What changed in Warhammer: Vermintide 2 in 2019

Switched tiers of Famished Flames and Immersive Immolation for better balance.

Items now stay in the Recipe slot when rerolling for properties and traits.

Temp Health on Cleave increased from 0.75 health for each target damaged to 1 health.

Weekly quests will now be granted to all players, not just those who own the Bogenhafen DLC.

Quest and challenges in Okri’s Challenges now display in a new cadence: Claimable < Available < Completed.

Minimum action time for secondary weapon actions has been reduced for better responsiveness.

Fixed illogical respawn points in multiple maps including Against the Grain and Horn of Magnus.

Polished the visual look of the chat and added new font rendering for better clarity.

Fixed a crash that could occur on the map Dark Omens.

Fixed cases where the Packmaster would not hoist a grabbed player and other enemy attack issues.

Slayer's base health increased from 100 to 125.

Fixed Bardin Slayer’s talent Grimnirs Focus not working for clients.

Bounding Leap has been replaced with 'Crunch!', increasing stagger strength of the impact.

Rerolling traits and properties is now more deterministic; guaranteed to see each configuration within a certain number of rerolls.

Fixed various sticky spots and Out of Bounds locations across multiple maps.

Lohner’s Emporium will be a limited experience for the time being as we test out how you interact with currency.

The first of the Curse of Drachenfels maps, 'Old Haunts', is now available for everyone.

A Beta Test for Season 2 will be available from December 16th, including revisions to Weaves and the first Drachenfels map.

Winds of Magic is planned for release on Xbox One and Playstation 4, pending certification, potentially by the end of December.

The team is prioritizing game health with smaller updates and an experimental branch to improve stability and fairness.

The update will include three free maps, Lohner's Emporium of Wonders, and Quick Play enabled Weaves for Winds of Magic owners.

When zoom is held, it maintains zoomed in state instead of flipping in and out after each shot.

This should reduce the chance of getting Phantom Sweeps at low fps and/or high attack speed.

Music now triggers earlier to indicate impending engagement.

Enemies will now slowly nudge players who find themselves stood within the enemy unit.

Now refreshes duration if Morale Boost is activated while damage reduction is active.

Backstab trigger now calculates on clients instead of server.

Icon now indicates that Kerillian is under the effect of Vanish.

Bonus damage now only affects melee attacks.

Players were placed in matches without being offered hero selection if their chosen hero was taken.

Removed to ensure it always creates poison cloud on impact.

Clients dealt more damage when they were the original cause of damage.

Fire trail now appears correctly and does not extend beyond player movement.

Reduced the speed of Gors attacks by approximately 10%.

She can no longer target her flame walk while airborne.

Fire bombs now apply damage over time to alert enemies.

Adjusted the end events of Convocation of Decay, Fort Barkenbörken, Skittergate, Garden of Morr, The Screaming Bell, Righteous Stand, and Engines of War to be less punishing on higher difficulties.

Fixed sometimes not doing charged shot while holding right mouse button and left mouse button is spammed.

Resolved interaction issues between assassin rats and terrain edges.

Having too many enemies alive prevented completion of the challenge on Against the Grain.

Achievement 'Ride Together, Die Together' could not be completed on Legend difficulty.

Includes AI navigation, sticky locations, and cliff edge issues.

Now prevents death if damage taken exceeds total max health.

Now applies the proper burning effect on both start and target locations.

Allowed passing through solid objects.

The end of season 1 has been announced, and leaderboards will be frozen.

Announcement of upcoming news regarding Season 2, including free Drachenfels content drop.

The Geheimnisnacht keep theme has been removed as part of the patch.

Resolved an issue with non-Latin fonts not displaying correctly in Latin-based localized game clients.

A vengeful revenant stalks players, requiring them to look at it to slow it down.

A mysterious Vampire portrait frame returns during Geheimnisnacht.

Resolved various miscellaneous crash issues.

All outdoor adventure levels will be in darkness during the Geheimnisnacht event.

Resolved an issue where the first heavy attack of Sienna's Flaming Sword did not trigger the 'Immersive Immolation' talent.

Resolved an issue where buffs were not being applied to healing.

Resolved a crash issue when using a game-pad in the lobby browser.

