With 5 hours and 30 minutes remaining, you hit the target of 500,000,000! That’s half a billion (and there would be countless more if we included all the failed missions)! There were some worried faces at various points throughout this challenge — concerned that they thought this wouldn’t be toppled, but you prove time and time again that you’re capable of any challenge we throw at you (and then some)!

https://www.vermintide.com/counter

The portrait frame will be distributed in the next patch.

Welcome to another development update.

You’re on to the 8th day of the Community Challenge, around 57% through the allotted time, and you’re around 56% through the required kills. When we set out we wanted this to be somewhere between a ‘safe’ and ‘nail-biting’ challenge. Right now, however, we’re out of nails and we’re chewing on fingers.

We’re hoping this bonus length double XP weekend and the promise of a bonus triple XP day for completing the challenge is enough to tip the scales! Now get slaying! (but first, check out the rest of this Developer Update of course!)

This week we want to show you a work in progress of a premium cosmetic item we’re working on. One of many, this hat is looking perfect for Huntsman Kruber. This concept is as mentioned a work in progress and can change during development, as well as sometimes work in progress items can be pulled from production for various reasons. But we wanted to share this with you!



We took inspiration for this unique item from an art book called ‘Blood on the Reik’. Tell us what you think? Would you want this in your Kruber wardrobe? Do you have the book and see any other inspirations you’d like us to take? Hit us up in the comments below!

Last week we featured some less traditional fan art here in the update, and this week we have seen a huge influx of more traditional creations by some of the hugely talented artists in the community and we’d like to take this opportunity to showcase some of those!


https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g64ida/eshin_assassin_rat/
By 'GasMaskSamurai'.



https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g5nqff/butterlord_remastered_liked_how_the_sketch_worked/
By 'Count_Spliffy' - You can see a WIP sketch that led to this great piece here.



https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g6nvcq/skaven_ratling_gunner_some_warpstone_bullets_for/
By 'GasMaskSamurai'.



https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g5s7pf/boyfriend_drew_a_gor_from_my_description_having/
By 'JFK_FORGOT_ZHONYAS' boyfriend'. Drawn without having seen a Gor and entirely from description alone. Not bad, JFK_FORGOT_ZHONYAS' BF!



https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g5a4x7/let_them_remember_only_the_steely_glint_of_your/
By 'TarNREN'.



https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g44vgn/muh_kerillian_fanart_shade/
By 'Count_Spliffy'.


Thanks all for sharing your art with us! You're all incredibly talented, and it really warms us to see such talent being used to showcase a project we really love being involved in.

Last but by no means least, the crew over on the Vermintide sub are hosting a VerminLore Crafting contest!
In this Reddit contest, your goal will be to write an as of yet untold bit of flavor for the Vermintide universe.

Have theories on Saltzpyre's life while he was still apprenticing as a blacksmith? Want to theorize on Olyesa's card games? Or maybe you fancy you know exactly who Lohner is and what he's hiding. The Reddit mods want to know! They will be issuing prizes, so why not give your penmanship a go and be in with a chance of winning some sweet prizes!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/g4xa07/contest_verminlore_crafting/

At 2pm UTC today we have enabled Double XP for all players, on all platforms, for all games! Now's a great time to stay home, level up, and help us all Play Apart Together.

Don't forget we're also challenging you to slay 500,000,000 Skaven, Norscans or Beastmen (or any combination of flesh you meet, aside from your team mates...) before the end of play on April 30th and earn you and your hero friends a lovely new portrait frame exclusive to this event.

As a bonus, we can also announce that should you beat the Community Challenge we'll also activate 24 hours TRIPLE XP on May 1st!

For all the information this event, check our news post here:

https://www.vermintide.com/news/stay-home-play-together-heroes-unite

The Community Challenge is still ongoing and you can still join - it will be running until April 30th. With this challenge we wish to invite you as a community to come together and help the Reikland.

So far your combined efforts have accumulated a staggering total 155,947,217 enemies defeated! It's horribly impressive.

We just set the Tzeentchian Twins Weekly Event live, which for those who can handle it is a great way to bloat the stats! In this event enemies you dispatch will materialise in to two lesser enemies, and so on, until you're left with chaff to kill. You can find this on the mission screeen in the Keep (press M).

Fill the bar by defeating Skaven, Rotblood, and Beastmen in Warhammer: Vermintide 2 and be rewarded with a new portrait frame.

