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For co-op veterans who prefer deliberate sword combat to spray-and-pray shooting, if you can find a squad
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About Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide Collector's Edition
I spent hours in Vermintide expecting a loot-driven horde shooter, but found something quieter and more deliberate instead. This is a first-person melee co-op game where five players fight ratmen through tight European village streets and sewers. The combat feels weighty, your sword connects with feedback, and positioning against the swarm actually matters. No progression treadmill softens the learning curve; you're thrown into hard difficulty with a cleaver and expected to learn timing. What works is the pacing and restraint. Levels end when they should, not when the battle pass demands. The Warhammer lore sits lightly on the action without drowning it. What doesn't is the age, matchmaking feels thin now, and solo play becomes a slog when your AI teammates can't coordinate. This is a game for people who value craft over convenience, and who don't mind playing old co-op games old.

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Minimum
- Processor
- Intel Core2 Quad Q9500 @ 2.83GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 940
- Memory
- 6 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5770 /w…
Recommended
- Processor
- Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00 GHz or AMD FX-9590 @ 4.7 GHz
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 or AMD GPU Radeon R9…
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- Developer
- Fatshark
- Publisher
- Fatshark
- Release Date
- Oct 23, 2015
