullet spread of Saltzpyres Volley Crossbow Hipfire.

The Multishot “bullet” spread always shot the 1st bolt accurately, then a big jump aim punch happened between first and 2nd bolt, then the 3rd bolt hit basically the same spot as bolt 2. Now all three bolts are evenly spread and in total all inside a smaller spread.

Base damage has been slightly increased to improve efficiency on higher difficulties.

Saltzpyre:

Falchion:

• Reduced Chain time between PA → L1

• Increase Dodge Range

• Increased number of Effective Dodges (aka Dodge Count)

Alongside the universal buff to 1H Mobility, we gave it a small quality of life buff to the unnaturally slow follow up between Push Attack → Light 1.

Axe & Falchion:

• L1 slightly increased Cleave

The Axe & Falchion is already a great weapon, this change is only for consistency’s sake regarding universal changes to axe attack cleave.

Volley Crossbow:

• Single Shot: Increased Headshot Damage

• Multishot: Increased Horizontal Spread between the 3 Bolts

• Multishot: Increased Stagger to Armored

• Increased Max Ammo

• Slightly increased Reload Speed

Compared to the damage of the regular Crossbow, the Volley Crossbows sniping capabilities don't match up. Improved Headshot damage should bridge the gap between them for skilled players.

Multishot’s niche is hordes/mixed hordes, it already had the damage but could very easily get overrun if there was even one armored unit in the horde. With some extra Stagger towards Armored and a slightly wider hit area it should be able to handle mixed hordes even better.

A slight bump to Max Ammo that won’t mean much on its own, but it will allow Bountyhunter to sustain his ammo slightly better when using Scrounger weapon trait.

Repeater Pistol:

• Bullet spread resets faster

• Reduced Base Bullet Spread for every movement type (Standing, Walking, Crouching, Crouch Walking)

• Increased Bullet Spread gain per shot

• Slightly increased Base Damage

• Increased Headshot Damage

• Increased Damage to Armored

• Increased Close Range Damage to Berzerkers

• Increased Close Range Damage to Monsters

The Repeater Pistol essentially has three modes, spray and pray, sniping and the shotgun blast. Changes have been made to the bullet spread and headshot damage to bump the weapons sniping capabilities without altering the other two too much.

With reduced bullet spread on the initial bullet, a quicker reset, and bigger bullet spread increase per shot, tap shooting should be more accurate than before while keeping the spray and pray just as inaccurate as before.

This along with some damage buffs should help the weapon with taking on specials and elites better on the short to mid ranges, but won’t excel like the crossbows in long range sniping as it quite quickly reaches its damage drop of range.

Sienna:

Crowbill:

• L2 / L3 slightly increased Cleave

• H1 & H2 increased Cleave.

• H1 & H2 slightly reduced Base Damage

• H3 increased Headshot Damage

• PA slightly increased Cleave

As Crowbill heavy attacks are slower and feel like they have power behind them than other axes horizontal attacks, It’s been given the biggest cleave buff but in-exchange for a slight damage nerf to those attacks. However as the 3rd Heavy is an upper diagonal attack, it has a good angle to go for headshots, As such its been left without a cleave buff and instead amplified its headshot damage to make it a stronger single target attack.

Scythe:

• Weapon Special Attack now applies Burn a non-stacking Burn

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Fixes

• Fixed a crash on Tower of Treachery and re-enabled it for play.

• Fixed the new portrait frame being too big.

• Return to the Reik Fixes:

• Adjusted several hang ledges throughout the map.

• Fixed some bombs spawning in the same spot as explosive barrels.

• Fixed a softlock caused by detonating barrels in a way that caused no more barrels to spawn.

• Fixed some situations that could cause Bots to behave oddly during the explosive barrel event.

• Plugged a spot where players could fall off the map in the Chaos camp.

• Fixed duplicate cannons showing up in the outro cinematic.

• Fixed some collision issues with terrain and ships.

• Moved some respawn points in the Dawnrunner to prevent the camera from clipping into the ship when spectating.

• Fixed a bug where the beached chaos ships could be destroyed by melee attacks.

• Fixed some spots where players could get stuck.

• Blocked off a small water area that was incredibly lethal. It’s for your own protection!

• Fixed some ladders that the Bots couldn’t figure out how to climb.

• Improved Bot pathfinding around some areas.

• Fixed the explosive barrels sometimes clipping with the hatch.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash when joining an ongoing match of Return to the Reik.

As a heads up, we also identified a guaranteed crash on Tower of Treachery on PC, and are temporarily disabling the level until we can solve it.

Hotfix 6.7.2 - 9th of September

This hotfix includes a handful of fixes and tweaks for Feast of Grimnir, as well as some grimoire fixes that mostly affect Horn of Magnus.

Features & Tweaks

• Feast of Grimnir changes:

• Added and re-shuffled placements of ammo boxes.

