Recent reviews by ToddlerGobbler

Driver update fixed my initial bug problems, which were not significant to prevent me from enjoying the game anyway. I just didn't feel comfortable recommending it until the recent driver update and patch fixed the game. Definitely a top fave of mine now

Most relaxing yet rewarding game I have ever played.

They made a really fun game, what else can I say?

I want people to understand how much it pains me to write what I am about to say here.

I really love both the first Vermintide and Vermintide 2. In fact, I think the sequel is a genuine improvement upon the origional in multiple unexpected ways. To be totally candid, I weirdly treasure both games. The action, the immersion, it all just works for me.

All that said, I cannot in good conscience recommend Vermintide 2 anymore. That is because a new update now requires the player to install 3rd party bloatware by the name of "EasyAntiCheat", which in addition to a name so tacky it borders on downright suspicious (like a large man in meticulously detailed clown getup sstanding in a dark alley) the software product itself is cumbersome, invasive, causes stutters, and in addition to all of that does not actually prevent people from cheating.

Yes you read that correctly, instead of simply playing on private servers like everybody already does with their friends, players now have to install software that seems to be more of a security threat to their computer than anything else. It certainly isn't an "anticheat" system because it only prevents players that are caught/reported for 'cheating' (as determined by algorithm) from playing on other EasyAntiCheat servers.

But WAIT THERE'S MORE.
In addition to basically being the Juicero of cybersecurity, EasyAntiCheat ISN'T EVEN EASY. "What do you mean by that ToddlerGobbler?"

I mean I almost certainly would not have cared about ANY of the above grievances regarding EasyAntiCheat if it had simply installed and allowed me to play the game as I normally do: on private servers with my friends. Not that I am not ideologically opposed to everything about products such as EasyAntiCheat, because I am, it's just that Vermintide 2 is just such a satisfyingly good game that I sincerely doubt that I would not compromise my principles for its sake. But, nightmareishly, EasyAntiCheat is so reality-twistingly evil that it doesn't even do that. It doesn't even practice its malicious processes and incompetent code commands in a way that allows me to forget it exists. No, instead the product is so absurdly shoddy that the installer installs it into the wrong folder of Windows64 OS running machines, in addition to just. so. many. Sigmar cursed errors.

It is literally game breaking folks. And let's be totally clear here, Vermintide 2 and Fatshark and etc have up until this point been literally the most consistently and thoroughly satisfying source of gaming hours for me to date. I almost have 500 hours in Vermintide one and was about to get my first 100 into 2 when this travesty of biblical proportions befell my beautiful gaming experience. Though I am inexpressibly angry with EasyAntiCheat I feel only confusion and concern for the game devs who have provided me with one of my top 3 favorite game titles. I don't want anyone to get fired for this or anything like that, but I simply cannot recommend this otherwise amazing game unless (hopefully "UNTIL") they remove this EasyAntiCheat bloatware and promise to never do anything like that ever again.

In the meantime, I will be playing off steam on a homemade server with my friends, because I really should be damned if I ever let some parasitic pointless marketing plug purloin my most passionate personal passtimes.

Edit, 8/31/2018: I have (finally) found a work around where you can opt out of EAC servers and play without EAC interferance. Note that I only have time for Vermintide 2 on Fridays and haven't been working around the clock on this.

ALSO note that I'm not a cheater and dearly love this game as it is. There simply isn't a better hack and slash 1st person co-op shooter out there and I already am eternally devoted to the Warhammer mythos, so it should be considered that I in NO WAY am claiming that this game is not entertaining or worth its cost. IT IS.

Despite not being a cheater including this software on a CO-OP, non-competitive game is an enormous waste. It is essentially forcing the customer to buy into moralisms that simply do not apply to the gaming experience VT2 has honed to perfection anyway. The vapid waste of labor hours and electrons here can not be overstated.

It should also be noted that I'm not running VT on a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wrist watch. I have 64 gigs of RAM here. I have a SSHD of 500 gigs. My video card debuted a week before a built this PC back in July of '17. I'm working with a monster of a PC here and the more I've read about EAC the more it seems to be that EAC is more problematic and not less with more powerful computers. And no, I'm not a software engineer, but BitDefender seems to hate everything about EAC all the same, and no its not BitDefender's fire walls that kept me out of VT2 but EAC.

I think it has something to do with the software I use to batch process photos through Photoshop, since a few people I've read online have had similar problems as me and use that software.

All that said, EAC is no longer an absolutely essential part of the game package as far as I can tell, so I shall go back to recommending it. Feel free to install the game and then purge its files, or leave EAC be to do whatever it does when failing to keep pre-teens with CheatEngine off servers, I personally do not care. I'm just happy to be able to play one of my favorite games again. Take care everyone, thanks for all the feedback.

Guys, this is probably the best first person co-op vs bots game that has ever been made. Controls are intuitive and responsive, player community is cooperative and communicative (except for those dirty elves). Graphics are superlatively well done, story line not too overbearinthg while being rewarding.

An exceptionally balanced and FUN game. I've played this thing for four hundred hours and I still find it immensely challenging, absorbing, and satisfying.

It is simply not possible to fail to get your money's worth out of this masterpiece. Buy it and buy another three for your friends.

If you like an easy, unchallenging cake walk for your games, avoid Darkest Dungeon like the plague. Avoid me too while you are at it.

This game is the best of its kind, both in sheer strategic and tactical difficulty as well as in its storyline and artistic style. A mastery of thematic symbolism is omnipresent in this game, to such an extemt that it would be corny if the difficulty did not make the meaning all the more significant.

This is not an easy game. You shall lose people, I guarantee it. You will almost certainly lose entire parties unless you are favored by the random number generator. But after 170 hours of this fantastic game, I can also assure you that you will never lose a deep sense of existential dread as you frolic in wild abandon within...

... The Darkest Dungeon!

I made Mr. Slave stuff an entire zombie NAZI cow in his ass. 10/10, one of the best games I ever purchased and worth every penny.