Complete challenges during Geheimnisnacht for rewards including a new portrait frame.

Geheimnisnacht event runs from October 28th to November 5th, featuring night mode and thematic challenges.

The keep is decorated with candles inspired by the Cult of Morr.

Resolved a crash when an oil barrel explodes in client players' hands.

Slayer Leap will no longer be cancelled by taking damage.

Stopped traits and buffs from triggering reload on ammo gain to prevent animation cancelling.

Shield weapons now have a larger angle for blocking ranged enemies and certain boss attacks.

Adjusted enemy spawn behavior for Meteor event on Dark Omens.

Inspiring aura radius reduced from 25 to 15 meters.

Ungor now fight closer to heroes and cannot attack between allies.

Gors deal 25% less damage on veteran difficulty and 10% less on higher difficulties.

Gors in Beastmen Hordes reduced by roughly 25% across all difficulties.

Introduced changes to Ungor, Ungor Archers, Gor, and Standard Bearer.

Escort scaling for Standard Bearer reduced across all difficulties.

Waystalker talent 'Fervent Huntress' now properly refreshes when already applied.

Fixed an issue with armor types not allocating properly for enemies.

Ungor Archers now have tattoos for distinction and reduced accuracy.

Rolled out a hotfix that should tidy up some errors in patch 2.0.11.

Improved retrying behavior on the backend resulting in less frequent backend errors, especially during end of round, crafting, and chest opening.

Fixed an issue where Twitch mode would cause the game to crash.

Another hotfix to improve stability.

Improved tracking for trueflight projectiles: No longer overshoots targets on high speeds, selects a new target if projectile misses the original target, fixed target acquisition and seek being off by a frame.

Fixed a spot on Athel Yenlui where players could get stuck.

Bounty Hunter Locked and Loaded single projectile had its spread reduced when standing still, this also affects Double-shotted.

Fixed projectiles that bounce sometimes ignoring hit mass.

Fixed second heavy attack for Kerillian's Sword and Dagger doing less damage when under the effect of Infiltrate than without Infiltrate.

Fixed an issue where players got block broken twice when block was broken by a Bestigor charge.

Fixed an issue where the application window might end up on wrong monitor due to negative desktop coordinates when running borderless or windowed mode.

Fixed so that killing the minotaur under the oak tree for the appropriate challenge works in the Weaves versions of Against the Grain.

Sound tweaks: Less priority further away for horde enemies, volume tweaks to horde enemy footsteps, added short boss stingers whilst in Weaves, tweaked emitter sounds within Weaves.

Added client predicted damage for ranged attacks so multi projectile attacks would be as effective on clients as it is on the server.

Fixed an issue where having the Talent 'High Tally' as Bardin Slayer wouldn't increase the damage done by Throwing Axes for consecutive hits.

Fixed an issue where bots blocked attacks longer than intended.

Bardin could engage in dialogue despite not being in the current lineup of heroes.

Now properly refreshes when already applied.

Can now teleport on stairs.

Added slight optimization for sweep performance.

Let us know if you continue to have issues with that.

Corrected % and Durations listing.

Fixed spawners and gaps in geometry.

Adjusted damage window on certain light attacks.

Reloading now behaves as expected.

Shorter minimum distance for downward aiming.

Custom FOV for hit detection now has a more box-like FOV.

Gives a heads up when ambush events trigger.

Crosshair would shrink-grow-shrink when aiming while moving.

Particularly for Skarrik.

Overhead heavy stabs did less damage on critical headshot than non-critical.

Targeting circle now shows up correctly when activating near obstructing terrain.

Improves reliability of special, horde, patrol and boss sounds and stingers.

Implemented various fixes to address crashes in the game.

Fixed some enemy spawners in Skittergate.

Backstab sounds added to combo attacks for Plague Monks and Chaos Berserkers.

Saltzpyre's Billhook special attack no longer checks for stamina, allowing it to activate without stamina.

Sorceror Vortexes and Chaos Spawn grabs no longer disable targeted players in the Bridge of Shadows.

Bile Trolls should now appear in the kill feed.

Fixed clients removing stealth and no-clip effects too soon when multiple stealth buffs are active.

General fixes made to backstab sounds, including issues with Skaven Clanrats and Storm Vermin.