• Tweaked grenade spawners.

• Made sure all grenade spawners also spawn fire grenades

Fixes

• Fixed collision issues in Horn of Magnus.

• Tweaked the collisions of Grimoires to prevent issues where they weren’t grabbable when they should.

• Feast of Grimnir fixes:

• Added extra collision in various places to prevent the Cog or Barrels from getting out of bounds.

• Filled in some small holes in walls

Heroes,

The Feast of Grimnir is upon us! Our brave Heroes must venture into the troll-infested hold of Karak Dal to prove themselves worthy of the title of ‘Drengbarazi’ by slaying every troll in sight!

The Feast of Grimnir

Feast of Grimnir is a brand new, limited time, annually recurring event. This year’s event begins today and will last until September 14. For the duration of the event, the new event level, ‘The Feast of Grimnir’, will be accessible via the Weekly Event Game Mode. Play the level to complete **event specific Okri’s quests **and unlock rewards!

On top of that, Lohner’s Emporium of Wonders’s event section is open again, where you’ll be able to purchase a brand new cosmetic frame, alongside old event rewards from other recurring events!

As always, there will be double XP for all actions for the duration of the event!

If you’d like to know more about The Feast of Grimnir, check out the most recent entries in Lohner’s Chronicles (Part 1 and Part 2), as well as this dev blog about the level!

Without further ado…

Patch 6.7.0 patch notes

Features & Tweaks

• Enabled the new Feast of Grimnir event.

• Complete event-specific Okri’s Quests during the event to receive exclusive rewards.

• Taal’s Horn Keep has received a summery makeover that some of you might be familiar with!

• Heroes will gain Double XP for the duration of the event.

• Added a new event level ‘The Feast of Grimnir’, available for the duration of the Feast of Grimnir event.

• Bots now avoid damage circles in Enchanter’s Lair.

• Bots are now able to detect attacks from multiple enemies at once that don't directly target them.

• Bots are now less prone to dodge into enemies.

• Boss health bars no longer disappear until bosses are dead.

• Teammates attacking bosses will now make the health bar appear for oneself as well (similar to pinging).

• Additional health bars will now appear if more than one boss is active at once.

• Players joining mid-match can now spawn while other players are riding an elevator

Fixes

• Fixed the Chaos Spawn contemplating existence if a grabbed player disconnects.

• Fixed an issue with an illusion for Kerillian’s Dual Swords where it had the wrong name (Now correctly named ‘Eternos-Ichor Dual Swords’)

• Fixed an issue in Fort Bringing Bacon where the intro dialogue would not play if either Bardin or Saltzpyre were missing.

• Fixed playback limits for Blightstormers and Lifeleeches where audio issues could occur if a huge amount of them were spawned at the same time.

• Fixed an issue with the barrel pit in the finale for Tower of Treachery. Throwing barrels into it should be far more consistent now.

• Fixed a bug where the whole party immediately returns to the keep when the host presses "Return to The Keep" after losing a level, instead of the 45 second timer appearing.

• Fixed a crash when a source damaging a player is destroyed while dealing damage when the Baleful Empathy curse is active

• Fixed a bug where enemies hit while Aqshy's Incineration is active in a Bright Delving weave don't visually catch on fire while they are affected by the damage over time effect.

• Fixed a typo in the Louen Leoncoeur skin for Grail knight.

Patch 6.7.1 Patch Notes

Features & Tweaks

• Feast of Grimnir - Slightly moved pickups before boss drop (to hopefully make bots pick them up)

Fixes

• Fixed various boons playing sound cues for the host when bots proc them during weekly chaos wastes runs.

• Fixed a crash entering the chain end event in Garden of Morr.

• Fixed a crash related to bot navigation.

• Feast of Grimnir fixes:

• Filled in small hole in ground just before boss drop

• Added extra collision in space under stairs (and platform)

• Fixed a crash when the Troll Chief stands back up from the knocked down state if Troll Chief is in a very tight spot where no barrel socket manages to fit.

• Fix for trolls not seeing players in the elevator.

• Fixed a spot where players could get stuck in the Waterwheel section.

• Fixed the music so that it’s properly synchronized between Host and Clients.

Modding

• This hotfix is a small patch to allow for a sanctioned update to the Crosshair Kill Confirmation mod

This hotfix includes the fixes missing from the Steam version.

Hotfix 6.6.4 - 30th of June

Fixes

• Fixed Necromancer’s flames being orange in the Victory screen.

• Fixed an issue where poses wouldn’t work at the end screen after playing Weaves

Hotfix 6.6.2 - 28th of May

Fixes

• Fixed players not being able to progress in Weaves.

• (Versus) Fixed recent balance changes unintentionally removing certain passive buffs from various careers.

