You're not the only one, less BS, no walls during bosses, no cheap ultimates, no unbalanced classes, no 2 minute long hordes every 3 minutes. Weapons were balanced (except 2 auto aim weapons which automatically kicked people from my lobbies), each weapon had a purpose.
Instead in V2 you have, be agile class with fast weapons or you die in higher difficulties. The entire game is designed to be some egomaniac getting kills and not consider team play at all. Tanks don't matter as in lower difficulties they are useless and on higher difficulties you can't escape from 15 chaos warriors as you're too slow, they still kill you in three hits and no one bats an eye to you. It also doesn't help that defensive ults have like a 3 minute cooldown and attack ults like 30 seconds.

Me and my friends tried to go back to V2, it just didn't uphold very well.

It's a different vibe and the characters can actually banter properly while you play instead of a ulti going of every 10 seconds.

I prefer V1, and by a wide margin.

I will say I enjoyed most of my time with V2. I got a damned good run out of it, helped along by the crew I played it with - bunch of legends!

But V1 remains installed on my system and V2 doesn't.

yup

Vermintide 2 never catched me. Tried it a couple of times but i always end up here. Just sad that it got completely abandoned so fast

Good answers everyone, you guys did a great job articulating my sentiments on the matter. I’ll be playing on nightmare most days going forward. I’m really happy to be playing some v1 again! Time to go for the great white buffalo that eluded me across hundreds of hours on console; “The Separator” you will be mine!!

I prefer V2, but V1 is amazing.