WoM Community Poll

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@Maddred

Also, it’s one map. I mean, A Quiet Drink felt like as much content as this entire “expansion” has.

Oh God, finally someone noticed and said that. “A Quiet Drink” map is way better and interesting than “Dark Omens” who looks like underdone compare to this first.
Also final encounter in AQD is much more fun. Why no more maps like this? Why no put in to “DO” some chunk of areas touched by winds of magic as anomaly?
I have the impression that someone ran out of ideas on how the map might look.

Yes, that is a big change in direction of this game no one really talks about.
And i will never get tired of pulling this quote out from reddit:

@FatsharkRobin

Both those DLCs took our entire art and level design teams ~9 months (edit: this is from memory, more or less, it was too long is the point) each to produce. We simply couldn’t keep up with how fast our players wanted new content with that model and also fix bugs in levels. Further upping graphical fidelity in VT2 means making new maps takes even more time. The player dips between the DLCs in VT1 showed that they were a serious risk to the game’s longevity. Also, since Drachenfels wasn’t insanely well received it also showed to be a big risk putting all eggs in one basket like that. That’s why we instead have tried to find more ways to produce new content, not to not just churn out new maps but also new ways to play them, new goals to achieve and more and more differentiated cosmetic rewards.

Map dlcs are apparently too risky for fatshark. So winds of magic was set up to recycle as much as possible and still put out “new” content. To save money.
But the weaves fail to deliver on atmosphere. Sometimes they look nice, but just the overall atmosphere in the screaming bell were you battle your way thru alleys and streets at night in the rain delivers something that the waves dont (at least for me).

And thats a big problem i dont want to play grindy weaves, all i wanted is to play maps. And the new dlc just gives you one!

I have played vermintide 2 for far more than a year and loved it until 2.0.
I dont like the combat changes in the new patch. If i would try i could maybe get into it again, but at this point i dont want to try anymore. 17€ is to much for some enemys 1 map and 5 weapons.
So i dont buy this dlc and just keep playing the same maps with less fun combat?

Sadly they had to patch that game and turn it into something else. The weaves and their twitchability combined with the focus on seasons instead of new maps is indicative what direction this game is about to take.
Anyway, even though I dont like this new game and wouldnt have played it as long as I did. It might still be good enough for newcomers but dont expect to be able to play this game a year from now. They might change their mind again and turn this into something else entirely.