• Fixed a crash if a skeleton attacks an enemy that is exactly on top of the skeleton

• Fixed a crash if a skeleton's target enemy is despawned the same frame that it starts its attack.

• Fixed an issue where random poses wasn't used in the end screen when completing weaves

• Fixed a bug where "reset" and "switch hero" descriptions switched places when crafting or salvaging items depending on if an item is selected or not.

• Fixed a bug where Handmaiden's "Asrai Alacrity" talent didn't increase power level when not being the party leader.

• (Versus) Fixed a crash when attempting to join someone from the main menu via Steam friends while they are hosting a Custom Game.

• Fixed a bug where the player would end up in an infinite loading screen if they are in a friend's level, go to the Main Menu, and then join their friend via friend joining.

• Fixed occasional enemy related crash when on very low framerate.

• Fixed a bug where the cursor got stuck on screen until shutdown if having viewed a cinematic in the main menu.

• Weave Skins are now available for Weapon Poses.

• (Chaos Wastes) Added the ability to scroll through the list of boons while in the Pilgrimage map.

• Patched a bug in the 'Neuter Ult Effects' mod that was breaking the Huntsman's career skill invisibility.

• (Chaos Wastes) Fixed the weekly expedition reward skin not displaying its name properly.

• The Well of Dreams fixes:

• Fixed a crash when a players character despawns while inside a spotlight in The Well of Dreams

• Fixed a client crash when walking into a spotlight area in The Well of Dreams just after losing connection to the host.

• Fixed a spot where you could fall into a pit and get stuck.

• Fixed a bug where you could turn the pages on the event books after the event was over.

• Fixed a bug where interacting with the pages too fast will make the symbols look funky.

• Fixed a crash involving shaders in the map.

Heroes!

It’s time to shed some blood and harvest some skulls! Today’s update marks the start of this year’s Skulls in-game event, alongside double XP, the release of our newest level, tons of bug fixes, and a mix of updates and tweaks that include Quality of Life changes, minor balance changes, and some improvements to the Bots’ AI logic!

Skulls for the Skull Throne

And blood for the Blood God! Starting today until June 1st, the Skulls for the Skull throne in-game event will be active! Collect skulls while playing Vermintide 2 to complete challenges, but beware of the power that comes with it; drawing the Blood God’s attention too much might spell doom if you can’t keep up the carnage for long…

Completing the event challenges will earn you a brand new portrait frame!

Community challenge: 400 million kills!

For the duration of the event, each enemy you slay in Vermintide 2 will increase the kill counter! If the community can reach the target of 400 million kills in that time frame, you will all unlock a new set of Crimson illusions for the following weapons:

• Kruber’s Halberd

• Slayer Bardin’s Dual Axes

• Kerillian’s Spear

• Saltzpyre’s Volley Crossbow

• Sienna’s Flamestorm Staff You can check the status of the kill counter (https://www.vermintide.com/counter).

Event shop: Previous years’ rewards!

Lohner’s shop has once again opened up with the goodies from years past! If you’ve missed the reward from previous Skulls for the Skull Throne Vermintide 2 events, you can grab them for shillings here for as long as the event lasts!

Keep in mind that this year’s rewards can only be obtained by completing the challenge!

New map: The Well of Dreams

Alongside the Skulls event, this update brings you a FREE new map: **The Well of Dreams! **

This map is the conclusion of the Verminous Dreams campaign! Race against time through the Warlord’s stronghold, the Skaven-infested temple of Athel Lithri, to stop the verminous scheme and the dangers of what they could do with a Warp Bomb if they manage to make use of the Well of Dreams! If such a thing exists…

Quality of Life improvements

Patch 6.6.0 also brings some features and tweaks based on the feedback we’ve received over time! For starters, we’re chipping away at the issues with Bots underperforming, and this update has seen an improvement on the bots’ ability to stick with the team and revive players.

Additionally, you now have the option to purge unwanted boons in Chaos Wastes by selecting them in Holseher’s map in between Pilgrimage missions. No more getting punished for randomly getting a boon that cripples your Wastes’ build!

And finally, for a bit of flair, the victory screen in Adventure missions has been revamped with a glorious parade shot of our successful heroes! Soak in each victory, it’s well earned! Your Hero will be posed in your currently equipped Weapon Pose.

Without further ado…

Patch 6.6.0 patch notes

Balance changes

• Temporary Health changes: This patch sees a lot of changes to how Temporary HP talents are handled in the game. The aim is to balance the talents against one another and make them more well-rounded, while also finding room for more focused playstyles that use them to their full potential.

• All classes have had the third talent on the first row replaced from the Heal Share talent to a Temporary Health talent.

• Heal Share is now a necklace trait. It has replaced Hand of Shallya.

• All four Temporary Health talents have been renamed to have a unified naming scheme across all careers (similar to Stagger talents.)

