A Quiet Drink, Double XP, new Versus Map, new event frame, old rewards in the shop, changes to Weekly modifiers!
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, 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 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!
Console - Versus Cosmetics*
Console Heroes! Since unfortunately the Versus game mode can’t make it to console, we figured all of the cosmetics & rewards that are exclusive to the game mode should still be accessible to you guys in some way, which is what we did!
- Versus Portrait Frames and Cosmetics are purchasable with shillings!
- Hero Poses are all automatically unlocked and available through the emote wheel.
- Only the weapons that have weapon poses on PC have been included.
Without further ado…
Patch 6.4.0 patch notes
Features & Tweaks
- Fixed and re-enabled Sanctioned Mods and 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.
- Curse of Comradeship damage intervals (the time between damage instances) now scale depending on distance:
- Unstable Breed:
- 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.
Fixes
- 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.
- (Console only) Fixed an issue where the cannonball could get stuck in Fort Brackenburger.
- (Console only) Fixed a crash and other potential issues when the game reaches the main menu on startup before all necessary resources are loaded.
*: Added to announcement on March 7