Fixed some gaps in geometry in Skittergate.

Improved matchmaking behavior related to hero selection.

Various localization issues have been addressed.

Bots should be more decisive when the player drops down a point of no return.

Added a hit cancel window for 2h axes and 2h elf sword.

Removed some development assets from Skittergate.

Kerillian's Glaive now triggers a push from pressing attack from behind block instead of holding attack.

Okri's Challenges now properly count Cataclysm missions retroactively for completion.

Ranged critical hits now reduce the cooldown of Locked and Loaded by 15%, triggering once every 10 seconds.

Resolved an issue where damage done to Minotaurs wasn’t counted in the end screen statistics.

Resolved an issue where damage done to Beastmen Bestigors wasn’t counted in the end screen statistics.

Resolved an issue where the Leech could target players too early when the player is spawned.

Resolved an issue that allowed shield enemies to block shots from Handguns.

Resolved issue where the burning effect would disappear while playing as a client.

Players receive partial experience based on how far the party progressed through the level, similar to the base game.

Resolved a crash issue occurring on the Dark Omens level.

Corrected tooltip to show 40% bonus damage on first stagger level and 60% on consecutive levels.

Resolved an issue where damage done to Beastmen Standard Bearers wasn’t counted in the end screen statistics.

Hotfixed the issue related to fire dot damage not scaling with hero power appropriately.

Raider light stagger threshold increased from 25% to 40% of stagger resistance.

All horde and roamer enemies will now stagger when hit, restoring behavior from pre-WoM.

All elites, specials, and berzerkers reset to previous WoM Beta stagger resistance scale.

Adjusted stagger resistance values for horde and roamer enemies across different difficulty levels.

Marauders' stagger reduction decreased from 0.6 to 0.2; Gors' reduced from 0.4 to 0.1.

Fixed an issue where the game could crash when loading if a client lost connection and then reconnected.

Fixed an issue where the movement speed bonus was not applied correctly when playing as a client.

Explore a town in ruins after a meteor crash.

Introducing new enemies including Ungor, Ungor Archers, Gor, Bestigor, Standard Bearer, and Minotaur.

Progress on the magic amulet is now shared across all heroes and careers. Excess essence spent has been refunded.

Fixed an issue where the talent did not apply correctly while playing as client.

Fixed some locations on Dark Omens where players could get stuck.

Talent Tier 6 moved back down to level 30 from level 35.

Fixed an issue that caused melee strikes to not properly apply a bleed effect. Tweaked bleed effect to stack up to 3 times.

Fixed an issue where boss doors spawned by the Minotaur were invisible.

Slightly increased the amount of health drops on Dark Omens across all difficulties.

Fixed an issue that prevented AoE attacks from stacking Barrage. Now only looks at the first target hit for additional stacks.

Fixed an issue where no weapon would be visible if picking up a throwing axe while throwing the last axe.

Fixed a crash related to the removal of buffs.

Fixed a crash that could occur if the host lost connection to the Steam lobby.

Fixed an issue where players could see the low detailed version of the environment when respawning on Dark Omens.

Fixed an issue causing the talent to return 1.5 health on headshot/crit instead of intended 2.

Fixed a facepatrol location on Dark Omens.

Fixed an issue where the game could crash when loading into a Weave Arena with a dead or respawning player.

A new difficulty layer to the adventure mode, featuring stronger, more aggressive enemies.

The first expansion to Vermintide 2, 'Winds of Magic', is now available.

Challenge yourself in the Weaves, climb the ladder alone or with friends.

Fixed an issue that caused arrows fired to not properly apply a bleed effect. Tweaked bleed effect to stack up to 3 times.

Updated firing time from 0.1 seconds to 0 seconds, allowing arrow release on the same frame as ability input.

New weapons include Spear and Shield, Heavy Spear, Billhook, Flaming Flail, and Throwing Axes.

Fixed the pacing of the end event on Dark Omens.

Upgrade/Unlock texts are now properly displayed without truncation.

Fixed the bar to accurately represent the state of the ability in certain situations.

Re-opened hole in mountain for the alternate path that was previously sealed.

Fixed ambush event getting stuck occasionally.

Magic Barrels now explode when thrown after taking damage.

