Sadly a step down from Vermintide 2. The moment to moment gameplay still feels good and the extra focus on shooting worked pretty well with some of the better gunplay I've felt in a game recently and very and fitting representations of 40k weapons, but the lack of even the loose story of vermintide 2 and the shift from set characters with established personalities to just archetypes do quite hurt it. Adding that to the rough launch and some of the less generous microtransactions and... look the game is still fun (especially if you liked vermintide's melee but wanted a somewhat more traditional focus on gunplay) but it just doesn't quite hit the highs of vermintide to me.