Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 adds a war-priest with the holy hammer of Sigmar
By Rich Stanton published 10 December 21
No rodent shall escape god's wrath!
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is a game about smashing up lots of rodents for loot and really rather good—and even better thanks to years of significant free expansions. Now it's announced a new 'career' for one of the game's characters, which is not a word that sounds very exciting, but this is only the fourth in the game's lifespan: for Victor Saltzpyre this means a new talent tree, new weapon types, and new abilities, basically a new way to play the game.
The career's called Warrior Priest of Sigmar and more-or-less does what it says on the tin: Saltzpyre basically now has a massive holy hammer that will add a bit of god's own vengeance to proceedings. It's infused by Sigmar's powers, apparently, which seem to involve making stuff explode.
CEO of Fatshark, Martin Wahlund, tried to out-do Geoff Keighley by producing the most boring quote possible about this announcement: "We are happy to launch the fourth new career to Warhammer: Vermintide 2, and this time it's Victor Saltzpyre that gets the spotlight with the Warrior Priest of Sigmar." Job done.
The DLC adds new weapons: the Reckoner Great Hammer and the Skull-Splitter Hammer & Blessed Tome, which both sound very charming. The career comes with new voice lines and a new look for Saltzpyre, and the promise you can now dual-wield Skull-Splitter hammers into hordes of skaven.
Rich Stanton
Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as "[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike."