Warhammer Vermintide 2 Update 1.23 Patch Notes (PS4/PC)

Warhammer Vermintide 2 update 1.23 patch notes released for PS4 players. According to the official Warhammer Vermintide 2 version 1.23 changelog, the latest update added various balancing and quality of life changes. Apart from this, Warhammer Vermintide 2 patch 1.23 also brings stability improvements.

Previously, a big update was released which added the Curse of Drachenfels missions: Old Haunts, Blood in Darkness, and Enchanter’s Lair and much more.

Unfortunately, players are facing several problems when trying to play the game on the consoles. Today’s WV2 patch 1.23 will solve a few of these problems.

Check out more details below.

What is new in Warhammer Vermintide 2 1.23?

PS5 PERFORMANCE UPDATE

• 30fps -> 60fps

• 1080p -> 1440p

• Improved shadow quality

• More shadow casting lights

• Higher density scattering

• Screen space reflections

CRASHES

• Fixed some miscellaneous crashes.

• Fixed crash that would happen when a client tries to lift an AI unit with the Lifestaff that has already been despawned on the server.

• Fixed a crash that could occur if a player somehow tried to join a lobby as “Prologue Kruber”.

• Fixed a crash caused by changing skin on melee weapon equipped in ranged slot.

• Fixed a crash that could occur if a terror event was spawned as a level was being unloaded.

• Fixed crash caused when SotT gets despawned (dies or leave the game) before a placed Thorn Wall expires.

• Fixed a crash that could occur if an enemy highlighted by Kerillian’s Trueshot activated ability was killed by another source.

HEROES AND WEAPONS

• Fixed some Javelin melee attacks counting as ranged kills

• Fixed Rapier special sidearm shots counting as melee kills.

• Fixed Javelin automatically issuing a light attack after a charged attack if player has high attack speed.

• Fixed Bounty Hunter’s ‘Just Rewards’ not working when the ranged crit is triggered with the ‘Locked and Loaded’ ability itself.

• Bounty Hunter’s career ability animation now scales properly with speed buffs.

• Saltzpyre should no longer get stuck in aiming (third person) after shooting with the crossbow.

• Fixed an issue where Sienna would remain fully slowed despite having vented to below the threshold.

• Fixed an issue where the Trollhammer Torpedo showing the ammunition when out of ammo.

• Fixed a minor animation issue on Kerillian’s Greatsword where transitioning from light attack hit to heavy charge would cause a frame flickering.

• Fixed a minor animation issue with Engineer’s piston during reload of Trollhammer Torpedo.

• Fixed a super minor issue where changing Staff whilst in the air would cause the Staff to glide/animate weirdly.

• Fixed a minor animation issue where a nocked Arrow could become misaligned with a bow.

• Fixed an animation bug where Kerillian got stuck aiming with her bows (third person) if shooting too fast.

GENERAL

• Fixed an issue where breakable planks/blockades would still be impassable for players who hotjoin a map, despite the party having already broke them, rendering the now joined player stuck further back in a level.

UI/UX

• Fixed some Shade items which were presented incorrectly in Lohner’s Emporium of Wonders.

• Blocked the chat window from accidentally opening when the Twitch username textbox has focus.

• Fixed a graphical glitch in the Twitch vote UI.

• The extra resource bars (overcharge, energy & career ability) are now displaced upwards whenever Twitch mode is active so they don’t overlap with the vote UI.

• Changed the Okri’s challenges summary to tally claimed instead of completed challenges. This solves an issue that would show that there were incomplete challenges even though all challenges were claimed.

• Fixed illusions showing “n/a Illusion” in tooltips instead of the item that they can be applied to.

CHAOS WASTES

• Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor could remain on-screen and interactive when the player leaves the game whilst the party is in a Map Shrine.

• Animated Portrait Frames should now properly animate on the Chaos Wastes UI.

• Player levels should now display properly when invoking the player list within the Map Shrine UI.

Cinder Peak

• Fixed some land geometry that just wasn’t up to par.

• Fixed a spot where terrain wasn’t solid, and adjusted a chest and enemy spawn point to suit.

• Made optimisations to reduce hits to FPS in areas with a lot of lava.

• Fixed some bits that weren’t network synching properly.

The Foetid Gorge

• Fixed an issue where a player disconnecting with a barrel could softlock the level.

• Fixed various spots where players and bots could get stuck.

• Fixed an issue where Olesya could repeat event VO once the event had ended if a player re-entered the area which triggers said VO line.

The following changes were added with the previous update.

General Changes

• Added psuedo random distribution to critical strikes and procs.
• Generic damage reduction is now calculated multiplicatively rather than additively.
• Headshots and critical strike no longer automatically apply the lightest level of stagger to enemies, regardless of their stagger resistance.
• Buffs now appear in two rows in the UI, displaying a maximum of 10 buffs instead of 5.

Melee Weapons

KRUBER

1H Sword – Kruber & Sienna

• Finesse multiplier (headshot/crit multiplier) increased to ~2 for all attacks, up from 1.4 for light attacks, 1.5 for heavies.

1H Mace / 1H Hammer

• Light attacks 1 and 2 and push attack now have Tank hit mass multiplier.
• Light attacks 3 & 4 now have the same single target damage profile.
• Light attack 3 now has 10% bonus crit to compensate for being an uppercut animation.

2H Hammer (Kruber + Bardin)

• The push attack now has the same damage profile as the heavy attacks. No tank hit mass count.
• Heavy tank attacks now properly puts enemies into stagger level 2 (fixes a bug).

