After years of development and beta testing, Vermintide 2’s long-awaited versus mode is finally here. In this mode, two teams of up to four players take turns playing the heroes or the villainous Sworn Pact. When it’s your turn to be a hero, you’ll complete objectives to earn points, and when it’s your turn to become a Pactsworn, you’ll want to ponderous down the heroes or kill them, and your scores will be compared when both teams had a corner.
The five Special Sworn Pacts you can choose from – Rattling Gunner, Gutter Runner, Spacfire Thrower, Pack Leader and Poison Wind Globadier – play very differently from the furless creatures you’ll be used to controlling. For starters, they can’t dodge, although they can climb to get into ambushes. You must be careful when positioning them, as all Pactsworn Specials make distinctive sounds when moving and are only noiseless when standing still.
Versus mode takes place on reworked versions of the maps from the base game, familiar but different. It also features a modern progression system with challenges that can be completed in Versus matches, giving you rewards you can show off in other modes as well.
Over the next five weekends, Vermintide 2 will host a series of spotlight events showcasing the modern mode. The first one is devoted to highlighting Kerillian and the gutterwith a mini-season pass containing unlockable rewards including in-game currency, portrait frames, skins and weapon poses. You can earn these rewards even if you don’t play versus, but by doing so you can contribute to: kill counter replacing those pesky heroes by unlocking the gutter skin for all players if completed in time.
Vermintide developers Fatshark have announced that another free expansion is also on the way, a three-map expansion called Verminous Dreams. The first map will be added on December 9, and the next ones will appear in early 2025.