![]() ![]() Unlike Left 4 Dead, however, Vermintide 2 is wearing layers of RPG underwear. ![]() It's the thrill of severing Skaven limbs or surviving an all-out rush by the Rotblood horde that keeps me invested. To say that Vermintide 2 is gory is an understatement. This finale sees a near endless horde of enemies swarming the party with no salvation in sight until the dormant magic of the cathedral miraculously saves the day. I particularly love the mission Righteous Stand, which starts you in a massacred mountain city before ending with a desperate fight inside an expansive, ruined temple. During my third playthrough, nothing attacked us at all. Another time we were ambushed by a horde of naked clanrats. The first time I played this mission we had a terrifying fight against a troll that came charging at us from the dark. In one sequence, my party escorted a minecart through a pitch black stretch of an abandoned mine. This uncertainty of what enemies spawn, and where, has surprising benefits. It's a system that mostly works, though some areas of each mission do bleed together because fighting a group of Skaven doesn't feel all that different from fighting a group of Rotblood raiders. That might sound boring, but each level is expansive enough that revisiting them never feels repetitive thanks, in part, to the AI director mixing up enemy spawn locations. With each mission lasting about 30 minutes, you'll end up repeating them. Having a decent CPU can help keep framerates from bogging down when you're attacked by a horde of Skaven or Rotblood raiders, and dropping settings to medium or low will help on less potent rigs. The game is playable at 30-60 fps, thanks to the predominantly melee combat that favors swinging a sword over precise aim, so anything more than 60 fps is merely a bonus. We're still working on the full article, but our performance analysis video (opens in new tab) shows how Vermintide 2 runs on a variety of graphics cards and CPUs. Moments like this evoke the vicious action of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings-especially when you're an elf, a dwarf, and a human fighting your way through a mine filled with trolls. Then my hammer smashes in the skull of the last Rotblood and my tunnel vision widens. One or two of my teammates will be incapacitated, surrounded by vermin, and it'll feel like it's game over. Vermintide 2 can be maddeningly difficult. I half expect the AI to start teabagging me.įatshark's sequel is challenging and thrilling, but it can also be frustrating as hell when the multiplayer fails. It's a cruel end to our adventure made even more sinister when, as I'm slowly being dragged to the sorcerer, the Chaos Warrior storms up and finishes me off with a coup de grâce even though I was already as good as dead. A party member could save me, but that's pretty hard to do when they're already incapacitated. He teleports to me and begins sucking the soul out of my body, rendering me completely helpless. Usually these special enemies like to hang out at a distance and summon tornados that scatter us to the wind-an attack I can easily dodge, but this Chaos Sorcerer wants to make it personal. Then, out of nowhere, the AI summons a Chaos Sorcerer. ![]()
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