Crown of Purity

We recently updated the event page on our website with news of which charity the proceeds for all sales of the 'Crown of Purity' will be donated to, and you can find out more about that here:

https://www.vermintide.com/news/stay-home-play-together-heroes-unite

Welcome to a relatively short Developer Update. We’ve been busy putting the Community Event live this week, where you've been tasked to slay 500,000,000 pactsworn over roughly 14 days. It’s a fairly big ask and so far you’re a little bit behind the curve! Step it up and earn a sweet portrait frame for everyone!



We put a great deal of science into coming up with the perfect number. We had to factor in telemetry from the past, as well as predictions based on the current situation and the days in which the event would be running. Take into account a great deal of factors, and then add a certain % on top to come up with the perfect goal of 500,000,000 in 14 days. We believe you can do it!

There are also some particular rules we didn’t fully explain in some of our earlier messages around this event!

• Only Official Realm matches count. We aren’t counting player spawned units or runs completed on the modded realm.
  
• Weaves count!
  
• Only Wins count! That’s right, only matches that end in success will count towards the goal!

We just enabled the counter on the in-game loading screens for easy access, that updates less frequently than the website ( https://www.vermintide.com/counter ) but every five minutes or so!

That’s all for the event bits. Lastly this week we just want to showcase some of the cool stuff found in the community! Sadly most of it was pretty risque or a little too ‘cross-universe’, but then there was this, and we (and many) have just fallen in love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzhHcqDMox0

You can catch him streaming now, it’s good vibes all round!

https://www.twitch.tv/dekakuma3

Now get killing pactsworn! Have a great weekend. Stay home, and stay safe.

Team Fatshark

During the past weeks the Sharks have been working from home, and in an earlier Developer Update we went into lengths about what these changes meant for the Sharks and the entire office. Staying at home can be a challenge and the Sharks are helping each other with new ideas to stay inspired. This community event was born from such an idea, and we hope that you will join us in this new endeavour.

Together we can make a difference. Between the 15th and 30th of April we are inviting you to take part in a community challenge.

All profits* made from ‘Crown of Purity’ will be donated to charity.

This premium cosmetic will be available for purchase in Lohner’s Emporium of Wonders and Steam, and all profits* made will be donated to charity responding to COVID-19.

"To the faithful there is naught more dangerous than an unguarded mind, save perhaps an uncaged thought. Alas, even the righteous cannot entirely control the sinful impulses of a wandering will, thus many Sigmarite preachers wear this singular piece of headgear, shackling with steel what mortal will cannot always cage."

You can find ‘The Crown of Purity’ here and it will be available for purchase from the 16th of April.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1282490/Warhammer_Vermintide_2_Cosmetic__Crown_of_Purity/

*After fees and taxes.
In tough times we need each other, and the Ubersreik 5 are no exception. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is ultimately a co-op game, designed to create situations only teamwork can solve, and with this challenge we wish to invite you as a community to come together and help the Reikland. Stay home. Play Together. Heroes Unite.

Fill the bar by defeating Skaven, Rotblood, and Beastmen in Warhammer: Vermintide 2 and be rewarded with a new portrait frame †. To help you keep track we have set up a Kill Counter that is updated in near real-time. All platforms are included in the counter.

https://www.vermintide.com/counter

Play Apart Together!

† The portrait frame will be added in the next update for all platforms.

Welcome to patch 2.4 on PC that brings you some fixes and tweaks to Old Haunts and Enchanter’s Lair as well as some bug fixes.

Levels

• Enchanter's Lair:
  • Added water collision on blood surface.
    
  • Removed interactable units and flow on the paintings found throughout the level.
    
  • Player camera should no longer break if a player rescuable in the boss room before encounter cutscene.
    
  • Barrel marker should no longer get stuck when hotjoining in to a match in progress.
    
  • "All heroes must be present" prompt now appears for clients when host is not at the door.
    
  • Nurgloth - Final Phase eruptions no longer deal any damage to bots.
    
  • Fixed a few spots where players can get stuck.
• Old Haunts:
  • Fixed a spot where players can get stuck.
    
  • Fixed an illogical respawn.
    
  • Fixed a spot where bots can get stuck.
    
  • Fixed an invisible door that players could break.
    
  • Fixed a case of Face Spawning by the statues.
    
