
Balance changes in Versus will not roll into Vermintide 2 and vice versa. Versus is an independent fork of development with its own team, vision and resources. Q: WILL VERSUS AFFECT MY REGULAR VERMINTIDE 2 EXPERIENCE? Whilst the results of studio growth are not always immediately apparent, we have taken the opportunity to add resources to the team handling the development of Vermintide 2 as well as creating a small team for Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Versus. Since we began development of the Vermintide series, and in particular in the last year, we have on-boarded lots of new talent and begun looking at how we tackle development to be more streamlined. We haven’t moved resources from Vermintide 2’s regular team to the Versus team. Q: HAVE YOU REMOVED RESOURCES FROM THE REGULAR TEAM TO DEVELOP VERSUS? We also want something for the competitive players, and this is what Versus brings to the table. We wish to sustain Warhammer: Vermintide 2 for many years and Versus is simply one of the many new features that we hope to bring to Vermintide 2 during its lifetime. We feel there is an opportunity in it to bring Vermintide 2 to a new audience and introduce a new way to experience the End Times. Over the course of multiple Hack Weeks, the bones of Versus was born and it turns out to be really good fun. Hack Week is a chance for teams to work on ideas which they believe are powerful enough to impact the company or to focus on a particular product instead of working on the official content pipeline. Versus was conceived during special weeks we have here in the studio, known as Hack Weeks. This hasn’t really changed even with the development of Versus. In terms of focus, it’s been in the ‘cool to have’ box for a very long time, but in terms of priority, the core co-op experience remained at the very top of our list. We have always had PvP as a mode for Vermintide in the corner of our minds, though. We like to think Vermintide 2 and it’s predecessor deliver on that goal. It’s true, we have felt in the past that as a studio we wanted to focus on our proven strengths - making a great co-op game. We feel we hit the nail on the head when it comes to a truly rewarding melee-co-op-romp, and we want to continue down that path. At it's core the design is co-op - you and yours VS the bad guys - and we don't want to split our focus away from what really makes Vermintide special. We have no plans at this time to branch out in to a PvP mode for Vermintide 2.
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Q: YOUR MANTRA THROUGHOUT THE VERMINTIDE SERIES HAS BEEN AS FOLLOWS: Take turns playing on the hero or the dark pact side. It will be 4 vs 4 gameplay, and you will be able to play as dark pact characters from both the Skaven and Chaos, as well as the Heroes of Ubersreik. Vermintide 2 - Versus is a new player vs player game mode for Warhammer: Vermintide 2.
