(Part 2) Top products from r/Vermintide

Not stock, no. Am using:

• Noctua NH-D14
  https://www.amazon.com/Noctua-NH-D14-Heatpipe-Radiator-Bearing/dp/B002VKVZ1A
  
• Phobya HeGrease
  https://www.amazon.com/Phobya-31094-HeGrease-Extreme-1-0g/dp/B008EDXAH0/
  
  My case is a Corsaier Carbide 500R, which is nice and roomy for what I have in there, has great cable management so it's pretty clean looking inside. Also has 6x 120mm fans running in silent mode (thanks random black friday sales!) and a big side-mounted one that's 200mm.
  
  It's probably total overkill, but between that and good dust management, and every couple years do a disassemble + reassemble for maintenance, it's performed really well for the 6 or 7 years I've had it.
  
  Arctic Silver 5 is still pretty good, and my CPU fan is totally overkill. Only reason I have it is that it wouldn't fit in a friend's micro ATX case, and so I swapped out my (sadly, discontinued) EVGA M02 fan - which was fairly similar to a Hyper 212 Evo.
  
   
  
  I was able to get my 3570k "stable" at 4.6 ghz, but the additional voltage required in order to not crash was just stupid and instead of running at around 70C during Prime95, it was running at 96C. Still, 4.52 ghz on a 3570k on air cooling is pretty respectable.
  
  Good luck!

Do you play with headphones? If not, buy yourself some.

I personally use the Logitech G930. I used to play with regular 5.1 Surround Sound but it kept happening that I simply did not hear rats swinging (the "swoosh"), Packmasters from behind or sometimes even Assassins (still happens, but it's more like a bug now).

I feel Cata is not just about movement or positioning, but more about being aware of your surroundings. You don't get downed during NM, right? But on Cata you do. Simply because you can't take many hits on Cata, often it's only 3 before you're downed.

Imho there are 3 necessities on Cata.

1. Constantly look around. This (and #2) is what brought me through all maps on Cata without even using headphones. You can only kill rats that you see. So make sure you see all rats around you. A above-average FOV (I play on 90) helps. I still do this a lot, and you can see that I rarely keep my sight steady. I swing around and move my mouse A LOT in high pressure situations. This (18:15 - 20:33) is an example. Look at my HP - I play better & more focused under pressure. In fact I didn't get hit once. (This clutching is why I still play Vermintide - tight situations are an adrenaline rush, over and over again.)
   
   
2. Set player outlines to "always on" (not just "on") and activate subtitles so you can READ special callouts and understand them correctly. Our heroes call out specials even though you didn't see them yet. Kerillian mentiones a hookrat? Look at where she is facing and you'll know where the hook is, even though you didn't see it yet. Every special has a trick. Hook callouts are line of sight. Gas Rat callouts are hearing cone + hearing radius. Assassin callouts are line of sight + hearing radius. Ratlings are weird, like a mix of seeing cone & hearing radius. jsat did an amazing video of the science behind special callouts a while ago.
   
   
3. Use headphones. Honestly, they help a shit ton. You will actually hear Gas Rats behind you. Or that one fckn rat that always hides in the darkness, right after the beginning of Horn of Magnus in the very first street. Learn to understand where a special is. Sure, you have to know the map so you can understand behind which corner the gas rat is, but you should've played all maps often enough already.
   
   So let's say you do all this, and you still get hit. The next step is to think about why.
   
   

• What did you do wrong?
  
• Where did you get hit? In the open? In a corner? From behind? From your front?
  
• What could have you done to avoid it?
  
• What was the reason you didn't see a rat that hit you?
  
  And yes, the game likes to spawn 2-3 rats behind you, constantly. To keep you on your toes. Vermintide is a bitch, and Cataclysm is the mack.

I am by no means very knowledgable about the universe. I know a lot about DnD, but only admired Warhammer from afar. Much like you, I've only gotten interested after the game.

I've recently started reading The Legend of Sigmar by Graham McNeill. In the prolog, he states that most of the lore is stitched together from the role playing books. The book is decent so far, but its setting is thousands of years before End Times.

There are a handful of fictional "End Times" books. Before Sigmar, I read The Fall of Altdorf, which was pretty good. It takes place north of Ubersreik, where the Chaos invasion is most severe. By comparison, the Chaos army makes the rats seem like a inconvenience.

There are some books written about the Vermintide itself, but I haven't read any. One interesting review on Amazon:

>There are two ways to write skaven, there is the William King 'funny' skaven as featured in the excellent Slayers series and then there is the 'scary' skaven.

I haven't read any of them, so I can't comment.

http://www.amazon.com/Vermintide-Warhammer-Novels-Bruno-Lee/dp/1844162869

Another great source is The Warhammer Wiki itself. http://warhammerfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/The_End_Times

Hope this helps.

You sorta skipped over the part where the Skaven live mostly underground, and have been tunneling under the empire for centuries moving around in the shadows with human agents, getting people addicted to warp-dust, and prepping their invasion of the surface world.

Oh and you also didn't mention Morrslieb, Clan Skyre bringing it down, the Chaos Wastes, or that they've been separated for the duration of the empire.

You could have also thrown an honorable mention to Kislev being the bulwark between the wastes and The Empire.


If anyone wants to real some good books I would highly recommend:

Brunner the Bounty Hunter

The adventures of Gotrek and Felix

Mathias Thulmann Witch-Hunter

The Chronicles of Malus Darkblade

The Rise of Nagesh

The Adventures of Florin and Lorenzo

Blood Bowl

The Tales of Orfeo

The Konrad Saga

All those links are amazon ones, most of those books have standalone series and omnibus to choose from, and you sometimes can grab a used copy a bit cheaper than those listed prices on like Alibris, but not all of them. Some are pretty "rare"

Yeah, controller is definitely more comfortable feeling, the WASD movement does feel a bit more jerky. Maybe you could try an ergonomic gamepad? Some have built in joysticks which might help a bit.

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-G13-Programmable-Gameboard-Display/dp/B001NEK2GE/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?keywords=logitech+gamepad&qid=1562266247&s=gateway&sprefix=logitech+gamepad&sr=8-8

I bought this one for 40$ and it’s all I use (holy crap it went up in price!) but just to give an example of some of the stuff out there.

You want a good book series that introduces you to a similar group of crazy characters? Read Blackhearts.