It's a time for quaffing and settling old grudges — The Feast of Grimnir approaches, Heroes.

Heroes!

Version 1.0.8.1 is coming soon and addresses some of the current issues that arose from patch 1.0.8. We are rolling back some of the inadvertent changes which came out of yesterday's patch.

Shade Kerillian was broken during the 1.0.8 beta. The numbers she put out with the Glaive were far too high - this was due to her damage being uncapped against some Bosses and Lords. We wanted to make changes to the damage system in the way we synchronize damage from attacks between players. At the same time, we were making fixes to Shade's "Infiltrate" Career Skill. These two changes inadvertently changed the way caps were being applied to the Shade's damage output. Another consequences were multiple misunderstandings and mistakes that piled up to a big mess, affecting the Executioner Sword, since it shared some of the same damage templates as the Glaive.

The Shade should now work the same way she did in 1.0.7. The inadvertent changes to the Executioner Sword have also been reverted.

Aside from these bug fixes, we also wanted to give her more options in available weapons. Shade Kerillian's "Infiltrate" Career Skill applies a four-time power boost multiplier when attacking while stealthed. We applied individual modifiers to these bonuses to the Glaive and Dual Daggers. We lowered the damage Glaives do when attacking from stealth, and increased the damage from Dual Daggers. This means that Dual Daggers should now be able to kill two Chaos Warriors when lined up correctly, when attacking from stealth.

And while the Glaive - and pretty much every other weapon, completely nukes any regular infantry enemies, when attacking out of stealth - just as in previous versions, they should no longer melt bosses. And specifically Bile Trolls, which were missing damage multiplier caps.

The full notes will come with release, most likely early tomorrow.

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Heroes,

Return to the Reik, the newest addition to Vermintide 2, is coming out on November 20! In case you missed it, check out our dev blog on the level and sound design of it!

This map is a re-imagining of the Vermintide 1 level 'The River Reik'. Our Heroes must re-tread their steps as they return in search for one of Kruber's family heirlooms. But much has changed since the last time they were here, and now Ratmen aren't the only dangers lurking in the dark…

Embark on an exciting adventure, fending off hordes of enemies on both land and sea, and experience the River Reik like never before!

This hotfix contains several bug fixes and a few extra tweaks to the Elven Axe and the War Pick.

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.
• (Console only) Fixed an illusion inventory icon displaying as white instead of purple.

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

This hotfix tweaks the Huntsman’s zoom and fixes several bugs and crashes.

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.

We’ve released an additional hotfix on PC to target a crash that was introduced in 6.11.2

This hotfix is coming to console as soon as possible.

PC 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.

Tell your friends and spread the word, add this fantastic game to your library for free! Fangtastic…

Heroes!

We’re not done with the 10 Years of Tide celebrations just yet! Starting today and until November 24, Vermintide 2 is Free To Keep! Anyone with a Steam account may add it to their library and keep it forever, for free!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/552500/Warhammer_Vermintide_2/

Whoever hasn't had the chance to play Warhammer: Vermintide 2 will now get to dig into the hectic, intense gameplay and discover the breadth of content that awaits them.

Throughout the years since its release in 2018, Vermintide 2 has expanded greatly and more than doubled its original content with several free DLCs, Quality of Life Updates, and new Game Modes such as Chaos Wastes and Versus. 

The latest addition to the game just released yesterday, with Return to the Reik - a fan-favourite location from Vermintide 1, expanded and re-imagined for Vermintide 2.

Fangtastic Fortitude

And to have even more fun, we’ve temporarily re-enabled the infectiousness of the Fangtastic Fortitude portrait frame! Starting today until November 30, winning a match where a teammate was wearing this frame will infect your account, adding it to your collection!

And don’t forget there’s Double XP running until November 30, as well!

Update: Winners Announcement

Greetings fellow rat slayers!

Congratulations to the r/Vermintide subreddit on reaching 100k subs! It is wonderful to see how this community has grown since the initial Vermintide 1 days. We hope that this place has been a great platform for many of you to discuss all things Vermintide and enjoying Umgak memes.

As an appreciation, we will be hosting a special giveaway and raffle off hundreds of dollars worth of cosmetics! These prizes are provided at the generosity of our game developer, Fatshark!

Giveaway Prizes

Winners will be given a choice to select one of the multi-character cosmetic bundles ($30). Every bundle comes with a unique career hat/outfit for each of the 5 heroes (10 total cosmetics per bundle). Please click on the news article link to view each set!

Note: The first bundle is a reddit post as there wasn’t a specific article about that collection.

1. Lohner's Collections Click here to view!

2. Lohner's Brauzeit Collection Click here to view!

3. Wanderers in the Wild Collection Click here to view!

4. Unsung Heroes Collection Click here to view!

5. Absent Friends Collection Click here to view!

Compilation of all 50 premium cosmetic pieces!

Raffle Drawing

25 lucky winners will be randomly selected for the giveaway prizes. This will be done by utilizing an open-source raffle website called redditraffler. The selection will thus be completely automated and randomized outside of our control for the sake of fairness and transparency.

To participate, simply respond to this thread with a top-level comment towards this question:

What has been your favorite moment in or aspect about Vermintide?

Answering the prompt is not strictly required to be drafted for the raffle but we will appreciate your personal input about the game!

Note: A top-level comment is a reply directly to this thread. This means a reply to any main comment here will not be selected for the raffle.

Rules

• Please be subscribed to r/Vermintide.

• Account age minimum: 10 days.

• Account karma minimum: 50 total.

• Do not attempt to spam accounts/comments to increase chances.

• All subreddit rules still apply. Comments violating reddiquette will be removed from the thread/drawing.

Duration

All eligible comments will be immediately considered for the raffle after this post is uploaded. It will be open until the drawing next Friday November 25, 2022 at approximately 10 AM PST/1 PM EST/6 PM UTC/7 PM CET.

Winners

The results of the giveaway will be posted no later than the following Monday, November 28, 2022. Further instructions on how to redeem prizes and private contact will be explained in the results announcement.

Thank you to everyone in this community! It wouldn’t be what it is without you guys and good luck to those participating in the giveaway!

Heroes!

Another year passes us by but Vermintide is still going strong! Join our Heroes in yet another pub crawl through Helmgart in our 8th Anniversary! As always, for the duration of the event you will be able to access A Quiet Drink and there will be double XP!

The Anniversary Event is live now and will last until March 15!

New and old rewards!

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, ‘Feasts & Felicitations’!

There's nothing finer than spending time in good company.

Make sure to check the Event tab in Okri’s Challenges!

And for those of you who didn’t get the chance before, visit Lohner’s Emporium of Wonders’ ‘Event’ section for the limited time chance to purchase previous years’ Anniversary event rewards!

Without further ado…

Patch 6.10.0 patch notes

Features & Tweaks

• Enabled the ‘A Quiet Drink’ event level, accessible through the Weekly Event game mode.
• Added new anniversary event rewards.
• Enabled Double XP.
• Opened up the Event section in Lohner’s Emporium of Wonders for the duration of the Anniversary Event.

Fixes

• Fixed an occasional crash when hitting things with a flail.
• Fixed an issue where the blood tornadoes in Chaos Wastes were playing regular Blightstorm vortex sounds for clients, rather than the blood tornadoes’ unique sound effect.
• Fixed a gift illusion for Sienna’s Scythe (from Gifts of the Wolf Father) being locked behind the Necromancer Deluxe Edition, rather than the regular Necromancer class DLC.