• The talent that gives Temporary Health based on amount of enemies hit is now named 'Carve'

• The talent that gives Temporary Health based on critical hits and headshots is now named 'Sting'

• The talent that gives Temporary Health based on stagger is now named 'Second Wind'

• The talent that gives Temporary Health upon killing an enemy is now named 'Execute'

• Carve: Hitting enemies beyond the cap of 5 now grants half THP instead of 0.

• Execute: The amount of health received has been adjusted on a per enemy basis. In general, Skaven enemies should give more THP than before, while Chaos enemies should give less than before. Chaos still gives more THP than Skaven overall, but the differences are not as pronounced.

• Sting: This Temporary Health talent was rebalanced fairly recently, and has therefore not seen any changes in this patch, apart from getting a new name.

• Second Wind: Decreased the amount of Temporary Health gained from staggers, based on stagger strength. Weak staggers were reduced more than strong staggers.

• Second Wind: Attacks that kill the enemy now give THP, using the minimum possible stagger value.

• Sister of the Thorn's Deepwood Staff lift on Chaos Warriors with Shields now last 4 seconds instead of 8.

Features & Tweaks

• BOT Changes

• Zealots will now be healed by bots when they are on their last wound.

• Bots will prioritize reviving at maximum interaction distance rather than trying to stand on top of the player

• Bots will sometimes attempt reviving while being targeted by enemies. Threat level by enemies targeting them, as well as their own revive speed is taken into consideration.

• Bots will check for other players to follow if the player they are following hasn't moved for 20 seconds.

• Enabled the Skulls event, including double XP, Lohner's time-limited event shop, 400 million kills counter, and new Event challenges at Okri's.

• Chaos Wastes changes:

• Loot rats now have a chance to drop Pilgrim's coins.

• Obtaining a boon that is part of a Boon Set now increases the likelyhood of other pieces of the set showing up.

• You can now view all of your current boons on the Pilgrimage Map.

• You can also 'purge' individual boons to remove them while on the Pilgrimage Map.

• Added 27 new Weapon Illusions of Bitter Dreams as Weekly Expedition rewards!*

• Added a brand new victory screen for non-Versus matches!

• Added new Pactsworn conversations in Versus.

• Swapped one of the armours on display on a mannequin at Lohner's Emporium.

• Added more information to the error message for players who are temporarily or permanently banned from the game.

• Tweaked the new killstreak voice lines so that they don't show up as responses to previous banter and conversations.

• Added new banter voice lines and conversations for missing with a bomb. Can't let those get old, hehehe.

• Added several Packmaster voicelines from Versus to Adventure!

• Added the ability to join a friend's Cataclysm games via Steam or Lobby Browser even without owning Winds of Magic.

• Necromancer skeletons no longer rotate mid attack when commanded to attack a new target, instead they properly follow through with their current attack before switching.

• Necromancer skeletons now much less prone to stopping early in their running attacks, attacking nothing. Skeletons are now better at attacking enemies that are running away from them. Nothing escapes from death! Or so I've heard.

• Re-sanctioned the following mods:

• Bestiary

• Armory

Fixes

• Chaos Wastes - Made Belakor locusts much less prone to fail to spawn the Shadow Warrior. Added fallback to immediately spawn the crystal if the shadow warrior fails to spawn.

• This fixes a softlock where the champion never spawned in some situations.

• Chaos Wastes - Fixed a bug where running the "Virtue of Audacity" & "Lileath's Blessed Destiny" boons made the Grail Knight consume both ability charges in one career ability use.

• Fixed the 'Being shot at by a Ratling gunner and being turned into Bögenhafen cheese, send help' voicelines not triggering. Heroes will now (sometimes) call out that they are being targeted.

• Versus - Fixed wrong text on Pactsworn 'Cover Me' social wheel option.

• Fixed a crash when joining a Custom Versus Game from an Adventure Keep, and then going to a Versus Keep.

• Fixed issue with gap at neck on Kerillian's Atylwyth Chanter's Robe when using headgear with balaclavas.

• Fixed Bardin's beard becoming possessed when using the Bakbok hat and playing at 35 FPS or lower.

• Fixed discrepancies between the first person and third person view of the 'Krodrengirhun' and 'Purified' Slayer skins and the 'Modryn Nightstalker' Waystalker skin.

• Fixed Chaos Warriors with Shields not showing a fire VFX when on fire or turning dark when dying while aflame.

• Fixed the glow from a charged bolt from Sienna's Bolt Staff not reflecting against environment surfaces.

• Fixed a bug where the host's nicknames for friends show up for everyone when their friends use their Horde ability in Versus Custom Games.

• Fixed an issue that prevented players from being able to play Cataclysm as long as one of the players in the party has the Winds of Magic DLC.

• Fixed Packmaster's death grunts SFX not playing properly.

