You’re going to be able to play as the baddies! Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is getting a player versus player Versus mode, where one team plays as four heroes, and the other as four Skaven or Chaos.
But isn’t this – PvP – something developer Fatshark said it wouldn’t do? Yes. “It’s true,” Fatshark wrote in a statement on the Vermintide 2 website. “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 like to think Vermintide 2 and it’s predecessor deliver on that goal.
“We have always had PvP as a mode for Vermintide in the corner of our minds, though. 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. This hasn’t really changed even with the development of Versus.
“Versus was conceived during special weeks we have here in the studio, known as Hack Weeks. 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.