Heroes of Helmgart,
On October 28th the free update Grudge Marks will be available on all platforms together with Geheimnisnacht. Besides the new content, we have also added some Quality of Life changes, and in this dev blog you can read all about the upcoming changes.
ENHANCED TAB MENU
The TAB menu has gotten a make-over. The new features will show the equipped equipment of all the players and a new, more condensed layout, makes it easier to see any incoming enemies even when viewing the TAB overlay. The new overlay also shows active modifiers for the mission in progress and maintains the original functionality you’re accustomed to, such as muting players or being able to click through to their community profile on Steam.
STEAM RICH PRESENCE
Steam Rich Presence has been added to Vermintide 2! You can now easily spot if your fellow ratsmashers need another hero to fight alongside them, what difficulty they are playing, and which mission.
OPENING MULTIPLE CHESTS AT ONCE
This hardly requires much of an introduction: in the next update players will be able to open multiple chests at once! It’s possible to see the quality of the items in opened chests which aren’t the current focus, so for those just grinding out reds, a cursory scan of the dots atop the screen will let you know if a red item was pulled from an opened chest.
The border on the [OPEN 5] button indicates the last action done, so you can repeat it by just pressing spacebar.
BATCH REWARD POPUPS
Whilst not the most common of problems, it’s certainly an egregious one when it raises its head. Previously, when a player was awarded a bunch of items whilst not in the game (say through the purchase of a DLC), each item would be awarded one a time when they next logged in. Now, when the player logs in, they will be presented with an interface showing them all the items obtained that they can browse at their leisure or simply close off and get back to the game. No more waiting to cycle through a train of pop-ups. Nice.
MORE INFO IN THE MISSION SELECT SCREEN
The Mission select screen has seen some love, now showing players information about completion statistics, such as which heroes have bested the mission and how many of the total collectibles have been found within each mission.
OKRI'S CHALLENGES QOL FEAT. A SEARCH BAR
Gone are the days where you have to flick through pages and pages of challenges to find the status of a specific ask from Okri. A search bar has been added allowing you to easily find a specific challenge and see its completion state. You’re also able to use text-based queries, such as reward:art or completed:true in order to bring up a list of specific challenges that meet the query.
These are the currently available filters:
| Keyword | Filters on... |
|---|---|
| claimed | whether you’ve completed AND claimed the reward. |
| completed | whether you completed the objective of the challenge. |
| locked | whether the challenge is available for claiming, eg. own the required DLC. |
| rarity | the rarity of the reward. |
| reward | the item type of the reward. |
