# Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Vermintide 2's 7th Anniversary is live now! + Hotfix 6.5.1 + 6.5.2 - Product: Warhammer: Vermintide 2 (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/warhammer-vermintide-2) - Vendor: Fatshark - Date: 2025-03-06 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/552500/view/546728306451416068 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/warhammer-vermintide-2/releases/2025-03-06-vermintide-2-s-7th-anniversary-is-live-now-hotfix What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **fixed** — Fixed crash when a bot shoots with steampistol - **fixed** — Fixed crash when closing down the game during a loading screen with voip enabled - **changed** — Bots are now better at choosing whether to light or heavy attack against armored targets - **changed** — More weapons now allow bots to push shielded targets - **changed** — Bots are now better at predicting whether their target is pushable or if it's a waste of stamina - **changed** — Bots' block window against enemies with long timed attacks is reduced slightly - **changed** — Bots now take all nearby attacking enemies into consideration when blocking, rather than just the enemy they target - **changed** — 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 - **added** — Versus - A Grudge Served Cold: Added an ammo box to the end event - **changed** — Versus - A Grudge Served Cold: Improved visualization for Capture Zones in Mad Dog Mines - **fixed** — Fixed a bug where downed players still took damage from the Curse of Comradeship mutator - **fixed** — Fixed an issue where items equipped on certain loadouts did not show as equipped - **fixed** — Fixed a bug where the Masterwork Pistol had an extra delay when firing with a controller - **fixed** — Fixed some overlapping text when making a custom Chaos Wastes game - **fixed** — Fixed a crash when joining a friend's Versus Game while in the Adventure scoreboard - **fixed** — Fixed a bug where difficulties appear locked for a few seconds when entering the keep - **fixed** — Fixed the Trollhammer Torpedo's 3D model missing from the Athanor UI - **fixed** — Fixed a bug where the Tag/Social Wheel keybind wouldn't work if bound to the same button as Place World Marker - **fixed** — Versus - A Grudge Served Cold: Blocked off a shortcut exploit at the bomb cart and fixed various climb points - **added** — Added a new map to Versus: A Grudge Served Cold > ##### 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](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/552500/view/546728306451416292), 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 an _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/552500/view/546728306451416068]_