History VideoGame / TheEndTimesVermintide

''The End Times: Vermintide'' is a first person video game adaptation of ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'', set during the apocalyptic ''TabletopGame/WarhammerTheEndTimes'' setting. The game is developed by Fatshark, and was released for the PC on October 23, 2015, with the UsefulNotes/{{PS4}} and UsefulNotes/XboxOne releases slated for early 2016.

** '''Victor Saltzpyre''', A male '''Witch Hunter''', TheLeader, who is a position of nominal authority over the other characters and tends to shout commands during gameplay.

** '''Markus Kruber''', A male '''Empire Soldier''', TheLancer, who was hired by Victor and comes off more as a cynical veteran of the Empire's wars compared to Victor's fanatical support for the Empire.

** '''Kerillian''', A female '''Wood Elf Waywatcher''', looks like TheChick but isn't, as she is [[CantArgueWithElves acerbic and condescending]] to her team most of the time and [[CantArgueWithElves usually dismissive of anything the Empire or Dwarfs have made or done]]. Borders on SixthRanger.

** '''Kerillian''', A female '''Wood Elf Waywatcher''', looks like TheChick but isn't, as she is [[CantArgueWithElves acerbic and condescending]] to her team most of the time and [[OurElvesAreBetter usually dismissive of anything the Empire or Dwarfs have made or done]]. Borders on SixthRanger.

Fatshark followed with a similar game set in the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' universe, ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000Darktide''.

''The End Times: Vermintide'' is a first person video game adaptation of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Fantasy'', set during the apocalyptic ''TabletopGame/WarhammerTheEndTimes'' setting. The game is developed by Fatshark, and was released for the PC on October 23, 2015, with the UsefulNotes/{{PS4}} and UsefulNotes/XboxOne releases slated for early 2016.

It is followed by ''[[VideoGame/VermintideII Warhammer: Vermintide II]]''.

* ContinuitySnarl: The ''Drachenfels'' DLC has the party venture into the ancient castle of Constant Drachenfels, from [[Literature/{{Drachenfels}} the book of the same name]]. However, [[spoiler:the castle itself was thoroughly demolished via the placement of black powder charges set by an alchemists' guild in the epilogue of the novel.]]

* BittersweetEnding: The heroes [[spoiler: manage to kill Grey Seer Rasknitt and scatter the Clan Fester Skaven army. However, this was only but a taste of things to come in the future, and the city would eventually be destroyed by the Skaven, Chaos, and undead.]]
** It goes FromBadToWorse. See DoomedByCanon, below.

* CastFromHitPoints: The Bright Wizard is stated to have no magic limit, so she can cast as many spells as she wants. However, abusing her powers will cause her to harm herself (and eventually explode).
** A bit more complicated; she takes no damage from casting until she exceeds her heat tolerance, at which point she drops instantly. She also slowly disperses her heat at all times. Below about 1/3 of her maximum heat, she can choose to vent heat rapidly with no risk. Above this, she can still vent, but it'll deal a small amount of damage to her (but with no RegeneratingHealth, it adds up). Slowly losing heat still does no damage. This is a PragmaticAdaptation of the treacherous Winds of Magic of the Warhammer world.

* CliffHanger: [[spoiler:The mission "Waylaid" ends with a very alive Rasknitt sending the heroes falling into a portal]]

* DecapitatedArmy: [[spoiler: After the heroes kill Grey Seer Rasknitt, the rest of the Skaven either flee or attempt to kill each other in a bid to take their late leader's place.]]

* DistressBall: Despite having edged weapons, the main characters are somehow rendered completely helpless whenever a packmaster puts a rope around their neck.
** Furthermore, a gorget line of trinkets exist. One would imagine that armoring one's throat would help against the packmaster snaring them a lot more than simply reducing the damage of them.
* DoomedByCanon: The game can quickly be summarized as "What would you get if you set ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' in the TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} universe, with the skaven serving as the opposition?" The answer is doomed protagonists as the Warhammer world was destroyed by Chaos, then reforged into ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar''.
** Somewhat averted due to ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' saying that quite a few people managed to escape the doomed universe and settle into the new universe created by Sigmar.

* EveryBulletIsATracer: Averted by the players, played straight and justified by the Ratling Gunners- their Warpstone bullets glow green.
* EyeScream: The Witch Hunter lost one of his eyes to a Gutter Runner, as evidenced by his lines when pounced by one.

* GondorCallsForAid: Ubersreik Calls for Aid, at any rate. The first canonical mission involves the party trying to make it to the Horn of Magnus at the top of the Tower of Magnus during the opening hours of the Skaven's invasion of the city. If they can blow the horn, it will be heard at watch posts around the countryside and will signal the alarm to the wider Empire, alerting them of the possibility of similar attacks or summoning relief forces. Either result would take a while to arrive, but it gives the city hope it can hold out.
** Likewise, the final mission of the new ''Karak Azgaraz'' campaign sees the heroes heading to the top of a mountain to light a dwarven beacon, to warn other friendly settlements of the danger. As with Ubersreik, it's too late for most of Karak Azgaraz.