• Fixed a bug where you hear hurt-grunts instead of strangle-grunts when you are the one getting hooked and hoisted.

• Fixed a bug in the Chaos Wastes map where the host icon always shows up next to ones own portrait even though someone else is hosting the session.

• Fixed the Grail Knight's "'tis but a scratch!" challenge.

• Fixed the "In the line of fire" challenge.

• Fixed the Sister of the Thorn's "Shall not pass" challenge. Now triggers off of hit instead of kill.

• Fixed a visual bug where materials for upgrading overlapped in the weapon inspect menu in certain conditions.

• Versus - Fixed a bug where the host Custom Games could see the enemy team's social wheel commands.

• Fixed a bug where the "Dazh's Peculiar Mirth" boon could permanently stay active if two elites are killed at the same time. Cheeky buggers.

• Fixed Warrior Priest players entering a crouch animation even though they are not crouching, if they block using the hammer & shield and then swap to another weapon.

• Versus - TAB menu in now displays the Versus level information instead of the Adventure level information

• Versus - Fixed a bug in Custom Games where the host player gets soft locked if trying to quit the game while with players from other keeps connected to it.

• Fixed a bug where the Huntsman exit stealth/surge sound plays on every attack while the surge effect from the ability is active, instead of just the first attack.

• Fixed a bug where the example text beneath the subtitle font size setting gets cut off in certain languages.

• Fixed a bug with the Handmaiden's "Gift of Ladrielle" talent where the disabled collision against enemies turned off at the end of the dash. The disabled collision now extends for the full duration of the stealth as well.

• Fixed "PUSHING & PUSH ATTACKS" text overflowing its button in the Handbook when language is set to Russian/Polish

• Fixed the input legend overlapping with the portrait in the inventory loadout selection when using a gamepad.

• Fixed Quickplay bonus not working in Chaos Wastes.

• Fixed some inconsistencies with Quickplay bonus overall - the Quickplay bonus will now be correctly applied if you as a player hit Quickplay to enter the match, regardless of what the Host did.

• The Forsaken Temple bugfixes:

• Added some steps to cover a transition from grass to floor.

• Tweaked a ledge near start of the level where enemies could die from falling just a few meters.

• Added safety measures for bots to path properly to players stuck in hangledge around secret cave entrance behind the waterfall.

• Added extra collision behind chest in waterfall cave to prevent players getting stuck.

• Tweaked area where bots could get stuck close to the start of drained lake area.

• Fixed a number of broken climb ledges.

Hotfix 6.6.1 - 22nd of May

Fixes

• The Well of Dreams fixes:

• Fixed a softlock related to alarm bells.

• Fixed enemies not spawning during the escape sequence.

• Fixed some areas where Monsters could spawn that would have incorrectly set up Boss Walls.

• Fixed some visual effects with the Warp Bomb at the end.

• Added some blockers near a grimoire to prevent players from accessing it from an unintended path and getting stuck.

• Fixed some places that would make enemies instantly die when spawning.

• Added missing hangledges around portal and grimoire.

• Fixed a crash that sometimes appeared on startup when a mod failed to run.

• Fixed a crash when using the 'Neuter Ult Effects' mod with 'Penlight Lua Libraries' disabled whilst also disabling write access to the user config file.

• Fixed a crash upon reaching the platform by the river bed in The Forsaken Temple while the skulls event is active.

• Missed from original patch notes, added after initial post.

Hotfix 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 6.5.3 - 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.

Hotfix 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!

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 through the dwarfen corridors. As always, the Versus version of the map has seen some adjustments to make it fit Versus better, including new objectives and changes to sections of the level. This Versus level takes 3 rounds to complete!

Regarding the loss of data issue

A portion of our player base suffered some serious loss of data & progression on their accounts on the day of Versus’ launch. It took us a while, but by now the brunt of those issues has been solved and reverted. As an apology for the inconvenience, we’ve added a new portrait frame to the game as compensation, the ‘Abasement’ frame!

This portrait frame will be awarded to all of those who suffered the aforementioned data loss issue. Expect the frame to arrive by Monday!

About the upcoming Weapon Pack

If you've been following our dev blogs and announcements, you've likely seen that we've been working on a new weapon pack, and we've even teased a prototype.

While we initially hoped to release it this year, we regret to inform you that it won't be coming out this year. At this point, we don't have more details to share.

We understand this is disappointing, and trust us, we're just as frustrated about it as you are. We’re eager to get these weapons into your hands and will keep pushing to make that happen!

Without further ado...

Patch 6.5.0 patch notes

Features & Tweaks

• Fixed and re-enabled Sanctioned Mods & Versus Quickplay Dedicated Servers.

• Enabled the Anniversary Event, including the 'A Quiet Drink' map, double XP, Lohner's time-limited event shop and new Event challenges at Okri's.