2H Sword (Kruber + Saltzpyre)

• Move speed charging heavy attacks increased to 60% from 20%
• Light attack animation speed sped up by approximately 10%

Mace + Shield / Hammer + Shield (Kruber + Bardin)

• Light attack 3 has 10% additional critical strike chance.
• Heavy Chain now begins with shield bash.
• Light attack 3 now has single target armour piercing damage profile. Same as push attack.
• Push attack now chains into light attack 3.

Mace + Sword

• Lights 1 and 2 now have the same damage profile as 1H Mace.
• Lights 3 and 4 now have the same damage profile as 1H Sword.
• Each weapon in the heavy attack now has the same damage profile as the original Falchion Heavy.
• Heavy attacks and light attacks 3 & 4 now have Linesman hit mass count.

Halberd

Heavy chain order reversed, the first heavy is now the Heavy Stab, and the second heavy is now the Heavy Sweep.

• Intact Attack Chains:
  • Light chain and push-stab chain remains intactLight 1 -> Light 2 -> Heavy stab, Lights -> Heavy stab chain intact
• New Attack Chains:
  • Light sweep (L1) chains into Heavy sweep (H2) -> repeat
  • Heavy stab (H1) chains into light stab (L2) into light overhead (L3) -> repeat
  • Heavy stab (H1) chains into light stab (L2) -> repeatLight sweep (L1) chains into Heavy sweep (H2) -> repeat
  • Heavy sweep (H2) chains into Light sweep (L2)
• Heavy Linesman added to Heavy Sweep (H2) Armory mod will not reflect the change in heavy attack order.
• Dodge range increased from 0.95(-5%) to 1.0 (0%)

Executioner Sword

• Reduced animation speed by 8.5% for all attacks.
• Light attack 3 now has 10% bonus critical strike chance.

Tuskgor Spear

• Now has normal block cost modifier instead of shield modifier.

BARDIN

1H Axe (Bardin + Saltzpyre)

• Animation pause after Light 3 reduced from 0.42s to 0.3s
• Light attack animation speed increased by roughly 8%
• Move speed while performing light attacks increased (from 75% to 80%)
• Heavy attack charge time reduced from 0.6s to 0.5s
• Heavy attacks now share a damage profile with 2H Hammer light attacks

2H Axe

• Heavy attacks now have linesman hit mass count.
• Light attack 3 now has the same damage profile as light attacks 1 and 2.
• Push attack now has linesman.
• Light attack 3 has 10% additional critical strike chance.
• Now has 6 stamina (3 shields), up from 5 stamina (2.5 shields).

Axe + Shield

• Light attacks sped up slightly.
• Charge time required for heavy attacks decreased slightly.

Dual Axes

• Finesses multiplier on all attacks increased to ~ 2.0 (up from ~1.5).

Warpick

• Linesman hit mass count added to light attacks.

KERILLIAN –

Elven 1H Sword

• Light attack Finesse multiplier increased to ~2.0 from ~1.4.
• Heavy 2 changed to the damage profile of Crowbill Heavy 1.
• Light 3 armor damage increased by 20%.

Elven 2H Axe (Glaive)

• Reverted WoM nerf. Linesman added back to light attacks.
• Now has 6 stamina (3 stamina shields), previously 4 stamina (2 shields).

Elven Axe

• Heavy attacks now share a damage profile with 2H Hammer Light Attacks.
• 10% bonus critical strike chance added to push stab.

Elven Dual Daggers

• Removed bonus 10% crit from lights 1 and 2.

Elven Sword and Dagger

• Removed bonus critical strike chance from Light attack 1 and Light attack 2.

Elven Dual Swords

• Dual swords light attack damage increased by 25% against infantry.
• Push-stab armor damage increased by 20%.

Elven Greatsword

• Light attack animation speed increased ~10%.
• Light attacks have 10% additional critical strike chance.

Elven Spear

• Push attack, Light 3, & Heavy 1 now all have Linesman hit mass count.
• Reverted 25% nerf to light stabs that came with WoM, (base damage up to 0.25 from 0.2).

Elven Spear + Shield

• Light 3 changed from a poke into a sweep, added linesman to light 3.

SALTZPYRE –

Axe + Falchion

• Removed heavy linesman and bonus 20% crit from push attack.
• Increased dodge count from 3 to 4.
• Increased dodge distance from 1.1(10%) to 1.2(20%).

Falchion

• Now has 6 stamina (3 stamina shields), previously 4 stamina (2 shields).
• Heavy attacks 1 & 2 now have the same damage profile as Elf 1H Sword Heavy 1.
• Light attack 3 now has the same damage profile as Heavy attacks 1 & 2.

Flail

• Lights 1 & 2 now have Tank hit mass count.
• Damage of Heavy attacks increased by 30%.

Billhook

• Increased dodge distance to 1.15(15%) from 1.1(10%).
• Decreased dodge count from 99 to 3.
• Special pull action now costs 0.5 stamina.

  SIENNA

Dagger

• Now has 6 dodge count instead of 3.
• Added 10% critical strike chance to light attack 4.

Mace

• Max dodge count increased to 4 from 3.
• Heavy 1 now has the same damage profile as 2H Hammer Light attack (23% buff to damage).
• Animation time of Heavy 1 sped up slightly.
• Range of Heavy attacks increased slightly.
• Damage of Heavies 2 & 3 increased by roughly 30%.
• Animation speed of Heavies 2 & 3 increased slightly.
• Light attack 1 damage profile changed to Halberd L3 Damage profile (30% buff to infantry damage, 60% buff to armor damage).
• Range of all light attacks increased slightly.
• Animation speed of all light attacks increased slightly.
• Move speed during all light attacks increased to 80% from 60%.

Flaming Flail

• The explosion of Heavy 1 now deals direct explosion damage.

Download free Warhammer Vermintide 2 update 1.23 on PS4.