--> "Holy Sigmar! Bless this ravaged body!"

--> "Taal blessed your aim!"

--> "Valaya's Radiant Helm, you've a good eye!"

** [[spoiler:Rasknitt is shown to be alive and well after his presumed death.]]
** [[spoiler:Olesya Pimenova is an unsanctioned magic user, much to Victor's anger]]
** [[spoiler:Franz Lohner has a grudgebringer shield, heavily implying that he's a former grudgebringer (who fought skaven during the events of ''"Shadow of the Horned Rat"'', which could explain his knowledge of the skaven)]]

* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: The DownerEnding of the End Times makes everything the player will accomplish ultimately pointless, even though the good guys score a (temporary) victory at the end of the game.]]
* ShoutOut:
** The Grey Wizard who specializes in illusions, Christoph Engel, is clearly based on real-life magician Criss Angel.
* SuperPersistentMissile: Trueflight bows are designed to give a small intelligence and some rocket fuel to the projectiles fired from them so that they try to hit one of the user's enemies. Better yet, the hyper-agile arrows go for the head and can hit up to two enemies, which leads to some crazy stunts; arrows can occasionally do 90-degree turns in pursuit of fast-moving targets and can hit targets behind walls by curving through windows. It's extremely effective against almost all kinds of special foes, being able to track the fast-moving Gutter Runners and reliably hit the head of Stormvermin, Ratling Gunners, and Globadiers. The downsides are that your firing speed is decreased due to the amount of time it takes to charge an arrow with magic (about half a second), it uses up twice as much ammo as a normal bow (so you now have half the maximum amount of arrows), and the arrows might whiz around and shoot someone other than your target if you don't point them at a foe until it locks on.

* ContinuityNod: In the Waylaid DLC, the heroes encounter Lohner alone after a Skaven attack on the inn itself, [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome aside from how he's surrounded by dead skaven]] with a shield nearby his feet. The shield bears the heraldry of the Grudgebringers; a mercenary company who appeared in the games ''Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat'' and ''VideoGame/WarhammerDarkOmen''.

* ContinuityNod: In the Waylaid DLC, the heroes encounter Lohner surrounded by dead skaven and a shield nearby. The shield bears the banner of the grudgebringers; a mercenary company who first appeared in the game ''"Shadow of the Horned Rat"''.

** The Waylaid DLC's mission has a shield on the ground nearby Lohner after he's found [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome clearly having killed multiple Stormvermin all on his own without a scratch on him]]. This shield bears [[VideoGame/WarhammerDarkOmen the heraldry of the Grudgebringers]].

** Packmasters incapacitate and drag heroes around while slowly damaging them like the Jockey or Smoker.

* DisconnectedSideArea: Many of the tomes and Grimoires are hidden away in hidden, hard-to-reach areas.

* BoomHeadshot: Many weapons dish out significantly more damage with headshots as indicated by the Headshot trait for them, but all weapons do extra damage even without having the trait ([[GuideDangIt we don't blame you for not knowing this]]). Also, headshots are the only way to harm armored enemies without using armor piercing attacks.

A sequel, ''[[VideoGame/VermintideII Warhammer: Vermintide II]]'', has been announced to be in the works.

* XMeetsY: ''Warhammer Fantasy'' meets ''Left4Dead'', as noted in the other entries.

** In the Waylaid DLC, the heroes encounter Lohner surrounded by dead skaven and a shield nearby. The shield bears the banner of the grudgebringers; a mercenary company who first appeared in the game ''"Shadow of the Horned rat"''.

** [[spoiler:Franz Lohner has a grudgebringer shield, heavily implying that he's a former grudgebringer (who fought skaven during the event of ''Shadow of the Horned Rat'', which could explain his knowledge of the skaven)]]

** In the Waylaid DLC, the heroes encounter Lohner surrounded by dead skaven and a shield nearby. The shield bears the banner of the grudgebringers; a mercenary company who first appeared in ''Shadow of the Horned rat''.

** [[spoiler:Franz Lohner has a grudgebringer shield, heavily implying that he's a former grudgebringer (which could explain his knowledge of the skaven)]]

* ShoutOut: The Grey Wizard who specializes in illusions, Christoph Engel, is clearly based on real-life magician Criss Angel.

* ProtectionMission: The final part of "Wizard's Tower", where you must protect four wards from being destroyed by the Skaven for a period of time.

* ThrivingGhostTown: Ubersreik appears to be completely empty in all the levels that take place in it. You never see any towns people at any point in the game.

* BoomHeadshot: Many weapons dish out extra damage with headshots. Also, headshots are the only way to harm armored enemies without using armor piercing attacks.

** Gutter Runners leap on heroes to incapacitate them, then repeatedly stab them in a manner to the Hunter. Runners will, unlike Hunters, engage in hit-and-run attacks

--> "Sigmar bless this ravaged body!"

A sequel, ''Warhammer: Vermintide II'', has been announced to be in the works.