• Added a new map to Versus: 'A Grudge Served Cold'

• Weekly Event & Weekly Expedition changes: We've made adjustments to the various modifiers used in rotation in the Weekly Event and Weekly Expeditions.

• Unstable Breed:

• Bomb Carriers now explode a moment after being staggered or pushed. This should allow for a much better counter against them in melee.

• Delay between Bomb Carriers waves has been doubled (for Twitch Mode, the delay is unchanged).

• Ranald's Sparking Gift:

• A player's own explosion now always sends them flying backwards, to alleviate a bit of the randomness.

• Delay between Gifts has been doubled (for Twitch Mode, the delay is unchanged).

• Ranald’s Sparking Gift no longer affects bots. They never acquire the affliction or take damage from it, but can be catapulted.

• As only players can be targeted by the affliction now, the delay between Gifts extends by 5 seconds for every bot on the team.

• Curse of Comradeship:

• Curse of Comradeship damage intervals (the time between damage instances) now scale depending on distance:

• Minimum distance: 4m, with a damage interval of 1s.

• Maximum distance: 12m, with a damage interval of 0.15s.

• Knocked down players are no longer affected and no longer affect other players.

• Curse of Comradeship will no longer appear in Chaos Wastes Weekly Expeditions.

• Horn of Magnus - Removed the chance for Beastmen to spawn in.

• Versus: Rat Ogre leap charge can no longer be interrupted by Necromancer skeleton attacks.

Fixes

• A Quiet Drink - Fixed a spot players could get stuck on in the tavern.

• A Grudge Served Cold - Fixed a respawn point that caused rescued players to fall through the ground.

• A Grudge Served Cold - Added a killzone at the bottom of a pit. Which is another way to prevent players from getting stuck when going where they shouldn't, SIENNA.

• A Grudge Served Cold - Fixed a wall that enemies could walk through.

• Into the Nest - Fixeda rare bug where non-Skaven enemies could spawn in the level.

• Fixed the navigation buttons not showing up the movement tutorials of the Handbook.

• Fixed a crash due to wrong resources being loaded when joining a lobby that just started transitioning from one level to another.

• Fixed bug where Kruber would respond with a Sienna voice line when Sienna steps in gas.

• Fixed the Okri's challenges "Wuthering Heights", "Tech, No Mage" and "Fundamental force". They are now functional again.

• Versus: Fixed a bug where players sometimes fall through the ground when rescued from being hoisted by a Packmaster.

• Fixed an error where difficulty selection for Veteran shows that 300 is the highest obtainable power level instead of 200.

• Versus: Fixed a crash if a Packmaster leaves while the round is ending and they have an enemy who is hoisted by them.

• Weaves: Fixed the Chaos Warrior with Shield not triggering Chamon's Aurification.

• Khazukan Kazakit-Ha! - Fixed so that the pressure plate objective doesn't show until you repaired the pipe and started the burner on each side of the ridge.

Heroes!

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.

Hotfix 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.

Hotfix 6.3.1 - 24th of January

Features & Tweaks

• (Versus) Increased the cooldown for playing sound when pinging frequently.

• Devious Delvings - Damage taken from the water does not interrupt revives anymore.

Fixes

• Devious Delvings - Fixed a crash that could occur in the elevator.

• Devious Delvings - Fixed a visual bug where the water splashes in first person wouldn't go away if you died.

• (Versus) Fixed a crash when clicking on a Versus Custom Lobby entry with Custom Settings active while in a non-Versus Keep.

• (Versus) Fixed a Dedicated Server Crash when slotting in a barrel in any barrel event.

• (Versus) Fixed a rare crash in Versus that would occur when two clients join a lobby at the same time.

Heroes!

The second installment in the Verminous Dreams campaign,_ ‘Devious Delvings’_, is out now, free for all owners of Vermintide 2!

Devious Delvings

Having infiltrated the Skaven-infested ruins of the mythical Athel Lithri, our Heroes must now investigate the site to find out what it is that the verminous Pactsworn are scheming. The devastation and machinery suggest a massive project, but what are they after in this temple of all places?

Well, either way, better get to the bottom of it and smash every rat that comes your way. And the ones that don’t, too, for good measure (Saltzpyre agrees).

Just like the previous maps, Devious Delvings comes with its own set of Okri’s Challenges and rewards, such as a portrait frame and paintings!

Versus: Custom Game Settings

And for the Pactsworn enthusiasts, we’ve got an exciting new addition! When creating a player-hosted custom game, the host now has a suite of adjustable settings to tweak and modify how the match will play out! You can take the opportunity to make things super crazy, or to make your own competitive changes!

Some examples of the settings you can find in Custom Games:

• Early Win toggle

• Hero Bots toggle

• Friendly Fire toggle

• Number of Hero Wounds

• Knocked down Hero health

• Horde Ability charge rate

• Pactsworn respawn timer

• Pactsworn Catch up with Hero distance

• Spawn distance from Heroes

• Pactsworn Health

• …And more!

