Heroes!
The fourth and final part of the Karak Azgaraz saga - A Parting of the Waves - is out now on PC, free for all owners of Vermintide 2!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2445960/Warhammer_Vermintide_2__Karak_Azgaraz/
Join our Heroes on their bonding exercise, as they try to work through their quarrels and chase the fleeing Skaven to a gloomy whaling village, ravaged by storm and something sinister…
In addition to the new map, this update sees the introduction of a brand new enemy: the Chaos Warrior with Shield! This new enemy will show up alongside in any mission with Rotblood's presence.
Developer Stream - April 12th!
We’ll also be hosting a developer stream on April 12, at 16:15 CEST! Join Community Manager Catfish, Art Director Joseph, and Design Director Joakim as they do a deep dive on the A Parting of the Waves update!
Without further ado...
Patch 5.4.0 Patch Notes
New Features
- Added a brand new map: A Parting of the Waves[list]
- This map is considered the 4th and final entry in the Karak Azgaraz saga for Vermintide 2.
- Includes its own set of Okri's Challenges and rewards! New paintings and portrait frames!
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Balance Changes
- Outcast Engineer: Increased the Cooldown of the bomb generated by 'Ingenious Ordnance' to 180 seconds (up from 120 seconds).
- Outcast Engineer: Decreased the starting bombs from the 'Bombardier' talent to 2.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue with Outcast Engineer talent 'Linked Compression Chambers' not increasing fire rate properly.
- Fixed an issue with Necromancer not being able to see her Chaos Wastes potions when checking her inventory.
- Fixed some spots where bots would get stuck in Trail of Treachery and Tower of Treachery.
- Fixed a tome not spawning in Khazhukan Kazakit-Ha!
- Fixed an issue with the 'Eyes of the Crowfather' Okri's achievement being impossible to complete. Something something Tzeentch ravens.
- Fixed the skulking sorcerer from that one Nurgle curse on Chaos Wastes breaking entirely when lifted by the Lifestaff.
- Fixed a placeholder localization line on the 'Quit to Menu' button.
- Fixed a host crash when a Kerillian bot spawns and is being attacked the same frame.
- Fixed rare host caused by a bot Warrior Priest with 'The Comet's Gift' talent being replaced by a human player while they have their ability active on another player.
- Fixed a rare crash while spectating.
- Fixed rare crash when local game receives info about a projectile, but the projectile or hit unit was already removed locally.
- Fixed a crash when someone hotjoins the same frame as a pinged unit is destroyed.
- Fixed a very rare crash related to player despawns.
- Fixed a bug in the launcher that sometimes caused the wrong GPU to be selected when multiple GPUs were available (mostly affecting laptops).