  • The Bottle counter should be sync'd correctly now for players who join a run in progress.

Fixes & Tweaks

• Introduced basic sorting functionality to store items.*
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when Bardin uses his taunt ability during "Back to Basics" deed.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing Saltz from switching to melee whilst performing rapid fire with Brace of Pistols.
  
• Fixed persistent scrolling audio in the store.
  
• Fixed an issue where the camera would twitch if switching between melee and ranged weapons with zero ammunition.
  
• Fixed an issue where Sienna's (Battle Wizard) 'Tranquility' buff would be removed too late when a spell was cast.

*This doesn't allow for players to sort items just yet, but applies a default sorting with the following behaviours:

Sorts ASCENDING by:
1) unowned < owned
2) hat < skin < weapon_skin < unknown
3) price
4) rarity DESCENDING (!)

Welcome to another developer update.

It’s a short week this week and next, with folks enjoying time out of the ‘office’ to celebrate the season and taking a long weekend. Since we’re working from home, perhaps it just means switching Steam accounts and playing some new releases, or hanging out in the garden with a cold brew. Maybe building legos with the baby sharks (doo doo doo doo doo doo) or learning a new skill, like lock picking, or baking, or something in between. Whatever we’re up to, we hope you have a nice long weekend as well, doing whatever you put your minds to.



Right now, in Vermintide 2, we’ve got Double XP up and running again! This is a bonus weekend and will be running until Tuesday April the 14th. A great time to level your Krubers (seriously, why is he the least picked hero? Sort it out people! He’s a BATTERING RAM!).

Stay home. Stay safe. Level up!



We wanted to announce a new community event this week, but due to the shorter week and some unprecedented hitches (largely due to partners and collaborators also feeling the pressures of ‘working from home’, we’re not quite in the spot we wanted to be in to make that a reality. We’re going to do all we can to get that up and running next week however, and will share more news with you when we’re ready to put that live.

Right now we’re coop-ing with Focus Home Interactive and anyone who owns Vermintide 2 can avail of a deep discount on Space Hulk: Deathwing

If you own Vermintide 2, you'll automatically get a 80% off coupon on Space Hulk: Deathwing on Steam and vice versa! The cross-promotion will last 10 days from April 10th at midnight PST until April 20th at 11:59 PM.

Go in the inventory of your Steam profile and find your 80% off coupon!

Now is your time to get into the Warhammer universes and discover two unique experiences. You’ve mastered the art of fighting the Ratmen, why not try your hand against the Genestealers?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/816090/Space_Hulk_Deathwing__Enhanced_Edition/?snr=1_100400_2100__2103

We've just enabled Double XP in celebration of the long weekend. We hope you're all keeping safe and socialising in responsible ways. So rally the troops and why not smash a few ratmen in the face?



Right now, the developers have invaded the Quick Play queues on all platforms, so pop in and see if you can catch a Shark out of water!

Welcome to another Developer Update! We’re still all working from home for the time being. We’re getting to know our new co-workers as we interfere with their normal operating procedures and invade their normal working environments.



This week some folks expected an April Fool gag from us, as would be tradition, but we decided that in keeping with the general sentiment that now is not the time for fake news, we would hold off. It’s something we can keep in our pocket for next year all the same, and we’ve had plenty of giggles in the past with some light hearted pranks, some of which ended up being true, either through implementation by the team (in the case of Bar Brawl) or through the hard work of modders like Grimalackt and Zaphio (Deathwish and Mute Kerillian, respectively). If you want a reminder of all our past Vermingags, then look no further:

2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J_19J3257A

2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu9Pe7fp0qs

2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2IBtsnkiq8

2018:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/552500/announcements/detail/1655510866867351765

2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll44B-olDzo

At the moment, we’re busy working away on some of the final steps for us to be able to reveal details on Season 3 and what’s to come. We’ve also been working to bring you something a bit different to keep you all busy whilst you may be stuck in the house, and hope to be able to show you all of that in the next developer update.

Keeping with (recent) tradition, at 2pm UT today (that's.. right now!) the Sharks will be invading the Quick Play queues in Vermintide 2. We’ll cover all platforms so look out for those Shark teeth portrait frames. We’re likely to be found in various difficulties as we’re sharks of varying capabilities!



That's it from us. Not a juicy one this week, but soon no doubt!

Take care!

/Team Fatshark