While Valve weren't those sole responsible for the popularity of Left 4 Dead, it was simple enough concept that excited would-be players from the very beginning. Living up to the hype by delivering frantic, cruel and blisteringly difficult 4-player undead run n' gun action, it was a formula you would then expect many to emulate in the years that followed.
It May Not Reflect The Current Plethora Of Content, But Our Review Was Glowing Before Then
But not all that many did. It took another 8 years, but Fatshark managed to give it a show. Not willing to take a stab at it with an original IP, they were able to secure what was necessary to use a popular franchise that would feel at-home with the 4 vs Many formula - Warhammer. Focusing on the Skaven, a race of large, mutated rodents that will always outswarm their prey, Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide pulled off a positive spin on the idea cemented may years before. Now with 2 years under its belt, it's still getting updates - so it's time we start to keep up.
Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide Patch 1.9.8: Fixes & Tweaks
The biggest addition from the V1.9.8 Patch that Fatshark Games has released, is the ability to check which Vermintide players you've recently played with in the Recent Games list on Steam, while other fixes and tweaks have also been added. Check out the full list below:
- Recently played with Vermintide players now appear in the Recent Games list in Steam 👌
- The Red Moon Inn is no longer skullified ⛔💀
- Fixed some situations where ears clip through headgear 👂🎩
- Fixed inconsistency in dual daggers light attack damage progression
- Fixed a case where Stormvermin Patrols could get stuck opening doors, which in turn could lead to client disconnect 🐀🚪🔗
- Fixed a popup crash that could occur when joining friends
- Very slight CPU optimisations
- Castle Drachenfels - Fixed some locations where bots and/or players could get stuck
- Castle Drachenfels - Fixed a hole in the geometry 🕳
- The Courier - Fixed floating terrain
- The Fall - Fixed hole in the geometry ️⛳
- Garden of Morr - Fixed exploit which allowed players to skip a large part of the level
- Horn of Magnus - Fixed culling issue in spectator mode
- Kazid Kro - Fixed some holes in geometry 🍩
- Kazid Kro - Fixed floating icon for Olesya's carriage 🐎👻️🛒
- Kazid Kro - Fixed culling issues
- Kazid Kro - Fixed some floating scenery
- Kazid Kro - Fixed texture clash on a wall seen after the Brewery event
- Red Moon Inn - Fixed a candle in Sienna's room which behaved unusually 🕯
- Summoner's Peak - Fixed some locations where bots and/or players could get stuck
- Trial of the Foolhardy - Bots should now correctly follow players in to the ice room 🏃🚶🚶
- Trial of the Foolhardy - Removed incorrect objective marker from the ice room
- Trial of the Foolhardy - Skaven should no longer climb up through solid floors inside the portal room 👻🐀
- Trial of the Foolhardy - Fixed hole in the geometry 🕳
- Wheat & Chaff - Fixed flickering of textures due to maligned placement of an object
- White Rat - Fixed some situations where it was possible to leave the level boundaries and exploit level behaviours
- Wizard's Tower - Fixed a hole in the geometry 🍩
- Wizard's Tower - Fixed situation where a player could hot-join the game and appear in an inescapable room 📦
Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide Patch 1.9.4
Just a couple of futher bug and balance fixes here to address some of the underlying issues of the Arrogance Lost update from the last week. And by balance, it's mostly the overuse of the word 'reduced'.
- Fixes
- Fixed crash caused by attempting to join players on another game version
- Trial of the Foolhardy: Fixed some culling issues
- Balance
- Reduced movement speed from Swift Slaying proc from 100% to 50%
- Reduced healing received from ranged regrowth from 10 to 5
- Reduced healing received from light melee regrowth from 10 to 5. Charged regrowth unchanged
- Reduced ammunition restore from Scavenger from 10 to 5% of max ammunition
- Reduced poison wind protection trinket from 40/60/80% to 20/40/60%
Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide Patch 1.9.3 Hotfix
Notice any Skaven leaping great distances after the Arrogance Lost update? Well, if you happened to crash at that point, all should be well now. Though we're not sure if that means the Skaven are still practicing for the Olympics. Heads up, Tokyo!
Changelog:
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that can occur should Skaven be found leaping inconceivable distances on Trial of the Foolhardy
Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide Patch 1.9.2
A number of 'fixes and tweaks' here that pertain to not only the Arrogance Lost update, but a few dug up from the past, too. Let's take a look.
Changelog:
- Fixes & Tweaks
- Trial of the Foolhardy: Objective marker no longer shows on the torch once the event is complete
- Trial of the Foolhardy: Fixed a variety of issues with players using portals
- Trial of the Foolhardy: Resolved high CPU load caused by AI in certain situations
- Trial of the Foolhardy: Entering a portal while in the middle of a jump will no longer kill you via fall damage if the exit portal is below the entry one
- Trial of the Foolhardy: The torch from the town event will no longer spawn next to you when back in Wizard's Tower
- Trial of the Foolhardy: Fixed an area where players could get stuck
- Wizard's Tower: Fixed an issue causing players to see outside the tower in the statue room during the Trial puzzle
- Players should no longer be affected by VFX or SFX from the bots, such as aim effect or block sounds
- Fixed a bug where it was possible to friend join your own game through another friend
- Fixed a bug where it was possible to join friends with a different version of the game through the Steam overlay
- Fixed a crashed caused by torches and hot-joining players
- Update
- It is no longer possible to win duplicate Veteran Weapons from Ranald's Bones
