We got many Vermintide players here?

Skerries

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Watched a few videos of it being played on Twitch, have to say I liked what I saw. It seems to be a Warhammer version of L4D - is this a reasonable comparison or is there more to it?

pretty much with some rpg elements as regards upgrading weapons and gear

Shiminay

I've had a busy weekend at Gaelcon and haven't had a chance to play much of this. Will be online tonight I reckon after 9ish and would we most interested in a game or 5 if people are around

Wossack

last 3 or 4 games have had the host crash 90% through the mission (I think) - a bit feckin disheartening getting that far..

Zillah

I started playing this yesterday, really quite like it. I had felt bad for missing the L4D train so this lets me essentially jump on board while getting to enjoy Warhammer at the same time. I've been playing me +1 friend and 2 bots, and, well, the bots aren't exactly the most effective. We're able to clear normal difficulty levels with one or two tries but we've had a handful of wipeouts so far.

I'm enjoying the Waywatcher the most but I'm feeling the Dwarf is probably overall more effective. Main reason being that the Waywatcher has very few options for doing armour piercing. When do I get bodkin arrows? Do they show up as an ammo choice or is it just that some later bow will have piercing damage?

Also the forge: do I get an entirely random item if I melt five things I don't want?

Really enjoying the game; only complaint being that it's just a little bit too grindy for my tastes.

Links234

Is the guy who voices Saltzpyre the same guy who did the voice of the Techpriests in Dawn of War?

degrassinoel

Zillah wrote: »

I started playing this yesterday, really quite like it. I had felt bad for missing the L4D train so this lets me essentially jump on board while getting to enjoy Warhammer at the same time. I've been playing me +1 friend and 2 bots, and, well, the bots aren't exactly the most effective. We're able to clear normal difficulty levels with one or two tries but we've had a handful of wipeouts so far.

I'm enjoying the Waywatcher the most but I'm feeling the Dwarf is probably overall more effective. Main reason being that the Waywatcher has very few options for doing armour piercing. When do I get bodkin arrows? Do they show up as an ammo choice or is it just that some later bow will have piercing damage?

Also the forge: do I get an entirely random item if I melt five things I don't want?

Really enjoying the game; only complaint being that it's just a little bit too grindy for my tastes.

it gets less grindy on higher difficulties

With the forge if you throw in 5 of the same item types(and same colour)you get an item of the very same in next best colour category, so like 5 whites = 1 green, 5 greens = 1 blue, 5 blues = 1 orange
or ye can throw 5 random items in for one random upgrade

It's handy to salvage a few of each too for weapon upgrades later

dreamers75

Zillah wrote: »

Main reason being that the Waywatcher has very few options for doing armour piercing. When do I get bodkin arrows? Do they show up as an ammo choice or is it just that some later bow will have piercing damage?

Waywatcher can kill any enemy other than the ogre in one shot. Nothing more satisfying than taking out a Stormvermin patrol with 5 arrows and 5 headshots.

The shouting "Legolas bitches" at the monitor.

Zillah

Not with the starting bow ye can't.

*fires three arrows into a Stormvermin's head*

dreamers75

Zillah wrote: »

Not with the starting bow ye can't.

*fires three arrows into a Stormvermin's head*

You can has to be a charged shot tho and eyeball level headshot

kevovek

Shiminay wrote: »

I've had a busy weekend at Gaelcon and haven't had a chance to play much of this. Will be online tonight I reckon after 9ish and would we most interested in a game or 5 if people are around

I'll be on it tonight at some stage. I want to have a few games first to get used to it a bit though. Steam id is the same as here.

Isaiah

Playing this now. How do I join you lads on this?

Links234

My internet connection has been horrendous the last few days, I don't see myself playing while this keeps up

dreamers75

Isaiah wrote: »

Playing this now. How do I join you lads on this?

add people from the sticky name thread on Steam.

Join who ever is playing vermintide

dreamers75

3 tome 2 grim and 2 bonus die and game crashed as we walking to cart.:(

Kiith

Just crashed on me there, just towards the end of the prologue mission

dreamers75

And only 2 of steam buddies online.

