Welcome to Phase 2 of the 1.10 Beta.

In order to get access to the beta build, you will need to sign up to the branch:

1. Right-click Vermintide in your Steam Library
2. Click on Properties
3. Click on Betas
4a. Enter the Password: Hof73cG265xa
4b. In the drop-down menu, select the branch named "reikwald_beta"
5. Download and play! (around 5gb)

We REALLY WANT YOUR FEEDBACK so be sure to complete the following survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdynJ4N5IUTUWEUFtvDcZcO79elrK6s-JpSCFohTP_2vLcivw/viewform?usp=sf_link

You're also welcome to join the Fatshark Discord Channel and drop your feedback in to the Beta Feedback channel: https://discord.gg/Zkm7CJK

Else, feel free to provide your thoughts here in the Public Test Forums.

Here is the changelog for Phase 2:

• Heaps of fixes on the beta map

• Explosive Ordinance: Reduced radius decrease from 40/50/60% to 20/30/40%
  
• Berserking: Attacks are now uninterruptible for buff duration
  
• Killing Blow: Now requires the attack to deal damage to the target to trigger

• Trueflight Longbow: Increased ammo capacity from 15 to 20

• Longbow: Increased ammo capacity from 36 to 46
  
• Longbow: Increased max penetrations of light shot from 1 to 2
  
• Longbow: Increased max penetrations of charged shot from 2 to 3

• Shortbow: Increased max penetrations of charged shot from 1 to 2

• Dual Wield Daggers: Added 2.5x Headshot multiplier to heavy attack

• Falchion: Reverted attack speed to previous levels

• Pick: Increased attack range of light attack and heavy attacks
  
• Pick: Increased attack speed of light attacks slightly
  
• Pick: Reduced charge time needed to trigger super heavy charge attack

• 2h Axe: Increased attack speed of light attacks
  
• 2h Axe: Increased attack range of light and heavy attacks

• 2h Hammer: Increased attack range of light attacks

• 2h Sword: Increased attack range of light and heavy attacks

• Glaive: Increased attack range of heavy attacks

It's time to test! Today we've released a very much beta build of the Death on the Reik DLC - you can view the change log below. Remember, this is a BETA, so things are subject to change prior to release and your feedback could be instrumental in that.

In order to get access to the beta build, you will need to sign up to the branch:

1. Right-click Vermintide in your Steam Library
2. Click on Properties
3. Click on Betas
4a. Enter the Password: Hof73cG265xa
4b. In the drop-down menu, select the branch named "reikwald_beta"
5. Download and play! (around 5gb)

We REALLY WANT YOUR FEEDBACK so be sure to complete the following survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdynJ4N5IUTUWEUFtvDcZcO79elrK6s-JpSCFohTP_2vLcivw/viewform?usp=sf_link

You're also welcome to join the Fatshark Discord Channel and drop your feedback in to the Beta Feedback channel: https://discord.gg/Zkm7CJK

Else, feel free to provide your thoughts here in the Public Test Forums.

• Cursed Rune: Corrected a location where items spawned partially embedded in map decoration
• Cursed Rune: Fixed location where the player character could hang from a ledge out of reach from team mates
• Cursed Rune: Fixed a small hole in the geometry seen after the finale
• Cursed Rune: Fixed location early in the level where rats climb out of solid ground. 
• The Enemy Below: Fixed a small hole in the geometry, above the first grimoire location
• Engines of War: Removed collision from a section of the cave prior to the Skaven encampment that should not have had collision
• Engines of War: Fixed spot by the second grimoire where Skaven appeared through walls
• Garden of Morr: Fixed floating tree at the entrance of the cemetary 
• Garden of Morr: Fixed uneven geometry on a tomb steps when looking for the source of the poison
• Garden of Morr: Fixed a small hole in the geometry right beside the huge intentional hole as you begin the escape event
• Supply and Demand: Fixed small hole in the geometry
• Trial of the Foolhardy: Players should no longer be insta-stomped by a special when traversing the portals. 
• White Rat: Improved network sync of the bell strikes. Hosts and clients should see the visuals more or less at the same time now.
• Wizard's Tower: Removed a jump that allowed you to meddle with the bridge illusion
• Fixed a couple of cases where enemies (mainly the Gutter Runner) would die when staggered whilst mid-air
• Fixed a case of Gutter Runners killing themselves by launching in to walls
• Fixed a case where enemies (Rat Ogre in particular) could phase through the geometry when staggered
• Fixed so that blood no longer fades instantly when spectating
• Fixed case where enemies falling out of the world would not give progress to contracts.
• Fixed crashes that could occur if client disconnected while being pulled up or while pulling up from ledge
• Completely overhauled bot jump code to reduce the number of failed jumps resulting in bots needing to be pulled up from ledge
• Fixed an issue that could cause bots from getting stuck in a loop of instantly falling off the ledge after getting helped up
• Fixed issue causing environmental effects on snow levels to not work on bot characters for clients
• Fixed animation bug making the made Kerillian play third person crouch animations after wielding a glaive while aiming a bow
• Fixed so that when hot-joining a match, you'll no longer be prompted to interact with nearby 'single use' environment objectives that have already been used (think levers, switches, etc)
• Fixed some cases where enemy path-finding would fail
• Fixed it so that the it no longer shows "left button **" for unbound keys in the keybinding options menu
• Fixed Gutter Runner destroying doors from too far away.
• Made some improvements to Gutter Runner pathing when there are no available targets