On top of those and every other setting being added with this update, we plan on hopefully expanding that list with more and more settings as time goes on! Feel free to give us your own suggestions for settings you’d like to tinker with in Custom Games!

In the lobby browser, games that are playing with rules different from the default ones we use in Quickplay Servers will be flagged as having a modified ruleset.

Developer Stream today - 17:00 CEST - twitch.tv/fatsharkgames

We’ll be hosting a stream on our twitch today at 17:00 CEST! Level Design Lead **Rickard **and Art Director **Joseph **will be showing off the new mission as well as answering your questions and chatting with the community. Come hang out! twitch.tv/fatsharkgames

Without further ado…

Patch 6.3.0 patch notes

Features & Tweaks

• Added a new map, 'Devious Delvings', as the second mission in the Verminous Dreams campaign.

• Mission comes with its own set of Okri's challenges and rewards as usual, including shillings, a portrait frame and two paintings.

• Added configurable settings for player hosted Custom Versus Games.

• (Versus) Made it so Versus Custom Games with changed settings show up differently in the lobby browser.

• (Versus) Added the ability to set a custom name for Versus player hosted lobbies.

• Added more combat banter for our Heroes. Hell yeah.

• (Versus) Removed the ability to respond to other players' world markers.

• (Versus) Opening the communication wheel when looking at one's own world marker no longer displays "Cancel".

• (Versus) World markers behind walls are now cancellable.

• (Versus) Removed cooldown of enemy pings in Versus. Ping attempts that don't print chat messages have a significantly higher limit regarding spam prevention.

• (Versus) Removed 'Ping Only Item' and 'Ping Only Enemy' keybinds. 'Tag Only' keybind no longer places world markers. 'Place World Marker' is now bound to middle mouse button by default (It is still possible to place world markers with regular tag 'T').

• (Versus) Players can now ping enemies when knocked down.

• (Versus) Elite enemies are now pingable.

• (Versus) Pactsworn players can now ping enemies through walls.

• Added a keybind to only open the Weapon Pose wheel.

• Added the ability to rebind the key to switch page in the emote wheel.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where opened chests did not properly take levels past 30 into account when calculating the power of items.*

• Fixed the sanctioned mod 'Neuter Ult Effects' crashing in official realm if mods it depends on fail to load.

• Fixed a bug where Kruber could never thank Kerillian for healing him. Listen, it was embarrassing, okay?

• Fixed a bug where players could upgrade weapons to Veteran quality before level 30 in certain menus.

• Fixed Weave bots not using cosmetics from the selected bot Loadout.

• Fixed a bug with the icons on Versus weapons not resetting when removing applied illusions.

• Fixed a bug where floating hats appeared in various menus when being in the Versus Keep. I bet that was Olesya trying to lure Kruber somewhere.

• (Versus) Fixed a bug where the "Easy Meat - Kill a hoisted hero" challenge was obtainable if the killed player was hoisted at any point during the round, not just if the player is hoisted when killed.

• (Versus) Fixed a bug where the "Not so Fast! - Disable a Hero that is Reviving another Hero" challenge was obtainable by simply disabling any hero, regardless if they are reviving or not.

• Fixed some mistakes with the German localization.

• Fixed an issue where hero skins that overwrite hats would still take texture changes from said hat, if applicable (Notably, Slayer head cosmetics changing tattoos and skin)

• Fixed the model of a rapier illusion having a gap between the blade and the hilt.

• (Versus) Fixed a bug where controller sensitivity would be reset to default after each round.

• Fixed wonky UI behaviour after deleting a loadout.

• Fixed the Huntsman talent "Makin' it look easy" icon not being colored on the HUD.

• Fixed the name of a bundle in Lohner's Emporium spilling out of place.

• (Versus) Fixed an issue where the matchmaking UI would show 'N/A' when Quickplaying while in a party.

*: Missed from original patch notes, added 27th of January.

Hotfix 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!

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 more little things and tinker a bit more in the coming year! There’s a lot of very valid feedback that you guys have given that we want to address and we hope to be able to do that bit by bit in 2025. There are also small additions planned, such as Custom Settings to player-hosted games.

Other than Versus, we’ll continue working on the rest of the Verminous Dreams campaign maps (hope you’ve been having fun with The Forsaken Temple!), as well as a previously mentioned Weapon Pack which is still in the pipeline. Beyond that, well, we can’t reveal everything, can we?

Barring hotfixes, this will be the last Vermintide 2 update of the year, and what a blast it has been!

_We hope you enjoy the Holidays and the Gifts of the Wolf Father, and we hope you’ve had as much fun with this game this year as we have! See you next year, drengbarazi.

