{"id":1402000,"date":"2025-11-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruKXmHA7vRbrRV4nurMDAg"},"modified":"2025-11-23T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:00:00","slug":"fatshark-celebrates-10-years-of-rat-bashing-by-adding-one-of-vermintides-most-popular-maps-into-vermintide-2-but-things-are-not-as-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/fatshark-celebrates-10-years-of-rat-bashing-by-adding-one-of-vermintides-most-popular-maps-into-vermintide-2-but-things-are-not-as-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatshark celebrates 10 years of rat-bashing by adding one of Vermintide’s ‘most popular’ maps into Vermintide 2, but ‘things are not as before’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Warhammer\u2014End Times: Vermintide<\/a> celebrated its tenth birthday in October, a fact that makes me painfully aware of how much closer I am to becoming rat fodder myself. The original Vermintide was a decent stab at Left 4 Dead<\/a>-style cooperative action by developer Fatshark, but much like Valve’s pioneering shooter, it has long been eclipsed by its superior sequel.<\/p>\n

Consequently, Fatshark has taken an interesting approach to celebrating a decade of rat-squashing, bringing one of Vermintide’s “most popular” maps into Vermintide 2. Yet Return to the Reik isn’t a straight port of Vermintide’s distinctive River Reik, as Fatshark hints in a Steam post<\/a> that “Things are not as before”.<\/p>\n

River Reik was introduced in Vermintide’s “Death on the Reik” DLC released in 2017. The DLC only has a ‘Mostly Positive’ Steam rating, which would seem to contrast with Fatshark’s claims about its popularity. As mentioned, however, Return to the Reik isn’t a straight rerun of the map. Fatshark says the new version brings “expanded, boat-focussed gameplay that puts deck skirmishes front and centre”. There’s also “more than Just Skaven” lurking in the surrounding woods\u2014suggesting you’ll encounter some Chaos hordes too.<\/p>\n

In a separate Steam post<\/a> from earlier in November, River Reik’s designers delved deeper into the redesign. While it’s visibly the same map, the new version is bigger, broader and busier than before. “Players familiar with the original will recognise a lot of it,” Fatshark says. “But we also added more side paths, redid the terrain on various areas, added more encounters, and overall updated the level to represent the years that had passed since our last visit.”<\/p>\n

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