• Haste: Changed, now causes reloads not to consume ammo for the duration instead of shots not consuming ammo.
• Quick Foot: Reduced movement speed bonus from 4/8/12% to 4/6/8%
• Grenadier: Reduced proc chance from 20/30/40% to 20/25/30%
• Hawkeye: Reduced multiplier bonus from +2 to +1

• Trueflight Bow: Reduced max ammo count from 24 to 15
• Trueflight Bow: Reduced headshot multiplier from 4 to 3

• Longbow: Increased exotic charged shot damage versus unarmored from 8 to 10
• Longbow: Reduced ammo count from 54 to 36
• Longbow: Reduced max penetrations from 3 to 2

• Dual Wield Daggers: Increased exotic unarmored damage from 3 to 3.5

• Handgun: Reduced reload speed from 2.5 to 2 seconds
• Handgun: Increased damage versus resistant to 26/31/36

• Flaming Sword: Increased light stab dot damage
• Flaming Sword: Increased heavy attack dot damage

• Falchion: Slightly reduced attack speed
• Falchion: Reduced attack range by 20%

• Ratling Gunner: Increased health to match Stormvermin
• Ratling Gunner: Increased stagger resistance while firing gun

• VFX planes clearly visible and distorted
  
• Missing audio when wooden barricade breaks down at barrel event
  
• Very very dark suddenly during the "rush through camp" event in the middle
  
• Two UI markers will be shown when picking up barrel on end event
  
• Bots not able to save player if ledge hanging at the tip of the branch at grimoire location
  
• Skaven can run through the blockade on Reikwald Forest before the barrel has been placed
  
• Invisible blocker on Reikwald forest where enemies can walk
  
• Player can jump outside level bounds at the open area before the drop down
  
• Can see outside level at the ammo crate after fence
  
• Possible to get outside of level bounds after fence by slide jumping up on the rocks
  
• Possible to jump up on some rocks and get outside level bounds near fence and vista
  
• Player can jump up and outside level bounds after the hollow tree trunk
  
• Possible to go outside level bounds near beginning of level
  
• Very noticeable invisible wall
  
• Angular looking waterfall a bit before getting into the burning town
  
• No backside to rock on side path near beginning of level
  
• Culling issue with burning wooden prop near end of Reikwald Forest
  
• Did not unlock nightmare on "Reikwald Forest" level after completing Hard difficulty

Thank you for taking part in the Reikshammer Contracts Beta this weekend, and thank you for all your feedback and input.

We've taken the Beta down whilst we process everything you've said and done and will revise and tweak.

Keep an eye out for potential additional beta phases and for release dates soon!

The Fatshark Team.

We're excited to bring you the beta for our next update:
1.7 Reikshammer Contracts

When we launched the Quests & Contracts update back in October, we knew that we wanted to expand on the system with more exciting and challenging objectives to accomplish for sweet loot.

Reikshammer Contracts does just that by delivering a brand new set of contracts for you to complete.

https://steamoss.com/groups/vermintest/discussions

https://docs.google.com/a/fatshark.se/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzUQ7jzD5PCsJ_8xqBLPbH_RoX5fr8rm_GQYCVdv64MQ6xWQ/viewform

To opt in to the beta, follow these instructions:

1. Right-click Vermintide in your Steam Library
2. Click on Properties
3. Click on Betas
4. In the drop-down menu, select the branch named "publictest"
5. Download and play!