Healing per enemy hit increased to 0.75 from 0.5. First enemy hit now heals for 50% of the initial value.

Subtitles are now visible during cutscenes.

Fixed issue where prestige levels after 35 didn't show in hero view.

Corrected synchronization issues between host and clients.

Resolved crash involving the Minotaur at the end of Dark Omens.

Lobby browser now correctly shows that weave matches are unavailable for players without Winds of Magic.

Expired thorn brambles are no longer visible and non-functioning for hot-joining players.

Fixed end state animation of experience bar after hitting level 35.

Fixed various other crashes.

Stagger resistance multipliers per difficulty adjusted for Recruit, Veteran, Champion, and Legend.

Minotaur added to end event on Champion difficulty and above.

Fixed issue where enemies spawned too far from the Standard Bearer.

Resolved issue where Rasknitt could be stunlocked by multiple pulls from Salty's Billhook.

Resolved an issue that was hindering progression.

Resolved issue where enemies could spawn beneath the final elevator during escape.

Fixed issue where Slayer Leap could be aimed through blocker volumes.

Changed behavior when using Living Bomb skill while doing any action.

Patch 2.0 includes remastering for improved load times and reduced file size.

Includes various fixes for abilities, animations, and traits not functioning as intended.

Training dummies now count as Chaos or Skaven and work with stagger talents.

Players who pre-order will gain instant access to the beta until the official release on August 13.

The expansion brings new challenges as players must stop the Beastmen from claiming the meteor crash site.

Multiple levels had various stuck locations fixed.

Includes Ungor, Ungor archers, Gor, Bestigor, Standard Bearer, and Minotaur.

Players can pre-order the first expansion for Warhammer: Vermintide 2, which includes a new enemy faction and challenges.

Resolved issues where players could spawn under terrain or in unfair locations.

Multiple levels including Horn of Magnus and Into The Nest had AI pathing issues resolved.

Dodge windows are set to 0.25 for normal attacks and 0.75 for running attacks across all difficulties.

The Winds of Magic expansion introduces a brand new enemy faction, the Beastmen.

Includes Spear and shield for Kerillian Handmaiden, Heavy spear for Kruber Mercenary and Huntsman, Billhook for all of Saltzpyre’s careers, Flaming flail for all of Sienna's careers, and Throwing axes for Bardin Ranger Veteran and Slayer.

Kill Feed now shows when enemies kill other important enemies and when they incapacitate players.

Includes audible release sounds for Swiftbows and Hagbane Swiftbows, and improved VoIP clarity.

Damage vs staggered enemies increases with stacking staggers, scaling from 1x to 1.4x bonus damage.

Players can take turns playing as dark pact characters or Heroes of Ubersreik in the new mode.

Players can sign up for a chance to participate in the exclusive beta for Versus.

A new player vs player game mode featuring 4 vs 4 battles with Skaven and Chaos specials.

Versus is developed by a separate team and will not affect the regular Vermintide 2 experience.

Balance changes in Versus will not impact the Vermintide 2 PvE environment.

The first expansion to Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Winds of Magic, will be coming out in August 2019.

Players can sign up on the website for a chance to participate in the Beta for the Winds of Magic expansion.

Items granted through promotions or contests will now be presented in a popup as you start the game.

Fixes an issue with some lobbies not showing up in the lobby browser.

Fixed a crash that could occur when closing the game.

New Event goes live at 14:00 CEST

Fixed an issue where the flames from Bardin's Drakefire weapon sometimes never disappeared.

Blood splatter VFX can now be turned off completely if desired.

Fixed a situation where a client leaving a hosted session was still seen as part of it, causing unusual side effects.

Players who completed the Event Level: ‘A Quiet Drink’ 100,000+ times will receive a special portrait frame.

The availability of 'A Quiet Drink' and related quests extended by one week until March 25th at 12pm CET.

Patch 1.6.0.2 aims to bypass crashes on the event level 'A Quiet Drink' and includes expanded logging.

Resolved an uncommon Engine crash affecting players.

Addressed a crash that could occur in the 'Obese Megalodon' on the event level 'A Quiet Drink'.

Changed the quest to require a total of 99 ales to be drunk across all sessions, tracking all party members' progress.

