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.

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!

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!

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!

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!


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!

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...

• 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.

• 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.

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.

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• 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.

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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.

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."



"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).”



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 rounds, but the length of the level made it into 3 rounds. We added a night environment to the last round to make it feel like some time has passed, and also because it looks nice.”

What would you look for if you had to turn another map into a Versus level?
“ ‘Garden of Morr’ is a level that looks to have a very fun Versus layout, but the geometry is quite complicated to work with, with many small units stitched together, and lots of holes where Heroes can’t look.

On the other hand, it’s not nice to have too many large, solid structures, because if we need to make changes, artists need to spend time separating them, exporting new units & more.”

“‘A Parting of the Waves’ looks to be a great Versus level as well.”

“All-in-all, we move, delete, add, and heavily rework the levels, but on the “surface,” they should look just like the Adventure levels. But pretty much all the units in a level are somehow tweaked, rotated a little, moved, and fixed so Versus works. It’s mostly about making the pact-sworn feel like Heroes because they have access to a lot of level areas that the Heroes can’t reach. So shortcuts, vantage points, etc. are very important.”

“You also create a “net” of transition points with the climb units, which in theory should cover the whole level, but it’s important to not add too many (the UI becomes bloated).”

“We also scaled down the enemy compositions, terror events strength, and roaming enemies a lot, since we have the 4 pact-sworn players using the Horde ability all the time.”

“If I were to convert another Adventure level to Versus, I would look for a bit more ‘wild and crazy’ layout level to push the Versus experience even further and avoid repetitiveness. For example Bögenhafen’s ‘The Pit’, which is a huge open town map with plenty of possibilities to add cool events.”

The new map will be added to the pool of Versus maps on March 6 alongside the Anniversary event! Check it out then!

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!

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 game

Note 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/MS4vWSQrEh

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!

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!

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!

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!


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.

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.

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

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!

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.


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…

• 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.

• 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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

• (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.

• 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

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.