Feature Changes:
- Added six new Contracts:
📜 1.Team Protection: Specials
📜 2.Team Protection: Death
📜 3.Take a Stand
📜 4.Treasure Hunt
📜 5.Ordnance Trial
📜 6.Damage Avoidance
NOTE: If you have already logged in today and recieved new contracts, you will not receive new contracts until tomorrow.

- Bounty Board will never have more than one key contract on a DLC map at a time
- Bounty Board now unlocks at level 7 to give new players earlier access to contracts
- Added contract tracking to the HUD whilst in the inn for quick reference
- Added sound effect and flashing UI when contract progress is made
- Added text to display amount of tokens received for completing a contract
- Implemented support for Tobii Eye Tracking 👀
- Added Boss Damage, Other Heroes Aided and Other Heroes Saved to End Game Score Screen

Fixes
- Fixed a stall that could occur when pressing certain hotkeys
- Reduced memory usage of UI textures when playing a level
- Fixed an issue where killing a special or elite enemy with a Damage over Time effect would not trigger a kill message
- Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to pick up supplies on wave 14 of The Fall
- Enemies will no longer be tagged in red when a bot is wielding a Bolt Staff or Trueflight Bow
- Fixed an issue where no sound would play on the last bullet of a Repeater Handgun
- Tweaked size of Reward Screen texts and icons to better support languages other than English
- Fixed an issue with Clan Rat ragdolls when laid on back
- Fixed an issue with candles on Witch Hunter hats (we tried to tell him it wasn't safe!)
- Fixed an issue where Skaven armies in The Enemy Below were very blurry
- Fixed an exploit on Town Meeting
- Fixed an issue where the amount of stamina a weapon has was occasionally being displayed incorrectly
- Fixed an issue where Grudge Raker reload sound would still play if you switched weapon mid animation
- Fixed an issue where Rapiers would occasionally not play sound when attacking
- Always ready option has been removed from the advanced matchmaking settings:
We normally do our utmost to avoid removing existing features, but this feature was the cause of several very severe issues that could result in both lost tokens and weapons due to its circumvention of failsafes in place to stop these losses. Since our data shows that the feature itself sees incredible little use we have thus decided to remove it altogether rather than invest precious development time which could be spent into fixing more critical bugs and/or making new content.
- Fixed a level stall issue related to damage volumes
- Fixed an issue where players could grab supplies through a locked gate on The Fall
- Fixed an issue where a sausage hanging over the counter in the Red Moon Inn behaved strangely after being shot... Yes, really.
- Fixed a number of network sync issues in the Karak Azgaraz and Drachenfels levels where interactable objects could appear in the incorrect state if you joined a game in progress
- Fixed crash: Failed to pack parameter 3 (11087) as integer [1..1024]
- Fixed an issue where the difficulty would be incorrectly presented in loading screens when joining via lobby browser
- Fixed an issue where host wasn't properly migrating if host left during end of round screens
- Fixed an issue where trueflight arrows weren't spawning in the correct location on clients
- Fixed an issue where the music from the barrel event on Horn of Magnus could continue playing indefinitely
- Fixed an issue where you could get stuck walking up/down over cellar stair opening on Engines of War
- Fixed a crash that could occur when swapping tabs in the Forge Screen whilst salvaging
- Fixed not being able to navigate to the third trait with gamepad when Invocating (rerolling proc chances), if the second trait had a fixed, or no, proc chance (for example Hawk Eye or Targeteer).
- Fixed a crash that could occur when blocking shots from a Ratling Gunner that had died
- Fixed Rat Ogre sometimes checking the wrong player's blocking state before applying hit. (Rat Ogre hits player A, Rat Ogre checks if player B is blocking. If player B is not blocking, Rat Ogre knocks back player A. If player B is blocking, stamina loss is applied on player B and deals a blocked push on player A)
- Fixed an issue where clients would sometimes deal more damage
- Fixed a crash that could occur when climbing ladders with a controller
- Fixed stall that could occur when spawning enemies
- Optimizations to situations when many skaven are killed in a short amount of time


Enjoy!

Heroes,

We've just rolled out additional fixes:

• Fixed a potential access violation/crash
  
• Improved error reporting

Please be sure to provide feedback in the forums, or through our feedback forms here:

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To opt in, follow these instructions:

1. Right-click Vermintide in your Steam Library
2. Click on Properties
3. Click on Betas
4. In the drop-down menu, select the branch named "publictest"
5. Download and play!