Fixed an issue where bots would teleport after using a lifting platform.

Tweaks to address minigun-like behavior and added a manual reload window.

Fixed the bleeding effect on a Rat Ogre to ensure it appears correctly.

A warning will now be displayed when the host tries to leave a game with players connected.

Bots will now despawn closer to the time a player assumes control over them.

Fixed various issues across multiple levels including stuck locations and geometry problems.

Earn these frames to commemorate a great night out.

Fixed various issues with weapon animations and effects for Bardin and Kruber.

Join the heroes on a night out on the town.

Fixed crashes occurring during various actions including scrolling through paintings and transitioning out of levels.

Moved potions and added two bombs to the target dummy area.

Clients will now receive a message that the host left the game when the host disconnects.

Fixed an issue where players encountered an SSL_CONNECT_ERROR when launching the game.

Limits the scaling of the UI for players above 1080p resolution.

Wielding a career skill weapon will now cause you to drop any level event item.

Fixed issues with bosses spawning behind walls and being pacifists.

Corrected a spelling error in Polish for Saltzpyre's name in Okri's Challenge.

Resolved an issue that prevented players from being able to apply illusions.

Resolved a crash that could occur when joining someone on the default game from the beta.

Resolved an issue where only one player could pick up ravaged art scraps.

Resolved a crash that could occur on levels when clients interacted with level objects.

Moved potions and added two bombs to the target dummy area.

Corrected the bleeding effect on a Rat Ogre to maintain quality at close distances.

Resolved an issue where bosses that spawn behind walls were not attacking.

Fixed crashes that could occur when scrolling through paintings, transitioning out of Taal's Horn Keep, and during Twitch voting.

Thorough tweaks to the Brace of Pistols to fix minigun-like behavior and add a manual reload window.

Fixed multiple issues related to Bardin and Kruber's weapon functionalities and animations.

A warning will now be displayed when the host tries to leave a game with players connected.

Adjusted the 2h sword critical hit damage against frenzied enemies to be higher than non-critical hits.

Clients will now receive a message when the host disconnects.

Resolved an issue where players encountered SSL_CONNECT_ERROR when launching the game since patch 1.5.

Resolved issues with player animations when carrying barrels and using certain weapons.

Resolved an issue where bots would teleport into the air after using a lifting platform.

Bots will now despawn closer to the time a player assumes control, and players will join closer to the group.

Enabling this option will limit the scaling of the UI relative to your resolution for players above 1080p.

Corrected a spelling error in Polish for Saltzpyre's name in a specific Okri's Challenge.

Wielding a career skill weapon will now cause players to drop any level event item to prevent exploits.

Corrected the collision timing for some Chaos Troll swings.

A new adventure level has been introduced.

Five new weapons have been added to the game.

The level cap for heroes has been raised.

A new higher difficulty level has been introduced.

The Beastmen emerge from the Reikwald forest to claim the Herdstone.

Introducing a brand new enemy faction, the Beastmen, and new challenges.

A new game mode with challenges of increasing difficulties.

Fixed a crash that could occur when a Chaos Spawn despawned while grabbing a player.

Fixed the unobtainable Grimoire on The Pit.

A crash that could occur when using a gamepad has been fixed.

Fixed an issue where Brace of Pistols couldn't crit.

The most common crash has been fixed.

Quick pass over the Magazine-fed weapons reload behaviour; they should be a little less ridiculous.

Fixed Twitch mode HUD not appearing for clients.

Moved the block input up in priority and added a short block cancel-window at the start of each light sweep.

Fixed an issue where players could select hero skins for salvage.

Fixed a crash that could happen if hitting the shield of an enemy at the same time as the enemy was despawned.

Fixed cases where some weapons could still be shot faster by spamming the reload button.

Fixed an issue that could cause a crash if getting interrupted when firing a blunderbuss or grudge-raker before the first pellet had left the weapon.

Fixed an issue where the game could crash if a player leaving the game was near a player that did a shield slam attack.

Fixed cases where players were stuck on 83/84 Bogenhafen Cosmetics collected in the new Okri's Challenge.

HUD scale can now be decreased down to 50% of the actual size (down from 70%). All HUD-components are now affected by the HUD scaling.