https://store.steampowered.com/app/1033060/Warhammer_Vermintide_2__Winds_of_Magic/?snr=1_5_9__405

"Bit of a troubling one for you. Seems we've had a bloody great meteor make a mess. Sort it out, would you?"

Heroes!
The first expansion to Vermintide 2 - "Winds of Magic" is Out Now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63dlMjRL2HYFeaturing:

• New Game Mode: Weaves
  Challenge yourself in the Weaves, climb the ladder alone or with your friends, and master the ultimate challenges that Vermintide has yet to offer!
  
• New Difficulty: Cataclysm
  A new difficulty layer to the adventure mode, Cataclysm. Test your mettle against stronger, more aggressive enemies. You'll probably not survive.
  
• New Level: Dark Omens
  A town lay in ruins after a meteor has crashed down. The heroes should probably go check that out. Hopefully no-one interferes..
  
• New Weapons:
  
  • Spear and shield
    
    • Available for Kerillian Handmaiden.
  • Heavy spear
    
    • Available for Kruber Mercenary and Huntsman.
  • Billhook
    
    • Available for all of Saltzpyr...

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Originally posted by Sheogorath: A horrifying clown aids a mutated demon chicken.

Beautiful.

Sheogorath blesses us.

Originally posted by boosh: thats great, but you still haven't fixed the EAC launcher error that is preventing swathes of people being able to play....

We hear you Boosh. It's not as many players as it appears, but it is still a group of players who could play and now cannot - and we're working to identify why and get it fixed as soon as possible.

Originally posted by Keln: Some stuff I would have liked to see fixed, but any improvements are welcome

I hear you too bud, yeah for this patch we really wanted to get those design changes in soon. We're still (metaphorically) crunching through bugs as they get reported and hope to have a more fix focused patch for you soon. Read more

Heroes!
Welcome to patch 2.0.4 for Vermintide 2. With the release of the Winds of Magic expansion later today and the start of Season One, we wanted to put in place some design changes in response to your some of your feedback. We appreciate that moving talents you were familiar with and shifting them behind 5 more levels wasn't particularly engaging. As such we have moved the Tier 6 Talent row back down to level 30 in response to your feedback. Whilst this might not help those who have levelled heroes already, it should help those still levelling through as well as those without max level careers. We've also made adjustments to the Amulet in that now progress is shared across the entire account, no more need to grind that on a career basis. Any excess essence spent should be refunded to you when you next log in. Last week we adjusted the stagger system to bring back some of that weighty feeling when flinging enemies around with your attacks. All difficulties beneath Cataclysm s... Read more

Green man is an official re-seller. They will likely distribute keys when we go live, which we don't control. Likely looking around 7pm CEST though based on past releases.

We haven't deleted any threads in days, and the last threads we deleted (last week some time) were just spam.

This has just been corrected in Patch 2.0.3

Originally posted by TheCaitularity: Also not sure why you'd not bring the Cleave THP change to Cata.

We did, it's a seperate note.

Heroes!Welcome to Patch 2.0.3 for Vermintide 2. We wanted to get some changes in which we hope bring a bit more of that classic weapon feel to the difficulty settings you're accustomed to prior to patch 2.0. Putting some weight behind your strikes is an important part of the combat systems in Vermintide 2, and we can appreciate that a few of the adjustments in the 2.0 patch were removing a big part of that. We are keeping all your thoughts and feedback close to heart, and we genuinely appreciate you all taking your time to bring those thoughts to us. Balance Adjustments

• TempHP on Cleave: Increased healing per enemy hit to 0.75 from 0.5. First enemy hit now heals you for 50% of the initial value, instead of not at all.
  
• Changed stagger resistance multipliers per difficulty from:
  
  • Recruit: 1.0
    
  • Veteran: 1.7
    
  • Champion: 2.75
    
  • Legend: 2.75
  to:
  
  • Recruit: 0.85
    
  • Veteran: 1.25
    
  • Champion: 1.7
    
  • Legend: 1.7
  
  Cataclysm remains unchanged.
  This means enemies will react stronger to weapon h...

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Originally posted by Dame Arstor: How long is it going to take for the fix to the random blackscreens to get released?

We're still collecting data in order to find the pattern (likely specific hardware) so we can solve it.

That's fine Baggers. The preorder access will continue until launch

It's available now, Nanitudine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH44gLzRLpc

"Bit of a troubling one for you. Seems we've had a bloody great meteor make a mess. Sort it out, would you?"

Heroes!Welcome to Patch 2.0! Please find below the patch notes for this update, which are pretty long and beastly. An FAQ will be available soon. But one question we want to answer now is:

Q: Why is the download so large?
A: With the release of 2.0 (the patch that accompanies Winds of Magic) we made the decision to remaster the game. Whilst this requires one hefty download upon updating to the latest version, it comes with it some benefits which include both faster load times when playing, as well as a smaller overall file size on your computer.

Now on to the notes. Features

• New Game Mode: Weaves
  
• New Difficulty: Cataclysm
  
• New Weapons:
  
  • Spear and shield
    
    • Available for Kerillian Handmaiden.
  • Heavy spear
    
    • Available for Kruber Mercenary and Huntsman.
  • Billhook
    
    • Available for all of Saltzpyre’s careers.
      
    • Hits from special attack will interr...

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The preorder goes live at 7pm CEST, along with patch 2.0.
The progress from this beta will carry over to release.
The portrait frame isn't available for this beta, and is exclusive to the earlier beta phases.