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| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
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| Game update | Hotfix 6.11.1 - 25th of May 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… | — | |
| Community | Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skulls Event! What better way to celebrate the recent rebalance of weapons than by slaughtering endless hordes of enemies? Join us in celebrating Warhammer Skulls with another iteration of Vermintide 2’s in-game Skulls event! Starting today and until May 31 , pick up skulls during missions to gain a powerful but dangerous boon… The more skulls you take, the stronger you’ll be, but the stronger your lust for… | — | |
| Major update | Weapon balance update! Patch 6.11.0 patch notes 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 intention… | 23301864 | |
| Steam news | Vermintide 2’s 8th Anniversary is live now! Double XP + A Quiet Drink! 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 m… | — | |
| Community | Gifts of the Wolf Father Heroes! A Merry Mondstille to all of you! It is that time of year where the Wolf Father goes around delivering gifts to our ardent rat slayers! Premium cosmetics, weapon illusions, red dust, shillings, and more! From December 9 to January 3 , log in each day and check in Lohner’s Emporium of Wonders to receive a new gift! All players have a 2 day grace period to claim each of the items from eac… | — | |
| Community | 25 million players + Labor of Love Heroes! Last weekend we had a Free-To-Keep event, where any players who didn’t yet own Vermintide 2 could claim it and add it to their libraries for free, to celebrate 10 Years of Tide. During this event, a staggering 5.9 million players have become Heroes and joined the endless ratslaying, bringing us up to a total of 25 million lifetime players since launch! “A decade on and players are still… | — | |
| Game update | Hotfix 6.9.2 patch notes 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 cau… | 20962735 | |
| Steam news | Vermintide 2 is FREE TO KEEP until November 24! 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! 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.… | — | |
| Game update | Hotfix 6.9.1 Patch notes 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. | — | |
| Release | New Free level: Return to the Reik - Out Now! Heroes, The newest level for Vermintide 2, Return to the Reik , is out now for free! Celebrate 10 Years of Tide as you take the chase to the river, returning to one of Vermintide 1’s most popular levels! Return to the Reik ‘River Reik’ returns with expanded, boat‑focused gameplay that puts deck skirmishes front and center. Fight across swaying platforms, and use the environment of the barge and… | — | |
| Community | Return to the Reik Trailer 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… | — | |
| Community | Developer Blog - Return to the Reik Heroes! We’ve interviewed Lead Level Designer Rickard , Lead Sound Designer Anton , and Lead Gameplay Programmer Theodor about their work on the upcoming free level for Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Return to the Reik! Level Design “My name is Rickard and I've been a Level Designer since the beginning of humankind, I think. \ I started doing levels for my uncle when Doom came out, that’s almost 30 y… | — | |
| Community | Celebrating 10 years of Tide! Heroes and Acolytes! On this very day ten years ago, we released Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide, the very first Tide game! Throughout these years we’ve seen both the games and the community grow, driven by endless passion from both our developers and especially you, our fans! For all the enemies slain, the times shared and the good times, we want to say thank you, and celebrate! To mark a fu… | — | |
| Steam news | Geheimnisnacht and the Skull of Blosphoros return! Patch 6.8.0 + Hotfix 6.8.1 Hotfix 6.8.1 - 23rd of October Fixes · Fixed a guaranteed crash in the level ‘Old Haunts’ and re-enabled it Geheimnisnacht Geheimnisnacht is upon us, and the Skull of Blosphoros haunts these lands once more! From October 23 until November 2, you can find foul Chaos worshippers performing vile rituals to awaken this dark master, and it is up to you to stop them! Seek the Skull of Blosphoros in t… | — | |
| Game update | Hotfix 6.7.2 - 9th of September 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 Ma… | — | |
| Major update | Feast of Grimnir - Double XP & Limited Time Event Out Now! 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, th… | 19736780 | |
| Community | Developer’s Blog: Feast of Grimnir A brand new limited time mission! The Ubersreik 5 must venture into a Dwarfen hold that’s been overrun with Bile Trolls and exterminate them. Heroes! We’ve interviewed the main level designer for the new and upcoming Vermintide 2 event mission: The Feast of Grimnir! “My name is Mikael Sundvall, I’ve been at Fatshark since 2016. I joined production of Vermintide 2 when they had just started as a… | — | |
| Community | Franz Lohner’s Chronicle - The Feast of Grimnir An absent-minded man of mysteries, Franz Lohner relies on his bulging journal to keep track of occurrences, intrigues and arguments around Taal's Horn Keep. Sometimes his notes are even useful, believe it or not. The Franz Lohner Chronicles are extracts from that journal. Franz Lohner’s Chronicle - The Feast of Grimnir Well, it took them long enough but the Ubersreik Five are back in residence,… | — | |
| Community | Franz Lohner’s Chronicle - Unexpected Guests An absent-minded man of mysteries, Franz Lohner relies on his bulging journal to keep track of occurrences, intrigues and arguments around Taal's Horn Keep. Sometimes his notes are even useful, believe it or not. The Franz Lohner Chronicles are extracts from that journal. Franz Lohner’s Chronicle - Unexpected Guests I can’t tell you what a relief it is to have this chronicle back in my hands. I… | — | |
| Community | Feast of Grimnir - Teaser Trailer It's a time for quaffing and settling old grudges — The Feast of Grimnir approaches, Heroes. | — | |
| Game update | Hotfix 6.6.5 - 9th of July Modding · This hotfix is a small patch to allow for a sanctioned update to the Crosshair Kill Confirmation mod | — | |
| Game update | Hotfix 6.6.4 - 30th of June 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 | — | |
| Steam news | Skulls Event extended until June 8th! Heroes! We've decided to extend the duration of the Skulls for the Skull Throne in-game event for another weekend! You'll have time to collect more skulls and take advantage of the double XP multiplier until June 8th ! Read more about the event in the original announcement here: | — | |
| Game update | Hotfix 6.6.2 - 28th of May 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 issu… | — | |
| Major update | FREE New Map: The Well of Dreams - Live now! Skulls In-game Event - Patch 6.6.0 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 Blo… | 18562247 | |
| Community | Warhammer Skulls - Tune in for news and to celebrate Warhammer! Heroes! It’s that time of the year when blood is in the air and skulls are waiting to be lopped off. The Warhammer Skulls event returns on May 22nd , alongside our in-game Skulls for the Skull Throne event! But could there be something else coming…? Every year, the Warhammer Community celebrates the digital world of Warhammer with this event where we showcase existing and upcoming games in the… | — | |
| Game update | Hotfix 6.5.4 - 27th of March 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? | 17850683 |
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