• The Vermintide 2 Team._

Patch 6.2.0 patch notes

As a heads up, due to a sudden issue with our patch building process, this update will be around a 25 gb download on PC. We apologize once again for the inconvenience, we thought we had seen the last of it. We’ll continue investigating to hopefully avoid more patches like these in the future.

Features & Tweaks

• (Versus) Enabled the Rat Ogre as a Monster option for Pactsworn.

• Hero Poses should no longer be counted as inventory items when calculating inventory space and should allow players that have reached the inventory cap due to poses to once again open chests.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash when clicking on future rewards on Gifts of the Wolf Father. Re-enabled the ability to see what's coming next in the Gifts of the Wolf Father calendar.

• The Forsaken Temple fixes:

• Fixed enemies getting stuck on the wrong side of the chasm of the second Grim path.

• Patched up safe spot hole

• Tweaked wonky hang ledge by temple chasm

• Tweaked trigger for end event door marker to not show after door is opened

• Made sure 2 barrels always spawn around the plaza

• Tweaked terrain around drop into drained lake

• Added collision to stuck spot in end event fake elevator

• Fixed an issue with the end event stairs.

• Patched up spot where a waystone piece could be be lost or cheesed

• Fixed crash when two players interact with an elevator in "The Forsaken Temple" at the exact same time.

• Fixed a rare crash when attempting to preview Pactsworn skins before they've loaded.

• Fixed a Chaos Wastes crash when using a Grenade mid-mission.

• (Versus) Fort Brachsenbrücke - Prevented cannonballs from getting stuck in the elevator

An update regarding the data loss issue:

Hey all, just checking in again with a progress update and some further information to share.

Our backend developers have a 3-step plan to restore the missing data:

• Stage 1: Gather and collate account data from storages we have, and transfer this to another system which will be used for rebuilding missing account data

• Stage 2: Conduct some wizardry in this system to organise the data (e.g. get the latest/highest/correct value for each statistic for each player) and prep it for being merged back in to our backend data

• Stage 3: Update the backend and merge the rebuilt data into existing account data.

Stage 1 is in full swing and data is currently being downloaded and transferred to our system required to rebuild the missing data. This is a tremendous amount of account data, and will take some time to complete. We’re exploring whether we can scale this process up and complete it any faster, but for now an approximate estimate is that this stage will take a few weeks to complete.

Please bear with us, and we’ll continue to provide updates when we have more to share.

A big thank you for your continued patience during this process.

Hotfix 5.6.1 - November 4th

Fixes

• Fixed a crash when cancelling Host Migration.

Heroes!

The most ill-omened night of the year is finally upon us! The green glow of Morrslieb in full moon heralds it: Geheimnisnacht has arrived!

Geheimnisnacht event

Starting today and until November 10th, there will be Double XP for all actions taken in Vermintide 2, along a spooky makeover of the Keep, new challenges and rewards for Geheimnisnacht, and the return of old Geheimnisnacht rewards in exchange for shillings at Lohner's Emporium! For more details, please read the original announcement here:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/552500/view/4512135360811161102

But to sum up, play the event, complete the challenges, earn the rewards, have fun!

Developer Stream - 17:00 CET today!

Join us today at 17:00 CET on our Twitch!

We'll be hosting a stream with Developers Tom, Emil and Theodor to celebrate Geheimnisnacht and talk about upcoming changes to Vermintide, including the upcoming Progression & New Player Experience rework that will arrive with Versus!

Come hang out and ask questions or just chill with us! Looking forwards to seeing you all there!

Without further ado...

Patch 5.6.0 Patch Notes

Features & Tweaks

• Enabled the Geheimnisnacht event and Keep decorations. _The Skull of Blosphoros will be active in the following locations: _

• ** Against the Grain **

• ** Athel Yenlui **

• ** A Parting of the Waves **

• ** Convocation of Decay **

• ** Halescourge **

• Enabled double XP for the duration of the event.

• Added the rewards from previous Geheimnisnacht in-game events to Lohner's Emporium of Wonders.

Fixes

• Fixed bot priorities not saving when exiting the game.

• Fixed an issue where players would not get that week's rewards after a Host Migration during a Chaos Wastes Weekly Expedition

• Fixed some Cataclysm challenges not being greyed out in Okri's book for players who don't own the Winds of Magic DLC.

• Fixed a bug where Outcast Engineer's talent 'Ingenious Ordnance' would exit cooldown early. Woops.

• More changes to come!

• Fixed bosses not taking damage from Ungor archer arrows. Now only player controlled bosses are immune to friendly projectiles. That friendly fire was a bit TOO friendly.

• This also makes it possible to complete the related Minotaur challenge once again.

• Remastered the dialogue for Drachenfels and Dark Omens to fix a few audio issues and to bring the quality in line with other level VO.