Was 50 a few minutes ago......hmmm

Lone Stone

dreamers75 wrote: »

3 tome 2 grim and 2 bonus die and game crashed as we walking to cart.:(

Happened to me twice once while the reward screen came up and I got nothing, very annoying.

Wossack

I seem to be getting disconnected from steam for 20-40 secs randomly, which drops me out of whatever game Im in, with the error 'unable to join host <nil>' or the like. Quits right out to desktop

Been playing hitman absolution recently, and getting warnings about getting signed out of steam in it too, so looking like its my connection (or steam..)

KilOit

Got with a good team yesterday doing hard getting all tomes and grimnores, not hard at all when you play as a team, was raking in the xp with nearly a level up each game and 2 orange weapons :pac:
So much more fun with harder difficulty and good players

Dave_The_Sheep

Picked it up yesterday. Played two games on easy, as the Wayfarer. Man, it's seriously easy to burn through your ammo - or to find yourself bereft of tank support on the front line getting chopped up from behind.

Overall though, great fun - and the persistent rewards/crafting is a nice touch that takes it just that little further in terms of bringing you back.

Dcully

Nice review from one of the most honest reviewers out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1rqroGvTd4

Zillah

As much as I like the gameplay I'm already starting to see the point where I get sick of it and give up on the horizon. I'm level 10 and I really think there are only so many varieties of chopping through giant rat hordes I can enjoy.

Sure I can get a sword that does +50% damage, and then turn the difficultly up so that the rats have +50% hitpoints...but I'm not sure there's any point in doing that. I think new loot is the main motivating factor now that I've seen every variation on clickstabclickstabclickstabclickstab that I'm going to get, and I'm already starting to feel exhausted by the dice roll/random loot system.

degrassinoel

From a solo or pug perspective that's reasonably accurate but the thing about co-op games is that for me at least, the fun is the cooperation as much as it is getting loot or killing zombies/rats/cops etc..

Dcully

Zillah wrote: »

As much as I like the gameplay I'm already starting to see the point where I get sick of it and give up on the horizon. I'm level 10 and I really think there are only so many varieties of chopping through giant rat hordes I can enjoy.

Sure I can get a sword that does +50% damage, and then turn the difficultly up so that the rats have +50% hitpoints...but I'm not sure there's any point in doing that. I think new loot is the main motivating factor now that I've seen every variation on clickstabclickstabclickstabclickstab that I'm going to get, and I'm already starting to feel exhausted by the dice roll/random loot system.

I tend to agree with you and since im not always online when people are playing it might get shallow quick for me.

Zillah

degrassinoel wrote: »

From a solo or pug perspective that's reasonably accurate but the thing about co-op games is that for me at least, the fun is the cooperation as much as it is getting loot or killing zombies/rats/cops etc..

There's only so much fun to be had from endlessly hacking through waves of mooks even with friends.

dreamers75

Patch 1.0.1.1
Changelog:
- Added Music Volume slider
- No longer possible to pick up potions unless dropping any held Grimoires first
- Fix for bots not using healing draughts in combat
- Fixed achievement "Balthasar Gelt"
- Various localization bugfixes
- Fixed issue causing level complete to not trigger
- Fixed various startup crashes
- Fixed a crash in particle system
- Fixed a crash in animation constraint system
- Fixed a crash in I/O system
- Fixed a crash in Audio System
- Potential fix for startup crashes

Patch notes

Lone Stone

are the servers down? i cant log in to it and i keep getting "failed getting patch notes" and back end error alert when i run the game =/

degrassinoel

there was a note about scheduled maintenance today alright, not sure though

edit: yeah it's down for maintenance - though they need to work on that crappy error message ye get

Zillah

In their defence there was a ticker scrolling along the top of the launch screen warning about that down time days ago.

degrassinoel

Pugs are just disastrous during the daytime on hard think i'll give up til this evening

Lone Stone

for **** sake you know this game is a pain in the hole, every second game it crashs waste of feckin time.

degrassinoel

Wossack, Dreamers, Dat map! xD hahah, poxy

I'm gonna leave it til they fix it a bit more, but bloody hell we had that map in the bag and all

dreamers75

Thats the last 3 in a row for and in all had 3 tomes and 1 or 2 grims...

right as we carrying the last fcuking sack and no sign of the Ogre.

Wossack

all the tomes, grim and all yea

ugh, not playing again till its patched further - feckit, I cant handle the ballache

Zillah

I've literally not had one crash yet. Level 15 or so. How curious.

Finally started playing Hard last night - actually quite a bit of fun with a decent team. I kept coming across groups of people that were grinding a glitched map for easy loot, and as much as I like loot, it is the icing on the cake of fun. I don't want to sit there and eat bowl after bowl of icing.

I also kept finding people trying to finish the poison the wells map, which on Hard is by far the toughest one I've seen. Very little health and ammo, gigantic hordes.

degrassinoel

Zillah wrote: »

I've literally not had one crash yet. Level 15 or so. How curious.

Finally started playing Hard last night - actually quite a bit of fun with a decent team. I kept coming across groups of people that were grinding a glitched map for easy loot, and as much as I like loot, it is the icing on the cake of fun. I don't want to sit there and eat bowl after bowl of icing.

I also kept finding people trying to finish the poison the wells map, which on Hard is by far the toughest one I've seen. Very little health and ammo, gigantic hordes.

Well then, good news

Patch 1.0.1.2
Changelog:
- Fixed a number of exploits
- Fixed several cases of bots getting stuck
- Tweaked enemy spawning on "Black Powder"
- Tweaked barrel spawning on "Black Powder"

didnt like that magnus exploit either, it's a bloody easy map finale to finish anyway if your team does it right

CruelCoin

Kiith wrote: »

Didn't even realise it was out. PcGamer spoke very highly of it when they tried it out pre-release.

PCGAMER speak highly of everything in preview.....

Just look at the X-rebirth debacle, the biggest heap of dog turd that got a glowing PCGAMER preview article.

Its a section of the magazine that i entirely ignore now.

Maguined

I know it's early days but how is public play? I enjoyed Payday2 for a while but stopped playing when my experience of public games became utterly toxic. Players screaming and shouting at new players littlest of mistakes and constantly restarting maps to go for a stealth round despite the team not having the necessary to complete the map by stealth.

I had been looking forward to this game but am a bit reluctant it will quickly go the same way.

Zillah

Public games are generally fine. Just don't go into Hard mode until you're ready (low teens I'd say). Nothing more likely to get your head bitten off than ploughing into a hard game you're not ready for.

I do find myself feeling a stab of irritation when I'm playing and someone doesn't do exactly what they're supposed to. It's not exactly reasonable, but you get used to playing with people who know the score and everything goes like clockwork, and then you get some bozo who doesn't stand where he's supposed to and you're all "What is this idiot doing?!" and then you step back and get a bit of perspective and realise not everyone has done this map several times before.

So yeah you might find a dick or two but people rarely use voice at all, which to be honest is a good thing. I like imagining that's a dwarf fighting at my side, I don't want some scouser ruining the illusion.

Duggy747

Haven't played in a good while and actually haven't played Hard yet, looking forward to that

degrassinoel

people still using exploits on magnus - so that's not been fixed yet at all gits, it's not even that hard

de5p0i1er

I've bought it too. I had to hold on to old Warhammer.

Shiminay

Myself and De5p are playing now if anyone wants in. SteamID: Shiminay.

Links234

Fun game tonight

Shiminay

gg folks, that was fun indeed earlier, I might be online again tomorrow for more.

Zillah

degrassinoel wrote: »

people still using exploits on magnus - so that's not been fixed yet at all gits, it's not even that hard

It just strikes me as so absurd. Why are you even playing if you're going to cheat? So you can get loot? What does the loot matter if you're never going to play properly?

Duggy747

Ok, definitely putting some hours in tonight on this after been away from it for a while. Had a quick game last night it lagged the fúck out near the end but I didn't have interest starting again.

Maguined

Shiminay wrote: »

Myself and De5p are playing now if anyone wants in. SteamID: Shiminay.

I actually had bought and installed the game last night around the time you posted this but didn't bother to try it out.:(

Shiminay

Maguined wrote: »

I actually had bought and installed the game last night around the time you posted this but didn't bother to try it out.:(

Well I'm probably gonna log in again tonight around the same time, so I'll post into this thread when I fire it up if you or anyone else wants to join in.

dreamers75

I will be on tonight if anyone about.

bagsy legloas